What’s your most anticipated game of 2024? | Team Talk

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Another year is here and it’s welcomed by one of our January traditions – discussing the most anticipated games of 2024. While it seems obvious now, we had no idea 2023 was going to be so jam-packed with great releases.

Fortunately, the big hits we chose – The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Spider-Man 2 and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor – all proved to live up to the hype, but will we be as lucky this year?
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Avowed | James Parry

My first contender for this crown, that I’ve been looking forward to for a while, currently has me a little apprehensive. Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League will finally arrive in February, no doubt to a far less rapturous reception than gold standard developers Rocksteady are known for – Arkham Knight PC port aside…

While the trailer we’ve had was underwhelming, and the various reports of interference suggesting the game we will get isn’t quite what the team had in mind, I still have faith in Rocksteady to do their best to live up to the iconic Arkham series. Perhaps we’ll even see a cheeky Batman cameo.

While my backlog hasn’t quite come around to the Final Fantasy VII remake, I fully intend to get on that train one of these days, though likely not before the second part, Rebirth, graces us on leap day.

Other than these, there’s not a huge amount with confirmed dates, hopefully trying to avoid the dreaded release delay, and it feels strange to not have some of the mainstay big franchises from years past to look forward to.

In the end then, my pick is actually a game that isn’t even confirmed for 2024 yet, but let’s stay optimistic eh? Avowed from Obsidian Entertainment made a lasting impression on me from the announcement at Xbox Games Showcase in 2020, and four years seems like a good amount of cooking to bring us something really fun.

Appetites for fantasy RPGs seem to have been very much whetted by Baldur’s Gate 3, so hopefully the game can ride that wave of enthusiasm for the genre, despite offering something markedly different from Larian Studio’s effort.

Could it also be the game to turn around Xbox’s first-party release fortunes? As the saying goes, only time will tell.

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 | Liam Andrews

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 and its objective-based gameplay looks set to fix one of the biggest issues I had with Flight Simulator 2020 by giving it some structure.

I was initially fine flying about in FS 2020, but once I’d visited my home and several favourite holiday destinations and tried most of the planes on offer, I found myself getting a bit bored.

A clear achievable goal to work towards is, for me, exactly what’s missing in the current game (I’m not one for completing multiple hour flights just for the sake of it, but I can appreciate why it would be fun for some people).

I also really like the look of the missions on offer, as there is a decent amount of variety, from mountain rescue to stunt flying. I used to enjoy playing Search & Rescue on PC in the 90s, so I’m especially looking forward to trying out the helicopter-based missions, which, to me, look like a super HD version of that game.

I am also quite looking forward to trying my hand at aerial crop dusting. I recently tried (and enjoyed) my first Farming Simulator, and this looks like the crossover I never knew I needed, but definitely want to try.

Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn | Chris Brand

If there's one thing I love more than a meaty single-player RPG, it's a meaty single-player RPG with an unnecessarily long title. The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing II? I'll take it. Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire – Ultimate Edition? Sure, I won't ever tire of that little bit of finger gymnastics. By contrast, the manual dexterity required to type Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn is entry level stuff really but the game itself has caught my attention.

It's not often that I get drawn in by a Souls-like, as I lack the skills to be gud and the time to git to that level, but Flintlock promises a more accessible take on the genre, wrapped up package that doesn't look too dissimilar to the more recent God of War titles. It's a far cry from the grim world of Dark Souls.

The combat seems weighty, with careful and deliberate strikes being rewarded over relentless button-mashing, and some magical abilities to further enhance your kit. Many of those abilities come courtesy of your adorable fox-like companion, Enki, and I've already fallen in love with him. If the story calls for me to sacrifice him to save humanity, then I will let the world burn and never play another souls-like again.

Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown could have easily been my pick but we all know what to expect from the series by now, whereas Flintlock offers something I've not properly experienced before. 2023 gave us a few surprises and I'm hoping for more this year, otherwise my gaming calendar peaks far earlier than I'd like it to.