Teemeister wrote on Dec 6, 2023, 03:42:
Having purchased the „original“ crappy and bugged version a couple of years ago I guess I’m screwed. Because GOG is not offering any upgrade path to their now oh so great “Ultimate edition” - it’s €53.59 please or even €79.99 if you decide to buy later. Well thanks CDPR/GOG, lesson learned.

Uh, what? Other than Phantom Liberty (the expac, which you can buy anyway), literally EVERYTHING in this Ultimate Edition was released free to the existing player base. Buy the Expac and then update your game. Or just update your game and you have everything in the Ultimate Edition except PL.

Burrito of Peace wrote on Nov 9, 2023, 09:15:

MrDevinoch wrote on Nov 8, 2023, 23:27:
Honestly, I think this may be the most hipsterish thread I've ever seen. Yeah, game's sold over 180M copies, but everybody hated it and it's awful. I too am genuinely looking forward to GTA VI, and those of you who aren't, I encourage you continue to live your worst lives, 'cause apparently you are so anti-fun that you have to be first to espouse how you never liked fun, how it was never fun, how no one sane/smart could possibly find it fun, and that anyone who finds it fun is "lame."

"Their first album is much better than their first album."

Counterpoint:

Many posts in this thread, including yours, read like "Stop not liking what I like!" The funny thing is that posts saying "I didn't like GTA <insert number>" don't insult those people who do like GTA <insert number here>. They describe what they didn't like about the game and stop there.

Except that isn't what I said, and we both know it. It's pointing out the incredible rush to prejudgement, and I could argue with people about why I think their opinions are wrong (both critically and objectively), but you're entitled to your opinions. My point was that if the game that has sold the most copies in the world can't even get a little enthusiasm among a group of passionate gaming enthusiasts, maybe we've become too cynical for our own good.

Prez wrote on Nov 8, 2023, 17:35:
I was going to say that I found GTA V fun and that I am looking forward to 6 but that's obviously not what this thread is for.

Honestly, I think this may be the most hipsterish thread I've ever seen. Yeah, game's sold over 180M copies, but everybody hated it and it's awful. I too am genuinely looking forward to GTA VI, and those of you who aren't, I encourage you continue to live your worst lives, 'cause apparently you are so anti-fun that you have to be first to espouse how you never liked fun, how it was never fun, how no one sane/smart could possibly find it fun, and that anyone who finds it fun is "lame."

"Their first album is much better than their first album."

WannaLogAlready wrote on Aug 21, 2023, 07:20:
Of all the dev's talking about BG3, Josh Sawyer comes sort of dickish putting down BG3 about interface, etc.
May be right but the game came out in a good state not 3 weeks ago, and is being patched and fixed famously even as the date of launching on consoles approaches.

What about Sawyer's own Pentiment, PoE (the unnecessarily looong texts on everyone to get valuable info -or get none at all- !), Alpha Protocol interfaces, all fixed yet ?.

Just because Sawyer's guilty of the same mistakes doesn't mean he's not right here. Don't get me wrong - I am *loving* my time in BG3, with some 30 hours put in thusfar, but Sawyer is spot on about the UI being an overload of buttons with zero tutorial. The game offers you an insane amount of options right from the very start and doesn't explain basically *any* of them. The game has zero tutorial and almost seems like it's actively discouraging you from learning how to do things in some points. This is pretty obvious because there's been literally *dozens* of articles/YT videos about "Things I wish I'd Known When I Started BG3" and "Things BG3 Never Tells You About." I was several hours in before I realized I could jump to places I couldn't path to. The idea of "throwing" a healing potion at a teammate didn't occur to me until I saw one of the videos about it. He's not talking about things that need patching -- he's talking about how the game does a pretty piss-poor job of showing you all your options if you aren't intimately familiar with any of these games before. I never played either of the Divinity games, but I've been playing videogames 40+ years. I'm reminded of how bad onboarding/FTX used to be for MOBAs, and why so many people ran into the learning curve and bounced off. Those who are already past it could just turn tutorials off, but for those of us who haven't been in this space for a while, looking at a UI with 20-30 buttons and no guidance is more than a little daunting.

RogueSix wrote on Jun 12, 2023, 10:39:

MrDevinoch wrote on Jun 12, 2023, 05:31:
Actual gameplay shown? Zero.

Interest level? Mild at best.

Call me when I can see how your game games rather than concept art and CGI cinematics.

I know that reading is overrated but it literally states in the three liner newsbit that this is just a teaser and that Ubi will be showing off the game properly including gameplay tomorrow (now today) at their Forward event. So, here's your call bruh .

I will definitely be playing this game at some point but it will be after the last bit of content and after the final patch has been released when there is a complete edition on sale for €29 or thereabouts. You can call me when that happens...

It's ridiculous that companies want to do this "slow roll" of previewing their content. I watched their gameplay reveal, and there's potential there -- it's a lot like Jedi Survivor without the Jedi -- but even their "gameplay reveal" had like 2 minutes of in-game cutscenes in it... I'm willing to keep an eye on it, but Ubisoft's burned me pretty bad with the endless amount of busywork their games have had as of late...

Actual gameplay shown? Zero.

Interest level? Mild at best.

Call me when I can see how your game games rather than concept art and CGI cinematics.

Quinn wrote on Jul 27, 2022, 17:02:

ForgedReality wrote on Jul 27, 2022, 14:31:

Thunderwalker wrote on Jul 27, 2022, 12:44:
Without the bro culture, it’s just another shooter with vehicles.

Sad is the day that GTA goes woke.

F

*massive eye roll*

You conservatives are so pathetic. "Woke" used to mean intelligent and aware of what's going on.

And shoving it in everyone's faces.

☝️You forgot that last part, which is the crux of it.

There really aren't that many people -- relatively speaking -- in our society that are against what woke stands for. It's the shoving down our throat part -- the preaching; lecture almost -- that some people can't stand. Myself included.

I love how "standing up for yourselves so you don't get trampled on" becomes "shoving down our throat" from a pair of eyes too blind to see past their own nose. The preaching is to point out how ingrained racism, sexism and homophobia are to people who claim "it's not a big deal." If you're bothered by that, maybe it's not the "preaching" that you're bothered by.

You need to move the Hearthstone Patch notes to the April Fool's section, Blue.

Ah, Blizzard. Where nobody innovates, and all anyone does is renovate...

Laughing Man wrote on Jan 25, 2022, 16:18:

Bodolza wrote on Jan 25, 2022, 15:30:

RaZ0r! wrote on Jan 25, 2022, 12:41:
I'm not a Disney/Star Wars guy so I know I won't be purchasing these three games for sure

So you'll intentionally avoid good games because you're not a fan of the IP? That's a strange hill to die on.

What's strange is telling someone else they should be playing games from IP's they don't enjoy because you think they're good games.

What's strange is telling everyone you won't buy a game to deliberately pick a fight and then acting strange when the fight kicks off, instead of just... not buying the game, and letting those excited about the game be excited for themselves.

I still wish they'd gone ahead and made the Agent game they announced a billion years ago...

This is a royal flush of bad game design ideas, bad game mechanic ideas, bad game expectations, bad game implementation and bad gameplay core loops.

This might, in fact, be Peak Stupid Internet.

"Please stop talking about us shredding evidence in the state of California's lawsuit against us. Kthxbye"

audun wrote on Oct 3, 2021, 16:44:
The vaccination rate in Romania is around 28%. Bucharest now has a curfew at night, masks required, proof of vaccination or negative test required to visit a restaurant. I wonder what Valve thought the situation would be like. I think they announced it in July this year?

So if you look at the rate of cases in Romania in July, you can understand Valve's thinking - it was down to as little as 10-20 cases a day for the whole country. The problem being that in the back half of September, they had a MASSIVE spike, bringing them up to 10k cases a day. Basically, Romania couldn't keep their shit together long enough for all of this to happen.

Hellcinder wrote on Sep 10, 2021, 15:32:
I've been hammered quite a bit for this view, but why does Apple (Google, Microsoft, Steam, name your leach here) deserve 30% of anything for products they don't produce?

The infrastructure argument is swiss cheese also, because if you need 30% to keep yourself afloat, you're doing something very wrong.

I mean, it's not ENTIRELY swiss cheese, otherwise these people wouldn't be leeching off Apple/Google/Microsoft/Steam/etc. for the infrastructure development and upkeep they've done, as well as building the user base. Is 30% too high? Probably! Is 0% too low? Probably! I mean, Apple's likely going to have to start charging developers for a LOT of things they were just giving away for free before if this holds. Testflight, store listings, etc.

Don't get me wrong -- I'm not saying Apple is entirely in the right, but to say you don't have to give them ANY money at ALL for ANY of their architecture/infrastructure/development that you as a software developer haven't paid a dime for? C'mon.

Insomniac actually did excellent jobs with both Spider-Man and Miles Morales, so I have high hopes for both of these.

The Half Elf wrote on Aug 25, 2021, 17:01:

Tyrric wrote on Aug 25, 2021, 16:37:
Why "Suns" and not "Sons", like they were in the comics?

That's what I was thinking. I mean I'm a bit out of touch with Marvel since they did their reboot... but is that Ghost Rider? Also I see Wolverine and Captain Marvel also in the game..... um..... why besides to sell more units?

I'd just like a straight up Marvel Universe game in the style of XCOM 2. You could DLC the shit out of it with different super hero groups and stories.

That's the Robbie Reyes version of Ghost Rider. Johnny Blaze was ruling hell for a while, so he'd not been doing as much Ghost Riding.

The Half Elf wrote on Aug 5, 2021, 13:51:
Murky Foot, Bulldog, Maxis, Origin, Westwood and a few others might disagree EA....

I think you meant Bullfrog. You also forgot: Mythic Entertainment, Criterion, Dreamworks Interactive, Bioware, Headgate, Playfish, Chillingo, Phenomic...

The list goes on and on and on....

Cutter wrote on Jul 23, 2021, 15:16:

jdreyer wrote on Jul 23, 2021, 12:34:
This is a different tone compared to their aggressive response yesterday:

The DFEH includes distorted, and in many cases false, descriptions of Blizzard’s past. We have been extremely cooperative with the DFEH throughout their investigation, including providing them with extensive data and ample documentation, but they refused to inform us what issues they perceived. They were required by law to adequately investigate and to have good faith discussions with us to better understand and to resolve any claims or concerns before going to litigation, but they failed to do so. Instead, they rushed to file an inaccurate complaint, as we will demonstrate in court. We are sickened by the reprehensible conduct of the DFEH to drag into the complaint the tragic suicide of an employee whose passing has no bearing whatsoever on this case and with no regard for her grieving family. While we find this behavior to be disgraceful and unprofessional, it is unfortunately an example of how they have conducted themselves throughout the course of their investigation. It is this type of irresponsible behavior from unaccountable State bureaucrats that are driving many of the State’s best businesses out of California.

They're not entirely wrong. California is a gong show these days. Homelessness and poverty run amok, rampant legal crime, etc. Businesses and people are leaving.

Big warning signs for Gavin Newsom in latest California recall poll

Yes, because California is the only state in the union with rampant legal crime. Oh wait, no, that's all the states. And the recall poll is mostly a bunch of anti-vaxxers stating they shouldn't have to wear masks. The guy's not great, but he's far from the worst governor in the country.

RogueSix wrote on Jul 8, 2021, 14:38:

Pineapple Ferguson wrote on Jul 8, 2021, 13:50:
I've held off this long, I can wait a few more years for all the bug fixes and DLC before I pick it up.

Same here. I stopped supporting their Early Access business model after The Witcher 2. They pulled off the Enhanced Edition trick twice with The Witcher and The Witcher 2. Thanks but no thanks. I bought TW3 GOTY on sale and I will do the same with Cyberpunk 2077 once all expansions and patches have been released. I do not wish to support this patching marathon business model. I would prefer a feature and content complete game on release. Bugfree is a pipe dream because of the complexity of modern video games but feature and content complete is a buy or no buy criteria for me.

You'll have an excellent game at that point. The PC release had some bugs, but was still one of the most enjoyable gaming experiences I've had in years, and I'm eagerly awaiting more content for the game.