Tag: death Stranding 2
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BigNerdGaming’s Top 10 Games of 2025
As much work as I put into all of my various 2025 lists, there really is nothing else like a plain old year end top 10. I can make a million different types of weird lists to hype various games up, but there’s literally no way for me to tell you to play a game…
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BigNerdGaming’s Top 20 Moments of 2025
This is probably my second favorite post I do every year. As great as it is talking about the characteristics of different video games, there’s something extra special about diving deep and exploring individual moments from those games. If someone tells me their favorite video games from a year, I think there are things I…
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Andresplays’ Best 15 Moments in Gaming For 2025
Editor’s Note: For the second consecutive year, Andres has been generous enough to contribute an article to the blog for our end of year coverage. I want to thank him for his time and excellent writeups here. Sadly, these moments are not ranked despite my best efforts to convince him to do so. I suppose…
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Fake 2025 Game Awards Betting Odds + My Full Predictions
Welcome to year three of my Game Awards winner predictions and fake betting odds. This idea was born out of a simple and foolish desire. My desire to actually bet on The Game Awards. The betting site “Polymarket” now has odds for “Game of the Year,” but I really wish that I could bet on…
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My Hottest Gaming Takes of 2025 So Far
This may surprise you, given the title of this article, but I don’t like a lot of “hot takes” in the gaming space. I feel like a lot of these takes are given in bad faith, and mostly for attention. Calling a very well regarded game “bad” is an easy way to get attention and…
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Death Stranding 2: On the Beach Review- Craving Tough Love
As someone who reviews almost every game that I play, there’s a point in the process where I kind of start mentally writing my review. Once I’m deep enough in a game, there usually isn’t much that is going to change. The game kind of gets locked into the score and thought process I have…
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Boys Don’t Cry During The Death Stranding 2 Ending
Note: There are spoilers for the ending of Death Stranding 2 in this article. They are marked, and the article should still function roughly the same with or without them. But there’s one thing I knowThe blues they send to meet meWon’t defeat me, it won’t be longTill happiness steps up to greet me Raindrops…
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BigNerdGaming’s Top 10 Games of the First Half of 2025
Every time I complete a game, one of the first things I do is head to a notepad file on my computer and update my ranks for the year based on how I feel. I do this for a few reasons. First off, I just find it fun. But also, by doing this as I…
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The 2025 BigNerdGaming Mid-Year Game Awards
Here’s the thing. I love ranking stuff. A lot. I started this blog for a lot of reasons, but the biggest of all was just that I wanted to have more of a platform for a bunch of ranks I was literally doing for myself. The ranks that excite me the most for this blog…
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My 15 Most Anticipated Games For The Rest of 2025
When I look at 2025 so far, I’d honestly say that this year has fallen just a touch short of 2023 and 2024. That isn’t a big knock at all. I thought 2023 and 2024 were historic, and 2025 is just a little behind. Despite this, I still constantly feel overwhelmed with the number of…
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