New game announcement that would create the biggest online hype you can think of.

Forgot to mention. If its another title, specify which one you think it is.

I would go with Half Life 3/reboot. Steam has edged everyone for so long, that when/if it is announced, everyone will simply burst.

Half life 3 will never get announced sadly. otherwise it would melt entire internet.

Female Link reveal.

Give me a Warcraft IV or a Age of Mythology 2.

From Valve I'd like to see a Left 4 Dead 3 more than anything.

GTA 6 easily.

GTA6 is predictable and GTA been done to death.

Half life 3 is what melt entire internet.

Gotta agree with ghost here, pretty sure HL3 would be the winner here!

Jade Empire 2. :P

PC people always living in the past. Valve could make Half Life 3 anytime, why haven’t they?

Elden Ring is far too soon, and no one wants Elden Ring 2. We just received this GOTG winning masterpiece.

I don't want to see Elden Ring 2 until the next 10 years.

2023: Armoured Core VI

2024: Sekiro 2

2025: Bloodborne remake

2026: Bloodborne 2

2028: new FromSoft IP

2029: Dark Souls Remake

2030: Elden Ring 2.

2031: Dark Souls 2 remake

2032: New FromSoft IP

Neil Druckman being fired from ND would cause all the butthurt lems, like Juub, PCRocks, Litchie, Ghost and all the other guys like them with terrible taste to celebrate.

They know just as well as me that Neil Druckman's ND could create The Last of Us 3, which might just surpass The Last of Us 1 as the greatest game of all time and solidify The Last of Us trilogy as the greatest trilogy in video game history. Can you imagine the tears when it scores 99@MC and wins every GOTY?

Of those, Half Life 3. Not only because it would mean most likely a new Source Engine, or because we might be seeing Valve make games again. But because Half Life 3 has the potential to be industry changing, like HL1 and 2 were.

But if there is one announcement that would make the the most excited it would be Richard Garriott announcing he was disappointed by Tears of the Kingdom and thus he decided to go back to making a Single Player game, to show all these Open World clowns how it is done.

Edit: Disregard the above, if there is one thing that would make me more excited it would be IBM announcing they will team up with game development studios, to allow devs to make games with an actual AI Game Master. We can call it... Watson Gaming.

GTA6.

Half-Life 3

Half-Life 3 of course. We've been banging that drum for over a decade. Seeing that announced for real would be a collective sudden record stop moment.

Valve themselves openly stated that Half-Life games are showcases; artistic solutions to technological problems. They will only make a new Half-Life when they have something new to show. This is why Half-Life: Alyx exists.

tbh Elder scrolls 6, simply because I feel like Skyrim has just managed to keep itself and the elder scrolls in general far more in the mind of the collective video game audience.

Elden Ring 2 won't happen for a long time. Not to mention that we're expecting DLC. No one should expect any Elden Ring 2 new, if that even happens, for at least another 5+ years.

The list provided is quite interesting though, aside from ER2. It was hard to choose one over the other. Kojima will probably never work with Konami ever again though.

An obsidian fallout new vagas 2 would break the internet,the hype overload would shut it down for weeks.

On the plus side the amount of tears from cows when exclusivity is confirmed would re-fill dry barren lakes and reservoirs if bottled and shipped

Easily Half-Life 3. No questions about it. It will break the fabric of space-time it self.

Runner ups:

MGS6 by Kojima and Bloodborne 2 by From.

Do you even know that he isn't a game designer? So it has zero relevance to me. Oh and it's Druckmann.

@pc_rocks: I assume he's the game director? Much like I was recently informed that Hidetaka Miyazaki isn't a developer he is "just" a game director.

Thing is, those two along with Kojima are the three gods of video game direction. without them we wouldn't have our Metal Gears, Last of Us or Souls games.

Voted for HL3.

But more realistically GTA6 will be huge.

He was the 'Creative Director' responsible for the narrative not the 'Game Director' for any of the ND games. Miyazaki and Kojima are both Creative and Game Directors. Swing and a miss again. That's what happens when you talk out of your a$$.

Half Life 3 will break the internet.

because we prefer to play games instead of watching walking talking talking and hold W key.

Halflife 3 prob.

Even though Alyx released many disgusting poor people who haven't upgraded their life are still stuck on antiquated flat-screen.

To this day can still smell the guttural wreak of envy.

Having said that, Neil Duckwing movie garbage makes game journos who can't play games and Resetera extremists excitable.

Woke trash. No doubt.

A return to Vice City setting is good, but they'll once again go modern day for the most cars/planes/boats they can include. Would've killed for a GTA set in the 70s or 80s.

gta vi gameplay reveal as mp only would 100% break the non autoscaling internet.

i'd say hl3 but worry a large chunk of the half life/2 generation may have moved on / stopped caring as much. anecdotally i've read many threads over recent years on various gaming sites (there's been plenty on here) with latecomers to the series who play hl2 and shrug their shoulders like whats so good about this? dont get why so highly regarded etc. that then triggers the old fogies like me lecturing them or beating the "had to be there at the time to fully appreciate" drum.

bloodborne would cause a huge but short lived stir, mainly by fromsoft obsessives, johnny-come-latelies or stubborn pc gamers who've refused to buy a console even if it means depriving themselves of one of the greats of its generation

Have to go with Half Life 3.

Anyone not voting WOW 2 is out to launch. This is by a huge margin the most popular game on that list.

Half-Life 3 would be second.

GTA 6 is the correct answer, look at the sales of the last game and compare it to any other game on the list.

nobody would care if neil drugsman got sacked. The man was amazing 10 years back, but now hes fallen off the cliff into movie territory. Real shame.

GTA6

Me too would love to see modern graphics in the 80's setting of Vice City.

WoW 2 with Souls combat would be interesting.

Fucking idiots getting hyped for dumb shit like Call Of Duty when they could be doing see-saw puzzles.

But yea, I can see why it could be off-putting. Saw this myself when recommended it to my bro, called it "Half Dead" thinking it was incredible wit.

I suspect if they played the VR version that opinion would quickly change, it fixes the weakest aspect of Halflife 2, the shooting. Almost freaky how much this game feels like it was specifically made for VR outside of the vehicle sections.

Like playing the game again or the first time the way it should be played.

The main thing that holds up it how varied it is and well-designed the connected world comes across.

Play a lot of FPS and it's just like a big fucking bowl of repetitive busy work where you unlock crap rather than individual handcrafted encounters throwing new ideas at the player.

Like, go from one level where the sand is lava trigger enemies to breaking into a prison using them like it's Pikmin. And that's like, 20% of the game.

At this point, I don't care anymore about Half-Life 3. I'm sure you can look it up, but IIRC all of the original writers from the HL games have left so even if it did get announced and released, it most likely would suck. It is what it is.

LAGACY OF KAIN AND SOUL REAVER REMAKES.

Not for me, but generally speaking the obvious choice is GTA.

Sales wise yes.

More so than even World Of Warcrap.

Usually shit news gets more buzz. Take your pick. Maybe Valve saying in 6 months they'll have a Half Life 3 related announcement and on the day everyone is watching announce its some kind of digital card game where cards are NFTs players mine crypto for Valve to acquire.

Personally I'd be most hype for Half Life 3

Just because I grew up with the first 2.

People gotta realize though.. we have 18yo's who weren't even alive when half life 2 came out.. gamers that grew up with half life will be stoked.

Others won't care.

GTA6 just on sheer number of popularity would dwarf Half Life 3. ( I don't like it, but that's just true)

The other one on this list that I could see causing a big fuss would be WoW 2. Which WOW has been around as long half life 2 and has built a continuous amount of players over generations. Many left due to the direction of the game being worse. Many who quit wow want to see a WoW 2.

I dunno. WoW 2 might caught the biggest fuss because it never stopped. Half Life is more for the gamers from that era like myself. But I don't think it translates to actually having the most buzz or w/e. It would have 12 years ago. But not any more.

I'll give it to WoW 2.

Half life 3 and nothing else is even close.

@R4gn4r0k: a full on 'remake' of Vice City would be amazing. but as you say, there's no way they will keep it to the 1980s as we will need smartphone, internet, PC, all the modern weapons, cars, vehicles etc.

I remember reading that they were planning to do the STORY mode in the 1980s and the online part would be Vice City in the 2020s... That could work really well. The story mode doesn't need smartphone gadgets and every single modern car in history (mods will fix them in anyway...)

wouldn't mind a game that switched between the 80s and 2020s, plus R* could give some good social commentary which they are known for.

And then they could keep the 2020s setting for multiplayer :)

GTA5 is huge, but I am not sure GTA fans would be nearly as vocal as Half Life fans.

• We havent seen a new numbered Half Life in nearly 2 decades.
• GTA Online is still up and kicking
• GTA6 has already been leaked. An official announcement wont have quite the same impact since we already know it is in development.

@gifford38: I came here to say Legacy of Kain as well haha. Also while I’m here I will say a Legend of Dragoon remake/remaster would probably create a lot of buzz and bring back older gamers who have left the hobby.

yeah it's crazy how nearly 20 years on its still arguably genre leading in places.

the thing that makes me a little sad is that for the early to mid noughties, with games like hl2, stalker, crysis i was so excited about the direction the sp fps medium was taking. the future looked bright.

but at some point, to me, it took a wrong turn. the evolutionary direction these kind of games laid the way for never really materialised. the aaa industry chose not to stand on the shoulders of giants like half life, at most just lean against their shoulders. not to get all maudlin and overly nostalgic about that era, but can't help feel that was the last great era of sp aaa gaming, when game enthusiasts still made games

Considering how massive GTA Online is, you know damn well that when GTA6 is announced to be shown, the hype is gonna be insane, and mostly carried by god damn streamers.

Easily Metal Gear.