I briefly considered splurging on this one and buying at launch. Checked the reviews this morning and was reminded why I never do that anymore.
this post was submitted on 31 Jan 2025
135 points (98.6% liked)
Games
33685 readers
813 users here now
Welcome to the largest gaming community on Lemmy! Discussion for all kinds of games. Video games, tabletop games, card games etc.
Weekly Threads:
Rules:
-
Submissions have to be related to games
-
No bigotry or harassment, be civil
-
No excessive self-promotion
-
Stay on-topic; no memes, funny videos, giveaways, reposts, or low-effort posts
-
Mark Spoilers and NSFW
-
No linking to piracy
More information about the community rules can be found here.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
If a corp has shareholders to answer to, they will only churn out unfinished dogshit.
And that is why you don’t buy games until they are heavily discounted and actually finished.
Or at least actually finished, for some reasonable definition of "finished". I'm going to buy Haunted Chocolatier on release and I'd pre-order that given the chance and I never pre-order (I'm actually 1 for 1 on pre orders, I pre ordered Star Trek Voyager Elite Force).
Elite Force was absolutely incredible! Considering you were trapped in like a ship graveyard the variety of environments was pretty impressive. The combat was fun, the story was interesting…could’ve used a little more ship exploration on voyager, though.
could’ve used a little more ship exploration on voyager, though.
That's what the expansion pack added. (Remember expansion packs? Like DLC, but complete?)
Oh I definitely had the expansions, but even then weren’t there only like 2 decks you could visit?
Actually I think I still have the game and the expansion thanks to GoG.
I pre ordered Star Trek Voyager Elite Force
Hey! I had thousands of hours into ST:EF. Even clanned up for that one. Fraggers United!
That's not as reliable as you'd might think.
King's Bounty 2 is on a near permanent 90% sale and the owning company considers it completely done.. and forgotten.
Or there's some weird eternally Early Access games always on a 96% sale, but they've been in an abandoned state for years.
Once again another reminder why I don't buy games at launch.
Well, this and the near-$100 price that most AAA's are launching at now.
"AAA" LMAO
It's called AAA because that's the sound I make when I see the pricetag.
at least in the realm of video games AAA only refers to funding, not quality. in fact it's pretty consistently shit because terrible business practices almost inevitably result in late and premature releases because they have to meet arbitrary deadlines and believe they can always fix things later. to be fair the community is pretty idiotic and they consistently reward this behavior so they have nothing to lose in most cases.
It didn't refer to funding. It's marketing only. If you ask 100 what does AAA in video games, you'll get a wide breadth off answers, because it's not a real term, but it sounds good and people will make up their own definition or repeat one they heard.
Legend of Zelda and other big name NES titles were $60 USD back in the mid to late 80s. That's over $170 today. Average NES games were $40 back then, which is still around $115 today. Discounted $20-$25 games are closer to today's $60-$70 standard edition titles.
Yes, they were cartridges with chips back then, but prices are a lot better now for a game. Today's $100+ games are for the ultra/deluxe editions.
That said, I usually don't buy games at launch unless it's something from like Rockstar.
A direct inflation conversion like that is not invalid, but it lacks a lot of context. Games might have been more expensive back then, but everything else was orders of magnitude cheaper. People were buying homes and starting families as young adults back then. Now many in that bracket live check-to-check and struggle to put food on the table. It stings a lot more.
also to clarify: I was using Canadian dollars. Major releases are around one hundred bucks here when adding tax, give or take a little.
Now do factor in the growth of the market and also the price to produce a physical copy and digital, the market share between physical copy, and also the bonus the CEO get each year.
So cool thing. Nobody has to care about inflation and we can all be mad and should actively boycott 70$ games so the price goes back to 60$.
I thought this game had been out for years
It's been out on playstation for a while, but it just now released on PC.
I had it on GameCube
No fucking way
Yeah but he PC port just came out yesterday, I think.
Its been somewhat released on PC as a hacked together version since a bit after the big Sony leak the beginning of last year. It only got an official PC release yesterday
To the surprise of absolutely nobody.
This is a little sad. Both SM1 and MM were great on release day for me. Got the right when they came out and they both lead with great reviews out of the box.
Hopefully this is something they can fix pretty quickly. I want to play as a Symbiote, dammit!
Super Mario 1 and Megan Man both were great on release!
Then Luigi had his issue and Megan fox went all cray.
As long as it runs better than the Brazil version I am happy.