October 2025 General Games discussion thread

[Frindis]

I think the general consensus from reviews I've read so far is that it's not similar to the first Bloodlines game but still solid in it's own. The combat looks pretty good, though I've mostly only seen hand to hand/melee weapon combat, not sure how the abilities work while in the middle of a fight. The story seems really good too. I'm interested but not being similar to the first game has me cautious.

The story, characters, and exploration were what I enjoyed the most with Bloodlines, so if hope they manage to nail it in this one. The combat was pretty janky in the first one, so I don't really have many fond memories of it, except for a couple of cool abilities like making enemies explode.

 

[neogunhero]

The story, characters, and exploration were what I enjoyed the most with Bloodlines, so if hope they manage to nail it in this one. The combat was pretty janky in the first one, so I don't really have many fond memories of it, except for a couple of cool abilities like making enemies explode.

What I like most about the original was the customization of your character. There were lots of different stats to make your build unique, different factions that affected gameplay abilities and so on. From what I've been reading a lot of this has been dialed back which is a shame.

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My wife is being involuntarily volunteered by her job to run a concessions booth at the high school basketball game for about 4 hours this evening, meaning while she'll be tormented by cringe high schoolers spewing their TikTok memes all night, I get to enjoy a relaxing evening with a nice video game and some frozen General Tso Chicken. Can't decide if I want to continue with Skin Deep or Deus Ex tonight. I may end up doing a bit of both but one thing is for sure, I need a break from BALLxPIT, the game is amazing but it is eating up a lot of time away from other games. I like this nice little rotation I got going on now.

 

[Johnway]

What I like most about the original was the customization of your character. There were lots of different stats to make your build unique, different factions that affected gameplay abilities and so on. From what I've been reading a lot of this has been dialed back which is a shame.

I played as tremere and had a reasonably good time playing the game. Interestingly, not being able to max out your last stat is something of a blessing as i found out in the late game. Turned out you didn't need the last upgrade and all those expensive last upgrades could be used for all skills or the all important blood magic or guns if you wanted. melee wise i just used that katana that was given as a reward and i didn't even invest in guns until the final battle. So no idea whether they were any good.

Gaming wise still playing code veronica. we've got to the Chris redfield stuff. interestingly (but to be expected) chris and claire share the same chest. So in theory, just before the switch you can dump most of the weapons (like the pistol or crossbow) for chris to use. Unfortunately besides some healing herbs and grenades (but no launcher) so pistol start then.

I hopefully should be finished on by november. Speaking of November PearsonVUE cancelled my exam because Apple is rolling out a new exam paper. Which is deeply annoying as i've been studying for months, suspended art studies and work for it. Had hoped to book the new exam but its not even possible yet, Bloody annoying. Especially that the previous MacOS (seqouia) was only released last year sept. if this is the trend for apple MACOS whats the bloody point putting that much effort into the cert?

 

[neogunhero]

Wait a minute... I was carrying a dead NSF soldier's body back to UNATCO HQ! They saw me then starting shooting at me, they should have been happy! Ungrateful bastards... Jock gave me a ride in his heli from Hell's Kitchen back to UNATCO and he didn't even complain about the stench!

 

[Zloth]

Deus Ex with ACHIEVEMENTS?? Ooooooo

1:40 butt shot!

<Queue the vile temptresses of Holy Grail> A spanking! A spanking!!

That was really rare. In my play-through, I've broken the enemy's poise maybe 3 times in the entire game, counting that one. Millicent must have been doing serious poise damage.

 

[Zloth]

Poking around in Steam's new calandar mode (https://store.steampowered.com/personalcalendar). Seems kinda cool, except it's not at all how I buy games.

It did point out to me that there's a Yakuza 0 Director's Cut coming. Looks like it just adds some cutscenes and a co-op fight-hordes-of-enemies mode. Somehow that means there's no way to upgrade the existing game or even transfer saves between games. Yeah, I think I'll watch those cutscenes on YouTube, thanks.

Errr, why is it recommending a VR version of Homeworld to me? I haven't used my headset in several years!

 

[Pifanjr]

I'm done with Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord for the time being. It's nice for when I want something chill to play, but I'm in the mood for something a bit more intense.

So I started playing Cyberpunk 2077. I put my starting points in tech, cool and intelligence, but so far it seems like it's better to stick to two attributes as perk points are too limited to spread between 3 trees. So I dropped tech, focusing on stealth and quickhacks.

I've done a couple of main missions and a bunch of side quests so far and I'm enjoying it a lot. I put the game on hard, but it's fairly easy so far because most enemies stay in cover, giving me plenty of time to heal up and recharge my RAM.

My only gripe with the game so far is how much of a bullet sponge the bosses are. The first boss I encountered did let me sneak up on him, but the takedown only did 25% damage, forcing me to slowly chip the rest of its life away.

I did encounter a boss that turns invisible though, so if I can just get my hands on an upgrade like that maybe I'll be able to sneak around bosses too.

 

[Frindis]

My only gripe with the game so far is how much of a bullet sponge the bosses are. The first boss I encountered did let me sneak up on him, but the takedown only did 25% damage, forcing me to slowly chip the rest of its life away.

It's unfortunately one of the old boss "mechanics" that some devs can't seem to innovate from. Hard should not just mean "ok, we inflate the boss with more HP and call it a day". BG3 is an excellent example of how you should do it: slightly higher HP pool, but with harder boss mechanics that challenge you to be the best you can be. To be honest, even in BG3 you would not have needed the higher HP pool, but at least it is not by that much.