NoobFeed Editor Azfar Rayan writes - 2022 feels like an excellent year for the gaming industry, with much-talked-about Elden Ring, Horizon Forbidden West, SIFU, and even some great indie games like NORCO. Some highly anticipated games initially scheduled to be released in 2021 but postponed due to the epidemic will shortly be released in 2022. Despite an extensive list of games, here is a list of 12 games that we're really looking forward to playing in 2022.
Luigi's Mansion 2 HD still performing well.
The platform breakdowns really show how irrelevant xbox has come for selling software.
1 Hogwarts Legacy Switch 41%, PS5 26%, PS4 24%, Xbox 5%
2 EA Sports FC 24 Switch 34%, PS5 28%, PS4 26%, Xbox 12%
Yea, you can see why some developers and publishers are increasingly starting to skip XBox all together. Unless you're in a small minority of successful and highly played Gamepass games, you're pretty much taking a payout on your game just to rot and die on the service.
Not that surprising, the Switch has some killer exclusive titles, so people have to own a Switch to play them.
In recent times, the Indie genre has lost its charm by becoming a loose term. There are no borders to decide whether a title is Indie or not.
The defining factor is creative freedom. If you answer to a publisher, and they push ideas, changes and their own vision, then you are not indie. If you have a small publishing agreement that brought in funding, but the publisher's stake in the company or project is not large enough to give them creative reign, then you are still indie bc you still remain independent of control.
It's that easy. Indie means independence of creative control, not independence from funding. Many times small time publishers of indies will take control of only the marketing side of things, which is usually very much appreciated. I've worked in this side of gaming.
*It's the same thing in indie films or indie music really, with varying levels of quality and funding. It's about retaining the creator's original vision without unwanted meddling.
Unfortunately, yes. Indies were originally games that were outside of the main market, created by studios with no ties to publishers or larger companies. Then, at some point, they started to include pretty much every game that looks smallish. And even that went the way of the dodo, and budget size started to be compared, which we often don't know; now it's pretty much whatever you are feeling that day. Some will say that it's about creative freedom, which is also basically impossible to measure in most games and could very well mean that a bunch of smaller projects by Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, etc., are actually indies.
So at the end of the day. It's another label that has very little meaning.
If you consider yourself a sucker for games with good combat systems, these curated recommendations are just for you.
GoW, Stray, and Cuphead are buys for me.
Maybe Plague Tale.
God of War Ragnarök, Starfield, and Forza Motorsport for me.
God of war, forspoken, starfield, forza motoraport if it does come out this year and hogwarts.
To think iv already had the pleasure of playing HFW,GT7 and elden this year already and have these great games to also look forward to, 2022 is shaping up to be a brillant year.
Much better than 2021 thats for sure.
forspoken god of war stray ff16 exclusive multiplatform plauge tales 2 gotham night hogwarts legacy
GOW:R,Stray,& Forspoken. If released this year GF:R. I would love to play FFXVI but I doubt if it'll be released this year.