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[–] briongloid@aussie.zone 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

v2.0 is all well and good, but it's still 3 years after I bought it, not giving them the benefit of the doubt next time.

[–] TheAndrewBrown@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For what it’s worth, it’s almost never worth it to give any company “the benefit of the doubt”. For single player games, there’s pretty much no reason to play it right when it releases unless you’re impatient. I choose to think of the games release date as a beta release. If I’m super excited, I may choose to play a game in beta but usually I’ll wait for the final release. Then when all the initial issues (which all games have, just some way more than others) have been fixed, I’ll consider the game actually released and buy it for a fraction of the initial cost.

I don’t know that I’ve played a single game that’s released this year yet. And those games will still be just as good next year (likely better) for less cost.

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

It’s 2023, you can just get a refund on steam now.

[–] lud@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Only if you played less than 2 hours (or if you're lucky and managed to convince steam support) which isn't really enough to test a bigger game. Hell in some games, that's pretty much only cutscenes and tutorials.

[–] aluminium@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not buying a game on release wins yet again.

[–] oxideseven@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

For real. I don't understand why people keep doing that.

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Pretty much, they've had one great game, one game they fucked up and few relatively unknown games. And, as the article says, Geralt's story is over, so they have to start from scratch there as well. I wish them luck because I still quite like them, but it's definitely gonna be a tough road.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They also did the closest thing to a Steam competitor and brought a lot of popular-but-unavailable games back to the light of day via doing legwork to track rights down and pick up the right to re-release them.

That may not be game development, other than in putting together compatibility software and some client software, but it was successful. Probably had a bigger impact than The Witcher 3.

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If I'm not mistaken, they bought GOG, they didn't make it.

[–] PM_ME_FEET_PICS@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago

The Witcher 2 was highly praised alone with the Witcher 3.

[–] finthechat@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

The preview pic tho

[–] Blamemeta@lemm.ee -5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

So can anyone spoil it for me? Can V survive?

[–] Cylusthevirus@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Frankly I think whether or not V survives is largely a headcanon thing. Maybe you head off into the sunset with the Caldos and find help. Maybe you knock over the space casino and buy yourself something like the Relic with all of your stupid new wealth. Maybe you turn into an AI and become a ghost in the machine.

Or maybe you develop natural charisma and an impressive cock, who knows.

Point is they left it vague and uncertain on purpose in several of the good (ish) endings. I get why, but it always felt kinda cheap to me. But it IS a noir story and those aren't known for fairy tale endings.

[–] muse@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

SPOILERS BELOW

Yes, if you side against Songbird, NUSA honors the agreement to get you treatment. It leaves V with neural degradation and unable to ever use cyberware again, and in a coma for 2 years but gives you the only ending with a confirmation that V survives

[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, but you could in the original game too.

[–] Chozo@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Not really. The best outlook V has in the original endings is that they have 6 months left to live, but the ending cuts off just before starting what is likely to be V's final mission.