Gaming in 2022 has basically come to a close, with only a few more major games to release before January 1st. While I’ll be spending a good deal of time playing through PS5 games that released before I received mine on Christmas, there are a few games coming in 2023 that I’m willing to shell out full price on day one (and one that I’m absolutely not touching).
Forspoken
I’ll be totally honest, I fell for this game just because of the graphics. I have absolutely no idea much about it, barring that it’s an Action RPG being published by Square Enix and developed by the FFXV team. I do love the fact that it appears to be a solid one player game with a female protagonist, Frey, and that magic is a major selling point. It’s also an isekai, or a character from the “real world” falling into a fantasy world that is trying to find their way home.
I’m willing to give it a shot, even if it may end up not being a game that I fall in love with. It just impressed me that much just from some trailers.
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
My free time in January will finally be dedicated to blasting through Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, which I’m planning on at least finishing the story on my PS5, if not Platinuming. It’s high time, I’ve only been saying this since I bought the game on release day… how many years ago?
I flat out screamed while watching the trailer that was dropped at the Game Awards. I’m not much of a Star Wars fan anymore as the sequel trilogy of films burned me a bit to much. However, I’m still enough of a casual fan to want to play this game day one.
Disney Dreamlight Valley
Alright, this is a copout. Technically this is already out. Technically. In beta.
Basically, about two months ago, the game became available to play, as long as players were cognitive of the fact that it was going to have issues and be unstable. I have it, I just haven’t put too much time into it. Come 2023 and the official release, I’m absolutely going to push my way through a good deal of it. I’m just waiting until a bunch of the issues are fixed first.
Marvel’s Spider-Man 2
A PS5 exclusive that I will drop my entire wallet for, immediately, hands down. I loved the original Marvel’s Spider-Man and I enjoyed the spinoff dedicated to Miles Morales. The true sequel has finally been given a release window of Fall 2023, which I’m very much excited for to get my hands on to.
There’s obviously a long wait ahead until the release of this, with only a short teaser being released earlier this year hinting that Venom would be apart of the story (if not the villain, but I’m not about to just declare it yet). We shall see what the coming months bring.
Hogwarts Legacy
Remember at the top when I said there was a game I was absolutely not touching? Here it is.
Look, I know people are excited for this game. I’m 100% sure of that. But I’m not about to give that woman a penny of my money. Not a single bit. It can look beautiful all it wants. It can finally be the open world Harry Potter game that fans and former fans dreamed of for absolute years.
The thing is, she’s still getting money from it due to royalties, and honestly? There’s just a bit too much ick wrapped into the story of this one. It won’t be touching my Playstation or Xbox, even if you bought it for me as a gift. I want no part in supporting it.
Wrap Up
There’s obviously hundreds of games coming out in 2023, some announced and some that will sneak out and still be brilliant. These are just the ones that have stuck out to me, for good and bad. That’s not to say that I’m going to limit myself to only these games, no of course not. I have a massive backlog and a bunch of games to replay on PS5.
Gaming’s future is looking bright!
Until next time.
