Upcoming AAA/AA CRPGs or story-based RPGs (updated 15/12/2025 following The Game Awards)

[Parmandur]

Bah Switch 2 only. I'd be excited if it was coming out for anything more, but I don't have £400+ to drop on that, esp. given the expensive games which often go many years without significant price cuts.

That said, it might still be a "killer app" if we could be sure the in-between mission stuff was much less mind-numbing than Three Houses. I swear to god I didn't time it but it felt like I spent 2-3 hours farting around in that castle, just walking around mostly, doing tedious minigames or what were essentially pixel hunts for every 15 minutes I got to actually do battles, and IIRC it was set up so a lot of things were time-sensitive, so god help you if you neglected your castle-checking.

I have a fairly strong use case for the Switch 2, as there are 6 people in my house who use it...bit it is well worth the price, particularly before the economy gets worse.

 

[jian]

Bah Switch 2 only. I'd be excited if it was coming out for anything more, but I don't have £400+ to drop on that, esp. given the expensive games which often go many years without significant price cuts.

That said, it might still be a "killer app" if we could be sure the in-between mission stuff was much less mind-numbing than Three Houses. I swear to god I didn't time it but it felt like I spent 2-3 hours farting around in that castle, just walking around mostly, doing tedious minigames or what were essentially pixel hunts for every 15 minutes I got to actually do battles, and IIRC it was set up so a lot of things were time-sensitive, so god help you if you neglected your castle-checking.

Yeah, it’s a lot of money and I do have quite a backlog of JRPGs to get through - a whole bunch to play on the GBA at some point. I do love Fire Emblem games, though, and I quite enjoyed the mini games in Three Houses - they were a nice break from all the Shakespearean violence.

 

[Parmandur]

Yeah, it’s a lot of money and I do have quite a backlog of JRPGs to get through - a whole bunch to play on the GBA at some point. I do love Fire Emblem games, though, and I quite enjoyed the mini games in Three Houses - they were a nice break from all the Shakespearean violence.

I was playing the Switch 2 demo last night for the next gen Dragonquest VII Reimagined, and it is freaking gorgeous in UHD.

One of the problems these days in seeing the difference is that compressed streaming previews realty don't do justice to how much better things look in UHD.