November 2025 General Games Discussion Thread

[dxchase]

Arc Raiders is currently down while players top out at around 350k. Im kinda annoyed because im playing with someone for the first time and now we cant after smooth sailing since launch.

I was able to play some of the Mortal Kombat Legacy Collection and it seems to run fine but im playing entirely offline. I do wish they had more versions of the game that are missing from this collection but im assuming they will come in some form of DLC. The documentary though is pretty cool.

They added some new features too like a rewind button so if you are about to die, you can just rewind it lol. I also like pinning moves to the screen is doable and also allowing to play any music from any game within other games. Standard cheats from the old franchise days are there too like playing hidden characters and unlimited time to do finishing moves.

 

[Pifanjr]

I played some more Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord. The gameplay video for the DLC made me feel like playing it again and my kid was up when I started gaming, so Cyberpunk 2077 was not an option.

Things are still going quite well. I got three new castles, though one of them I almost immediately lost after getting it. So far we've won every war we've been in and captured at least one new castle or city in each of them.

I also did two sieges for the first time. I normally use a horse and pole arm, so I'm not too useful during sieges. My crossbow skill is pretty high too though so I just tried sniping enemies from the wall and got a couple of kills.

Being useless on foot does kind of suck in tournaments and when assaulting hideouts though. The regular bandit hideouts aren't too bad, but every so often you have to do one for a quest and I can't win in a 1v1 duel and I can't win in a straight fight. Maybe I need to figure out where I can get better infantry to back me up.

 

[BeardyHat]

I've been alternating between Cultic and Pacific Drive, depending on how I'm feeling. I love the fact that Pacific Drive finally has a Suspend function, which was sorely needed; I was initially pretty frustrated when I bought the game about a year ago, given it lacked this and that just doesn't work for me. Now that it has it? I've used it quite a bit.

The game itself is pretty fun. Fairly chill exploration, gathering and crafting. It has a story that I'm really only partially following, partly because my kids or my wife seem to know exactly when exposition will happen and then begin to talk over it. Plus I'm also lazy and don't feel like reading all the text in the Codex, but it seems pretty fleshed out. Really loving this one and makes me want to visit the Pacific Northwest again.

Cultic on the other hand has been frantic. I made it to The Slaughterhouse, which I think is the fourth or fifth map? Playing on hard and it's pretty damned challenging. I got past a major fight in the previous map and then have been working my way through the newest map only to get to another hard fight which I attempted a few times and then needed to take a break from, because I could feel my frustration rising.

I'm going to play these two and then I've got a few more games already lined-up for my November, as I'm playing a "Backlog Bingo" started by my other forum for the month. They have a tool that generates a Bingo card of game genres based on your preferences and then you can go ahead and try and get yourself a Bingo or whatever. So I'm going up the left hand side of my card, starting from bottom that goes from Bottom to Top:

Driving/Piloting - Pacific Drive
Arena/Boomer Shooter - Cultic
Shop Keeper - Recettear (Always been meaning to go back to this one)
Cozy - No idea what I'll play here.
Interactive Fiction - 328 Shibuya Scramble

I doubt I'll get through everything, but it's fun to have a little guidance and a theme to the event.

 

[Johnway]

not much to report on my front. still playing yakuza 5 and i'm just about done with most of the faffing about taxi missions. Still got to do the main driving missions but we're getting close and my car is pretty much maxed out performance wise. The main story is also progressing but i might dial it back and finish off more the side stuff before proceeding.

i have decided to play the POE league. my initial plan is to get to end game and take it from there. So maybe 10 days if i finish a capture a day depending on how busy i am and how quick i finish it. I'm going for a slam build as it worked so well last season. But since volcanic fissure of snaking is dead, i'm opting for the next best thing Earth shatter. Not sure how it will play but we'll see. it might do the job doing enough DPS to kill things quickly or its going to be another league cut short. Still, at least i got my character name sorted EarthShat_your_pants, i try to add humor to my naming convention.

hand held wise i'm playing fire emblem awakening. i'm at chapter 10 but playing on casual difficulty unsurprisingly isn't difficult. i might dial it up next time and see what happens. The progress is fairly slow primarily because the game gives you random battles and i've been abusing them like crazy. Expecting to get a few promoted and make the fights even easier.

 

[Zloth]

I went up against the Fire Giant in Elden Ring. The guy is killing me! I'm trying to throw lightning at him. It keeps targeting his leg, but that moves around a lot, making it hard to hit. If I aim for the chest, though, the guy is so tall that I have to be almost under him for the attack to be in range!! (Groin shots are not given as an option. This is a family-oriented game! )

I decided to go back to Castle Sol and finish it off. Commander Niall posed no problem. Looking at the map, it turned out that I missed a boss in a fort, too, so I did that one. Now I'm just about out of options. I only got part way through the lake of rot, but the rewards for that quest have all been pretty mage-oriented, and my characters intelligence is just 7, so I'm not real eager to finish it.

That leaves me with... the Fire Giant. Or burning down a few more Knights of Zamor. Those things are worth 5K runes each, and it only takes 3 or 4 long range lasers to burn one down. I don't think it's lack of levels that's giving me trouble with the big guy, though. Looks like his defense against Holy isn't particularly great. Maybe it's time to switch the flame reaper to a holy reaper or maybe bring out the light sab... <ahem> the Coded Sword.

 

[Zloth]

Got him. I summoned Dung Eater and Alexander, then Alexander hid for the whole second phase! I tried using one of those 'rune arc' thingies and it helped a lot.

View: https://youtu.be/m3XGvHSDX5s


I switched to the pest threads spell. The lightning bolt does a bit more damage for me, but the threads are far more likely to hit. (Still, I definitely should not have been trying to hit his hands.)