Its my annual GOTY thread time ! 2025 edition

Genuine question here, not trolling at all. What is it that's so innovative and amazing about Arc Raiders? From videos I've watched, it just looks like another extraction shooter, with vibes of Generation Zero, but with some majorly epic toxicity from the player base because most of the videos I've watched are of people going "Yo, friendly, yeah, I'm friendly, oh cool, you're friendly too" and then "Bang, you're dead bro, hahahaha, eat it" etc, or people camping extraction points and just murdering everyone that's trying to get out and then stealing all their stuff. I'm very confused as to what it is that's making this such an amazing game.
 
CHokKA said:
Genuine question here, not trolling at all. What is it that's so innovative and amazing about Arc Raiders? From videos I've watched, it just looks like another extraction shooter, with vibes of Generation Zero, but with some majorly epic toxicity from the player base because most of the videos I've watched are of people going "Yo, friendly, yeah, I'm friendly, oh cool, you're friendly too" and then "Bang, you're dead bro, hahahaha, eat it" etc, or people camping extraction points and just murdering everyone that's trying to get out and then stealing all their stuff. I'm very confused as to what it is that's making this such an amazing game.
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Its a whole lot of fun thats all, not much innovative, just out and out fun. You should watch more videos, theres even a bunch in this thread which are not of the I'm friendly and then dead type, in fact youtube is absolutely plastered with funny videos that arent about backstabbing.
 
If it becomes a tie I'll buy Arc Raiders and hope it can become my GOTY with the 2hr refund window lol.
 
Seems Clair Obscur swept the board which, to me at least, comes as no surprise at all. However the huge support for Arc Raiders on this thread makes me think i should give it a ago. I haven't done so to date for pretty much exactly the reasons Chokka set out above in his question.
 
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UTmaniac said:
I'm still trying to work out if I've played a game released officially this year! :p
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Lol, I haven't. I only picked up Cyberpunk this year :cry:

I've heard of AR but I don't think it's for me, can't stand times components in games and it sounds like that's the fundamental mechanic.

Last online game I played was GTAV and BF4, yeah don't think I'm the target audience.

Clair Obscur I'll definitely pick up at some point though if for no other reason than to support a smaller team showing 'AAA' companies how to do it.

KCD2 has always been on my list, KCD1 was glorious.
 
Bracer said:
Seems Clair Obscur swept the board which, to me at least, comes as no surprise at all. However the huge support for Arc Raiders on this thread makes me think i should give it a ago. I haven't done so to date for pretty much exactly the reasons Chokka set out above in his question.
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It won a nutty amount of the awards, though some I do disagree with, it won best RPG and imo, KCD2 is a far better RPG than Expedition 33, with much more scope and freedom to actually Roleplay (you know, two of the letters in RPG :) ) , also disagreed with the voice actor one, how Troy Baker didnt win that for his Indiana Jones I will never know. He did that SO well that at times its really hard to tell that its not actually Harrison Ford.
 
KCD1 was glorious in every way except combat. Same with KCD2. The idea and their striving for simulation are great, but the ultimate experience is mega clunky and unsatisfying to the extreme for me. It's not just git good either, watching people who mastered KCD does not make combat look any better.
 
Bracer said:
Seems Clair Obscur swept the board which, to me at least, comes as no surprise at all. However the huge support for Arc Raiders on this thread makes me think i should give it a ago. I haven't done so to date for pretty much exactly the reasons Chokka set out above in his question.
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The trouble is arc raiders just came out. So the results are skewed because of this. Everything in the game is still new and fun.
 
Borsch said:
KCD1 was glorious in every way except combat. Same with KCD2. The idea and their striving for simulation are great, but the ultimate experience is mega clunky and unsatisfying to the extreme for me. It's not just git good either, watching people who mastered KCD does not make combat look any better.
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But sword fighting would be clunky! :)

I loved it once I got the hang of it. I'll miss that in KCD2 though, starting off literally useless and illiterate and having all the ailments so you're sleepwalking and whatever.

Glorious!
 
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