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.
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.
Oh its fucking stupid but honestly after the whole GTA trilogy thing, would you really want them to touch it up? They have proven they are terrible at it but yeah it being full price is insane.
That touching up got outsourced to a tiny company that had never done anything but mobile games. There were like a dozen people working on that, and what was just a touch up of one game became the trilogy with only like 3 months notice. So as shitty as the end product was, Rockstar fucked them.
Oh absolutely, Rockstar fucked them but I would imagine they are doing the same deal with RDR. They have Double Eleven doing this rerelease.
Damn. As much as I love and recommend RDR to people who haven't played it, this is inexcusable. The original release was buggy af too. A full remake with quality of life improvements is what should've happened.
I just wanted to make sure people weren't shitting on the people who worked their asses off thanklessly. Yeah, it sucked, but I can't blame them. Rockstar is making greedy decisions because they're too comfortable that we'll eat whatever bullshit they throw our way.
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.
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.
I do not condone piracy
I don't exactly condone it either, I enthusiastically embrace and encourage it. It is always morally correct to refuse to reward unethical and predatory businesses practices.
Support the ones doing it the right way, though.
(I know that part of your comment might be as sarcastic as the rest, but fuck it, might as well spell it out for the cheap seats 🤷)
They've been doing that with GTA V since 2013, why change the formula?
GTAV has had quite a bit of polish, comparatively. Of course, I'm sure that if they weren't mostly doing it to keep GTA Online looking vaguely fresh it would still look like a PS3 game.
Rereleasing the same game for $50
You're thinking they should raise the price to adjust for inflation?
That would probably be easier than making a new game or coming up with a fresh idea.
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
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
I have a switch and they can fuck right off. No way I'm paying full price for such an old game
It will even have features like multiplayer missing
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
It's from a movie named "Half Baked".
"Abba Zaba, you my only friend."
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
Never bought it for a reason..always online for a fucking offline game, with mtx out the ass. Yeah no thanks.
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
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.
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.