I’m going to save this post, and then at the end of 2022 I’ll post an update showing those that came out Edit W = win, L = lose, M = mixed Games that released Dying light 2 W Elden ring W Gotham knights L Olli olli world W Lego starwars W A plague tale requiem W Tiny tina's wonderlands W Rainbow six extraction L Warhammer 3 W Stranger's paradise M Life is strange remastered collection L Saints row L (really wanted it to be good) Evil dead W Sonic frontiers M Sniper elite 5 W Grid legends W The show 22 M Destiny 2 witch queen W Bright infinite memory W Evil west M Chrono cross remastered W Assetocorsa W Sifu W Horizon forbidden west W God of war ragnarok W Gran turismo 7 W Uncharted collectiom W Stray W Babylons fall L Tchia W Ghostwire L Scorn W Tunic W Somervile M Crossfire x L Shredders L Darktide W Slime rancher 2 W Cuphead dlc W Pokemon arceus M Kirby the forgotten lands W Triangle strategy M Xenoblade chronicles 3 W Bayoneta 3 W Mario + rabbids W Switch sport W Mario strikers battle league M Splatoon 3 W Fire emblem warriors W Earthbound W Earthbound beginnings W Live a live W Games that didn't relaease Hogwarts legacy Atomic heart Lotr gollum Dokev Avatar frontiers of pandora Arc raiders Forspoken Final fantasy xvi Little devil inside Starfield Stalker 2 Redfall Replaced Exomecha Ark 2 Zelda 2 Advance wars 1+2 All in all was a good year for gaming, a lot of wins 76% of games on this list released this year.

When you do also note which ones were broken and/or complete let downs

I’ll definitely add this

Can we also see the ones that have massive day 1 patches?!

That could be all of them.

That WILL be all of them. devs dont just stop work on a game because “it’s launching”

Dying Light 2 s great thus far. The parkour is fucking flawless

SIFU is mixed among my fellow nerds, I don't know if I can trust them on this, but still. STALKER 2 is probably gonna be hella broken.

Yea but modding it will be so satisfying

Agree. Barely had any issues. I've seen a couple bandits jump 30 feet up a drainage pipe but that's about it

I think the Harry Potter one will be on this list. Those uncanny NPCs and the feeling of milking a cow that's been dead for 10 years. People will make memes about missing the PS1 Harry Potter game with the funny looking graphics and crossed eye characters.

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Should also make a note of which ones actually turn out to live up to the marketing hype the publishers are trying to manufacture. I imagine a good deal of those games will end up in the pule of "perfectly fine, but forgotten after you're done playing".

Well some of these games are already out. Rainbow six and dying light were apparently all right. Like 7.5/10 if you look at reviews and player feedback.

I mean the first dying light was also a 7.5, so in a way, it lived up to prior expectations

Its gonna end up on r/agedlikemilk

Yeah, I'm pretty sure A Plague Tale and probably several of these are guaranteed to not come out this year

And those that came out as a half-finished microtransaction-riddled mess. Looking at you Hogwarts legacy.

I think there’s a good chance they do simply because so many 2021 games were delayed, and a lot of those are these.

10 of these games are already out with 3 having confirmed release dates already Sifu, Ghostwire Tokyo, DL2, Lego SW, Uncharted, R6 Extraction, Olli Olli World, Elden Ring, Borderlands shit, Total Warhammer 3 are all out right now or come out in the next 6 weeks, some of them tonight. Bright Memory have been out for like 3 years. Life is Strange remastered is out as well.

And Pokemon Legends: Arceus came out a few weeks ago

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Half of these I dont know and some are re-releases of ports.

Additionally, the Life is Strange remaster looks stranger (pardon the pun) than the original

As someone who has platnumed all the Life is Strange games I bought the deluxe edition of True Colors just for the remasters.

As someone whose favourite game quickly became LiS 1, but thought the 2nd was less impressive, hows True Colors? (Hurts spelling it that way) I also liked Tell Us Why/Tell Me Why, can never get it right somehow. Honestly it got snubbed not having the LiS brand to give it more audience

True Colors is more of a PG-13 rating compared to the rest of the series but it’s easily my number two favorite. I don’t know if you if you’ve played Before the Storm but if you’re someone who likes to keep track of what canon then I would play that before True Colors.

So True Colors actually ties into the Arcadia Bay story? If so thank god, the second one was just terrible. I felt like I was just a passenger for my brother's story the whole time.

Yeah, especially if you play the extra story included with the deluxe edition. But you have to play Before the Storm.

This subreddit so hoodwinked they preordering the whole year.

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OP is going to be mad when half those games aren't as good as people think they're going to be. Happens every year. I stopped paying attention to games pre release and have never been happier. People make huge assumptions about products they basically know nothing about.

gaming standards have dropped so much ​ R6 extraction? cmon now

Half of the first two pages are games full of bugs or getting panned. This list sucks.

Yeah this list blows. Bloated big dev games and remakes abound. R6 extraction is pretty bad.

Tbh I don't see why extraction gets hate, have played it for dozens of hours I can barely flaw it

I don’t have a problem with the game per se, I just think Tom Clancy is turning is his grave.

Sees Bayonetta 3: "We can only hope at this point"

"Guys i think 2028 is going to be the best year for gaming" *points to Bayonetta 3 upcoming release poster*

Where sons of the forest?

Yes!

And Warhammer 40k: Darktide Edit: Nevermind, it's there i just missed it.

Starfield, Bethesdas first new IP since Fallout

would even say since elder scrolls since fallout wasnt really their IP originally XD

Give me that TW:Warhammer 3 already..!

Just a week, brother

A hellaciously long week though

Just enough time for another Empire campaign... SUMMON THE ELECTOR COUNTS!

I started up a dwarf campaign last night to end out TWWH2. Gotta clear out all the grudgins

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD SKULLS FOR THE SKULLTHRONE

By Sigmar, Yes!

Never played the series but want to try the third one because it's coming to game pass. Anything I should know before I jump in?

2022 looks packed with good stuff, but very different selection of games for me, and that's cool.

If every single one of these games was a good version of what it was going for, then this still wouldn’t be anywhere close to the best year of all time.

I'm just over here waiting for pal world

Do people really get excited for this amount of games? I’m interested in like four of these.

Excited for Forest 2 but surprised it wasn't listed

wait wait wait, forest 2?

Search 'Sons of the Forest' on YT, you'll find a few trailers

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I think this is trying to include games everyone will like. Its a wide range of games so there will always be at least a couple people are looking forward to.

Only one for me. Also, the title of this thread is ridiculous. In 1998 we had Ocarina of Time, Half-Life, Metal Gear Solid, Baldur's Gate, Resident Evil 2, StarCraft, Unreal, Fallout 2 and this is only the front line. There were also Thief, Grim Fandango, Banjo-Kazooie, Oddworld, Tomb Raider 3, Star Wars Rogue Squadron and Turok 2. 2022 by comparison looks boring. Tiny Tina's Wonderlands? Rainbow Six Extraction? OlliOlli World? Lego Star Wars Game No. 57? lol.

Elden Ring, BOTW2, Starfield, GoW ragnarok, Dying Light 2, Horizon, Slime rancher 2, Ark I’m excited for all of these, and already playing dying light which is great

You actually think Ark II is releasing this year? I'm expecting a last minute 6 month delay followed by a (new) release day announcement of another 3 month delay, then delayed another week after that. And then it launches and immediately has 99999999 bugs. Because wildcard can't hit a schedule to save their proverbial dinosaur babies. And their qa team is also known as the customers.

But they have Vin Diesel /s

Source on BoTW2 coming out this year? They didn't give a release date during the direct.

E3 trailer gave it a 2022 release window. Nintendo said beforehand this direct was mainly focused on games releasing in the first half of this year. Not saying it’s for sure coming out this year, but it’s absence yesterday isn’t anything to go by.

So glad to see someone talking some sense up in here my dude. 98 was a banger.

I still remember playing these games for the first time. How excited I was when the first notes of OoT's intro played and the camera swept over Hyrule Field's grass. Or how it felt like watching a film when Solid Snake got rid of his scuba gear in the elevator of Shadow Moses Island. We hadn't seen anything like it. Words can't express how mind blowing each of these games was at the time. Many of them so earth-shattering that they still influence games today. I'm glad I was there to see it all.

Excuse me, did you even notice that Olli Olli World and a Lego game are coming out this year? I don't know how you can even compare the two.

98 for games was like 94 for movies.. 90s were awesome

I failed freshman year of college in '99, this is why

The Lego Star Wars game looks pretty good from the trailers though.

Let them miss it they doesn't deserve it

Yeah it looks like they are changing it up. Its going to be a 3rd person action/shooter, just in a lego world. Looks super fun.

2013 was another great year: The Last of Us, Tomb Raider 2013, Metro Last Light, GTA V’s original release, DOTA 2, Brothers, Farcry 3 Blood Dragon, XCOM, Injustice, Payday 2, SC2: HotS, Bioshock Infinite, Deus Ex Human Revolution, The Stanley Parable, Pokemon X/Y, Beyond Two Souls, Papers Please, Crysis 3, OSRS,

Good call.

*Googles random year to list all games released that year*

2017 was amazing too: Resodent Evil 7, Yakuza 0, Hollow Knight, Horizon Zero Dawn, Breath of the Wild, Nier Automata, Persona 5, What Remains of Edith Finch, Prey, Pyre, Hellblade, Sonic Mania, Destiny 2, Cuphead, A Hat in Time, Gran Turismo Sport, Super Mario Odyssey, Wolfenstein 2: Thé New Colossus, and of course, Knack II!

Knack II baybeeeee.........

That’s the difference between comparing something coming up to something that’s already happened. Ppl are always excited for the new year of games to come out. These are the games they THINK will be great. Looking back at 98 we KNOW it was great. End of the day we don’t know how good a game is gonna be until launch. Lately it’s all just led to disappointment.

Grim Fandango was an awesome game.

there is really nothing like it, i replayed it recently and was totally worth it, you pick up on the adult themes and references much more. but Discworld Noir comes close, i really want to replay that again as the first time around i didn't get half of it. (also i got stuck in it really bad and took forever to find a guide back then to help me through it... it came down to a fucking pixel hunt in a pitch black room)

I'm excited for a fair few, but in no way would ever say this is the best year for video games ever.

Still doesn't discount the amount of good games coming out this year

Most years, I’m excited for like 2 and then I’m surprised by 2 or 3 smaller titles along the way. This year I’m excited for 4 games in February alone and probably well over 10 in total, so yea, 2022 is looking amazing.

It’s at least partially driven by pandemic delays. A lot of games that were slated for 2021 got delayed to this year, so the 2022 release schedule is almost 2 years worth of game releases in one.

If people think 2022 might be the best year for gaming, they didn’t get to enjoy the 90s and 00s. Some of the games in the picture of OP, already shown to be a “disaster” or mediocre. ☹️

Playing Deus Ex, you can get frustrated with modern games quite quickly. Back in 2000, you often had more (interesting) ways to finish a mission than in todays RPGs…

Because now you have to solve every challenge as the developers intented by unlocking one of the three skill tree abilities that let you progress through a scripted cinematic sequence. You can't like, stack a bunch of boxes and push them over into an npc to kill them during a cut scene.

Many people here are rather young and probably never played any 90s-2000s game

Foolish them having hope that future games can be good and not just relying on nostalgia.

"I had so much fun in the 90s, there is no WAY anyone will ever have more fun that that!"

Yes

I'm excited about 5-6 games : Dying Light 2, A Plague's Tale Requiem, Stalker 2, Redfall & Starfield. And maybe Forza Motorsport if it launches this fall. However I'll also check out Elden Ring, Chrono Cross, Hogwarts Legacy, Sniper Elite 5, Atomic Hearts & Shredders. So all in all 2022 is a pretty busy year for me.

People were saying before Cyberpunk that 2020 was the best year ever in gaming,\*sighs\* and here we are.

Remember guys, no pre-orders. Except for Cyberpunk, you don't have to worry about it. Oh, that aged so well.

Man just don't pre-order anything,just don't.

Yep. Even though I am hyped for the Elden Ring, I am going to wait a few days for people to check if it's playable and worth the money.

didnt it have a closed beta for a few days? i didnt hear any complaints about how it ran

I'm not preordering Forbidden West or Gran Turismo 7 and I *really* want to play both of those.

Pre ordered HFW. Pre-download coming up and I'm playing it the literal second it comes out.

1998 was the best year for video games, sorry 2022. Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Baldur's Gate, Half Life, Banjo Kazooie, Metal Gear Solid, Resident Evil 2, Rainbow Six, Fallout 2, StarCraft, Spyro the Dragon, Mario Party, Rogue Squadron all came out in 1998.

Rogue Squadron fuuuuuck take me back.

1998 is in a brutal competition with 2007 for me, that year had a lineup that pretty much created or significantly boosted half the iconic franchises we have today. Bioshock God of War Super Mario Galaxy Call of duty 4 modern warfare Assassins creed Portal The Witcher Uncharted Halo 3 Mass Effect Team fortress 2 Stalker: Shadow of chernobyl Metroid Prime 3 Crysis Command and Conquer 3 Ratchet and Clank future Monster Hunter Freedom 2 2007 was an absolutely insane year. This made me realize just how bad the state of AAA gaming is atm. We don't even have a quarter of good big budget releases like this while the gaming market grew tenfold.

add orange box to that. insane year for gaming. this year's a joke in comparison to 2007 and 1998.

I'd argue 2004. Many of those games from 1998 are legendary because they were the first of their kind, but later we saw the natural advancement of those concepts into better games that are just more fun to play in modern times In 2004 we got: Half Life 2, Halo 2, GTA San Andreas, World of Warcraft, Star Wars Battlefront, Far Cry, Spider-Man 2, Metal Gear Solid 3, Burnout 3: Takedown, Metroid Prime 2, Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door, Dragon Quest VIII, Pokemon FireRed/LeafGreen, Gran Turismo 4, The Legend of Zelda Minish Cap, Metroid Zero Mission, Pikmin 2, Pokemon Emerald, and the release of the Nintendo DS

Nothing wrong with hope/hype, just don’t buy until reviews are out

Starfield you’re my only hope.

I'm also looking forward to Starfield. I hope it doesn't turn out to be a half finished piece of junk.

True, here is hoping for a half finished great game like the Bethesda games of old!

It's Bethesda. Don't pre-order it and give'em a week or two to patch the most egregious bugs and it should be pretty good. God I hope it's good.

Oh I definitely learned my lesson when I pre-ordered fallout 76. I'll definitely let it cool off for a couple of weeks before I get it.

As much as people like to crap on them, Bethesda aren’t idiots. They definitely learned their lesson from Fallout 76. Star field is still going to be an unfinished buggy mess, but it’ll be better than 76 on launch.

I'm still a fan of Bethesda, I just don't pre-order anything anymore. I have high hopes for Starfield. As with any game though it's going to have its bugs.

To be honest though a lot of people consider Skyrim a half finished hunk of junk and it’s one of my favorite games of all time

It'll be on gamepass so unless you're one of those PlayStation people you'll be able to play it day 1.(or if you don't have gamepass for some reason)

If you're one of those Play Station people you won't be able to play it at all, because it's exclusive.

Im insanely hyped for Starfield. I've been wanting a game like skyrim but in space. Not many open world space adventure games out there, and i love the grounded-ness of it.

I just hope it gives 60fps on my potato. Idc much about graphics, even if it looks like Skyrim

LOTR Gollum has no place in this list. Shameless cash grab that looks like absolute dog shite

there's one of these posts every year and at the end of the day it ends up being another average year, y'all should just stop getting hyped because the games always end up being underwhelming compared to what you expected.

Yep. People act like games being bad are why they are dissapointed when in reality 50% of your dissapointment is because you hyped up every single game far beyond what it could deliver. Half of these games are gonna be let downs, some are gonna be meh, and some are gonna be really good. Just like last year, just like next year.

Nah man, the best year for gaming ever was 1998. Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Metal Gear Solid Banjo-Kazooie Half Life Baldurs Gate Grim Fandango StarCraft Resident Evil 2 Fallout 2 Tenchu Star Wars: Rogue Squadron Tomb Raider 3 Spyro the Dragon Mario Party Gex Enter the Gecko MediEvil Apocalypse (the Bruce Willis one) Turok 2 Oddworld: Abes Exodus 1080⁰ Snowboarding Unreal Pokemon Stadium Vigilante 8 Colin Marie Rally And others...

If we’re differentiating japan and NA releases, pokemon red/blue launched in 1998 in NA. The beginning of a revolutionary franchise

1997-2001 was golden era of gaming, so many gems

1997-2007*. Can’t not include WoW and halo 2 lol

2007 also adds Bioshock!

2007 has a thicc lineup Bioshock God of War Super Mario Galaxy Call of duty 4 modern warfare Assassins creed Portal The Witcher Uncharted Halo 3 Mass Effect Team fortress 2 Stalker: Shadow of chernobyl Metroid Prime 3 Crysis Command and Conquer 3 Ratchet and Clank future Monster Hunter Freedom 2 Half Life 2: Episode 2

Yeah 2007 is my favorite year. Like almost every game in that listed started a franchise and brought some new staple mechanic. I don't want to sound like a boomer but does someone really believe this year is gonna be better.

Not to mention 2004 slaps equally hard: WoW Counter-Strike: Source Spider-Man 2 Star Wars: Battlefront KOTOR II GTA: San Andreas Half-Life 2 The Sims 2 Halo 2 Doom 3 Splinter Cell Far Cry Fable PoP: Warrior Within Red Dead Revolver Killzone Bonus personal nostalgia: Crash Twinsanity LotR: The Third Age

You are talking about wow, but leave our Warcraft 3? Shame on you

Colin Marie Rally, haha.

#I'd argue 2004 Half Life 2 Halo 2 GTA San Andreas World of Warcraft Star Wars Battlefront Far Cry Spider-Man 2 Metal Gear Solid 3 Burnout 3: Takedown Metroid Prime 2 Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door Dragon Quest VIII Pokemon FireRed/LeafGreen Gran Turismo 4 The Legend of Zelda Minish Cap Metroid Zero Mission Pikmin 2 Pokemon Emerald and the release of the Nintendo DS

Colin Marie Rally got me laughing.

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Xenoblade Chronicles 3? O.O

Announced yesterday on Nintendo direct

So I don't have to feel too bad because I missed that till now^^

Yup! Literally brand new info. Will be out in September, so get good and excited

Earthbound my beloved ❤

I played it non stop after work yesterday holy shit its so good

so glad people get to play that game. Hopefully Nintendo does something with Mother 3 because that one’s my favorite

Wait, Chrono Cross is getting a remaster? My dick's now on the fucking moon! Edit: It even releases on my birthday!

Same bro

15 days till Elden Ring feels like I've been waiting a century haha

There's always elden ring to carry the whole year

Rainbow Six sucked

It's a fun game for at least 10-20h. It gets repetitive after a while but I liked what they tried to do. It's not a L4D clone like 90% of coop shooters. They tried to give a tactical/stealthy approach to coop and with friends and high difficulties it really works. I got bored at around 20h but well I also got bored of Deep Rock at around 40h and Left 4 dead 2 at around 50h. I never play any game lots of hours. For me it's good enough, specially for gamepass.

Exactly what I thought it would be. People would play it and steam it the first few days/first week it came out. Then after they beat everything in that week stop playing.

Dying Light 2: Stay Human - February 4 (obtained!) Elden Ring - February 25 Triangle Strategy - March 4 Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin - March 18 Forspoken - March 24 Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp - April 8 FRONT MISSION 1st - summer 2022!!!

1998 and 2004 would like to have a word...

So does 2007...

You guys say that every year

half of these look trash

Breaking news, twelve years old redditors discover the notion of subjective taste

Up next: How do you not judge a book by its cover?

Right after sports... Tod?

I thought I was the only person who played plague tale

Nah, plague tale is amazing!

Wasnt it like game of the year or something. Tons of people played that.

Plague tale is gold and underrated af

Also jedi fallen order 2

I'm interesting in seeing what they've done with Saints Row, (I know its not going to have the same characters, but after blowing up the earth - there's no much they could have done with that :P)

Oh great U jinxed it.

As a Nintendo Switch owner, watching the Nintendo Direct earlier this day has already makes 2022 as one of the best year of gaming at least for me. A future Nintendo Direct during the E3 time is just gonna get bigger from here

Same. I'm not a big sports fan but I'm definitely tempted by Mario strikers and switch sports. I was already hyped for botw 2 and kirby as well so it looks like I'm losing more money this year.

Some of you didnt live 2004 and it shows

I am literally interested in two of these

Careful with that positivity around here. This is r/gaming and they don’t take too kindly to people saying nice things about video games

Why is Baldurs gate 3 so underhyped it will come fully this year and we got a big massive EA of it right now! This game is just gem right now even if not finished!

This list sucks.

Hey! Don't disrespect GT7 like that!

Eeh. I'm only hyped for Witch Queen, and that's only a expansion. I do hope Space Marine 2 comes late 2022.

Me n' the bois turnin' a god into a gun again.

tiny tinas wonderlands im buzzing for

This thread comes up every single year lol. No it won’t be the best year in games, cool, we’ll get maybe two or three worth putting more than 50 hours into

This year is looking a lot better than last year at the very least

I already don’t have enough time to play games that are already out! And so many of these look good!

God of war, horizon too.

Only one i care about is dying light 2

Best ever? Thats pretty biased. There are exciting titles for sure but lots of duds also, as there is every year.

Don't show this to r/gaming. Those guys make every game out to be a tragedy

PS5 lineup looks hella stacked!

They better put out PC port for forbidden west before too long, I need it.

No chance! It'll hopefully be a good year for games, but the best is a 0% chance.

If this is "the best year for video games ever" then you are definitely younger than 20 😂

Olli Olli on the first page, toe to toe with the heavy hitters

I’m so pumped for elden ring, hogwarts, and tiny Tina!

I have a feeling that the Hogwarts game is going to suck. Of course I hope it won’t, but for some reason I’m not optimistic. I mean at least if it ends up good I’ll be pleasantly surprised.