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@BritDad It is still a small portion of our libraries, but it is steadily growing. Similar on PlayStation, I use it quite a lot on PS Portal.

@Trmn8r If it's not for you that's cool, but variety and choice is a good thing. This seems like it's a great bit of art/media even if you don't think it's a game.

@ilyn Agree with all your points. Though having just been through a very frustrating looping part of Alan Wake 2, where I kept getting lost, I'm not sure this always works well. I also loved the IDEA of the motel, but it never quite nailed it from a gameplay perspective.

Remedy games in general have a lot of aspects I dislike but, thankfully, there's usually enough good aspects and uniqueness that I enjoy them overall. "Greater than the sum of their parts" for me, but that's subjective, I like their weirdness.

No I didn't notice stick sensitivity on Control at all. But I adapt to this pretty quickly across games and platforms and rarely actually change the setting.

@beltmenot I also want them to take as long as they need to make a good game. But considering the new games they released in the last decade (Fallout 76, Elder Scrolls: Blades, Starfield & Elder Scrolls: Castles) I don't have full confidence in them anymore. Yet I sincerely hope I am wrong and it's amazing, nothing would make me happier!

And this will just be the part of the iceberg visible above water, how many hundreds more were quietly cancelled without every being announced.

@Kezelpaso Black Ops (1) was mostly COD: Vietnam in all but name.

I'd like to feel about the characters (heroes and villians) as much as I did in it's heyday with Modern Warfare 1-3 on X360. Price, Soap, Makarov... these names meant something. Don't even ask me the names of other COD characters.

They missed Blue Prince in Top 5. Totally invalidates their list /s

(more seriously, lots of great games this year)

@Brigurugi While I wish it had a few more accessibility settings, I also respect developers that have a strong creative vision and stick to it firmly. Not every game needs to be for everyone, in fact art is better when it isn't and it's a little divisive. They made the game they wanted to make. Kudos.

I felt very mixed on this game. Taken on it's own it's a decent enough title, but compared to the original they just flub so many parts and drag out the story needlessly. It's still good imo, just not great. I hear Rebirth is better.

@jesse_dylan it’s Deeply personal 😂😂😂 /s

@dskatter Agreed. 30fps on a 15 year old game. Quarter second input lag and a host of other issues. Supremely low effort release.

Still a bit miffed this left Game Pass after a year considering the rough state it launched in. But i'll get to it at some point.

I've only heard of 2 or 3 of those thankfully.

@Sol4ris It's a cool game, enjoy!

I don't think anyone here is up in arms... just a bit baffled. It's a good looking game no doubt, and performant, but "#1 best graphics 2025" that doesn't really tally with what I played.

It's not because it's an Xbox game - Hellblade 2 and Indiana Jones were worthy in DFs best graphics in prior years. This just seems a stretch at #1 versus other games this year. But it is a mighty technical achievement for high performance with RTGI and other features which is their reasoning for giving it.

See what you think when you play it.

I've just finished it and the DLC (and moved on Alan Wake 2) and it was fantastic I have very few notes, just cook like you usually do Remedy.

My only major complaint was 3 of the main characters Jesse, Dylan and Emily were all exceedingly dull or one dimensional... which is especially odd for Remedy. Whereas Trench, Darling and Ahti were all excellent layered characters. So better main characters.

I also MUCH preferred it on PS5 than on PS4 where it ran between 15-30fps -it was one of the few games that ran better on XB One. So better day 1 performance would be my other main request. Other than that I trust Remedy.

@NeoRatt So Earthion, a 16-bit Megadrive game, makes sense in "best graphics 2025"? Perhaps it's just semantics, but to me it doesn't AT ALL. Yet it does make sense in "best technical achievement".

Either way it's just a bit of fun and not a big deal. Just my 2 cents. Doom and id tech are good either way, but didn't make my jaw drop in the way other games did this year, which is more in line with what I would term "best graphics".

@Fiendish-Beaver It's mostly because DF have a complete hard-on for Ray Traced Global Illumination and Doom: TDA does this in a very scalable and performant way, which is worthy of praise. But while they are of course they are entitled to their view they are praising it more from a technical standpoint than what many of us would term "best graphics". It's a misnomer imo, if we think of it more as "best technical achievement" it makes a lot more sense.

Hell they even have 16-bit Megadrive game (Earthion) and a Switch 2 game (Metroid Prime 4) on their "best graphics 2025" list, which I suspect is a major stretch to most people's definition of those words. Personally I think the art design on Metroid Prime 4 is truly excellent, but it's not near the "best graphics" this year really... yet it is a technical marvel literally playing at a locked 120fps on Switch 2.

While I've not played it personally, nor the first game, my mate did show the intro to Death Stranding 2 on PS5 Pro and my jaw dropped from the fidelity both big and small - which is a rarity nowadays in these days of diminishing returns - that would undoubtedly be my #1. Opinions eh?

1. Expedition 33
2. Silksong
3. Blue Prince

These are the only ones I am certain of. For the other 2 I voted Keeper and Doom TDA
But that changes daily.

"Largest world" is often a BAD thing. I just think of games like recent Assassin's Creed games or Just Cause. Give me a smaller, DENSER, world every day. I'm amazed game devs still don't seem to grasp that bigger doesn't always mean better.

@BattleMonkey It was almost certainly the right business call, but it doesn't make it any less disappointing when you are looking forward to the game.

And here I thought you were going to champion Blue Prince as the absolute masterpiece of game design it is.

But here’s the reality. 2025 has been an amazing year for video games, we are blessed that there have been so many good ones that games like Split Fiction, Blue Prince, KCD2… and many more… miss out on some awards.

• Fable
• Clockwork Revolution
• Gears E Day

Those are the main ones for me. I'm less interested in Halo re-re-make or another Forza Horizon unless they make it fresh again. Still feel gutted about Perfect Dark, it would nice to have a surprise too.

What he means is "preorders were piss-poor so we reverted to meet consumers where they were willing to pay. While expected, the push back was stronger than we thought and ultimately would have led to lower profits, so it's not really about you, it's about us"
Thank you.

Looks great, I look forward to playing it. Thought i'm not sure about having a branching timeline but not allowing you to use it till second playthrough. Bit weird.

Need to give this another go. Didn't love the gameplay or animation when I gave it a brief whirl, then bounced to something else. That's the good and bad of Game Pass, it makes games far less 'sticky'.

Continues to look amazing.

Frankly not a fan of CGI trailers, and this just seemed to be out there to shock. Not a lot to glean. But I trust Larian to make a good game.

A LOT of good looking games. I put checkmarks next to at least 20 games. Probably the stand outs for me were:

• SW: Fate of the Old Republic
• Divinity
• Ontos
• RE Requiem
• Exodus
• Control 2 Resonant
• Fang of the Dragon
• Tomb Raider x 2
• Lords of the Fallen 2
• Saros
• No law
• Phantom Blade 0

And several more I am keeping an eye on. Strong show.

I genuinely thought they were calling it "Another F___ing Zombie Game" which would have been a far better title imo.

Did look very different in a lot of ways, but I am up for that.

@Nerad I'm just about to play that, i've been doing the whole Remedy Verse. Currently half way through Control.

Looked awesome, but it's also a HUGE step up for The Ascent team, I hope they can deliver.

Really disappointing final announcement. Granted I had probably fallen for the pre-show hype and thought it might be something huge.

But the game looked cool, if you like that sort of thing... but I don't.

C. It started pretty well with a LOT of promising trailers but lulled in the middle and then didn’t nail the finish. Also too much CGI not enough gameplay. Lastly too many awards were rushed through.

But there were still a lot of good looking games overall.

That is a quick turnaround, first game was 2023. Amazing art design. Hopefully better technically.

@Johnnel thanks

I love the Jan Dev Direct but that was super weird having a trailer for trailers.

I'd forgotten this game had even come out. It disappeared with a whimper.

In terms of marketing costs that’s not very much for the sort of exposure TGAs give. There were over 150 million streams last year.

This feels like an in-joke i'm not in on... great game though.

Prince or Persia lost crown + DLC for £13.99 is a bargain!

@Fiendish-Beaver @Kezelpaso To be fair Bratz is a series aimed at kids/tweens who are unlikely to leave reviews, so that isn't the fairest metric to judge it by. We're clearly not it's target market! lol. But like Bluey and other kids games they put on Game Pass I think it's cool they add something that parents might want to play with their kids.

I’m fairly certain my Xbox gaming is significantly down this year versus PlayStation. Too many time sapping games over there I need to delete!

But Game Pass has still provided a lot of great games including my top 3 games of the year in Expedition 33, Silksong and Blue Prince.

Last year was a great improvement imo, even the Muppets were funny, ripping into Geoff and TGAs as a comments section would.

There's still too many ads/trailers versus awards, and it's still FAR too long... but that's a near impossible quandary to solve.

If it's as good as last year's I'll be very happy.

Not so Smart Delivery...

I wonder if they might announce the NextBox with compatibility through a translation layer or something similar.

We will no longer do back-to-back releases of Modern Warfare or Black Ops games

This could mean a lot of things, but I wonder if they will skip the campaign every other year, or something similar.

@Pac_Bot Exactly. It's like my nephew who thoughtAssassins Creed Valhalla was the "greatest game he had ever played" (well after Zelda BOTW) but it was his fist Ass. Creed.

How you feel about Forza Horizon 5 probably depends how much you played the other games. It was undoubtedly well made but personally, having put hundreds of hours into the series, it was exceedingly uninspiring, it just felt like a skin swap of Forza Horizon 4 with a different map. I'd played it all before.

Hoping for something fresher.

@rhyno_888 Netflix doesn't have a gaming platform either.

@rhyno_888 Why do you think it would be any different with Paramount though?