If it looks like a shitty game, sounds like a shitty game, and acts like a shitty game, I've got some news for you.
A $70 price tag is usually the cherry on top, too.
A $70 price tag is usually the cherry on top, too.
Anything over $45 is nearly always a giant red flag. It needs 95% on steam for me to consider it. I have found $35 to be a good ballpark that hits games with focused/enjoyable complexity, without the nonsense that comes at higher prices/AAA. You don't even need to consider value for money: they're simply better than more expensive games (most of the time).
I picked up Helldivers II recently for £35 and it manages to run, look and play better than any other >£60 game I’ve played recently.
I need the game to age like wine before I even try it, so I'll probably try baldurs gate 3 in 5-10 years.
Sometimes it's enough to watch a friend or a youtuber play. My roommate once watched 40 minutes of a review for a super crappy movie to then say "well, I want to check if it's really as bad as I was just told" and proceed to watch the movie itself. After he watched it, he admitted that it was that bad
Well, it's a good thing he wanted to make up his own mind
Did he say he regretted it? You're making it out like it was a waste of time, but if that's what he wanted to do, why deride him for it?
I think he did say, but that was more than ten years ago, so he might also not. You're right about doing what one wants, I didn't try to stop him then, wouldn't do it now, too
Which movie
I think it was this one
If you've played enough games you can (generally) tell from the way it's promoted and which friends talk about it
And sometimes by reputation alone, like Diablo 4
I’m upvoting you because I can understand why you made this comment, but as I’ve said in my own comment thread Diablo 4 has a legit game in it at least for casual play.
The story is pretty fucking brutal. The music is good. The gameplay is fairly varied and pretty decently thought out. And if you’re a coomer dat Lilussy is pretty great.
Main flaws are the grindy endgame, itemization issues, and always online. Price is also a factor and $70 is a lot for the game. I recommend to my friends to buy it at $50 and below
That's like you can't say shit tastes disgusting before trying. Of course you can. Some things are obvious like that.
I'm having a real hard time finishing Baldur's Gate 3. I wasn't a fan of Larian's other games, but I loved the first Baldur's Gate games. The constant frustration from having to save scum, buggy gameplay, and endless annoying puzzles just makes it a chore. I'll finish it, eventually, but I need a week between sessions to forget.
People say that it's a heavily polished game but 4/5 of my characters I had to throw away because of some bug that made their build useless, or put the story in a state that I wasn't happy with. And my 20 charisma builds might as well have been 1 charisma because I failed Every. Single. Roll.
If EA put out the exact same game it would have been blasted.
I like the game, its plain to see Larian is a skilled developer, but fucking hell the dnd influence is just poison. The setting? Mid outside of the Larian specific writing, wizards have always had uninteresting world building. The underlying the system? Fucking awful, 5e is easily the worst ttrpg i have ever played (out of 8 i think, including a completely homemade game and condensing very similar games). Those rolls you failed? That shit is called bounded accuracy and i have never seen a worse design choice, it's impossible to make a character that actually specializes in something. Every character must be able to succeed and fail and everything.
I mean honestly I'm fine with people saying they don't like a game they haven't played as long as they have some kind of valid reason. Nothing makes me more angry though then someone saying a game is bad or they don't like it "because the fandom is cringe/bad." Like sure for multiplayer games a bad community can be a fair reason to not like a game but most of the time these comments are about single player games. Which just makes me angry cause no one is forcing you to be involved in a fandom or talk about this game online. Just play it on your own and avoid the online stuff if it really bothers you that much.
Gollum game
You know, I do dislike people who aren't willing to give certain games a chance, for what I deem kind of illegitimate reasons. At the same time, most of the bad faith people who are dissing a game because it's the hot button thing, or who are dismissing a game because they saw someone else give their reasons, and thought those were good, those people probably weren't interested in the first place, especially the former group.
What I do hate more than anything, though, is when someone suggests that I need to have watched a movie for it's full 2 or 3 hour runtime before I can make a judgement on it, or that I have to have completed a game before I can make a judgement. Fuck off, I can't be assed to watch or play every dogshit movie or game you're engaging with, just so I can call it shit. You weren't going to believe me anyways, even if I did do that! The same of all what I said in the first paragraph is also true in reverse!
Can't I just talk about a thing without getting enswamped in some dumbass, about how what I'm saying isn't valid? Can't you just contest the claim itself, instead of always blowing it up to be some sort of overarching thing that reaffirms your biases because whomstever is destroying your epic gamer cred? Gat dahmn. I just wanna be able to talk about games, and what I like and don't like, without having to put the "oh all of what I'm saying is subjective" disclaimers everywhere. Can we go back to that? Can I not have to, redditor style, post about every possible alternative angle someone could attack me from for a second? Can people be also try to at least be funny when they're mad on the internet?
I had this happen to me recently. Suggested Diablo 4 as a really fun, if a bit mindless grind, action game. People around started parroting outright fabrications about the game. Look it has flaws but shit if you wanna kill packs of demons to a neat story with great cinematics it’s a fun game
People around started parroting outright fabrications about the game
Like what?
Pay to win mechanics (not true, predatory cosmetics yeah I’ll give you that), “woke shit” (??? Gruesome murder is woven throughout the story so how is that woke? Oh no there are other skin colors in the game /s) , and a couple of other things I can’t remember.
The game has flaws no doubt. It’s still a solid 8/10, maybe even an 8.5.
What game are we talking about here
I ran into a number of people that said things about CP2077 that showed they didn't actually play the game or at least play beyond the prologue. I mean, FFS, someone made a mod (one of the first mods for the game period) to holster your weapon when the game shipped with that feature.
The industry has been pushing out the same games for almost 20 years now. Sure, there are sprinklings of new here and there, but on the whole, the big titles are the same ones we played 15+ years ago.
The same shit is happening in Hollywood.
Why risk experiencing somthing potentially bad when you can get all your opinions second hand?
Some gamers are incredibly toxic. I don't paste much shared content anymore in certain private FB groups because of the level of negativity people show towards games they haven't played but seeming have to dogpile on at any opportunity. Fuck those guys.
That is why I never talk shit about Starfield. I was never going to play it.
