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[Pifanjr]

8 bold gaming predictions for 2025

What does the new year have in store for videogames?

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What are your predictions for 2025?

 

[Pifanjr]

My own bold prediction is that the RTS genre will see a proper come-back in 2025.

 

[JCgames]

1, Star citizen will launch Squadron 42

2, nivida will drop a 12gb 5060. (Ti or super or some version)


3, I will find a game in my backlog that I will kick myself for having it my back log for years!

 

[Frindis]

1. I predict that Path of Exile 2 will be the greatest ARPG game ever made. Even the Early Access which contains roughly half of what the full release will have is fantastic!
2. FIFA releases another PTW football game.
3. Ubisoft gets bought up, hopefully turning things around while getting rid of those tainting the company with dumb decisions.
4. Bethesda finally puts on the big boys' pants and understands they can't make bad games like Starfield anymore.
5. Borderlands 5 will flop hard because of a lack of understanding of the target audience.
6. Hollow Knight Silksong release.

 

[ZedClampet]

8 bold gaming predictions for 2025

What does the new year have in store for videogames?

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What are your predictions for 2025?

I was coming here to make this post

My own bold prediction is that the RTS genre will see a proper come-back in 2025.

I'm going to do some more research on this, but it seems to me that the major problem right now is that people aren't buying the RTS games that we are getting. When I was looking for a war game, I came across literal dozens of RTS games from the last few years. They were indie games other than Company of Heroes. so maybe what we need for an RTS revival is for a AAA company to produce a new big IP that excites everyone.

 

[ZedClampet]

My predictions:

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I decided my predictions were too negative. I'll be back later as soon as I come up with some positive predictions.

 

[January's Ghost]

I predict I'm going to buy a whole bunch of games and not even play 75% of them.

 

[Johnway]

Personally its a good bet that assassin's creed shadows will be competent, yet familiar and blander then recent Asscreed games. But that said, having it set in japan and set in the samurai era will be a winner. So i guess maybe 7/10. i'll probably get it eventually but the high specs will mean i won't be getting it for a few more years yet.

AAA(A) will continue to make idiots of themselves as they make a terrible game putting commerce over fun or say more tone deaf greasy business decisions. i keep glancing at ubisoft and just waiting for them to do it again.

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But this happens so often its not predictions, its just a way of life at this point.

 

[isleepinabed]

Personally its a good bet that assassin's creed shadows will be competent, yet familiar and blander then recent Asscreed games. But that said, having it set in japan and set in the samurai era will be a winner. So i guess maybe 7/10. i'll probably get it eventually but the high specs will mean i won't be getting it for a few more years yet.

Regarding this... What indeed makes us prefer or look forward to some games over others?
For instance, a majority of computer games have a fantasy or science fiction setting (speaking in broad terms of course... there are sub-types of fantasy and science fiction).

a) Is it the mechanics of gameplay, its various rules and interactions within the gameworld, regardless of setting?

b) Is it the setting by itself that we are already interested in via some other media and like the idea of enjoying that setting in a different format, regardless of mechanics?

c) Or does it necessarily have to be a mix of both?

The Ubisoft games (Assassin's Creed, Far Cry) are a good example, because the gameplay is largely unchanged and they only change the setting. People get excited to play fundamentally the same game in a different setting!

I, for instance, would say that I'm not particularly into either fantasy or science fiction such as they are. Yet, some of my favourite games are set within these environments.

 

[Pifanjr]

Regarding this... What indeed makes us prefer or look forward to some games over others?
For instance, a majority of computer games have a fantasy or science fiction setting (speaking in broad terms of course... there are sub-types of fantasy and science fiction).

a) Is it the mechanics of gameplay, its various rules and interactions within the gameworld, regardless of setting?

b) Is it the setting by itself that we are already interested in via some other media and like the idea of enjoying that setting in a different format, regardless of mechanics?

c) Or does it necessarily have to be a mix of both?

The Ubisoft games (Assassin's Creed, Far Cry) are a good example, because the gameplay is largely unchanged and they only change the setting. People get excited to play fundamentally the same game in a different setting!

I, for instance, would say that I'm not particularly into either fantasy or science fiction such as they are. Yet, some of my favourite games are set within these environments.

The gameplay is the only thing that really matters, but the setting does often influence the gameplay. For example, there aren't many FPS games in a fantasy setting.

 

[Johnway]

Regarding this... What indeed makes us prefer or look forward to some games over others?
For instance, a majority of computer games have a fantasy or science fiction setting (speaking in broad terms of course... there are sub-types of fantasy and science fiction).

a) Is it the mechanics of gameplay, its various rules and interactions within the gameworld, regardless of setting?

b) Is it the setting by itself that we are already interested in via some other media and like the idea of enjoying that setting in a different format, regardless of mechanics?

c) Or does it necessarily have to be a mix of both?

The Ubisoft games (Assassin's Creed, Far Cry) are a good example, because the gameplay is largely unchanged and they only change the setting. People get excited to play fundamentally the same game in a different setting!

I, for instance, would say that I'm not particularly into either fantasy or science fiction such as they are. Yet, some of my favourite games are set within these environments.

its a guilty pleasure i suppose. its like a bland package holiday as i get to explore a world and its like an interactive museum display for various things throughout history. Pretty much everyone (fans and non fans) have been screaming at ubisoft to make an assassins creed game in japan or the far east as that was a setting that the game would make the most sense and very little explored except for tenchu. Why ubisoft waited this long remains a mystery. Either they knew this was a winner and held the cards close until they were in trouble or when the asscreed franchise started to flag and needed an urgent injection.

of course, ubisoft are the ones to snap defeat from the jaws of victory. Rather then adding meaningful content, they get greedy finding ways to maximize monetization and squeezing its fanbase as much money as possible with the least amount of effort. So its a collectathon and moves towards MMO style mechanics. it makes for a more tedious experience as oppose to a thrilling adventure.

i mean odyssey was fun and all, but bloody hell was the damage against bosses complete grinds and damage sponges. The fact that they released an exp booster makes it intentional as they engineer a problem just to sell a solution. The resource grinding will test peoples patience.

I hear that in Valhalla they did away with the customization where you could use the skin of another item to get coherency.


my experiences probably reflect as to why i didn't take to the Division 2 either. it was the superior to the division in every way, but it got tweaked that it made things that more tedious and boring and in only a small bit of the city/country, it got old really fast. The story missions themselves were fanstastic and fun, the outside stuff, wasn't so much.

 

[Zloth]

1, Star citizen will launch Squadron 42

Quite possible! If not, then early next year.

 

[January's Ghost]

The gameplay is the only thing that really matters, but the setting does often influence the gameplay. For example, there aren't many FPS games in a fantasy setting.

Always said we need a modern remake of Hexen.

 

[ZedClampet]

Regarding this... What indeed makes us prefer or look forward to some games over others?
For instance, a majority of computer games have a fantasy or science fiction setting (speaking in broad terms of course... there are sub-types of fantasy and science fiction).

a) Is it the mechanics of gameplay, its various rules and interactions within the gameworld, regardless of setting?

b) Is it the setting by itself that we are already interested in via some other media and like the idea of enjoying that setting in a different format, regardless of mechanics?

c) Or does it necessarily have to be a mix of both?

The Ubisoft games (Assassin's Creed, Far Cry) are a good example, because the gameplay is largely unchanged and they only change the setting. People get excited to play fundamentally the same game in a different setting!

I, for instance, would say that I'm not particularly into either fantasy or science fiction such as they are. Yet, some of my favourite games are set within these environments.

Setting doesn't usually matter to me, but there are some game worlds that just instantly click with me and make me want to experience them, like in Expedition 33.