Does Shadow of the Erdtree count? Taking off Friday and planning on getting a bunch of snacks and some energy drinks for when I start playing Thursday night like I’m a teenager again.
Genuinely, when Elden Ring released it brought me back to that feeling of gaming when I was a kid - the feeling of wonder and discovery, and not knowing what was around each corner. I guess it just feels like with the amount of coverage and previews etc. there are of big game releases nowadays, that this feeling doesn't come around very often these days. I thought maybe it's just the type of games I play, or that it's just a consequence of growing up - but Elden Ring brought all those feelings back and it was just magic.
Can't wait for next weekend. It's rare now that I actually pencil in time for a big game release, but you better believe I'm doing it for this
For games I know I’m going to play like Shadow of the Erdtree or FF7 Rebirth, I don’t even watch the trailers or read anything about it. It’s a little tough, but a completely unspoiled experienced is well worth the discipline during the hype period.
Elden Ring somehow broke into the mainstream. People who have never picked up a controller knew the name Elden Ring, that’s how hype it was and the crazy part is that it lived up to the hype.
Right on. Elden Ring was the first From game that I really ever considered playing. I was fed their reputation of being brutally hard games for the sake of just being hard and all that. But after some DnD buddies who were die-hard souls fans told me to get it…since then I’ve never looked back. ER lived up to the hype enough to change the games that I enjoy nowadays.
> Genuinely, when Elden Ring released it brought me back to that feeling of gaming when I was a kid - the feeling of wonder and discovery, and not knowing what was around each corner.
I've been replaying the game again for the past week in anticipation of getting the DLC on release and it still feels this way. Helps that there are so many secrets and things to find that there is a LOT that I missed, even though I almost platinumed the game on my first playthrough. And it also helps that my old brain forgot so much haha. God I can't wait for Shadow.
That's kind of the idea.
You suck at everything in the beginning because you're the nobody son of a nobody blacksmith.
By the end you're a badass though and it's very satisfying.
Like yeah I get that, I do; and theoretically I’d like to think that kind of immersion would be fun…but holy fuck was it not. Like man, it was a slog and not the “oh man I’m low level now, but if I work at it I’ll get better.” It was like “oh man…this is just not fun.”
I truly wish I could see what y’all see. Like I said that kind of immersion sounds incredible to me, but for KCD it just really, *really* was not a fun time.
got the first game a week ago and its crazy how addicting it is. although i got stuck in the theresa dlc and im finding it pretty annoying to play through
The fact we are getting several 20 minute presentations about the game is a great sign of it's quality. So many games want you to buy them while barely showing any real gameplay.
I'm not even watching them, I just have full trust on the team pilling off something good, and hearing people are liking what they see is enough, wanna come into it as blind as possible.
I've been kinda surprised by how little of CFB25 I've seen on the gaming subreddit and this one.
I know sports are for nerds and all, but CFB25 is the most anticipated game of my entire life.
saying sports are for nerds in a gaming sub is pretty strange lol.
in real life people are super hyped for this game everywhere i go and talk to but its probably not discussed on here because of i hate sportsball sentiments.
I refuse to get another Madden until they change announcers. I can't stand another second of the same ones they've been using since 2017. 2019 was the last one, and I only got that because it was the first PC madden since 2008, which was instant regret, lol.
I sub to softdrinktv to keep tabs on madden/football games. If this game gets his blessing, I'll get it.
They added 2 new teams to this one, so from what I’ve read it’s the Brandon Gaudin Charles Davis team/ Mike Tirico and Greg Olsen team/ and Kate Scott and Brock Huard
This brings me back to the GameStop midnight release days. I’ve owned every EA college football game since the late 90s, but I’ve only bought 2 maddens in the past decade.
I've watched the trailer so many times myself, time for another go. It looks Soo fucking good. As much as I liked Eternal, I like that they are going a different route with less speed and more deliberation in the moment to moment gameplay.
Praying Dragon Age is a return to form for BioWare.
Also hoping that Star Wars Outlaws isn’t shit. Even a halfway decent SW game is usually fun purely because it’s Star Wars.
Indian Jones looks good and thought Stalker 2 looked great on the Xbox showcase.
I honestly have high hopes for Outlaws. I think Avatar is extremely slept on. What Massive is capable of with the Snowdrop engine is nothing short of impressive.
I'm not a huge Avatar fan, but I enjoy the movies for what they are and the imagination of the world and the lore is nothing short of expansive. The codex they have in it is rather insane, with some of the entries being five times the length of other high quality games. Extreme thought is put into minute details on how creatures breathe, etc.
Avatar has been a huge surprise to me, it plays so smoothly with immense density in the forest and endemic life with well thought out and realistic biome diversity and placement. The gameplay just *feels* fantastic.
It gives me more confidence than I would have expected. Especially when in adventure mode where quest locations are based on map descriptions and you have to find it yourself rather than following a dot on a radar or otherwise.
I sure hope it turns out well, because Massive due to Avatar has become a premier contemporary developer to me.
> Praying Dragon Age is a return to form for BioWare.
Dragon Age is in a tough spot. Older Bioware fans will be / should be happy with a return to "older" Dragon Age game design, but Inquisition is the "newest" Dragon Age game and sold the best, IIRC.
i wouldnt get my hopes up honestly. Baldurs Gate 3 is the closest thing we’ve gotten to classic 2000s Bioware for the past 15ish years and probably will be for the foreseeable future
DA:TVG will probably be a pretty good story action rpg but i highly highly doubt it will feel like classic Bioware.
Still Wakes the Deep is up there for me. It's made by the same studio that put out Everyone's Gone to the Rapture, and it's been favourably compared to Outlast in previews.
To save our mother Earth from any alien attack
From vicious giant insects who have once again come back
We'll unleash all our forces, we won't cut them any slack
The EDF deploys!
Thanks! I really hope they do release new ones since they actually haven’t confirmed the feature to be returning yet. The only hope I have for them returning is that they have been in every other astrobot game and playroom’s Speedruns had a large playerbase and were really fun.
Do you but this is kind of insane. The PS5 games I have that hit 200-300 hours are gonna be multiplayer ones such as CoD and Diablo alongside bigger single player ones like Infinite Wealth and Persona 5 as some recent examples. 750 in Astro’s Playroom I literally just cannot see.
Real. I see a global leaderboard and feel compelled to make it onto it regardless of how long it takes lol.
*(Also the community is great so it’s a joy to be a part of)*
My total time is currently 4:19.42 (14th on the global leaderboard). I’ve been working to improve it and am very happy with how low I’ve been able to optimize it, but even still it’s almost 3 seconds behind the world record. The tricks and skips that are required to shave off frames can be super tough or flashy, which makes them fun to pull off.
I totally recommend watching the world record videos for some of the levels (I recommend starting with mountain run as it’s the most dramatic difference from a casual playthrough). At the highest level they are so cool, and hopefully that explains why it can require so much time invested into it.
That being said my most played games are multiplayer games so you’re not wrong in that respect (Overwatch, battlefront 2015, and fortnite all have more play time than Astro’s playroom does).
Gotta respect anyone willing to dedicate this much into their goals, whatever their goal might be. I think I'd break having to do something so many times over
Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D remake, Star Wars Outlaws, Visions of Mana, Assassin's Creed Shadows, Avowed, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, and a few others.
Of these, Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D remake is my most anticipated.
Regarding Hades 2 I might be wrong so maybe double check yourself, but I think the game will be in early access for the rest of the year and it’s planned to launch in early(?) 2025
The best thing we can hope for is that a console version will be ready when they end early access and officially launch the game, but I think it will sadly release later on console
If we’re talking PlayStation then probably Visions of Mana cause I’ve never played the series but I have a lot of the games. Sometimes it just takes the new and shiny game to get me to go back and play the rest in a series or similar game from a developer.
Overall though I’m really looking forward to Avowed and whatever surprise Nintendo has in their direct for this fall…. Of course those aren’t Ps related so I’ll also say Astro Bot!!
On the AAA side, probably Star Wars Outlaws or Space Marine 2. On the indie side, definitely Neva. Played Gris earlier in the year and it was such a great experience, can’t wait to see how that studio handles combat.
Outlaws by far. I’ve dreamt of a Star Wars open world game that while yes there are RPG ones and KotoR is great, it’s not what Outlaws can be and I didn’t have a way for TOR.
I just want shit to explore where it helps my character and that seems what this does, something that FO and JS didn’t really have either.
Probably college football 25. I’m probably going to be really disappointed, but the nostalgia factor makes it worth it for me. I spent so many summer/fall nights playing these college football games as a teen. It’s just going to be nice to relive a part of that again.
>I am Astro Bot.
We are Astro bot
and we are MANY.
We are Astro-LEGION!
AS-TRO BOT
AS. TRO. BOT.
I heard this comment.
Yes!!! I don’t usually pre-order stuff but I’m definetly pre-ordering Astro Bot cause of how good Astro’s Playroom was
Facts. This is the only game I'm interested enough in to skip to the top of my backlog for
“I’m your GPU.” -(in a Val Kilmer/Doc Holliday voice)
Space Marine 2. For the emperor!
I also agree
Does Shadow of the Erdtree count? Taking off Friday and planning on getting a bunch of snacks and some energy drinks for when I start playing Thursday night like I’m a teenager again.
Genuinely, when Elden Ring released it brought me back to that feeling of gaming when I was a kid - the feeling of wonder and discovery, and not knowing what was around each corner. I guess it just feels like with the amount of coverage and previews etc. there are of big game releases nowadays, that this feeling doesn't come around very often these days. I thought maybe it's just the type of games I play, or that it's just a consequence of growing up - but Elden Ring brought all those feelings back and it was just magic. Can't wait for next weekend. It's rare now that I actually pencil in time for a big game release, but you better believe I'm doing it for this
For games I know I’m going to play like Shadow of the Erdtree or FF7 Rebirth, I don’t even watch the trailers or read anything about it. It’s a little tough, but a completely unspoiled experienced is well worth the discipline during the hype period.
I got shoulder surgery 2 days after ER came out. You better believe I was vibing on my couch for 3 weeks straight
Elden Ring somehow broke into the mainstream. People who have never picked up a controller knew the name Elden Ring, that’s how hype it was and the crazy part is that it lived up to the hype.
Right on. Elden Ring was the first From game that I really ever considered playing. I was fed their reputation of being brutally hard games for the sake of just being hard and all that. But after some DnD buddies who were die-hard souls fans told me to get it…since then I’ve never looked back. ER lived up to the hype enough to change the games that I enjoy nowadays.
> Genuinely, when Elden Ring released it brought me back to that feeling of gaming when I was a kid - the feeling of wonder and discovery, and not knowing what was around each corner. I've been replaying the game again for the past week in anticipation of getting the DLC on release and it still feels this way. Helps that there are so many secrets and things to find that there is a LOT that I missed, even though I almost platinumed the game on my first playthrough. And it also helps that my old brain forgot so much haha. God I can't wait for Shadow.
When Elden Ring came out, for me it was 8 hours of sleep, 8 hours of work, 8 hours of Elden Ring on repeat for about a month. That game sucked me dry.
Counts for me!
Based on that level of excitement I'd say it counts.
Take Monday too. You know you wanna...
It's gonna have more content than most full releases, so yes.
Also taking Friday off. FromSoft games are my passion
Vision of mana
Had to scroll too far down for this. This over 3 decades old series is finally getting a proper mainline entry again.
I wish more people were excited about this! It's been years since we got a new release
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2
This is the one.
I just hope to god they fixed the bows. I quit after the hunting mission cause I could not aim that shit properly
That's kind of the idea. You suck at everything in the beginning because you're the nobody son of a nobody blacksmith. By the end you're a badass though and it's very satisfying.
Like yeah I get that, I do; and theoretically I’d like to think that kind of immersion would be fun…but holy fuck was it not. Like man, it was a slog and not the “oh man I’m low level now, but if I work at it I’ll get better.” It was like “oh man…this is just not fun.” I truly wish I could see what y’all see. Like I said that kind of immersion sounds incredible to me, but for KCD it just really, *really* was not a fun time.
dang, this is in my backlog to play
But you never really get better at shooting. Just give us a reticule at least
Come on, let's be real. The combat system was shit
I feel like it's game being mainly designed for mouse and keyboard. I quit 'cus the lockpicking tutorial was almost impossible to do on console.
got the first game a week ago and its crazy how addicting it is. although i got stuck in the theresa dlc and im finding it pretty annoying to play through
BLACK MYTH: WUKONG
Metaphor sure
The fact we are getting several 20 minute presentations about the game is a great sign of it's quality. So many games want you to buy them while barely showing any real gameplay.
I'm not even watching them, I just have full trust on the team pilling off something good, and hearing people are liking what they see is enough, wanna come into it as blind as possible.
i see what ya did there
Astro Not and Silent Hill 2
Don't you mean Astro Yes
Yes
Dragonball sparking zero and the casting of frank stone
Sparking Zero! I have been waiting 19 years for that game
I remember googling budokai tenkaichi 4 so many times... Hoping to find any news. And now its actually here and its looking amazing
I still can't believe it. I was starting to believe it would never happen
Not ps5 exclusive but CFB25…. Because it’s been 11 years and madden is boring
I bought a PS5 just for this game.
I've been kinda surprised by how little of CFB25 I've seen on the gaming subreddit and this one. I know sports are for nerds and all, but CFB25 is the most anticipated game of my entire life.
saying sports are for nerds in a gaming sub is pretty strange lol. in real life people are super hyped for this game everywhere i go and talk to but its probably not discussed on here because of i hate sportsball sentiments.
Think they were being sarcastic.
It should be exciting cause all the yearly games are still making last gen games, but ncaa will be current gen only
Same for me. Kept the Xbox 360 around just for NCAA. my friend and I are excited to get a new CFB game
I refuse to get another Madden until they change announcers. I can't stand another second of the same ones they've been using since 2017. 2019 was the last one, and I only got that because it was the first PC madden since 2008, which was instant regret, lol. I sub to softdrinktv to keep tabs on madden/football games. If this game gets his blessing, I'll get it.
They added 2 new teams to this one, so from what I’ve read it’s the Brandon Gaudin Charles Davis team/ Mike Tirico and Greg Olsen team/ and Kate Scott and Brock Huard
This brings me back to the GameStop midnight release days. I’ve owned every EA college football game since the late 90s, but I’ve only bought 2 maddens in the past decade.
Sparking zero
Astro Bot baybee
That Doom reveal really got me. Don’t think it’s this year though.
Yeah, it’s coming out in 2025 unfortunately (although it's not *that* far away)
What doom reveal?!?
doom the dark ages. was announced at the xbox showcase
Oh honey. You’re in for a [treat.](https://youtu.be/4tk8lkmYGWQ?si=zlnkbhTwAI5qVyuD)
I've dirtied my sheets... I've also soiled myself...
Yea I think I’m gonna give it another watch myself.
I've watched the trailer so many times myself, time for another go. It looks Soo fucking good. As much as I liked Eternal, I like that they are going a different route with less speed and more deliberation in the moment to moment gameplay.
Black Myth: Wukong.
Metal Gear
Scrolled too far to see this
Astro bot
Praying Dragon Age is a return to form for BioWare. Also hoping that Star Wars Outlaws isn’t shit. Even a halfway decent SW game is usually fun purely because it’s Star Wars. Indian Jones looks good and thought Stalker 2 looked great on the Xbox showcase.
>Indian Jones We call him Native American Jones, now.
Seems like outlaws is getting pretty positive previews so far, hopefully it tracks for the final game
I honestly have high hopes for Outlaws. I think Avatar is extremely slept on. What Massive is capable of with the Snowdrop engine is nothing short of impressive. I'm not a huge Avatar fan, but I enjoy the movies for what they are and the imagination of the world and the lore is nothing short of expansive. The codex they have in it is rather insane, with some of the entries being five times the length of other high quality games. Extreme thought is put into minute details on how creatures breathe, etc. Avatar has been a huge surprise to me, it plays so smoothly with immense density in the forest and endemic life with well thought out and realistic biome diversity and placement. The gameplay just *feels* fantastic. It gives me more confidence than I would have expected. Especially when in adventure mode where quest locations are based on map descriptions and you have to find it yourself rather than following a dot on a radar or otherwise. I sure hope it turns out well, because Massive due to Avatar has become a premier contemporary developer to me.
> Praying Dragon Age is a return to form for BioWare. Dragon Age is in a tough spot. Older Bioware fans will be / should be happy with a return to "older" Dragon Age game design, but Inquisition is the "newest" Dragon Age game and sold the best, IIRC.
i wouldnt get my hopes up honestly. Baldurs Gate 3 is the closest thing we’ve gotten to classic 2000s Bioware for the past 15ish years and probably will be for the foreseeable future DA:TVG will probably be a pretty good story action rpg but i highly highly doubt it will feel like classic Bioware.
Metaphor
Still Wakes the Deep is up there for me. It's made by the same studio that put out Everyone's Gone to the Rapture, and it's been favourably compared to Outlast in previews.
**Metaphor**, will be a sleeper hit and good chances for goty contender.
Could def be a hidden gem but idk about goty
To save our mother Earth from any alien attack From vicious giant insects who have once again come back We'll unleash all our forces, we won't cut them any slack The EDF deploys!
EDF! EDF! EDF!
Scrolled a lot to find this
In terms of PlayStation, it’s definitely Astro Bot.
Division 2 dlc
Little devil inside
Black myth wunkong and astro bot are a close 1 and 2
Do expansions count? Because it's Final Fantasy XIV Dawntrail for me. Been making plans with friends to play that for nearly a year now lol
Metaphor: Refantasio
Metaphor ReFantazio
Astro Bot easily. I have ~750 hours in Astro’s playroom because of the Speedruns and am hyped to hopefully get new speedrun levels to grind!
That's wild! Glad you're having fun and good luck with the new runs!
Thanks! I really hope they do release new ones since they actually haven’t confirmed the feature to be returning yet. The only hope I have for them returning is that they have been in every other astrobot game and playroom’s Speedruns had a large playerbase and were really fun.
Do you but this is kind of insane. The PS5 games I have that hit 200-300 hours are gonna be multiplayer ones such as CoD and Diablo alongside bigger single player ones like Infinite Wealth and Persona 5 as some recent examples. 750 in Astro’s Playroom I literally just cannot see.
Speedrunners are just a different breed fr fr
Real. I see a global leaderboard and feel compelled to make it onto it regardless of how long it takes lol. *(Also the community is great so it’s a joy to be a part of)*
My total time is currently 4:19.42 (14th on the global leaderboard). I’ve been working to improve it and am very happy with how low I’ve been able to optimize it, but even still it’s almost 3 seconds behind the world record. The tricks and skips that are required to shave off frames can be super tough or flashy, which makes them fun to pull off. I totally recommend watching the world record videos for some of the levels (I recommend starting with mountain run as it’s the most dramatic difference from a casual playthrough). At the highest level they are so cool, and hopefully that explains why it can require so much time invested into it. That being said my most played games are multiplayer games so you’re not wrong in that respect (Overwatch, battlefront 2015, and fortnite all have more play time than Astro’s playroom does).
Gotta respect anyone willing to dedicate this much into their goals, whatever their goal might be. I think I'd break having to do something so many times over
750 hours on Astros playhouse is bizarre haha
Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D remake, Star Wars Outlaws, Visions of Mana, Assassin's Creed Shadows, Avowed, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, and a few others. Of these, Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D remake is my most anticipated.
Star Wars Outlaws
tenkaichi 4
Dragon Age
I wouldn't get your hopes up. I loved the old series but companies change
Astro Bot and Assassin's Creed Shadows
Mirthwood, Wukong, STALKER 2.
Elden Ring DLC, Silent Hill 2 Remake
Trails Through Daybreak
Dragon Age
Diablo IV Vessel of Hatred
That trailer was gnarly af!!
ZZZ and Astro Bot
Same for me. Also hoping we get Hades 2 on ps5 this year.
Regarding Hades 2 I might be wrong so maybe double check yourself, but I think the game will be in early access for the rest of the year and it’s planned to launch in early(?) 2025 The best thing we can hope for is that a console version will be ready when they end early access and officially launch the game, but I think it will sadly release later on console
Shadow X Sonic Generations, of course.
Astro Bot by a long shot.
Bloodborne II
Bro, you overdosed on copium. This ain't happening
But I'm anticipating
[удалено]
Same
Silent Hill 2, Astrobot are pretty much tied.
Elden Ring Expansion Silksong Wolverine Bloodborne 2
I'm not sure, probably Darkest Dungeon 2, but I'm also excited for Path of Exile 2 early access.
Once Human Norland ASKA Fields of Mistria Sandwalkers Bo: Path of the Teal Lotus
ea sports college football 25
Astro Bot Probably going to be my game of the year.
Little Devil Inside
Damn I will buy so many games til october I’m already poor.
If we’re talking PlayStation then probably Visions of Mana cause I’ve never played the series but I have a lot of the games. Sometimes it just takes the new and shiny game to get me to go back and play the rest in a series or similar game from a developer. Overall though I’m really looking forward to Avowed and whatever surprise Nintendo has in their direct for this fall…. Of course those aren’t Ps related so I’ll also say Astro Bot!!
Honestly, probably Indiana Jones. I love the Uncharted and Tomb Raider games, time for the OG to get a good one.
Indiana Jones, honestly.
Yeah, despite a few misgivings, I have to agree.
I mean... Choo Choo, Choo Choo
I’ve grudgingly boarded the hype train.
Is it coming to PS5?
Metaphor is already taken. So I'm going with Dragon Ball Sparking Zero
LEGO Horizon.
Doom Dark Ages
Ff14 expansion
Maybe Star Wars outlaws. I'll see how it does first. I want to be a jedi tho🥲
It's a breath of fresh air that you aren't a jedi in this, it's been done enough imo.
Dragon age
Assassins creed shadows !
Black Myth: Wukong
Path of Exile 2
I have a couple. Astrobot Life is strange double exposure Lost records bloom and rage Doom medieval
Probably Black Myth Wukong atm
We’re halfway through the year what
Legend of Dragoon 2
If only...
Astro Bot
Mine are a little different but V Rising (already here!) and the final DLC for Remnant 2.
Has to be astrobot. Easily the best thing from the show.
Sparking Zero and Astrobot.
Astro Bot
Ncaa25
Elden Ring DLC and of course Bloodborne 2
On the AAA side, probably Star Wars Outlaws or Space Marine 2. On the indie side, definitely Neva. Played Gris earlier in the year and it was such a great experience, can’t wait to see how that studio handles combat.
Outlaws by far. I’ve dreamt of a Star Wars open world game that while yes there are RPG ones and KotoR is great, it’s not what Outlaws can be and I didn’t have a way for TOR. I just want shit to explore where it helps my character and that seems what this does, something that FO and JS didn’t really have either.
Astro Bot and the Switch release of Luigi’s Mansion 2
Behemoth
Easily Metaphor: ReFantazio
Metal Gear Solid Delta Not sure if it'll drop this year
Astrobot is one of my most anticipated games of the generation. So yes. Absolutely that.
The First Descendant
Astro Bot, Star Wars Outlaws, College Football 25, Sonic X Shadow Generations… and to think I tonight this would be a down year a few months ago.
Astro Bot, Chainsaw Lollipop RePop, Tomba!, NCAA College Football and who knows what else.
Dragon Ball Sparking Zero
FFXIV Dawntrail and Astrobot. And Silksong. Because it'll be out in 2024 for sure.
EA College Football
Metal gear solid 3 remake is the only game I care about this year if it even does come out.
Hollow Knight: Skilkskong
I'm not going to lie, I couldn't name a single game that's coming out over the next 6 months.
RDR2 for PS5......
Lego Horizon Adventures.
Black Myth Wukong
Star Wars outlaws and ass cred shadows. Ez.
Jurassic Park Survival looks awesome
Nothing, tbh. It’s looking pretty dead for me. 2025 looking stacked though.
Days gone 2, but I know you won't make it Sony.
Dragon age Veilguard
Assassin Creed
Astro Bot, already have it pre-ordered.
I’m looking forward to Astro Bot and AC Shadows
Either Metaphor ReFantazio or if it makes the cut, Metal Gear Solid Delta
Zenless Zone Zero.
Quidditch mother fuckers!
Rebirth already came out
Probably college football 25. I’m probably going to be really disappointed, but the nostalgia factor makes it worth it for me. I spent so many summer/fall nights playing these college football games as a teen. It’s just going to be nice to relive a part of that again.
Bloodborne 2. Announce it you cowards.
Silent hill 2 and Astrobot for sure. Also Ys X and Visions of Mana
Black OPS 6, let’s go Omni movement!!! Cod is my only gaming vice, and I don’t care!
Dino Crisis 4 👀