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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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! ✊️❤️

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I haven’t bought it yet because I’m poor. Most of my games I buy on sale for under $20

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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! 😁

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm OOTL, what's wrong with RDR?

[–] [email protected] 112 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh absolutely, Rockstar fucked them but I would imagine they are doing the same deal with RDR. They have Double Eleven doing this rerelease.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 🤷)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They've been doing that with GTA V since 2013, why change the formula?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Rereleasing the same game for $50

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're thinking they should raise the price to adjust for inflation?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

That would probably be easier than making a new game or coming up with a fresh idea.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's going on with rdr? I'm on my 2nd play through but haven't touched it in a couple months.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (8 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

I have a switch and they can fuck right off. No way I'm paying full price for such an old game

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

It will even have features like multiplayer missing

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's from half baked that came out in 1998

Edit: he was also in Chappelle show

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's from a movie named "Half Baked".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

"Abba Zaba, you my only friend."

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Wait, what happened to D4? I haven’t played it in a while. Do people hate it now?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

$70 game with mtx. That's a lot to hate right on its own

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Never bought it for a reason..always online for a fucking offline game, with mtx out the ass. Yeah no thanks.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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