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The 25 Best Video Games of 2025 - Rolling Stones

No KCD2, and Silksong is below South of Midnight.

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Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 not being on a top 25 list is ridiculous

I played it for about two hours via PS Plus trial......kinda hated it.

I know that's not enough time to experience what it is, but it seemed very light on gameplay. More of a visual choose-your-own adventure. So I sorta get it.
 
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Every list is going to have issues, so overall it's not terrible, but wtf are they thinking leaving off KCD2? That's top 5, easily. Also, Where Winds Meet and Hell is Us should be on that list, wtf is South of Midnight doing anywhere near a "best of" list? Also, Yotei is way too high and Silent Hill f is way too low. It's a bad Silent Hill game but it's better than most of that list as just a pure game. And Dispatch being #4 is crazy, it's a visual novel, not really even a game.

I played it for about two hours via PS Plus trial......kinda hated it.

I know that's not enough time to experience what it is, but it seemed very light on gameplay. More of a visual choose-your-own adventure. So I sorta get it.
It's an open world RPG, it has as much (more) gameplay than Oblivion. WTF game did you play?
 
These lists are always very subjective obviously. Most of the games here are good for a yearly 25 except South of Midnight... That game was mid at best (but I hated every minutes of it personally)

And obv there are some strangely missing games like Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 which is/will be on many top 5 lists.
 
Looks like Expedition 33 is already sweeping magazines, will it win 5/5? they already won Golden Joystick and will most likely win TGA too.
I think it will end up winning 4/5 and will probably lose GDC to Hollow Knight or something.
 
I've heard of 8 of them. Played none of them. Shinobi aside, no intention to either.

I'm trying to pick out which 8 you've heard of. You mention Shinobi here so gotta guess the other 7, I'd go with:

Shinobi
Expedition 33
Mario Kart World
Ninja Gaiden 4
Battlefield 6
Hollow Knight: Silksong
Death Stranding 2
Donkey Kong Bananza

Meaning that there's some mix of Silent Hill, Final Fantasy Tactics, Hades II, Ghost of Yotei, ARC Raiders, Split Fiction, or any of the above that you somehow apparently haven't heard of despite spending a lot of time on a video game forum?
 
The funny thing is none of my posts even mention KCD.


Stay jelly, jelly boi 🤭 :ROFLMAO::LOL:
But you were the first one to reply to me in the other thread about how I am losing my sanity over Expedition 33 winning awards, only because I said KCD 2 is my Game of the Year. I can't fathom how someone calling KCD 2 his Game of the Year makes you project that I am losing my sanity over Expediton 33 winning awards. The only explanation I can think of is that you are yourself jelly that someone called something other than Expedetion 33 his "Game of the Year" and you are defending the game because it was in Game Pass. And you call me jelly.
 
But you were the first one to reply to me in the other thread about how I am losing my sanity over Expedition 33 winning awards, only because I said KCD 2 is my Game of the Year. I can't fathom how someone calling KCD 2 his Game of the Year makes you project that I am losing my sanity over Expediton 33 winning awards. The only explanation I can think of is that you are yourself jelly that someone called something other than Expedetion 33 his "Game of the Year" and you are defending the game because it was in Game Pass. And you call me jelly.

'but you said that i said that you said... '

holy shit what a word salad, just stick to leaving lol emoji's on my year old posts :LOL:
 
I'm trying to pick out which 8 you've heard of. You mention Shinobi here so gotta guess the other 7, I'd go with:

Shinobi
Expedition 33
Mario Kart World
Ninja Gaiden 4
Battlefield 6
Hollow Knight: Silksong
Death Stranding 2
Donkey Kong Bananza

Meaning that there's some mix of Silent Hill, Final Fantasy Tactics, Hades II, Ghost of Yotei, ARC Raiders, Split Fiction, or any of the above that you somehow apparently haven't heard of despite spending a lot of time on a video game forum?

Silent Hill
Ninja Gaiden
Shinobi
Mario Kart
Death Stranding
Ghost of Yotei
Hollow Knight
Donkey Kong

Obviously familiar with the Final Fantasy and Battlefield IP's but couldn't tell one from the other or no idea what number they are up to now. The rest of them I've never heard of.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 game of the year? Sounds like a novel about some 'strong independent' woman leading a mountaineering expedition of soyboys to me.
 
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 game of the year? Sounds like a novel about some 'strong independent' woman leading a mountaineering expedition of soyboys to me.
Maybe you should play the game first. Not everything is about "woke".
 
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