Real

Microsoft Activision and EA too

Sony comes there too

Lol, they already have your money, so what's your point again?

@@kiillabytez how if we dont buy their shit they call an game? The last game i got from Ubisoft was Armored core for answer And its old

I hear you on the endlessly replayables. “Live-Service” has become a dirty word, but then again I have a few hundred hours clocked in Rocket League. It just never gets boring!

Path of exile the greatest game ever made cost me zero also

6000+ in Destiny 2, spent over AU$500 and don't regret a cent spent. But in the end D2 became so boring, its content became stale. I would list the things that are wrong with D2, but it would be too long. The things that were good about is a long list too. Bungie are an awful company, but I don't care about that stuff as long as the gameplay and content is good. The content for D2 just became meh. For me quitting D2 is the end of 'live service games,' the time investment is too much, that's on me, but also on the style of game. I have 30 single player games loaded and ready to go on my PC. Some of them have extensive modding adding an extra thousand hours to a hundred-hour game. The thing about the games I am going to play now, I can leave them for twelve months and will not be punished for doing so. If you don't play a game like D2 for 12 months you will have to spend a huge number of hours grinding your power level up, plus some content/story will no longer be available for you to play.

@@RabbiRabbit87 So you've given nothing back to Grinding Gears Games the devs of Path of Exile. I loathe people like you, you should support the devs of the game you love. Luckily for you there are people who play POE who support Grinding Gears Games financially, so misers like you have a game to play. I think you need to take a close look at yourself.

@@gregowen2022 That's because Rocket League was designed like that. Most live service games are just normal games w/ the live service retention models tacked on. WOW and Destiny are excellent examples of game design that was built around extended engagement that aren't simply match games like dota and rocket league. Suicide squad was clearly designed to be like borderlands w/ DC characters. The live service menu placed on top awkwardly divides up the game so the world feels disjointed. Rather than regular story progression you get mindlessly repeatable objectives that aren't fun because there's no compelling reason for the game to have those characteristics because live service games are made in the C-Suite.

The steam summer sale draws near and I just joined the master race. I fear for the size of my backlog now

They're doing us a favor ❤

​@@gregowen2022Civilization or Mount and Blade, they're usually on sale

My backlog goes back to games I purchased a decade ago but haven't put the minutes in playing it, let alone testing if it works on my rig.

@@gregowen2022 I salute you brother. I haven't even made a dent in my backlog.

Haha! :D

Weeellll there is a big push to make everything gay sooooo

@@zachrohler1047Are you gay yet?

gaySkynet strikes again!

Well that's what people should be worried about, since nearly all are pedos

No worries there, this is not going to be a good game. Why would that be sad anyway. These wokester rip off artists brought this upon themselves. I hope they lose millions on this nonsense. Hope it’s an example to the rest of the industry that gamers are not taking this bs anymore. These people hate their customers.

Honestly starwars just looks like the road forspoken took. Except they're adding a bunch of MTX bullshit.

It’s heading there and I hate it

(Continuous chanting) Physical Media.

I just bought the lotr theatrical and extended cut out of my birthday.

Any company championing this doesn't get my money. Hell ill go buy old refurbished consoles (NOT from DKOldies lol) and play old good games. That doesn't bother me.

​@@joshz7712super metroid is the shit!

The same people that hate if you find an attractive woman attractive would bristle if you told them they were beautiful "like Lizzo" since she thinks she is the beauty standard. They also had no problem with a naked John Cena on stage at that awards show.

@@robertdouth8979 It also goes away with Bi or Lesbian romances. It's fine if their hot, long as it's only women gazing at them.

Hypocrites , one and every one of them

They’re essentially saying women can’t ever be as good as men, since they make women ugly and men attractive. They say they aren’t sexist, but… They kinda are, man.

never apologize for being attracted to beautiful women.

Damn. That is a solid line

Why would you want to pirate toxic garbage? If a game isn't worth a full price, it isn't worth my time.

LOL i love this! soo true!

Sounds like a Louis Rossman

Gamers should get used to not owning their games and Ubisoft should get used to my closed wallet.

The only reason I’m not air striking alongside you is that I know I’ll get sucked in. I’ve seen the videos and it looks incredible

The man has awakes

@@gregowen2022 If you ever do let me know, we can team up to blast some bugs.

Best game of the year, having much fun.

No trust me it has all of the Star Wars ideas with better tec & atmosphere Good bye Star Wars you Shante b remembered

I wish they’d just show us someone that actually looks like that. Mick Jagger is the closest human that lived.

Good to be back! There is too much garbage. For example, I just finished Velma this morning, lol. Sometimes it feels like these companies are just begging for the bad press. Oh well, guess I’ll write a script

Right? I’m strongly considering the Elden Ring DLC collector’s edition because it has real stuff. The statue looks awesome. But a DIGITAL deluxe? Miss me with that scam

@@gregowen2022 That's PEAK greed coming from the Desperate Suits wanting to take advantage of Whales with more money then sense! Hope this game doesn't get anyone buying that 129 dollar crap so it discourages them from wasting the time and resources pushing them abit (or at least leans them to something like the RE4 Collector's Edition! Though I think that ANGERS them that WE the customer profit off of likely CHEAP crap they wasted to try and squeeze more out of us customers....just for us to sale it on Ebay and such for WAY more that they'll never see a dime of LOL)

I bought a Metro Exodus standard edition on disc and got a map and postcards and such. When I bought Cyberpunk Standard Edition on disc I got similar items.

There is only 1 game company I will buy games from in day 1 and that is fromsoft. Every other single player game I wait till I can pick them up for a quarter of the price and fixed bugs. Why anyone would pay £130 to be a tester I'll never know 🤦‍♂️

@@jamo7303 Wow, I had the same thoughts as well! Never cared for the $60 pricing and ESPECIALLY didn't care when it went up to $70 dollars. Frankly thanks to a BACKLOG I can wait out for sales and I have a SET LIMIT I imposed myself on games in a year I'm WILLING to shell out (so far this year, Unicorn overlord and Class of Heroes 2G is the only ones I bought at full price though in the latter case it was on sale upon launch and I used my gold coins to lower it to $15 since the sale dropped it to $17.99 and this is buying the game seperate which makes it 19.99 for each one! For the Former, that was ONLY made because I got to play the demo which was the full game and it removed my fears of "bugs/crashes" as I was buying it for my Switch! Frankly if I got more Full Game Demo's for Switch releases, I'd feel more calm about buying them as then I KNOW I'm not paying alot to be a BUG TESTER and helps the game was GOOD as I imagine it to be that makes it worth the purchese) once I hit the limit, I can only buy OTHER games I want ON SALE (Decent sales) I jokingly called the full price tag the "FIRST Tax" after those idiots in the comment section who like to comment "FIRST" because many feel like they want the game simply to say "they got it on day 1" for the attention (Like ALOT of the Call of Duty games. Modern Warfare 2 ORIGINAL is what made me think this as my mother got it for my idiot brother and had to wait in line for it in the cold, and the goblin beat it in a few hours which pissed her off! I told her to leave it to me in the future as I got REALLY good at getting games on sale and cheaper then paying that "$50/$60" I also use rules for my purchases. 1st off, the "limited full price game" rule I mentioned. The 2nd rule is any game that gets delayed is worthy a worry, second delay is a dealbreaker if I DID pre-order it, and a third delay means that shit is coming out broken! Rarely have I been WRONG on this. And my 3rd rule of note, is pay the price of broken for the price of a broken game! If they want me to be a bug tester, then I will take my compensation from the amount of money I DIDN'T pay into said game! If a game has a game breaking bug, then that's about $10-$15 even $20 dollars taken off of the final price for me, even if a patch removes the bug, the fact it's THERE means if I bought the game physical, then if I EVER uninstall the game and can't download the patch, then that game is NEAR useless to play now! I'm more incline to buy the game DIGITAL ONLY and ONLY on a sale that lowers it at or BELOW the "final pricing" I set after taking those things into mind. At the very least it's good I have some GOOD review sources like SwitchUp for Switch games as an example to WARN ME of this shit ahead of time to make my choices more clear. I will NEVER buy those 100 dollar Special Editions, NEVER even if the stuff is good (I remember when art books and such were FREE if you pre-ordered as I remember the book I got for Fire Emblem Awakening after getting it Day 1 as I do ALL Fire Emblems, now they want MONEY, I say fuck that noise) for those games, I truly call it the "Swag Tax" where the companies are now targeting the SWAG lovers who they use to give the Swag to them for FREE but are now targeting them for sales. Except at least SOME make the Swag worth it! Those like THIS abomination are exploiting people and it's not even swag, it's taking IN-GAME stuff that should have been in the game (A SINGLE PLAYER GAME AT THAT) and asking you to pay. No thanks pal (If I DO buy that stuff, I usually wait for a MEGA sale as they get desperate to get SOME money out of it, even if their willing to drop it from $30 dollars to $5-8 dollars! At that point I strike, meaning I saved myself money and heartbreak WASTING money on something that SHOULD HAVE BEEN PRICED IN THOSE RANGES instead of costing HALF as much for a GAME!)

yeah lol, this reminded me of the last preorder/season pass I bought, bioshock infinite, I don't even remember what year it was

seasons change

Ah yes, Javik. My brother actually went thru the whole game without that DLC, had no idea it was even available lol And when ME3 botched the ending, the "hey we got DLCs coming, stay tuned" rubbed us ALL the wrong way.

Hard to believe, really?

Funnily enough I'm also a gardener in addition to being a gamer. I love LOVE plants

I would be, but I started collecting retro games and consoles, which is fun but can get expensive.

Good story. I don't really consider visual novels "games," though. Not a knock on it, it's a really good video "book."

@@qq-wy7zs Eh, I certainly think it's interactive enough to be at least vaguely considered a game. There's not much difference in gameplay to Undertale.

I'm planning on checking it out.

Played it. My hudband played it. He got the trapped in cabin gorever " happy" ending the firs try due to blindly following orders and saw no way that could be anything but a truly good ending cause he did whay he was told. Showed me that I married the type of soldier that ends up in the Nurember trials.

I am loving the press Helldivers is getting. When you have a quality loop with good gameplay, that’s what matters

Loved my time with A Plague Tale: Requiem. Like the character and story it tales.

Hell divers 2 is tapping in to the feels I used to get from old mmo's. It draws me in and the game play is almost as important as the unfolding storyline, expanding universe and the community banter. I wake up every day knowing that something crazy is going to happen. I cant wait till they add clans. Its going to be dope. For Sweet Liberty! Would you like to know more?

I hope the actress sues Ubi$oft

This is why I only buy steam games mostly, the game is on my pc even if steam removes it from thier site.

True. I’m playing Champions of Norrath:Return to Arms right now. If I let the game idle, my character starts encouraging me to take them somewhere. Or complains about getting bored.

I dont think you're far off. The dei, death of Petro dollar. Ol Joe holding the bag. All the funding headed to Ukraine Israel Palestine etc funding wars. The inflation out of control

AC2 and Brotherhood are masterpieces, FC3/4/5 are all very good, but yeah recently they've been focusing so much on game "as a service" that all their games are infected and the design suffer. They're not the only one, any AAA game nowadays is crap, outside of CDPR which still focus on player experience (for how long who knows)

Why did you keep buying after the first bad one or two?

@@feandil666 3 was GOATed, 4 was kinda mid, 5 was surprisingly good.

I didn't really care about who made the game back then. I cared about how fun the game looked. I retrospectively found out they were made by Ubisoft.

You forget that games take a lot longer to make nowadays.

@@im3phirebird81 Length of time making is irrelevant. We are not getting the value and physical things we used to. We are paying more for less.

@@michaelcjgreenway4788 length of time is not irrelevant lol. Let's say your boss asks why you don't work 80 hours a week for the same salary because length of time working is irrelevant. Fact is developing a big title takes a lot longer than it used to, and that involves a lot of hours of work by a lot of people. You are not getting less by any means. Compare like the first tomb raider game to a modern comparable game or the first GTA to the one getting released soon. You can't imagine how much it takes to just make the map and fill it with life so modern gamers feel properly immersed. Then add how many modern gamers are putting up insane hours in new games (100 per month?) and then say the games lack content. You are not getting less. Not by far. You are still getting more by a long shot. That is not the issue. The issue is scummy business practices and shit stories with political agendas everywhere.

@@im3phirebird81 I don't have a disk, case, or booklet to put on my shelf. I got all that for $40 -$60 before. Also, I DO have an idea, having built maps for Unreal Tournament and Jedi Academy, and made a living doing 3D animation. To me, this is like the smaller bag of chips, with mostly air, and a higher price, when you got a bigger, fuller bag before. Paying more for less just isn't justified in either instance. I respect your view and hope you will respect mine from here, since neither of us is competing for who's right or wrong. Agreed?

@im3phirebird81 Ubisoft has a very bad habit of reusing assets, and not in a good way either, as well as having bland gameplay loops and lately, not great writing. I'm not getting more simply because the devs bloat the game with pointless and useless content, and the fact that you're defending this is why the modern gaming companies have become so complacent

I only played Second Son and Last Light, but if Sucker Punch got a Star Wars license, I would be extremely excited

​@gregowen2022 the first 2 are fun Lightning trumps smoke Plus in 2nd game you get ice or napalm

Just replay KOTOR 1 and 2. It’s much better, and the enviornments are fantastic for a 20 year old game.

@@misanthropicservitorofmars2116 What if you own a PS5?

@@Chris_Thorndyke you own a phone? Both KOTOR games are fully ported to mobile.of you got a newer phone model, it runs great. I also play medieval 2 total war on my phone 😂

Agreed, that article was insane. And I agree on the waiting. Plus, most of us have so much backlog, waiting isn’t that painful anyway. It’s pretty rare that I honestly feel like I NEED a game on day 1. They’re almost always better after a few patches anyway

I don’t know what they are up to these days, but I played Warframe a few years ago and absolutely loved it. Yes, they do sell frames that give you an edge, but I never felt the game was designed to frustrate me into buying an upgrade, like Diablo Immoral. Same as you, I bought a $20 frame or something because after a couple dozen hours of good gaming, I felt like I wanted to support their work.

I appreciate seeing some Warframe LOVE😭💯🔥. About to hop onto it again after YEARS. Not only is there business practices consumer friendly its the most UNtoxic community on the internet I have EVER seen. Which says SOOO MUCH considering its a MULTIPLAYER game😭

Yup. Nothing more idiotic than being forced to play a 90 pound girlboss with a face shaped like someone hit it with a car. … In a primarily male fanbase.

Glad to be back!

The entire article is insane, I could not believe what I was reading

The entire article is insane, I could not believe what I was reading

It is possible, Tie Fighter is one of the best Star Wars games (I consider it the best but your mileage may vary) and it does not have a force using main character.

"Why would you buy a Star Wars game where the main character isn't force sensitive?" Han Solo? Boba/Jango Fett? Clone troopers? There's plenty of examples you could pick.

@@LoganChristiansonthe problem is that the main character looks ugly af

I'm glad you're here!