10 Games That Are Overdue for This Console Generation

This console procreation isn’t bad, but acknowledgment to longer improvement cycles the current-gen consoles person yet to person galore of the staple titles that defined the past fewer generations of gaming consoles. That's wherefore I’m itching to play a caller Fallout, Metal Gear Solid, and GTA.

The bully quality is that galore of these games are connected the way, though whether they'll marque it earlier the adjacent large hardware leap happens is anyone's guess.

Yes, we’ve conscionable received Oblivion Remastered, and I volition play the heck of that crippled aft it receives a fewer patches that amended the changeless stuttering. But you know, I’d alternatively spot a caller mainline Elder Scrolls crippled instead.

The Elder Scrolls VI, which was announced astir 7 years ago, volition astir surely skip this procreation of gaming consoles. If that happens, Bethesda won’t merchandise a caller TES rubric for 2 afloat console generations, which is bonkers. That’s worse than Rockstar’s way grounds with GTA, which is an accomplishment successful itself.

I conscionable privation to tally astir Hammerfell earlier Skyrim turns 20...

9 A Decent Tennis Sim

I’ve been playing Top Spin 4 on my Xbox 360 for the past mates of months, and the crippled slaps. Yes, the visuals look dated during close-up camera shots. But during rallies, I don’t caput retro visuals due to the fact that everything other is top-notch.

Detailed animations, fantabulous physics simulation, and gameplay that leans much toward simulation than arcade but doesn’t marque the crippled hard to prime up and play; Top Spin 4 does it all.

The contented is that the crippled was released successful 2011. Fourteen years later, we inactive haven’t gotten a decent tennis sim. Every azygous tennis crippled that came aft Top Spin 4 was either a currency drawback oregon a buggy messiness that ne'er got fixed. I'm particularly disappointed with TopSpin 2K25, which is microtransaction hell, akin to caller NBA2K games.

Heck, I don’t adjacent request a crippled connected par with Top Spin 4; I’d beryllium thrilled to spot thing arsenic bully arsenic Virtua Tennis 3.

8 A Battlefield Game That Doesn’t Suck

Talking astir games that suck, Battlefield 2042 is everything but a competent introduction successful the Battlefield franchise. I had my stock of amusive with the crippled a mates of years agone aft EA and Dice managed to salvage it somewhat with a deluge of monolithic updates. But adjacent then, Battlefield 2042 was a acold outcry from the series’ best.

The past well-received Battlefield was Battlefield V, which was released successful 2018 but besides suffered from assorted issues astatine release. The past Battlefield crippled that garnered cosmopolitan acclaim, Battlefield 1, came retired 9 years ago.

I’m yearning for Battlefield that doesn’t suck, and I anticipation the upcoming game, Battlefield 6, which should get sometime successful aboriginal 2026, volition marque maine bask a caller Battlefield crippled astatine release, which hasn’t happened since 2016 and Battlefield 1.

7 A New Fallout Game

The past clip I played Fallout 4, which turns 10 this year, was a mates of years agone erstwhile I went excessively acold modding the game and spent much clip watching my settlements germinate connected their ain than exploring The Commonwealth.

I had tons of fun, but I’d alternatively play a caller Fallout crippled than instrumentality to a classical Fallout rubric yet again. The past Fallout game, Fallout 76, came retired 7 years ago, and we’re inactive waiting to spot a Fallout crippled made for this procreation of consoles.

As of close now, the accidental of that is beauteous slim. Bethesda is presently moving connected TES VI, different crippled that volition astir apt skip PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S. If the workplace continues releasing games astatine its existent cadence, we mightiness not spot a caller Fallout until PlayStation 7...

At slightest it looks similar we’re getting a Fallout 3 remaster soon, which would beryllium large if I haven’t beaten the crippled fractional a twelve times already.

Another crippled that turns 10 this twelvemonth is Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, which came retired astatine the commencement of September 2015.

Now, Metal Gear Solid: Delta is simply a due remake of the 3rd MGS game, and it’s shaping up to beryllium a phenomenal introduction successful the series. But, again, I’d alternatively spot a caller crippled alternatively of a remake oregon remaster, nevertheless bully it mightiness be.

Silent Hill volition get a caller crippled aft the occurrence of Silent Hill 2 Remake, truthful possibly Konami is waiting to spot Delta's income numbers earlier committing to a caller introduction successful the series. Kojima isn’t determination anymore, but I reckon Konami tin find a workplace that tin springiness the franchise justness and springiness america a caller section of 1 of the champion gaming bid ever.

But adjacent if Konami greenlights a caller MGS project, I reckon the crippled volition skip this procreation of consoles, the archetypal clip a existent console gen won’t get a caller MGS crippled since the original PlayStation.

5 More Superhero Games

Prototype, aggregate Spider-Man games, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, Batman Arkham trilogy, the archetypal 2 Crackdown games, the Infamous trilogy, Saints Row IV and Gat retired of Hell, Iron Man VR for the archetypal PSVR headset, X-Men Legends, and galore different superhero games were each released during the PS3/Xbox 360 and PS4/Xbox One eras.

On the flip side, this procreation of consoles lone has a fewer (admittedly great) Spider-Man games, Guardians of the Galaxy, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 (which is someway a Switch exclusive); Midnight Suns, a turn-based game; and Marvel Rivals, a multiplayer leader shooter.

Aside from the Spider-Man games and, somewhat, Ultimate Alliance 3, different titles don’t truly marque you feel like Batma... I mean, similar a superhero.

I finished Spider-Man 2 and past the archetypal Crackdown a fewer months ago, and I privation more. I privation to leap implicit buildings, combat against hordes of enemies, and person a clump of chill superpowers that don’t chill down for 10 minutes. Only the Spider-Man games let maine to unrecorded done that phantasy with a modern overgarment of paint.

What besides bothers maine is that nowadays, each we person are licensed (read: Marvel) superhero games with the aforesaid rotating formed of characters. I’d similar to spot a caller instrumentality connected the genre, thing similar Prototype, wherever you play arsenic an antihero, oregon Saints Row IV, a silly superhero crippled that didn’t instrumentality itself seriously, which lone made it better.

The champion the gaming manufacture tin committedness are Wolverine and Blade games (Marvel, again), some of which should get earlier the extremity of this console generation. At slightest the second sounds intriguing since Arkane is astatine the helm.

4 A New Gears of War Game

Gears of War 5 is an Xbox One crippled released successful 2019. It was ported to the Xbox Series consoles aft they came out. So, technically, GoW 5 is simply a last-gen game, not adjacent a cross-gen title.

Now, portion the bid apt won't instrumentality to its glory days, I'd inactive similar to spot a new GoW game. It's not similar we're getting loads of big-budget archetypal and third-person story-driven games nowadays, truthful I'll instrumentality what I tin get.

This time, my prayers volition beryllium answered sometime successful 2026 (unless the crippled gets delayed) erstwhile Gears of War: E-Day comes out. Better precocious than never, I guess.

3 A Brand New Game From Naughty Dog

Naughty Dog had been connected a rotation since 1996, turning retired aggregate caller games for each PlayStation console. But during the PS5 era, we’ve lone gotten 2 remasters.

Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet volition beryllium the studio’s archetypal caller crippled for the PlayStation 5, and it volition get conscionable successful clip to get the remaster attraction for the PlayStation 6.

I conscionable anticipation Sony relegates Intergalactic remaster to an extracurricular studio, allowing Naughty Dog to merchandise a sequel earlier the PlayStation 6 goes to greener pastures.

2 A First-Party Single-Player FPS for PlayStation 5

The PS3 epoch was a large clip for PlayStation owners who were fans of story-driven first-person shooters. The Resistance trilogy, 2 outstanding Killzone games, and a clump of third-party story-driven shooters made the PS3 arguably the champion console for single-player shooter fans.

Then came the PS4, and the lone FPS Sony released during that epoch was Killzone Shadow Fall.

The PS5 begs for a big-budget, blockbuster, first-party single-player shooter. However, considering Sony’s absorption connected unrecorded work games and the information the institution hasn’t released specified a crippled successful 11 years, with the ill-fated Concord “ending” the drought, I reckon we won’t adjacent spot a single-player FPS from Sony connected the PlayStation 5. Heck, I’m consenting to stake Sony won’t marque 1 for the PS6 either.

1 A New GTA Game

Almost 12 years person passed since the past Grand Theft Auto game, and saying that this console procreation is overdue for a caller GTA would beryllium a gross understatement.

Luckily, GTA VI should onshore aboriginal this year, if it doesn't get delayed and slips to 2026. That said, I’m inactive salty that Rockstar and Take-Two focused each their vigor connected GTA Online, frankincense failing to springiness america a caller GTA to bask during the PS4/Xbox One generation.

Yes, GTA VI volition beryllium huge, and yes, it’s not the lone open-world crippled taking spot successful an municipality environment. However, the accumulation prime Rockstar brings to the array is unmatched. The sheer level of polish combined with pristine visuals and animation, on with Hollywood-level dependable acting, and stupendously bully soundtracks marque each GTA crippled a due feast for the eyes and ears.

Here’s hoping that GTA VI’s single-player run volition beryllium yet different expansive undertaking successful the vein of erstwhile GTA games and Red Dead Redemption 2, and not a glorified tutorial included lone to funnel players to the online information of the crippled arsenic soon arsenic possible.

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Many of these games signifier the pillar of each caller console generation, and their lack has been noted by galore gamers. For some, it adjacent feels similar this procreation has yet to instrumentality off.