I suppose Baldur’s Gate 3 could be an example for a lot of people. Any recent or just “recent” release you are waiting for to get at the moment?
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Starfield, waiting to see how many issues it has and what actual gameplay and graphics looks like.
Yeah I’m shocked at how quick people forgot Fallout 76, and the plethora of other broken Bethesda releases.
Don’t get me wrong I’d love for it to be good, but I’ve just been burned too many times to trust it at launch haha
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first major release under daddy Microsoft, so things may be different
I wouldn’t hold my breath:
- Bethesda’s management have always unvalued spending effort on engine development
- Microsoft’s awful mandated top-down rules are what seriously messed up Halo Infinite:
- To go into this point in more detail:
- 343 industries hired a large amount of “temporary” contractors to work on Halo Infinite (this is standard in AAA games)
- For legal reasons, any contractor who had worked on a project for 18 months is given workers protections
- Microsoft mandated that each contractor be “let go” right before reaching this 18 month time-frame.
- During the regular process of development, different developers would build different things, then over time either help out with any questions on how to use it, or tweak it to support a new use case.
- During Microsoft’s mandated development, the developer who built a tool or best knew how it worked was let go. Since it’s easier to write new code rather than read existing code unassisted the developer who needs something done before a deadline has to build a new tool. After 5 years we now have 40 something tools that are all built based on different assumptions that keep overwriting each other’s results in wildly expected way. No one knows how anything works anymore.
Yeah I imagine Microsoft will push for less bugs, which seems to be the case, but that game engine is so jank. Unless they made giant upgrades to it, I expect it to still have many of the same old limitations
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Same, I’m probably going to wait until the first sale since I don’t want to support $70 as the new game standard unless the game is actually worth it (not a big ridden mess and bugs get patched in a timely manner, content and gameplay lives up to the hype, etc). If it sounds like there aren’t many bugs and the content lives up to the hype I may buy it at $70, but I’m trying to avoid it without missing out
It’s on Game Pass if you’re on PC/Xbox and your country is covered. Feels good to be able to play a triple A game for “free” tbh
I’m just glad it’s on gamepass so I can try it out without having to pay full price
I’ve been holding out on getting Stray for about a year now. I’m just not willing to pay full price for a relatively short game.
I thought it was worth the $30, but I do wish it had a bit more. Like an extra Zoomies mode for timed runs or races.
I’m sure it really is worth the money but I’m a patient gamer because I’m cheap. I’d rather support a good company in other ways like buying soundtracks and swag versus getting burned on a overpriced game.
Starfield, Baldur‘s Gate 3, and Cyberpunk.
I‘m so tempted to just be part of the Starfield start hype but… let‘s be honest, it‘s a Bethesda game so it probably needs another year of patches and mods.
And Baldur‘s Gate seems to also require a few patches and I‘m not paying more than 40 bucks for any digital copy of a game, even if it‘s the second coming of Christ among videogames.
Cyberpunk I‘m merely waiting to have a PC that is powerful enough to play it in all its glory. So probably gotta wait half a decade lol
Obviously, on top of my mentioned reasons, it‘s not like I don‘t have 100+ untouched games dozens of them critically acclaimed, so it’s not like I’m just staring at my wall waiting for my moment to strike lol
BG3 is the only game in my life I’ve bought at launch. No regrets. This studio definitely deserves the full price tag. I’ve experienced like 5 bugs throughout my 130 hours of playing. I came from a poorer country and still made sense to me to vote with my wallet what games should be striving to look like on launch.
Tears of the Kingdom because I basically just purchased Breath of the Wild a few months ago and haven’t finished it.
Baldur’s Gate 3, because my friends want to play it all together and so I’m waiting for them
Oh so many!
- Cyberpunk 2077
- Elden Ring
- God of War Ragnarok
- Hogwarts Legacy
- Jedi Survivor
- Horizon Forbidden West Burning Shores
- Baldur’s Gate 3 (though it’s not on consoles yet …
I’ve a huge backlog that I’m chipping through one by one, and thse games are only going to get better with patches or cheaper with sales, I can wait for that and reduce my backlog at the same time :D
BG3 is the only game I’ve bought at launch price in my life. No regrets, what an amazing job from Larian.
+1 for God of war ragnarock, no ps5 here so I’ll be waiting for steam release. I just played the prequel this year anyways so I can wait
I’ve got Disco Elyseum, factorio, and Cyberpunk 2077 waiting for me to get into the mood to play them.
If you haven’t bought Disco Elysium already, don’t.
Don’t misunderstand, you NEED to play it. It’s an amazing game.
But even the devs themselves will tell you to pirate the game.
On the other hand, devs who promote pirating their work are the kind of people I do want to give money to.
They’re encouraging it because the studio sacked most of the team abruptly. The developers who actually made the game are long gone
You should read about the situation that prompted them to say that. Their work has basically been stolen from them, and if you do buy it, the people who made the game won’t see a dime.
You’re better off pirating it and sending them money on Patreon or something.
Factorio, waiting for the sale that will never come
Didn’t the Dev say it’s never going to go on sale ever? Or was that the joke and I missed it
it has gone on sale once but it’s not often
I might be thinking of the Rimworld dev
Nah you were right. Factorio devs have gone on record saying that they’ll never put their game on sale. Something to the effect that it lowers the value of the players who bought it earlier. That said, before it reached 1.0 it was cheaper. The closer to release the higher the price had gone. Think I got it way back when it was $20.
It has not, that I’m aware of
Starfield. Too expensive at release and likely to be buggy
Same. But add not having anything able to efficiently run it at a satisfactory level at the moment.
Saints Row. I don’t see it being a possibility but I have this false hope that volition will bounce back and give a good game.
Cyberpunk 2077. Waiting for the complete police overhaul to play the game. Have not played it yet.
Volition needs to reboot Freespace and/or Descent.
They need to reboot their studio 😭. The entire team feels like they have no direction and trying too hard to stay afloat
Saints Row. I don’t see it being a possibility but I have this false hope that volition will bounce back and give a good game.
Well, that aged badly.
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Stray, cyberpunk and red dead 2 and forza. I’m waiting until they come down in price and it forces me to play through my backlog.
I already bought RDR2, but I have been holding off for a good time to play it. I plan on taking a week break from the gym, so maybe I’ll take advantage of that extra hour or two to get into the game
Re4 remake. I really love Resident Evil, but I haven’t set up the time to get immersed in it and experience it.
Armored Core 6, Jedi Survivor, Starfield. Until some sale I think. I’ve already bought Elden Ring, Diablo 4, and Baldurs Gate 3 this year, and I might get another before the year ends. Gotta slow it down lol
Edit: Hogwart’s Legacy, forgot about that one.
I splurged on Baldur’s Gate and have enjoyed every minute I’ve put in so far. I’ll have to get back to Tears of the Kingdom at some point too.
But I’ll be fully holding off on Armored Core, Starfield and the Metal Gear Solid Master Collection for a while.
If we can get both volumes of the MGS collection in one bundle at a discount, I’d easily bite. For now, I’m still content playing MGS1-3 emulated. I’m mainly just excited to get MGS4 on PC
Like many others Balders Gate 3. I am now going through the first two. Hopefully when I have completed I and II I might have a PC that can run BD3.
To an extent, Kingdom Hearts. Still waiting for the Steam Deck release
I wish, I think epic helped them with KH3, so they’re just stuck there. I’d just emulate them, everything up to KH3 is very doable on the Steam Deck.
