Pinging those that were here before.
Discussion questions:
What video games have you played recently?
What are your favorite video game genres?
Question of the week:
What are you most looking forward to in the rest of 2025 in terms of gaming?
and
Are you excited for the Nintendo Switch 2? Why or why not?
My PC died a couple of weeks ago, taking the video card with it, and I’ve had a lot of real life drama to deal with as well. So I haven’t been playing that much. Mostly moving parts between my computers in order to create something useable.
But I spent a good chunk of time looking for bargains and I somehow wound up with a decent price on a 7900XTX, and a 9800X3D, so my computer is absolutely godlike now. I’ve mostly been playing bits and pieces of games that formerly ran like crap, as my PC now handles anything I throw at it with ease. Victoria 3, Oxygen Not Included, Frostpunk 2, and Starfield come to mind. They all run well now, and I struggled with them before.
Genre wise, I mostly play strategy games these days. But I keep meaning to brush the dust off my consoles and finally finish Tears of the Kingdom and the Ghost of Tsushima DLC. My console backlog is massive.
For 2025, I think I’m mostly looking forward to Switch 2 right now. I’m a Nintendo gal through and through. But I’m also stoked about Ghost of Yotei and The Alters.
Same with you on Nintendo. Honestly, the PS5 has some interesting titles coming up.
My PS5 has been accumulating a whole lot of dust. I use it to watch UHD Blu-Rays and that’s really about it. What games have your interest? Ghost of Yotei and the new Naughty Dog game are all I can think of right now.
Currently I’m playing Silent Hill 2 Remake (great game) and, surprisingly enough, Dynasty Warriors Origins (an ever funner and better game than the aforementioned horror title).
Those are the main two.
Oh yeah, and Elden Ring, but that’s on PC.
But so far, I’ve made good use of my PS5 with the first video games mentioned taking up my time.
I bought SH2, and played it for about an hour. The temporal ghosting drove me absolutely mad, was making me queasy, and I put it down, hoping that they would patch it at some point and fix their graphics. I’m not really holding my breath on that one. If it ever drops to like $10 on PC I might buy it there so I can turn off all of that crap.
Dynasty Warriors has never really been my cup of tea. I buy one every couple of generations, but I never get into it.
Yeah, Dynasty Warriors is a hard and niche series to get into, I grant you that.