The current state of gaming

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'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.
- They've been doing that with GTA V since 2013, why change the formula?
- Diablo 2 hypewave smoothbrains: full price for a 20 year old game ported to console? puts car in gear and squeals tires
Rereleasing the same game for $50
- You're thinking they should raise the price to adjust for inflation?

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
- Which sucks, but it's going to sell millions anyway.
- Why would they? It's a port and not a remaster.

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
- That movie became a classic to us young lads! We still quote this scene regularly!
- Peak civilization
It's from a movie named "Half Baked".
- "Abba Zaba, you my only friend."
- Gah, that's it. Thanks. Haven't seen it in a very very very long time.

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.
- 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
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.
- It's just more of the same but with a reset. With a puny weak sauce season mechanic I couldn't be bothered to regrind all the reknown, all the dungeons etc. Got bit further into endgame compared to pre-season but the lack of storage and organisation made me quit a few weeks ago. Four (4) stash tabs, or is it five, and no search. How the heck am I supposed to manage loots and dungeons?
  
  Nah, back to other arpgs
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.

OW2 is fun for like 2 weeks or so, that's when you'd want more out of the game, which you'll not get.
If you like competitive multiplayer FPS, give Overwatch 2 a try. It's one of my fav multiplayer games I play daily.

If you don't, better skip it. There's nothing much else besides the gameplay.
- Or try paladins instead

Dark and Darker

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????