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How was 2025 for video games?

Posted on 12/29/25 at 4:15 pm
Posted by Geekboy
Member since Jan 2004
7498 posts
Posted on 12/29/25 at 4:15 pm
1. Great
2. Good
3. So so
4. Not so good
5. Abysmal

I gotta go with 3.
Posted by KamaCausey_LSU
Member since Apr 2013
17283 posts
Posted on 12/29/25 at 4:28 pm to
For Single Player games? Great
The remakes and Switch 2 release helped.

Final Fantasy Tactics
Mario Kart World
Donkey Kong Banaza
Hollow Knight: Silksong
Blue Prince
Ghost of Yotei
Hades II (full release)
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Oblivion Remastered


Posted by Centinel
Idaho
Member since Sep 2016
44535 posts
Posted on 12/29/25 at 4:45 pm to
quote:

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Oblivion Remastered



These two, along with KCD2, made it outstanding in my book.
Posted by imjustafatkid
Alabama
Member since Dec 2011
63264 posts
Posted on 12/29/25 at 6:06 pm to
1
Posted by Blitzed
Member since Oct 2009
22043 posts
Posted on 12/29/25 at 6:46 pm to
Was a great year.
Posted by CornDogCologne
Mental Defective
Member since Nov 2007
8867 posts
Posted on 12/29/25 at 7:52 pm to
upgraded my PC with a 5080 and I have a backlog I'll never hope to get through. It's a great year.

Just wish I had more time to play relative to my other obligations.
Posted by Drewbie
tFlagship
Member since Jun 2012
65007 posts
Posted on 12/29/25 at 8:06 pm to
Probably one of the best years ever for indie games specifically. AAA? Meh.
Posted by Roaad
White Privilege Broker
Member since Aug 2006
82373 posts
Posted on 12/29/25 at 9:16 pm to
Here is the gaming quote of the year:

quote:

Make products for the customers you have, not the customers you wish you had

-Parker Lucky on Rogan
How many studios would have been saved if they only followed such common sense advice?


Posted by StansberryRules
Member since Aug 2024
4645 posts
Posted on 12/29/25 at 10:40 pm to
The biggest problem in modern video games isn't necessarily the quality of releases but the infrequency of quality releases.

There simply isn't high enough volume of quality releases compared to what it should be IMO.

Regardless, the year was overall quite meh IMO.
Posted by Joshjrn
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2008
31870 posts
Posted on 12/30/25 at 8:36 am to
quote:

The biggest problem in modern video games isn't necessarily the quality of releases but the infrequency of quality releases. There simply isn't high enough volume of quality releases compared to what it should be IMO. Regardless, the year was overall quite meh IMO.

Have you been able to play all of the “quality releases” over the last few years, because I sure as shite haven’t
Posted by slough
Louisiana
Member since Jul 2020
339 posts
Posted on 1/1/26 at 4:58 pm to
There were a lot of good releases, though not as many as in 2024. To name a few:

Death Stranding 2
Expedition 33
Monster Train 2
Once upon a Katamari
Öoo
Sektori
Silent Hill f
Split Fiction
World of Goo 2
Posted by adam2000
Central
Member since Sep 2016
1141 posts
Posted on 1/2/26 at 2:31 pm to
5.
Posted by HempHead
Big Sky Country
Member since Mar 2011
56591 posts
Posted on 1/2/26 at 6:38 pm to
Between KCD2 and EUV, I could play nothing else for a good while.
Posted by tide06
Member since Oct 2011
21114 posts
Posted on 1/2/26 at 11:17 pm to
KCD2 was one of the best games I’ve ever played.

I don’t play enough other games to say one way or the other for the year, but that by itself deserves to be in a pretty elite pantheon of all time games IMO.
Posted by JasonDBlaha
Woodlands, Texas
Member since Apr 2023
3562 posts
Posted on 1/7/26 at 4:42 pm to
I’ll say it since no one else on here has the balls to say it: 2025 was absolutely terrible for AAA games

It was a horrendous year for not only video games but movies as well.
Posted by VoxDawg
Glory, Glory
Member since Sep 2012
75681 posts
Posted on 1/8/26 at 12:25 pm to
quote:

Make products for the customers you have, not the customers you wish you had

-Parker Lucky on Rogan

Not gaming, but I know Disney could've saved billions and made tens of billions more if they embraced this philosophy.
Posted by caro81
Member since Jul 2017
6066 posts
Posted on 1/9/26 at 11:17 am to
Solid 2. creeping towards 1.

anyone who though this year was bad or abysmal, well, i just don't know what else you want.
Posted by Joshjrn
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2008
31870 posts
Posted on 1/9/26 at 11:31 am to
quote:

I’ll say it since no one else on here has the balls to say it: 2025 was absolutely terrible for AAA games

Define "AAA game".
Posted by JetsetNuggs
Member since Jun 2014
15347 posts
Posted on 1/9/26 at 4:20 pm to
2. Good

KCD2 is incredible

Battlefield 6 listened to players unlike COD

Donkey Kong Bananza is a big step up in capability for Nintendo

Oblivion Remaster is exactly what it needed to be

Arc Raiders is really fun with a simple gameplay loop

Silksong is a very well made game

Outer Worlds 2 is a really good improvement of OW1

I haven't even played Expedition 33 but the love that game gets speaks for itself
This post was edited on 1/9/26 at 4:24 pm
Posted by VinegarStrokes
Georgia
Member since Oct 2015
14065 posts
Posted on 1/9/26 at 5:50 pm to
quote:

I’ll say it since no one else on here has the balls to say it: 2025 was absolutely terrible for AAA games

It was a horrendous year for not only video games but movies as well.


I need to unpack some stuff here....

You think you need to have....balls....to type on a message board that you think it was a terrible year?

Also...who gives a shite whether the good games this year were AAA or not? I haven't been able to hit even half the games that were released in 2025 that are considered must plays.
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