Discussion Favourites of 2025

[Hobbit]

So, 2025 is nearing its end, with only just over two months to go.

What have you enjoyed the most this year in terms of media? Could be video games, music, anime, shows, movies, books, anything really. And is there something you're looking forward to most of all that's coming out in the last bit of the year?

For me:

1. Movies: Five Nights at Freddy's 2 looks incredible, much better than the first. I also took my girlfriend on a date to Weapons on a whim and we both enjoyed it a lot. Lastly, I think Nosferatu came out last year on the tail end, but I saw it this year in theatres and thought it was an incredible remake of the original silent film.
2. Vidya: It's hard to pick what my favourite game this year is. There's been so much incredible stuff, literally been the best year for gaming that I can recall. But notable examples include Expedition 33, Monster Hunter Wilds, Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma (literally the biggest comeback in a video game series ever, in my opinion), Animal Crossing GCN Deluxe/City Folk Deluxe (I know they're mods, but they are both amazing), Mario Kart World, Fantasy Life i, and the Oblivion remake/remaster/whatever. And now games I'm looking forward to are Sonic Racing CrossWorlds (it's already out technically but I haven't tried it yet), Black Ops 7 (I am a sucker for Call of Duty, I'm a bit of a normalfag when it comes to that kind of thing), and Plants vs Zombies: Replanted. I'm also looking forward to Ghostface being added to Fortnite this Halloween (apparently he's coming, according to my girlfriend? Not sure if that's true but I hope it is). Speaking of Fortnite, the Gorillaz Music Pass was such a good idea. I love playing as Noodle.
3. Books: Not much interesting has come out this year and since I'm a massive classics guy, nothing usually interests me. However, RuneScape's new novel came out this year and I've only just started it. I really enjoyed the one before it, The Gift of Guthix. There's also been new Nagatoro volumes come out, and the last Nagatoro volume ever comes out in November here, so I'm REALLY looking forward to getting it physically as I have for every other volume of the series.
4. Music: I usually listen to music from my adolescent years, but I did like Sabrina Carpenter's new album, and Cafune's new album is the best one they've released yet.
5. Shows/Anime: Squid Game 3 came out this year, didn't it? Well, I'm looking forward to watching it at some point. I'm only up to season 2, though. Nothing interested me in terms of anime this year.

 

[Deleted member 432]

Holy crap, the only good game released this year is Ragebound. At least we are eating well in 2026 with Ninja Gaiden 4 and Nioh 3

 

[newsincerity]

I really enjoyed the Superman movie, only saw it recently

laughed at the scene when he spits out the nanobots
rich evil guy trying to kill a man with nano technology, where have I seen this before?

 

[FairnessandEquality]

I really enjoyed the Superman movie, only saw it recently

laughed at the scene when he spits out the nanobots
rich evil guy trying to kill a man with nano technology, where have I seen this before?

Do you mean Supergirl or do you mean Spider-Man ?

Oh wait the title is 2025 so you only saw superman recently

 

[epidemicneedle]

this year ive been really into 2000s stuff with music and movies, got a lot of clothes from the 2000s just really really digging into that stuff rn but lemme do some list work on my 2026 stuff

music:
strawberry hospital - memorycell ep
fridge - vol. 2
the autopsy of jane doe - shitty beginnings:happy endings

movies:
obession (fucking amazing scariest movie ive seen in a while)
together
warfare

games:
skate (the pvp is amazing)
fortnite
peripetia
psycho patrol r

shows/whatever:
punch punch forever
digital circus
interloper or skybox whatever


honestly not my favorite year for media but the indie animation stuff is giving me hope for something good coming up, with the time left in 2026 im really hoping that made in abyss movie comes out