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STHX said:
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Looking at the amount of followers and "wishlist activity" it had post announcement/pre-release, I'm really surprised by how badly Code Vein 2 did, especially compared to the peak CV1 had all those years ago. There must have been a serious fuck up here, either for the performance issues, the price, the changes compared to the original (lack of multiplayer component, more "alien looking" NPCs, weird pseudo realistic anime artstyle), or because Nioh 3 is releasing so close to it
This is probably the first major failure for 2026
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Seems like a perfect storm of bad performance (UE5 claims another victim), feature regression compared to the predecessor (no co-op), the game itself having issues + 70€.
I also think the graphics look weirdly off, especially the character models.

Also frankly all these mid-budget anime games are getting their lunch eaten by chinese gacha games at this point.
I have my issues with the game, but Arknights Endfield which released 1 and a half weeks ago, looks incredible AND while being incredibly well optimized and is free.
 
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STHX said:
Code-Vein.png

Looking at the amount of followers and "wishlist activity" it had post announcement/pre-release, I'm really surprised by how badly Code Vein 2 did, especially compared to the peak CV1 had all those years ago. There must have been a serious fuck up here, either for the performance issues, the price, the changes compared to the original (lack of multiplayer component, more "alien looking" NPCs, weird pseudo realistic anime artstyle), or because Nioh 3 is releasing so close to it
This is probably the first major failure for 2026
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Isn’t the first game incredibly middling, anyway?

And as Ascheroth said, there’s plenty of free gacha games that accommodate all the gooning angles.
 
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STHX said:
Code-Vein.png

Looking at the amount of followers and "wishlist activity" it had post announcement/pre-release, I'm really surprised by how badly Code Vein 2 did, especially compared to the peak CV1 had all those years ago. There must have been a serious fuck up here, either for the performance issues, the price, the changes compared to the original (lack of multiplayer component, more "alien looking" NPCs, weird pseudo realistic anime artstyle), or because Nioh 3 is releasing so close to it
This is probably the first major failure for 2026
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Barely 50% positive reviews on steam, which is actually fairly hard to achieve for a AAA game not mired in culturewar controversy.

Personally, i'm mostly disappointed by them doing away with the Edgy Anime Vampire Asthetic that made the first game feel like an early 2000's anime.
 
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I looked at Pinball FX because they seem to be the license holders to Williams pinballs.
Now, I don't give a fuck about pinball, but for curio's sake, I wanted to play Gorgar, Swords of Fury, Embryon, Cosmic Gunfight, and Centaur, which are going to be adapted into TTRPG. Don't ask, some people do hard drugs.

I think they only have Swords of Fury. I hereby labeled Pinball FX as trash of the highest order. I'm fair.
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Now that's something weird and wild! Gorgar, and Centaur were previously licensed and ported by Farsight for their Pinball Arcade game, Embryon and Cosmic Gunfight (and too many others) never.

Gorgar is one of my favorites, but the video game conversions will never get how fucking terrible it is playing with a table that isn't absolutely pristine and trying to make it up the field against gravity with only minutes old rubber and decades and roughness perhaps?
 
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I know it’s a bad look, but they really should cut loose on Civ VII and begin work on the next one.

The game is foundationally broken and they won’t be able to fix it. Just chalk it up to a failed experiment, move on to Civ VIII to release 3-4 years from now, and start supporting Civ VI again in the meantime.

What a mess.
 
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STHX said:
Code-Vein.png

Looking at the amount of followers and "wishlist activity" it had post announcement/pre-release, I'm really surprised by how badly Code Vein 2 did, especially compared to the peak CV1 had all those years ago. There must have been a serious fuck up here, either for the performance issues, the price, the changes compared to the original (lack of multiplayer component, more "alien looking" NPCs, weird pseudo realistic anime artstyle), or because Nioh 3 is releasing so close to it
This is probably the first major failure for 2026
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I guess the landscape of anime games is very different compared with 2019. Most high profile anime games are releasing on Steam on day 1 now, when we didn't have a lot of options until 2021 / 2022. Gacha is another huge factor, like others have said.
 
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Honestly looking at those Civ 7 change it looks pretty great. I dunno why people are mad about them trying to fix the game. Like let them make the game good if they want to.

The changes from the Legacy system to Triumphs seems pretty monumental. The triumphs are enabled all the time and give you stuff to work towards and earn bonuses like the previous system used to b but this seems much clearer and easier to understand. It just a jcie set of optional objectives that get you stuff and can point you towards a victory or not. Seems like a great idea.

Also big changes to UI and victory conditions are great ideas to help the game. Allowing people to play the whole game as one civ or switch if you want and having systems for both ways is good compromise.
 
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STHX said:
Code-Vein.png

Looking at the amount of followers and "wishlist activity" it had post announcement/pre-release, I'm really surprised by how badly Code Vein 2 did, especially compared to the peak CV1 had all those years ago. There must have been a serious fuck up here, either for the performance issues, the price, the changes compared to the original (lack of multiplayer component, more "alien looking" NPCs, weird pseudo realistic anime artstyle), or because Nioh 3 is releasing so close to it
This is probably the first major failure for 2026
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Personally, the art style of the first was a big draw, and the aesthetic changes this time were a big turn off
 
QFNS said:
Honestly looking at those Civ 7 change it looks pretty great. I dunno why people are mad about them trying to fix the game. Like let them make the game good if they want to.

The changes from the Legacy system to Triumphs seems pretty monumental. The triumphs are enabled all the time and give you stuff to work towards and earn bonuses like the previous system used to b but this seems much clearer and easier to understand. It just a jcie set of optional objectives that get you stuff and can point you towards a victory or not. Seems like a great idea.

Also big changes to UI and victory conditions are great ideas to help the game. Allowing people to play the whole game as one civ or switch if you want and having systems for both ways is good compromise.
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Because nothing says that those changes will be good.

They need to kill the game, change the creative team, and make Civ VIII.
 
Kyougar said:
Because nothing says that those changes will be good.

They need to kill the game, change the creative team, and make Civ VIII.
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I mean why can't it be good? Because you don't like it now? You didn't like what they did before?

They are going to do this regardless of what you or I think, but I am willing to hear them out and try it since I already own the game. It was my Turd of last year (deservedly) but I'd still prefer a good game later, rather than a bad game forever. I don't see any issue with turning over the creative team for the next game, but since their roadmap seems to directly address all of the loudest complaints I've heard, I dunno what more they could do. Let them take some big swings at big fixes since that is what everyone is clamoring for.
 
Addressing the loudest complaints about Civ VII just gives way to new ones.

Conceptually, the game is a dud. I don’t want Civ VI-2, but I also don’t want things like Civ switching (at all, take it out), I want builders, I want leaders tied to Civs, I don’t want eras. Even those are surface level issues.

It is just completely busted and a bad game. Sometimes you just need to accept defeat and move on, and Civ VII is never going to be good.

And anyway, even if they make it a technically good game, this one is tainted and mindshare is against it so I think a fresh start will help. It’s like Street Fighter V vs Street Fighter VI. Capcom may have made a good SF eventually, but when I think about playing it I remember how disappointed I was with the original game that I have less than 0 interest in playing it. SF6 is what it took me to be interested in the series again.
 
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LEANIJA said:


the creators of Diablo 1 and 2 are making a new ARPG called Darkhaven. They tout almost fully destructable worlds, free movement unusual to the genre and a bunch of other nice things; there's a Steam page already up, and a Kickstarter will follow soon.

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I have a bad feeling about this game, the art direction seems to be taken out from the early to middle of the 2000s, and not in a good way.

I hope it's because they worked on a tight budget to show something semi-finished, but what makes me doubt it is that the UI looks completely bland, and the lightning seems to entirely unimportant to the ambiance, something that was really prominent both in diablo 1 and 2. (neverwinter nights did much better shadows as well)
 
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I have a bad feeling about this game, the art direction seems to be taken out from the early to middle of the 2000s, and not in a good way.

I hope it's because they worked on a tight budget to show something semi-finished, but what makes me doubt it is that the UI looks completely bland, and the lightning seems to entirely unimportant to the ambiance, something that was really prominent both in diablo 1 and 2. (neverwinter nights did much better shadows as well)
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yeah youre not wrong – we'll have to wait and see how it turns out in the end. if the gameplay is fun, I can excuse some dated-looking graphics.
 
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