September 2025 General Game Discussion Thread

[Pifanjr]

I tried out Dead in Bermuda today. It reminded me of some Flash games I've played, though a bit more complex.

It's pretty decent for when you want to pick up something that doesn't require too much investment. However, I somehow missed the part where work stations needed to be maintained over time. I did notice they were deteriorating, but I thought I would just have to rebuilt them if they reached 0%. I didn't realise their output scales to the amount they had deteriorated until my people were all on the brink of starvation while exhausted and depressed.

The problem is that, while the game is a fun distraction, it's not fun enough to restart, nor to try to slowly claw my way back to having a happy, healthy community.

 

[neogunhero]

I promise to stop talking about Skate so much since that's all I've been able to talk about recently.

Skate is subject to yet another online wave of negative discourse from people who either have not played the game or have no interest in playing. We've all seen it with so many other games, these kinds of people have nothing but negativity to speak and just want to complain about what they don't like about a game. It's easy to ignore these people, until they start to influence others. There are some legit criticisms of the game, but this wave of bullcrap drowns out all the actual feedback.

It's just sad to see this constantly happening with nearly every game. It's "woke" because the character creator lets you make non-binary people, it's "evil" because there are purely cosmetic only MTX, people complaining they can't get in when there are quite literally 100s of thousands of people trying to access the servers all at once, it's just constant negativity and complaints. It wears me out lol.

Again all this does is drown out legitimate feedback on the game, prevents real conversations from being had, influences people from the outside in, and ruins the spirit of gaming. I'm all about bashing a game that I don't like, but there better be some actual real reasons why. Not playing a free game just because there are MTX is quite insane to me. I can barely name 10 free games that are MTX free, and all of them are not live service games like Skate is.

 

[BeardyHat]

Have had less time to play games than I expected during this trip. Usually there's a whole lot of sitting around, but I've managed to keep myself busy every day that I haven't much felt like playing anything.

Tried to play some Abiotic Factor, but it was just a little too much, but I did play a bit of RoboCop, finishing the...I think second mission in the junkyard.

Last night in a fit of exhaustion I ended up buying Mass Effect legendary. I've played 1 and 2 way back when and kind of thought maybe I'd like to again, so I played for maybe 45 minutes this morning and I'm not so sure.. Granted I'm still in the very opening, but the writing is very meh and kind of makes me think I should just play my heavily modded KOTOR 2 save instead. At least there's some nuance there.

 

[Pifanjr]

My friend invited me to play Escape the Backrooms with him and another person. It's basically a sequence of separate "puzzles", which mostly involve running around finding keys/switches while occasionally avoiding a monster to get to the next level. The levels each have their own gimmick, like monsters that are camouflaged as other players, traversing a level without being seen by randomly placed cameras or just a straight hallway where you have to pick one direction and hope you don't encounter a monster. They're mostly not very good gimmicks and you get infinite retries, but that does make it very easy to just jump in and play a couple of levels.