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JigglySackles, do gaming w Konamis return to the gaming industry is going well

That certainly doesn’t need to happen. Konami, I am disappoint.

PrivateNoob, do games w The Best-Selling Video Games Since 2020

It’s a disgrace seeing 2 COD games in the top 5

SCmSTR, (edited )

My gpu that I bought in 2021 came with a copy of cod cold war. And EVGA or Nvidia probably paid for that, I just didn’t.

I’m not really into cod games and never would have bought it, but now the outbreak zombie mode is something that my partner and some friends just do sometimes to hang out and talk online. We still haven’t beaten the easter egg boss though because of computer crashes and that if you drop from online mode you stupidly lose everything. Probably to avoid cheating.

That issue sucks, but the gamemode is fun. You just run around in a giant map doing challenges and leveling up weapons until you’re ready to push to the next level. Very self paced and potentially mindless. Great for talking over or relaxing.

Unfortunately, the cod player base is really split between the varying gamemodes, and each gamemode’s fanbase thinks they’re the most important one and that all the other gamemodes are bad and don’t matter.

tuckerm, do games w Among 2025 games with over 10K reviews, Deltarune is the most highly rated
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It’s amazing just how much better games have been from indie devs and smaller publishers. I don’t see a single game from EA, Ubisoft, or Activision on there.

happytortoise,

Indie devs don’t have to deal with interference from suits who are obsessed with cost cutting and wholly out of touch with what people want

mic_check_one_two,

Cost cutting and designing for the lowest common denominator. Suits are afraid to take risks, because they want to sell to the widest possible audience. So they end up playing it safe and making bland milquetoast games that all feel exactly the same.

SleeplessCityLights,

A dish made to please all palates is a bland dish.

imecth,

Steam reviews aren't really a good quality metric, a 6/10 game can have 95% ratings, it's the rotten tomatoes of video games.

gmtom,

In fairness even if a big studio released a great game, enough people would either try it and not like it, or just give a bad review because it’s EA, that it wouldn’t make this list.

Indie games don’t have that problem.

criss_cross, do games w The Best-Selling Video Games Since 2020

I’m sad Howard’s legacy sold so well.

Also Cyberpunk sold better than I expected given the launch.

carotte,

i’m wondering if the boycott had adverse effects and promoted the game in more gamer-centric spaces that otherwise wouldn’t have cared that much

obviously it’s a harry potter game, it was always gonna sell well. but 2nd best selling game of the last 5 years??? ouch

Dyskolos,

Screw a bad launch as long as the Dev delivers in the end and not just pisses off. And they did. It’s one of the greatest games of all times. And I’m gaming daily since pong and pacman.

There are tons of shitty releases that stay shitty but offer micro transactions and 2646 dlcs. CP has one add-on that is also fantastic.

Being an early adopter sucks in this industry. That’s why I waited over a year to play it and had not one single issue in 3 playthroughs.

ampersandrew,
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I played it at release, and I had a negligible number of technical issues on PC. Not everyone had a bad time with it back then.

leftzero,

Same here. Old PC (though quite good for the time), no issues whatsoever.

gmtom,

Idk, I’ve tried to play it at least half a dozen times since it was “fixed” and it still just seems rushed and unfinished, just less buggy now.

leave_it_blank,

To be fair, Hogwarts Legacy is a very good game, I started playing yesterday and the atmosphere of the movies is perfectly captured! I did expect a cash grab, but I was totally wrong.

the16bitgamer,
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As someone who has beaten the game. The cash grab part is just after your first day and the “open world” starts up.

It’s not a bad game, but it gets pretty bland and generic once the main loop of ditching school starts.

leave_it_blank,

For now there’s nothing of the sort, but I’m only a few hours in. Could it be too good to be true…?

Well, let’s see. It is a AAA game after all…

awfulawful,

CDPR spent the time fixing CP2077 and then released a killer DLC, putting the entire game on sale a ton along the way. They also listened and reconfigured entirely some of the clunky parts of gameplay/RPG elements.

Jackhammer_Joe, do games w The Best-Selling Video Games Since 2020

Yeah, Helldivers 2 made it on the list!

For Super Earth! o7

atrielienz, do games w The Best-Selling Video Games Since 2020

It’s crazy that I only own two of these games and they couldn’t be more different. Animal Crossing and Cyberpunk 2077.

cRazi_man, (edited )
@cRazi_man@europe.pub avatar

I haven’t bought a single one of these. I’ve played It Takes Two with my brother over Parsec though. Where can I collect my hipster certificate?

atrielienz,

Animal Crossing was a birthday gift. And technically Stadia refunded my money for Cyberpunk.

ColeSloth,

My backlog is well over 5 years out. I haven’t gotten up to games from 2020+ yet. Lol.

I’m currently playing “Red Dead Redemption 2” , and “Psychonauts”.

Squizzy, do games w The Best-Selling Video Games Since 2020

Super Mario Bros Wonder sucked. I hope they don’t take it’s sales as a direction on the franchise because it is my least favourite.

Also how is Hogwarts so high and 90% off, must have had a huge fall off.

atrielienz,

I think the reason it’s sold so many copies is because it’s been on perpetual sale everywhere. People were majorly against buying it and that dampened some people’s interest initially but when the game is $5, a lot of people will buy it just because it’s cheap.

ColeSloth,

Hell. Epic games gave it away for free like a week ago.

brsrklf,

I liked Wonder. It’s a decent attempt at refreshing 2D Mario, and some of the level gimmicks were quite fun. I think they’ve tried to recapture the effect of “every level a new idea” in 3D World, though I’d agree they were not as succesful in this one.

It’s a lot better than NSMB U IMO, that one was incredibly bland (especially after NSMB Wii, that one was great).

Squizzy,

Nsmb wii was brilliant, really enjoyed it. The new one had fine parts but was just too disjointed and became tedious and zany which I wouldnt usually tiento Mario

greybeard,

Everyone is allowed their own opinion. So I’m not going to say you are wrong for disliking it, but I completely disagree.

I consider Super Mario World to be the best in the franchise, and Wonder was probably better. I loved the game. I found most of the “New Super Mario” (The 2D series) games bad, or at least missing the magic of the first games with tight controls and well thought out levels. Wonder was a return to that.

CosmoNova, do games w Among 2025 games with over 10K reviews, Deltarune is the most highly rated

This is a fine list of games to play.

massive_bereavement, do games w The Best-Selling Video Games Since 2020

Switch Sports was quite bad tbh. I'll rather play the original Wii game.

MarcomachtKuchen,

I also was shocked how little content the game had on release.

logan_hero, do games w Day 532 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing

2 mininap mods? This is the level of greed they talk about in The Bible

MyNameIsAtticus,
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I was trying to get them both to work for the players who wanted each. Journey map was having issues, but i got it sorted out. Unfortunately i forgot to remove it though. It’s kind of grown on me in a stupid way though, I’m half considering keeping it for shits and giggles

baatliwala, do games w The Best-Selling Video Games Since 2020

Surprised at no minecraft, has it peaked?

Kolanaki, do games w Among 2025 games with over 10K reviews, Deltarune is the most highly rated
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I keep expecting to find some gnarly shit like was in the previous game and I haven’t found it. IDK if it’s just not there to find, or if the shit is even more esoteric than before.

I’m also quite confused by the fan tributes and favorites. Not against it, or anything, I just don’t understand things like why Mr. Tenna is so popular. 🤷‍♂️

brightwindow,

If you’re looking for gnarly shit, I highly suggest playing the weird route. When you start a new chapter 2 save file, backtrack ::: spoiler spoiler when noelle first joins your party. Then try using her ice magic. :::

The deltarune wiki has an article detaling exactly how to get it (you will get mildly spoiled): deltarune.wiki/w/Weird_Route/Chapter_2

Chapter 3 doesn’t really have content exclusive to this route, and in chapter 4 it will be obvious what you beed to do.

I agree about Tenna. Most of the fandom’s favourite characters are secret bosses or incredibly obscure and mysterious. If you don’t do a 100% playthrough you don’t get the full story of deltarune, it’s sad.

turkalino, do games w Among 2025 games with over 10K reviews, Deltarune is the most highly rated
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Warms my nub to see Nubby at nubmber 9 🥲

heatermcteets,

A surprisingly fun game. It exceeded my expectations. I have played it more than I thought I would.

cerebralhawks, do games w The Best-Selling Video Games Since 2020

I had no idea Animal Crossing was that high. It’s a stupid game with no point to it… and I can’t help but play it 2-3 times a week, even if it’s just to check in. It definitely has its moments. I gave my wife shit for paying $60 for it, and I played it daily for most of the year since we got it. (She dropped it after a couple weeks, which tanked my progress since only the first player can advance the island. We started over with me starting an island and she played here and there. Then she quit, and I wanted to start over again… and she hasn’t used the new island yet, and I’ve had it for over 7 months now. It will be my forever island.)

And Hogwarts over everything but Animal Crossing? That’s kinda wild. I did not think that game was that big. Currently playing it, it was recently given away on Epic Game Store, I wonder if giveaways count (probably not). It’s basically the Harry Potter simulator we’ve all wanted for the last 20-25 years. Whenever those books and movies started coming out. Except it doesn’t have Harry Potter, or anything from the series but the places.

daannii, (edited )

Well. I have about 1500 hours in AC and around 160 in Hogwarts. So those are probably both my most game hours.

Next is probably outlast trials. ~100 ish I have an eclectic taste in games.

AC is a cozy designer game. And you can play with friends. It was the best game for a pandemic. Not just a girls game either. Half my guy friends played the hell out of that game. I also was a AC new leaf fan so I was so ready for new horizons.

Its not that different than games like Minecraft. I think it appeals to people in similar ways.

As for Hogwarts.

For a lot of us millennials who grew up with Harry Potter ,the game felt like being in a Harry Potter movie. It was a beautiful game at 4k. Like I couldn’t believe how beautiful every square inch of the castle was. I spent a lot of time exploring. I did literally every single side quest and found all the demiguise statues. And all the items. And all the animals. All the mounts.

I do believe there was 60-80 side quests ? Something like that.

That’s how I spent 160 in the game.

I get that a lot of people don’t want Rowling to get any money as she is anti trans.

Rowling had nothing to do with the game aside from owning the IP.

No input or anything on the game.

I’m not here to defend her.

I will say though that a very large portion of things we love and that bring us happiness are tainted.

And we have to decide for ourselves if we can separate the art from the artist or not. And it’s a personal decision.

Examples. Walt Disney was antisemitic.
Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice in wonderland was a pedo. Bill gates was a visitor of Epstein’s Island.(Creator of windows) A shit ton of actors and musicians are pro Israel Zionist. A lot of sports players have domestic battery charges. Alfred Hitchcock was a bad guy (me too situations).

Speaking of. Harvey Weinstein was part of many many movie productions.

I’m not excusing any of these people nor their behaviors.

What I’m saying is. We all get to choose if we want to separate people from their work.

And some will and some won’t.

And I don’t think judging others just because they bought the Hogwarts game and love the Hp universe, is fair.
I’m certainly not ok with her statements on trans topics.

However I’m not giving up something I love. I can separate her from it.

You too, likely still enjoy media by a shitty garbage human.

Cause there are a lot of them.

Fizz, do games w Day 532 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing
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Create is such a cool mod. I wish it was around back in the days when i played nodded Minecraft.

MyNameIsAtticus,
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It’s like the only mod keeping me from making this modpack into an Attack of The B-Team server. I love create so much

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