General Video Game Thread

Thenomain

@Warma-Sheen said in General Video Game Thread:

@Thenomain said in General Video Game Thread:

We need to stop expecting the world.

I feel like that's not just people coming up with unrealistic expectations, though. That's the company promoting and trying to create hype and pitching their product as though it is the world - then struggling to meet the raised expectations they created.

That's their problem, not ours. To quote Yahtzee Crowshaw: "Stop pre-ordering."

Both Cyberpunk and Bloodlines 2 went on presale like a year in advanced based on little more than fancy trailers.

Good on their marketing department, then! While I am a strong proponent of public schools focusing on critical thinking, "A fool and his money are soon parted."

It felt less like your usual presales and more like late-term crowdfunding / market testing. If they get a lot of presales, they keep working on it. If they don't, they fix as much major stuff as possible and release it as is to the smaller market.

I don't expect this out of CP Projekt Red. They have proven themselves, and it's now their trust to lose. The same being true for Larian Studios (Baldur's Gate 3). I don't know Hardsuit Labs (Bloodlines 2) but even if the game is a train wreck I will probably get it as long as it has even moderately good writing.

Same with Outer Worlds. I don't expect it to be great, but I expect it to be fun.

Shadowrun Returns? Not great, but refreshing as hell.

Battletech? Not even all that fun after the first twenty missions, but I'm glad I played it.

And sure, every company wants to make sales, but no one wants to make the video game equivalent of the Fyre festival.

Which is possibly why Hello Games continued working on No Man's Sky until it's the game they wanted to make, as opposed to the timeline that Sony wanted them to adhere to. No Man's Sky is closer to the kind of game where the marketing outright lied, and there was almost a successful lawsuit out of it, but even there the suit was denied because people need to stop expecting the world.

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@Jennkryst said in General Video Game Thread:

@Warma-Sheen said in General Video Game Thread:

And sure, every company wants to make sales, but no one wants to make the video game equivalent of the Fyre festival.

Why not? Star Citizen keeps bringing in ALL the cash.

I laughed. Hard.

Arkandel

@Thenomain said in General Video Game Thread:

The lesser of ten evils, if you include EA.

Heh, and as if the universe wants to have fun at my expense, a recruiter from EA reached out to me.

Thenomain

Crusader Kings III comments, anyone?

Jaded

@Thenomain
Looks good so far. If they pour the love and support into this that they did CK2 I'm sure it will be another great game.

Ghost

Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan?

I'm loving it. I wish a dozen games like this came out in a year. I LOVE what they're doing tying a central character like "The Curator" into the game series as a narrator and am excited as fuck for the next one, Little Hope.

Thenomain

So, Outer Worlds is out. (edit: Close enough to out, geeze.)

On Epic. Hard pass.

On Windows Store. ... I...should I be tempted? Or should I wait for Steam or hopefully GOG?

Testament

@Thenomain I will wait a couple of days before it goes on physical sale for my XB1X. I waited all this time, what's a little longer.

Livia

@Ghost said in General Video Game Thread:

Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan?

I'm loving it. I wish a dozen games like this came out in a year. I LOVE what they're doing tying a central character like "The Curator" into the game series as a narrator and am excited as fuck for the next one, Little Hope.

If you can, play it co op, online. It is actually kind of amazing to play co op.

Alamias

@Thenomain I thought it didn't come out till Thursday? At least that is what my xbox keeps telling me.

Thenomain

@Alamias said in General Video Game Thread:

@Thenomain I thought it didn't come out till Thursday? At least that is what my xbox keeps telling me.

Close enough.

And I won't be playing it on XBox anyhow. I'm a tried and true PC gamer.

Alamias

@Thenomain All good. I was just confused because I thought it came out last night and when I went to sit down and play it I was denied.

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Jaded

@RDC
...until the DLC when all the main character romance options will be introduced.

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Jaded

@RDC
Nothing to do with asexuality but certainly aromantic. I could have been clearer.

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Jaded

@RDC
Yeah I doubt it would be mandatory, that'd be kind of...creepy.

bored

Obsidian is the Phoenix that rose from the ashes of EA-diablerized BioWare so it's not too surprising seeing them keep knocking this stuff out, really.

Ghost

@bored Some friends and I were saying this recently. Bioware used to be THE go-to for RPG video games with depth. EA kinda ruined that for Bioware. Now the age of Dragon Age and Mass Effect are over, and it's open season for some company to be the new go-to.

CD Projekt Red
Obsidian
Troika/Activision (Bloodlines 2)
Bethesda is making more Elder Scrolls.
Squenix

There's some competition going on, and I feel like the next few years are going to be great for fans. They'll duke it out. We will benefit from it.

Thenomain

@Ghost

Are Troika peeps involved in Bloodlines 2?

And we should take Bethesda with an albeit mild caution from this point forward.

I sincerely hope there’s enough out there that nobody needs to be the “go to”. We need people trying different but interesting things, as many as possible.