Top 10: 1. A Space for the Unbound - 85 2. Atomic Heart - 72 3. Dead Space - 89 4. Fire Emblem Engage - 81 5. Forspoken - 66 6. Hogwarts Legacy - 84 7. Like a Dragon: Ishin! - 82 8. Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened - 76 9. Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life 10. Wild Hearts - 79
Alternates: 1. One Piece Odyssey - 74 2. SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake - 70
Top 10: 1. Atomic Heart - 72 2. Dead Island 2 - 75 3. Dead Space - 89 4. Diablo IV 5. Fire Emblem Engage - 81 6. Hogwarts Legacy - 84 7. Star Wars Jedi: Survivor - 86 8. Starfield 9. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom 10. Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty - 81
Alternates: 1. Final Fantasy XVI 2. Oxenfree II: Lost Signals
Top 10: 1. Atelier Ryza 3: Alchemist of the End & the Secret Key - 82 2. Fire Emblem Engage - 81 3. Hogwarts Legacy - 84 4. Like a Dragon: Ishin! - 82 5. Octopath Traveler II - 84 6. Rise of the Ronin 7. Star Wars Jedi: Survivor - 86 8. Starfield 9. Tekken 8 10. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Top 10: 1. Baldur's Gate 3 2. Dead Space - 89 3. Diablo IV 4. Final Fantasy XVI 5. Hogwarts Legacy - 84 6. Octopath Traveler II - 84 7. Pikmin 4 8. Resident Evil 4 - 93 9. Star Wars Jedi: Survivor - 86 10. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Alternates: 1. Assassin's Creed Mirage 2. Like a Dragon: Ishin! - 82
Top 10: 1. Dead Space - 89 2. Forza Motorsport 3. Horizon Call of the Mountain - 79 4. Marvel's Spider-Man 2 5. Octopath Traveler II - 84 6. Redfall 7. Resident Evil 4 - 93 8. Star Wars Jedi: Survivor - 86 9. Starfield 10. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Alternates: 1. Street Fighter 6 2. Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty - 81
Top 10: 1. Baldur's Gate 3 2. Dead Space - 89 3. Final Fantasy XVI 4. Fire Emblem Engage - 81 5. Forza Motorsport 6. Octopath Traveler II - 84 7. Resident Evil 4 - 93 8. Street Fighter 6 9. The Legend of Heroes: Trails to Azure - 83 10. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Alternates: 1. Star Wars Jedi: Survivor - 86 2. Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty - 81
Top 10: 1. Dead Space - 89 2. Diablo IV 3. Hogwarts Legacy - 84 4. Horizon Call of the Mountain - 79 5. Kerbal Space Program 2 6. Marvel's Spider-Man 2 7. Octopath Traveler II - 84 8. Resident Evil 4 - 93 9. Street Fighter 6 10. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Top 10: 1. Atomic Heart - 72 2. Dead Space - 89 3. Diablo IV 4. Final Fantasy XVI 5. Like a Dragon: Ishin! - 82 6. Marvel's Spider-Man 2 7. Resident Evil 4 - 93 8. Star Wars Jedi: Survivor - 86 9. Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League 10. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Alternates: 1. Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon 2. Starfield
Top 10: 1. Atelier Ryza 3: Alchemist of the End & the Secret Key - 82 2. Baldur's Gate 3 3. Diablo IV 4. Final Fantasy XVI 5. Fire Emblem Engage - 81 6. Horizon Call of the Mountain - 79 7. Marvel's Spider-Man 2 8. Octopath Traveler II - 84 9. Resident Evil 4 - 93 10. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Alternates: 1. Hogwarts Legacy - 84 2. Like a Dragon: Ishin! - 82
Top 10: 1. Atelier Ryza 3: Alchemist of the End & the Secret Key - 82 2. Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon - 80 3. Final Fantasy XVI 4. Fire Emblem Engage - 81 5. Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe - 80 6. Like a Dragon: Ishin! - 82 7. Master Detective Archives: Rain Code 8. Street Fighter 6 9. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom 10. The Plucky Squire
Top 10: 1. Baldur's Gate 3 2. Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse - 69 3. Final Fantasy XVI 4. Fire Emblem Engage - 81 5. Marvel's Spider-Man 2 6. Octopath Traveler II - 84 7. The Legend of Heroes: Trails to Azure - 83 8. The Legend of Heroes: Trails Into Reverie 9. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom 10. Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty - 81
Alternates: 1. Dead Island 2 - 75 2. Wild Hearts - 79
Top 10: 1. Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp - 82 2. Fire Emblem Engage - 81 3. Forspoken - 66 4. Hollow Knight: Silksong 5. Horizon Call of the Mountain - 79 6. Kerbal Space Program 2 7. Marvel's Spider-Man 2 8. Octopath Traveler II - 84 9. Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League 10. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Alternates: 1. Final Fantasy VII Rebirth 2. Dead Space - 89
Top 10: 1. Diablo IV 2. Fire Emblem Engage - 81 3. Forza Motorsport 4. Marvel's Spider-Man 2 5. Octopath Traveler II - 84 6. Resident Evil 4 - 93 7. Star Wars Jedi: Survivor - 86 8. Starfield 9. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom 10. Unannounced Mario Movie Tie-In
Alternates: 1. Atelier Ryza 3: Alchemist of the End & the Secret Key - 82 2. Theatrhythm Final Bar - 88
Top 10: 1. Dead Space - 89 2. Fire Emblem Engage - 81 3. Hollow Knight: Silksong 4. Like a Dragon: Ishin! - 82 5. Like A Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name 6. Marvel's Spider-Man 2 7. Pikmin 4 8. Starfield 9. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom 10. Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty - 81
Top 10: 1. Assassin's Creed Mirage 2. Diablo IV 3. Fire Emblem Engage - 81 4. Hogwarts Legacy - 84 5. Hollow Knight: Silksong 6. Horizon Call of the Mountain - 79 7. Metroid Prime 4 8. Octopath Traveler II - 84 9. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom 10. The Wolf Among Us 2
Top 10: 1. Alan Wake II 2. Atelier Ryza 3: Alchemist of the End & the Secret Key - 82 3. Dead Island 2 - 75 4. Diablo IV 5. Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes 6. Final Fantasy XVI 7. Fire Emblem Engage - 81 8. Octopath Traveler II - 84 9. Street Fighter 6 10. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Alternates: 1. ONI: Road to the Mightiest Oni 2. Process of Elimination - 65
Top 10: 1. Dead Space - 89 2. Diablo IV 3. Final Fantasy XVI 4. Lies of P 5. Octopath Traveler II - 84 6. Resident Evil 4 - 93 7. Sea of Stars 8. Starfield 9. Street Fighter 6 10. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Top 10: 1. Dead Space - 89 2. Diablo IV 3. Fire Emblem Engage - 81 4. Forza Motorsport 5. Hollow Knight: Silksong 6. Marvel's Spider-Man 2 7. Resident Evil 4 - 93 8. Senua's Saga: Hellblade II 9. Starfield 10. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Top 10: 1. Alan Wake II 2. Dead Space - 89 3. Diablo IV 4. Final Fantasy XVI 5. Fire Emblem Engage - 81 6. Forza Motorsport 7. Marvel's Spider-Man 2 8. Resident Evil 4 - 93 9. Starfield 10. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Alternates: 1. Horizon Call of the Mountain - 79 2. Pikmin 4
Top 10: 1. Diablo IV 2. Final Fantasy XVI 3. Final Fantasy VII Rebirth 4. Fire Emblem Engage - 81 5. Hollow Knight: Silksong 6. Kerbal Space Program 2 7. Octopath Traveler II - 84 8. Pikmin 4 9. Resident Evil 4 - 93 10. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Top 10: 1. Diablo IV 2. Final Fantasy XVI 3. Fire Emblem Engage - 81 4. Forza Motorsport 5. Hogwarts Legacy - 84 6. Hollow Knight: Silksong 7. Marvel's Spider-Man 2 8. Pikmin 4 9. Resident Evil 4 - 93 10. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Alternates: 1. Sea of Stars 2. Star Wars Jedi: Survivor - 86
Top 10: 1. Dead Space - 89 2. Diablo IV 3. Final Fantasy XVI 4. Fire Emblem Engage - 81 5. Hollow Knight: Silksong 6. Marvel's Spider-Man 2 7. Octopath Traveler II - 84 8. Pikmin 4 9. Starfield 10. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Alternates: 1. Star Wars Jedi: Survivor - 86 2. Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League
Top 10: 1. Alan Wake II 2. Assassin's Creed Mirage 3. Diablo IV 4. Final Fantasy XVI 5. Hogwarts Legacy - 84 6. Hollow Knight: Silksong 7. Marvel's Spider-Man 2 8. Resident Evil 4 - 93 9. SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake - 70 10. Street Fighter 6
Alternates: 1. Palworld 2. Paper Ghost Stories: Third Eye Open
Top 10: 1. Clive 'N' Wrench - 61 2. Diablo IV 3. Final Fantasy VII Rebirth 4. Final Fantasy XVI 5. Fire Emblem Engage - 81 6. Mina the Hollower 7. Resident Evil 4 - 93 8. Sea of Stars 9. Starfield 10. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Top 10: 1. Baldur's Gate 3 2. Dead Space - 89 3. Death Stranding 2 4. Diablo IV 5. Final Fantasy VII Rebirth 6. Hades II 7. Hollow Knight: Silksong 8. Resident Evil 4 - 93 9. Starfield 10. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Top 10: 1. Diablo IV 2. Hades II 3. Hollow Knight: Silksong 4. Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe - 80 5. Pikmin 4 6. Redfall 7. Resident Evil 4 - 93 8. Starfield 9. Street Fighter 6 10. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Alternates: 1. Fitness Boxing Fist of the North Star 2. Octopath Traveler II - 84
Top 10: 1. Diablo IV 2. Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes 3. Final Fantasy XVI 4. Hogwarts Legacy - 84 5. Hollow Knight: Silksong 6. Pikmin 4 7. Star Wars Jedi: Survivor - 86 8. Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League 9. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom 10. The Lord of the Rings: Gollum
Alternates: 1. Fire Emblem Engage - 81 2. Street Fighter 6
Top 10: 1. Baldur's Gate 3 2. Final Fantasy XVI 3. Hogwarts Legacy - 84 4. Hollow Knight: Silksong 5. Marvel's Spider-Man 2 6. Octopath Traveler II - 84 7. Sea of Stars 8. Starfield 9. Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League 10. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Top 10: 1. Animal Well 2. Baldur's Gate 3 3. Diablo IV 4. Forza Motorsport 5. Horizon Call of the Mountain - 79 6. Marvel's Spider-Man 2 7. Sea of Stars 8. Star Wars Jedi: Survivor - 86 9. Starfield 10. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Top 10: 1. 2D Metroid Remake 2. Legacy of Kain/Soul Reaver Remake 3. New Civilization Game 4. New Hyrule Warriors Game 5. New Lego Game Based on a Comic Book/Graphic Novel IP 6. New Rayman game 7. New Shantae game 8. New Tetris game 9. New Thunder Lotus Game (Creators of Spiritfarer) 10. New Wario game
Alternates: 1. New ARMS Game 2. New EA Sports Racing Game (Not F1 or WRC)
Top 10: 1. Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile 2. Crash Team Rumble 3. Disney Illusion Island 4. MrWang And Love 5. Peppa Pig: World Adventures 6. Romancelvania 7. Star Trek: Resurgence 8. T-Rex Dinosaur Game 9. The Last Case of Benedict Fox 10. The Plucky Squire
May: Redfall - May 2 The Legend of Zelda: Tears of a Kingdom - May 12 Star Trek: Resurgence - May 23
June: Street Fighter 6 - June 2 Diablo IV - June 6 Final Fantasy XVI - June 22 Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life - June 27
July: The Legend of Heroes: Trails Into Reverie - July 7 Oxenfree II: Lost Signals - July 12 Pikmin 4 - July 21
August: Armored Core VI - August 25 Sea of Stars - August 29 Baldur’s Gate 3 - August 31
September: Starfield - September 6
League Overview:
Welcome to Year 6 of the GameTZ Fantasy Gaming League! This is basically fantasy football with games. Each person picks 10 games and those 10 games make up your "team" for the year. The Metacritic scores for your 10 games are tallied up at the end of the year to determine your total. Highest overall score wins. You also get 2 alternate picks (these should be safe choices) just in case one of your picks gets delayed into 2024. So if you shoot for the moon with a game like Armored Core VI and it gets pushed into 2024, one of your alternates takes its place and you don't end up with 0 points for that game. The goal is to pick games that you think have a very good chance of releasing in 2023. Don't YOLO your way into a bunch of 0s lol.
The Rules: 1. No DLC or Expansions 2. No Ports or Remasters (full remakes are allowed) 3. Alternate picks can only replace games delayed into 2024. They cannot be used to replace games in your top 10 that review poorly.
The Prizes: 1st Place: A $50 Amazon Gift Card 2nd Place: A $20 Amazon Gift Card 3rd Place: A $10 Amazon Gift Card
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
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.
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
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
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
> Also, if there's a nintendo direct in the next week, i may alter my list lol
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.
> 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
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
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.
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...
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
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.
> 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.
>
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.
@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.
>> 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...
>
> Yeah, I'm thinking we get a Direct after Fire Emblem drops not before.
>
>
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.
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!
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.