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Recently, I've played three games: Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine Anniversary Edition, modded Minecraft, specifically the TerraFirmaGreg modpack, and survival Fountain of Youth.
My favorite video game genres are Survival and shooters, the thing I'm most looking forward to in the rest of 2025 in terms of gaming is the release if ARK II, and I'm not excited for the Nintendo Switch 2, because I'm not much of a Nintendo fan.
I would suggest Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader if you're into CRPGs like Baldur's Gate 3.
I've been playing Marvel Rivals and the new Dynasty Warriors game as of late! I also just started Shantae on GBC which is fun so far!
I AM looking for a good RPG to play. Anyone care to give some advice? I'm thinking it's going to be between Secret of Mana, Golden Sun, and Chrono Trigger. I'm leaning towards CT.
I'm looking forward to playing more with friends :)
I'm most likely going to get the Switch since Nintendo puts out good exclusives. We'll see how long it takes to get good, though.
Love the new Dynasty Warriors Origins game!
I've only ever played DW4 back in the day, but I've been loving it! I've geard the series took a sour turn, but I'm glad it's returned to form!
started playing this game called "Skyrim"... seems neat but the fantasy/racial undertones are kind of odd.
Oblivion is much better and Morrowind is better than Oblivion.
But, err yeah, the, uhh, racial politics is... Yeah.
Playing sifu rn, love the combat system.
Finished firewatch before it.
Favorite genres would be story telling games and rougelike/lite.
Not looking forward to any games. I don't follow game releases and just get games as I finish games in my library and search for other similar games, very rarelly do I buy a game that's isn't already a couple years old.
Not excited for the nintendo switch 2, I never owned any consoles in my life until last year my used ps4. Like it to turn on and play some bloodborne sometimes but I like my devices to be multipurpose so am much more interested in gaming handhelds like the steamdeck or just pc gaming in general.
Fair, fair.
@Makan i'm playing Legend of Zelda: minish cap for the GBA on an Anbernic RG35XXSP
I just finished that yesterday for the first time!
Oooo, Minish Cap! Grew up with that game.
No gaming for me because school has started and this semester has been nightmarish lol. I did buy a steam deck for myself tho so thats nice.
Edit: I do not feel super strongly about the Switch 2.
Steam Deck is a good purchase and hopefully you'll have the time to use it eventually.
Playing signalis. Setting is interesting and some of the puzzles are good but I’m not a fan of all the backtracking. I will finish it though.
Played balatro before that, basically got around 60 hours out of it before I felt really fed up with playing it. Which is not bad.
I’m enjoying playing more controller friendly games on steam deck over the competitive kind of games I pumped so many hours into before. I think after signalis I will play through the rest of hollow knight.
I don't mind backtracking here and there, but I guess the game does too much of it.
I just played Neva and LUNA The Shadow Dust, both were really enjoyable. In general I enjoy either games with really good stories where choices matter or roguelikes that have good action. I find nowadays I don't have as much time and energy to play games, so I tend to look for stuff with easy to pick up mechanics and that I can pick up and play without having to build up too much context.
Haven't really been keeping up with what big games are coming out this year, so not really looking for anything specific.I find I tend to often be most pleasantly surprised by small indie games that I discover.
Not really excited for Switch 2 here, I basically haven't touched my Switch since I got the Steam Deck. The only game I'd probably really want to play on it would be the new Mario Kart.
Yeah, I agree.
Honestly, the Steam Deck mostly makes the Switch obsolete, but I guess it depends on if you like Nintendo's exclusives, which are generally pretty good.
Still, it seems that those exclusives are all that Nintendo has going for them at this point.
Exactly, and Nintendo just tend to put out like same 5 games over and over. While the details are new, it's more or less the same game you've already played many times.
tried playing call of duty zombies becausr hakim liked it. ended up spending so many hours shooting nazi zombies (this is a hint on an upcoming post when i come back home! any questions about "what cod did you play" will be answered there! i tried black ops 2 but i generally don't like cod. the fact that it's funded by the us army doesn't help!)
i played a ton of beta minecraft. yes, i know about better than adventure. yes, i know and use beta unleashed. i built a castle yesterday.
to be honest, i didn't play much as i focused more of my time on exams
my favorite genre is still sandboxes. i played beta minecraft for half an hour trying to make a statue and many hours on a barn (tree farm!) and a castle. juggling blocks in my inventory has never been this easy and this fun
i am looking forward to more homebrew on older consoles. the ps3 recently got gamemaker games like undertale, sonic mania is fully playable and minecraft b1.7.3 is partially playable on the wii. i want MORE. if i knew how, i'd port an underrated indie game (and a friend of mine's favorite game) known as "aquaria" to the ps3, it already has a switch port and a psp port, why not the ps3?
switch 2? nah, we'll already have the switch 3 https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=OZpH-1Qin-U
jokes aside, the only consoles i have are the ps3 and the wii. if it can be emulated and jailbroken, and it will, would be really neat. nintendo dmca-ing emulators kinda made this hard
I'm playing Advance Wars and I also started Disco Elysium. Damn, if I wasn't doing my thesis I'd play that all day long. I had finished the Zelda Oracle games and they were alright, Oracle of Seasons was definitely a lot easier than Ages
A couple weeks ago I was having a hard time finding things to play. I went back to Kenshi and Rimworld for a bit but they weren't really doing it for me.
Then I got an emulator working for Breath of the Wild. Its pretty awesome. Its the spiritual successor to Daggerfall in that it has awesome climbing mechanics. I am really impressed by the openness of the world and the puzzles are really well designed so that sometimes I am not sure if I am solving it the way they intended or making up a work around. There were a couple spots where I had to spoof the motion controls through my mouse which was not great but otherwise everything has been working really smoothly. So now I'm looking at more wiiu games to emulate and I've got Skyward sword waiting for me.
I dont really care about switch 2. I haven't had a console since the wii but I do look forward to the next installments of the Zelda franchise. PCs may be superior to consoles but I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for exclusive IP like Zelda, Metroid, and Sonic. (Mario is ok but he gets involved in too many dubious pursuits)
Daggerfall, my beloved...
Just started playing Citizen Sleeper 2. Really enjoyed the first one, and the second one seems to be pretty similar. Great writing and a pretty good adaptation of some TTRPG mechanics. My only real complaint has been that it can be hard to track what is going on at locations you aren't currently at.
I am looking forward to Civ VII and Monster Hunter Wilds...both which hit this month, unfortunately for my free time. I have no idea if it comes out this year but I am very interested in Endless Legend 2 as well.
My Switch 1 was probably the least used console I have ever bought, it basically existed as my girlfriend's animal crossing box, so I doubt I will consider the Switch 2 honestly. Especially since I have a steam deck now.
Besides a lot of ARK, I completely forgot about RE Village DLC, so I played it. The most dogshit DLC in history by far.
Favorite genres are horror(any kind), action/adventure and SCI-FI,
Obviously looking forward to GTA VI this year the most.
ARK still has a sequel coming out, no?
But they did the reveal a couple of years ago and so far... nothing.
Oh yeah, and nothing came of that TV show or Netflix series either...
Allegedly but nothing came of that for years, I'm just salty they stopped updating Survival Evolved and don't add anymore creatures in it, developers are pretty lazy tbh.
What series?
The one they showed at a TGA event a while back, I think.
Resident Evil 4 the new one. Going for a Professional S+. Also, some Crash Bandicoot 4.
Still just playing Deadlock since I got into the alpha back in August. Haven't been into a game for this long in a while.
Really looking forward to Monster Hunter Wilds later on this month.
Currently I'm playing Pokémon: Legends Arceus, which is pretty fun; I'm also playing heavy modded Skyrim, it took me two weeks to fully mod it with 1200+ mods, the only downside is that something is killing my performance and I don't know what lol. I'm also playing Slay the Spire which is absolutely incredible, I can't believe it took me this long to try this game out, and I recently started Sifu which is extremely cool.
What are you most looking forward to in the rest of 2025 in terms of gaming?
Honestly I'm most excited for Chinese games. I haven't played Black Myth Wukong because too expensive, but I'm looking forward to Phantom Blade Zero, Project Perceiver and Where Winds Meet. Outside of that it's Slay the Spire 2, The First Berserker: Khazan, Avowed, .45 Parabellum Bloodhound and Unbeatable.
Are you excited for the Nintendo Switch 2? Why or why not?
I'm more curious than excited to be honest, depending on how powerful it is, it could be a pretty cool modded handheld.
I have Black Myth: Wukong, but haven't played it yet. There's also The Bustling World, which is another Chinese game, that was announced a while back which seems super ambitious and I love the concept behind it already.
I really want to play Black Myth Wukong. But I refuse to buy any game with Denuvo, and I fear that it wouldn't run that well on PS5. I get motion sick easily, and modern games and their fancy AI graphics are not a good mix. On PC I can generally disable all that crap until I get something playable.
Mafia trilogy, great stories in those games
Yo, I love those games.
Most looking forward to the new Monster Hunter. But the recently announced Endless Legend 2 has me very interested, looks like they've worked out a fun alternative to both winters and sea fortresses.
My PC died a couple of weeks ago, taking the video card with it, and I've had a lot of real life drama to deal with as well. So I haven't been playing that much. Mostly moving parts between my computers in order to create something useable.
But I spent a good chunk of time looking for bargains and I somehow wound up with a decent price on a 7900XTX, and a 9800X3D, so my computer is absolutely godlike now. I've mostly been playing bits and pieces of games that formerly ran like crap, as my PC now handles anything I throw at it with ease. Victoria 3, Oxygen Not Included, Frostpunk 2, and Starfield come to mind. They all run well now, and I struggled with them before.
Genre wise, I mostly play strategy games these days. But I keep meaning to brush the dust off my consoles and finally finish Tears of the Kingdom and the Ghost of Tsushima DLC. My console backlog is massive.
For 2025, I think I'm mostly looking forward to Switch 2 right now. I'm a Nintendo gal through and through. But I'm also stoked about Ghost of Yotei and The Alters.
Same with you on Nintendo. Honestly, the PS5 has some interesting titles coming up.
My PS5 has been accumulating a whole lot of dust. I use it to watch UHD Blu-Rays and that's really about it. What games have your interest? Ghost of Yotei and the new Naughty Dog game are all I can think of right now.
Currently I'm playing Silent Hill 2 Remake (great game) and, surprisingly enough, Dynasty Warriors Origins (an ever funner and better game than the aforementioned horror title).
Those are the main two.
Oh yeah, and Elden Ring, but that's on PC.
But so far, I've made good use of my PS5 with the first video games mentioned taking up my time.
I bought SH2, and played it for about an hour. The temporal ghosting drove me absolutely mad, was making me queasy, and I put it down, hoping that they would patch it at some point and fix their graphics. I'm not really holding my breath on that one. If it ever drops to like $10 on PC I might buy it there so I can turn off all of that crap.
Dynasty Warriors has never really been my cup of tea. I buy one every couple of generations, but I never get into it.
Yeah, Dynasty Warriors is a hard and niche series to get into, I grant you that.