What Unannounced Game Would You Like Announced In 2024?

We have already knocked heads right here at DualShockers concerning the video games we’re most trying ahead to in 2024, however a yr in gaming can be nothing with out its share of shock bulletins and sudden releases. And the gorgeous factor about these is that they might be something.

So in that spirit, Workforce DS has determined to share its hopes and desires for video games we would prefer to see introduced in 2024, whether or not or not we expect they’re going to really occur. So get pleasure from our little flights of fancy right here as we dig deep into our gaming wishes and current to you what we most need.

Dishonored 3

Rob Zak – Options Lead

Prattling on about how a lot I might desire a Bloodborne Remaster feels about as pointless as making an attempt to struggle Ludwig the Accursed with a dustpan-and-brush, if somewhat extra predictable, so I am going for one thing that, on deeper thought, I might really need greater than that anyway.

Dishonored 1 and a pair of are two of my favorite video games of all time, with a few of the greatest stage design, most unique fight mechanics, coolest artwork type, and most unique world in gaming. Whereas I preferred Deathloop (and sure, even Redfall), neither held a candle as much as these incredible stealth video games set within the steamish-punky world.

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Story-wise, I am high quality with Dishonored’s easy tales of ‘assassinate a bunch of aristocratic ne’er-do-wells plotting a coup,’ it is the worldbuilding and probability to discover one other of the world’s cities that compels me. After the Victorian London-inspired Dunwall within the first recreation, and the sticky mediterranean-style metropolis of Karnaca within the sequel, the sport may discover the ‘gloomy’ northern metropolis of Morley or head up north to the frozen climes of Tyvia.

It does not actually matter the place it would be set, as a result of I like the entire world Arkane created and miss it tremendously. Regardless of their latest slip-up with Redfall (did I point out I kinda preferred it?), I consider {that a} return to their biggest work might be the comeback the studio wants. Simply give me these large stealth-sandboxy ranges, flats to snoop round in, and the flexibility to dismember burly guards with rats and eldritch powers, and I am set.

Star Wars: The Pressure Unleashed Remake

Matthew O’Dwyer – Evergreen Editor

We appear to be on the verge of one thing particular with Star Wars video games. We will get numerous new and completely different visions, which is superb. New is nice! However whereas my final want can be a Sith-focused story, I do not see it taking place, so the subsequent neatest thing can be a Pressure Unleashed story as Darth Bane whereas he institutes The Rule of Two. A detailed second can be a remake of The Pressure Unleashed as we knew and cherished it. Enjoying these video games made you’re feeling like a Pressure (yeah?) to be reckoned with.

So far as I am involved, they may inform the identical story or one thing fully new. Think about these unhinged powers coming to life with trendy graphics. Contemplate how the sport would really feel via the haptic suggestions of a PS5.

What unimaginable story might be informed as gamers select to lean into the sunshine or darkish aspect on the top of its energy? Since he is each an incredible actor and a Star Wars fanatic, carry again Sam Witwer. Enjoying as Starkiller was the final word Pressure energy fantasy. Starkiller’s existence broke The Rule of Two however introduced again The Rule of Cool.

The Pressure Unleashed had a lot potential as a franchise and was minimize quick by a disappointing sequel. It is time for a redo. Combine the previous with the brand new and provides us as many Pressure Unleashed experiences as our wallets can deal with. Inform us it is coming. We’re within the period of remakes and reimaginings, and this one would you’ll want to excite the Star Wars fanbase.

Persona 6

Sam Woods – Managing Editor

Persona 5 is Atlus’ crown jewel. It is the studio’s best-selling recreation of all time, its highest-rated recreation on Metacritic and has seen a wealth of spin-offs, together with two, Persona 5 Strikers and Persona 5 Tactica, in genres that broke new floor for the sequence. It is also a top-three recreation of all time for myself, swapping frequently with Persona 4 as I eternally strive to decide on between the pair.

I fell in love with Persona 5, and the sequence as an entire, just a few months after launch, nevertheless it actually resonated with me as I performed via Royal through the COVID pandemic. The sport’s eccentric forged of characters and their communal adventures managed to fill a social-sized gap that the quarantine measures had left in my life. It additionally helped that stylistically, musically and, in nearly each different means, the sport was phenomenal.

It is now approaching eight (!) years for the reason that unique Persona 5 was launched and virtually 5 for the reason that critically-acclaimed Royal dropped and, fairly frankly, it is absurd we have not even heard whispers of Persona 6 but. Admittedly, Atlus has in all probability been busy rebuilding Persona 3 for Reload’s impending launch, however nonetheless. I want it.

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Saints Row 5

Matthew Schomer – Information & Options Editor

Hey, no person stated something a few recreation that was possible to occur. It is a want listing, and although developer Volition—which has been with Saints Row for the reason that starting—is lifeless and buried, I might hate to see the sequence have its swan track be the watered-down reboot we received again in 2022. Nah, fam, I am speaking old-school Saints Row; a real sequel to Saints Row 4, with the return of Johnny Gat, Saundi, Pierce, Kinzie, and whoever else is definitely nonetheless alive after all of the chaos of the Earth’s destruction.

Do not get me incorrect: the reboot wasn’t as dangerous because it appeared at first look, nevertheless it additionally wasn’t that good both, and it undoubtedly wasn’t the Saints Row I might grown to like since its days on the Xbox 360. From the lack of enjoyable mechanics like grabbing folks to make use of as human shields (and consequently yeeting them from excessive locations) to characters that simply weren’t likable (versus being delightfully unlovable), the primary 4 video games had a lot to supply, they usually knew easy methods to be enjoyable and lighthearted at the same time as the sport sequence they have been so clearly parodying, Grand Theft Auto, forgot easy methods to be. Additionally, the reboot did not even have an ’80s station on the radio anymore! Who’s going to have a sing-along to awesomely dangerous music with me now?

I do not want something groundbreaking when it comes to plot. Simply give me one other evil company or overlord to go up towards, toss in a bunch of pop-cultural references, embellish it with purple fleur-de-lises (fleurs-de-lis? I by no means took French), and work Keith David again into the vocal forged. I do not care how. If somebody may simply put out another Saints Row journey earlier than I’ve to say goodbye to Third Road ceaselessly, it would be a recreation I might make certain to not miss, ‘trigger I do not wanna miss a factor.

A Soulslike Metroid

Jeff Brooks – Evergreen Lead

This concept has been bouncing round in my head for years now, so it is a full wish-upon-a-star second, however I’d adore a third-person Metroid Soulslike—bonus factors if it is really created by FromSoftware. A fairly well-liked request within the FromSoftware group is to sometime see a ‘Sci-fi Souls’ from them, bringing their unimaginable world-building, stage design, and fight stylings right into a cosmic new style, and nicely, Metroid-Souls might be it!

Remnant From the Ashes and Remnant 2 supply stable Souls-Shooter experiences, however I believe the aesthetic of Metroid would match so completely into a fantastic Soulslike recreation. Metroid is already about getting misplaced in an enormous interconnected atmosphere, discovering all kinds of enemies, and unraveling the lore and story in bits and items alongside the way in which. As a lot as I am all for FromSoftware persevering with to create their very own distinctive IPs, I might love for them to take a venture on for Nintendo like how they created Demon’s Souls and Bloodborne for PlayStation.

To spice this up a bit additional, let’s combine in some Returnal-style bullet-hell motion. Returnal, except for the superb Roguelike design, completely nailed the lone sci-fi warrior traversing a weird alien world, discovering historic tech, and battling the atmosphere within the pursuit of determining what the heck is happening. I do know Metroid Prime 4 is subsequent in line and can perhaps in all probability sometime really launch, and whereas I recognize the superb design that goes into the Prime video games, I am simply not that into the first-person aesthetic. Samus deserves to kick some third-person ass!

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