Comfortable Saturday eve! And joyful November! The place the hell is 2025 going? And in such a rush? As we head into a brand new month, we’ve obtained a contemporary weekend forward of us and, hopefully, somewhat time to play some video video games.
As at all times, should you’re at a loss for what to play, we’ve obtained some strong choices so that you can try. This weekend we’re taking a look at a pair of phenomenal trendy shooters. If going “bang, bang, bang!” ain’t your factor, don’t fear, we’ve additionally obtained an incredible narrative-focused recreation and the return of some basic RPGs. Let’s get to it!
Battlefield 6
Play it on: PS5, Xbox Sequence X/S, Home windows PC (Steam Deck: Unsupported)
Present aim: Strive sniping fools
Battlefield 6 has turn out to be the sport I can’t escape. Most nights, I find yourself enjoying at the very least a number of matches with my pals. Certain, it has some points, however more often than not I’m having an excessive amount of enjoyable blowing up tanks, operating from helicopters, dodging snipers, or pushing ahead into Hell to ever discover how small some maps are or how a number of bugs make issues wonky occasionally.
This weekend, I’ll possible attempt to lastly play extra Scout, a category I hardly ever use in Battlefield. Sniping simply isn’t my model. I desire therapeutic, charging, and going wild in a tank. However I ought to at the very least give sniping a shot. On the very least, by the top of this weekend, I’ll discover out if I’ve gotten any higher at lining up headshots with bolt-action rifles. – Zack Zwiezen
Dispatch
Play it on: PS5, Home windows PCs (Steam Deck: Verified)
Present aim: Take care of the fallout
The final pair of Dispatch episodes centered on a budding love triangle between protagonist Robert Robertson III and his co-workers Invisigal and Blonde Blazer. I didn’t actually really feel like having any office affairs, however Dispatch railroads you fairly exhausting into selecting one of many superpowered ladies or the opposite. So I kinda simply threw my palms up and picked Blonde Blazer. A selection was made, and now I’ve to play the subsequent two episodes to see what comes subsequent. I preserve holding off on enjoying these new episodes till the weekend, which has been a mistake as a result of spoilers preserve popping up on my feed with out a lot warning. With subsequent week’s episodes being the final, I ought to in all probability be a bit extra proactive. — Kenneth Shepard
Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake
Play it on: PS5, Xbox Sequence X/S,, Swap, Swap 2, Home windows PCs (Steam Deck: Playable)
Present aim: Gather my closing get together member
Tis’ the season for JRPG consolation meals and Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake is each bit as hearty and uncompromising as last year’s remake of Dragon Quest III. The one actual distinction is that neither of those video games is pretty much as good as that one, particularly Dragon Quest I which doesn’t even embrace a celebration of allies to journey with. There’s no job system in both recreation, and the fake Elizabethan-speak is uncontrolled.
So why am I nonetheless enjoying? A way of obligation, largely. These are classics, in any case, and having largely skipped out on Dragon Quest the primary time round, I now really feel invested in slowly inching my approach again via the remainder of the role-playing franchise. Additionally, all issues thought of, the second recreation is fairly good so far as turn-based dungeoneering goes. I really like the mixture of pixel artwork sprites and 3D backgrounds. I can already really feel my dedication starting to repay.
Did I break the overhauled story connecting Dragon Quest III (a prequel) extra on to Dragon Quest I by skipping it and going straight to the sequel? Sure. However, let’s be trustworthy, that’s probably not why I’m enjoying these video games to start with. And I don’t remorse it. — Ethan Gach
Arc Raiders
Play it on: PS5, Xbox Sequence X/S, Home windows PCs (Steam Deck: Unknown)
Present aim: Make correct use of that sniper rifle I preserve holding onto for pricey life
Cling on. I gotta stretch out my fingers to as soon as once more gush about Arc Raiders, Embark Studios’ PvPvE extraction shooter that got here out final week. In the event you’re inquisitive about my tackle it, please read my thorough review of this tough-as-nails game.
Learn Extra: Arc Raiders: The Kotaku Review
Right here’s an anecdote from final night time. I jumped in with squad fill turned on and was paired with two competent fellows who have been desperate to get some strong looting in, and have been as much as throw down with the ruckus-makers who get pleasure from defaulting to violence after they spot different gamers.
Nicely we obtained ambushed by a bunch of chuckleheads and summarily destroyed them from the bunker we took shelter in. It appears somebody learn my information about trapping doorways, as a result of one in every of my comrades positioned a firebomb lure on the exit and, nicely, they assumed it wouldn’t journey for friendlies.
So, of us, it is best to know this: You possibly can set off your individual traps. My “friend” right here discovered that the exhausting approach. Flames stuffed up the realm, killing all of us who have been desperate to get out to loot the our bodies of these we’d taken down.
It was hilarious. However rattling it, I had some good weapons on me that at the moment are simply gone.
Arc Raiders is stuffed with epic, thrilling third-person shooter encounters, however I’m additionally studying it produces a wholesome share of “WTF” moments just like the one I discussed above. So should you like a tricky recreation that may also be by accident hilarious, Arc Raiders is nicely price your time.
And that wraps our picks for the weekend! What are you enjoying?
