Agree completely except for the vast underselling of BG3. It’s one of the best games in years IMO and as far as I can tell, Larian is up to few or none of the usual money vampire tricks that have disgustingly become standard practice of the industry! ✊️❤️
I’m a picky gamer and very, very rarely buy games at full price (last one was Elden Ring) but decided to pick up BG3 last night to see if it lived up to the hype, and return it within the refund window if it didn’t. 6h later, I still couldn’t put it down.
One of those (sadly rare) instances where a game absolutely deserves the premium price tag.
I haven’t bought it yet because I’m poor. Most of my games I buy on sale for under $20
Probably won’t be for a long time with BG3, then, but at least the already thriving mod scene will have become even MORE comprehensive by then! 😁
I did get BG1&2 for six dollars total on GOG, so I’ll be trying those out in the meantime. When I really got into the genre was Pillars of Eternity and Tyranny.
Keep your eyes out for Planescape: Torment, regarded as the all time best CRPG, if you like the early BG games.
I find it funny that RDR is being framed as a Rockstar issue, when it feels more like a Sony issue. RDR has been backwards compatible on the Xbone since 2016. The reason Rockstar has to make a port is because of how poor PlayStation is at backwards compatibility
Ok, so that guys face looks incredibly familiar but I just can’t place it. Somebody help me out. This feels distinctly early-mid 2000s.
It’s from half baked that came out in 1998
Edit: he was also in Chappelle show
What’s going on with rdr? I’m on my 2nd play through but haven’t touched it in a couple months.
A port of the original RDR is coming, but only to switch and PS4, but it will be full price and not have anything added to it
It will even have features like multiplayer missing
I have a switch and they can fuck right off. No way I’m paying full price for such an old game
Why would they? It’s a port and not a remaster.
Then the issue is the full price part, not changing the exe to work with PS4 instead of PS3 (yes it’s not that simple, but that’s what the end user experience is)
The real shitty part is if you own the complete edition on PS3, Rockstar, again, is telling you to get fucked because the version you already bought a license for uses a different CPU and GPU. That’s never a problem on PC but they want you to pay twice on consoles
A quick Google says it’s not full price though.
$10 discount from full. Big whoop
D4 isnt that bad tbh
It really isn’t. There’s so many free skins that look good and are better than the battlepass ones that I haven’t been tempted to buy it. It’s just been cool to hate on Diablo.
The season is whatever but it let me start a new character and I’m having a lot of fun after the barb buffs. Minus the performance issues in social spaces , it’s still a lot of fun. But I guess you get downvoted gif having an opinion… thought this wasn’t Reddit
started out ok, turned into a turd.
I’m OOTL, what’s wrong with RDR?
It’s going to be a full price port of RDR, a game from 2010. Not a remaster or remake, just a 13 year old game for $60
Also no PC port.
Yet! They do this shit all the fucking time. They will stagger their releases and double dip people. This isn’t to say people should pay 50 bucks for a fucking barely touched up game but the pc port thing is probably going to happen in a year or 2.
RDR is a new low though. It’s a game from 2010, originally on the Xbox 360 and ps3. Being released on switch at full price with no enhancements.
A new low? Ever heard of Skyrim? I guess it is a new low for rockstar, but Bethesda’s been doing this successfully for far, far too long.
“See that mountain over there? You can go there now playing on your refrigerator screen! Stay tuned for more exciting updates as we port Skyrim to that old beeper you still have in your junk drawer for some reason.”
I’m kind of glad I have a definitely unmodded switch.
Also, definitely glad there totally isn’t an emulator that has the letters r p c s 3 in the name.
I do not condone piracy. Only use these tools if you have legally bought the game when it first came out.
Diablo 2 hypewave smoothbrains: full price for a 20 year old game ported to console? puts car in gear and squeals tires
Diablo 2 was completely remade graphically. Whether it was worth the price is another matter, but effort was put into it.
D2R was a remaster.
Rereleasing the same game for $50
Dark and Darker
Wait, what happened to D4? I haven’t played it in a while. Do people hate it now?
$70 game with mtx. That’s a lot to hate right on its own
It’s just for cosmetics, I don’t understand why similar stance by BG3 which also has cosmetics behind additional purchase (Deluxe edition) is largely ignored
You’re comparing a digital deluxe one time purchase (that was a free reward to those that purchased the game when it was in early access) to an entire cash shop filled with cosmetics.
People hate the season 1. I don’t play it myself, so this is a second hand information from my friend who used to love it. They nerfed characters so hard with the new balance patch and the end game contents for season 1 isn’t great.
They nerfed it even more with S1, which made gameplay not fun. Meanwhile, us D2 players have hated it since the beginning, for many, many, many reasons. D4 has potential, but it’s not there yet - Blizzard needs to seriously work on getting the game balance right, but even then, I don’t see some aspects of the game improving due to the design decisions they made.
Personally, I’d rather place my hopes on PoE 2.
D4 will always be around. It’s one of those games you can leave for years and come back to later. Be super keen on giving it a go once it’s decently priced tbh. They definitely don’t deserve 100+ AUD for it though
Never trusting rockstar with another game. They CBF to even update RDR2 on PS5 to give it a basic performance mode, so why would I trust any of their new “remakes” will get support
Diablo 4 was great. BG3 I hear is great. Remnant 2 still is great.
RDR? Was never a fan of bleak wasteland games so I ended up dropping it. I could barely get through Fallout 3 for the same reason.
Fuck Overwatch 2. Never played it, but hearing is enough.
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Ah yes, CRPGs, famously a genre that has never had any releases since the 90’s.
Except Path of Exile, Torment: Tides of Numenera, Pathfinder: Kingmaker/Wrath of the Righteous, Divinity Original Sin 1&2, Pillars of Eternity 1&2, the Shadowrun series, Disco Elysium…
It’s perfectly fine to have preferences, but don’t shit on a genre because of your own ignorance.
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All of these were fantastic. No reason to think rdr won’t be as well.
Sorry, all of those games are awesome.
Overwatch 2, the game that promised PvE…doesn’t have PvE.
And then, Blizzard being cunts.
I mean didn’t they just add the pve? Yes they horrifically downscaled it and its honestly insulting gamer were sold a premise but were given a downgraded game especially after they killed the original one. I just think its a bit disingenuous to say it has no PVE, when its there but pretty bad.
Yes, a 13 year old game getting a crappy port job to last gen consoles and being sold for $50 is awesome.
And yes, the unpolished Diablo 4, with less content than a plain cheese sandwich, is awesome.
And yes, OW2 replacing the original entirely with the promise of a fully fledged PvE mode, but instead delivering the same type of simple PvE missions they already had in OW1, is totally awesome. /s
It’s the companies behind them that are money hungry and soulless. Vote with your wallet
even overwatch 2???
