Pirating this pirate game would be funny. But it's a Ubisoft game, so even free is too expensive.
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Hey now, teamforetress 2 got a 64 bit beta that improved the game performance by a solid 20-30%
Valve might finally make the Heavy update
Fun meme, but honestly I think the only folks it's gonna be a bad year for are AAA game devs, who I already sympathize with.
I think indies are gonna keep rocking some outstanding content. Content made with and for love will always beat content made for money IMO :)
Curious question: when was the last time a large scale "Triple A" title released and actually met expectations?
Resident Evil 4
Final Fantasy 7
Elden Ring
Tears of the Kingdom
Forgot about Elden Ring.
I Always forget that Nintendo games are Triple A, I always get that indie dev vibe in spite of being as far from indie as one can get. Not in community engagement, rather in the notable detail and unique art style each game has, like you can tell the developers care about what they're working on. You can definitely tell when Nintendo themselves develop a game vs. when they publish a game. (cough Game Freak cough)
I fail to see how that question is relevant since this game is a AAAA game /s
You have to wonder if they ever played Cyberpunk 2077 (incl. Phantom Liberty) before they came up with that line. The only AAAA game. Maybe not the best game ever, but it definitely felt like the most expensive game ever.
To me that's honestly more RDR2. That games amount of detail is pretty staggering.
Correction Ubisoft said this a quadruple A game.
The fourth A rolled over past the 3 character limit, making it a single A game.
God of War Ragnarök and Spider-Man 2 were phenomenal.
Doom Eternal
I know a lot of people really enjoyed this game, but I couldn’t play more than a few hours despite loving Doom 2016. Restricted ammo quantity really killed the enjoyment for me. Adding Denuvo only after it was reviewed was a really shitty move and the soundtrack isn’t as good either now that I think of it.
Worst game of the year so far.
I'll be over here playing my dwarf games.
“Might not be a good year for games.” Idk, we’ve already had the surprise with palworld, which, while it didn’t really grab me, was a breath of fresh air for people. Helldivers slaps. I think the key is not to buy into hype, and play actually good games. People like to say 23 was a bad year too, but, I’d argue that stinkers like gollum just got more coverage and were on top of people’s minds. Not to excuse it at all, but, I played a lot of really good games last year.
How would a year with Zelda, Alan Wake 2, Baldur's Gate 3, Street Fighter 6 and Like a Dragon Gaiden be bad? It was a great year.
Depends what you want.
I'm hoping it's the year of the live service graveyard though.
Holy cow I'd love that too.
I want to buy a game, not an ongoing financial leeching.
Forspoken came out at the start of last year and we also got Redfall. 2023 was a stacked year for games.
Maybe the more bad games that come out mean we're also getting good ones to balance things.
The worst game of the year so far.
Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth came out this year. There's literally nothing to complain about. Best game
This - I hate when gamers have too much attention on which games are bad, and none on the good games.
I have a page of Steam reviews where I give a thumbs up to a bunch of indie darlings, then a negative review to a live service game, and only the negative review has votes on it.
There’s a bunch of videos on YouTube now separately comparing Batman Arkham Knight to Gotham Knights/Suicide Squad, and AC4: Black Flag to Skull and Bones.
There is absolutely a trend of brain drain in game development that no amount of contractors can fill now.
With the awareness that some people might call me names for saying that... AC4: black flag wasn't even that good of a game in my opinion
It was my favourite Assassin's Creed game since AC2, because it contained the least amount of Assassin's Creed.
Games are looking great this year! Earthblade by the creators of Celeste, Hades 2, Silk song (I Believe) If you ignore AAA, it's going great!
tbh the game this seems to be about "Skull and Bones" isn't even that bad... The character models (especially faces) look pretty bad and I haven't tried intentional multiplayer, but that's all I've really noticed (played it for about 6-7 hours, including open beta)
I think that in a vacuum the game isn't that bad, but given the context of how much it costs, how long it's been in development, being hailed as the first "AAAA game", and the fact that they literally made a better version of this game 11 years ago and the game is only mediocre I totally understand why this game has gotten the reaction it has.
The CEO also called it "the first AAAA" game, hence the jokes being made about how shit it is.
Me hoping that the next Obsidian game isn't disappointing.
Honestly if Avowed just feels like a huge Skyrim mod they'll probably do well.
Worst game of the year so far
I got it for 38€ and I actually really like it.
According to the reviews, you're wrong. Stop having fun
Game is sitting on a 6/10 on opencritic, that's still an okay game for me 😅
I don't know why opencritic labels it as weak. For me its always 6=okay, 7=good, 8=very good, 9=awesome, 10=Masterpiece...
It cracks me up how a scale of one to ten is always actually a scale of six to ten. Or maybe five to ten of they really hate the thing.
People still watch Sub Optimal Gaming? His content is boring and he was a literal gamergater.
I don't know guys. It seems Unisoft have lost it. I don't buy games from them anymore. I don't know what happened to me, but after I made the decision, I found myself buying Far Cry 6 even though I hated Far Cry 5 with passion (I think it was Gustavo Fring). I am 2 hours in and I am not feeling it. The prologue was nice but then it turned into random missions. Go do this, do that. Should I just drop the game?
I'm have the exact opposite reaction right now. I stopped buying Ubi games years ago, but through give aways I got Assassins Creed Origins, Odyssey, and Valhalla for free. I never touched them until recently when a friend started playing through Odyssey and was talking about how much fun he was having. I installed Origins and played though it (because I can't skip games in a series) and I kinda enjoyed it. Then I played Odyssey and it blew me away with how much fun I had. I'm on to the second DLC of it, and when I'm done I'll start up Valhalla.
As far as Far Cry games go, though, I haven't enjoyed one since 3.
That’s what you get when you engage with clickbait