Vidya Games Thread

[Smelliest007]

Actually just looked up the Steam user reviews and it's currently getting review-bombed and current reviews are at "Mixed".

Which version? There's the old game and the "remastered" version that runs like dogshit and has new bugs done by Private Division aka 2K.

 

[Brosnan Pierce Brosnan]

I hate to sound negative but why do they expect us to pay more for WORSE GAMES

At least when PC games were like 80 bucks in the 90s you got like a fucking encyclopedia with them.

Just fucking download Daggerfall and have a good time, my god, fuck this Microsoft pansy ass milquetoast garbage

 

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Didn't people like the first one? Won't this tank any goodwill they have? They don't have Nintendo money or game so they can't ride it out or rely on fanboys

You're thinking of Outer Wilds, not Outer Worlds.

An understandable mistake, I make it all the time.

 

[PleaseCheckYourReceipts]

at best people were ambivalent towards outer worlds when it finally released.
Some tinfoil hat conspiracy i've seen is that its partially to get more people on gamepass

With the way Xbox seems to be running game pass, getting a game with a production cost under 20 mil USD out the door and on Gamepass, as the "big" game that month seems to be profitable for the studio and Xbox. But, it creates a scenario where the "GamePass Game" is starting to form. It frankly is a return to the "step above shovelware" titles on the PS2. I don't actually have a problem with this, but they really need to adjust their marketing for these games when they do that.

Also, for as much as Clair Obscura has sold really well, that 40+ hour runtime on GamePass might actually net them more money from Xbox than they got in direct sales. Especially as it's going to drag on for months being the game to play on the platform.

I hate to sound negative but why do they expect us to pay more for WORSE GAMES

At least when PC games were like 80 bucks in the 90s you got like a fucking encyclopedia with them.

Just fucking download Daggerfall and have a good time, my god, fuck this Microsoft pansy ass milquetoast garbage

Very few titles were that expensive back then. Yes, there were some titles before the big SNES boom that were way too expensive, but, even then, most of their main line big titles were around the $40 USD range on PC until the late 90s. It's also really important to remember there was a robust used market for console games and a big rental scene. Buying first run games outright didn't start to get big until around Starcraft? Even then, that model of buying didn't take off until the mid-2000s. The Halo 3 launch obvious happened, but that still did more sales later in the holiday season. Games are becoming too heavily front-loaded like Movies.

You're thinking of Outer Wilds, not Outer Worlds.

And understandable mistake, I make it all the time.

That happened so often.

 

[CalciumAnimal]

Killer Instinct 2013-ass looking Invincible fighter.

Fixed that for you. It's apparently a lot of the people who worked at Double Helix. so Season 1 Specifically.

Max seems to have an insider at the Devs. It appears to be from the Killer Instinct 2013 crew that came back to make another game, and he seems to have playtested it somewhat.

Fucking clock me.

I hate to sound negative but why do they expect us to pay more for WORSE GAMES

At least when PC games were like 80 bucks in the 90s you got like a fucking encyclopedia with them.

Just fucking download Daggerfall and have a good time, my god, fuck this Microsoft pansy ass milquetoast garbage

Because they have been doing that for years WHY STOP NOW. "oh we need to charge more of objectively worse lighting BUT ITS THE NEW HOT THING ENJOY YOUR PISS FILTER"

You're thinking of Outer Wilds, not Outer Worlds.

An understandable mistake, I make it all the time.

they even came out around the same time and if you squint a bit they even share a few themes.

like Existentialism and the DLC being dogshit.

 

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Very few titles were that expensive back then.

I think he's referring to the collector's editions of PC games in the 90s, which had even bigger boxes filled with all sorts of physical goodies.

 

[Brosnan Pierce Brosnan]

I think he's referring to the collector's editions of PC games in the 90s, which had even bigger boxes filled with all sorts of physical goodies.

Yeah the mail order catalog shit. Stuff none of us bought be cause we were too young, now we are too old

 

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Yeah the mail order catalog shit. Stuff none of us bought be cause we were too young, now we are too old

I wanted that Riven's Collector's Edition so bad.