May 2025 General Game Discussion Thread

[Zed Clampet]

Other than more rare occasions (supporting indie developer, meme, just have to have it), the way I see it is just getting the best deal possible regardless of how much joy or whatnot it will give you. Just to give an example: In a local shop they had a deal on my favorite dental floss, a 2 for 1 deal. So I bought 14 of them (I ordered them, obviously did not grab them from the shop physically). Next week they were having another deal on same floss, this time the cost was 3 for 2. Same floss, but not the same deal.

Getting something on sale lowers the price, and price is obviously a part of the calculation for "value". Generally speaking and not considering anything related to time, everything about the product remains the same, but in the case of games, they usually get better after launch. Price and quality are big parts of the value calculation, so waiting for sales is definitely a good strategy.

As for joy, how much pleasure you get from entertainment is also a factor, but it's usually something that you only know in hindsight. You probably always think you'll like a game if you buy it, but that doesn't always work out.

Edited my other post for readability. Also, I thought issues related to sanity were funny last night, but it doesn't seem funny this morning, so I got rid of that.

 

[DXCHASE]

Hi from MY end of the gaming spectrum!! I love the diversity of the games we all play. Ive been stayin busy (aside from work) for sure. I honestly didnt think between April and now, hell even this whole year, how many different games ive played that are new in 2025 that are good, well-deserving-of-your-time games.

Battlefield Labs sent out invitations for its Alpha testing this weekend. A certain someone got to play/is playing and a certain someone said its pretty fun and theres a lot going on there despite all the jank and bugs and is really looking forward to the SP campaign when its available to buy.

Doom The Dark Ages: Still ripping through this, though i am only on level 8 with Nigthmare difficulty and level 3 with ultra nightmare (u cant die). I like the game a lot, theres just a lot of other stuff im playing at the moment and playing this slow has been nice tbh.

Diablo 4 / Helldivers 2 : My 2 home games. Still grinding diablo 4's season between the Beserk event and trying to get my wife to ever get a charater to Torment 4. Im also still trying to save SUPER EARTH FROM ILLUMINATE DESTRUCTION! Seriously though, its more fun than ever to play Helldivers 2 even if theres a lot of stuff id like to still see changed.

last, but not least!!

Game of Thrones: Kingsroad : A new F2P game from WB and.... netmarble? So it really is your typical gacha, f2p game with its tons of different currencies (all related to GoT though) a bunch of fetch quests and EVERYTHING else being behind some kind of paywall. Theres a subscription service to apply, a free battlepass vs a 30-55 dollar one etc.

So thats the nonsense part, but, to me as a Game of Thrones fan, the game starts of pretty darn well, seeing you get saved from whitewalkers by Jon Snow. The graphics arent terrible (could be better though), and some of the VA is done by original members of the show along with a good job of re-creating characters that look like the actors. I dont mind all the side quests and stuff because i feel like im running around Westeros.

Its one thing to do this in a world i dont really know (like Lost Arks or FF's), and another where the world is one im familiar with. So, aside from all the usual F2P mobile game stuff, its a solid game. I recommend it to any one who likes Game of Thrones. Its free to try.



So thats this week! Thank you for comin to my ted talk

 

[Zed Clampet]

Hi from MY end of the gaming spectrum!! I love the diversity of the games we all play. Ive been stayin busy (aside from work) for sure. I honestly didnt think between April and now, hell even this whole year, how many different games ive played that are new in 2025 that are good, well-deserving-of-your-time games.

Battlefield Labs sent out invitations for its Alpha testing this weekend. A certain someone got to play/is playing and a certain someone said its pretty fun and theres a lot going on there despite all the jank and bugs and is really looking forward to the SP campaign when its available to buy.

Doom The Dark Ages: Still ripping through this, though i am only on level 8 with Nigthmare difficulty and level 3 with ultra nightmare (u cant die). I like the game a lot, theres just a lot of other stuff im playing at the moment and playing this slow has been nice tbh.

Diablo 4 / Helldivers 2 : My 2 home games. Still grinding diablo 4's season between the Beserk event and trying to get my wife to ever get a charater to Torment 4. Im also still trying to save SUPER EARTH FROM ILLUMINATE DESTRUCTION! Seriously though, its more fun than ever to play Helldivers 2 even if theres a lot of stuff id like to still see changed.

last, but not least!!

Game of Thrones: Kingsroad : A new F2P game from WB and.... netmarble? So it really is your typical gacha, f2p game with its tons of different currencies (all related to GoT though) a bunch of fetch quests and EVERYTHING else being behind some kind of paywall. Theres a subscription service to apply, a free battlepass vs a 30-55 dollar one etc.

So thats the nonsense part, but, to me as a Game of Thrones fan, the game starts of pretty darn well, seeing you get saved from whitewalkers by Jon Snow. The graphics arent terrible (could be better though), and some of the VA is done by original members of the show along with a good job of re-creating characters that look like the actors. I dont mind all the side quests and stuff because i feel like im running around Westeros.

Its one thing to do this in a world i dont really know (like Lost Arks or FF's), and another where the world is one im familiar with. So, aside from all the usual F2P mobile game stuff, its a solid game. I recommend it to any one who likes Game of Thrones. Its free to try.



So thats this week! Thank you for comin to my ted talk

Of course, they know better than I do, but it seems like so many of these F2P games really over do it. It's like they are terrified they aren't going to make any money, so they become desperate and make the monetization as crazy as possible.

Compare that to something like Warframe. All they do is make a few things that people really, really want. Even more crazy is that every one of these things can be crafted in the game for free, and yet people buy them instead, and Warframe is extremely successful. I'd imagine part of that success comes from not seeming desperate.