The Video Game Thread v3

[Mitch]

Have Ghost of Yotei preordered for next week and Battlefield 6 preordered for the week after. Going to be a fun month.

[KTrain]

Looks like we'll get to slash our way through BC.

[photon]

I mean the past few superhero type games haven't been that good have they? So while that looks great I'm skeptical.

[Inferno]

Originally Posted by photon

I mean the past few superhero type games haven't been that good have they? So while that looks great I'm skeptical.

You need to look at more who is making it than the fact it's a superhero game.

I know Rocksteady made a dud with Suicide Squad after doing Batman but that doesn't mean Insomniac Games will with Wolverine either. You would think they would learn from Rocksteady's mistakes.

[chemgear]

Originally Posted by Mitch

Have Ghost of Yotei preordered for next week and Battlefield 6 preordered for the week after. Going to be a fun month.

Looks like they were pretty confident about the game, reviews are out well ahead of the release date already. Looking great!

EDIT:

[DownInFlames]

Japan! I can't wait, even though I expect to be disappointed by all the stuff they most likely removed or broke, like the last couple of releases.

[photon]

Not sure I have the willpower to wait for Ghost of Yotei for PC despite a ton of games now to distract me.

[DownInFlames]

Of course I bought it immediately.

[chemgear]

Pricey!

https://twitter.com/user/status/1971364699238433004

[DownInFlames]

This looks amazing, but it'll need serious power to run, I bet.

[Hemi-Cuda]

I'd be interested in that if it doesn't turn into a traffic management sim like every other city builder game made in the last 20 years

[photon]

Originally Posted by DownInFlames

Of course I bought it immediately.

Kind of like that one where you tear down ships, I always enjoyed that one I may have to give this one a try.

[Bigtime]

Originally Posted by chemgear

Soon!

Got around to watching this last night, I'm excited to get it. The fact that the reviewer is exactly like me, having grown up playing the original and likes the tweaks they have done is very encouraging. I'm ready to wrap myself up in a nostalgia blanket with this game.

Also, the reviewer is clearly a Stormlight Archive fan.

[GGG]

Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda

I'd be interested in that if it doesn't turn into a traffic management sim like every other city builder game made in the last 20 years

That sounds suspiciously like a real city.

[chemgear]

First it was Final Fantasy, now Playstation?

https://blog.playstation.com/2025/09...-this-october/

[btimbit]

Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda

I'd be interested in that if it doesn't turn into a traffic management sim like every other city builder game made in the last 20 years

I'm happy to manage traffic as long as it actually behaves like traffic and is proportionate to the population.

[chemgear]

I played a bunch of Hades 2 in early access. Stopped after a little bit knowing I'd pick it back up after the full release.

I was NOT expecting a damn gundam suit weapon lol.

[Cecil Terwilliger]

Could EA get more evil? With the saudis and trump in charge, definitely.

Electronic Arts, the maker of video games like “Madden NFL,” “Battlefield,” and “The Sims,” is being acquired for $52.5 billion in what could become the largest buyout ever funded by private equity firms.

Silver Lake Partners, Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund PIF, and Affinity Partners will pay EA’s stockholders $210 per share. Affinity Partners is run by President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner.

https://apnews.com/article/ea-electr...c0a6758aaa6900

[ResAlien]

Next Battlefield game should be interesting

[Blaster86]

Originally Posted by chemgear

First it was Final Fantasy, now Playstation?
https://blog.playstation.com/2025/09...-this-october/

Full set vs Secret Lair


FF was a fully realized set. This is 4 - 10 cards.


Though with the full schedule out for next year we are going to get a very (un?)healthy dose of Universes Beyond properties that will be full sets. Final Fantasy was actually quite solid, very well put together mechanically and some of the best limited play in the last little while. Spider-Man is a ####-show and not healthy for the game, it was so hastily and poorly designed it actually isn't really playable in limited.