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Phil Savage @octaeder.bsky.social · 4d

Technically 119 because of personal picks.

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Phil Savage @octaeder.bsky.social · 4d

100! PC! Games! www.pcgamer.com/games/the-to...

The top 100 PC games

Welcome to the 2025 edition of the PC Gamer Top 100—our annual list of the best PC games you can play.

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Phil Savage @octaeder.bsky.social · 14d

Me, only remembering that this accursed website exists because someone linked to a dogshit take.

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Phil Savage @octaeder.bsky.social · Sep 3

It's not just that the power grind feels unrewarding—although it does. This new version of Destiny 2 fails across the board. It fails in ways that would never happen if you were creating a game from the ground up; its issues partly a result of crowbarring the old version of the game into this ill-fitting suit.

This was a critical moment for Bungie, and the worst possible time to make such a fundamental misstep. After the layoffs, the uncertainty, and the underwhelming response to Marathon, the studio desperately needed a win. Unfortunately the new version of the game feels designed for no-one; a boardroom idea of player engagement and monthly active users given life, existing in stark contrast to what any Destiny 2 player actually wanted. And even then, it's bungled throughout—a muddled hodgepodge of contrasting systems that somehow punishes players for even attempting to engage with it at face value.

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Phil Savage @octaeder.bsky.social · Sep 3

Hello, I am sad about the videogame. www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/as...

As Bungie flounders following Destiny 2's disastrous Portal update, is there any saving the game?

I committed myself to the new uber-grindy Destiny 2, and it was so much worse than I thought.

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Phil Savage @octaeder.bsky.social · Jul 29

This wasn't a particularly fun review to write, but I'm really not gelling with Destiny 2's new systems. So much of the game right now feels worse than it did two weeks ago.
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Destiny 2: The Edge of Fate review

It's a brand new Destiny 2. Can I have the old one back?

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Phil Savage @octaeder.bsky.social · May 22

WWE ain't got nothing on the style and grace of the Japanese pros.

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Phil Savage @octaeder.bsky.social · May 22

As part of @pcgamer.com's Witcher 3 10th anniversary celebrations, I was asked to write about the whole Tub Geralt thing, aka, the most notable thing I have done in my career. www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/ce...

Celebrating 10 years of posting that one image of Geralt in a bathtub

From screenshot to cake, Tub Geralt became a defining icon of The Witcher 3.

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Phil Savage @octaeder.bsky.social · May 7

This really rings hollow when "lawless space cowboy shit" is already a rich vein of Destiny storytelling, but also one severely lacking in the current version of the game. This just reads as Bungie jettisoning the 'vibe' already built in favour of the version of it that lets them have lightsabers.

Destiny Bulletin @destinybulletn.bsky.social · May 7

🚨NEW: Bungie responds to concerns around Destiny 2 Renegades expansion, saying "everything… is in-canon" and they’re "leaning into the aesthetic, tone, and vibe of Star Wars to tell a Destiny story with Destiny characters" - thegamepost.com/destiny-2-st...

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Phil Savage @octaeder.bsky.social · Feb 3

Based on what I've played so far, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 feels like a real modern Oblivion successor. Only instead of helping Sheogorath unleash a storm of burning dogs, you're tracking the village idiot to his sauerkraut den because he's stolen half the cabbages.

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Joshua Wolens @joshuawolens.bsky.social · Nov 20

stalker 2 is a very good, very buggy videogame. so it's stalker, basically. www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/st...

Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl review

Say it with me now: get out of here, stalker.

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PC Gamer @pcgamer.com · Nov 18

If you’d like to follow the PC Gamer team on Bluesky, here’s a starter pack with everyone On Here so far.

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Phil Savage @octaeder.bsky.social · Nov 18

Anyway, my top tip is to mentally find-and-replace "The Game Awards" with "The Spike VGAs".

"Here's the big problem with The Game Awards": Oh no. Sounds serious. Let's put our best minds on this.

"Here's the big problem with The Spike VGAs": oh lol. who cares?

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Phil Savage @octaeder.bsky.social · Nov 18

I will say this for The Game Awards: it's an audacious excercise in branding. The discourse every year suggests that people genuinely believe it's /the/ de facto official industry award show, but like, they just called it that. It's a trick. A spell that only works if you believe.

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