A lot of the most heavily advertised games are the ones people wouldn’t play without addiction models or whaling hooks, ones that require marketing to get people on board.

I’ve been pretty insulated from ads for a good bit (by design) but what is that meme one again? Raid Shadow Legends?

Calling it “just ark” is even more reductive than calling it pokemon.

There is more feature overlap between pokemon and Palworld than Palworld and Ark.

This is a weird expectation if you have seen the trailers. She is clearly being propped up as a good guy smuggler. She does a whole bit about freedom and getting out of the crime game.

The gMe is going to be absolutely shit, so please don’t go providing false hype hopes to people.

This game needs to fail, or we will be looking at $100 minimum game purchases in 5 years.

Similar boat, except my wife actually got hooked on FO76 a couple of months back and loved it.

I skip a lot of adaption shows or remakes, so she basically forced me to start it, but I wound up really enjoying it. We’re trying not to binge it all in a day, so I’m only halfway through, but I look forward to watching it.

Imagine living your life letting reddit be your filter for meaningful experience lmao.

Touch grass guy.

This dude is a shit eating troll.

In another thread, he is shit talking people who earn less than 100k as being in the top earning groups and saying they have no right to complain about how inflation will be impacting the youth.

He just says dumb shit to piss people off. Report him as a troll.

I see a lot of MMOs being recommended, but I find them to be either shallow in combat or predatory unless you are seeking MMO specific things, so I’m going to point at single player/coop stuff.

Bethesda has a large selection of open world games, but I pretty much assume people have played all of them (Elder Scrolls / Fallout games).

If you are okay with going outside of Fantasy, the Far Cry series has some impressive technology in their older titles. Far Cry 2 is a personal favorite, your PC might be able to handle it.

Borderlands series.

The original Dragons Dogma: Dark Arisen holds up. This is probably my best recommendation based on your asks.

Lego Star Wars or the Lego Marvel game.

Fable 1, 2, 3

The Middle Earth Shadow of Mordor / Shadow of War Games were pretty incredible but might be too high-end.

The first Red Dead Redemption might run for you.

Early Dark souls games might run. Maybe 1 or 2.

From here, I would start listing old Star Wars Jedi Knight series games.

I could probably go on, but this is most of the good stuff off the top of my head.

I forgot to add Mass Effect. Great for sci-fi, great leveling, and combat.

Sounds like you want to change topics from your whole lies bit for some reason? Weird. Changing your defense from it being lies and a limited resource while not admitting the predatory nature of this game design. I dont care to argue your new bad faith points as you did not take the last stance fairly. I can’t stand predatory microtransactions. The arrogance of people who don’t care about it invading the game just allow further shit like this to fester.

I guess if we’re changing topics, we can focus on the predatory character customization microtransaction. They locked any new saves or character creation to limit people to a microtransaction. That’s pretty fucked up too.

Or we can go into Capcoms’ recent attempts to take down mods from their old games. https://readwrite.com/capcom-backtracks-quickly-and-removes-drm-after-players-rebel/

There are plenty of problematic things to hit on here.

Have you tried to turn a circle in the main city on low settings?

Except having limited access to a resource is from the original game.

The original game that ultimately saw success in its “Dark Arisen” release that had an eternal ferrystone.

Don’t go trying to redefine history here, I played both copies of the original.

There’s this lie being sold online that it was an intentional decision for DD2 to try and sell more microtransactions, but limited fast travel is a hallmark of the original Dragon’s Dogma.

There is no lie in the complaints. Ferrystones are not a limited resource in Dragons Dogma 2. You just have to pay microtransactions for it. You are lying about the game to defend it. To me, this level of denial comes off as coping.

I want you to admit that ferrystones are not a limited resource in Dark Arisen and same with Dragons dogma 2. And I want you to admit the differences in how they are offered to the player.

Or go lie to somebody else.

Having limited access to a resource to then hook you on microtransactions is from mobile game design. It’s literally a freemium mechanic being put into an already upscaled price game.

It’s one of the most abusive and addictive ways to develop a game, and you want to portray that positively.

I fucking hate gamers. We’ve been having this conversation since the horse Armor DLC for Oblivion yet here we fucking are.

This shit should be illegal.

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

What are yall buying? I haven’t loved some of the recent sales, but a lot of that is me owning every game I could want.

Lmao, I’m talking to a person who couldn’t name a single one of Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, Michael Phelps, Babe Ruth, Messi, Usain Bolt, Muhammid Ali, etc… let’s do some less top athletes and just drop some athlete names I can do off the top of my head: Brett Farve, Manning, Mike Tyson, Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Williams sisters,

I’ll probably try to think of more later.

then, I don’t think you can be considered a trustworthy input on this topic. That says so much more about you than anything else.

It’s such a monumentally clueless statement about the world around you. I would be embarrassed to out myself as that clueless on physical fitness. This is all coming from a guy who never watched sports, except maybe in high school a decade+ ago.

No shit I told you I don’t recognize the name I said I didn’t recognize. I’ve followed video games and worked in video game development for 25+ years. I was establishing how far you were fishing for 3 recognizable names, even amongst would be experts on the subject.

Yea, I don’t trust your input. It feels better to assume you wrote that comment in bad faith rather than out of cluelessness.

Shallow ability to state your stance more like. Don’t blame other people because you can’t express your thoughts.

This was an ironic read for me. Your examples really solidified the opposite of your point for me. People can name their top 20 favorite offensive linemen in football. You had an entire industry and thought of 3 names that most people even within the fandoms would fail to recognize.

Who even is concerned Ape?

The bootlickers would be the people denying the responsibility of the company… Maybe read your comment again with that thought in mind.

How many unions are there for game dev, and how successful are they in the industry?

My experience trying to join a Union in America makes me critical of this callout.

You missed a period and your signature.

Agreed. You can’t read very well. It’s probably the reason your writing is so bad and you are struggling to communicate with people.