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With all the big games pushed to this year it's going to be hard for indies and rando sports titles to make the list hmmm...

Some big games coming out next year.

Going to share this link here to help anyone wondering what is coming out this year: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_in_video_game...

Credit to @benstylus for his post in the 2022 thread

Got my list submitted

Submitted mine as well.

Thanks Heavy!!! Submitted!

Submitted. I think they are specific enough but if you feel like I need to clarify or replace any of them, let me know.

Also, my picks all relate to console/pc, I am specifically excluding any mobile only releases

Submitted. Playing it safe-ish, but hoping for some smaller titles to do well.

I submitted.

New top 10 list submitted. Thanks for hosting again @Heavyd814life and congrats on the win in 2022! Looks like we would have tied had I played my alternate pick of Tunic in place of the disappointment that was the Saints Row reboot. I'm going to get you this year!....maybe

I'm not going to win but if even half my list happens it's going to be a great year

going to try and get my list submitted before i leave the office today!

BTW, should the 3rd rule be for 2024??? Or maybe I'm confused on it??

I'm in it to win it!

HybridCRoW wrote:

Fixed!

My goal is to do better than last time (in which I was second to last), so I feel like that’s achievable lol.

SwiftJAB wrote:

After some research, it's going to be another amazing year!

i also submitted my answers

Idk how I’ve missed this each year, this seems like a ton of fun. Count me in!
I’ve submitted my picks

Submitted my picks

Work for slammed and I'm still deciding my last couple. There are so many huge games coming out because of the delays

Submitted my picks. I didn't recognize most of the games people are buzzing about, and one of my picks may have its user score seriously impacted by external forces. We'll just have to see how this year shapes up.

bogo wrote:

No rush! Plenty of time to submit your picks.

yep, i just have my running list on my work computer so i wont be able to get another chance to submit until tuesday when im back in. i'm just trying to find a better mix of games that are actually likely to come out and trying to pick some things that others might not

Need to free some time to pick.

Working on my picks and I have like 5-6 games that start with 'S', I wonder if I can get a full 12 all that way. It's not looking likely so far though I want a chance to win

EDIT - Submitted my picks. Wasn't able to do the every game begins with S thing. Even had to pull a couple because it really looked like they won't even make it in 2023 :( I have a feeling a lot of us are going to have the same games but I still tried to sneak in a couple more obscure things

submitted!

Will work on it this week.

Thanks for doing this again Heavy

alright...i'm submitted...and i left out 2 games that i absolutely thought i would have on my list. there are so many potential superstar games coming out this year.

Also, if there's a nintendo direct in the next week, i may alter my list lol

bogo wrote:


For the past few years we get a Nintendo Direct within 2-3 weeks of the deadline for submitting our lists with a whole bunch of announcements that are too late to add.

bogo wrote:

I might make a small change if something gets announced, but I sorta like the idea of only guessing based off information we have before any big announcements for the year arrive

My entire list this time around is games that haven't even been announced. No need to wait for a Nintendo direct when you can just guess and wish.

Hollow Knight 3: Silksong the Return is going to be fire yo

sefjwm wrote:
Building your 2030 list already? Lol

sefjwm wrote:

I made that mistake twice. Not again

Silksong was one of the "S" games I was trying to make work but with almost nothing shown so far I wasn't going to risk it. I was actually surprised at how many of my initial short list of games was still likely a couple of years away. Even games in early access and some Kickstarter games were saying 18+ months to go xD

At that recent Xbox live steam Silksong was shown and it claimed all the games shown would be released "within 6 months" or something..... No news about Silksong since.

Hey guys, signups are open for 6 more days. Going to tag the peeps who participated last year but haven't submitted lists yet.

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Heavyd814life wrote:

I'll send a list now but may want to adjust if Nintendo Direct happens.

just went back to look at Nintendo's first direct of 2023: they announced Mario Strikers, Switch Sports, and Xenoblade 3...all which came out last year. thinking there's going to be at least one brand new game that's announced that ends up coming out this year. sadly, that first direct was in February...

Heavyd814life wrote:

I'm out this year

Kommie wrote:

Bummer. But hopefully you join up again next year.

bogo wrote:

Yeah, I'm thinking we get a Direct after Fire Emblem drops not before.

i was hoping that they were going to do a direct earlier on to get the hype up for FE...i can still hope lol

Submitted my picks. Not confident about them at all.

I keep seeing mentions of changing your picks. If we want to do that how do we go about it? Not saying I am for sure, but if there is a direct, then maybe lol

Shane12m wrote:

Yeah, anyone can change picks between now and the deadline. Just shoot me a PM and I can make edits.

Heavyd814life wrote:

Awesome, thanks : )

Submitted mine

Are there rumors of an incoming Nintendo Direct this month? I wouldn't worry about it too much, the bigger ones are pretty much always in February for as long as I can remember, so the deadline will have passed.

While I do like how Nintendo does a fair amount of announcing games and releasing them in the same year, it does kind of suck for this thread.

Kommie wrote:

They also showed Slime Rancher and a think a couple others that "released" in early access. Slime Rancher says maybe 18 months or more in early access >.>

Early access launches are for companies who are too cheap to pay for good testers and focus groups. In terms of fantasy picks, you certainly get a better idea of what the game is going to be like when it launches, but you never know when that will be.

@kommie

Would you rather submit a 2023 fantasy list or play through the latest Pokemon game? :)

Cevil wrote:


List

I'll do my list up over the next day or so.


gonna guess Trails to Azure and Trails into Reverie are not eligible? they're just localizations and its already known how the games are?

tonymack21 wrote:

They won't score that high, in all honesty.

probably not, they're amazing but not that mass market high review appeal

@tonymack21 Yeah, they both count. We had that a couple of years ago with Ys 9 and a couple of years before that with Yakuza 6. They’d both been released in Japan. I think as long as they’ve never been released in the West, they are fair game.

list is in

Heavyd814life wrote:

I could see them slipping one in right before launch. Obviously, they wouldn't spend a lot of time on FE, but they have done similarly timed Directs in the past.

I have submitted my picks, a lot of great options this year so the picks should be interesting. Thanks for keeping this going, and congrats on the 2022 win.

Beyond Good and Evil 2 is officially still in development if anyone wanted to add that one last second.

sefjwm wrote:

It?s pretty much vaporware at this point. So sad.

Tomorrow is the last day to submit your entry for 2023. I?ll close signups sometime tomorrow evening and update the OP with all our picks.

I was hoping to have this wrapped up before the reviews for Fire Emblem Engage dropped, but looks like they came in this morning. Didn?t review as well as Three Houses did, but it?s at 82 from 63 reviews which is still very solid!

https://www.metacritic.com/game/switch/fire-emblem...

Heavyd814life wrote:

I don?t remember all my picks but want to make a couple changes. I?ll PM you before the deadline

Joined for the first time
“A new challenger approaches”

Oh crap I just read about Fire Emblem Engage after I entered. I can replace with something else however that’s possible

3hitcombo wrote:

I’ll allow it (says the one not in charge) lol

Shane12m wrote:

Lol I'll send you guys PMs with your lists so you can make changes.

Final call, guys. Today is the last day to submit picks if you'd like to participate this year.

@gypsy @apocram2222 @codester

Think im in, one or 2 of the games I listed might count as remasters. though :(

A Space for the Unbound getting really good reviews. Who had that one?

sefjwm wrote:

Yeah, really great early reviews. Only @HybridCRoW had it on his list. I'd never even heard of it.

I picked my titles off that wiki link you posted... I did also dbl chk to make sure they were within the rules of the League... at least hopefully... and since I haven't heard anything sounds like I'm good.

And we're live! OP has been updated with all our picks! Thanks for joining, everyone. We've got 33 this year (one more than last year) and I think it's going to be a really close race. Please look over the OP when you have a minute to make sure I have all your picks listed correctly.

And like last year, I've added release dates to the OP. If I've missed any please let me know and I can update the list.

@HybridCRoW is our early leader with 2 games on the board. Great start! 18 of us are on the board with Fire Emblem Engage. Next up is Forspoken. I honestly have no idea how it'll review. Probably in the mid 70s, if I had to guess. I hated the demo at first, but I played through it again last night and the combat definitely grew on me. The world is completely barren, though and the dialogue is unbearable so it'll be interesting to see how it does.

Wow, I was mostly joking but nice that someone actually had A Space for the Unbound. It's definitely on my buy list.

Some initial things I saw. Eiyuden Chronicles! super excited for that game and happy someone picked it. Silksong, will be shocked this makes it. If it does it will likely score super high though. Unannounced Mario movie tie-in, lols. Shout out to fellow Sea of Stars fans. Ben definitely has... a list of something and nice Metsfan {insert bold strategy cotton meme here}. Overall seeing a lot more smaller and "off meta" picks. Will be an interesting year.

sefjwm wrote:

Hey someone has to be last place!

That our we will have one of the greatest gaming years in at least a decade.