2023 - What‘re ya buying?

It's kinda crazy to think that in some cases we're mostly looking forward to 8 this or 16 that.

Have preordered Hogwarts. Everything else I want is coming to Game Pass.

Hopefully Advance Wsrs

Pervert.

2023 is looking insanely good. I guess much that would have been coming out this year got pushed back due to COVID hitting in the middle of their development.

Of those already mentioned, looking forward to Hogwarts and Breath of the Wild 2. Also Silksong. Absolutely loved Hollow Knight, so can't wait to see what they have been cooking up for the sequel.

Things not mentioned, 2023 is looking like it will see a bit of an RTS comeback. Homeworld 3 should be interesting and hope Company of Heroes 3 will be worth getting. Intrigued by the ex-Blizzard developers game, Stormgate, although I also have a feeling it is going to turn out a bit shit. All previews seem to focus on the service model as opposed to the actual gameplay.

Balder's Gate 3 is going to be massive too. I'm one of those that is very happy that they are sticking with what the devs are used to with turn based combat, instead of the series standard of real time with pause, a system that has always caused me to bounce off the classic games and others of their ilk. Divinity Original Sin 2 was excellent and this is shaping up to be an even more polished game. I've dabbled in the early access and loved what I've seen so far.

Tech-wise, might pick up a new GPU. Waiting to see what reviews for the new Radeon cards are like and may well go for one from team red for a change. If they aren't as good as hoped for, then I may hold off another year. If a Switch 2 comes out, I might get one. It would have been a day one buy for me pre-Steam Deck, but now it will be a wait and see what launch line up is like. Backwards compatibility is also a must (this is all assuming what is next from Nintendo is a successor to the Switch, of course).

You not a Resident Evil fan bichii2 ?

RE4 is the one unmissable game for me. Seems like a proper remake, rather than just a graphics upgrade

Looking forward to my PSVR2 and crying like a baby RE:Village. It will be interesting to see the difference from my original Rift.

bichii2 Yeah I get that, I think RE4 only really hits its stride when you start getting some decent weapons. Then it becomes arguably the best game ever made, so many iconic sequences

I still play through it at least once a year now but just use my old saves with all the extra unlocked stuff

From what I'm seeing now Diablo IV is still looking like it might turn out well, but we'll see. Will be like 60 or perhaps even 70 € on release anyway.

I will buy any good strategy / builder games that come to xbox with a bit of effort made. Stellaris, Surviving Mars, Cities, Bannerlord are all great, lets have Dyson (Perhaps Slightly Smaller) Sphere Program and TW3 too. Please.

No concrete plans next year. I'm hoping FF7 Remake and P5 Royal see some kind of price drop/sale that I can feel okay about picking them up again on PC.

I don't particularly keep up-to-date on new games, and normally just decide when they come out if I'm interested in picking something up; I have enough in the backlog to keep me busy.

I'm quite keen to pick up a new SSD at some point. My existing 1TB struggles a bit now with the size of some games. I also, when building the PC, made the silly mistake of having a separate 250gb drive for my windows install, which occasionally causes me hassles as its a mite too tight. Was wondering if I could maybe grab a 2TB ssd, then transfer my games there, then transfer my windows install onto the 1TB drive, and use the 250 for, well, whatever. The prices seem quite high though, so may need a sale to see this through.

The rumours about Switch2 have died down a bit, but wouldn’t that also be coming out next year?

The new Zelda almost certainly - only a question of whether there's a new console to go with it (and if there is, I might wait a bit). Switch had its last hurrah for me with Animal Crossing during lockdown - barely touched it since - but I like the symmetry of welcoming in and seeing out the machine on the same series.

I'm also strangely committed to playing Hogwarts, even though the pedigree of the devs mean it'll be AA-Jank at best, and a technical shitshow at worst.

Silkworm is a given, if that materialises, along with Jedi: Survivor. See also Diablo 4. Plus any DLC for Elden Ring.

Hopefully the PS5 will deliver something I want in the coming year as well. Having worked my way through its exclusives in the past few months, it's only really GT7 that made it worth buying the console so far.

Other than that, it's all GP stuff for me so far. Starfield being the big one, which isn't too far away now.

That's something of a depressingly small list. Hopefully there'll be some additional surprises released that I'm not expecting.

There’s nothing on the list that’s an insta-buy for me. I have a shedload of stuff I’ve picked up in sales and haven’t touched.

Silksong would be a definite, and BG3 if it gets an official release. Octopath 2, maybe. I did enjoy the first one but it was SO LONG. I’ll probably wait for it to come down in price.

Is Hogwarts getting a VR release? That might tip me over. Other than that, I’d like a new XCOM and a new Elder Scrolls, but we’re unlikely to get either this year.

I will certainly get the DLC for Cyberpunk. For Elden Ring, I dunno, maybe.