Releasing a game like this for 50 bucks in this day and age is extremely surprising. Easy day 1 grab.
Honestly it's pathetic they had to defend the cheaper price.
Just from data mining Source 2 game updates we know Valve is working on a new Half Life game. That, with the hiring of said devs makes it seem like Valve has a pretty big push internally to get a new Half Life out, which is great.I know it's Tyler McViker, but his latest video mentioned Valve hiring devs from Rockstar, Naughty Dog, id and so on and I don't know if they would be happy working on skins.
I assume people see the lower price and get suspicious of the quality? Like cheap = bad or poor in quality?Wait, why would anyone be against cheaper game price?
Years ago, this is one of the reasons why indie devs were saying to price games higher than $10-$15 since others would view the game as low quality and a cash grab. It's sad that people view lower price tag with lower quality.I assume people see the lower price and get suspicious of the quality? Like cheap = bad or poor in quality?
This also backfires because once in a while a Stardew or Terraria or Hollow Knight appears and then for the next 8 years people wonder why they should pay $30 or $40 when that game is $15...Years ago, this is one of the reasons why indie devs were saying to price games higher than $10-$15 since others would view the game as low quality and a cash grab.
This looks amazing.
Some people are really fucking stupid.Wait, why would anyone be against cheaper game price?
I could accept Denuvo if it had an expiration date after which it would forcibly be patched out. Meanwhile I've been waiting almost 8 years for it to be removed from FFXV so I can finally buy it. And Dragon Quest XI was removed from the stores before they ever removed Denuvo from the game."Controversial" opinion:
In principle, I am not a fan of DRMs as a concept. However: I do not mind Denuvo. I have over 50 games with it and do not remember experiencing any problems because of it. It is night and day compared to DRMs of old (Securom, Starforce, Safedisc). Maybe there were some bad implementations of Denuvo (I remember some grumbling about RE8), but overall, I can't really tell if a game has it or not.
Moreover, Denuvo actually works. In (lot more) cases than not, it stops day 1 piracy. It puts PC gaming on same footing as consoles (where piracy is impossible), and allows us to see actual sales of games and interest by paying customers.
Third point, recently there was a study that iirc showed that piracy can result in about 20% of lost revenue if possible on first week. That is a lot of money. Imagine investing tens of millions of euros into a project. Why wouldn't you want only paying customers to use it?
HOWEVER
I do think that from long-term and game preservation perspective, Denuvo should always be eventually removed. It can be a month after launch, or three months, or year, but developers and publishers should remove it once sales slow down (or the moment a crack appears), always and without exception. And provide GOG release.
Sony is inching closer and closer to simultaneous PC releases.
January 25, significantly quicker port than the 2+ years of previous singleplayer games by Sony.
Goddamn it, they're really going to make us wait for season 2 of the tv show before releasing the TLoU Part II port, aren't they?
"Not available in your region" so it doesn't exist for me XD
My waiting (well, lack of interest in the game) paid off.
I remember somebody speculating from the insomniac hack/leak that it would come sooner, guess it wasn't wrong.
But... but... if the gap continues to shorten then... what point is there in all those PS consoles and games I bought?Sony is inching closer and closer to simultaneous PC releases.
Is Miles Morales required to properly understand Spiderman 2?The black friday or winter PSN sales need to have a very deep discount on Miles Morales.
Still need to play that before I can get hyped for niche man 2
Well, it has Miles and Peter sharing the protagonist role and MM is meant to properly introduce Miles into the series.Is Miles Morales required to properly understand Spiderman 2?
Everyone already knows who Miles is though. I guess the question is whether there's any important story continuity? The MM game is rather expensive (at least in my region) and I'm not the biggest fan of the series to begin with so I'd probably prefer to skip it if I could.Well, it has Miles and Peter sharing the protagonist role and MM is meant to properly introduce Miles into the series.
You will still understand it fine though.
I hope we get Gwen in Spider Man 3.
Thx Concord.
I guess. Shame as it's something I'm anticipating a lot more than Spidey.Goddamn it, they're really going to make us wait for season 2 of the tv show before releasing the TLoU Part II port, aren't they?
Miles Morales is a lot better (paced as well) than the first game and it is shorter so defo worth playing.Everyone already knows who Miles is though. I guess the question is whether there's any important story continuity? The MM game is rather expensive (at least in my region) and I'm not the biggest fan of the series to begin with so I'd probably prefer to skip it if I could.
Yup. The game is great and doesn't require a big time investment.Miles Morales is a lot better (paced as well) than the first game and it is shorter so defo worth playing.
No clue and I don't want to look up stuff to spoil myself on anything.Is Miles Morales required to properly understand Spiderman 2?
LOL I don't even own the game yet.FunnyJay So when we playing R2
Trust me when I say this: just play on easyI had to drop AC Odyssey, seemed great but I got too frustrated with too much dying. I don't mind failing encounters but so much of that game is the same thing so even my hand started hurting from button smashing lol
I already had on easy haha! I even had the level scaling at light, which was supposed make it so I could over level a little bit, but it didn't, all outposts were the same level as me, and as you say everything just became damage sponges.Trust me when I say this: just play on easy
Difficulty in modern AC games is not worth it. Enemies just become damage sponges while nothing else changes: same number of enemies, same type of enemies, same AI patterns, same drops. It's much more enjoyable to kill them quickly enough as you level to max. Doesn't help Odyssey is probably the one AC where being able to consistantly assassinate enemies is impossible since they're HP are so high even stealth critical hits aren't enough to finish the job, unless you're severly overleveled which you won't be at high difficulty because everything will scale to your level minus 1
Actually, it's the other way around. The game always had a pretty ineffective SMAA solution (due to how noisy the and contrasty the picture is, SMAA alone isn't doing much). The new patch just adds an option to replace it with the even weaker FXAA and to turn it off entirely.Metaphor patch says it contains an AA option LOL. Kinda amazing they had to add that in, but good they did I guess? I haven't seen any comparisons on how it does tho.