{"id":364426,"date":"2025-11-08T11:42:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T11:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/364426\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T11:42:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T11:42:15","slug":"arc-raiders-and-3-great-games-we-cant-wait-to-get-back-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/364426\/","title":{"rendered":"Arc Raiders And 3 Great Games We Can\u2019t Wait To Get Back To"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy Saturday eve! And happy November! Where the hell is 2025 going? And in such a rush? As we head into a new month, we\u2019ve got a fresh weekend ahead of us and, hopefully, a little time to play some video games.<\/p>\n

As always, if you\u2019re at a loss for what to play, we\u2019ve got some solid options for you to check out. This weekend we\u2019re looking at a pair of phenomenal modern shooters. If going \u201cbang, bang, bang!\u201d ain\u2019t your thing, don\u2019t worry, we\u2019ve also got a great narrative-focused game and the return of some classic RPGs. Let\u2019s get to it!<\/p>\n

Battlefield 6 <\/p>\n

Play it on:<\/b> PS5, Xbox Series X\/S, Windows PC (Steam Deck: Unsupported)
Current goal: <\/b>Try sniping fools<\/p>\n

Battlefield 6 has become the game I can\u2019t escape. Most nights, I end up playing at least a few matches with my friends. Sure, it has some issues, but most of the time I\u2019m having too much fun blowing up tanks, running from helicopters, dodging snipers, or pushing forward into Hell to ever notice how small some maps are or how a few bugs make things wonky on occasion.<\/p>\n

This weekend, I\u2019ll likely try to finally play more Scout, a class I rarely use in Battlefield. Sniping just isn\u2019t my style. I prefer healing, charging, and going wild in a tank. But I should at least give sniping a shot. At the very least, by the end of this weekend, I\u2019ll find out if I\u2019ve gotten any better at lining up headshots with bolt-action rifles. \u2013 Zack Zwiezen<\/p>\n

Dispatch <\/p>\n

Play it on:<\/b> PS5, Windows PCs (Steam Deck: Verified)
Current goal: <\/b>Deal with the fallout<\/p>\n

The last 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\u2019t really feel like having any workplace affairs, but Dispatch railroads you pretty hard into choosing one of the superpowered women or the other. So I kinda just threw my hands up and picked Blonde Blazer. A choice was made, and now I have to play the next two episodes to see what comes next. I keep holding off on playing these new episodes until the weekend, which has been a mistake because spoilers keep popping up on my feed without much warning. With next week\u2019s episodes being the last, I should probably be a bit more proactive. \u2014 Kenneth Shepard<\/p>\n

Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake <\/p>\n

Play it on:<\/b> PS5, Xbox Series X\/S,, Switch, Switch 2, Windows PCs (Steam Deck: Playable)
Current goal:<\/b> Collect my final party member<\/p>\n

Tis\u2019 the season for JRPG comfort food and Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake is every bit as hearty and uncompromising as last year\u2019s remake of Dragon Quest III<\/a>. The only real difference is that neither of these games is as good as that one, especially Dragon Quest I which doesn\u2019t even include a party of allies to adventure with. There\u2019s no job system in either game, and the faux Elizabethan-speak is out of control.<\/p>\n

So why am I still playing? A sense of duty, mostly. These are classics, after all, and having largely skipped out on Dragon Quest the first time around, I now feel invested in slowly inching my way back through the rest of the role-playing franchise. Also, all things considered, the second game is pretty good as far as turn-based dungeoneering goes. I love the combination of pixel art sprites and 3D backgrounds. I can already feel my commitment beginning to pay off.<\/p>\n

Did I ruin the overhauled story connecting Dragon Quest III (a prequel) more directly to Dragon Quest I by skipping it and going straight to the sequel? Yes. But, let\u2019s be honest, that\u2019s not really why I\u2019m playing these games to begin with. And I don\u2019t regret it.\u00a0 \u2014 Ethan Gach<\/p>\n

Arc Raiders \"A\u00a9 Screenshot: Embark Studios \/ Claire Jackson \/ Kotaku <\/p>\n

Play it on:<\/b> PS5, Xbox Series X\/S, Windows PCs (Steam Deck: Unknown)
Current goal: <\/b>Make proper use of that sniper rifle I keep holding onto for dear life<\/p>\n

Hang on. I gotta stretch out my fingers to once again gush about Arc Raiders, Embark Studios\u2019 PvPvE extraction shooter that came out last week. If you\u2019re curious about my take on it, please read my thorough review of this tough-as-nails game<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Read More:<\/b> Arc Raiders: The Kotaku Review<\/a><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s an anecdote from last night. I jumped in with squad fill turned on and was paired with two competent fellows who were eager to get some solid looting in, and were up to throw down with the ruckus-makers who enjoy defaulting to violence when they spot other players.<\/p>\n

Well we got ambushed by a group of chuckleheads and summarily destroyed them from the bunker we took shelter in. It seems someone read my guide about trapping doors, because one of my comrades placed a firebomb trap at the exit and, well, they assumed it wouldn\u2019t trip for friendlies.<\/p>\n

So, folks, you should know this: You can set off your own traps. My \u201cfriend\u201d here learned that the hard way. Flames filled up the area, killing all of us who were eager to get out to loot the bodies of those we\u2019d taken down.<\/p>\n

It was hilarious. But damn it, I had some good guns on me that are now just gone.<\/p>\n

Arc Raiders is full of epic, thrilling third-person shooter encounters, but I\u2019m also learning it produces a healthy share of \u201cWTF\u201d moments like the one I mentioned above. So if you like a tough game that can also be accidentally hilarious, Arc Raiders is well worth your time.<\/p>\n

And that wraps our picks for the weekend! What are you playing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Happy Saturday eve! And happy November! Where the hell is 2025 going? And in such a rush? As…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":364427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[142265,53031,41057,176518,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-364426","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-arc-raiders","9":"tag-battlefield-6","10":"tag-dispatch","11":"tag-dragon-quest-i-ii-hd-2d-remake","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115513901016577534","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}