@Makan i'm playing Legend of Zelda: minish cap for the GBA on an Anbernic RG35XXSP
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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.
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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 balata 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.
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.
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.
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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.
Same IPs, and only Splatoon is the newest IP from them.
On another note, they are taking their sweet-ass time releasing their next system.
I'm curious what they come up with, one thing with Nintendo is that they do tend to be creative with their hardware.
One thing is for sure:
Nintendo is very efficient with their hardware and software.
They make every gigabyte of information count on their devices.
Meanwhile, Bethesda's Skyrim can't compress files for shit.
Yeah they do manage to squeeze a lot out of their hardware. I also like how they don't focus on raw power for their consoles, but rather try to make the actual gameplay good.
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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.
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.
Resident Evil 4 the new one. Going for a Professional S+. Also, some Crash Bandicoot 4.
I'm starting Silent Hill 2 Remake. Just started SH2R yesterday, in fact, though I only went through the settings and toggled on what I needed to play.
Damn, though, as far as horror games though, Resident Evil 4 looks enticing.
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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?
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