What videogames are you playing in 2025?

[Ruin Explorer]

Well, mine are exceptionally bad, like my parents sought medical help bad. These days I would probably get a dyspraxia diagnosis to go with my dyslexia and ADHD.

Yeah it's interesting, I have severe (primarily inattentive, but also some impulsive) ADHD (not diagnosed until I was 20), and when I did proper reflex tests as a kid, I did really confoundingly, astonishingly badly. Like, bottom 25% of my class, and I was really trying! It really vexed me for years because I couldn't explain why I scored so badly on those tests, yet was very obviously better than other people who scored vastly better at anything people believed required "fast reflexes" or "good reflexes" - clay pigeon/skeet shooting, football, fencing, videogames (esp. fighting games and shooters) (pls feel free to sneer at how bourgeois this list is! I know I do!).

I got a dyslexia diagnosis as a kid but in my case it was definitely wrong, they just didn't know how to diagnose ADHD properly in the UK in the 1980s. I got an unwilling dyspraxia diagnosis in my 20s, but I also consider that to be wrong, because whilst I'm somewhat clumsy on a macro scale (i.e. trip over things, bump into things, etc.), I think that's really inattentive ADHD manifesting (and notably my clumsiness decreases steeply with ADHD medication). Also I'm really good at drawing, super-fast at typing, pretty precise with mouse/controller, etc., which I think is basically entirely precludes actual dyspraxia in my case. If I did have both that and ADHD though I could see how that would be a hell of a problem!

 

[Thomas Shey]

I got a dyslexia diagnosis as a kid but in my case it was definitely wrong, they just didn't know how to diagnose ADHD properly in the UK in the 1980s.

In the U.S. it took them a while to even diagnose dyslexia. I was initially (in the early 60's) diagnosed as mentally retarded; they finally figured out the reading and math problems weren't a consequence of general intellectual disadvantage pretty late, and I never got diagnosed with ADHD at all (admittedly, I was out of school completely at the point it became well known) though I'm personally pretty sure I have it.

I got an unwilling dyspraxia diagnosis in my 20s, but I also consider that to be wrong, because whilst I'm somewhat clumsy on a macro scale (i.e. trip over things, bump into things, etc.), I think that's really inattentive ADHD manifesting (and notably my clumsiness decreases steeply with ADHD medication). Also I'm really good at drawing, super-fast at typing, pretty precise with mouse/controller, etc., which I think is basically entirely precludes actual dyspraxia in my case. If I did have both that and ADHD though I could see how that would be a hell of a problem!

I hadn't actually heard the term dyspraxia until this thread, but the description of it I've found described me when I was young quite well (though probably from a different source since I received brain damage in my childhood; it apparently took me nearly two decades to wire my way mostly around it).

 

[Ruin Explorer]

I was initially (in the early 60's) diagnosed as mentally retarded

Ugh, that sucks, I can only imagine how that must have felt, especially back then! I nearly got a similar diagnosis in the 1980s, as I "couldn't" (hmmm) read sentences until I was about 8. The dyslexia diagnosis saved me from that, and then "miraculously" I became extremely good at reading basically overnight (I honestly have a lot of questions re: what the heck was going on back then for everyone involved, including myself).

Dyspraxia is interesting, it was kind of a popular diagnosis in the UK in the 1990s and 2000s, but I think an awful lot of it was likely misdiagnosed ADHD, because in the UK it was virtually impossible to be diagnosed with ADHD until post-2000, and really pretty hard until post-2010, like the NHS (and even private doctors) just didn't diagnose it despite glaring evidence pre-2000. The key distinguishing point from ADHD, as I understand it, is lack of fine motor skills, but I'm not an expert!

 

[Thomas Shey]

Ugh, that sucks, I can only imagine how that must have felt, especially back then! I nearly got a similar diagnosis in the 1980s, as I "couldn't" (hmmm) read sentences until I was about 8. The dyslexia diagnosis saved me from that, and then "miraculously" I became extremely good at reading basically overnight (I honestly have a lot of questions re: what the heck was going on back then for everyone involved, including myself).

I was probably about 8 myself at the time, and they didn't necessarily share that diagnosis with me. I was a sufficient outsider it was just one more damn thing anyway. But it was pretty amusing a number of years later when I was enrolled in the mentally gifted minor program...

Dyspraxia is interesting, it was kind of a popular diagnosis in the UK in the 1990s and 2000s, but I think an awful lot of it was likely misdiagnosed ADHD, because in the UK it was virtually impossible to be diagnosed with ADHD until post-2000, and really pretty hard until post-2010, like the NHS (and even private doctors) just didn't diagnose it despite glaring evidence pre-2000. The key distinguishing point from ADHD, as I understand it, is lack of fine motor skills, but I'm not an expert!

I was just bad across the board physically from the time of my injury until my late teens where it seemed to--adjust. My handwriting/printing is still pretty atrocious many decades later.

But in my early-mid twenties I was both a fencer and a martial artist so something had obviously changed.

 

[Pale Violet Light]

I’m currently on a drawn out hospital stay to fix my heart and get a pacemaker. So I’m replaying the old Baldurs Gate games on my iPad. Good stuff that are kind to the blood pressure

Get well soon, or as soon as is feasible. How do they handle on an iPad? I’m a keyboard and mouse addict and can’t imagine using a touchscreen interface - I suspect it would have the opposite effect on my blood pressure.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Ugh, that sucks, I can only imagine how that must have felt, especially back then! I nearly got a similar diagnosis in the 1980s, as I "couldn't" (hmmm) read sentences until I was about 8. The dyslexia diagnosis saved me from that, and then "miraculously" I became extremely good at reading basically overnight (I honestly have a lot of questions re: what the heck was going on back then for everyone involved, including myself).

I had exactly the same thing at the same age! Suddenly going from can't read to voracious reader a couple of years late. Looking back, I suspect it was because at that age I could understand the meaning from a few clues, and then the brain went back and worked out the missing words from context. I still struggle to read an unfamiliar word in isolation. But I know quite a few dyslexics who never had that breakthrough. When I touched on dyslexia in my Master's, I favoured a phenomenological approach: dyslexia is a label used for a range of different things, not just one thing. Which is the danger of labelling things. Once something is labelled, it's natural to assume everything with that label is the same. Whilst a label of dyslexia/ADHD/dyspraxia is clearly preferable to slow/lazy/retarded they can still lead to siloed thinking, when it would be better to view them holistically.

I was actually diagnosed as hyperactive as a toddler, around 1970 (ADHD was not used back then), long before my dyslexia diagnosis (78) but it was basically forgotten about by those trying to help me. I've never tried any medication for it.

 

[HaroldTheHobbit]

Get well soon, or as soon as is feasible. How do they handle on an iPad? I’m a keyboard and mouse addict and can’t imagine using a touchscreen interface - I suspect it would have the opposite effect on my blood pressure.

Thanks! Well, keyboard and mouse is superior, but the iPad ports are surprisingly playable. It just slow down the gameplay a bit, which is fine in my situation.

 

[Zardnaar]

That sounds positive. I'm a bit ambivalent on the series in general - I've bought several of the more recent titles, and every single one I've played for a lot of hours and had fun with, but I haven't actually played any of them to completion since the Ezio games.

I played AC1 didn't lije it. Skipped Ezio ones qbs picked it up black flag onwards. Derp.

 

[OB1]

This year I'm working on my 8th playthru (4th Honor) of BG3, my first playthru of Solasta (fun! and very very strict 5e implementation), and about halfway thru Metaphor (was obssessed with this when I first picked it up last year, burned out, and just now picked it up again, which is the same way I tend to play Persona games as well), and just started a new Elden Ring game with the intention of trying to get past the first boss this time and eventually maybe play the entire game.

 

[schneeland]

Right now, I have pulled Uncharted The Lost Legacy from the backlog. I had originally bought it for PS4, but then sold it together with the console. I now have it on PC, and so far it's fine, but suffers from being too similar to Uncharted 4. I might still finish it, since it's also rather short.

Have resumed playing this after a while and while the similarity issue persists, it is a little better now - there's some really nice vistas in the past and current chapter, and the talk between Chloe and Nadine also gets more interesting. Also, playing in sessions of just 1 or 2 hours probably helps.