this post was submitted on 22 Mar 2024
33 points (100.0% liked)

PC Gaming

8501 readers
630 users here now

For PC gaming news and discussion. PCGamingWiki

Rules:

  1. Be Respectful.
  2. No Spam or Porn.
  3. No Advertising.
  4. No Memes.
  5. No Tech Support.
  6. No questions about buying/building computers.
  7. No game suggestions, friend requests, surveys, or begging.
  8. No Let's Plays, streams, highlight reels/montages, random videos or shorts.
  9. No off-topic posts/comments.
  10. Use the original source, no clickbait titles, no duplicates. (Submissions should be from the original source if possible, unless from paywalled or non-english sources. If the title is clickbait or lacks context you may lightly edit the title.)

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
all 18 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Sickday@kbin.run 18 points 7 months ago (2 children)

So $70 + MTX for poor optimization, bugs, and linear gameplay. Glad I passed on this.

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

+ Denuvo. Complete pass from me but Capcom is a complete garbage company that tries to milk the shit out of everything they touch nowadays.

Edit: Formatting. And the Steam forums are already full of the usual "wokeism" rage baiters..

[–] voracitude@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

Micro transactions

They did fucking what

Goddamnit. At least I have most of Dark Arisen still in front of me; I slept on it for years because of Dark Souls/Elden Ring, Starsector, BG3, etc., but it's really grabbing me lately.

[–] nac82@lemm.ee 15 points 7 months ago (2 children)

How did none of the critic reviews catch any of these issues?

[–] Maalus@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Iirc the microtransactions were put into the final game on release. I guess also all of the dlc - they probably had everything unlocked for reviewers, and then locked it for players buying the game.

[–] nac82@lemm.ee 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This shit should be illegal.

[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social 9 points 7 months ago

For any other industry it would literally be "bait & switch" fraud.

[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This seems to happen more and more lately.

It's misleading and scummy as fuck, and I won't be picking up the game because of it.

[–] Maalus@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

Sure, but gaming boycotts don't work. That's why they are doing this. They rake in tons of money and alienate maybe 1% of their userbase. The reason is simple. The first paid mount microtransaction in World of Warcraft made more money than the entirety of Starcraft 2 Wings of Liberty. They won't care about reviews - sales will go through the roof anyway, and they'll rake in a shitload of cash on microtransactions.

[–] zagaberoo@beehaw.org 2 points 7 months ago

Because they want to keep receiving review copies of games.

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 10 points 7 months ago

$95 CDN, lol nope

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 8 points 7 months ago

Damn, well that's unexpected.

[–] Kroxx@lemm.ee 6 points 7 months ago

Read many having issues running on Linux, bad performance, mtx. Such a shame, DD was a wonderful game and I WAS excited for 2. Hope they don't do the same with monster hunters but something tells me they will try.

[–] randomaside@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 7 months ago

Everyone, return this game at once.

[–] djsoren19@yiffit.net 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The MTX are a big L. Performance wise I've been able to get it running fine on my old graphics card, but npcs in the major towns only pop-in if I'm standing atop them now and it looks like Dark Souls Remastered.

Would be interested to hear if anyone with a cutting edge rig has been able to max it out, I'd imagine the game can be pretty gorgeous.

[–] drasglaf@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

From what I've read, even a 4090 stutters with this game.