• CthulhusIntern [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Do not pre-order ANY games. Yes, even the ones when generally good developers.

    • john_browns_beard [he/him, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      I really don't understand why people are still doing this. In-game pre-order bonuses are generally garbage and like 90% of the time they eventually are made available to the general public anyway. Just wait literally 24 hours until some reviews come out so you know you aren't blowing $60 on some glorified beta test.

        • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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          2 years ago

          LOL at the screenshot.

          Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

      • NewAcctWhoDis [any]
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        2 years ago

        Do not buy ANY games. Yes, even the ones when generally good developers.

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Damn I just realized how many game covers are just the character with their back to the camera looking out over the land or some shit

    • d_cagno [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      200 years of copying Wanderer above the Sea of Fog

    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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      2 years ago

      You got two choices when it comes to AAA games: Lone soldier holding a rifle on fire with a tank behind him for the shooter. Or lone adventurer with the camera behind him looking over a vast landscape for the adventure game.

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      My favorite is when they change the western cover of Kirby games to make him seemed pissed off. They have to make sure no one thinks the cute little pink blob is gay

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Kirby is more intimidating when he uses his sunshine and rainbows vibe to defeat eldritch horrors. :specter-global:

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        What were the DLC like in the Caspar David Friedrich saga? Were the lootboxes consumer friendly with reasonable odds? :so-true:

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I just posted about that but damn is it tiresome, especially when it's "grizzled slouching dudebro with weapon."

  • crime [she/her, any]
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    2 years ago

    Why would you ever preorder a game in the era of digital downloads? Love 2 give EA an interest free loan

  • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I am going to be honest with you JK Rowling is not the reason I refuse to play hogwarts video games

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      This newest Harry Potter game is quite literally about doing genocide against a workers' uprising and somehow that's good.

      • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        because of course it is.

        a goblin revolt against wizard slavers is a badass setting for a game but JK just had to side with the slavers

        • ssjmarx [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          What's hilarious is that the game devs have explicitly denounced Rowling and said that they have no connection with her (aside from paying for the Potter license), and they still came up with this absolutely cursed story idea.

  • RNAi [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Besides the magic pogrom simulator, why the other two are bad too?

    • Runcible [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      the magic pogrom simulator

      I hope you're talking about HP, I'm generally hopeful for Jedi Survivor, fallen order was pretty fun.

      • Florn [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        The Harry Potter game is about suppressing a revolt by goblins (anti-semitic stereotypes) who are trying to exercise their right to bear arms

        • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          Who thought that was a good idea???? I don't know shit about harry potter, but I'm pretty sure i could come up with a better concept. Just off the top of my head - Wizard goes to a school, theres magical hijinks, have that weird sport be a minigame, and don't include any anti-semtic shit. How hard is that?

          • ssjmarx [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            It would be so easy! Honestly the first couple HP games are bops, just lighthearted adventures and mild platforming/puzzle solving - although the later games in the series are just second rate third person shooters and kinda suck.

    • frogbellyratbone_ [e/em/eir, any]
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      2 years ago

      it's EA and fuck EA.

      also just don't preorder games. it's a scam and all it does is encourage devs to rush out unfinished glitch ass broken games since they've already been paid.

      instead, make the devs do the work and produce a game worth buying.

  • NPa [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Wo Long? More like So Long :kelly:

  • Deadend [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Pre-ordering games unless it’s one of those limited run game’s physical edition of a digital game that already came out is only for suckers.