What videogames are you playing in 2025?

[Thomas Shey]

Are the graphics in Fallout 3 really noticeably worse than in Fallout 4? They don't look all that bad in the Steam previews. I've never played the original Fallout games and am not fond of turn-based games, so that's fine.

Own but have never even installed 4, so I'm not qualified to judge.

 

[Gradine]

Diving into Tactics Ogre Reborn once again; hopefully this is the time I finally do a full playthrough on all three paths and complete all of the Coda.

New update for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 dropped I think yesterday, so it's a nice time to pick up what is almost certainly going to be the Game of the Year if you haven't already.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Welp, Clair Obscur is officially both the funniest and the saddest video game I've played in a long time

True. Basically anything involving

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the Kestrel

is really funny. And yeah, it's also sad. Two endings, and I can't tell which one is the really happy one.

Spoiler: Story Details

I guess any world - canvas or not - with Gustav, Eskie and Monoko in it is a bit better, and if Maelle and even Verso have to suffer from living in the canvas or living against their wish, maybe that's an acceptable sacrifice for all the people that get to exist?

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Been playing some Borderlands 3, which was very cheap recently (I guess because Borderlands 4 is coming out next month). It's definitely more annoyingly written than previous ones, albeit not quite as clumsily, but the actual combat gameplay is clearly a huge improvement, and it's genuinely good when you're fighting people, collecting and assessing loot, and so on. The guns are more interesting and the powers are better designed than previous Borderlands, too. It is kinda let down repeatedly by excessive self-indulgent bits where you have to stand around tapping your foot whilst an NPC talks nonsense though. Especially as it's often not very punchy and there often weird delays. It can be very funny, but there's just far too much "please stand here whilst unfunny influencer-themed stuff happens slowly".

Also, I dunno who told them that the vehicle sections are good and necessary, but they are neither of those things - this is true in every Borderlands game! The strongest sections by far are when you're on foot and in combat for an extended period. I hope they've learned from that for Borderlands 4 - it does look like the improved the writing quite a bit from the trailers at least, and the vehicles they showed were at least a lot faster than BL3's slowpoke ones.