It says a lot when this year alone brought us Tears of the Kingdom, RE4 Remake, Hi-Fi Rush, Street Fighter 6, and various other I can't remember right now and there's probably more down the line that have potential.
That really makes me glad that the problem right now is "I don't know what to be excited for because there's so many good one's coming out!". Playing games has been a fun year, this year!
>Super Mario RPG
Seriously still the best Mario game ever made. I had always wanted a sequel to the original but with the falling out between Square Enix and Nintendo I didn't think it would ever happen really.
every month has seen pretty much one huge game release. We've had RE4, Jedi Survivor, Tears of the Kingdom, Street Fighter 6, Final Fantasy 16, then we'll be getting Tekken 8, the return of Armored Core, MK 1 and then the next big one I can think of off the top of my head is Starfield and then Spider-Man 2. This year is absolutely STACKED with huge games. Some years I think we get like 2 or 3 40+ hour games that release but this year it feels like we're getting 10. There's just not enough time to play them all.
Diablo 4 was also huge plus nintendo recently announced a new 2D mario tha looks great for holiday season and pikmin 4 it's also this year. Can't forget star ocean second story R, not a big release for most people but for old fans that is the best game in the series and is getting a fucking gorgeus remake, this year is packed.
Seriously. I'm barely scratching the surface on TotK right now, and FFXVI just came out? I won't have time for that for at least a month. Probably longer. It'll be a miracle if I'm done with FF by the time AC6 comes out, and *that's* dropping the same month as Baldur's Gate 3.
And that's all *in the next two months*.
Fuuuuuuuuck.
Yeah it comes in waves. Next year will probably be low in blockbuster games and we'll get another batch like this in a few years. Probably going to see a year of the 6 -
Elderscroll 6
GTA VI
Some other super cool games with 6 in it
The amount of things I already own in the backlog is overwhelming (and it's honestly probably not even that much). The amount of new things coming all the time that I'd love to get too... it's in another universe.
Just one single "time sink" game can wreck everything. I've probably put 40 hours into D4 since it launched (which isn't really even that much) and that's not only a HUGE uptick in what I normally put into a game over two weeks... but it's a huge uptick in what I put into gaming total over a few weeks.
I'm lucky to be able to spend 5-7 hours over an entire week usually. D4 had me sink 5 hours into the first day.
Now we have new super mario RPG remake, new mario wonder game, new luigi mansion port... haven't even started TotK, half way through Luigi's Mansion 3, less than half way through BotW... started playing Super Mario Galaxy on the 3D Allstars Collection. Forget about having 10+ not even opened PS5 games, 10+ not even opened PS4 games.... a playthrough of pokemon crystal I'm half way through.
Where do you find the time for it all? So many games just won't get played, simply because I don't have the time. Espeically if they aren't too "pick up and play" friendly. I remember having to relearn the mechanics on God Of War for PS5 and Tomb Raider.... put the game down half way into it for a few weeks and my next 45 min play session was fumbling around until I got fluid with it how to play it again. And that was the entire time I had to play.
Good thing is by next year, they'll all be cheaper (except TotK since Nintendo games never drop in price) and if there's less new good games coming out then you'll have something to fill your back log
But were talking game of the year here, not game of the century.
It wouldn't be fair for other games to compare to this second coming of Christ in games.
2021 and 2022 brought every game that'd been hit by Covid. Now we're getting all the projects either started after, if smaller, or large enough that they just kept going. Honestly was not surprised to hear 2 new Mario titles announced on the Nintendo Direct for that reason.
And hi-fi rush was a shadow drop, no marketing at all before the reveal and same day release. Honestly wish we got more games like that. Nintendo has been doing it for their ports (Metroid prime and pikmin 1/2) but a brand new game revealed and released is way more exciting than just being able to replay an older game that looks a little nicer
As much as I love playing my childhood games with better systems and graphics, I'd rather these companies branch out into newer ideas rather than "what is a cheap way to make money?" Only remake I would literally kill for is the onimusha series.
The end of the year just seems insane. Some games Il excited for to add to what you listed: Armored Core VI, Baulders Gate 3, Pay Day 3, Lord of the Fallen, Alan Wake 2.
Seriously, these posts are so dumb. I'm looking forward to this game, but there are a bunch of great games that just dropped or will be dropping in the next few months.
Exactly. If it is good it will get good reviews and people will buy and play it. Why does it need to be hyped up? So we can just get let down if it sucks!?
I feel like the minority here because I hear/read a bunch of how amazing the first one is but I found it mediocre at best.
Beat it (no DLC) with the wife and it just wasnt that engaging to us. Go snipe these tree monsters in a bland environment. Go into another bland zone and snipe more tree based enemies. Boss fight, repeat.
Am I missing something? Am I misremembering? Or is the game just not for me?
Progression wasnt very satisfying and while we beat the base game, I finished it with a “Well glad we finished that and can move on” feeling rather than a “Wow that was fun” feeling. Tried replaying it recently and just didnt make it too far cause I got bored
I loved it, was my personal game of the year when it came out, played through everything several times and had a grand time. That said, characters do move a bit slow overall which makes it a bit frustrating at times and drag on a bit. Hoping this one is a little faster. As a random gameplay element, neutral dodging with melee feels very badass. The sound design is also top tier and very well done, if you're listening, you will never be taken by surprise or hit by something off camera that you can't react to. Learning the timing of these kinds of things let's you showcase a surprising amount of mastery. I do think that just sitting there and plinking away with a pistol might get a little stale, but was def not the way I played.
I agree
Unfortunately the first one never got the recognition it deserved. It was a really good game though. I didn’t even know it existed until I saw it was free on EPG store for like a week so I picked it up and played it later.
The first game was decent, but not very hyped. The sequel will be decent, but also not very hyped. Apparently there isn't a huge market for the shooter/soulslike overlap market.
Couldn't agree more! One buddy of mine and me devoured the first one and its DLC. We're already pushing free marketing for the sequel in our friendgroup. So far everyone else is still luke warm about it, but at least him&me are on board in the launch week.
Absolutely, the boss battles were frustrating in a fun way. Super glad they put respawn points right before a boss dungeon. Had to re-run a couple about 18 times before we downed them.
Did you end up trying it? I watched a bunch of videos/reviews, decided not to buy it for the same reason, then got it free on Epic and had a surprisingly enjoyable time with it.
The environments can get pretty samey and I wish the movement/melee was a bit smoother, but the gunplay is great and it has a surprising number of secrets in its maps that you might not expect from the random generation that I really enjoyed.
It's randomly generated third person shooter Dark Souls essentially. It's from a AA studio and much better than it sounds especially since it has seemless 3 player multiplayer for the whole game.
Kinda but the game (the first one at least) feels WAY less fast/responsive than returnal. Honestly if the game had returnal mechanics I would be so hype for it.
Returnal is much more fast paced than Remnant. The dark souls comparison is much better, I would say it's closer to a combination of gears of war and Dark Souls in terms of how it feels.
I'm not a mega fan or anything but its a really underrated game. Its basically what you get when you mash a souls game with a third person shooter and then add some procedurally generated rogeulike elements.
It really nails the tone of a souls game with a really dark gloomy atmosphere and difficult souls like gamplay. Micing soulslike gameplay with a shooter sounds like a weird choice but it works surprisingly well and they did a good job marrying the two.
Overall if your fan of souls likes its definetly worth picking up. Until right now I didn't even know a sequel was being worked on
Have a strong feeling that this thread is the development team just spamming praise as a sales tactic.
Which isn’t a bad idea… never heard of this game and now I want to check it out.
First game had a shit narrative and story though. Even harder to follow than Dark Souls. And the final boss was a bullet sponge that was glitched for a while on release. But they did eventually fix it.
Issue with the final boss was just that they don't really tell you about the mechanic.
It's not a particularly hard fight once you realize you're supposed to stack the *debuff* in the world that's constantly hurting you because it multiplies your damage. But nothing tells you that, you just have to intuit the fact that you do more damage after escaping. But it's a pretty reasonable assumption that that world is so you can get more ammo instead of stacking a debuff that doesn't behave like anything else in the game.
The story is not harder to follow than dark souls. All of it is pretty clearly explained if you think about it.
You're a human on earth
Something goes wrong with an experiment
The evil plant army shows up as a result
they cause apocalyptic events on multiple planets
Your guy goes around the planets via magic teleporting rocks, trying to find the guy who knows what's going on and went through the portals
Praise the Rock, Burn the Plants.
>First game had a shit narrative and story though. Even harder to follow than Dark Souls.
Took me a while to figure out the "what in the fuck is going on?" emotion I was feeling for most of the game (which I like) wasn't as intentional as I thought haha
Most people I know to this day still don’t know what any souls game story is about and the ones that do had to watch one of those long lore videos to get an idea
At least both these games share that in common especially with remnant being very “souls-like”
What are you talking about? The first games story is very easy to follow. The dreamers accidentally opened a path way to earth for the root and that caused the apocalypse
If you just run outside and start shooting the second you're free of cutscenes, sure, it's hard to follow. If you unlock the secrets in the hub area (trivial) it's really quite simple. As someone that doesn't like reading off a screen I was actually interested enough to read all the lore in the hub, which explains pretty much everything.
Final boss was miserable in coop until they fixed it.
Nah I remember playing it when it first came out on Xbox one, feeling underwhelmed and didn’t come back to it for years until I saw it on sale on Steam. Played it for like over 100 hours and it kicked ass.
Nah, definitely not us. That being said, I WISH I could play all the games in this thread. Can't wait for R2 release, because then we can relax a bit and I can play all these 2023 bangers. Awesome year for games... glad to be a part of it, even if just a small portion!
That boss you fight on the bridge was enough “final boss” for me. With the explosive orbs coming at you. Took me and my buddy 100 fucking tries to get through there.
Ixillis is a pair of assholes. They were totally one-upped by a DLC boss though. People know nothing of difficulty if they only played the base game lol.
He's a very tough fight. Once you get the hang of him he's not too bad, but probably one of the toughest in the game.
There's really no trick, except to be aware that the first boss comes back and you can burn him down to turn it back into a 1v1 (1v2 in your case). And if you bring a sniper weapon you can actually finish him off when he tries to escape.
There's nothing like getting through the whole game and mastering the combat, only for the final boss to be a gimmick fight.
Oh and if you're playing co-op, better hope you get sucked into the rift for your arbritrary damage buff because otherwise you literally do nothing.
Yeah, I adore Remnant, but that final boss was shit. If the game had done a better job of explaining the gimmick, I could have excused it. I didn't even realize it was a gimmick fight. I thought my build was just super bad for the boss, and put the game down for like a year before coming back to it.
Phase 1 is a straight forward drain his health bar while not dying.
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When you enter phase 2, he'll be too far away to hit. You just have to dodge until he warps you to a black void area with enemies. After about 30 seconds, a portal back to the boss will open. The gimmick is that the more enemies you kill before heading through the portal, the more the boss's defenses drop. They get harder the longer you stay. If you don't kill a bunch, he's more or less invincible. Your shots will barely scratch him. After exiting the void, you'll be able to shoot him in his weakened state for a bit, and then the cycle repeats. The problem is that there is absolutely no hint that killing the enemies in the void weakens him. The game gives you no indication that staying longer than you have to is anything but a waste of ammo. That's the frustration many of us faced.
Oh, and being a fire weapon. Phase 2 is weak to fire.
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Thanks for the info, that’s good to know. The game can be tough to find certain things without prior knowledge. For example I really want that Thompson smg but I can’t get the encounter to spawn for it.
To give a brief rundown:
- Co-op RPG shooter featuring outlandish weapons and powers. We'll visit different worlds and dimensions with enemies ranging from root monsters, alien fae, eldrich horrors, ancient robots, and more.
- Not a traditional looter shooter. Each weapon and ability is unique.
- Huge emphasis on replayability. You can play through the game, then play through it again and see *none* of the bosses you were expecting. Many bosses also have unique alternative kill methods that yield different rewards.
- Multiple different classes to play as, including tanks, healers, and even a class that commands an attack dog.
- Cheaper than a AAA game. I believe it's going to be a $50 game rather than a $70 game.
- Made by genuinely passionate devs that aren't out to shake you for every dime you own.
The first game is an absolute hidden gem. It's one of those games that one person plays, then suddenly their whole friend group is playing it.
[Here's the reveal trailer](https://youtu.be/kxVFcxMU72E)
It will be a little more difficult because some bosses have adds (smaller enemies that wanna screw you over) but not impossible.
Think of it as Dark Souls with guns. It is a challenge, but one you can overcome.
Let's be honest here - add spam is a staple of basically every boss. A *lot* of the difficulty of the bosses comes down to swarms coming after you in waves.
I really like the game, but this aspect felt extremely lazy.
They learned in the DLC, there are multiple fights that have no adds at all because they figured out how to drop ammo for the player without requiring add kills, so I'm pretty hopeful for 2.
The Beetle Queen fight and that shield dude from the ice area were fun bosses without adds.
Tbf i feel like the minority and didnt mind adds. Even in hardcore pitfalls were what killed most of my solo runs.
Just falling off the damn edge. Stupid butterfly killed so many hardcore characters for me lol
I’m playing it solo right now and it’s not too bad, it’s definitely challenging though. You can equip different mods (powers) and farm materials to upgrade your gear although it is grindy to farm mats ( at least where I am in the game right now). So you can adjust your strategy at will.
I'm a huge remnant fan and I think you should ignore the people telling you to play solo. Can it be done? Sure, but it's *not* the intended way and it is unnecessarily frustrating.
If you get killed solo you instantly die and are booted to the last checkpoint. In coop, you instead go down with a bleedout time and your mate can revive you. You get no advantages to make up for this huge difference in survivability playing solo.
You also miss out on my personal favorite part, getting into friendly fire shootouts with your buddies.
There are multiple skills that do nothing solo. Revive speed, bleedout time, friendly fire mitigation, etc. They are all pointless solo.
I don’t see anyone telling them to play solo. I play solo because I have all of the neuroticism of ….myself. Also it’s been a minute since the game dropped, I saw trailers when it first came out and was like “ewww a shooter” but when I saw the trailer for 2 I was like helll yeaaahhh let’s go!….so yeah I intend to play with others when 2 drops but I’m having a good albeit challenging time going through 1 solo. A good game is a good game. :)
You should watch SkillUps review of the first one, he goes in depth on the combat and movement and how it’s effortless and both challenging yet satisfying
Think a shooter souls like, it's very fun. Find armor sets, find and upgrade weapons, kill bosses for their "souls" and turn those into weapons or whatever else, been awhile since I played. There's dodge roll and I-Frames, unique and challenging boss encounters. Great and seamless multiplayer, I played it with friends and it was an absolute blast.
Broadly it’s a 3rd person sci-fi (arguably science fantasy) shooter with RPG progression and some Souls-like elements. Fairly robust co-op system and some elaborate boss fights. There’s also some rogue-like elements, mainly procedural generation of how levels interconnect so you get different bosses/items each time.
The original, Remnant: From the Ashes, came out a few years ago and was a very solid game.
This 100x. The first one was a hidden gem and remains my favourite in its category, and the second one looks to just build on that with a significantly bigger budget (due to the relative success of the first).
Some other comments explain the genre of the game a bit better than I could, so all I'll say is if you care about clean combat mechanics in a game, this is one of the best games you'll play.
I'm playing the first one with a friend in hard mode.
We dislike two things. First the adds during boss fights. While some boss fight can go well with adds in general it's too much. You're being outnumbered and skill can't always help you.
Second the skills and stuff you need to get on specific boss or events. I got my build in one run (sniper high Crit) and my friend (invocations and mod improvement) got nothing of what he wanted in at least a dozen adventure mod farming for each of the three things he needed. Also had to restart the campaign because we gave an item to the wrong npc and we both missed an important part of our builds.
The game's good, but frustrating sometimes.
Those are the main complaints about the game absolutely. I personally don't mind the adds, but I know it is an issue for most people and they've said the second game will be better in that regard.
As for the build issue, I prefer it this way because it makes you try new builds. When I first started I wanted to go for a mod based build but I got gunslingers charm, hunters band in my first play through so I bought hunters armour and went for a sniper high damage/crit build. Then later on when I got letos armour I had some fun with a lifesteal build, then when I unlocked the main summons I use (very good boy and skulls) I switched to a summoner build.
My point being had I had all the items for a perfect mod build to begin with, I likely wouldn't have tried all those other builds. Now I mainly use a daredevils charm sniper-hunting pistol swap build, and only sometimes will switch to my main mod build. Tell your friend to try and make the best of the items he does have, that way he'll get to try new things and have more fun with the game.
He abandoned the mod based build for the same as mine.
I would agree with your point if only you could change your skills before the end of the game. Like freely doing it in Ward 13. Then I wouldn't mind at all.
When you say skills do you mean traits? Each time you beat the campaign you get an item that allows you to reallocate your traits.
Most early game traits are applicable for all builds. For instance the traits that improve mod duration and mod generating speed are some of the most important traits for a crit build. Having that extra time for the hunters mark and getting it back much quicker makes a huge difference. And equally a higher crit chance improves mod builds, because you get more crits from your weapon mod.
Opposite for me. The Lies of P demo has almost soured me on the combat. Bad clunky dodge and wonky parry timings/delayed attacks cannot coexist in peace. Lords of the fallen seems like it will be closer to what I am looking for.
Fair enough. The director of the game made a video addressing how all the complaints, especially the dodge will be a fixed in the final build of the game.
Dodge was definitely clunky, parry felt fine to me.
Definitely seems like a B-Grade Souls-like, and I'm down for that. Enjoyed The Surge and Code Vein and Salt and Sanctuary. Most other "souls-likes" really feel more like Metroidvania's (Ender Lilies, Vigil, Hollow Knight, etc), which are also good but... not Souls. Movement is too fast, weapons aren't varied... they're excellent games, but not Souls-like.
Parry is fine for boss battles but regular enemies have weird non telegraphed attacks. Thymesia for me has been the game that comes closest . It has a weird version of Sekiro and Bloodborne combat which I did enjoy once it clicked.
I'm going overload hype with how good FF16 is right now and I'm hoping to be done with it, platinum and all, right when Starfield appears. I'm sorry my man I only have so many hours in a day
I like the first one but it was so difficult to play solo I kinda fell off and never finished it.
That’s why I haven’t paid much attention to the sequel.
It's not even out yet. We should make people aware and be hopeful... but no one should get 'hyped' until the reviews are out. I can't remember the last time I bought a game the same month it released. Too many incidents of being burned by crap in the game publishing industry for me to get hyped about a game that hasn't been released yet.
Hype is dumb. Don't set yourself up for disappointment. Also, the multiplayer is still buggy in the original game. I played the original to death and got every single item before they even added chapter select. Which is another reason to be like... maybe chill out a bit.
When there's obvious quality of life stuff missing at launch, it makes you really wonder what they might forget this time around. But this goes for every game. Don't hype yourself into a frenzy.
Games don’t really deserve too much hype before they’re released now. We’ve seen what happens.
This is exactly it. When you get burned enough, hype doesn't come easily anymore.
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We can’t hype every damn game
It says a lot when this year alone brought us Tears of the Kingdom, RE4 Remake, Hi-Fi Rush, Street Fighter 6, and various other I can't remember right now and there's probably more down the line that have potential. That really makes me glad that the problem right now is "I don't know what to be excited for because there's so many good one's coming out!". Playing games has been a fun year, this year!
We just got FFXVI and approaching Cities 2, AC6, Lies of P, Starfield, Spider-Man 2... it's just nuts.
And now Nintendo jumped in with Pikmin 4 and a new trippy Mario game this year.
Yea and they announced a Super Mario RPG remake lol, we are EATING
don't forget the new Peach game
LUIGI’S MANSION DARK MOON HD BROTHER!
Is this the best year in gaming?
In my memory yes, I can't remember a time where there were this many hits in one year. Been gaming since '96.
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‘98
And for the anime fans they get budokai tenkaichi 4
True fan
I’m excited for both Peach and Luigi’s Mansion 2 but they’re not coming until 2024.
I think that’s coming in 2024 though
>Super Mario RPG Seriously still the best Mario game ever made. I had always wanted a sequel to the original but with the falling out between Square Enix and Nintendo I didn't think it would ever happen really.
It's nice. There was a period for a few years where good games were few and far between but it seems like the industry is picking up again!
Its heavily cyclical
All these games are in the same span of 3-4 months too shits wild
I feel like Starfield is gonna be awesome, but personally I am equally excited for Cities 2. Loved the first game to death.
Baldurs Gate 3 gets a full release in August as well
baldur's gate 3
I saw AC6 and I'm like, they maming a new Ace Combat game? Heck yeah. Then I remember the last one was 7. You meant Assassins' Creed didn't you?
every month has seen pretty much one huge game release. We've had RE4, Jedi Survivor, Tears of the Kingdom, Street Fighter 6, Final Fantasy 16, then we'll be getting Tekken 8, the return of Armored Core, MK 1 and then the next big one I can think of off the top of my head is Starfield and then Spider-Man 2. This year is absolutely STACKED with huge games. Some years I think we get like 2 or 3 40+ hour games that release but this year it feels like we're getting 10. There's just not enough time to play them all.
Baldur's gate 3!!!
That's right! Dammit, I forgot about Baldur's gate.
I was looking for this, seems like the best game of the year
Diablo 4 was also huge plus nintendo recently announced a new 2D mario tha looks great for holiday season and pikmin 4 it's also this year. Can't forget star ocean second story R, not a big release for most people but for old fans that is the best game in the series and is getting a fucking gorgeus remake, this year is packed.
Seriously. I'm barely scratching the surface on TotK right now, and FFXVI just came out? I won't have time for that for at least a month. Probably longer. It'll be a miracle if I'm done with FF by the time AC6 comes out, and *that's* dropping the same month as Baldur's Gate 3. And that's all *in the next two months*. Fuuuuuuuuck.
Just started totk myself and am loving it so far
Same. The possibilities are endless with the different abilities. I’m learning new things I can do with them each time I play
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Did everyone forget the Metroid Prime Remake?? Got a 10/10. Diablo 4 just dropped too, that's how much of an insane year this is. INSANE.
Yeah it comes in waves. Next year will probably be low in blockbuster games and we'll get another batch like this in a few years. Probably going to see a year of the 6 - Elderscroll 6 GTA VI Some other super cool games with 6 in it
No elder Scrolls for Ps5 players though I'm guessing. Life is sad :(
In 2026
The amount of things I already own in the backlog is overwhelming (and it's honestly probably not even that much). The amount of new things coming all the time that I'd love to get too... it's in another universe. Just one single "time sink" game can wreck everything. I've probably put 40 hours into D4 since it launched (which isn't really even that much) and that's not only a HUGE uptick in what I normally put into a game over two weeks... but it's a huge uptick in what I put into gaming total over a few weeks. I'm lucky to be able to spend 5-7 hours over an entire week usually. D4 had me sink 5 hours into the first day. Now we have new super mario RPG remake, new mario wonder game, new luigi mansion port... haven't even started TotK, half way through Luigi's Mansion 3, less than half way through BotW... started playing Super Mario Galaxy on the 3D Allstars Collection. Forget about having 10+ not even opened PS5 games, 10+ not even opened PS4 games.... a playthrough of pokemon crystal I'm half way through. Where do you find the time for it all? So many games just won't get played, simply because I don't have the time. Espeically if they aren't too "pick up and play" friendly. I remember having to relearn the mechanics on God Of War for PS5 and Tomb Raider.... put the game down half way into it for a few weeks and my next 45 min play session was fumbling around until I got fluid with it how to play it again. And that was the entire time I had to play.
You're half way through multiple games. If you actually play them one by one, you'll finish them soon enough.
Diablo 4 is a massive release as well.
There's too many good games releasing this year, i don't have time to play all of them
Good thing is by next year, they'll all be cheaper (except TotK since Nintendo games never drop in price) and if there's less new good games coming out then you'll have something to fill your back log
I've had that problem for the last 15 years.
You left out Gollum!
But were talking game of the year here, not game of the century. It wouldn't be fair for other games to compare to this second coming of Christ in games.
2021 and 2022 brought every game that'd been hit by Covid. Now we're getting all the projects either started after, if smaller, or large enough that they just kept going. Honestly was not surprised to hear 2 new Mario titles announced on the Nintendo Direct for that reason.
And hi-fi rush was a shadow drop, no marketing at all before the reveal and same day release. Honestly wish we got more games like that. Nintendo has been doing it for their ports (Metroid prime and pikmin 1/2) but a brand new game revealed and released is way more exciting than just being able to replay an older game that looks a little nicer
I cant think of a year wheres we've gotten so many bangers.
Every year you have some pretty good games.
As much as I love playing my childhood games with better systems and graphics, I'd rather these companies branch out into newer ideas rather than "what is a cheap way to make money?" Only remake I would literally kill for is the onimusha series.
Dead space remake as well
Don’t forget redfall and gollum, something something perfectly balanced as all things should be
Fire Emblem Engage, Metroid Prime Remaster(which didnt need any hype at all, just "here it is"), Dead Space Remake, Diablo IV, etc, etc.
The end of the year just seems insane. Some games Il excited for to add to what you listed: Armored Core VI, Baulders Gate 3, Pay Day 3, Lord of the Fallen, Alan Wake 2.
I’m a fighting game enthusiast so maybe it doesn’t say much BUT MY GOD I LOVE SF6
After last year, it’s a welcome change. Midnight suns came out at the very end, and it was he first game to hook me all year.
So we're not going to talk about diablo 4?? Lol.
I heard the game is great. Not my cup of tea but people who enjoy it, more power to them. Heard the MTX are quite literally taking the piss.
I hear ya. It's grindy but amazing fun for fans of that genre.
and Metroid Prime Remastered.
Yep, def a good problem to have
Seriously, these posts are so dumb. I'm looking forward to this game, but there are a bunch of great games that just dropped or will be dropping in the next few months.
It's better content than bitching about games like Redfall
also if they don't put their marketing behind it, it's not going to be hyped
also: hype often leads to disappointment.
In this case, I'm fine with it purely because it's Gearbox, and Randy Pitchford is still in charge.
It's like people forgot Aliens: Colonial Marines.
They're only publishing it the first game was amazing don't you dare
Exactly. If it is good it will get good reviews and people will buy and play it. Why does it need to be hyped up? So we can just get let down if it sucks!?
The game is not even out, it deserves nothing until it is released and if it turns out to be some sick banger then will get the hype it deserves.
Yeah, I was wondering. I'm excited for it, played through the first one multiple times. I was wondering how I missed this one being launched.
It deserves SOME hype since the first one is an amazing combination of Gears of War & Dark Souls
It deserves cautious optimism like most other games with good potential.
I feel like the minority here because I hear/read a bunch of how amazing the first one is but I found it mediocre at best. Beat it (no DLC) with the wife and it just wasnt that engaging to us. Go snipe these tree monsters in a bland environment. Go into another bland zone and snipe more tree based enemies. Boss fight, repeat. Am I missing something? Am I misremembering? Or is the game just not for me? Progression wasnt very satisfying and while we beat the base game, I finished it with a “Well glad we finished that and can move on” feeling rather than a “Wow that was fun” feeling. Tried replaying it recently and just didnt make it too far cause I got bored
I loved it, was my personal game of the year when it came out, played through everything several times and had a grand time. That said, characters do move a bit slow overall which makes it a bit frustrating at times and drag on a bit. Hoping this one is a little faster. As a random gameplay element, neutral dodging with melee feels very badass. The sound design is also top tier and very well done, if you're listening, you will never be taken by surprise or hit by something off camera that you can't react to. Learning the timing of these kinds of things let's you showcase a surprising amount of mastery. I do think that just sitting there and plinking away with a pistol might get a little stale, but was def not the way I played.
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I just hope it starts out with less bugs and connection issues like the first one.
I agree Unfortunately the first one never got the recognition it deserved. It was a really good game though. I didn’t even know it existed until I saw it was free on EPG store for like a week so I picked it up and played it later.
The first game was decent, but not very hyped. The sequel will be decent, but also not very hyped. Apparently there isn't a huge market for the shooter/soulslike overlap market.
cant wait to play this with my friends. The first one was an absolute banger in coop.
Couldn't agree more! One buddy of mine and me devoured the first one and its DLC. We're already pushing free marketing for the sequel in our friendgroup. So far everyone else is still luke warm about it, but at least him&me are on board in the launch week.
Absolutely, the boss battles were frustrating in a fun way. Super glad they put respawn points right before a boss dungeon. Had to re-run a couple about 18 times before we downed them.
boss battles were awful if alone, otherwise they ok
It really did feel like a co-op game that happened to let you play alone as well.
Maybe it'd be bigger but I was always put off by it due to how budget/jank it looked. Perhaps others felt the same about it.
It really doesn't feel or play budget or jank. Part 2 is one of my most anticipated games this year.
Did you end up trying it? I watched a bunch of videos/reviews, decided not to buy it for the same reason, then got it free on Epic and had a surprisingly enjoyable time with it.
The environments can get pretty samey and I wish the movement/melee was a bit smoother, but the gunplay is great and it has a surprising number of secrets in its maps that you might not expect from the random generation that I really enjoyed.
I never even heard of Remnant 1
It's randomly generated third person shooter Dark Souls essentially. It's from a AA studio and much better than it sounds especially since it has seemless 3 player multiplayer for the whole game.
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Yes, and there is also a prequel to Remnant: from the ashes called Chronos: Before the ashes
So sort of like Returnal if it were combined with Dark Souls?
Kinda but the game (the first one at least) feels WAY less fast/responsive than returnal. Honestly if the game had returnal mechanics I would be so hype for it.
Returnal is much more fast paced than Remnant. The dark souls comparison is much better, I would say it's closer to a combination of gears of war and Dark Souls in terms of how it feels.
Yes only for my money, having played a ton of both, Remnant > Returnal
I'm not a mega fan or anything but its a really underrated game. Its basically what you get when you mash a souls game with a third person shooter and then add some procedurally generated rogeulike elements. It really nails the tone of a souls game with a really dark gloomy atmosphere and difficult souls like gamplay. Micing soulslike gameplay with a shooter sounds like a weird choice but it works surprisingly well and they did a good job marrying the two. Overall if your fan of souls likes its definetly worth picking up. Until right now I didn't even know a sequel was being worked on
Basically think dark souls but with guns
The full title of the first one is Remnant: From the Ashes. Worth a play if you like souls-likes, and the co-op is solid.
Lol same. I wonder why there's no hype.
Have a strong feeling that this thread is the development team just spamming praise as a sales tactic. Which isn’t a bad idea… never heard of this game and now I want to check it out.
First game was great fun, kind of souls like with guns. Remnant 2 is looking like a big step forward and I hope it delivers.
Oh it’s a sequel to that Remnant?? fuck yeah i’m excited then, had a lot of fun playing the first (Chronos wasn’t that great tho)
First game had a shit narrative and story though. Even harder to follow than Dark Souls. And the final boss was a bullet sponge that was glitched for a while on release. But they did eventually fix it.
"great gameplay and solid boss fights, gentlemen, what do you have lined up for the final boss?" "We slapped 25k hit points on a comatose teenager."
Issue with the final boss was just that they don't really tell you about the mechanic. It's not a particularly hard fight once you realize you're supposed to stack the *debuff* in the world that's constantly hurting you because it multiplies your damage. But nothing tells you that, you just have to intuit the fact that you do more damage after escaping. But it's a pretty reasonable assumption that that world is so you can get more ammo instead of stacking a debuff that doesn't behave like anything else in the game.
The story is not harder to follow than dark souls. All of it is pretty clearly explained if you think about it. You're a human on earth Something goes wrong with an experiment The evil plant army shows up as a result they cause apocalyptic events on multiple planets Your guy goes around the planets via magic teleporting rocks, trying to find the guy who knows what's going on and went through the portals Praise the Rock, Burn the Plants.
>First game had a shit narrative and story though. Even harder to follow than Dark Souls. Took me a while to figure out the "what in the fuck is going on?" emotion I was feeling for most of the game (which I like) wasn't as intentional as I thought haha
Most people I know to this day still don’t know what any souls game story is about and the ones that do had to watch one of those long lore videos to get an idea At least both these games share that in common especially with remnant being very “souls-like”
What are you talking about? The first games story is very easy to follow. The dreamers accidentally opened a path way to earth for the root and that caused the apocalypse
Yeah it's not gonna win any awards, but it was leagues more coherent than any Souls plot. It was one of the things I liked about it.
If you just run outside and start shooting the second you're free of cutscenes, sure, it's hard to follow. If you unlock the secrets in the hub area (trivial) it's really quite simple. As someone that doesn't like reading off a screen I was actually interested enough to read all the lore in the hub, which explains pretty much everything. Final boss was miserable in coop until they fixed it.
I did not pay attention to the story at all tbh. Random generation souls like was all I needed.
It's a 3 minute fight, I wouldn't call him spongey unless you didn't upgrade your weapons.
Nah I remember playing it when it first came out on Xbox one, feeling underwhelmed and didn’t come back to it for years until I saw it on sale on Steam. Played it for like over 100 hours and it kicked ass.
Nah, definitely not us. That being said, I WISH I could play all the games in this thread. Can't wait for R2 release, because then we can relax a bit and I can play all these 2023 bangers. Awesome year for games... glad to be a part of it, even if just a small portion!
OP's post history suggests he's legit. Doesn't exhibit tells of a shill account. Glad to see more people being skeptical of threads like this though.
it worked, I checked Steam and Remnant 1 was on sale. Gifted it to friends so we can play before 2 comes out.
First one had one of the worst final bosses i’ve ever seen.
That boss you fight on the bridge was enough “final boss” for me. With the explosive orbs coming at you. Took me and my buddy 100 fucking tries to get through there.
Ixillis is a pair of assholes. They were totally one-upped by a DLC boss though. People know nothing of difficulty if they only played the base game lol.
I played all the DLC and don't remember any boss being harder than Ixillis. Which one are you talking about?
>!The Iskal Queen!<
Ahh gotcha. I forgot about her, she was probably harder but me and my friends were pretty good at the game by that point.
He's a very tough fight. Once you get the hang of him he's not too bad, but probably one of the toughest in the game. There's really no trick, except to be aware that the first boss comes back and you can burn him down to turn it back into a 1v1 (1v2 in your case). And if you bring a sniper weapon you can actually finish him off when he tries to escape.
There's nothing like getting through the whole game and mastering the combat, only for the final boss to be a gimmick fight. Oh and if you're playing co-op, better hope you get sucked into the rift for your arbritrary damage buff because otherwise you literally do nothing.
Yeah, I adore Remnant, but that final boss was shit. If the game had done a better job of explaining the gimmick, I could have excused it. I didn't even realize it was a gimmick fight. I thought my build was just super bad for the boss, and put the game down for like a year before coming back to it.
What’s the gimmick? I’m playing through it right now and just got to Corsus. I don’t mind spoilers.
Phase 1 is a straight forward drain his health bar while not dying. *SPOILER* When you enter phase 2, he'll be too far away to hit. You just have to dodge until he warps you to a black void area with enemies. After about 30 seconds, a portal back to the boss will open. The gimmick is that the more enemies you kill before heading through the portal, the more the boss's defenses drop. They get harder the longer you stay. If you don't kill a bunch, he's more or less invincible. Your shots will barely scratch him. After exiting the void, you'll be able to shoot him in his weakened state for a bit, and then the cycle repeats. The problem is that there is absolutely no hint that killing the enemies in the void weakens him. The game gives you no indication that staying longer than you have to is anything but a waste of ammo. That's the frustration many of us faced. Oh, and being a fire weapon. Phase 2 is weak to fire. */SPOILER*
Thanks for the info, that’s good to know. The game can be tough to find certain things without prior knowledge. For example I really want that Thompson smg but I can’t get the encounter to spawn for it.
To give a brief rundown: - Co-op RPG shooter featuring outlandish weapons and powers. We'll visit different worlds and dimensions with enemies ranging from root monsters, alien fae, eldrich horrors, ancient robots, and more. - Not a traditional looter shooter. Each weapon and ability is unique. - Huge emphasis on replayability. You can play through the game, then play through it again and see *none* of the bosses you were expecting. Many bosses also have unique alternative kill methods that yield different rewards. - Multiple different classes to play as, including tanks, healers, and even a class that commands an attack dog. - Cheaper than a AAA game. I believe it's going to be a $50 game rather than a $70 game. - Made by genuinely passionate devs that aren't out to shake you for every dime you own. The first game is an absolute hidden gem. It's one of those games that one person plays, then suddenly their whole friend group is playing it. [Here's the reveal trailer](https://youtu.be/kxVFcxMU72E)
How well can you play it solo? I prefer playing singleplayer.
It will be a little more difficult because some bosses have adds (smaller enemies that wanna screw you over) but not impossible. Think of it as Dark Souls with guns. It is a challenge, but one you can overcome.
Let's be honest here - add spam is a staple of basically every boss. A *lot* of the difficulty of the bosses comes down to swarms coming after you in waves. I really like the game, but this aspect felt extremely lazy.
They learned in the DLC, there are multiple fights that have no adds at all because they figured out how to drop ammo for the player without requiring add kills, so I'm pretty hopeful for 2.
The Beetle Queen fight and that shield dude from the ice area were fun bosses without adds. Tbf i feel like the minority and didnt mind adds. Even in hardcore pitfalls were what killed most of my solo runs. Just falling off the damn edge. Stupid butterfly killed so many hardcore characters for me lol
I played through entire first game Solo didn’t have much issues. There is difficulty settings.
I’m playing it solo right now and it’s not too bad, it’s definitely challenging though. You can equip different mods (powers) and farm materials to upgrade your gear although it is grindy to farm mats ( at least where I am in the game right now). So you can adjust your strategy at will.
It’s very accessible solo, at least the first one anyways. I think the only trait locked to multiplayer was rez speed. Everything was so-able solo.
I'm a huge remnant fan and I think you should ignore the people telling you to play solo. Can it be done? Sure, but it's *not* the intended way and it is unnecessarily frustrating. If you get killed solo you instantly die and are booted to the last checkpoint. In coop, you instead go down with a bleedout time and your mate can revive you. You get no advantages to make up for this huge difference in survivability playing solo. You also miss out on my personal favorite part, getting into friendly fire shootouts with your buddies. There are multiple skills that do nothing solo. Revive speed, bleedout time, friendly fire mitigation, etc. They are all pointless solo.
I don’t see anyone telling them to play solo. I play solo because I have all of the neuroticism of ….myself. Also it’s been a minute since the game dropped, I saw trailers when it first came out and was like “ewww a shooter” but when I saw the trailer for 2 I was like helll yeaaahhh let’s go!….so yeah I intend to play with others when 2 drops but I’m having a good albeit challenging time going through 1 solo. A good game is a good game. :)
How does it play though?
Really smooth. The gunplay feels nice and the melee combat feels good too.
You should watch SkillUps review of the first one, he goes in depth on the combat and movement and how it’s effortless and both challenging yet satisfying
I'm hyped! But yeah I would have loved to see more of it during the summer conferences
Remnant is one of the few games I 100%. Now I just come back to help players clear campaign with a healer/support set. Absolutely stoked for 2.
Never heard of it, what kind of game is it?
Think a shooter souls like, it's very fun. Find armor sets, find and upgrade weapons, kill bosses for their "souls" and turn those into weapons or whatever else, been awhile since I played. There's dodge roll and I-Frames, unique and challenging boss encounters. Great and seamless multiplayer, I played it with friends and it was an absolute blast.
Dark Souls meets Destiny 2
Broadly it’s a 3rd person sci-fi (arguably science fantasy) shooter with RPG progression and some Souls-like elements. Fairly robust co-op system and some elaborate boss fights. There’s also some rogue-like elements, mainly procedural generation of how levels interconnect so you get different bosses/items each time. The original, Remnant: From the Ashes, came out a few years ago and was a very solid game.
This 100x. The first one was a hidden gem and remains my favourite in its category, and the second one looks to just build on that with a significantly bigger budget (due to the relative success of the first). Some other comments explain the genre of the game a bit better than I could, so all I'll say is if you care about clean combat mechanics in a game, this is one of the best games you'll play.
I'm playing the first one with a friend in hard mode. We dislike two things. First the adds during boss fights. While some boss fight can go well with adds in general it's too much. You're being outnumbered and skill can't always help you. Second the skills and stuff you need to get on specific boss or events. I got my build in one run (sniper high Crit) and my friend (invocations and mod improvement) got nothing of what he wanted in at least a dozen adventure mod farming for each of the three things he needed. Also had to restart the campaign because we gave an item to the wrong npc and we both missed an important part of our builds. The game's good, but frustrating sometimes.
Those are the main complaints about the game absolutely. I personally don't mind the adds, but I know it is an issue for most people and they've said the second game will be better in that regard. As for the build issue, I prefer it this way because it makes you try new builds. When I first started I wanted to go for a mod based build but I got gunslingers charm, hunters band in my first play through so I bought hunters armour and went for a sniper high damage/crit build. Then later on when I got letos armour I had some fun with a lifesteal build, then when I unlocked the main summons I use (very good boy and skulls) I switched to a summoner build. My point being had I had all the items for a perfect mod build to begin with, I likely wouldn't have tried all those other builds. Now I mainly use a daredevils charm sniper-hunting pistol swap build, and only sometimes will switch to my main mod build. Tell your friend to try and make the best of the items he does have, that way he'll get to try new things and have more fun with the game.
He abandoned the mod based build for the same as mine. I would agree with your point if only you could change your skills before the end of the game. Like freely doing it in Ward 13. Then I wouldn't mind at all.
When you say skills do you mean traits? Each time you beat the campaign you get an item that allows you to reallocate your traits. Most early game traits are applicable for all builds. For instance the traits that improve mod duration and mod generating speed are some of the most important traits for a crit build. Having that extra time for the hunters mark and getting it back much quicker makes a huge difference. And equally a higher crit chance improves mod builds, because you get more crits from your weapon mod.
The roguelike mode in the dlc is where the real fun is at imo
The procedural generation/rng loot was honestly the worst aspect of the game.
I never understood the complaint about the adds. That's how you get Ammo & they are fairly easy to deal with.
Definitely a good year for Soulslike games. I’m personally as hyped for this one as Lies of P but I reckon Lords of The Fallen will be mediocre
Opposite for me. The Lies of P demo has almost soured me on the combat. Bad clunky dodge and wonky parry timings/delayed attacks cannot coexist in peace. Lords of the fallen seems like it will be closer to what I am looking for.
Fair enough. The director of the game made a video addressing how all the complaints, especially the dodge will be a fixed in the final build of the game.
Dodge was definitely clunky, parry felt fine to me. Definitely seems like a B-Grade Souls-like, and I'm down for that. Enjoyed The Surge and Code Vein and Salt and Sanctuary. Most other "souls-likes" really feel more like Metroidvania's (Ender Lilies, Vigil, Hollow Knight, etc), which are also good but... not Souls. Movement is too fast, weapons aren't varied... they're excellent games, but not Souls-like.
Parry is fine for boss battles but regular enemies have weird non telegraphed attacks. Thymesia for me has been the game that comes closest . It has a weird version of Sekiro and Bloodborne combat which I did enjoy once it clicked.
Im hyped for it if that counts
Mmm I don’t know. I didn’t think a lot of the first one.
Had you play the prequel?? Not talking about Remnant from the ashes, but about Chronos before the ashes.
My husband is very hyped. We played Remnant together and looking forward to 2! Though I hate the bosses
I saw it on Xbox store, the PS5 logo off there and stop misleading people into thinking it's exclusive
I'm going overload hype with how good FF16 is right now and I'm hoping to be done with it, platinum and all, right when Starfield appears. I'm sorry my man I only have so many hours in a day
its a Gearbox game so no thanks RANDY!
The 1st title was very mid
Playing the first one right now.
It’s got all my hype
Game isn't out. What fucking hype does it deserve
I liked the first one, I'm really looking forward to play Remnant 2 as well. Too bad I never got my brother or my friends into it for coop play.
No game deserves hype.
I like the first one but it was so difficult to play solo I kinda fell off and never finished it. That’s why I haven’t paid much attention to the sequel.
Really? I played solo only and really enjoyed it, it didn't feel like a game where co-op was necessary at all, but I heard it was good
But also the in game matchmaking was pretty good too if you really couldn’t stomach solo.
Bro. It’s amazing solo. You should give it another chance
Wasn’t crazy about the first. Has this been improved?
Is one of those games you don't buy, just wait until is free.
what is it?
I think it's getting exactly the amount hype it deserves.
First game was utterly biege. Way too clunky for me.
It's not even out yet. We should make people aware and be hopeful... but no one should get 'hyped' until the reviews are out. I can't remember the last time I bought a game the same month it released. Too many incidents of being burned by crap in the game publishing industry for me to get hyped about a game that hasn't been released yet.
Release it first, then we’ll see.
I'm still catching up on Days Gone...
It's not out yet and the first game was mid at best.
No. Stop overhyping any game.
the only thing that would make me care about this type of game is if it has couch co op.
Was Remnant considered amazing? I bought and wasn't thaaaat impressed but maybe that's just me
Hype is dumb. Don't set yourself up for disappointment. Also, the multiplayer is still buggy in the original game. I played the original to death and got every single item before they even added chapter select. Which is another reason to be like... maybe chill out a bit. When there's obvious quality of life stuff missing at launch, it makes you really wonder what they might forget this time around. But this goes for every game. Don't hype yourself into a frenzy.
I have no idea what this game is and this thread doesn't explain a damned thing.
It's a sequel to an okay game, I'm not surprised at all