2023. Are you excited?

[bear]

Thats right, a year to the day after the "2022. Are you excited?" thread which aged brilliantly and can be found here *, its time for Are you excited? 2023 Edition. 

 

Nintendo 

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

More Mario Kart 8 DLC

Advance Wars

 

Sony

PSVR2

Horizon: Call of the Mountain 

Spider-man 2

 

Microsoft

Forza Motorsport

Starfield

Redfall

 

Square-Enix

Final Fantasy XVI

Forspoken

That NFT game they announced

 

EA

Dead Space

Star Wars Jedi:Survivor

 

Ubisoft

Assassins Creed Mirage

 

Capcom

Resident Evil 4 

Streetfighter 6

 

Bandai-Namco

Tekken 8 Character unveils 

 

Sega

Hyenas

Football Manager

Yakuza games

 

Konami

Silent Hill 2

 

*Look it was a great success and hasn't aged badly at all so theres no need to check up on it, the link is there if you want to, but I wouldn't waste my time. 

[Don Wiskerando]

Lol at the Microsoft entry. 

[df0]

Nothing apart from Dead Space tickles my fancy. I'm unconvinced Silent Hill 2 will be any good.

The rest is barely a blip on my radar.

[Timmo]

What a depressingly shit list. RE4 will no doubt be a great 20 hours, but beyond that it’s hard to get excited. 

[stir fry]

Street Fighter 6's beta might actually be my goty, and I actually think Silent Hill 2 looks pretty good tho a bit apprehensive about that one. Also interested in Starfield and if RE4 Remake offers the same kind of VR that the Quest 2 version did then that will be really cool. I've also really come around on Forspoken, the combat looks really free form in it. Will just have to skip all the cutscenes though

 

So tentatively excited for 23. Would be even more excited if FFVII Rebirth came out but I think it won't

[AlexM]

After careful consideration I must admit that I am ... not excited about 2023 at all.

[SuperFamiTom]

Very excited for the new Zelda and pretty excited for the new Street Fighter. Other than that though and if that list is any indication I'm not very excited at all.

[Siri]

Yeah! Probably.

[Paulando]

Fuck sake. I’ll echo the comments that this list is utterly dire.

 

Apart from Zelda, which I’m super excited about. Other than that I’ll be playing through loads more excellent indie titles I’m sure.

[joffocakes]

Very excited. Street Fighter 6 is more than enough. Yakuza Ishin too but I probably won't get that at launch as I'm only up to Kiwami 2.

[K]

I would stick the Cyberpunk 2077 expansion into that list - I'm fairly confident they're going to be putting everything they've got into that, to build on the momentum that the next-gen patch and Edgerunners built up.

 

Also, Destiny: Lightfall. It's going to be more Destiny, but that's a good thing.

[Girth Certificate]

and some Elden Ring DLC surely?

 

surely?

[reprahm]

From what’s listed just Zelda, but I’m mostly excited for Octopath Traveler 2, loved the first one. 

[LaveDisco]

MS has bought everyone and is now managing them about as well as they've managed 343. So nothing gets released. Let alone released finished.

Sony has barely a Sad Dad in sight, and heaven forbid any new IP games.

Nintendo's console has reached the point where it would struggle to run a port of a digital clock. To make it worse it's coming to the end of life, when a) there's a silicon shortage and b) not even the preposterous SteamDeck can hit above 800p. So they've no room to move for at least a few years, so the switch will keep on creaking. At least the games will be bonkers.

 

I'll never forgive GaaS from soaking up so many developers to endlessly iterate on a game, rather than getting to make new ones. Ban all 'seasons'.

 

It's a sad time to be honest. If it wasn't for Zelda, and the fact that I've realised I can just replay FromSoft games for the next year, I would be getting worried.

[LaveDisco]

27 minutes ago, Don Wiskerando said:

Lol at the Microsoft entry. 

 

It took you posting that to make me realise the list is identical to last year.

[Nick R]

I'm looking forward to four games next year:

 

Street Fighter 6 on PC

Street Fighter 6 on PS4

Street Fighter 6 on PS5

Street Fighter 6 on Xbox Series X/S

 

Who knows? I might even upgrade my PC or get one of those four consoles in order to actually play it.

[Boothjan]

Zelda, Starfall and the new Star Wars game will be more than enough - I'm sure there'll be plenty of nice surprises on Game Pass throughout the year too.

[bear]

32 minutes ago, Don Wiskerando said:

Lol at the Microsoft entry. 

It didn't pan out last year but I've a good feeling about 2023. 

[Stoppy2000]

BOTW 2 is enough for me to be excited. 

[JamesC]

I like the look of the new Zelda and AC: Mirage (really glad they're making a smaller game again) and the new Spidey game is a pretty safe bet (hopefully there'll be fewer generic villains and more recognisable super-villains this time). 

[Kevvy Metal]

Even if zero game were released next year, I’d still be excited, as there’s more new and cool games released than I can keep up with, in the prior year. 

[LaveDisco]

5 minutes ago, Girth Certificate said:

and some Elden Ring DLC surely?

 

surely?

 

Surely, if any Game is big enough, it's Elden Ring? Surely it's time to move to the sequel. 

 

But at the same time, FS DLC is typically even better than the GOAT games themselves - so I'm in a moral quandary here. 

[LaveDisco]

42 minutes ago, bear said:

 

 

Nintendo 

Advance Wars

 

Microsoft

Starfield

 

Square-Enix

Final Fantasy XVI

That NFT game they announced

 

EA

Star Wars Jedi:Survivor

 

Konami

Silent Hill 2

 

 

I don't think any of these games will be playable in 2023. Starfield might get released, but I don't think it'll be playable at launch.

[bradigor]

Thank fuck for Indies. That list isn't very inspiring at all 

[sammy]

I’m excited for PSVR2 (dependent on how much a 45 year old kidney fetches on the black market these days), Resi 4, Spider-Man 2 and FFXVI.  I’m wondering if this Xbox streaming stick will see a release next year, I’d be up for checking out Game Pass on it if so.

 

 

[Timmo]

27 minutes ago, K said:

Also, Destiny: Lightfall. It's going to be more Destiny, but that's a good thing.

I stopped playing Destiny (after many, many hours) when I realised that it’s 95% busywork and pretty much felt like a second job in the end. The first couple of runs through Deep Stone Crypt were incredible, though.

[Vulgar Monkey]

Pretty keen for Homeworld 3, and I hold hope that Jagged Alliance 3 might release some point later in 23 if we're lucky.

[womblingfree]

I just want a PS5 slim. Then I’ll catch up on Returnal, Miles Morales and all the other exclusives I missed.

[BadgerFarmer]

It's a decent looking start to the year.

 

All of these are at least a little interesting (although I'm sure they won't all turn out good), and are confirmed releases in Jan or Feb:

 

Fire Emblem Engage

Forspoken

Dead Space

Deliver Us Mars

Clash: Artifacts of Chaos

Wanted: Dead

Wild Hearts

Atomic Heart

Like a Dragon: Ishin!

Octopath Traveler II

Destiny 2: Lightfall

[MattyP]

For new AAA games? No. Expect there to lots of indie titles that I will gravitate too and well catch up on some older games. 

 

Maybe next year we start to see more games that use the new consoles hardware a bit more?

 

Had both the PS5 and Series X and not really found a compelling reason to keep either at the moment. I expect some revised consoles at some point and some games that need the power of a PS5 or Series X. Until then I will just keep plodding on with my Series S and GamePass seems to be enough fun gaming right there ATM. Oh and my old PC with the Oculus S.