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    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! ✊️❤️

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      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.

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

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        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! 😁

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          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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            Keep your eyes out for Planescape: Torment, regarded as the all time best CRPG, if you like the early BG games.

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              This was the game that popped my cherry. My very first game, links awakening was my second. Up to this date I still love Zelda but haven’t tried the spiritual successor to planescape “tides of numenara”.

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                I couldn’t get into inXiles title but Obsidians Pillars of Eternity was up there.

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          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.

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            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.

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              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.

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                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.

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

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              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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                “See that mountain over there? You can go there now playing on your refrigerator screen! Stay tuned for more exciting updates as we port Skyrim to that old beeper you still have in your junk drawer for some reason.”

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            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.

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              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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                I was worried some may not get the sarcasm. And I thought it’d be best to stay safe from getting it removed from mods who don’t like it.

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          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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        Diablo 2 hypewave smoothbrains: full price for a 20 year old game ported to console? puts car in gear and squeals tires

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    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

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

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      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

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

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          Then the issue is the full price part, not changing the exe to work with PS4 instead of PS3 (yes it’s not that simple, but that’s what the end user experience is)

          The real shitty part is if you own the complete edition on PS3, Rockstar, again, is telling you to get fucked because the version you already bought a license for uses a different CPU and GPU. That’s never a problem on PC but they want you to pay twice on consoles

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    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

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        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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        It’s just for cosmetics, I don’t understand why similar stance by BG3 which also has cosmetics behind additional purchase (Deluxe edition) is largely ignored

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          You’re comparing a digital deluxe one time purchase (that was a free reward to those that purchased the game when it was in early access) to an entire cash shop filled with cosmetics.

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      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

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      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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        It’s just more of the same but with a reset. With a puny weak sauce season mechanic I couldn’t be bothered to regrind all the reknown, all the dungeons etc. Got bit further into endgame compared to pre-season but the lack of storage and organisation made me quit a few weeks ago. Four (4) stash tabs, or is it five, and no search. How the heck am I supposed to manage loots and dungeons?

        Nah, back to other arpgs

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      They nerfed it even more with S1, which made gameplay not fun. Meanwhile, us D2 players have hated it since the beginning, for many, many, many reasons. D4 has potential, but it’s not there yet - Blizzard needs to seriously work on getting the game balance right, but even then, I don’t see some aspects of the game improving due to the design decisions they made.

      Personally, I’d rather place my hopes on PoE 2.

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    Diablo 4 was great. BG3 I hear is great. Remnant 2 still is great.

    RDR? Was never a fan of bleak wasteland games so I ended up dropping it. I could barely get through Fallout 3 for the same reason.

    Fuck Overwatch 2. Never played it, but hearing is enough.

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      If you like competitive multiplayer FPS, give Overwatch 2 a try. It’s one of my fav multiplayer games I play daily.

      If you don’t, better skip it. There’s nothing much else besides the gameplay.

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          How is paladins now actually? I haven’t played it since I think 5 years. Remember it was quite fun but not really on-par to OW

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            I like it, feels like the roles and playstlye are flexible and even healers can be fun. On a personal note, I’ve never seen a champion that as cool as Evie at any other game I played. So fun and unique

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        Seriously, how do you have a worse battle pass for a full price game than Fortnite does? It’s pretty pathetic.

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      It really isn’t. There’s so many free skins that look good and are better than the battlepass ones that I haven’t been tempted to buy it. It’s just been cool to hate on Diablo.

      The season is whatever but it let me start a new character and I’m having a lot of fun after the barb buffs. Minus the performance issues in social spaces , it’s still a lot of fun. But I guess you get downvoted gif having an opinion… thought this wasn’t Reddit

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      Ah yes, CRPGs, famously a genre that has never had any releases since the 90’s.

      Except Path of Exile, Torment: Tides of Numenera, Pathfinder: Kingmaker/Wrath of the Righteous, Divinity Original Sin 1&2, Pillars of Eternity 1&2, the Shadowrun series, Disco Elysium…

      It’s perfectly fine to have preferences, but don’t shit on a genre because of your own ignorance.

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      Overwatch 2, the game that promised PvE…doesn’t have PvE.

      And then, Blizzard being cunts.

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        I mean didn’t they just add the pve? Yes they horrifically downscaled it and its honestly insulting gamer were sold a premise but were given a downgraded game especially after they killed the original one. I just think its a bit disingenuous to say it has no PVE, when its there but pretty bad.

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          I offer you a cup of really good coffee. Like, REAL GOOD. I hype it up for months, maybe years. Get you really excited for it.

          And then I give you a tiny cup that holds approximately 2 tablespoons of cold Folgers.

          Did you get what I offered?

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            No.

            You start with a really good cup of coffee but are then offered the best coffee. So they take your really good coffee that you already paid for and toss it out, break the machine that makes the really good coffee and then serves you garbage coffee in a slightly smaller cup and then spits in it.

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            Your point was it doesn’t have PVE. I’m not here to defend their shit PVE* and I even make a point to say it is fucking scummy they killed their OG game for this garbage but lets at least deal with facts right now. They have a PVE you have to pay 15 bucks for (and you don’t even get to play the ones from the original game for some stupid reason)

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          Do pve missions from the first game still available? I don’t follow it much.

          I think one part that people are outrage about OW2 are those PvE DLC contents with $15, but yeah, it come with coins that worth the battle pass. So, actually it’s kinda cheaper.

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            At the moment, there are none of the archive level. Which is super silly. So you only get 3 missions with some cutscenes with them.

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      Yes, a 13 year old game getting a crappy port job to last gen consoles and being sold for $50 is awesome.

      And yes, the unpolished Diablo 4, with less content than a plain cheese sandwich, is awesome.

      And yes, OW2 replacing the original entirely with the promise of a fully fledged PvE mode, but instead delivering the same type of simple PvE missions they already had in OW1, is totally awesome. /s

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      It’s the companies behind them that are money hungry and soulless. Vote with your wallet