I am officially done buying games on release. None of these games are worth 80 bucks.
Do you wanna spend 80 dollars on a new game, or wait a year and buy it for 10 dollars when it works and is actually finished?
WHERE CAN I PRE ORDER IT FOR 120 DOLLARS TO PLAY IT 3 DAYS EARLY AND PAY TO BE A PLAYTESTER?
Like i’m not surprised why games are this expensive.
That’s the kicker. Getting games on release now feels like early access. I’ve been hyped for a few games in day one and there’s either server issues, driver issues, crashes, what have you. These things are so rushed they need a year to be finished.
By then you’ll know if it flops too, avoid getting caught in the hype.
even if wages increased with inflation and 80 dollar games weren’t so distressing, the first outer wilds fucking sucked and I have no hope for the sequel
I don’t know. It seems like they’re addressing the issues that the first one had. It was too safe and far too full of itself. It should have just been one big planet and a bit less goofy. Seems like the next one is shaping up for that. Also, if there is a game company that I trust right now it’s obsidian. I was super disappointed with the ending just being the same slides they used for new Vegas, hopefully we at least get a more satisfying ending.
It was okay
It literally took 30 years for the most expensive games to go up by $10.
This is to make Game Pass appear more valuable, nothing more.
Then I won’t touch either. I am not giving Microsoft money.
I’ll never understand why people just can’t NOT buy a game they know is shit.
I also do not understand people’s desire to be part of the group so much they buy things that aren’t what they want and just play it anyways. I think it’s just all forms of addiction.
I didn’t buy that either
Oof. I love Obsidian, I really do, but The Outer Worlds 1 wasn’t at all the kind of game I was looking for. NPC’s felt very cardboard-y, each and everyone you had to talk to was anchored to one place, the world didn’t feel lived in or alive.
And then asking $80 for a sequel to that?
That’s gonna be a no from me dawg.It was also short. For 80 dollars I would expect 120 hours in game like RDR2. That’s the bar. If it’s not that long, I think I finished the first one in 25, then I’ll happily wait until it’s lower
RDR2 is such a slow-burn masterpiece that I’m still enjoying that game years after it released. The game is longer than 120 hours given how it implies you take your time and enjoy the views, the immersion and the story.
RDR2 was deliberately designed to be a high inertia experience that takes its sweet-ass time to start off and difficult to slow down when its going.
RDR2 is so great the NYT film reviewer mentioned as one of the best stories that year.
I loved The Outer Worlds, it was just my kind of game, but after having watched the new trailer for The Outer Worlds 2, I am worried, the story seems unfocused and messy and some of the weapons seems to just be a big generic blob design.
This being said, I will do what I normally do, wait until release and watch as my favourite youtube gamer shows it on his channel, after one or two episodes I’ll buy it and stop watching if it is good.
Same. I was willing to keep Outer Worlds 2 on my radar because I love Obsidian and they’ve earned my attention even though I didn’t particularly enjoy Outer Worlds 1, but at that price point the game has dropped off my radar. Unless it’s getting New Vegas level praise post launch I probably won’t be paying any more attention to this game.
Similar. Although I happily leave it at my wishlist and buy it once it’s diacounted like $15… I still have way more games to play than I can manage.
That and the completely garbage inventory with no good filter and sort.
That first game felt like a demo with lot of polish but didn’t feel like a precursor for an $80 game. And already cost me $30 for the first time of meh.
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It’s almost funny that the most recent trailer ends with the line “the game about capitalism, made by capitalism.”
That’s more sad than funny
You can’t stop me >:C
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People are struggling to buy groceries.
CEO: Let’s raise the price of a good people don’t need because money.
I can only hope this move backfires spectacularly.
It’s The Outer Worlds. It will.
The first game was shit. The game it was confused with became the greatest game ever made. Go buy that one instead.
What game was it confused with?NVM, I just realized it was No Man’s Sky. Though I seem to recall that the launch of that game was also a shit show. I’ve heard it got much better as time went on.
Nope, Outer Wilds.
No, they’re referring to The Outer Wilds. They’re absolutely right, The Outer Wilds was infinitely better than The Outer Worlds. Granted, they were doing different things but holy shit I wish I could replay Other Wilds for the first time again. One of the best experiences ever!
No man’s sky is not anywhere near the greatest game ever made. Id honestly take outer wilds over either game being discussed. Outer wilds has a charm that’s impossible for a AAA studio to match, and it’s a solid gravity sandbox besides that.
The NMS game loop is just trying to make number go up as efficiently as possible for nanites and credits. It’s not fun. It is and always has been a grind.
This was peak satire given you genuinely thought that they were talking about NMS and then proceeded to talk about Outer Wilds, the true game that OP was referencing, by accident.
I’m pretty sure they meant Outer Wilds, which is one of my top games of all time.
Great game, but wildly different type of game
Where does No man’s sky come from ? How could it be confused with The outer worlds ? People confuse it with outer wilds, both no man’s sky.
Other commenter said NMS, I confused it with this one thinking they were talking about the same thing.
Don’t worry everyone, it’ll proabably be on gamepass on release. You should all get that /s
Ugh. I hate subscriptions, people parroting this “just get gamepass, it’s cheaper” is just silly. Once they got you hooked in- they’ll increase the prices for sure.
Like others said, it is mostly done to make gamepass more appealing vs the 80 bucko’s.
I say No to either and settle for i’ll wait for a nice good sale at some point in future time.
I personally am at a stage where I have a few games I rotate with sometimes something new(er) in between.
I got so much at this point that I am not interested in full-price titles due to “lack” of things to play, I tend to not often stick to 1 anymore as I used to.
Time to join patient gamers who wait for a sale
You can probably wait for this one to be free, or at least bundled.
That’s funny, it’s my first confirmed “wait until it’s on sale” game
Same here, though I heard middling reviews for the first game, so I probably won’t play it regardless. Not that I’d pay $80 for a videogame anyways, lol. Even if it was HL3.
$80 is twice the annual mountain biking pass at my local state park.
Not a chance.
Yea, no thanks dawg. First game was boring AF, and on top of that, now you want 80 bucks?
Lol $100 games haha
Ya’ll remember when pirating was massive.
Yeah let’s do that again.
No thanks. The first was not good enough to warrant buying the second at $60, let alone $80.
Agreed. $40? Id think about it and probably wait for a sale anyways. $80 is just laughable and completely removes any temptation i had to check it out.