November 2025 General Games Discussion Thread

[BeardyHat]

Arc Raiders-- Honestly, if you were to play solo on the first couple of maps doing the quests the game gives you, youd be hard up to find someone that would kill you, especially if you use the emote wheel to say "dont shoot" or "wanna team up?", also a little voice comms doesnt hurt.

Now, yes thats not a 100% guarantee, but neither was The Division's pvp. I also dont think its that relatable to its pvp, definitely its survival mode from the first Division, but thats it. Dark Zones felt more like just trying to kill people rather than killing and looting personally.

In my experience, the only time i really fight pvp is in trios. Its hard to find other trios that dont want to fight. If you want to avoid pvp, id avoid doing trios, especially on the one map i mentioned in the Arc Raiders thread, its simply just pvp with the ability to extract, the others its you can get stuff done and collect loot, with the ability to get killed lol.

Cultic- Yes, thats what i was reading and i am more into that straight-forward boomer shooter style also and thats why i was holding off but i still might pick it up. I saw it mentioned in a new PCG article today and i had forgotten about it.

Even solo, I just can't get locked in to multiplayer games these days. Too many things call for my attention at any given time that I need to be able to pause or otherwise get up and leave.

Cultic is still pretty boomy, just got more mixed in there.

Its sad, ive been reading articles over the last couple months talking about how PC gaming might become this insanely-priced level of gaming that will keep being pushed out of the reach of the general population due to the demand of AI and as much sense as it makes from a raw-material perspective, its sad that these companies cant sacrifice some revenue to keep electronic parts (especially PC) in a competitive price range because those ram prices are certainly anything but. I honestly dont know if even reversing tariffs on goods would help all that much at this point

I'm just going to ride it out again, at this point. I managed an upgrade in December of 2019 when I went to AM4 and then rode that out until August 2023 when I upgraded my processor, RAM to 32Gb and went from a 970 GTX to 6700 XT.

Doesn't seem like anything is really a significant upgrade from that yet. I was just looking at 5060 Ti's yesterday and see that they're a bit more performant than my 6700 XT in some games and on par in many others and given I don't play many high end games anyway, I think I'm set for the time being.

At least we're spoilt for choice as far as a range of games go, performance wise. And if hardware upgrades begin to dwindle, we'll probably see developers target the average system according to Steam hardware surveys, whatever that might be.

 

[Zloth]

I don't know if I'm going to bother with that very very last boss. It will take a lot of work to get that video to play with my character in it.

I started playing Dragon's Dogma 2 and I'm having a lot of fun with it. ANOTHER game with excellent exploration!

Unfortunately, you're going to need to keep playing and talking about Elden Ring so that I remember I need to continue my playthrough with it when I'm ready. So...get to it.

Ohh! How much is it worth to ya? Maybe there's something more than a video and an achievement!

My wife just tried to play Elden Ring for the first time, but for some reason the game kept freezing for several seconds every once in a while. It seemed like it was loading something as the fans would suddenly spin up too, but task manager indicated that CPU and GPU stayed below 100%.

I would get short-term freezes if I played the game for 2+ hours. The solution was to simply take the hint, stop the game, and move around some.

 

[Pifanjr]

Its sad, ive been reading articles over the last couple months talking about how PC gaming might become this insanely-priced level of gaming that will keep being pushed out of the reach of the general population due to the demand of AI and as much sense as it makes from a raw-material perspective, its sad that these companies cant sacrifice some revenue to keep electronic parts (especially PC) in a competitive price range because those ram prices are certainly anything but. I honestly dont know if even reversing tariffs on goods would help all that much at this point

There seems to be a decent chance that the AI bubble will pop somewhere in the next few years and hopefully prices will plummet then, but we'll see.

If prices don't drop down again, I suppose I'll just have to stick with less demanding games. I loved being able to play more games after my last upgrade, but it's not like I was running out of games to play.

 

[Johnway]

There seems to be a decent chance that the AI bubble will pop somewhere in the next few years and hopefully prices will plummet then, but we'll see.

If prices don't drop down again, I suppose I'll just have to stick with less demanding games. I loved being able to play more games after my last upgrade, but it's not like I was running out of games to play.

This was what i was thinking. Sure, my pc is old compared to today's tech, but everything in my steam collection will work at medium/high with indie games i can probably get away with it for even longer.

Only the very latest games released in 2025+ will bother me and even then its only a handful of games i would play like BG3, cyberpunk2077 and thats only a handful not enough to justify a replacement. So i can wait, especially when i build my pc in 2017. i would like to squeeze maybe 10 years before needing to upgrade once more.

the only thing that would get me to buy now is if my pc suddenly broke, but i don't see that happening any time soon.