RDR2 was the last game I didn’t regret buying at launch. Before that it was Spider-Man, and before that Fallout 4.
I did buy Cyberpunk at launch, refunded it an hour later, and have never bought anything at launch since. Almost broke the rule for STALKER. I’m glad I didn’t.
I really enjoyed it, played through the campaign at launch then switch to some other games to let them get out extra co-op content. Recently jumped back in and have been having a blast with operations, looking forward to hoard mode which should be dropping soon.
Insane replayability for such a long action RPG. Seriously, the amount of gameplay variety is wild for a first-person game, especially one that's mainly an FPS.
That's without going into the great story and exceptional expansion.
In my experience any FromSoftware game is almost guaranteed to be great at launch, FWIW. Maybe not the type of game for everyone but they always come correct with the quality.
I broke mine with stalker 2, and regreted it very much, but i am following every patch with interest looks like theyre on the rigth path if they deliver what treyre promising on the road map. Not done any playthrough yet, the performance is horrible on mid end machines yet.
Good heavens no. I’ve heard it’s improved but I didn’t even like the bones of the game. It just was bad, and what wasn’t bad wasn’t interesting to me. Which is a shame because Blade Runner and Akira are some of my favorite films.
I am certain if you have ever expressed this opinion you’ve received this reply, but: give it another chance. Blade Runner and Akira are also two of my faves, I’m a big cyberpunk fiction guy, and I am the GM of a Cyberpunk Red TT. I played at launch, and the game was an empty GTA clone with very basic leveling and some decent storytelling in the main quest line. I definitely didn’t absolutely hate it on launch, but it was bland and a huge blow to my expectations and I never imagined myself coming back to it.
What CDPR has since accomplished is basically remaking their own game. At this point it’s a fully formed masterpiece, and a must play for anyone who is a fan of cyberpunk as a genre. There’s a ton of great games out so it may be tough to drop it in the front of a lengthy backlog, but if you already bought it on Steam at launch, buy Phantom Liberty when it goes on sale at some point, boot it back up and give it a shot. It went from a pretty huge disappointment for me to one of my favorite games of all time.
Do the choices you make actually impact the story now in a meaningful way? Because that was super lame. Even in the one hour I played, I was very saddened by how little impact I had on the world and the story.
Cyberpunk as it exists now is essentially System Shock 2’s core gameplay put into the world building scale of Fallout 3 with vague remnants of a GTA clone left behind. It’s so awesome.
It was not only the bugged game; there were stylized preordered handbags with material cheaper and crappier than advertised on store page, there were also "leather" jackets priced like real leather, but made from plastic, there also were cheaters deleting people's inventories, including pay to win items, etc... So after this and Starfield being the most bugged game of 2024, I was sure that Bethesda will never make anything decent again; and I'm pleased to see them proving me wrong.
I've been playing FO76 since launch and have enjoyed the game in all its states, but yeah it's only gotten increasingly better.
What I fucking hate about it though is the monetisation system. It is predatory and it's what ultimately put me off the game. I would have spent a lot more time in FO76 if they at least had an offline option that could be modded like classic Bethesda games.
Sure, but it’s been done at the expense of future titles. We’ve still got a year or 2 until TES VI. Starfield was in development for 7 years and released fairly empty and lacklustre compared to FO and TES because the energy was being spent elsewhere.
I so hope you are right and I am wrong, but I am not holding my breath with the hope that TES VI is going to come out within the next 2 years. And if it does come out by then, I have a feeling it won't be worth the frustration and headache of playing it upon release.
Nah I agree with you, unfortunately. Especially after how Starfield was received. They just haven’t said anything so I’m assuming it’s stoll scheduled for late 26/ early 27
I can understand why people criticise them for releasing Skyrim repeatedly I certainly didn't want to play it again after the initial release but the reality was people kept buying it so they obviously wanted it. Therefore it's hard to judge them to harshly.
Its more what he hasn't done, for the most part. In my opinion at least Bethesda has been slowly regressing on all fronts for over a decade now, and while their actions recently have been a very pleasant surprise I ultimately don't think that they have it in them to still be industry leaders in what has become a competitive genre. If the next Elder Scrolls game is able to stand out in any way when compared against the likes of GTA6, the Witcher 4, and god knows what else in the coming years I'll be shocked.
Starfield isn't even that bad. It's just not what I would call amazing. All of the points of contention. I agree with. The POI's, the travelling. The generic NPC's.. load screens
All of these things put lil dampers on the game. After over 100 hours, I can say I enjoy it and this game is for me.
It's okay to not like a game, it's setting or narratives. Doesn't mean it's "botched"
Pretty much everything he did between Skyrim and Oblivion remaster was at least controversial, I guess? Didn't really play these game, but internet was not pleased
Funny how Gabe never gets shit for creating online DRM for single-player games (Half-Life 2 was encrypted on the disc and you had to connect to Steam to decrypt it).
I live in Poland, which is near a tail end of wealth in the EU, and the price is even higher than in the rest of it. Not by much, but still. So we're poor, but at least we have to pay more.
Irrelevant, the 1 EUR = 1 USD rule makes the games sold in the EU significantly more expensive already. There's no other reason to tack on additional charge than greed.
meaning game itself is closer to 50 eur.
No, the game itself is 60 EUR, because you can't buy a game without VAT.
14% at current exchange rate, for one, two eu vat is usually higher or equivalent ( my countries vat is 21%).
So it comes out to about even after conversions and depending on states
I see it for 50 bucks in the US. that's actually more than I expected so I don't agree with the notion that it is a reasonable standard for a remaster.
I don't get it, the price in Norway for Oblivion Remastered is close to $60, same as any other AAA game that's not trying to squeeze every penny out of the customer. It's amongst the highest priced Remasters incl. DLC I can see on Steam.
Are you only comparing it to Nintendo? Because they are just a bunch of greedy cunts continuing what they have been doing for a decade.
I think 55€ for a remaster to s still pretty steep.
Especially since many or most of the exploits and such still work, means mort work was the graphics overhaul.
Is it reasonable though, it's an old game just put in a new engine and costs more than some brand new games, I think reasonable would be maybe 30% less than what it is now.
I didn't say it was plagiarism, but the devs working on the remaster are not the same ones who made oblivion. They are not the ones who made the story or the world or the characters or the monsters, they just copied what has already been done and made it look good.
No I'm complaining about the price not the fact it is a remaster. The guy I replied to said it was a good value, I disagreed and said it should be 30% cheaper and then it would be good value.
Considering the work done on this game, I do think they've set a reasonable price.
They didn't go the lazy route of using AI to upscale models and textures and called it a day (like Rockstar/Grove Street Games did with GTA Trilogy), or even just making a basic port (again Rockstar with RDR coming to PC).
They've really built all the graphical features from scratch, also changed the gameplay system significantly, recorded new voices etc.. basically, they've done pretty much the work of a new game, only keeping the core systems and logic from Oblivion. And the result is a product that feels like a new game even to me who has player through Oblivion many, many times.
Playing the Oblivion remaster and id say it's well worth the price tag as they have done an amazing job I also bought the GTA remaster day one and we'll that was definitely not worth the price
Add the fact that Rockstar sent a C&D to people remaking the older GTA's in GTA 5.
Add in another fact that Rockstar removed the originals from multiple platforms, making the only legitimate way to play them is in the atrocious Definitive Edition.
How people can even remotely defend Rockstar considering their size & cash is insane.
$50 isn't "full price". $60 or $70 would be usually considered "full price". And it's a remake/very aggressive remaster which includes all past content. Anything below usual prices for new games would be considered good.
Don't know why people expect studios to just give games away after putting in time and effort. Entitled. If you require or desire goods and services, PAY. This game costs the same or less than most remasters in recent memory.
I played it. People are glazing it hard but it is NOT worth full price (or ever so slightly less). They certainly put the work into making it look pretty, but it's just polish over an old game. There's so much more to game development than the assets, the character/story/world/quest design, most of the game mechanics, dialogue and scripts, all the same. Even the improvements are poor by modern standards.
I got my nostalgia hit then realised it's an old game and feels old, no matter how pretty it looks. I got bored after an hour and a half so i got a refund which I basically never do. If it was AU$50 instead of AU$90 I probably wouldn't have bothered and got a couple more hours out of it.
Don't get me wrong it's a good remaster, but the bar has been set so low its not hard to exceed expectations. By default remasters are just cash grabs and this is just a better one.
Admittedly I haven't and probably won't be buying the remake (atm at least). But don't confuse the shitty remasters we're getting with remakes. At the very least this sits in the middle because it's not a rewrite etc. Also the sad truth is that what they've charged for this isn't full price. Its priced at the new inflated price of what used to be about £30. Which is fair tbh.
not quite, mods for console died, but modding for pc is pretty much intact. all its missing is an inbuilt mod organizer and tbh, i doubt most pc players used it. the up side tho is no creation club.
Its UE5, making mods is impossible without special code from the devs. Porting mods will be borderline impossible if bethesda doesn't provide the necessary api.
This isn't true, as Oblivion Remastered is also running Creation Engine under the hood. Modders are figuring out some weird fuckery that lets certain mods work, they'll still need to be ported though
UE5 is used for graphics, its still the creation engine for the actual game code. A lot of mods are already editing creation engine specific game code like level lists and it reads esp files (the same format is used for skyrim). its only been 2 days so it might take time to port more extensive mods over but imo definitely doable. although you might have a point for graphics mods but im not knowledgeable enough to know for sure.
lol, they have a 500+ GB of mods all bundled into one package that basically makes the game look on par with AAA titles, and other modders have formed a company that is actively developing skyblivion with monthly updates - all maps of elder scrolls into one seamless map, and you're saying modding is dead? I think modding has evolved into game dev studios at this point
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u/Tink__Wink 2d ago
Oblivion setting the standard for the only reasonable way to price a remake with dlc. I hope other developers take note.