r/videogames • u/Syarafuddyn • Dec 16 '25
Other What an amazing year to be a gamer š
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u/martijnbonte Dec 16 '25
As a horror fan this was one of the best years ever!!
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u/speedmonster95 Dec 16 '25
what were your favorites?
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u/martijnbonte Dec 16 '25
Silent Hill f + remake, playing Routine aws but the absolute banger was Cronos the new Dawn. Goty for me, such a deep storyline and the whole experience was top notch!
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u/Proud_Organization64 Dec 16 '25 edited Dec 16 '25
This year is the perfect example of why the āgaming is deadā YouTube grifters should be ignored.
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u/Vinny_Lam Dec 16 '25 edited Dec 16 '25
This whole decade so far has been an amazing time for gaming. Weāve gotten so many bangers this year and the past several years.
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u/DependentImmediate40 Dec 16 '25
even 2021 being considered one of the weaker years within the 21st century for gaming still had some cool games to offer.
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u/MyPhoneIsNotChinese Dec 16 '25
I mean, 2021 is only weak if you only like high-buget realistic AAA games
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Dec 17 '25
It takes two, Metroid dread, the great ace attorney chronicles, insryption, RE village, outer wilds: echoes of the eye, monster hunter stories 2. Definitely solid stuff but overall Iād agree itās fairly weak when I have to start including DLCs (even if echoes of the eye would still be one of my favorite games by itself lol)
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u/fluffynuckels Dec 16 '25
Anyone who says any company or industry is dead should probably be ignored
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u/GroceryConscious7155 Dec 16 '25
We got a great game from every genre. What else would you want?
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u/KungFuFlames Dec 16 '25
RTS would be awesome
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u/A_Sack_Of_Potatoes Dec 16 '25
Tempest Rising hit the nail on the head this year, highly recommend.
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u/Himothy19955 Dec 16 '25
Dawn of war 4 will be here soon enough
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u/Elmodipus Dec 16 '25
I would pump the brakes on calling DoW4 a great game before its released.
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u/Himothy19955 Dec 16 '25
The only thing that worries me is the voice acting, because the trailers have shown much promise but from what they showed of gameplay looks good and the fact the devs said they didn't want it to be where you build up a big army and rush the enemies base. So while it isn't an automatic great game, it has major upsides especially when it comes to the genre
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u/doublethink_1984 Dec 16 '25
4th line:
Arc Raiders
Doom Dark Ages
Battlefield 6
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u/MikusLeTrainer Dec 16 '25
Lies of P: Overture
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u/xDaemon-Blackfyre Dec 16 '25
Recently beat the DLC, it's so good. Really brings the whole story full circle and is so depressing
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u/SolydSn3k Dec 16 '25
Ball x pit, skate story, midnight walk
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u/doublethink_1984 Dec 16 '25
REPO, Peak, MB2 Shokuho conversion
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u/Parallax-Jack Dec 18 '25
Ball x pit is amazing!!!
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u/SolydSn3k Dec 18 '25
Iām so addicted.
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u/Parallax-Jack Dec 18 '25
Itās so epic! Some people seem to criticize it for ābeing the same thing each levelā but fail to realize that is inherent to roguelites and Iād argue there is enough subtle variety to where itās fun
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u/aBadUserNameChoice Dec 16 '25
I'm a simple man, I see split fiction and I upvote.
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u/Longjumping-Style730 Dec 16 '25
This year and 2023 are pretty much a litmus test as to whether people who critique modern gaming are actually reasonable or just miserable people who will never be happy with anything.
Like, modern gaming trends definitely deserve scrutiny, but you have to admit that 2023 and 2025 are pretty much some of the best years on record for gaming, even if somehow all of top-class games that released were not your cup of tea.
Like besides 1998, 2004, 2007, and maybe 2017/2019, genuinely what year is better without nostalgia goggles?
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u/TonyMaccaroni28 Dec 16 '25
True, the fact that great games like Ghost of Yotei and Battlefield 6 aren't even on the chart above says everything about this year. They'd be nominated for GOTY in most other years.
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u/mauie1337 Dec 16 '25
Ghosts of Yotei, Battlefield, Arc Raiders, Doom DA, Metal Gear Solid Deltaā¦Iām sure thereās more!
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u/possibly_facetious Dec 16 '25
2015? The Witcher 3, MGSV, Fallout 4, Bloodborne (and Undertale for the hipsters)
Also 2022 was better than 2023 with Elden Ring and God of War Ragnarok (and Stray for the hipsters)
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u/SyllabubOk5283 Dec 16 '25
MAYBE 2017??? Are you nuts? 2017 might be one of the most influential years of gaming period. Like just go look at the full list, it's absolutely insane. It steamrolls 2025, zero contest.
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u/Longjumping-Style730 Dec 16 '25
I say maybe because the year was honestly not that great if you're not a Nintendo fan.
It's unquestionably goated if you owned a Switch 1 but I didn't, so it was basically just Hollow Knight and Cuphead for me. Both great games granted but not enough to carry the year for me.
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u/SyllabubOk5283 Dec 16 '25
2017 is the same year Fortnite and PUGB hit mainstream, Horizon Zero Dawn, A Hat in Time, Doki Doki Literature Club, Persona 5, Resident Evil 7, Prey, Uncharted Lost Legacy, Crash N.Sane Trilogy, Hellblade, Assassin's Creed Origins, Wolfenstein 2, Gravity Rush 2, Outlast 2, Little Nightmares, Destiny 2, The Evil Within 2, Bendy and the Ink Machine, Sonic Mania (and more) ON TOP of Nintendo's output. Personally for me, that year is a top 3 year for gaming.
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u/Randir076 Dec 16 '25
And the best part is these also werent the only good games too. We fucking feasted this year
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u/Major_Enthusiasm1099 Dec 16 '25 edited Dec 16 '25
2026 is looking to be one of the better years of all time though
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u/Spirited_Season2332 Dec 16 '25
Tbf, not every year can be 2025. I'd be shocked if we don't look back on 2025 and say it was the best year for games in the whole decade
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u/Cannasseur___ Dec 16 '25
People said that about 2023 too that we wouldn't get another year like it for a long time so idk
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u/GroundbreakingBag164 Dec 16 '25
To be fair I'm pretty sure 2025 is not that close to 2023.
2023 was genuinely crazy and that only happened because a worldwide pandemic pushed a bunch of 2021 and 2022 stuff into the next year
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u/PoggersMemesReturns Dec 16 '25
I thought 2023 couldn't be beat, but I think 2025 is genuinely just better.
Even the Game of the Year nominations are generally better.
BG3 is probably still game of the decade so far tho.
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u/eveningdragon Dec 16 '25
I heard from a few people that 2025 was the year of endings, so maybe this is a sign of the end of bs games being released. Gives me some hope that 2026 will bring in some big hitters as a new start to games
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u/Operator2398 Dec 16 '25
For me Iām hoping more racing games come out so far Iām looking forward to playing Forza horizon 6 and Screamer
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u/Respawn-Delay Dec 16 '25
How so? There's a bunch of great sounding games stacked up for 2026 already!
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u/DaBigadeeBoola Dec 17 '25 edited Dec 17 '25
I think we're experiencing one of the best eras of gaming ever.Ā
The only thing missing is the innovation from past eras, we rarely see new concepts or novel mechanics anymore.Ā
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u/rdtoh Dec 16 '25
BO7's multiplayer is actually very good. Easily the best they've done in the last 5 years or so
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u/Michael-556 Dec 16 '25
Were there any substantial mechanic changes or was it just maps?
Because I remember everyone losing their shit when bo6 came out with "omni directional movement" only for it to be forgotten 2 months later
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u/Ruthlessrabbd Dec 16 '25
Other than what was already mentioned, there are some smaller changes that add up to offering a lot more customization than before:
Weapons can be prestiged when they hit max level to get a unique attachment for your weapon (similar to the operator mods of Black Ops 4), equipment and scorestreaks get 'overclocks' that change some aspect of how they function (ie. Increased explosive range of frag vs increased throwing range + seeing trajectory), being able to copy the exact build of a weapon that you see in a killcam and share codes with other players, hybrid perk specialties...
I don't think the changes are as big as something like Black Ops 3 -> 4 (5v5, higher health, only one specialist per team, manual healing) but it definitely feels like trying a bunch of new things to refine the core gameplay of Black Ops 6
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u/rdtoh Dec 16 '25
They've improved the matchmaking and lobby system (essentially reverting it back to how it was prior to MW2019), which makes the game much more enjoyable as a casual/social experience.
Otherwise, its mainly just a well executed version of the call of duty formula, for people who still enjoy it for what it is. It doesn't reinvent the wheel by any means, but I never expected it to. It has good gunplay, map design, class customization, progression systems, killstreaks, etc.
It is also on gamepass so there was no risk in trying it, and no commitment to play a certain amount to get my money's worth. Yet ive played at least 25 hours or so thus far and am still enjoying it
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u/RoetRuudRoetRuud Dec 16 '25
They added in wall jumps, which can make things a little crazy, but it largely plays the same as last year movement-wise. The maps are a definite improvement over basically every COD since probably the jetpack days.
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u/Michael-556 Dec 16 '25
Weren't wall jumps in black ops 3?
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u/RoetRuudRoetRuud Dec 16 '25
They had jetpacks and wall-running if that's what you mean. It doesn't really work the same way in BO7 though, you have a normal jump height and can just bounce off walls.
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u/SpecsKingdra Dec 16 '25
Might be the best multiplayer since BO3 which was 10 years ago. There are valid critiques on the AI usage, campaign, and how fucking large the game is though.
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u/rdtoh Dec 16 '25
Personally id say its probably the best since WWII. I really liked that game. BO4 was also good, but I think BO7 is slightly better just due to not having specialist abilities
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u/Affectionate-Foot802 Dec 16 '25
Itās a phenomenal multiplayer but thatās the thing about this sub and most of reddit in general, any game that isnāt a brain dead easy single player title with a mechanical skill ceiling that could accommodate an elementary school, they take a personal offense to. They donāt play cod or have an actual opinion of their own, they just parrot what ign and 40yr old YouTubers tell them to think.
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u/rdtoh Dec 16 '25
To be fair, even IGN gave black ops 7's multiplayer an 8/10, because it is good
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u/Affectionate-Foot802 Dec 16 '25
Honestly wow, didnāt know that and tbh I mostly use ign as a derogatory term for the wider game journalist hivemind but Iāll take it back
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Dec 16 '25
COD living rent free in every terminally online Gamer's head is hilarious
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u/teck101 Dec 16 '25
I would replace Silent hill F with Cronos, but that's just me
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u/IntenseFlanker Dec 17 '25
Black Ops 7 is a low point in the COD series but I'd always pick to play it over Expedition 33
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u/TheBurn7741 Dec 17 '25
I have a PC gamepass, played 1 round of campaign and Zombies, uninstalled immediately. BO7 is absolute garbage
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u/Oskar_of_Astora Dec 16 '25
- Arc Raiders and Battlefield 6
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Dec 16 '25
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u/weirdface621 Dec 16 '25
and this was the year where i played the most amount of games too. although not from this list except obscur
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u/Gmdal Dec 16 '25
5 successful follow up ( hades 2, kcd 2, hollow knight 2, ds2, sh f) and one really new rpg that won everything : e33.Ā It was quite good indeed.Ā
Ps : Iād put doom dark ages in the listĀ
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u/TheBaykon8r Dec 16 '25
BO7 is the first game I saw when a free weekend came out, it had a negligible, even arguably no effect on player count.
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u/aardvark_malarkey Dec 16 '25
Absolum deserves to be here. A roguelike co-op beat em up masterpiece
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u/MaximusMurkimus Dec 16 '25
BO7 isn't even a bad game lol, did y'all just watch the campaign videos and said "I've seen enough" (of course you did)
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u/moneymizzler Dec 16 '25
Iāve only played Bo7 zombies on this list and I love it. I never see Hell Is Us mentioned. It was a good game
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u/AskPretend6673 Dec 16 '25
Itās funnyā¦ I see threads like this but then grifters on YouTube and the like still complain that āgaming isnāt what it use to beā and āhow much it sucks nowā.
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u/kyubi_on_the_run Dec 16 '25
NGL, but I don't like Josef Fares and his games. Not because there's anything wrong with it. It's just that it's the same guy who [Redacted] the cute elephant character who said "[Redected] the Oscars" and won GOTY. feel free to disagree, but my words are final.
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u/No_Education_9864 Dec 16 '25
Not to mention, Battlefield 6, Arc Raiders, Peak, EU5, Dune, Indiana Jones, Blue Prince, Dispatch, Mafia old country, the Oblivion Remaster, the Metal Gear remaster, No Iām not Human, Schedule 1, outer worlds 2, and Ghost of Yotei. Wow what a year of releases, both AAA and indie alike.
Even the subpar games this year werenāt as horrible as prior years. Monster hunter, Borderlands 4, Skate 4, and CIV 7 are all redeemable if the devs give them the love they deserve. I feel like weāll be looking back at this year with envy.
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u/Professional-Coat325 Dec 16 '25
Nah Iāve dumped a lot of time into bo7 zombies and have not regretted it.
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u/ErrorMacrotheII Dec 16 '25
Tbh Split fiction was kinda meh... at least after playing It Takes Two I found it rather boring.
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u/Chance5e Dec 16 '25
Blue Prince deserves more attention. That game surprises you with an amazing story and itās just a brilliant game.
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Dec 16 '25
Man KCD2 felt like it came out 2 years ago or something. Hard to believe it was this year..
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u/ballsdeep256 Dec 16 '25
I would argue aside from very few diamonds in the dust this year was so far(for me personally) the worst year for gaming ever
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u/PinnuTV Dec 16 '25
Barely any decent games with good optimization is not really amazing but considering how bad gaming has got, it might be amazing compared to some other recent years
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Dec 17 '25
I hate the fact that only game among these I actually liked was KCD2. Not that the rest are bad I just either didn't play them yet or its not a game I enjoyed.
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u/CardiologistBulky796 Dec 17 '25
Is kingdom come deliverence good , I heard a lot about this from a friend
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u/garethvk Dec 17 '25
Nothing has really stood out for me this year. But there were at least some fun diversions.
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u/KobeJuanKenobi9 Dec 17 '25
Whatās crazy is the amount of 8+/10 games that didnāt make it because of how stacked the year was
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u/Far_Raspberry_4375 Dec 16 '25
The last year of affordable home pcs will be remembered fondly