Your Most Anticipated Games for 2024 - The Bear and Badger

Blocks100

So as yet another year of gaming beckons, what new releases are you most looking forward to in 2024?

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 tops my list. Pity they've done away with the silent protagonist and ditched their wonderfully janky X-ray engine for Unreal 5, but it does look gorgeous. To think GSC World have engineered another expedition to the The Zone against a backdrop of real-life devastation in Ukraine is a staggering achievement really.

Another big year for RPGs too. Dragons Dogma 2 looks like more of the same, but in a good way. Have high hopes that Crimson Desert might turn out to be good too. But it could so easily go the other way.

Light No Fire frankly looks incredible. All the ads that keep on popping up for it too kinda suggests that a 2024 release is on the cards.

Will 2024 belong to the big triple AAA hitters or will some unknown indie dev create something incredible and unforeseen?

YOU DECIDE!

LivDiv

Keen to see how this Sega stuff pans out.

Jeff Minter thing I'll pick up.

Hades 2 but I suspect it will be 2025 before it comes to console where I will play it.

Very torn on Star Wars Outlaws, I really want it to be interesting but after that Avatar game was pure Ubisoft it would be foolish to anticipate Outlaws being any different.

There is a remaster of Dark Forces that's probably worth a sale/sub download.

Thank Goodness You're Here looks absolutely brilliant so I'm all over that.

Things not out in 2024 that I'm looking forward hopefully seeing more of in 2024...
GTA 6
Turtles: The Last Ronin
Switch 2
Exodus
Mass Effect 4

EvilRedEye

The following are potential day-one purchases for me:

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Persona 3 Reload
Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore
Mario vs. Donkey Kong
Retro Game Challenge 1 + 2 Replay
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
Princess Peach: Showtime!
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story

monkey

Silksong

Wookienopants

monkey wrote:

Silksong

It's most anticipated of 2024, not 2025!

Wookienopants

I just want the new Like A Dragon!
Also new Sega remakes of Crazy Taxi and JSR will be day one purchases.

Olimite

Nothing other than the Prince of Persia side-scroller and that’s only because some of the Rayman team were on dev duties.

Indies will as usual steal the show for me. AAA’s are (in the main) formulaic and over-long.

monkey

Ah yes that Prince of Persia one.

And all them Segas.

Paul the sparky

Blocks100 wrote:

So as yet another year of gaming beckons, what new releases are you most looking forward to in 2024?

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 tops my list. Pity they've done away with the silent protagonist and ditched their wonderfully janky X-ray engine for Unreal 5, but it does look gorgeous. To think GSC World have engineered another expedition to the The Zone against a backdrop of real-life devastation in Ukraine is a staggering achievement really.

Another big year for RPGs too. Dragons Dogma 2 looks like more of the same, but in a good way. Have high hopes that Crimson Desert might turn out to be good too. But it could so easily go the other way.

Light No Fire frankly looks incredible. All the ads that keep on popping up for it too kinda suggests that a 2024 release is on the cards.

Will 2024 belong to the big triple AAA hitters or will some unknown indie dev create something incredible and unforeseen?

YOU DECIDE!

Much the same sort of things are tickling my fancy too. Crimson Desert looks too good to be true though, definitely keeping it at arms length before I allow the hype to get close.

I'm being bombarded by LNF ads too, YouTube is full of them. Looks great and I'm sure they will deliver on the promise this time, no fibs allowed.

Need to cast my eye over the release schedule for more to add

Moot_Geeza

Yes to Prince of Persia and the Sega stuff.

Silksong, Mina the Hollower, The Plucky Squire, Thank Goodness You're Here, Pepper Grinder. Still waiting on Bushiden, Replaced and Mecha Ball on Game Pass too.

hylian_elf

I can’t think of anything off the top of my head.

Oh wait. Elden Ring DLC. February, right?

monkey

I'm looking forward to the Suicide Squad car crash.

Paul the sparky

Plucky Squire looks like something everyone needs to experience

Minnesänger

Dragon's Dogma 2
Plucky Squire
Elden Ring DLC
Rise of the Ronin
HELLDIVERS 2
Mewgenics and a bloody truckload of other indies. Will 90% be indies for me in 2024, again, I expect.

Moot_Geeza

Forgot Nine Sols.

afgavinstan

All of the Sega
Xenotilt on console

Moot_Geeza

Laika: Aged Through Blood is an imminent purchase too.

Moot_Geeza

afgavinstan wrote:

Xenotilt on console

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hylian_elf

Just checked a list on teh inter webs of upcoming releases. Will be keeping an eye on:

Rise of the Ronin
Black Myth: Wukong

monkey

Switch 2 + new mainline 3D Mario launch title + F-Zero + batshit new IP to showcase the pointless new gimmick of the Switch 2

MattyJ

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth will be taking up the first couple of months of the year for me. I'm replaying Remake in anticipation and really can't wait for it.

Diluted Dante

Football Manager 2025.

No, its not a bit. First game made in Unity, it should mark a massive departure from what we've got used to for near on 20 years. Given that SI are on to as near as a sure thing as is possible with FM, I'm excited that they wouldn't do this if it wasn't for the better.

DrewMerson

RedDave2

Wookienopants wrote:

I just want the new Like A Dragon! Also new Sega remakes of Crazy Taxi and JSR will be day one purchases.

I'm totally onboard with giving new Sega the benefit of the doubt. My gaming tends to be 15-30 minute windows when I get a chance these days so the idea of quick fun filled runs is right up my street

I am of course, preparing for disappointment.

JonB

FFVII, Rise of the Ronin, Pacific Drive, Nine Sols, Animal Well, Earthblade, Hyper Light Breaker, The Plucky Squire.

regmcfly

Crikey, quite the list coming, mostly an amalgamation of above posts -

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Apollo Justice Ace Attorney Trilogy
Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth
Tekken 8
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
Mario Vs Donkey Kong
Space Marine 2
Baby Steps
The Plucky Squire
STALKER 2
Clock Tower
Contra: Operation Galuga
Penny's Big Breakaway
Simon the Sorcerer Origins
Splatoon 3 SLC
Thank Goodness You're Here

Wookienopants

Space Marine 2 is a good shout, that'll be gory lumpy fun

Moot_Geeza

Baby Steps and Animal Well yes.

regmcfly

Wookienopants wrote:

Space Marine 2 is a good shout, that'll be gory lumpy fun

The first was the definition of a "great" 7 out of 10. To pinch a line from a post on Eurogamer's reader's top 50 (in ref to RoboCop) - We need more games that excel this hard at being mid

JonB

regmcfly wrote:

Contra: Operation Galuga

I wish I was looking forward to this, but man, it don't look good.

Moot_Geeza

Spidersaurs was absolute piss, so it's fair to say that the dry run went wrong. Still a maybe if they get it right though - apparently Contra 4 was a good'un, and that was them too.

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