With every new year of gaming there is always going to be games that make us question what the gaming industry and the game developers are trying to pull and there are going to be some games of this year that I am NOT looking forward to seeing being released. So here are the ten games of 2025 that I am NOT looking forward to the most.
10: The House of the Dead 2 Remake
Developer: MegaPixel Studio
So, MegaPixel Studio remade Sega's Arcade Light Gun classic The House of the Dead for modern gaming consoles and the PC and it wasn't all that good of a remake. Now we are getting a remake of the 2nd House of the Dead game and honestly it doesn't really look all that good especially compared to the original game. Sure, both this game and also the first House of the Dead Remake felt faithful to the original games in which they had tons of zombies to blow up in juicy gory fashion and the voice acting is still atrociously laughable. But in terms of how it looks and what the current platforms have in how they can be controlled instead of an actual Light Gun it is NOT going to do any better than the first remake game aside from the Sinden Light Gun on PC. I just hope that this remake doesn't “suffer like G did!”
9: Neptunia Riders VS Dogoos
Developer: Idea Factory/Compile Heart
Okay seriously Idea Factory & Compile Heart you are going to continue to milk this comedy anime game series by throwing yet another spinoff game at us? Neptunia Riders VS Dogoos is a game that features the Neptunia cast on motorcycles and a ton of Dogoos that you have to capture and collect to win each stage. Sure, it will have everyone's favourite Neptunia character Uzume staring the game and fans might think “Oh anime girls on Motorcycles, this should be fun.” but the whole thing is just more of a lame excuse for the developers to keep building more spinoff games. While the developers did say that they are also working on a new mainline Neptunia game also but they are keeping things extra quiet and will not reveal anything about it. However, I assume that it is going to be honestly yet another spinoff game considering that it is all they want to do with this series now and everybody at this point is really tired of spinoff games. Also worth noting is that the Nintendo Switch version will NOT have the Swimsuit DLC and that the Nintendo Switch versions of the Neptunia ReBirth Trilogy alongside the Death End Re Quest Code Z have been cancelled for a western release because content rating boards have become more stupidly strict now and all forms of age rating & content rating boards are going to have a massive incursion with gaming fans over it.
8: Fable
Developer: Playground Games
Playground Games is rebooting the Fable series which will have updates to the game mechanics & visuals but the trailers revealed weren't really all too promising. It has been since the 2012 Kinect game Fable The Journey so this new Fable has got a lot to live up to if it hopes to do good but is it going to really deliver? We don't know and so far, nothing much about it seems to be all that good. Hopefully things can improve before release but don't get too hyped up.
7: Tales of the Shire A Lord of the Rings Game
Developer: Weta Workshop
A new Lord of the Rings game emerges but as a farming life simulator where you live the life of a Hobbit. Yeah, this is NOT going to go well especially when there have been numerous farming simulators swarming the gaming market and demos showcasing do not give the game a good first impression. Unless you are looking for a cosy Lord of the Rings game then this is it but however I don't really see this game doing very well.
6: Bubsy in: The Purrfect Collection
Developer: Limited Run Games
Oh, come on now, please no! Why does there have a collection of Bubsy games when this annoying bobcat character should just stay dead and be forgotten as a failed mascot? Well Limited Run Games is doing a compilation that features all of the classic Bubsy games that were on the Super Nintendo and the Sega Mega Drive. It will also include the infamous Bubsy 3D in the collection and all I can say is why? Why would you want one of the worst games ever made into this collection? Why would anyone want to experience that disaster? And lastly just why would you want to do this collection? There are serveal other forgotten old games that you could have done Limited Run Games but this right here was something that no one asked for and no one wanted it.
5: Tales of Graces F Remastered
Developer: Bandai Namco
Now as much as I am looking forward to the upcoming release of the updated Remaster of Tales of Graces there are some things that still I question of this release. Now I am aware that Bandai Namco is going to do multiple Remasters of the older Tales of Series games but if they wanted to celebrate 30 years of the Tales of Series then why not do a new modern release for Tales of Phantasia or maybe do a Remaster of the Tales of Destiny Remake that everyone is still begging for. At least a modern release for Tales of Destiny this year would at least be a real send off to one of their renowned artists Mutsumi Inomata who sadly passed away. While this remaster may look to make up for the laziness of the Tales of Symphonia Remaster in terms of how it plays and looks but it better have the Japanese Voice option and hope that Nintendo Switch gets at the very least a tolerable version of the game giving the original origins on the Nintendo Wii.
4: Halo on PlayStation & Nintendo Switch
Recently Xbox has been spreading news of them maybe bringing one of their flagship franchises Halo to other platforms outside of the Xbox platform and many PlayStation and Xbox fanboys do NOT like just the very idea of it and Microsoft has even started considering that idea. Can I just say that it is the most stupid decision in the history of stupid decisions ever, that is because that if they allow a Halo game on either a PlayStation or Nintendo console then that would not only ruin the console exclusivity but it would also ruin the Xbox as a gaming platform. Nobody wants to see game console exclusivity die out and want them to stay so that it would have reasons to buy maybe a PlayStation over an Xbox or a Nintendo Console over a PlayStation. I just don't want to see that happen and that would create a terrible future for the Xbox gaming platform if that did happen. Like I would rather have the PlayStation have a new Killzone or Resistance game or any new FPS exclusive than have a Halo game on a PlayStation console, and I am NOT talking about Concord here.
3: Assassin's Creed Shadows
Developer: Ubisoft
Ubisoft got into a lot of financial troubles last year from their recent openworld projects that ended up failing on them and their upcoming Assassin's Creed Shadows has been in the troubled development shadows after facing delays. While the game may have had criticism over the development of the game but it is just the overall future of Ubisoft considering that they focus too much on the openworld and live service games and people aren't too happy with the direction they are going. Let's just hope that Assassin's Creed Shadows doesn't end up falling into Ubisoft's awful business practices and just be a decent game.
2: Star Wars Episode I Jedi Power Battles
Developer: Aspyr
After the disgraceful release of the Star Wars Battlefront Classic Collection Aspyr is now going to do a remastered version of the mediocre Star Wars Episode I Jedi Power Battles game. I mean why Aspyr, of all Star Wars video games why would you want to bother with this one now? It really wasn't all that good of a game to play and I don't think remastering it is going to win any current fans over, that is if Star Wars still has any fans who would care at all.
1: Final Fantasy VII Rebirth & The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered (PC Versions)
What we shouldn't look forward to the most is more PlayStation games that could come to the PC with PlayStation ID Requirements which is going to be what Sony is aiming for. At this point you are better off just getting a PlayStation 5 console if you don't want to live with that. The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered which has become one of the most pointless and unnecessary remasters on the PS5 and it is getting a PC release that will have the PlayStation ID requirement which of course players are going to react with heavy negativity to Sony to it. That isn't the only issue that people are going to have with the upcoming PC port, do you remember that The Last of Us Part 1 Remake on PC was one of the most atrocious and worst PC ports that it didn't work properly, right? Well, if you do then there is a chance that The Last of Us Part 2's PC port will end up a broken mess as well. It's not just the PC version of The Last of Us Part 2 I'm not looking forward to, there is also going to be a PC version of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth coming out and after how the PC version of Final Fantasy VII Remake faired with tons of technical and performance issues it is SOOOOOO likely that the PC port for Final Fantasy VII Rebirth will have a lot of technical and performance problems which would make for a horrible PC port. At this point if Sony is going to force the PlayStation ID requirement on PC ports of their famous games for the foreseeable future, then it is best to not bother with the PC ports of those games.
With 2024 behind us we try to think positive and look to the future for what could happen in the year of 2025, newly announced games that have generated a ton of hype with many that seem to have a fair amount of promise which could make this year turn out better than what 2024 was. So here are the ten biggest hyped games in 2025?
10: Metal Gear Solid Delta Snake Eater
Developer: Konami
A remake of the excellent 2004 game MGS3: Snake Eater will see us returning to the Jungles of 1964 during the Cold War era. It will take advantage of modern gameplay mechanics that were apart of later Metal Gear titles while also being to the original which include a revamped camouflage & survival viewer mechanics. It will be great to go back to sneaking around the Jungles all over again in remake form.
9: Grand Theft Auto VI
Developer: Rockstar Games
After exhausting the hell out of Grand Theft Auto V for more than over a decade Rockstar Games is going to FINALLY give us an all new entry to the crime driven series and it is about time that we deserved a new game. It will take place in Leonida as well as returning us to Vice City. Hope we hear more of this game and we can also hope that we don't have to wait any longer for this to finally out this year.
8: Sid Meier's Civilization VII
Developer: Firaxis Games
A new entry into the successful Civilization simulation games from Firaxis Games and it sure looks more bigger than with previous games. You are able to select leaders and civilizations more independently and each of the civilizations can favour a leader with different attributes. Many gamers can't wait to be able to dive into their new civilizations and begin building.
7: Clair Obsur Expedition 33
Developer: Sandfall Interactive
Clair Obsur Expedition 33 is looking to be a rather cool looking and playing Turn Based RPG with focus on timing-based actions, when defending enemy attacks can either be parried or dodged. This game is looking to be pretty promising and it is one for those who enjoy the timing based mechanics in their Turn Based RPGs.
6: Ghost of Yotei
Developer: Sucker Punch Productions
Sucker Punch Production the studio behind PlayStation Hits Sly Cooper and Infamous brought us Ghost of Tsushima which was one of the best samurai simulators and now they are working on a stand alone sequel with Ghost of Yotei. It will set 329 years after Ghost of Tsushima with a new character named Atsu who is a female warrior that is going to take up the power of “The Ghost”. After how amazing Ghost of Tsushima was Ghost of Yotei is sure to build up upon the success of the previous game and improve on them.
5: Lunar Remastered Collection
Developer: GungHo Entertainment
Game Arts RPG Masterpiece Lunar which was originally on the Mega CD are getting some modern gaming treatment with Lunar Remastered Collection. It will include Lunar Silver Star Story and also the sequel Lunar 2 Eternal Blue which will have new English Dub voices, remastered graphics and cutscenes with options for the old look, widescreen support, and additions like being able to speed up battle animations. It will also mark the very first time that Europe can finally play Lunar 2 Eternal Blue which marks another classic RPG to finally come to European regions years later. Many gamers can't wait to revisit this old RPG classic again on modern platforms.
4: Metroid Prime 4 Beyond
Developer: Retro Studios
After 7 years of its first ever announcement and then restarting over, the waiting is nearly over as the upcoming Metroid Prime 4 is finally coming to the Nintendo Switch and all of us can't believe that it is happening on the Nintendo Switch and is finally coming out this year. It may also come out and be a cross-gen title for the upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 console. Either way Metroid Prime 4 Beyond looks really incredible for a Switch game and everyone is ready to jump into Samus' next mission with this.
3: Doom The Dark Ages
Developer: id Software
A Doom game set in a techno-medieval setting and everything about this upcoming game in the Doom franchise is absolutely insane and the developers have once again taken it several steps above and beyond. This game will have the Doom Slayer raiding a dragon, has him in a powered up mech and has the Doom staple weapons alongside a Shield Saw. Like the new Doom games seem to get more and more creative every these new entries when it comes to ways of fighting demons. Doom The Dark Ages is going to be a prequel to the two Doom reboot games and it will be an incredible Doom game to check out.
2: Splitgate 2
Developer: 1047 Games
1047's Splitgate was one of the top multiplayer online shooters that I have in recent memory and was a breath of fresh air from the gluttony of Live Service Battle Royale and Hero Shooters that end up dying out after only months of being on the gaming scene. It was an Arena based shooter with portals that let you portal around and surprise your enemies in unique creative ways. Splitgate 2 is looking to take the portal gameplay of the original and add a faction system where you can pick one of three available factions that offer up different weapon loadouts and affect the ways the portal mechanics work. So far gameplay previews and first tests have been really positive and I can't wait to step through the portal to the sequel when it comes out this year.
Honourable Mentions
Death Stranding 2 On the Beach (Kojima Productions)
Monster Hunter Wilds (Capcom)
Pokemon Legends Z-A (Game Freak)
Judas (Ghost Story Games)
Avowed (Obsidian Entertainment)
1: Tales of Series Game Remaster Project
Developer: Bandai Namco
Bandai Namco has recently in the past couple of months been talking about bringing a lot of their older Tales of Series games onto newer more powerful gaming machines and they recently did remasters of Tales of Vesperia which was great and as recent with the Tales of Symphonia Remastered which was just super lazy. They discussed possibilities of a Remaster for Tales of Xillia and recently announced a remaster for Tales of Graces F at the start of this year. The studio is planning to do a bunch of Tales of Series game remasters during all of 2025 up to 2026. There is also hope however that Bandai Namco could be going back to the really old Tales of Series games as far back as Tales of Phantasia which could be announced sometime after Tales of Graces F Remastered which might spark up hope for other Tales of Series games that have not been released outside of Japan yet to finally get a release on modern platforms.
2024 was filled with a lot of big disappointments but the vast majority of those games don't even compare to the biggest absolute trash you are going to see in this list. These are the games that became the worst and easiest cash grabs, the games that offered up the worst of ideas, the games that failed the hardest, the biggest trash of them all and the by far the worst offenders of the gaming industry. These are Worst Games of 2024.
10: Silent Hill The Short Message
Developer: Konami Digital Entertainment
Silent Hill The Short Message may be Free-to-Play that got over 2 million downloads within only a couple of weeks of release but that doesn't detract the fact that this game is terrible. Deep underneath the 3 hour long campaign is nothing more than a poorly written storyline about anxiety and depression that fails to tell a meaningful message behind the serious subject matter. What little gameplay it offers which just involves exploring around and finding photos, messages and also get into a chase sequence are rather boring and don't offer much either. The game is nothing more than a terrible attempt to copy the clever storytelling that other games including the recent Silent Hill 2 Remake did better at. The true message is that you should not waste your time with this game unless you to end up with complete anxiety and depression over why you chose to play it.
9: Dustborn
Developer: Red Thread Games
Here is a game that is overly political of itself and one that struggles to find fun in a game about garage band music. All you do in the game is walk through hallways talking with other characters about feelings and emotions and then you play terribly thrown together Rhythm Game sections. All with an awful storyline that gets inconsistent throughout thanks to terrible characters and really bad dialogue that suffers from throwing messages that go way over your head. While interviews will think that the game may have sold fine but honestly that is massive lie as the game has very low players and the game sold actually sold way below the studios exceptions and for good reason. Dustborn is not fun at all and even the music is so bad that you don't want to be a part of it.
8: Call of Honor Duty of Warfare
Developer: GoGame Console Publisher Limited
If there is an award for a game that has one of the most laughable titles in existence it would be this game because it is impossible to say the name without chuckling. Call of Honor Duty of Warfare is a poor man's version of a Call of Duty if were made by people who only Call of Duty online, sucked at the game and made this and sold it on Aliexpress. All of the game's description claims are false and a complete lie. The game actually has only one game mode which is a 5v5 Team Deathmatch and no other game mode or any kind of story mode narrative to speak of. You run around on each map in which there are only five maps in the game by the way and have to have to take down enemy soldiers and deplete the enemy team's respawn counter to win. The shooting is dreadfully lacklustre as there is little feedback to whether or not you are hitting an enemy and the weapons themselves have no impact to them. The weapon sounds are terrible, the graphics look utter garbage with low resolution textures and poor effects and despite it controlling like a modern shooter there is no Health Regeneration what-so-ever. The maps are uninspired and there is no variety with the gameplay at all. There are a couple of Free-to-play Shooters you would rather play that have more variety and more depth to them then the likes of this steaming pile of trash that Nintendo allowed to sell on the Nintendo EShop for £12.99.
7: Jujutsu Kaisen Cursed Clash
Developer: Byking/Gemdrops/Bandai Namco
Bandai Namco's anime fighters have had an up and down road, there have been some good fighting games and especially ones based on popular anime shows like Dragon Ball Z that have been fun that give out the attention and care for the source material. Then you have Jujutsu Kaisen Cursed Clash another one of those cheap anime licensed games that quickly got dumped out as one of those easy cash grabs to feast on the popularity of the show. Jujutsu Kaisen Cursed Clash suffers from a number of basic design flaws from bad controls and an atrocious camera that makes the fighting mechanics feel very clunky and cumbersome. It was even worse when playing online because it had awful netcode that made online matches near unplayable and the co-op mode was super underwhelming. The storymode was even worse because it only featured fights from the first season of the show and there is only a small roaster of playable characters from the show. They did eventually add the fights from the second season as DLC but at this point the damage had already been done and people simply choose to stick to the anime series instead.
6: Devil May Cry Peak of Combat
Developer: nebulaJoy/Capcom
Here we go with some real mobile gaming trash, Devil May Cry has always been the go-to series for the tightly crafted and clever Hack N Slash combat that has you making use of weapons, demon powers and combat manoeuvres. So in what mind set was taking a great action game series like this and shoving it into a mobile phone game. Devil May Cry Peak of Combat tries too hard at attempting to replicate the console experience of the prior games only that it is not great and not very fun. Every single stage is going through linear corridors, fight some enemies, go through more corridors, fight some more enemies, occasionally watch a cheesy cutscene before going back to slaying more enemies and going through corridors and ending the level with a boss fight. That is the entire game and the gameplay would have been somewhat passable if not for the fact that the combat is very dumbed down with very limited moves and simplistic combos for each character. You can switch between the different characters that you get as well as activating the Devil Trigger or whatever other modes your characters might have but that's about it and Dante can't even use his guns which you'll only get to see them in the cutscenes. The biggest devil is that this is an online live service game where you can spend real money to get the tickets to get the characters which are all just variations of the same characters with very limited move sets as well as the best currency to upgrade your characters. The thing is that the grinding can easily get tedious as the real way to progress is by either playing the same repetitive missions over and over which takes forever or by spending real money to get the upgrades you need for your characters especially if you are going to do the co-op or PVP game modes so it is pay-to-win at its worst. Overtime it has gotten worse and worse the months as updates nerfed various aspects of the game including how many weapons the characters can have. It's no surprise that the game wasn't doing so well that the developers nebulaJoy have decided to end support for the game and announce that the online servers for the game to shut down on 31st December 2024, well at least so far only in China. But it is only a matter of time before the game inevitably shuts the servers down globally. It's yet another one of those live service “devils” that ended up “crying”, not lasting a full year and dying out so soon and all I can say to that is how disgraceful.
5: Skull and Bones
Developer: Ubisoft
Ubisoft never ceases to amaze us with their projects turning out to be a complete terrible shipwreck as is the case with Skull and Bones, which has to be one of their worst. All they needed to do was to try to replicate the ship sailing aspect from Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag or Sea of Thieves and build upon that and make it good. From when it was first revealed in 2018 Skull and Bones honestly didn't make the best first impression with its ship sailing and over the years after massive delays and even restarting the whole project from scratch impressions of the game grew more and more sceptic. Alas the game did manage to finally get released this year by washing up on the shore drenched in openworld shallow-ness. The combat was bad as it was super basic with no depth to it, the overworld design was awful because of traversing being a pain due to the stamina and wind mechanics being annoying, and the online PVP and co-op events that happen frequently feel very disconnected, aren't fun and are easily exploited. Also you spend a lot of the game doing a large amount of busywork which involves traversing back and forth between missions and with the annoying stamina and wind factors everything becomes an absolute chore. This was deemed to be Ubisoft's “quadruple-A” game with the $200 million budget that was put into the game and they even tried to incorporate a Live Service system with Microtransactions and that went well as anyone would expect. Skull and Bones sailed, became a mess of itself and became dead in the water.
4: Star Wars Battlefront Classic Collection
Developer: Aspyr
This one HURTS, this one hurts me both physically and emotionally from just looking at it, this one will forever leave a permanent scar in my soul that I will never recover from and it even pains me especially to even put it here at this spot on this very list. Star Wars Battlefront Classic Collection was without a doubt one of the absolute worst, the most disastrous and the most disgusting game launches of the entire year, literally nearly everything about this is unbelievably broken, like it's impossible to comprehend how atrociously bad this is. In terms of what is on offer it is the two classic original Star Wars Battlefront games that came out back on the PlayStation 2 and the original Xbox and PC platforms in 2004 and 2005. They are updated to run at a smooth 60 FPS and higher resolution on all modern gaming platforms including PS5 and Xbox Series consoles and they do look great, they run fine and play like how they were back from that time frame and I do like that the collection allows for 64 Player Multiplayer either against players or with AI Bots and that's about it for the positives. The two game's suffered from graphical and sound glitches which occurred in a couple of maps and assaulted ear drums and made the the audio hard to listen. The offline Single Player modes may work fine without too much issues but it is the Multiplayer is where you see all of the major problems with this collection. The online Multiplayer was broken and abysmal no matter which of the two games you play. You would be lucky that you could get into a match at all because the servers either don't work and wouldn't let you into a server and boot you back to the main menu or just straight up crash your game entirely and it didn't help that when it launched there were only two dedicated servers that you can play on. You can create your own lobby for other players to join but that doesn't excuse that there wasn't enough available servers for players to play. Once you finally succeed in getting into an online Multiplayer server it only gets worse from here, the hit detection was busted to oblivion as shots didn't register properly at all whether you are firing on foot, in space or in vehicles at someone. The amount of lag spikes was absurd and even the online matches themselves either glitch out like crazy or just crash your game entirely which all made the online Multiplayer unplayable. The worst thing about all of this is that Aspyr spent the entire development budget into getting licensing permissions for the collection and yet they even used mod assets for it without the author's permission. Do you remember that the original version on the original Xbox had DLC characters Ajajj Ventress Kit Fisto who were from the Star Wars Clone Wars cartoon. A modder made a mod for the PC version of the game to replace two of the existing characters for them which made them play the game as the other Jedi hero characters. When the modder became aware of his own mod that he created got used in the trailer for the game he got so mad at Aspyr for it. The other worst thing is that this is a collection that includes JUST only the two classic Star Wars Battlefront games and it was sold for ￡30 and they can't be downloaded separately and have to take up over 60 GB of your Hard Drive space. You could get the original versions of those game on the Xbox or Steam digitally for about ￡7.99 each or even the PSP version of the second game for about ￡3.99 on the PlayStation Store which are a FAR better deal than this. Aspyr did eventually patch the online Multiplayer and fixed the majority of the issues but by then it was already too late, this collection failed so hard and was so terrible that Aspyr on Twitter admitted “They ****** up!”
3: Sandstorm Strikeforce & Anime Girls Military Strike
Developer: CHETRUSCA SOFTWORKS SRL, IndieGames3000, DEMENCI Games
I swear to god I stumbled upon these pieces of trash by complete accident thinking these games might not be anything bad and I should have read the ratings on them before wasting my money on them. Sandstorm Strikeforce has to be one of the worst games of this year and in fact one of the worst pieces of gaming ever to be released as it looks as horrendous as it plays so terribly. Nothing in the game works, the controls are so backwards like why is R2 the button that Aims Down Sights while L2 fires? Why does L1 Sprint and R1 Jump? Like the controls are so messed up with a control scheme that makes no sense. The graphics are so disgraceful as in like the enemies don't even look physically human, there is no detail to the environments and the backgrounds are seriously messed up as in there is no proper rendering even the guns look really badly put together and why in the HUD does it display a sniper rifle in your display when you use any other gun but that? The music and sound are just some of the most generic ever, like what is up the random voice lines that play. The biggest thing of all is that the combat is beyond broken and abysmal as in the gameplay does not have any ounce of any actual competent game design. There is no proper hit detection programmed as in not matter where you shoot the enemies no hits register properly from aiming at the enemies head or torso. No matter what gun you use nothing works, all you can do is spray fire at them and hope to get they go down before you do and you'll die a lot because the game design is so poorly thrown together. This game was allowed to be sold on both the Nintendo EShop and the PlayStation Store and it sold for a price tag of ￡4.99, while it may have sold for a cheap price tag but that doesn't excuse anything that is presented with the game. It was just quickly thrown together with no knowledge of video game programming and most specifically no thought or care was put into it and was shoved out the door and sold for a price tag. What's worse that the designers did the exact same thing again but with anime girls with Anime Girls Military Strike and it is the same game as Sandstorm Strikeforce but with anime girls that look awfully designed. I can't believe that these games exist and that I spent money on them just so that I can tell you guys to stay far away from shovelware trash like this, especially garbage like this that are broken and don't work.
2: Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League
Developer: Rocksteady Studios
And finally we come to two of the biggest garbage failures of the year and they are both Live Service online games. Rocksteady created one of the greatest super hero games of all time with the Batman Arkham series which had some of the satisfying gameplay that made you think and act like Batman and they have been so fantastic. And then you have Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League which had an interesting concept that could have worked only for it to be ruined instantly by a massive list of dumb ideas and several game flaws. The story was ridiculously stupid and dumb and the overall campaign was intolerable mess. Instead of the tightly creative combat that Rocksteady have done so brilliantly with the Batman Arkham games and instead it is a generic Third Person Shooter that can be played alone or in co-op with anyone who is willing to play this with you with some of the worst visual clutter I have ever seen in a game. The UI is awful, none of the characters or any of the weapons feel all that exciting to use and the fights with the Justice League mostly boil down to finding their weakness and then exploiting them and they are not fun to fight. The worst of all it is repetitive and you have to replay the same missions over and over just so that you can get items needed in order to reach the final areas and even after that it is not over because the added more missions through their Live Service agendas. There are microtransactions and a battle pass of all things which offer different cosmetics, banners and so forth that you can customize your characters. You even had other characters like the Joker and Deathstroke that got added in through later seasons and you had to pay more money just to play as them. This game was a massive disgrace, it was a disgrace to not only Rocksteady, Batman Arkham games or even the Justice League or the DC Universe but it is a disgrace to everything that is both gaming and game developers wanting to force Live Service down our throats. All of the Live Service stuff would only be fine if the game was Free-to-play but nope the game costed full retail price. Even more sad is that this was Kevin Conroy's final performance as the Batman who had done fantastic roles as our favourite Dark Knight and I can say that he deserved better treatment just like all of us. Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League was such a massive failure in both design, budget cost which resulted in a $200 million lose and bad reception. Rocksteady announced that they will end all online support for the game in January 2025. But hey at least you can still play it offline (but then why would you want to?) and that in fairness last longer in comparison to our final entry which is...
Dishonourable Mentions
Die By The Blade (Triple Hill Interactive, Toko Midori Games, Grindstone s.r.o., Grindstone )
Kong Survivor Instinct (7Levels)
The Casting of Frank Stone (Supermassive)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Arcade Wrath of the Mutants (Raw Thrills, Cradle Games)
Looney Tunes Wacky World of Sports (Bamtang Games)
Taxi Life A City Driving Simulator (SIMTERACT Sp. z o.o.)
1: Concord
Developer: Firewalk Studios
...this one. Does anyone even remember Concord and how quickly it died out? Concord could have been Sony's answer to all of the Hero Shooters on the market but it ended up not even remotely taken off in any fashion. The game was designed as a PvP team based First Person Shooter with multiple characters to choose from that had different abilities that suited a playstyle, pretty much like Overwatch. However there is nothing good about any of the characters as they all have very slow movement which makes combat and navigation a problem and of the characters aren't anything unique or original from others. Even the game modes aren't really anything new as they are just the same type of objective based game modes from other games that we played in the last decade like capturing points on a map to escorting an objective to its destination, like there is no stand out mode in the game that sets it above other games. What really killed this game and why it is the absolute worst game of this year and why it is such an utter embarrassment was because of the low player base which was only in the hundreds and nobody gave a crap about it even when it was previewed, even I didn't care for it and was unimpressed for the lack of creativity or personality that it had. Not to mention it was a Live Service online Multiplayer game and it like with Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League it costed full retail price to buy it and also that had an 8 year development cycle. Concord ended up being a massive $400 million flop that after only lasting 14 days Sony shut down servers for it, delisted the game from the PlayStation Store and Steam and players who bought the game got refunded and lastly Firewalk Studios closed its doors in October 2024. Concord may not have the horrendous broken game design like with Sand storm Strikeforce, it may not have came out a buggy mess like with Star Wars Battlefront Classic Collection or have had egregious amount of microactions like with Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League or with Multiversus. Instead the low player base combined with gameplay and design that failed so hard to differentiate itself from other shooters on the market and that it was such a pain to play made this one of the most embarrassing Multiplayer gaming failures of all time and it is my pick for the worst and shameful game of 2024.
Honesty 2024 was a really terrible year for gaming from big disappointing titles to piles of steaming garbage and massive amount of company lay-offs and awful business practices. But we are here for the games that while they may not be the most awful games, they still had major things holding a lot of them back. These are the biggest disappointments of the year.
10: Star Wars Outlaws
Developer: Massive Entertainment/Ubisoft
2024 has been without a doubt the worst year for both Star Wars and also and most importantly for Ubisoft with a multitude of failed games to delay the upcoming Assassin's Creed Shadows to 2025, and then you have this. Star Wars Outlaws may not be awful and it tries to tie itself in between The Empire Strikes Back & The Return of the Jedi. The game did look really amazing in terms of the presentation, there were a bunch of different activities that you could partake in but it is just that Star Wars Outlaws is like every other Ubisoft open world game that has been released from over the past few years and doesn't do a whole lot different in comparison. The amount of stealth was repetitive and the game did suffer from a fair number of technical problems. It was really nothing spectacular even for a Star Wars game and it failed to meet sales expectations.
9: Lego Horizon Adventures
Developer: Guerilla Games/Studio Gobo
Lego has had a ton of decent games most of which are just turning out simple licensed games that are movie related but with a Lego skin and with also Lego Fortnite taking steps forward and there are a fair number of kids that enjoy them. Then you have Lego Horizon Adventures which takes a popular PlayStation series of games into the Lego world. It was just a strange direction for the series to go and how it all feels is just simplistic. It still has the weak point mechanics from the previous Horizon games but everything else was just simple and repetitive and the game suffered from having very little people even caring for it. The developers were just desperate to try and get something out and hope it caught on and even more sad is that they brought this to the Nintendo Switch and it still did poorly. It shows that not all Lego games are of equal quality.
8: Funko Fusion
Developer: 10:10 Games
Ever collected those miniature Funko Pop Toys of many recognizable movie and game icons that people grew up with? Well, if you loved those you would possibly have heard of a Funko Pop licensed video game that came out this year. Despite all of the available licensed character roaster like Back to the Future, Mega Man, Team Fortress 2, Scott Pilgrim VS The World and Five Nights at Freddy's and so on everything about Funko Fusion was underperformed and undelivered. The game has very dull and unrefined combat with very repetitive mission structure and even with the recognizable the story is just bad and I mean really bad. The money that was spent on this game should have been spent on just collecting all of the toys that Funko Pop has got its hands on instead.
7: The First Descendent
Developer: Nexon
Here is another one of those shooters that tries to follow the footsteps of other loot shooters and that is The First Descendent. It is a Free-to-Play MMO where you play as different classes called Descendents who process mysterious powers that make them somewhat act differently from each other. You get dropped into an area where you take on quests, fight enemies and get loot and all kinds of materials for better gear to improve your character. It plays fine and the shooting is okay for the most part but the issue that it doesn't really do anything new and the game is ruined by the pay-to-win tactics that game businesses usually go for. The game is insanely grindy as the only way to get any kind of progression is either hours and hours of doing the same repetitive quests over and over to get your gear powered up for new more challenging missions or by purchasing permanent upgrades with real money through microtransactions. It did get popular as it got over 1 million players within the first week of release but the game's pay-to-win design choices ruins what should have been a half decent loot shooter.
6: Foamstars
Developer: Toylogic/Square Enix
Oh, Square Enix, you just can't get it together with those live service garbage that you keep throwing out only for them to die out but I'm surprised that this one hasn't announced its time for shutdown yet. This is Foamstars a Third Person Shooter Multiplayer game that tries to replicate Nintendo's Splatoon series where you shoot Foam to cover up areas of your team's colour for your team to quickly move around in and dominate against your enemies. It certainly plays okay and the mechanics work well plus it can be fun at times with other people. The problem is that there is little variation to any of the characters and they are not the most interesting to care about, there is few game modes on offer and the Story Mode Missions are so boring and forgettable. What made it worse is that the player base declined so fast that players online struggled to even find anyone online who even remotely cares to play this. So Foamstars went from launching as a Free Game for PlayStation Plus Subscribers in February to then being a priced game before eventually deciding to go Free-to-Play in October, that would have been fine if the game had content that was meaningful for the price tag but the game has a Season Pass and very minimal content that isn't worth the asking price. I'm still surprised that this game hasn't shut down yet compared to the other Square Enix stuff that gets shut down in like months.
5: Helldivers II & God of War Ragnarok & Until Dawn on PC
Sony has done somewhat of a decent job of bringing some of the PlayStation franchises to the PC with Uncharted and also the Horizon games and even PC players may not have had the PlayStation consoles to play them they can enjoy the PC versions of the famous PlayStation games (excluding The Last of Us Part I & II). Then out of nowhere when Helldivers II, God War Ragnarök and the remake of Until Dawn came to the PC Sony implemented a PlayStation Account requirement in order to play them on PC and every single PC player hated this idea and got so angry at Sony to the point, they review bombed the games SOOOOOOO hard on Steam. Although Sony dropped the PlayStation Account requirement for Helldivers II but they still force you have a PlayStation Account just to be able to play God of War Ragnarök and the Until Dawn Remake on PC and players are still outraged by that. Also, the Until Dawn Remake much like The Last of Us Part 1 Remake barely feels like a remake at all but rather a remaster that doesn't offer up anything new to it other than a new minigame and a new ending and it costs £59.99 which isn't worth the asking price. At this point it would probably be better just to get a PlayStation 5 console and the games on that if they are gonna continue to go along with the PlayStation Account requirement.
4: MultiVersus
Developer: Player First Games
Back from it was in Beta MultiVersus looked to be a somewhat competent platform fighter with many characters from the Warner Bros Universe like Looney Tunes, Scooby Doo, Batman, Adventure Time and Game of Thrones. After that it shut down to give itself refinement until 2024 where it resurfaced and running on the Unreal Engine 5 with Cross-Play and Cross-Progression support. However, it wasn't the full launch that players had hoped for as many of the features were oddly missing from the game such as Ranked Matchmaking, a Free-for-All PvP mode and also post-match results which didn't get added back in till later updates. They also worsened the gameplay as it slowed down really badly and the characters had way less move sets than they did originally making the game far too simplistic and stale. Adding more salt to the wound was the egregious monetization which is WAY worse than it was in the Beta as players were expected to pay real money for any of the new characters that got added in. Want to play as the Joker? or maybe The Powerpuff Girls? Or maybe Jason Voorhees? like it is just unbelievable and disgusting how much you could be spending just to be able to play as them. Congratulations Player First Games for taking what could have been a good platform fighter into a complete cash grab.
3: Dragon Age The Veilguard
Developer: Bioware
Bioware have had their recent screw ups especially with Anthem and Mass Effect Andromeda then there was this one where it could have been their chance of redemption but alas it is not to be. Dragon Age The Veilguard went through changes with game design and staff which meant the game was going to get delayed time and time again. It went from being announced as Dragon Age Dreadwolf to then being renamed to Dragon Age The Veilguard and finally getting released this year. The problem is that the game doesn't resemble much like a Dragon Age game but almost something else entirely, for starters it went for an Action RPG approach which might be fine but the combat mechanics and the enemy designs are just overly repetitive and you can't control your other characters unlike in other games. By far the worst thing about the game is the storyline, the dialogue suffers from having some of the most cringe worthy writing whether it is for the overall story and romance it is unbearable and the meaningful major decisions that you get to make are too few and far between. It just doesn't feel much of a Dragon Age game at all, especially the overall tone of it that just doesn't suit the game. After the long-troubled development cycle and changes that it has went through everything about the game is more evidence of Bioware's dwindling reputation sinking further and further as the game ended up suffering from massive backlash from fans and also for low sales and very little players.
2: South Park Snow Day
Developer: Question
Adult Comedy Show South Park has always had the worst time on the gaming scene but The Stick of Truth & The Fractured but Whole were actual quality amazing and genuinely funny games that lived up to the show's charm and then you have this game and oh my dear god what did they do with this? South Park Snow Day may take up the fantasy role playing storyline and follow from the previous games but however the game's shift in tone, style and gameplay single handedly destroys everything that those games accomplish. Instead of an RPG we get a generic Co-Op Action game with Rogue-like elements yet doesn't have any kind of depth to anything, instead of South Park's cartoony art style we get a simple 3D looking game that looks so bland and so uninspired. Worst of all is that the humour doesn't live up to the show's charm because everything just feels ever so slightly toned down and tame. This was just not the way that the developers should have gone with this game and I “Question” what the developers were even trying to accomplish with this. The worst of all is that in case this game didn't send enough players into an outrage there is also a Season Pass and I mean just let that sink in. At this point anyone with common sense would have thrown this game out into the blizzard and let it freeze to death or waited for the Snow Day to pass and go back to School.
Honourable Mentions
Xdefiant (Ubisoft)
Senua's Saga Hellblade II (Ninja Theory)
Open Roads (Open Roads Team)
Alone in the Dark (Pieces Interactive)
Visions of Mana (Square Enix/Ouka Studios)
1: Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
Developer: Square Enix
And here is the biggest disappointment of this year and it is (no surprise) a Final Fantasy game. Granted it may have some things about that are faithful to the original FFVII like the Cloud and Sephiroth backstory, the Queen's Blood minigame is dope and is surprisingly a lot of fun and it does have the Gold Saucer minigames also but that is about it. Once you look past all of that Final Fantasy VII Rebirth just continues with the same utter nonsensical alternate reality storyline garbage that Final Fantasy VII Remake tried to do previously. The world despite being out of Midgar still isn't anything bigger or better than it was in the original game, all of the new characters including ones who were seen in Final Fantasy VII Remake are utter stupid morons including Chadley who have no depth or anything that benefits the storyline of FFVII and honestly, they are better off dead. The action orientated combat is still super underwhelming and sub-par at worst with no refinement aside from adding a Synergized mechanic from the stupid Yuffie Chapter from Final Fantasy VII Remake which is just a combined super slow attack from party members that takes too long to execute and isn't worth the pay-off. Lastly the clever puzzle sequences from the original are replaced with new sections that are just padded out with some mandatory boss encounters not seen in the original. Final Fantasy VII Rebirth just tries too hard to rebuild Final Fantasy VII like what they did with Final Fantasy VII but instead creating many new stupid & ridiculous plot devices that don't make sense and still acts more like Kingdom Hearts then it does Final Fantasy VII. Even worse is that we still have to wait for the third part of the Final Fantasy VII Remake project to come out, which will take another couple of years for that to come and all I can think is how is it going to get any worse than it already is?
The year 2024 has come to an end so it is a game enough time as ever to look back at the games that have come out in 2024 starting with the very best games that have come out in 2024. These are the games of 2024 that had the best creative talent, best stories and best gameplay that kept us all going throughout all of 2024.
Rules:
No Eldern Ring Shadow of the Erdtree as it is only DLC content
No DLC Content
10: Black Myth Wokong
Developer: Game Science
We have one of those Souls/Borne type games that are meant to be super challenging games that are rewarding to overcome. This time with Black Myth Wokong where it takes inspiration from classic Chinese novel Journey to the West. With tight combat mechanics, beautiful well detailed landscapes, and an excellent soundtrack made the game truly an incredible journey worth experiencing. It also led to selling over 20 units worldwide and now holds a massive impact on gamers for its Chinese setting.
9: Silent Hill 2
Developer: Bloober Team
A remake of the second Silent Hill game that originally came out back in 2001. It gets a modern gaming treatment with modern combat mechanics like the Third Person Camera Perspective but still trying to be as faithful to the original as the storyline which is exactly like how it was in the original. It is also just as scary as the original game as well. Within 3 days of release, it managed to sell over a million units and earn massive positive ratings.
8: Helldivers II
Developer: Arrowhead Game Studio
Helldivers, the famous co-op shooter, made a change and went for a Third Person Perspective and the game is incredible fun. You and your buddies drop into procedurally generated areas and complete various missions while holding out against hordes of enemies. With a great variety of missions, solid gunplay and an excellent presentation it was one of the top cooperative games to come out this year.
7: The Legend of Zelda Echoes of Wisdom
Developer: Nintendo EPD/Grezzo
One of the biggest changes that was made was playing Zelda and not everyone's favourite hero. Zelda uses the power of the Tri Rod to create Echoes of items all over the game, from simple objects and also being able to create Echoes of monsters who will fight alongside you. All of which can be used well to solve the various puzzles that are in the game. It still lives up to the other gameplay elements that you can expect from a Zelda game and the direction and ideas they have taken with this made this to be one of the more unique entries in the popular Zelda franchise.
6: Stellar Blade
Developer: Shift Up
While it may not have the best story but that doesn't stop Shift Up's Stellar Blade from being a top and enjoyable action-adventure game with a very hot and fantastic female character. The game's combat system and mechanics made you understand the attack patterns of enemies and perform counter attack them with precise timing. The character Eve has a Beta Gauge that fills up from successfully parrying and counter attacking so that you use different combat skills. The game also looks and plays fantastically well with very impressive looking environments and the designs of the enemies and the characters are beautiful, including the main character. Stellar Blade is one fantastic game for the PS5 that is worth owning.
5: Balatro
Developer: LocalThunk
Up for a simple game of poker? Well, forget that because here is Balatro which offers up so much that don't make it your regular game of poker. The game is a rogue-like deck building card game where you play your poker hands in order to score points and defeat blinds. You also get to improve your deck and being able to purchase Joker Cards that can offer up different effects as you play. Many of the cards you can get can help change the rules of the game so that it plays in your favour. There is so much that Balatro delivers on and it is a fantastically well executed game that has millions of people wanting to spice up their Poker game.
4: Tekken 8
Developer: Bandai Namco/Arika
Tekken 8 has been without a doubt one of the most incredible fighting games to come out this year and it shows that the series continues to refine itself with each new entry. It not only improved on the fighting system mechanics that were introduced in Tekken 7 but also introduces some new ones as well. Firstly, it introduced the Heat system which makes characters deal chip damage when enemies are blocking and change up several properties to their moves and also being able to perform Tornado hits to extend their combos. It also has a healing system where characters can regain some of their health by going into Heat State. The Story Mode was great allowing you to witness the showdown between Jin and Kazuya and the online game modes where also refined were really enjoyable to take your fights online. It also had the Arcade Quest where you can build your own custom character and enter into a virtual arcade arena where you partake in tournaments and it was just incredible reminding us of time when people used to go to actual arcade game areas to play competitive with everyone and that is what Tekken 8 nails. It nails not only the offline gaming aspect but also the hugely competitive aspect which will have us coming back for more, even if the DLC character choices are terrible. But hey, Tekken Ball returns as well because Tekken and Beach Balls go well hard.
3: Persona 3 Reload
Developer: P-Studio/Atlus
Here is a remake everyone wanted and the developers P-Studio and Atlus truly delivered on that. Persona 3 Reload is an incredible remake of Persona 3 and everything about is faithful to the original Persona 3 while also refining and modernising a lot of the game mechanics from the original to make it play like the later entries like taking full control of every party member in strategic turn-based battles. Being able to explore around the Tartarus again as well as being able to walk around the school campus ground again brings joy to our hearts. The updated graphical presentation is superb including the characters and the environments and the musical soundtrack remixes including some new tunes are so catchy that it is impossible resist not listening to the battle tracks 50 times over. If you have played the later Persona games like Persona 4 & 5 and wanted a modernised version of Persona 3 then you must invest in Persona 3 Reload, it is one of the best remakes of an old game to come out both this year and in recent memory.
2: Metaphor ReFantazio
Developer: Studio Zero/Atlus
Once again Atlus are the kings of the RPGs in all modern gaming for Metaphor ReFantazio is without a doubt one of the Best RPGs to have come out this year and one of the best periods, not just Turn Based RPGs. While it may not have the same romance options of the Persona games but what Metaphor ReFantazio offers is a truly outstanding storyline with cruel real-world themes that are well carried out by an excellent narrative and writing, world building and amazing characters. The gameplay also is some of the best for an Atlus game where it uses a hybrid system between the Press Turn system from the Persona games with Real Time Action played out in the field and the way battles shift in such a way works incredibly well. Metaphor ReFantazio is a true work of art and genius creativity and offers the finest amount of gaming talent that you can get from an Atlus game and it is one that all RPG fans must play. Final Fantasy you should bow down to Atlus' RPG masterpiece, you are not worthy of the gaming culture anymore.
Honourable Mentions
Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth (Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio)
Prince of Persia The Lost Crown (Ubisoft)
Animal Well (Shared Memory)
Warhammer 40000 Space Marine II (Saber St.Petersburg)
UFO 50 (Mossmouth, LLC)
1: Astro Bot
Developer: Team Asobi
And lastly we have a platforming realm of outstanding merits where Astro Bot features some of the best that the PlayStation 5 has to offer. It makes full use of the Dual Sense Controller's capabilities including the Haptic Feedback for the gameplay and has some of the most enjoyable level design that is well designed and clever and fun to play through. The best thing about Astro Bot is how it celebrates the 30-year anniversary by having the little robots dress up as many famous PlayStation characters like God of War, Uncharted, Horizon and so forth including some from licensed third-party companies. Another thing is that Astro Bot is an adorable little robot mascot character that any player can't help but fall in love with. Astro Bot is not just a game that celebrates everything that is PlayStation, it is a smart, well-crafted and designed platformer that takes every single advantage of the hardware and also the possibilities of the Dual Sense controller and how it can be used to its fullest in terms of gameplay. This is why we need more games like that to show off the innovations of new controller and hardware tech capabilities which makes Astro Bot the biggest and why the PlayStation is the most celebrated console of all time.
Wow I even got a Congratulations rank from RetroAchievements so I might as well share it. On emulators I have managed to beat one game which was Wolfenstein 3D the SNES Version and I played through that on Hardcore with 16 hours 53 and I nearly have all of the Achievements with the rarest being Let's Kill Hitler.
I have played other games as well but I only played them to register Achievements on my RetroAchievements Account and I am going to play the games I got registered for play with my RetroCore emulator settings on Hardcore. I unlocked about 67 Achievements in total this year with 718 Hardcore points and 2 Leaderboard submissions.
But when I actually start doing some Emulator stuff, I would like to start doing Tales of Phantasia SNES Version first and unlock all of the Achievements on that to honour Tales of Phantasia and the Tales of Series' 30 Year Anniversary.
As for my Game Review Project results go for 2024 it wasn't all that great, I mostly reviewed a bunch of super simple games that were mostly shovelware, a terrible game that should stand as one of the worst of 2024, one disappointing game of 2024 and also dead online games that were going to have their online servers pulled down. I did do some Blogs and also some Top Tens but as far as game reviews go it has not been great.
I need to get better and spend more time doing some actual game review work and I do have a list on my PC on the games I need to do next.
Well here it is everyone, it was time for me to make the next game console upgrade for I now have the PlayStation 5 console for Christmas and I got the Disc Drive Version so I can use my PS4 discs I currently have. So, I have the PlayStation 5 console and I got the console with Tekken 8. I would like to share a story that when I first got my PSOne I had a Tekken game with it which was Tekken 3 which was the big hyped game everyone talked about. So, to mark the 5th Main PlayStation Console I decided on getting a Tekken game to mark that my first PlayStation came with a Tekken game.
I setup the PS5 no problem and I even set up my PlayStation Account for use on the PS5 so I'm ready to start unlocking achievements on the PS5 console. Setting up the PlayStation Account was no issue but it was making the transfer of my game save files, installed games as well as other stuff that is on my PlayStation account took all day to transfer from the PS4 to PS5.
My PS4 games play fine on the PS5 with the exception of The Playroom and the PS4 version of Fortnite because The Playroom was built into the PS4 console and that's fine. Another game I have that doesn't work on the PS5 is Hitman GO Definitive Edition which I already have the Platinum Trophy for it and finished it 100% and do not care about that game any more.
I can also use my PS4 controller accessories including my recent SWCTIM PS4 Wireless Controller just that they only work for PS4 games which makes sense and I do like the new DualSense controller. I even setup the Remote Play on the PS5 ready for use on my PC whenever something happens.
I also got Dementium The Ward for the Nintendo DS which that game is a First Person Survival Horror game that is a technical achievement on the DS for how incredible it runs and plays on it. The European DS Version of Dementium The Ward improves one of the biggest issues that other region versions of the game had by adding in checkpoints that you do get in the levels which helps from replaying large segments again after dying. Another FPS game on the DS is added to the collection.
I also got another set of Wireless Headphones which I already have a set of those that I can use on both my PC and consoles. Oh well, guess I'll have to make a clear out on what useless Headphones I have that are either worthless or broken and find out if CeX will take them in for trading.
So, I had a great Christmas this year and I got what I wanted especially the PS5 console and Dementium The Ward which that game was a gem that was worth hunting for.
I know this is very late and I am sorry about that I have not done a blog talking the Game Awards 2024. That is because I have been spending plenty of time this month doing a bunch of Easy Platinum Trophies and then I got caught up with a terribly designed piece of dog turds that is Hoodie Survivor. I have managed to beat 4 out of 6 levels and I am stuck on the 5th Level and having a seriously terrible time with it. I seriously can't wait to throw a very low and fitting review score for how atrocious the game really is and it is one of the main reasons I have yet to Platinum Trophy it.
Anyway I finally decided to watch the 2024 Game Awards and it wasn't a bad show and it did celebrate the 10 Year Anniversary of the Game Awards that has been showing. There were some decent announcements but the majority of the game announcements where just only a scene with no gameplay shown and hardly anything else special about them. So here are the five game announcements I liked from the show.
Ninja Gaiden Ragebound
The first game announcement I liked was the return of the super difficult action game Ninja Gaiden as it has a new game in the series with Ninja Gaiden Ragebound. The trailer looked cool and the gameplay shown for it looked sweet.
The Outer Worlds 2
Obsidian's The Outer Worlds is getting a sequel which is looking to be bigger than the original game. The trailer showcased excellent gameplay.
Split Fiction
Hazelight the studio behind the incredible co-op games A Way Out, It Takes Two and Brothers Tale of Two Sons is working on their next co-op game Split Fiction. The trailer shown for it showed off a variety of different gameplay styles from shooting, platforming and different puzzles that both players need to work together to solve them. People who loved their previous games are bound to enjoy Split Fiction a lot.
Okami Sequel
The critically acclaimed Okami is finally getting a sequel which is currently in the works and while the trailer didn't really reveal all that much the musical session that played really made the announcement alone worth it.
Intergalactic The Heretic Prophet
And the last announcement I liked was the latest project from Naughty Dog the developers behind Jak & Daxter and The Last of Us which was Intergalactic The Heretic Prophet. I hope we hear more news regarding this game and this does well.
What I LIKED about the Game Awards 2024?
My favourite game announcement was the Intergalactic The Heretic Prophet and what Naughty Dog is likely to do with it. I hope it comes. I also liked that Astro Bot was the winner for Game Of the Year as well as Metaphor winning Best RPG because unlike the mess that is Final Fantasy VII Rebirth and Final Fantasy XVI Metaphor is a high quality J-RPG that players should play. Just wish Persona 3 Reload got a nominee, oh well. Also I enjoyed the trolling from the Muppets Statler & Waldorf who roasted the Game Awards by making fun of Geoff Keighley and also Final Fantasy VII Rebirth and the Elden Ring DLC which Final Fantasy VII Rebirth didn't deserve to win anything for having an absolute atrociously abysmal new storyline elements.
What I DIDN'T like about the Game Awards 2024?
The worst announcement that was made in the show was announcing the Final Fantasy XVI's main character Clive Rosfield for Tekken 8. Again like the Noctis reveal for Tekken 7 it doesn't make sense to have a Final Fantasy character in Tekken let alone one from a Final Fantasy game that was nothing more than a poor Devil May Cry wannabe. Seriously I can't wait to beat up Clive and get them to remove that worthless reject out of Tekken 8 completely.
What did I think about the Game Awards 2024?
It wasn't a bad show overall but I wished that they had the developers talk a bit more about some of the games that were announced in the show. The Muppets Statler & Waldorf were the highlight of it all and also Astro Bot winning the Game of the Year.
Hey guys sorry that there haven't been any new things going on this channel, well that's because I have been spending my time on doing some PlayStation Trophy Hunting in the past month and I must have racked up about 22 Platinum Trophies within that month alone. I do wish to spend time working on PlayStation Trophy Lists and I want to focus first on the easiest Platinum Trophies and then maybe I can then start working on the harder trophy lists when I do all the easy ones.
Please don't worry, at least by doing those it will add more to the list of games that I would need to do a game review on after doing the achievement/trophy run on a game.
I hope I can make more game reviews by the end of the year.
Another thing I have been doing recently was returning to Splitgate which was a game I recently did a new game review on and I have been marking new milestones on that game. One of those is getting over 100,000 total kills throughout the 7000 matches that I have played on the game with over 4000 wins that I have on it so far. I plan on making Splitgate my daily thing till that game shuts down and when Splitgate 2 launches and I start my records on that.
This is just to say that I am doing okay and there are currently no problems with my life so far and I am working on my own things.
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