Is there one upcoming game you're desperately hoping lives up to its hype?

[ScrabbitRabbit]

Then if they are all moving the story forward, why is the next game called Kingdom Hearts 3? Because that would imply all the games that came out in between the release of KH2 are either expanding on something within the story, or are off branches focusing on other aspects of the series.

Marketing. In terms of both plot and gameplay, Dream Drop Distance really is pretty much KH3.

OT: Etrian Odyssey IV and Soul Hackers get their EU releases soon, so I'm excited for those. I've heard good things, so I hope they live up to their reputation. No idea when SMT IV will be out here, but I've heard it's fantastic. We'll see if it can topple Lucifer's Call as my favourite JRPG ever, though.

I really want Watch Dogs to be good, but I don't see how it could possibly live up to it's hype by this point.

MGSV looks incredible. If it's done right, it may even topple THief II, for me.

For all the fan-complaints about the real-time combat, I really want Final Fantasy XV. I can see where the fans are coming from, since I prefer turn-based combat myself, but it still looks really enjoyable. Besides, most of the FFs don't have particularly good combat systems anyway.

Dark Souls II looks like more of what I loved about the first, but more refined and prettier.

I'd put Dragon Age II here, but very few people seem to be really looking forward to it. I am, and I hope it's good. I didn't think DAII was horrendous, just kinda mediocre. It still had some really good bits and I thought it had much more interesting ideas than the first, even if they weren't as well executed.


If I had to pick "one" it would SMT IV, though.

 

[cthulhuspawn82]

Considering I already payed my $60 to pre-order Rome 2, I hope it turns out to be as good as it looks.

 

[LaoJim]

Surprised no-ones said Mirror's Edge 2 yet. I hope they keep the spirit of the original while improving all the problems it had.

I'd like Inquisition to return to the quality of Origins, but I can't see it happening, so I'm not going to keep my fingers crossed.

I'm not desperately hoping about GTA V because I'm pretty confident it will be at least "very good". Red Dead Redemption seemed to show that Rockstar got what was not so great with IV.

Having played the demo this morning I'm slightly perturbed that they may have stuffed up Rayman Legends by having the little floating thing that moves platforms around to let people play on touchpads still there even on single player. Desperately hoping that's not the case.

 

[mysecondlife]

GTA V

I'm not very attached to GTA franchise but GTAV was very impressive. I'm certainly not going to purchase the game on day 1 but I'm hoping it'll be a great game when I finally get to it.

 

[DirgeNovak]

Grand Theft Auto V, and to a lesser extent, Final Fantasy XV.

 

[Miss G.]

My list would be Rain, Murdered:Soul Suspect, Transistor, The Order 1886, (and Final Fantasy XV but only because I am disappoint with XIII). I automatically will love the new Pokemon X & Y and KHIII. After playing something like The Last of Us I was finally getting a little excited for Watchdogs, but then I remembered Ubisoft just had to go and make the announcement that they're not making any standalone games, as if one-shots have the plague, so the story's probably already got a zillion sequels in the works and I won't even know if it's warranted yet.

 

[NoeL]

Pretty much everything Nintendo announced for the Wii U over the coming year.

 

[Mikeyfell]

Mirror's Edge 2.
not so much the hype, because there hasn't really been any, but I desperately hope it lives up to the first one....
Like the first one except with some better collision detection.

 

[Ihateregistering1]

I guess it's kind of hard to consider a kickstarter game to have "hype" behind it, but just based off the info that I've received so far, I'm really hoping that 'Satellite Reign' is awesome. It basically looks like what the new "Syndicate" should have been, had the developers not decided to turn it into a boring, generic shooter.

Also, "Killer Instinct". My favorite fighting game of all time, I'm not expecting this one to have quite the same "gee whiz, radical!" effect the first one had when I saw it in the arcade in the 90's, but I'm hoping it ends up being a blast.

 

[Mister K]

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle. I really want it to be not only "game for fans of the series", but also, as promised, deep fighting game.

Also, Final Fantasy versus XIII, now XV. I just want FF to get back to it's former glory.

 

[stroopwafel]

So many awesome games coming out in the next six months or so. Really looking forward to GTA5, Arkham Origins and Dark Souls 2. And ofcourse Watch Dogs on PS4. Game looks phenomenal.

Oh and the one game I hope most to live up to its hype is Evil Within. With any luck this could be on par if even better than Resident Evil 4. I've been craving a survival horror game by Shinji Mikami for like almost a decade now.

 

[RandV80]

For a generic answer FFXV, that's a series that really needs to recover after they're disaster over last gen.

For my more personal pick I'm going with a combination of Star Citizen + the Occulus Rift (or whatever they're calling it now). A great space sim to revive the genre is one thing, but a legit VR headset coming out at the same time? My god please let that work!

 

[Diddy_Mao]

Wildstar.

The more I see and hear about this game the more I want to get my grotty little claws on it. Been wanting to check it out since I saw the teaser trailer back in 2011.

 

[ArkhamJester]

Uh, Dragon Age III or The Witcher 3, please. Either one would be nice, but preferably both.

2013 feels like it's been an RPG drought. To the point where I've been replaying DA:O and Legends of Grimrock. Hopefully at least one of these turns out to be really good; I've got a major itch that needs scratching.

Um Shin megami tensei 4? Fire Emblem Awakening, Etrian Odyssey 4, Tales of Xillia, Mario and luigi dream team is decent... But then I get the feeling you were refering to Western RPG's in which case I agree it has been strangely desolate.

 

[IllumInaTIma]

Dragon Age: Inquisition. I still believe in Bioware and I'm pretty sure they will deliver.

Transistor. Bastion was a real surprise and a game that I hold in a really high regard, so I hope that Transistor will live up to that.

And Persona 5, naturally. Although we know fuckall about it.

 

[KoudelkaMorgan]

Dark Souls 2

I hope that, like the original, it becomes the subject of years of discussion, dissection, and infamy. I think that regardless of whether it is awesome or fails miserably this will be the case.

But unlike Other M I hope it is for being great.

 

[Get_A_Grip_]

GTA V

It looks like they've taken back all the great customisation options that were available in San Andreas but were missing in IV with some new things to boot.
The story looks like it takes it self less seriously and the general fucking around that players tend to indulge in seems to fit in with the characters.

And there is a stock market. If done right this could be my favourite feature of the whole damn game.

 

[Caiphus]

Uh, Dragon Age III or The Witcher 3, please. Either one would be nice, but preferably both.

2013 feels like it's been an RPG drought. To the point where I've been replaying DA:O and Legends of Grimrock. Hopefully at least one of these turns out to be really good; I've got a major itch that needs scratching.

Um Shin megami tensei 4? Fire Emblem Awakening, Etrian Odyssey 4, Tales of Xillia, Mario and luigi dream team is decent... But then I get the feeling you were refering to Western RPG's in which case I agree it has been strangely desolate.

I was referring to WRPGs, yes. Which is my preference. I've never been a huuuge fan of the Japanese stuff, mostly because I tend to play stuff on the PC. I did actually play Awakening though, partially because of the lack of RPGs elsewhere and partially because it received rave reviews. It was a pretty good game.

As for the other games, Tales of Xillia is ~90 USD here (for an ~80 on metacritic that's a bit high), and SMT IV and Etrian Odyssey IV haven't been released in my country yet.

Might get Etrian Odyssey IV, I enjoyed III a fair bit. I think it comes out in two weeks here.

Still, my answer stands.