What videogames are you playing in 2025?

[payn]

Looks fantastic, but does it look "Buy a PS5 good?" is the question, given it's not coming out on PC at initial release (and there is obviously no point in buying an Xbox Series X/S). And I'm not sure of the answer to that. I guess I have about a year to work it out!

There was a time this kind of release would get me to pull the trigger on next gen console. Though, ive found I burn through the new release in 2-3 weeks tops and then it becomes a paper weight.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

I don't know any 90s turn-based tactics game that have real-time active elements in them, to my knowledge there is no such a reference that could be applied here.

You don't? Super Mario RPG (1996) doesn't ring a bell? That does, and I thought personally that it was fairly well-known. As do all the sequels. Indeed I've seen multiple reviews of Clair Obscur specifically reference Super Mario RPG.

I very much appreciate the attempt at an explanation, but the references are totally lost on me. Can you rephrase, making comparison exclusively to 90s turn-based tactics games?

You press buttons in a timed way to dodge/parrydefend against attacks etc. like Super Mario RPG.

I know there were other JRPGs which did this in the 1990s, and especially the 2000s, but I'm blanking on them.

 

[Mallus]

Civilization VII (why did I break my 'wait 2 expansions' rule?).

BG3 (finally).

Clair Obscur (that opening!).

 

[Ruin Explorer]

There was a time this kind of release would get me to pull the trigger on next gen console. Though, ive found I burn through the new release in 2-3 weeks tops and then it becomes a paper weight.

If it was the start of a console generation, and there were thus going to be other exclusives/time exclusives to look forward to, I'd probably sigh and start putting money aside to buy a PS5, but given we're like, 75-85% of the way through this console generation, I'm not feeling the same motivation. Honest bloody Vanillaware being absolute idiots are a bigger motivator for me to buys a PS5 (the company is run by morons who think publishing on PC is like, declassee!), despite making some amazing games I'd love to play.

 

[trappedslider]

Looks fantastic, but does it look "Buy a PS5 good?" is the question, given it's not coming out on PC at initial release (and there is obviously no point in buying an Xbox Series X/S). And I'm not sure of the answer to that. I guess I have about a year to work it out!

Just a FYI, this trailer was done in game and on a PS5

 

[trappedslider]

also

GoldenEye 007 and Quake join the World Video Game Hall of Fame

The Strong National Museum of Play welcomed the 2025 inductees to the World Video Game Hall of Fame today.

www.engadget.com

 

[payn]

also

GoldenEye 007 and Quake join the World Video Game Hall of Fame

The Strong National Museum of Play welcomed the 2025 inductees to the World Video Game Hall of Fame today.

www.engadget.com

Im a little surprised its taken this long for them to be inducted.

 

[Gradine]

My brother has reached this point in BP, and I'm like "Well I dodged a bullet with that one...". I'm glad people are enjoying it though!

I have to admit it would probably have got me if they'd just gone for like, "ancient lost civilization" aesthetics (i.e. exploring ruins and tombs) rather than "big mysterious house" aesthetics.

(I assume an ancient lost civilization is involved somehow given some of the screenshots I've seen but the aesthetic primary very much appears to be "mysterious post-Victorian mansion".)

Well, the lost civilization in this case isn't exactly ancient, it's just that it was overthrown about 150 years ago and the overtly fascist kingdom that replaced it has suppressed all knowledge of its history and culture, including any mention of a continent spanning railway system that they destroyed and buried and want people to forget used to connect them to their neighbors. The conlang in question is not only modern and from the current kingdom's neighbor to the south, which would make sense that it's found in a implicitly and covertly subversive 8th grade classroom as the kingdom in question appears to be deeply xenophobic.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

GTA 6 looks so good, I think I'll buy it for my already existing gaming PC.

 

[Reynard]

I won't likely get to it for a bit since I have a backlog, but my brother gifted me Expedition 33 for my birthday and I am much excite.