I'm only really looking forward to Heavy Rain, it's one of the few games that doesn't look like the same old boring trash... BUT IN HD. Also kind of interested in White Knight Chronicles and L.A. Noire, though the latter probably won't come out in 2009.

You forgot about this (shitty) port.
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I haven't really been super excited about anything that's coming. I try not to let myself get that way if only because it often leads to disappointment. Prototype looks pretty neat though.

Q4 08 was so filled with goodness, that I'm not yet really ready for a new anticipation phase.

I am however looking forward to Resident Evil 5.
But as of yet, no hype has really caught my attention this year...
Of course I'm looking forward to Bioshock 2, Deus Ex 3 and some other stuff, but on the one hand, I'm not sure that these will even see the light of the day this year, and on the other, if solid info surfaces THAT they actually do, then I will probably go into apeshit-insane "MUST HAVE!!11" mode.
Maybe when I've finished playing last year's pile of stuff...

Are you talking about the DLC that will allow you to play the otherside of the campaign (as the Empire)? Because I've not heard anything that implies we should be be even remotely expecting a sequel. I'm willing to be pleasantly surprised on that front, but I highly doubt it.

Not true. The HAWX website has a load of stuff where they say you can play from in the cockpit but there's a special camera you can activate that follows missiles homing in on you and targets and stuff. You also get big arrows telling you when to turn to avoid the missiles when using that camera.

The plane manouvers much better when you're not using that camera and the arrows so you balance better flyability and needing someone to tell you how to dodge missiles, via a button switching between the two modes. They wanted a realistic experience that isn't too sim-my to be fun so it's mainly realistic with some flying aids for AC players.

At least that's what the Q & A page said about three weeks ago when I last checked it, they might have dropped it since then but I'd be fucking amazed if they had. I'm totally going to pre-order HAWX, I've been longing for a less arcadey flyer for the longest time. Blazing Angels was fun enough but fixed external camera and infinite bullets/rockets meant it was basically an arcade game.

Apart from that, I'm hoping Too Human 2 (Or at least some DLC for the first) comes along soon and that FFXIII is as good as XII was.

Oh yeah, and a new Rainbow Six game please.

I don't have a PS3 yet, but I'm really looking forward to RE5 and FFXIII. What can I say, I'm a fanboy.

Also, if ever they get to port Professor Layton 2 & 3 to english, that would really rock my 2009.

2008 spoiled me like crazy. The Wii and 360 games I owned pretty much doubled in that time, so thankfully 2009 doesn't have as many games coming out that I want and I can play catch up.

I'm definitely getting Sonic and the Black Knight (big surprise, right?) for the Wii, because I'm hoping it'll turn out better than Secret Rings and I hope this will be better than the disappointment of Unleashed.

There's also Batman: Arkham Asylum (360, PS3, PC) which is currently scheduled for a Q2 2009 release, but we all know that can change very quickly. It definitely looks badass and a little scary.

Other than that, I think I'm just hoping this year that I get to hear some release dates for the new Kingdom Hearts games and Punch-Out!!

Fragile: Farewell Ruins of the Moon comes out in Japan in a few weeks. I'll call it a good year if we can even get it announced for an English translation. Some more info about Beyond Good & Evil 2 would be nice.

Other than that there's a few games coming out that I'm looking forward to like Ar Tonelico 2 and White Knight Chronicles (Nevermind, just saw some gameplay videos), but nothing has my foaming at the mouth in anticipation at the moment.

Edit: Oh yeah, Star Ocean 4, too. I'm a sucker for decent real time battle systems.

Resident Evil 5 - Want to see how this turns up. Haven't played the demo so hoping this will at least follow what made 4 great (hopefully).

Star Ocean: Second Departure - Owned the first game and loved it.

Resistance: Retribution - Want to see how this scales up. Liked the first one and the second one as well (hooray Resistance 2 co-op!)

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 2 - Warhammer 40K that plays Company of Heroes style? In. so. bad.

Valkyrie Profile DS (Don't know what name they call it) - Want to see how this turns out.

Star Ocean 4 - Not shaking in anticipation cuz lololol could end up like the third, but interesting enough to see how the game pans out.

Prototype - Also want to see how this turns out as well. Large environment and lots to smash with? Not exactly a cup of tea to others, but just good ol' mindless fun.

inFAMOUS - Reason I bought a Blu-raystation 3 in the first place. Looks fun.

Patapon 2 - FUCK YOU SONY RELEASE THIS SHIT THIS YEAR ARGH.

Not many games I want this year, so here's my list:

Star Ocean II It's not at the top of my list, but one of my online friends swear by this game, so I want to know what the fuss is about. I depised SOIII though so I am a litttle worried that SOII will be a disappointment.

Sims 3 I wasn't interested in this at first, but the more news I read about it, the more I want to play it. It has some new features that are really cool.

RE5 If it's anything like RE4, I want it. I don't have a PS3, but there's a rumour it's coming to PC as well which would be sweet if it had online co-op. The problem is, I heard the PC RE4 port was half-assed, so I fear the same thing will happen again.

L4D DLC Thought I should just toss this in here.

I can't think of anything else at the moment.

Freelance: The difference between the first two games and the third are fairly large and really the only thing tying them together is the game's title and common shared stuff (Like how each Final Fantasy game has Airships and Chocobos, for example). You could have changed the name of Star Ocean 3 to "Star Trek Parody" and it wouldn't have made much difference.

A much better comparison would be Star Ocean 1's PSP version, because THAT is what you should be looking at to expect from #2. For the record, its a title I'm almost certainly gonna get.
Also, gonna come back with a proper response to the thread, but thought I should mention at least one game I'm looking forward to in this post.

Based on how far along the game looks at this point, I don't think it's unlikely that Diablo III will come out this year. This is far and away the number one most anticipated game that's currently "in development" for me.

I went through the MMO kick and played WoW for too long. But life has caught up with me and I can't afford to devote my life to a game like WoW that requires so much of my time. Diablo's formula matches what I want and can provide to a game. I love constantly upgrading my characters with new gear. I love the social aspect of playing online with other friends and being in a guild. WoW is the best at that formula, right now...but it requires a ton of time investment to get much of a payoff. Diablo is much more playable in small spurts while still managing to provide advancement and accomplishment.

And I'm a total whore for basically anything Blizzard makes, because they're the best game developer in the world. So I'm ready for SC2 too.

One I've been scrounging around for any tibits on is Borderlands. I just hope it actually comes out this year like they claim it will.

Dont follow gaming anymore so i dont really look forward to anything special, But

gta4 dlc looks cool and maybe even some Assassins creed 2?

and year after year i keep waiting for an announcement for Shenmue 3

That's coming out in about a month I thought? I'm sure the release date is February, I don't see how it's such a complex game it'll slip ten months this late in the day.

Good shit. To be fair, my memory was harking back to a video I saw some time ago and it may have been that they were just talking about the 3rd person chase cameras and so I assumed it wouldn't have a first-person camera. Makes sense they've added one though, cheers for the info.

I am kind of interested in HAWX, but it's one I'm waiting to see more of until I decide whether I'm properly interested or not.

You're not wrong. It's down as 13th Feb release for the UK, so this might be another game we get before the yanks. The last rumours I saw for the US were 'early 2009', hinting at a Feb release there too.

Surprisingly, talking to Skills last night about the early 2009 releases and looking over GAME's upcoming release list, there's actually quite a lot down for the first three months that I'd be tempted to purchase (something like 10 games).

One thing I'm definitely adding to my 'probably going to pre-order' list is Killzone 2. Yeah, I said it.

Well any Septics wanting to play Patapon 2 could always import a UK copy. See how they like paying international shipping charges for a change. :)

God of War III, Killzone 2, Street Fighter IV.

I'm a fan of the GoW series, Street Fighter I used to play. A lot. I haven't played the first Killzone, but from what I've seen and heard, this is a must-buy.

I'm probably most interested in Gyakuten Kenji (or fandubbed Miles Edgedworth: Perfect Prosecutor). It seems somewhat unlikely that it'll get an English release within the same year, but I can always hope.

The release could be 2010 but some news at least of Half-Life 2 Episode 3 would be more than welcome this year.

Just got an email - the nextgen Indiana Jones has been offically canned. :(

I wish I could say I was surprised, but I'm not. Though amusingly, I swear I saw some news either today or a few days ago from LucasArts saying they were commited to a next-gen Indy game. Oops.

The plan was to start with a small unit of programmers and then shift people from the Force Unleashed team when that game was finished. Crystal Skull stuff sold badly (because people are dumbasses) and Lucasarts decided to take less of a chance and put more people on TFU2, which requires far less in way of manpower and preproduction.

(Lucas also killed Battlefront and the Lego line a few weeks back. That just leaves Force Unleashed 2 and the KoTOR online game in development, AFAIK.)