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[-] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 58 points 1 year ago

I fucking hate modern gaming

[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 51 points 1 year ago

Don't buy AAA games at release, and instead try out popular indie titles. They're usually a quarter of the price and some of them have become my favourite games of all time. Indie games have small teams of passionate devs who have total creative control.

AAA games will typically release a "game of the year" edition a year or so after release with twice the amount of content the original game had for half the price.

[-] BlinkerFluid@lemmy.one 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Don't buy AAA games

SAY NO MORE! I'm on it, chief!

[-] The_v@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

They also have 1/100th the bugs.

[-] yamapikariya@lemmyfi.com 37 points 1 year ago

Nowadays buying games at release is doing yourself a disservice. You pay way more for way less than someone 6+ months later who gets it on sale with fixes already done

[-] TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

!patientgamers@sh.itjust.works

[-] yamapikariya@lemmyfi.com 4 points 1 year ago

Great! But do they have memes?

[-] 4am@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

If you wait they do

[-] Shieldtoad@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

But then you'll miss out on the pre-order exclusives. How can you even play the game if you don't get that car with the special dickbutt livery? How will you defeat enemies if you don't get that special cabbage-shooting gun?

[-] DarkWasp@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

This exception to this rule seems to be Nintendo titles but the caveat is that they’re on outdated hardware (and their own thing).

[-] Xanvial@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

I never seen a problem with Sony games actually.

[-] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

The exception to the Nintendo rule is Scarlet and Violet. That game was extremely buggy and absolutely unpolished when it came out. Yet compared to other triple AAA titles of coming out around the same time, it looked like a game with almost no glitches whatsoever.

[-] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 8 points 1 year ago

Don't buy at release, be a patient gamer. Comes with benefits too.

[-] stranger@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

real (my passion for gaming has slowly atrophied from childhood as capitalism has taken hold, while passion for creating anything more than a busted cash-grab has long gone)

[-] lobut@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 year ago

Plague of Unfinished Games: https://youtu.be/6PTnJ_iuVjQ?si=Dkecy5jeMBpN7FPm

Talks about MVPs and how execs are disincentivising over-delivery and stuff.

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[-] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Gaming saying this as if they didn't buy a poorly optimised shooter in the mids 2000's for "benchmarking"

[-] GreenMario@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

Not to be that guy but the Far Cry games seem pretty damn complete and bug free on release.

[-] ydieb@lemm.ee 29 points 1 year ago

Because they are releasing the same game multiple times with just a splash of paint.

[-] irmoz@reddthat.com 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I hate to defend Ubisoft, but this isn't fair at all.

That "splash of paint" is the world design of entirely unique locations, a full story, a cast of characters, and new arsenals of weapons.

As an amateur dev I have a bit of insight into this. I can, and have, made an entire FPS system in less than a day. A play that can move, weapons to shoot, and enemies that can target, follow and shoot at the player with the same weapon system. That part is not where the work is.

It took two weeks to build on that foundation to barely make one small level. And I didn't even manage to fit in any story.

The point is, those mechanics that to you are "the game" take infinitely less time to make than everything "the game" takes place in.

Yeah but far cry primal still has the literal copy pasted map from far cry 4.

Game is a lot of fun though.

[-] irmoz@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago

Tru, map re-use does sound lazy

[-] ydieb@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Funny thing is that I am an software engineer.

Anyway, you might be right, but you also might be wrong, it entirely depends on how they have implemented it.

They are from a gameplay perspective the same game. That ubisoft possibly does the sadly very common "to win the marathon you have to sprint faster", which makes it take a lot of work to spit out something very similar would not be surprising, but also does not change the fact that they are imo too similar.

[-] irmoz@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I mean I'm not entirely in disagreement with your original statement. I don't imagine they change much about their gunplay at all, apart from adding some new mechanics each game, and they likely crank the core out quickly by either reverse engineering, refactoring or just copying the whole thing in.

My main point is just that the "coat of paint" which they do indeed throw over reused mechanics probably takes a whole lot of work. It's perhaps lazy thinking, but not lazy design exactly.

[-] MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I'd also say, Immortals Fenix Rising was excellent, complete and bug free as far as I remember. It's too bad they dropped it right next to AC Valhalla and nobody played it.

[-] bisby@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

I don't know. AC Valhalla doesn't have achievements on steam, so impossible to tell if I've 100% in it

[-] avogadro@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Let's not and say we did

[-] Disgustoid@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago

I can safely say that unless their design philosophy changes significantly I will never 100% an Ubisoft cookie cutter open world game because nothing they've produced is worth a hundred hours of boring repetitive gameplay.

[-] UsernameIsTooLon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

It's crazy because they have all the tools to make a successful game. Their AI NPCs are cutting edge, their environment models are so good that it was used to restore that one chapel that burnt down, etc. They just choose to make the same game every time.

[-] Hotdogman@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

So, is that what carpet-bombing with nukes looks like?

[-] Umbrella8335@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Uno Reverse!

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