While I’m not sure how WoW does it these days, I’m always just flabbergasted by the XIAV developers basically giving away the full game and every expansion but the newest one shortly after it launches.

The sales are goofy, like here’s $200 worth of game and expansions for $20.

And then proceed to make the expansions free to play. The second Shadowbringers goes free, you will never hear the end of it

If it’s not… oh lord. If you haven’t been keeping up with it, it goes off on tangents and has sequences where kids just start talking like aliens or… the berry man. It reeks of people editing unrelated stuff into a script and going off on tangents absolutely unrelated to anything going on. It’s no surprise that people are questioning whether it’s ai generated or not because it has so many red flags, not to mention how robotic the voices are.

The whole thing is an unmitigated disaster, it feels like some sort of other product with Silent Hill references dropped in, like the developers had a really advanced version of 3d movie maker and just dragged a script into it and it automatically made the characters act it out through canned animations

Yeah if money is an issue then hold off, 2 is 2-3 years away, and I’d expect it to be a significant upgrade

The OLED makes the original seem like a prototype. Mind you, don’t drop the money if you don’t have the strongest reason to upgrade, yeah it’s way better but I wouldn’t want anyone to break the bank for basically 2.0 of the same device.

That being said, it feels like they took all the criticism of the original great unit to heart. The screen is fantastic, and the extra size solves my gripes with the original (the screen was easily the worst part of the original Deck, it had huge bezels and overall a much lower quality).

But it’s not just that, the whole thing is way snappier, it’s way smoother navigating menus, pages load way faster, and the upgraded networking is very noticeable.

The touch screen responsiveness is a great surprise, the original had kinda a clunky touchscreen, which was very noticeable on desktop mode. Now, I no longer feel like I’m constantly fat-fingering keys or buttons

Ah yeah let me play Rule of Rose.

Just let me shell out $1000. Kuon? $400. Not to mention all of the online games that literally do not exist officially anymore. Saying it’s all to justify piracy is blatantly false and absolutely just trying to be contrarian

Lies of P. Hands down, as a Soulslike fan, Lies of P borders on masterpiece and is constantly being improved with great changes.

Lords of the Fallen is a slog, it’s pretty, but has honestly terrible level design and by design is just annoying to get through. There’s effectively 3x the amount of enemies there should be and it just makes the game a chore.

Ontario here, ordered the LE legitimately as fast as possible. Progress hasn’t moved since Saturday. I’m regularly seeing people receiving theirs despite ordering well after me.

Zero exaggeration, I’m pretty sure I could drive to their distribution center because I live within 30 minutes of effectively every major delivery hub in the province

Still packaging. I’m pretty sure, living in southern Ontario, I live within 30 minutes of the distribution center.

I was at least expecting an interesting world. I have many criticisms for say, Fallout 4 as a game, but at least it is an interesting setting to explore and have dumb adventures in, and despite its failings it still held my attention for hundreds of hours.

There is nothing that stands out in Starfield. Every time Todd stated that it was his pet project forever just continues to baffle me because his pet project was apparently a completely creatively bankrupt Sci-Fi setting. The companions feel like placeholders, the factions are effectively what you’d find as the building blocks provided to you in a generic tabletop guidebook. The main quest is, save for like 2 quests, more or less if they cut out every Skyrim quest except for the ones where you go get dragon shouts from the Walls.

I don’t even know if I’d go back for mods, unless someone makes a completely seamless land vehicle mod I don’t even want to touch the ‘exploration’ again.

No seriously why are these maps so huge and empty with zero ability to move faster outside of fast travel?

Yeah, the limited amount of maps is kinda awful, yeah it might have a similar amount of levels to Vermintide at launch, however, all of the Vermintide levels are unique.

Darktide wholesale reuses levels like crazy, including multiple maps that are a different beginning and end to a level, then the entire middle of the map is just another but backwards. Combine that with the fact that a lot of the maps are visually identical, just generic streets or run down industrial architecture, and it makes the missions forgettable

Doesn’t surprise me at all, 7 is long, really long. And that’s not even getting into the side games like the business minigame that is longer and more complex than some indie games.

Like, I was almost expecting the plot to end at a certain point and leave certain plot elements for a sequel, but nope, Spoiler: >!Here’s an additional act that’s like 20 hours long where Ichiban becomes a politician!<.

And it’s great

Depends, if you’re going to just use it for steam games/emulation (though it does support other launchers)? Steam deck all the way, and you’ll be amazing support as well.

Anything that requires Windows? (Quite a few multiplayer games with specific anti-cheats come to mind) then I’d go with the Ally, though I do have some gripes that would keep me from it, like battery life. Though it does, from what I understand, handle windows way better than dual booting the deck

I’m going to be honest. While there’s a few really neat things in Frontiers, it’s still largely a game that feels like a very early tech demo. The controls are really rough, especially in the cyberspace stages, the world is gigantic and empty and has some of the worst pop in I have ever seen, and overall the game has a whole weird feeling that it was made really quickly.

Yet I saw people praising it like it was incredible and I’m just really confused. It’s not a bad game by any metric, but it’s not… great by any means either.

Yeah Tears of the Kingdom isn’t perfect, and I have a lot of criticisms too, but even comparing the two is absurd, one is a massively acclaimed, well developed game that people are going to experiment and critique for decades and a the other is a 7/10 at best and at worst could pass off as an engine test that got polished into a releasable state

The remaster is weird, because it fixes a lot of things, like the facial animations, but then left in weird stuff like the game’s terrible mouse controls, which has two settings yet both are a mess in different ways