Is there a “reviewing 2025 in video games” thread? I saw the predictions Thread but I just want to post about how I went to “I don’t care” to “Grandmaster 4 and Death Strander!!”
Here you go
is Grimgrimoire any good, or is it just a pretty tower defense game? the remaster is like $19.99 on PSN right now
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I bounced off it back on the PS2, it wasn’t bad necessarily just I was less enamored than I was by Odin Sphere which I had played right before it. I can’t say it was doing anything mechanically that knocked my socks off
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I am trying to remember this shitty old GBC game from my childhood, I remember buying it from like a Target or similar, it was a JRPG, in English, it was a completely unknown series that probably got translated, didn’t sell well, and never had another in the series brought over.
It had a SMT-type system where you would encounter monsters, and try to recruit them. You could do so by having a guy on your team insult them (you could also presumably fight them and other things).
I get the feeling it did not review well.
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It is indeed Revelations: The Demon Slayer!!!
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Playing this game made me want to blow my brains out ^
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don’t do that, we like you mothra
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Don’t worry! I simply stopped playing the game entirely and proceeded onto WARLOCKED (2000), and brother??? This is a real video game right here:
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I liked it when I played it on Switch, although I wouldn’t say it’s very memorable since I’ve forgotten most of it. I think the main problem is the lack of variety in setting. I think the story was kind of cool. It’s not too long, only like 20 hours.
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Hot damn there are some Tunes happening in this game
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Are the Kotor games worth playing in 2025 or are they just Star Wars flavored Mass Effect
kotor 2 owns especially with the restored content mod
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kotor2 is one of my favorite games ever and I’ve never got more than two hours in kotor1
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In the modern day we have B-games, we have AAA games we even have AA games. What is a modern A-game?
Balan Wonderworld?
Platinum Games?
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This terminology has no real stable foundation when examined at this level of detail, but, in seriousness probably Puyo Puyo Tetris or Mario Maker 2 or the like
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the concept, which we just wholesale stole from film, usually refers to budget or how much a given studio cares (which is to say, B-movies are there to flood the market), but it’s weird to apply it to a medium with actual price stratification, i.e it costs me the same to see a Blumhouse movie as it does a Marvel movie but getting the new RotTK or a packaged eroge in 2025 is upward of 11-13k yen but, say, Splatoon 3 or Smash sit at ~6k yen
of course this comparison falls apart in the American market, where everything is full price or indie game and price expectations are as such, regardless of budget (you do not have to hand it to Chris Roberts but somehow he is making a AAA indie in Star Citizen)
anyway, language is meaningless. I can’t even offer a pithy reply like “oh, Paradox Interactive games are A games” because they recently imploded their balance sheets by trying to make bigger games
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This is a B game imho
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idk, since Platinum Games games have a certain quality or polish to their output, would call these AA games.
Compare Balan to those, and i would def give that an A or even B-rating.
But what about games that rope you in F2P-style or games that keep you engaged forever and ever and ever and just never stop. Looking at GTA V as the worst offender in this category.
UFO50 otoh feels like it punches way above its budget/class, and i don’t even know how much budget they actually had 
so it’s indeed a good questione wondering what would be the yardstick to measure games against.
Vibes?