October 2025 General Games discussion thread

[Johnway]

Well, that's Resident evil: code veronica x finished and that should be the last game for halloween (excluding the halloween doom 2 wad). Tomorrow we'll start my yearly tradition of Yakuza with Y5!

i'm sitting on the fence concerning POE league. Just like last time i have a stronger feeling that this is going to be a tough league for me as the end game content has just gotten tougher and i suspect some of the end game challenges will be in the challenges (like defeat all the bosses to unlock the blood ascension). but this league is a serious rework of the popular breach mechanic so we might expect some awesome things to happen. But as expected, people are lamenting the nerfs. Case in point my Volcanic fissure of snaking build is taking a hit. I might try a juggernaut slam build, but i suspect this league emphasizes killing a lot of things quickly so a magic user is probably preferred. Assassin perhaps now that its been reworked for a crit build?

Still thinking about building a pc, but i've spent so much money this year (buying a top end coat and treking shoes etc) its not easy to justify. perhaps black friday i might get decent deals? The shocking thing is how big PC cases are now.

 

[Zloth]

I see that the game is estimated to cost less than $10 million to make and it has sold more than 10 million copies. So they should be able to keep developing for quite a few more years if they want.

Oh! I thought it would have cost a lot more than that! Or is that just the original cost?

 

[BeardyHat]

Are you just doing intelligence and hacking? No weapons?

P.S.

View: https://youtu.be/eNaY10DQkJw?si=YiLI-F8miUJL_ldl


HOW!? Hello Games keeps making every other game company look greedy as NMS keeps getting free content year after year. Somehow.

Ok, fine! I'll finally buy NMS! Geeze.

 

[Pifanjr]

I've reached tier 4 of the quickhacks in Cyberpunk 2077, I just need to get a bit more money to get the truly powerful ones. I now primarily use quickhacks, especially the contagion one, to deal with groups of enemies.

One of the side missions had a reference to GLaDOS which was pretty fun.

Oh! I thought it would have cost a lot more than that! Or is that just the original cost?

I think that was just the original cost, but that was over 3 years of production. So the $300 million+ they've made since then should be enough to keep them working on the game for the rest of their lives.

I just noticed that my friend we're sharing our Steam game library with owns No Man's Sky, so I could give it another try.

 

[BeardyHat]

I finished Costume Quest this evening after dinner. Ended up putting in 5 hours to the original game and I'll probably just skip the DLC, as it's more of the same.

Why this game has been on my must play list for over a decade, I don't know. It's alright. It's cute, got a good sense of humor and is overall fine in the gameplay department and I'm happy I played it this close to Halloween, it kind of got me in the mood for the season.

But I definitely can't say that I'm ready for more with the DLC or the second game.

 

[BeardyHat]

So I bought No Man's Sky this morning and installed it on my laptop and Deck. I have had zero time to actually even fire it up yet. Hopefully tonight if I'm not too tired, but I may just end up playing Battletech instead...

 

[Johnway]

I finished Costume Quest this evening after dinner. Ended up putting in 5 hours to the original game and I'll probably just skip the DLC, as it's more of the same.

Why this game has been on my must play list for over a decade, I don't know. It's alright. It's cute, got a good sense of humor and is overall fine in the gameplay department and I'm happy I played it this close to Halloween, it kind of got me in the mood for the season.

But I definitely can't say that I'm ready for more with the DLC or the second game.

yeah Costume quest has great visual and makes it quite an endearing game, but mechanically its a bit simple. I believe i called it "my first jrpg" as i found it relatively easy. I finished the DLC and honestly i can't remember much of that at all. Like you, i couldn't stomach a second serving in the form of the sequel so i played that the following year.

 

[BeardyHat]

yeah Costume quest has great visual and makes it quite an endearing game, but mechanically its a bit simple. I believe i called it "my first jrpg" as i found it relatively easy. I finished the DLC and honestly i can't remember much of that at all. Like you, i couldn't stomach a second serving in the form of the sequel so i played that the following year.

Yeah, it seems like between the DLC and just looking at 2, nothing really changes. It has its charms for sure, but I think I'm happy enough with what I got that I don't need to play anymore.

I got a chance to play No Mans Sky, played for 61 minutes according to Steam and it's...fine? I'm not sure what I anticipated, but it's pretty much why I remember I wasn't terribly interested in the game to begin with, namely being it seems to be mostly navigating menus and dragging and dropping icons for items, which I find kind of dull. The first world I started on was pretty uninteresting and now I've landed on another after repairing my ship. Haven't looked around at all yet, since I quit right after that, but it seems like more of the same?

I'll probably continue since I bought it on Gamebillet and can't return it anyway and everyone says it's better, so maybe I just haven't hit anything interesting yet. Couple of points in its favor, however is that it runs fantastic on both my laptop and Deck, so I'm really happy with that.

But I also might just be feeling hyper critical, because I mostly just want to play more Battletech right now...

 

[Pifanjr]

Played a bit of R.E.P.O. with my friends. I'm still bad at the game, mostly because I have no idea how each monster works. My friends weren't doing much better this time though and we lost on level 3.

Then we went on to continue our Barotrauma game. We discovered the game hadn't saved the last trip we did the last time we played, so we had to kill the abyss creature again. Luckily it was just as easy as the first time and we made it to the end without any issues.

However, we had two more stops without an outpost at the end to go. The next part we encountered our first giant spineling and boy are those things a pain. Spinelings can shoot little spines straight through the hull, which hurt but aren't too bad as long as you can thin out the swarm quick enough. The giant spinelings however shoot massive spikes and ram the ship causing everyone to ragdoll all over the place. Everyone survived, but we started running really low on medicine.

There was a beacon station on this trip, but for some reason it was really glitchy, where we couldn't really interact with most of it. It would just open the UI of whatever you clicked and immediately close it. We had to give up on it, which is a shame because activating the beacon allows the uninhabited spots to be filled by new outposts.

The next trip saw us encountering another giant spineling, which caused us to run out of pain medication entirely. Luckily there was an abandoned outpost at the end of this trip and the cultists inside were no match for the automatic weapons we've made, so we were able to loot some medicine there.

The last trip would finally get us to a regular outpost again, but luck was not on our side. We got pretty banged up again by some big enemies trashing us around, then encountered a pack of tiger threshers who managed to get inside the ship and eat everyone.

Luckily the game did save when we left the abandoned outpost and on the second try I just ran the engines on full power as much as possible and managed to outrun a lot of the enemies, getting us to the outpost without too much trouble.

However, we discovered this particular outpost isn't selling tier 3 subs. There is in fact only one friendly station selling tier 3 subs nearby and it's only selling transport class subs, so hopefully there's something good there.

Yeah, it seems like between the DLC and just looking at 2, nothing really changes. It has its charms for sure, but I think I'm happy enough with what I got that I don't need to play anymore.

I got a chance to play No Mans Sky, played for 61 minutes according to Steam and it's...fine? I'm not sure what I anticipated, but it's pretty much why I remember I wasn't terribly interested in the game to begin with, namely being it seems to be mostly navigating menus and dragging and dropping icons for items, which I find kind of dull. The first world I started on was pretty uninteresting and now I've landed on another after repairing my ship. Haven't looked around at all yet, since I quit right after that, but it seems like more of the same?

I'll probably continue since I bought it on Gamebillet and can't return it anyway and everyone says it's better, so maybe I just haven't hit anything interesting yet. Couple of points in its favor, however is that it runs fantastic on both my laptop and Deck, so I'm really happy with that.

This was pretty much my response to No Man's Sky as well. It's fine, but nothing about it grabbed me. I felt like it was just a bunch of shallow systems mashed into one game. I had expected more from it, but maybe it would make for a good game if you're in the mood for something casual.

 

[BeardyHat]

This was pretty much my response to No Man's Sky as well. It's fine, but nothing about it grabbed me. I felt like it was just a bunch of shallow systems mashed into one game. I had expected more from it, but maybe it would make for a good game if you're in the mood for something casual.

The space stuff posted earlier in the thread got me kind of excited, because I definitely knew what this was, just kind of forgot.

I played a bit more here and now it's like, "Build a house!" And I had to just quit out. I have zero interest in that. Kind of regretting not spending the extra $4 on Steam so I could return it. Ah well, it was only $20 and this will encourage me to keep trying and see if I can actually get into it.