That’s an awful lot of very defensive words to mask something that’s a basic truth - if you can get what the public perceives as “basically the same product” at a significant lower price, even with significantly lower performance, guess what? The public buys the cheap one.

Yeah, because mostly because those people are clueless and kind of want to do things the hard way by installing an entire other OS, because they think that’s easier, when it totally isn’t. The reality is, it’s pretty easy - and I mean that genuinely, not bullshit nerd hatequotes “easy” - to for example get Diablo IV…

“many a gamer has desired a fully functioning Windows device which would have access to titles the Deck can’t run (or at least run easily), like Destiny 2 or Diablo IV”

Except it didn’t.

It really hasn’t been weird at all, unless you literally only came into “gaming discourse” in the last few years. It’s similar to the “discourse” on Skyrim and FO4, with a split between people who irrationally hyped and super-touchy about anyone who isn’t also irrationally hyped (c.f. “harsh criticism”, of which there…

If you think this article or the comments here are “harsh criticism” you’re self-identifying as a full on fanboy of the neckbeard and basement variety. Get a grip.

I'm deeply confused by this "editing" complaint. Everyone edits their videos. Why are we pretending they don't? Is this some zoomer bullshit?

Yeah I was thinking of that too. I bet that ending is the vast majority of these, I hit it at like 50-something hours too, but if I knew what I was doing better it could easily have been 30-something hours.

You can complete the game and see the credits roll in Act 2, and you don’t even have to be far into Act 2. I’d say how but it’s quite a spoiler - it’s something the game literally encourages you to do though.

That you didn’t identify even a single one of those ways strongly suggests you are 150% “full of shit”. The issue isn’t that it’s far off from reality, it’s that DAO-obsessed numpties want DAO to be the best-written of the series when it just simple wasn’t, and they want to hate on DA2, but it actually much of the…

SEARCH AREA OH MY GOD.

You’re confusing demonologists and necromancers.

You’re so utterly full of shit.

It also means a gigantic amount of largely wasted effort and often seems kind of clumsy in its own way. Not to mention frequently exclusionary.

“nearly all of them are at least somewhat pushy about it”

Yes and it’s a pity it’s got a ton of issues - I actually experienced a bunch more issues with that specific questline, even after it technically finished, today. It all worked out in the end but they gave me second “Where fuck is Halsin” scare with absolutely no quest text, no map marker, no comments  from other…

It’s a very, very long game. According to Steam I’ve spent 73 hours on it since release (oh god lol) and I’m just starting Act 3 (of 3), which was claimed to be “even bigger than the previous acts” in terms of content.

Just starting Act 3 and some quests are definitely pretty unhelpfully described in the journal, or fail to update to reflect a changed situation. Which is usually okay if you’re playing continuously and know what happened, but can be confusing if you take a break, even overnight.

They don’t even though, dude, that’s the thing.

It's far worse in D4 than is normal for the genre due to you needing to be selling loot for gold. In other games you eventually ignore most items as valueless or not upgrades, but in D4 the economy is balanced on the assumption you sell pretty much every yellow and even blue item for gold. So you have to pick them up…