My main reaction to this is amusement at the contrast between that attitude and the quality of their own launcher. Honestly, I’ve said it before, but this is competition not for consumers so much as producers. I don’t really see anything good for the rest of us coming out of this bizarre intra-platform exclusivity war.

Feel free. While I avoid spoilers, I did do some basic research anyways (Mace was due to it being the least resisted physical weapon type, and one of the best pure strength scaling weapons).

Elected to go simple, started with Cleric to get the mace, and generally use a high stability shield. I will say I think at this point I probably should’ve done something more ranged, though all the parry/riposte successes are satisfying.

Dark Souls. I’ve been putting it off for ages, I actually bought it and Demon’s Souls at the same time from recollection, but stopped after finishing Demon’s. Just started it a few days ago, and am now heading into the Depths.

I occasionally buy online games day one for the experience, but yeah it’s just not worth the cost really - especially in cases like this, where you need to pay yet more over the normal not on sale cost just for that experience.

I actually hadn’t been aware this also had the different release dates for different versions things. Was thinking about buying it to play at launch, but nah I’ll just wait till the price craters.

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Been knocking stuff off my backlog, just finally got around to finishing HITMAN (I liked the different mechanics in the last two Patient Zero levels). Still not sure what I’ll pick up next. I’m actually doing pretty good cleaning up my PC backlog, but I’ve got a bunch of console stuff to work on still.

I hear you, I’ve been chipping away at my backlog myself. Finished five games since the turn of the new year so far, and working on cleaning up Shadow Warrior 2 now. Thinking about it, I may have finally cut my backlog under 50 games, and most of them are actually on console at this point. Kind of crazy given it kept…

I’m waiting to play till later, didn’t feel like either paying a subscription plus buying the game to have it long term and get to play day one, or dealing with the problems of not doing one of those. I’ll pick it up when they seem to have worked out any kinks and have a sale instead.

Shadow Warrior. I’ve managed to knock out five games from my backlog in the last month, hoping to keep the pace up. Going to do Shadow Warrior 2 afterwards, then maybe Far Cry 5.

Not sure since I’m doing them in order, but I will say that the game is definitely buggy. Even with the SRP bugfix, it’s still problematic. Particularly artifacts and the faction war bit.

STALKER: Clear Sky. I’d been meaning to play the entire series for a while, finally decided to get around to it, since I wanted an FPS with loot and I was running low on them.

Yeah, this killed my decision to buy it at launch. I love playing online games specifically at launch, while they’re fresh and everyone is rushing through content. Admittedly, Anthem lacks some of the features that make that experience, but I still love this subgenre enough that I was on the fence buying it at launch…

That’s kind of an interesting point, since if you look at a lot of what they release, the bug fixes are done by the community. While this is extraordinary even for them, they don’t really have a great history with such things.

I’d consider this an example of who the actual ‘consumers’ benefiting from competition in this marketplace are.

I admit, that’s not the kind of thing I expect to need feedback. Still looking forward to it though, could use more loot based shooters.

Agreed, I still miss it. I’d quit after maxing out, and intended to play again later (hopefully after they stopped hating on farmers and went back to their original update schedule), but then I hear the whole thing is shutting down. Real pity, it was one of the better D2 clones out there.

Does developer discussion/trademarking count as announcement? Maybe Chrono Break in that case. If not... I really don’t know, the only really major cases of vaporware I recall off the top of my head were The Last Guardian, Duke Nukem Forever, and BG&E2. All of which are either released or at least getting major news.

Subnautica. I’d been vaguely interested in it up till Epic offered it free, decided to take a glance. Was surprised by how good it is. I’ve put probably twenty hours in already.