this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2023
136 points (82.4% liked)

Games

16681 readers
928 users here now

Video game news oriented community. No NanoUFO is not a bot :)

Posts.

  1. News oriented content (general reviews, previews or retrospectives allowed).
  2. Broad discussion posts (preferably not only about a specific game).
  3. No humor/memes etc..
  4. No affiliate links
  5. No advertising.
  6. No clickbait, editorialized, sensational titles. State the game in question in the title. No all caps.
  7. No self promotion.
  8. No duplicate posts, newer post will be deleted unless there is more discussion in one of the posts.
  9. No politics.

Comments.

  1. No personal attacks.
  2. Obey instance rules.
  3. No low effort comments(one or two words, emoji etc..)
  4. Please use spoiler tags for spoilers.

My goal is just to have a community where people can go and see what new game news is out for the day and comment on it.

Other communities:

Beehaw.org gaming

Lemmy.ml gaming

lemmy.ca pcgaming

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works
136
Prediction: Starfield is going to a massive blunder and people are going to be unhappy (news.yahoo.com)
submitted 1 year ago by TendieMaster69@sh.itjust.works to c/games@sh.itjust.works
119 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

I will come back to this post in September to see if I was right lol

Biggest concerning signs:

  1. 30 FPS lock on xbox, there's no way to spin that positively, absolute fail

  2. Predatory pre-order bonus skins to get people to buy before they know what they're actually going to experience (buggy shitshow)

  3. Countless attempts to hype up the game and huge random assurances from the devs

  4. Preemptively admitting the game has jank and trying to make it seem okay lol

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/starfield-has-that-bethesda-rpg-jank-and-i-couldnt-be-happier/ar-AA1cGkxv

At least the bugs will be absolutely hilarious I think.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] snowfall@lemmy.one 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Preordering is dumb for digital releases.

[–] DreamySweet@exploding-heads.com 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's dumb for physical too.

[–] Ech@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Used to be that you might not get the game for quite a while if you didn't pre-order. Not sure if that's still the case with physical.

[–] DreamySweet@exploding-heads.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's better to wait than to get scammed.

[–] Ech@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm not arguing that it's not better to wait, just saying that there used to be a reason for it.

load more comments (1 replies)