What In Gaming Are You Excited For? (Going Into Hyperdrive)

The 2022 Edition

PS4/5

Dated:
Horizon Forbidden West. The first is great.
Forspoken. Looks like it could be rather interesting.

TBC:
God of War Ragnarök. Angry Dad II.
Goodbye Volcano High. Love me an indie.
Granblue Fantasy: Relink. What inspired this new post, as this popped up again from nowhere & looks like it might be worth keeping an eye on.
Stray. I get to play as a cat with a little backpack.

Switch

Dated:
Pokémon Legends: Arceus. Looks darn good and going on my birthday list.
Triangle Strategy. The demo was great, but I have said that about other square games in recent years, however not had a FF Tactics for ages which is why this excites me.
Chocobo GP. I'm a sucker FF things.
Rune Factory 5. I've only played a bit of 4 & Oceans, which seemed okay, I do know Andy is keen and has that Animal Crossing/Harvest Moon thing which I don't play often.

TBC:
Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp. Hope this does well and leads to a few more games, like this.
Kirby and the Forgotten Land. Kirby Last of Us is everthing we need.
Bayonetta 3. The witch is back.
Untitled The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild sequel. It's Zelda.
Splatoon 3. I'm a mammal now?
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge. Will it be better than Hyperstone Heist?
Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak. An expansion, nevertheless keen for it and the amiibo.

Xbox

Dated:
Tunic. Look at the cute little fox.
Starfield. Still like to know more.

Multi/Other

Dated:
Elden Ring. I shouldn't be as you all know what I'm like with Souls game but the last trailer it looked so awesome, I'm going to try and be sensible & wait for it to be on sale though.
GRID Legends. The past GRID games have been decent and if I want a racer in 2022 this could be it.
Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin. The demo was fine, really the name draws me in, and it is a tad Souls like when Elden Ring is available.  

TBC:
LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga. This looks like a big step-up for the LEGO games.
Sonic Frontiers. It's Sonic.
A Plague Tale: Requiem. The first is a gem.
Digimon Survive. Digimon are the champions.
Gotham Knights. I call dibs on Batgirl.
Oxenfree II: Lost Signals. I love the first, but Afterparty did suck.

Be a few other things like Life is Strange Remaster which I know is Feb 1st that I'll get but not something I'm super excited about or need to know more about.

My current top 5 games I'm properly excited for & in no particular order are:

Windjammers 2 - January 20th
Olli Olli World - February 8th
Elden Ring - February 25th
MH Rise Sunbreak
Bayonetta 3

Arceus and The Kirby Of Us are the ones that are close enough for me to be excited about. Kirby's more of an 'oh that should be cool', whereas Arceus is more 'why haven't I put a preorder down already?'

A few of mine are 'oh that should be cool' like Granblue Fantasy: Relink, and I did see some "leaks" of Nintendo's 2022-23 plans and looks very good maybe even the year of the switch  

I've got this underlying, in my bones, soul-defining excitement which is more like a religious sense of purpose for the sequel to Breath of the Wild.

In the shorter term, I'm dead keen for Arceus and Elden Ring.

Kirby and Bayonetta 3 are both in that weird space where I'm excited when I remember they exist.

There's also a bunch of games which exist and I'm just waiting to find time to play - Sekiro, Tsushima, No More Heroes 3 and so on.