The Game Awards (TGA) 2025 predictions, hype, and general discussion thread

[weirdfeline]

The Free Shepherd is basically Sheep Patrol on Nintendo Switch getting a PS5 remake.
Pragmata demo on Steam today with consoles later.
Bradley the Badger looks interesting!
Stupid Never Dies looks like a 2007 hidden gem.

John Carpenter's Toxic Commando finally releasing.
Yet another Left 4 Dead spiritual successor but this time published by PlayStation. 4:Loop
South of Midnight coming to PS5 and Switch 2.
Amazing showing for Control Resonant.
Gang of Dragon - first Yakuza without SEGA revealed.
Street Fighter movie looks great.
LEGO Batman looks nice, hopefully it's allowed to release!
Two Tomb Raider games announced at the same time and one is co-developed by Flying Wild Hog.
Orbitals - retro anime co-op game - third party Switch 2 exclusive so likely timed exclusive.
Aniimo seems slightly interesting.
Deadpool confirmed for Marvel Rivals. Voice actor does not seem good at all.
Lenny Kravitz is in 007 First Light as a character named Bawma.
Hogwarts robes coming to Fortnite, Hogwarts Legacy free on EGS, play it and get a free chocolate frog back bling in Fortnite.
Star Wars podracing game Galactic Racer.
Out of Words co-op stop motion game published by Epic.
New Mega Man in 2027 coming to PS4 and Nintendo Switch.
Highguard from former Respawn devs is playable next month. It seems like a hero shooter but maybe PvE?

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 seems to have won every award it was nominated for which was a lot of them.

[kamikazekeeg]

Bradley the Badger sorta seems like it could be fun, all the references remind me of it being Conker's Bad Fur Day, just not super crude lol I don't know, I want to be hyped but the gameplay they were showing I don't think was real gameplay, maybe I'm wrong, but could be fun.

Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic, a brand new action rpg, I'm definitely curious, I use to like the original KOTOR, I honestly don't remember if I played KOTOR2, but a good new Star Wars games after some sloppy releases lately could be interesting.  We'll just have to see, didn't catch who was the studio for it. It's actually a new studio making it with Casey Hudson, the original KOTOR director.  That actually has me more interested in the game as it's not something attached to any major studio like EA or Ubisoft.

Very excited for Resident Evil 9, it seems like they are gonna mix the playable characters better than they did before, where it seems like they'll have Grace being more like RE7 and then Leon will be like RE4.  Can't wait.

Control Resonant, looks crazy, not the direction I expected them to take it for a sequel. 

The Street Fighter movie looks pretty ridiculous in kind of the best way, like it's gonna be goofy, but I'm fine with them embracing that.

Hell yeah, Star Wars Galactic Racer, I'm very on board with a brand new Star Wars racing game, I thought they were just gonna do Pod Racing again, but it looks like they are doing multiple types of vehicles from speeders, to swoop bikes, to pod racing, I'm kinda hyped and it's another Star Wars game that isn't being made by one of the big studios.

While I can't say I love classic Mega Man as much as I do something like X, a brand new classic Mega Man is cool to have.

Wait, we are at the end, is there no Sega announcement? I know Total War is by a Sega owned company, but that wasn't the reveal was it? Kind of a bummer.  Like it is Sega, but I don't know, I feel like most people don't equate Sega with stuff like that most of the time lol

Crazy sweep for Clair Obscur lol I think they won for every category.  Never played it myself, maybe one day I'll check it out, I don't know, my interest in turn based rpgs is really low these days.

[bikingjahuty]

I'm not sure why I allowed myself to get hyped at all for TGA or Summer Game Fest. Every year, I think, "yep, this is the year where there's a ton of great announcements that I'll want to buy!" Nope. With that said, the evening wasn't a complete wash.


Sadly, the most exciting announcements was RE9, which was a game we already knew about. The Leon was leaked and spoiled before TGA so it wasn't as exciting as it would have been if I'd avoiding leaks and rumors. Still, I'm very excited about this game and look forward to buying it day 1 in February.


The biggest, best surprise was Star Wars Galactic Racer, especially knowing the NFS/Burnout people are making it. I wasn't terribly excited about the new KOTOR game, but it's a game I may find myself getting more excited about when it gets closer to release.


New Mega Man looked cool, but the 2027 release date kinda killed my excitement. At least we know a new MM is coming.


Some of those Chinese action games looked kinda cool. But they're sort of wait and see titles where I'll hold off my judgement until the games come out.


Other than that, I didn't see a single other game I was excited about. I hoping for at least one HOLY SHIT game to get announced, but that didn't happen. I got a couple, "Oh, that looks pretty cool" games and then everything else was kinda neutral and a lot of stuff I have zero interest. Also, I can't believe they closed with some dumbass team shooter game. I get this probably appeals to casual and non-gamers but for me it was one of the least interesting games talked about all night.


I just really wish I hadn't wasted 4 hours watching this crap live. Again, I tell myself almost every year I'm not going to watch the live show, but end up doing it anyways. Maybe I'll actually remember not to watch Summer Game Fest. I just wish things were as good as they were at E3 up until around 2019 or so. Thank god for my backlog.

[kamikazekeeg]

The biggest, best surprise was Star Wars Galactic Racer, especially knowing the NFS/Burnout people are making it. I wasn't terribly excited about the new KOTOR game, but it's a game I may find myself getting more excited about when it gets closer to release.

I didn't know it has those sort of people working on the game, that has me much more excited, more than I was before.  I use to love Episode 1 Racer and to get something that looks to combine multiple vehicles type is super fun.  I'm also just excited for this and possibly the new Old Republic game because it's outside the big companies now, no EA, no Ubisoft, to me, I feel like that's often a contributor to the Star Wars games we have gotten for awhile not really nailing it like they should.  We'll have to see, I want both of these to be good.