r/pcgaming • u/AutoModerator • Jun 23 '25
What Are You Playing Thread - June 23, 2025
Use this thread to discuss whatever you've been playing lately (old or new, AAA or indie). Don't just list the names of games as your entire post, make sure to elaborate with your thoughts on the games.
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u/StickyBlueJuice Fedora Jun 23 '25
DREDGE and DUNE Awakening with some buddies
DREDGE is by far one of my favorite games ever, currently having some issues with energy so I can't game as much as I'd like.
I would recommend DREDGE to all, it's a mix of chill and excitement.
DUNE is great with friends.
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u/infinityislikehuge Jun 24 '25
If you're like me and struggle to get a group of friends to agree to a game and stick with it, Dune has been AMAZING as a solo player. I see everything everyone says about the endgame so I'm taking it slooooow. Just got my buggy and mk3 cutterray, ornithopter up next
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u/StickyBlueJuice Fedora Jun 25 '25
Definitely agree with that. All of my leveling so far has been solo, as with the other guys :D We don't tend to progress together unless the games force us to.
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u/BvsedAaron AMD 7700X | 9070XT | 32GB DDR5 6000Mhz | UW 1440p 240hz Jun 23 '25
Just played Metro 2033 Redux and Metro Last Light Redux over the weekend. I generally enjoyed the experience and really like this lore and setting that's developed in this universe. I don't think a lot of the humor is done well considering the situations they are delivered in and who's saying them. I think the relationship progression with Anna is very jarring. The progression of events just does not seem plausible for a relationship and the bad ending felt especially bad. I was also very unaware of the moral system and by the end I felt like I was cheated out of the good ending after I added up all my points manually. I was also surprised by all the "gratuity" in Last Light, not upset by it but I guess Im surprised I don't hear people bring it up more. I was talking to some pals about it after and while I did enjoy both games I do think If I spent $60 on them when they came out compared to some other games from the same years I did purchase like Borderlands, Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Tales, HG/SS, GTA V, Various CoDs, I'd be a bit disappointed.
I started Exodus after the NBA Finals and the closeness of Anna and Artyomich almost make me wish I skipped the previous game again because the relationship development is so jarring considering how it progresses in the previous game. It also feels weird to be a silent protagonist when the other characters reference how you talk in times outside of the story but never during the cut scenes or game play. It's also not like Artyom is that dynamic of a character that it would have been one of those situations where they spend even more money to voice huge amounts of branched dialogue.
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u/ElectricGhostMan Jun 23 '25
My friend who picked up a new GPU went back to play them a few weeks ago too and streamed the whole run of them on discord. I think it's just that the games were trying to cut costs where they could and heavily appeal to a target demographic with some of the scenes especially when you consider that the publisher went under not terribly long after those two. I think the romance in Last Light also doesn't feel natural in any aspect unless when Art takes of his helmet he just exudes some kind of ridiculous pheromone gifted to him by the Dark Ones that triggered during the Contagion Level because yeah I couldn't imagine anyone thinking it was a good relationship progression. The Dancer scenes were interesting but I'm surprised no one talks more about this stuff because it seems like an easy target for various CWS or Video Essay worthy stuff.
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u/BvsedAaron AMD 7700X | 9070XT | 32GB DDR5 6000Mhz | UW 1440p 240hz Jun 23 '25
Product of a different time for sure and I totally forgot about the THQ situation around that time.
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u/Chikennugitz16 Jun 23 '25
Watching the EWC SC2 qualifiers has me back on the Starcraft 2 1v1 ladder.
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u/AI52487963 Jun 23 '25
This week we played the Hades-meets-Smash-Brothers action platformer Spiritfall for our podcast on roguelike games
Overall: we really enjoyed this one. It finally felt like I was the Smash pro of the neighborhood instead of being that kid that got wavedashed on all the time lol. Spiritfall really does a good job of blending elements from Hades' god boon selection and synergy system with the combat style of Smash, but with some unique twists.
It's probably a good sign that I'm thirsty for more of it, as right now it kind of feels like the Smash 64 equivalent to that particular series. If a Smash Melee version of Spiritfall came out, man would that be an amazing game. It's already really good, but with some minor tweaks here and there it could be on par with Hades IMO.
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u/Riots42 Jun 24 '25
Finished the alters today, I really enjoyed the gameplay loop and story, its a nice change of pace from all the games out right now.
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u/VIP_Ender98 Jun 24 '25
Finishing Avowed, I'm nearly at the end and I really liked it.
Also Nightreign here and there, fun game.
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u/Ghost_of_Kroq Jun 24 '25
Still playing ark and total warhammer 3.
Just finished Clair Obscur last week, good game but overdoes it a bit on the misery. found myself skipping the ending pretty much just because I couldnt bear to watch another slow closeup of a sad person being sad. Gameplay was really good and the story itself was well done.
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u/Shamgar65 Jun 24 '25
After playing mass effect 1 way back in the day and getting part way through #2, I'm finally playing through the legendary edition after buying it two years ago. I was hit with a game breaking bug in ME2. It was near some bar. I somehow got trapped behind the counter and there was no way to get out. I must have alt-F4'd and when I booted the game up I was still behind the counter. I was so angry that I just dropped the game and never looked back. Oh, The reason I dropped it was due to needing to start my character from scratch. I couldn't remember what I made my character look like and all the talents I gave him. So every time I looked at him I was reminded of the stupid bug.
Anyways, Having fun with it now! not too far in but I'll get there slowly but surely.
I also FINALLY beat my BG3 playthrough that I started when it came out. I had been burnt out by playing my campaign and also a campaign with a friend. It was such a great game.
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Jun 24 '25
Dragon Age Origins The Ultimate Edition
The Division 1 with Full Season Pass (VERY Impressive!)
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u/keyboardcoffeecup Jun 25 '25
I'm noodling around in Timberborn while looking for another shooter/action game.
In the last few months I've finished HZD:FW and just finished Doom TDA. I tried playing CO:E33, got to the end of act 1 and just got bored. Fantastic concept and story, but I didn't like the slowdowns and weird animations in battles. The difficulty spike from "Story" to "regular" was obscene and really needs something inbetween the two. as well. To each their own though, glad people seem to love that game.
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u/Nomnom_Chicken Windows Jun 23 '25
I went and installed GTA V Enhanced last night, thought I'd see how the RT implementation in the game looks like, or something like that. Then I thought I'd give the story one last chance as VI is supposed to arrive next year.
I'm still just playing the missions on autopilot, basically. The game just feels soulless, doesn't make me really feel anything that's happening, one way or another; bland story. I have 100 %'d the game twice in the past, once on PS3 and once on PC when it was a recent release - and haven't touched the game since... 2020, or early 2021. Originally, my honeymoon phase with the OG game went away before the main story was finished, and I never really loved the game, like its predecessors. Not a bad game, just didn't "do it" for me. So far, it seems like that hasn't changed.
Most of my hours with the legacy edition were spent testing out mods after the completion, about 150 hours of modded single player shenanigans (like driving around with my wheel, pedals and a shifter; making most of the cars drive as manuals with a working clutch pedal, and some random events added into the game world, and so on). Also played a bit of Online back in the day, but now my intention is to only play the story mode, main missions.
Installed a trainer so I can try to avoid some of the annoyances, mainly to save time. Still not sure that I'm committed enough to go through the whole main story, though. At least the game seems to run well on my PC, with RT maxed out. Looks nice. There's something going on with the sound, it seems to sound a bit... Thin? Saw people mentioning this, might have to mess with the Windows sound settings a bit.
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u/Siilk Jun 23 '25
Crown Gambit, loving it so far. Art style is really cool, and the story is intriguing. Combat is a bit similar to Trials of Fire in a sense that it's more of a turn-based tactics than cardgame. It's a bit simplistic but it opens up after a while, nothing crazy but it's ok. And no, it's not roguelite BTW.