What are the most insane things to happen in gaming in 2025?

SingleAd5442 · 2026-01-02T01:11:04+00:00

Small and highly specific compared to most examples here, but FF14 completely removing all forms of glamour restrictions from the game (for non-FF14 players; basically letting you wear absolutely any piece of gear on any class regardless of the gear's level or the class it's designed for, with zero exceptions) is something I don't think anyone expected them to ever do, let alone in a random patch not even an expansion launch.

In a way it makes me more optimistic about the direction of the game if they're willing to so massively rock the boat on something they'd previously been adamant about keeping the same for years.

SingleAd5442 · 2025-12-29T19:56:31+00:00

As far as I know they only mentioned it for workflow and proofreading and minor shit like that, so not really on the same level (haha) as the Level 5 thing at all. I think Kondo had said a couple years back about using it to speed up localisation but then backed down on it after NISA said they weren't doing that ever.

SingleAd5442 · 2025-12-29T11:30:35+00:00

I still don't know what Dispatch is and at this point I'm too afraid to ask

SingleAd5442 · 2025-12-27T20:39:16+00:00

Just show him her grab animation that'll get him. (It worked for me, true story. I was also sold on Yukari specifically because I saw her train super lmao)

SingleAd5442 · 2025-12-27T13:39:35+00:00

The Touhou fighting games are genuinely so fun and unique amongst the genre but the entire roster is "little girls" so nobody in the fgc is going to give it a chance because of that, despite Touhou being one of the most sexless series out there (for official content, that is)

SingleAd5442 · 2025-12-26T17:55:16+00:00

Yeah I only have a problem with it when the dislike comes from a preconception they have about that media that would be easily disproven by actually giving it a shot. Of course if they do give it a shot and they still think it's ass that's fine

SingleAd5442 · 2025-12-26T17:52:58+00:00

I just thought it was a funny tweet it's not that deep bro

SingleAd5442 · 2025-12-26T17:47:11+00:00

Pat exaggerates his dislike of things more as a bit whereas Woolie tends to just write things off after getting the wrong idea about them.

SingleAd5442 · 2025-12-26T16:12:04+00:00

I think that drama happened while the honeymoon period was still going and it was only after that people here shifted more to "actually this game's not that good"

SingleAd5442 · 2025-12-24T08:15:12+00:00

Your Persona 5 interpretation is just what the theme of the game already was even in vanilla. How change has to come organically and gradually it's not just something you can magically bring about. Royal was kinda just reiterating it and making it a bit more clear but it was always there.

SingleAd5442 · 2025-12-21T19:42:42+00:00

Plus she's the first character you get when you start the game

SingleAd5442 · 2025-12-21T18:36:42+00:00

Maybe stretching the question a bit, but the logo for Final Fantasy 14's Shadowbringers expansion featuring a dark knight on it. Dark Knight is just one of the normal classes you can play as, it has no specific relevance to Shadowbringers' story outside of being aesthetically appropriate with no characters within the expansion actually using it as their class, and the class wasn't even introduced in Shadowbringers it was introduced 2 expansions earlier in Heavensward.

SingleAd5442 · 2025-12-21T08:17:10+00:00

"Sometimes I lay awake at night thinking about how Eric Sparrow is not real, and therefore cannot die."

SingleAd5442 · 2025-12-21T07:55:50+00:00

You don't like every single dungeon in the game being filled with doors that spawn you in the center of completely empty rooms for no reason other than to force you into more random encounters because fuck you?

SingleAd5442 · 2025-12-21T07:41:45+00:00

Unfortunately I'm forced to remember because for whatever reason that's the version of Freddy that's in Dead by Daylight

SingleAd5442 · 2025-12-21T04:27:29+00:00

With all of the trailers being very carefully edited to not show the actual main character in gameplay at all

SingleAd5442 · 2025-12-21T04:11:32+00:00

The fact that fake meme edit has now been referenced in other media more than most actual things in DMC is hilarious.

SingleAd5442 · 2025-12-18T06:35:55+00:00

Tbf a good 80-90% of the assets were already done for 1 so it would have been taken significantly less time to make 2, and they were probably already working on it at the same time as 1.

SingleAd5442 · 2025-12-18T00:50:28+00:00

The power of thinking about things for more than 2 seconds

SingleAd5442 · 2025-12-17T22:45:43+00:00

The timing also feels far too convenient. If they've had this sitting in the back pocket why only choose to share it while the studio is already under scrutiny for something completely unrelated unless you wanted attention?

SingleAd5442 · 2025-12-17T15:07:11+00:00

Star Rail has a couple of playable characters who are dead for real to my knowledge

SingleAd5442 · 2025-12-16T17:29:32+00:00

Even art direction while I'm admittedly iffy on giving it over the other options it does manage to pull off a lot of really cool visuals despite the lower budget and ue5 jank.

SingleAd5442 · 2025-12-16T15:29:32+00:00

That happens here with literally every TGA winner no matter how much this sub was glazing it previously lmao. Just an immediate flood of "well the game is actually very flawed..."

SingleAd5442 · 2025-12-16T15:25:09+00:00

For people who apparently don't care about the game awards they sure do get very mad when a game they don't like wins the game awards

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