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Triarii posted:It's always okay to be mad about gameplay-relevant microtransactions imo I am late to DD mtx chat but I figured they would just be skins and stuff. The idea of having fast travel unlocks and revives available for a price in a $70 PC RPG feels incredibly off-putting, even though I’ll definitely just ignore them. Putting them in post the review period also feels pretty dishonest.
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Tarezax posted:Also don't let the mixed reviews on Steam fool you, it's being review bombed by Chinese incel culture warriors Oh yeah. China hates it because of perceived cuckoldry in an unrelated game. You know how it is.
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Tarezax posted:Also don't let the mixed reviews on Steam fool you, it's being review bombed by Chinese incel culture warriors Me explaining my Ratemyprofessor.com ranking to my director
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tildes posted:I am late to DD mtx chat but I figured they would just be skins and stuff. The idea of having fast travel unlocks and revives available for a price in a $70 PC RPG feels incredibly off-putting, even though I’ll definitely just ignore them. Putting them in post the review period also feels pretty dishonest. it's all ingame stuff you can just buy to get earlier it's like if pokemon had endless mtx for great balls, potions, and x-revives
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pentyne posted:it's all ingame stuff you can just buy to get earlier The DD stuff isn't endless. You can only buy it once. tildes posted:I am late to DD mtx chat but I figured they would just be skins and stuff. The idea of having fast travel unlocks and revives available for a price in a $70 PC RPG feels incredibly off-putting, even though I’ll definitely just ignore them. Putting them in post the review period also feels pretty dishonest. They literally gave reviewers a document showing all the DLC. It was not hidden.
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Det_no posted:Oh yeah. China hates it because of perceived cuckoldry in an unrelated game. You know how it is. they come from a mobile gacha game (girls frontline) where you can give wedding rings to anime girl jpegs designed after real world guns and they're extremely mad because their patriotic waifu qbz-95 (the standard service rifle of china's military) talked to a man in her backstory in girls frontline 2. that man being a terrorist who she talked down from Doing A Terrorism. yup sounds like cuckoldry to me. RPATDO_LAMD fucked around with this message at 07:01 on Mar 23, 2024 |
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The Case of the Golden Idol rips thanks for all the recommends in here over the months.
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Phigs posted:The Case of the Golden Idol rips thanks for all the recommends in here over the months. yes it's great
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Phigs posted:The Case of the Golden Idol rips thanks for all the recommends in here over the months.
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tildes posted:I am late to DD mtx chat but I figured they would just be skins and stuff. The idea of having fast travel unlocks and revives available for a price in a $70 PC RPG feels incredibly off-putting, even though I’ll definitely just ignore them. Putting them in post the review period also feels pretty dishonest. all reviewers received a review guide that explicitly talked about the mtx, none of them decided to mention it anyways its useless and nobody should give a poo poo about it because its 1000% ignorable and the discourse surrounding it is riddled with tons of misinformation
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tildes posted:I am late to DD mtx chat but I figured they would just be skins and stuff. The idea of having fast travel unlocks and revives available for a price in a $70 PC RPG feels incredibly off-putting, even though I’ll definitely just ignore them. Putting them in post the review period also feels pretty dishonest. Once you finish what is the tutorial part of the game, if you bother exploring at all you've going to have found all of the items that are offered as microtransactions.
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ShadowMar posted:all reviewers received a review guide that explicitly talked about the mtx, none of them decided to mention it Huh, that’s interesting. Some of the reporting on the backlash was definitely weirdly defensive. Although I think most game journos are like frogs boiled in water, after having to review so many battlepass/mtx/cosmetics dlc games. I would probably have some weird takes too, if my job meant spending tens of hours playing every single failed live service game. How do we know about this review guide?
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Fruits of the sea posted:Huh, that’s interesting. Some of the reporting on the backlash was definitely weirdly defensive. Although I think most game journos are like frogs boiled in water, after having to review so many battlepass/mtx/cosmetics dlc games. I would probably have some weird takes too, if my job meant spending tens of hours playing every single failed live service game.  it was included in the email sent out alongside review keys
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Det_no posted:Reverse Collapse: Code Name Bakery opinions, 4 hours in: cmon man
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I cannot reconcile “good English translation” with “the title is ‘reverse collapse code name bakery’”
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Det_no posted:Reverse Collapse: Code Name Bakery opinions, 4 hours in: How much did they pay you for pushing a mobile game? EDIT: ok calling it a mobile game is wrong, this is a student game. Each aspect of this is poorly conceived. Text size is too small, the "readability" of gameplay elements such as the menu and tile based levels is pretty bad. "20 bucks it's a huge steal"? Come on thats a pizza tower, or in triple that an entire unicorn overlord Upsidads fucked around with this message at 12:55 on Mar 23, 2024 |
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:they come from a mobile gacha game (girls frontline) where you can give wedding rings to anime girl jpegs designed after real world guns I don't know what any of this means but it's convinced me to never go near this game
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:they come from a mobile gacha game (girls frontline) where you can give wedding rings to anime girl jpegs designed after real world guns Tale as old as time
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I would pick up the anime bakery tactics because it seems like my jam, but I just converted the rest of my fun budget for the month into Total Warhammer 3 so it has to wait.
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So for those of us with poor impulse control who also have extra money because we were too stupid to pay attention to when the spring sale stopped, does the Dragon's Dogma 2 deluxe edition add anything worthwhile? At a glance it just looks like a collection of the microtransactions everyone is complaining about.
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drat Dirty Ape posted:So for those of us with poor impulse control who also have extra money because we were too stupid to pay attention to when the spring sale stopped, does the Dragon's Dogma 2 deluxe edition add anything worthwhile? At a glance it just looks like a collection of the microtransactions everyone is complaining about. it's a bunch of bullshit. none of it even seems exclusive, just somewhat rare consumables you'll find by playing the game.
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Tarezax posted:Also don't let the mixed reviews on Steam fool you, it's being review bombed by Chinese incel culture warriors Chinese incel warrior, with your heart so coooold
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drat Dirty Ape posted:So for those of us with poor impulse control who also have extra money because we were too stupid to pay attention to when the spring sale stopped, does the Dragon's Dogma 2 deluxe edition add anything worthwhile? At a glance it just looks like a collection of the microtransactions everyone is complaining about. the only DLCs that add actual new stuff are the DD1 Music/Sound swapper and the Camping Kit which is not available without the DLC and also adds it to the stores everything else is useless trash you can safely ignore because its all obtainable by playing the game normally as someone who bought the deluxe edition, dont get the deluxe edition
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Akratic Method posted:I cannot reconcile “good English translation” with “the title is ‘reverse collapse code name bakery’” I love an old fashioned title formed by throwing darts at a dictionary
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Gromit posted:I'll let my play time speak for itself: As a second opinion: Audiosurf - 12.3 hours. Audiosurf 2 - 16.5 hours. They're practically the same game, except that 2 has workshop support so I'd say it's the superior one. 2 also has the Night Drive skin, which is my favorite by far: 
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Fruits of the sea posted:Huh, that’s interesting. Some of the reporting on the backlash was definitely weirdly defensive. Although I think most game journos are like frogs boiled in water, after having to review so many battlepass/mtx/cosmetics dlc games. I would probably have some weird takes too, if my job meant spending tens of hours playing every single failed live service game. I am a reviewer. I got a copy of the guide. On top of that I did not mention the DLC because the DLC is both on par with all of Capcom's recent releases and less egregious that most recent games I've played. For example, here are the at-launch microtransactions for just some of the recent games I've played: Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth: 2 exclusive summon materias you can't get elsewhere, 2 pieces of armor you can't get elsewhere. Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth: Crafting materials (available in game), cheat items, costumes, 2 exclusive jobs, various items, New Game + and a dungeon. Baldur's Gate 3: Exclusive items as well as potions and camp supplies and some bard songs. Spider-Man 2: Five suits for each character, a bonus 5 skill points, early unlocks for in-game suits and gadgets. Persona 3 Reload: Persona exclusive to the DLC, characer costumes. I'm picking games that reviewed extremely well both with critics and audiences and did not get this insane backlash. It isn't a huge conspiracy and if there's any defensiveness to it, it's because nobody has any reason to assume that this pack of genuinely inoffensive generic items would be somehow the breaking point for people and it's super weird to have people suddenly freaking out about something they ignored worse versions of time and time again.
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IGN has a DD2 microtransaction review TLDR most of it isn't a big deal, but the portcrystal is kind of bullshit.
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yeah i think im done with buying new release games in canada i can afford it but its like, a video game is not worth 110 dollars holy moly, im transforming into a patient gamer in my old age (40)
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queeb posted:yeah i think im done with buying new release games in canada looks like thats about 78 USD which is about what i'd pay for that with NY sales tax, but yeah ive decided im gonna wait on DD2. nothing to do with this DLC stuff, more wanting to see if they fix up performance and capcom stuff tends to go on sale pretty quick it is "only" $61 USD on GMG right now, dunno what the CDN discount is but if you're tempted: https://www.greenmangaming.com/games/dragons-dogma-2-pc/
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queeb posted:yeah i think im done with buying new release games in canada In my old age I'll spend 3 hours watching and reading reviews of a game before not buying it because even though it is only $25 it may be $20 next week.
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Deakul posted:I guess I'll use this as an opportunity to actually get back into DragDog1 since DD2 genuinely just seems to be more of the first game. DD2 appears to be "What if we had the budget and time to actually make all of our insane ideas from the first game's development." Though regrettably I haven't heard anything about a moon trip.
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ImpAtom posted:I am a reviewer. I got a copy of the guide. On top of that I did not mention the DLC because the DLC is both on par with all of Capcom's recent releases and less egregious that most recent games I've played. This whole post is my stance. It's been the same poo poo in Capcom games since at least DMC4 SE. All of them are literally skippable. This fake outrange over tiny things muddles it when truly horrible offenders do worse
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queeb posted:yeah i think im done with buying new release games in canada What kills me is when the deluxe version of a game goes on sale, bringing it down to only CAD$79.99! 
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RBX posted:This whole post is my stance. It's been the same poo poo in Capcom games since at least DMC4 SE. All of them are literally skippable. This fake outrange over tiny things muddles it when truly horrible offenders do worse Also if you played the game instead of staring at the store page you would never know the mtx existed. The game does nothing to advertise it.
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Goa Tse-tung posted:cmon man https://webmshare.com/8K43Z It looks amazing for this kind of game. Big sprites, lots of animations, sources of lighting, effects like units kicking up snow, etc. Upsidads posted:Each aspect of this is poorly conceived. Text size is too small, the "readability" of gameplay elements such as the menu and tile based levels is pretty bad. Put on your glasses.
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