I was expecting something a little deeper or more subtle than what I got.
That’s the problem when these things gain reputations. The reputation builds it up to be more than the piece of art can deliver.
Now imagine playing it when it was new and you weren’t “expecting” anything but a military shooter. It would still be just as blunt, but it landed back then far more effectively than when you go in knowing the reputation the game has built in the many years that followed.
Sales follow the tradition of supply and demand. Products come out at their highest price because of expectations and hype. Then, as interest wanes, the publisher continues to make some sales by reducing price to tempt the less interested parties....
But this isn’t the formula for all games. While we might agree that games from 2000 or even 2010 are “showing their age”, at this point 5 to 8-year-old games are less and less likely to be seen as ‘too old’ by comparison to hot releases.
As someone that grew up in the '80s and '90s, it’s wild how much different the pace of change in games was then compared to now.
In 1991 I was playing NES games and 256-color VGA MS-DOS games, in 1998 I was playing Half-Life. Every single thing about the experience of video games changed in that span.
In 2017 I was playing Breath of the Wild, in 2024 I’m playing more or less the same game in Tears of the Kingdom.
People tend to overrate the harms from potential changes, while simultaneously vastly underrating the harms that already exist that they’ve gotten used to.
Sure, you could have ran RotT in a number of sourceports, DOSBox, or even a virtual machine if you were determined, but the experience of getting it up and running on a modern system hasn’t been great....
I can hardly think of a better example of “the lady doth protest too much” than the responses that would get fired back at Anita. Completely unable to mask just how close to home the criticism hit them.
Contrarian opinion here, so if you like Fallout 4, probably skip this comment.
As someone that’s played Fallout since the original game was new, Fallout 4 was like a family member dying. I got a few hours in, and quit in absolute disgust.
finally getting close to the original game we were promised
Ehhhhh.... the things in that change list are nice, but I'm not sure they're fundamental enough to get this to the game it was originally presented to be.
That said, it might be enough to where the game would at least be worth my time. But I'm not going to trust this list to be delivered (relatively) bug-free and as good as it sounds until it's done and proven to be so.
I'll at least keep tabs on it when it drops, which is a lot more consideration than CP2077 was getting from me yesterday.
Why People Don’t Catch The Politics In Their Favorite Games (aftermath.site)
Many players have become "patient gamers". What are games people might miss out on by waiting for sales?
Sales follow the tradition of supply and demand. Products come out at their highest price because of expectations and hype. Then, as interest wanes, the publisher continues to make some sales by reducing price to tempt the less interested parties....
The Xbox Series S Is More Popular Than The Xbox Series X (insider-gaming.com)
According to documents from Microsoft's recent case against the FTC, the Xbox Series S is more popular than the Xbox Series X
Young climate activist tells Greenpeace to drop ‘old-fashioned’ anti-nuclear stance (www.theguardian.com)
Today in "Things that exist instead of a new Castlevania game" (lemmy.world)
which linux distro do you NOT like, and why?
Rise of the Triad, the Nightdive release is here (www.gog.com)
Sure, you could have ran RotT in a number of sourceports, DOSBox, or even a virtual machine if you were determined, but the experience of getting it up and running on a modern system hasn’t been great....
Anita Sarkeesian is shutting down Feminist Frequency after 15 years (www.polygon.com)
‘We were talking about representation very early on in a mainstream way’
Fallout 4 has aged beautifully. You should play it again. (www.washingtonpost.com)
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Cyberpunk’s expansion totally overhauls the original game | VGC (www.videogameschronicle.com)
Copying this from another comment /edit: all of these updates are coming to the base game...