If you don’t fall for hype, games are actually fun.  Rather than inevitable disappointments.

Maybe decades of JRPGs burned out any sense of “you must go! do now!” from me, but... what sense of urgency?   (it could just be me, though - unless there’s an actual timer counting down on screen, it’s rare for me to feel ‘forced’ to do anything quickly in explore/rpg-type games.)

Maybe because I’m a long-time Bethesda player who’s used to ignoring the main quest to go exploring; maybe because I’m not a CDPR fan (only played Witcher 1, didn’t like it, can’t stand Geralt) who didn’t have any “Witcher 3 but with cars” expectations; maybe because I didn’t watch all the hype reels they put out...…

Well, I’d already skipped VII Remake and that Chaos game, due to the action style. Guess I’ll be dropping the series now. Been playing since 6 on SNES. Ah, well.

As a PC player who uses Steam daily, I never saw a word. /shrug

Yeah, I’d never heard of it til that previous article, either. /shrug

Meanwhile, Redfall apparently has both always-online-required and Denuvo.

Yeah, out of morbid curiosity, I’ve been looking at the Steam forums for several new/upcoming ‘big’ games, and among all the “woke is killing games!” idiocy, there’s a recurring thread of “the evil feminist/leftist/woke/etc movement is making all the videogame women ugly!” One dude going on about how he refuses to buy…

And then filling the space in between those posts are the “how dare there be black/brown/beige people in 1800's England! Historical accuracy!” posts. /sigh

Meanwhile, the Steam forum for the game is a cesspool of “but historical accuracy! The source material!” complaints over the fact that there’s non-white/non-straight characters, and saying the game is ‘woke trash’. /eyeroll

Won’t “throw a fit” (I didn’t really enjoy DA:O’s combat), but I doubt I’d buy DA4 if it’s similar to GoW. Mostly because I’m not interested in that genre/style - I haven’t played any GoW game, even the ancient ones, I don’t play Souls-likes, or Bayonetta/DMC. So if they make an action game in those styles... meh,…

And here I’ve always used thumbs up (IRL) to agree with someone or acknowledge that I heard what they said, at a distance or in loud places; or similar things. (Kind of what you’d use “ok” for, before it got co-opted as the Asshole Signal.)  Thumbs up is positive and affirming.

Its not crazy to understand that is reality.

As someone who doesn’t play the game (and/or doesn’t play online PvP games w/emotes at all)... it just looks generically cheerful and happy. Which is probably where the confusion that this article is based on is coming from.

Yeah, this expectation some people have that every game is ‘live’ and should be worked on forever is just strange to me (as someone who’s been playing games since the 80's).

“Or unknowingly..?”

because it’s funny

That said, you would think High Speed Isekai InFamous/Prototype would’ve been more popular.

They might have refunded it (you can refund a game on Steam if you’ve played less than 2 hours, and owned it less than 14 days. Of course, if you do too many refunds in too short a time, they cut you off since it’s not intended to be a Woohoo! Free Demos! system)

Have you heard of The Day Before?