2025 could be a very good year. February alone sees the release of Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, Civilization 7, Assassin's Creed Shadows, Avowed, Monster Hunter Wilds and Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in HawaiiBeyond February, there are a bunch of huge titles which are supposed to release next year (e.g. GTAVI, Fable, Ghost of Yotai, Metroid Prime 4), though inevitably some will slip into 2026 (and there will also be some unannounced games which launch in 2025).
I game on a Steam Deck pretty much exclusively now. So yeah, I'd agree with that one too
I'm more interested in Deck 2 (or maybe Legion Go 2), and whether that will have enough grunt to see me through 5 years, than I am in Nvidia's next generation of desktop cards.
It's basically the leap from The Witcher 1 to The Witcher 2/3 for the Pillars of Eternity franchise.
Avowed is an existing IP too
It *might* have been
I do "feel" hahaha that you have a really good point around the content creators, negative/content that gets most views/engagement. I also think that the opposite can happen too. Over stating how good something is. I find this in forums too. Emotions are heightened and opinion argues with opinion.
The forum dynamic can result in major negative and positive hype for a game. Most recent case of this for me is Cyberpunk. Releases with some bugs, absolutely panned in youtube and forums. I pick it up and it's really not as bad as the "internet" makes out 7/10. I actually had to talk a couple of friends into trying it because they actively avoided it because the negative reaction was so strong. They also agree it was nothing like the internet made out. Fast forward a couple of years and there is an update for Cyberpunk, all of a sudden the hype is positive. Internet talking about, this is a major upgrade, it has transformed the rubbish into what it was always hyped to be etc... I play it, and honestly it 90% the same game with some QOL 8/10.
HL3 is Valves ace in the hole, we wont hear of that until Valve is wobbling and needs to play its trump card and thats more than likely a long way off.
The amount of people who still game and car about HL3 must get smaller and smaller every year and will eventually be insignificant.
Yeah but the average 13 year old is also easily swayed by peer pressure , hype trains and streamer influence. When Half Life 3 finally gets announced , like Oasis tickets, people who werent around for HL1 and 2 will flood to it because of peer/hype/influencers.
My general opinion of Zoomers is that, to a person, they are all idiots
They could never top the boomers, they pretty much destroyed western civilization.My general opinion of Zoomers is that, to a person, they are all idiots
Give the zoomers time, the boomers (1946 to 1964) have been and in the past, we have the advantage of hindsight of their era, give it another 40 years and lets look back and see what the effect of the zoomers was and we can compare properly, but right now, I look at the average zoomer and I see an idiot who barely knows anything, is hardly capable of spelling properly, let alone any degree of reading comprehension and lacks the ability of critical or individual thought processes....but thats a topic for another thread
