If we wait to do everything, our review won’t be out this year, if we push out a review next month, we’ll be missing out on vital parts of the game that Rockstar have painstakingly crafted. This is a problem with all large games but it’s hard to shake off the feeling in GTA V that you’re always missing out on something, there’s always another diversion you could be taking part in. How should we play this game
Take-Two Interactive revealed it is pausing development on its Nintendo Switch 2 edition of "Borderlands 4" in its latest quarterly earnings.
O'Dell Harmon Jr. writes: "Before we say goodbye to 2025, let’s take a look back and see what were the most downloaded games of the year. It was a great time for sports, shooters, and some new PlayStation VR2 games. Sports favorites topped the charts in US/Canada and EU, with NBA 2K26 and EA Sports FC26, respectively.
Juggernaut GTA V found a home in the top three for both regions, with new 2025 release Battlefield 6 claiming second place in the US. Fortnite took top place for free-to-play games, and Beat Saber continues its PS VR2 success."
I think it shows how shortsighted it was for Sony to let go of Evolution and not get them to make some sort of competitor (open world Driveclub?) 10 years ago.
After Driveclub's reception, hard to say it would have done well enough to compete. It's easy to dream of such a thing, but to make it happen? It's taken how long for CoD to be dethroned? And it was dethroned by Hogwart's Legacy and has gained it right back just the next year.
It’s funny to watch the only games EU and USA agree on was Minecraft and back ops 7 both regions on 6 and 7 spot respectively other than that FIFA rules EU
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I would like to see a list that has both free to play and paid games together, but at least we have this.
To this day GTA5 is a top downloaded game and it makes me wonder if the industry is really ready for GTA6. I imagine almost nothing else will sell during that game's release window.
Another night of Fortnite with the boys then?
I’ve never played Fortnite GTAV or CoD BO7 but I do own GTAV for PS4/5 because I got them cheap.
i think we should either take those games out, or make a singleplayer list too ha
What exactly are we not getting?
Did we not just have a 2025 filled with nice games like...
Silksong, Doom TDA, Expedition 33, Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, Ghost of Yotei, Dispatch, Split Fiction, Hades 2, DK Bananza, and so many more?
Agree that all you just posted are great games. Expedition 33 is one of my favorites. Spent a large chunk of time on BG3 in 2023. Another for my all-time list.
My point though not well articulated in the OG post is that we would get more of the games of the quality you mentioned if so many valuable resources were not allocated to FTP slop and/or heavy monetization schemes. Some of what used to be my favorite franchises have been ruined by them.
To sum it up, I would like to see games like 33 outperform the profits made by games like Fortnite so more resources are allocated to great games. When heavily monetized FTP games are at the top of the list, we end up being stuck with a significant chunk of games that are not good. Or worst case scenario games that spend years in development, but get cancelled due to industry trend chasing.
Popsicle, I actually think we're getting more great games because of the slop. Developers are seeing that people aren't happy and taking advantage of big AAA studios not delivering for people.
Take your time like me, your review is late now anyway, everyone has already bought it lol
Its up to the player. Honestly I used to always spend hours exploring and never touch missions. Then GTA 4 came out and there was nothing I cared to explore so I just played the story. Now in 5 I started with the story but quickly found myself getting side tracked and then realize I'm hours in and all I've done is fool around. I feel like if you lose yourself in the game than your playing it right. Story or messing around.
If this review isn't up day one, it is already technically late. However, if the reviewer doesn't get the game early, how is he/she supposed to explore all that content in a short period of time. Go ahead, put up your review whenever, people will still read/watch it.
Well after the first 2 hours it is a 10/10 . People just check meta critic scores and stop reading reviews after the first 1 or 2 published ones anyway.
Really questionable are those reviews on sites you know can't have had the review copy before release day. You can totally tell when a review is illegitimate and there have been so many of that kind with GTA V. So, I don't really know your site, tpreview, but you have my respect for this.