For anyone else that’s vaguely interested at first: It’s a mobile game.
For anyone else that’s vaguely interested at first: It’s a mobile game.
Afaik, if there’s not a legitimate way to purchase the game it becomes a grey area in the US. I’d be shocked if the EU didn’t have a similar exception, but idk.
there is no legal way to get around that.
That’s debatable.
Why did you give us a wayback machine link to a working catbox.moe video lol?
From my understanding, this was extremely overblown. They apparently have a pretty standard privacy policy, and the concerning parts only applied where they legally had to- like China.
Pirate Software has a whole video where he goes through their privacy policy and talks about it. Personally, I trust that more than I trust Steam reviews and randoms on social media.
Frankly, I just kind of assume all Chinese games/devs are going to have privacy concerns and that disregarding your privacy is a requirement for engaging with them.
I think nothing inside a full priced video game should cost real money.
There’s plenty of examples of F2P games that have reasonable monetization in the form of mtx.
Is it out now? Are you sure lol
Yeah, but mobile gaming is largely a very different animal. I don’t feel that comparing them is helpful at all. They’re very different audiences, and very different games. While I’m sure there’s some overlap they’re very much not interchangeable.
Any major studio releasing a AAA game with the level of microtransactions and blatant money-bait that mobile games regularly get away with would be absolutely annihilated by public outrage.
Yeah, I also really enjoy immersive sims. Shame that there’s not more of them. I will mention that Dishonored 2 is somewhat hit or miss with people. I think everyone tends to agree that it’s at least decent, but how it holds up to the first game is a pretty divisive topic in my experience.
Arkane’s immersive sims are fantastic. Dishonored 1 and 2 and Prey (2017). Brilliant worldbuilding and interesting stories that you can interact with. I don’t think either is particularly stat heavy or grindy, but I have an extremely high tolerance for that sort of thing so maybe my perspective is skewed.
I’m confused about where the joke is here, honestly.
Yeah, that’s always been one of my issues with Sea Of Thieves. I’m just tryna dig up treasure and fight some skeletons, man. I don’t need Chadbeard boarding my ship and spawn camping me and my homies.
It’s been in development hell for like 11 years so people had low expectations, and it ended up being reasonably accurate.
It’s just Black Flag, except notably worse and multiplayer. It was also on the expensive side @ $70, and someone at Ubisoft defended the price increase by calling it “the worlds first AAAA game.” which was just stupid.
As someone that very much does not enjoy Sea Of Thieves I was kinda hoping it would scratch my pirate game itch, but nah I’ll just replay Black Flag lol.
I would love to see the old PS2 third person platformers ported/remastered onto PC. Sly Cooper 1-3(Sly 4 I guess), Jak 1-3(And Jak X I guess), and all the Ratchet and Clank games. You can play them via RPCS3 and PCSX2, but that’s not a substitute for a proper port imo.
I swear, the average Hexbear user would call anyone right of Marx himself an alt right Nazi.
Oh, wow. I didn’t realize beehaw dropped off that hard. I thought about going there in the early days, but decided on here instead purely because the signup seemed like less of a hassle. I’m also kinda surprised our user count here isn’t even 5k. I guess that’s federation at work.
idk what you mean by ‘done in’?
Did some of their games flop due to publishers pushing games as a service garbage? For at least some of them I’d say that’s a solid chunk of at least one recent flop.
Last I heard- which was very recent- Naughty Dog’s next game won’t be TLOU 3. And they’re done- afaik- with Uncharted. So unless we’re getting Jak 4(look I can fucking hope ok) then it’ll probably be a new IP. Their multiplayer title got cancelled but it’s not like they’re ceased existing. Hell, it getting cancelled is certainly better for their image than releasing a terrible title.
I think Bioware’s issues probably have the least to do with live service garbage. They’ve been trending downward, imo, since Inquisition. Anthem was an absolute dumpster fire. That game was in such rough shape I don’t think it’s even fair to blame the live service parts.
idk how much of Suicide Squad’s shittiness can be blamed on the live service aspects either. Certainly some, but I don’t see how the plot being ass is a live service issue. It was just badly written.
Redfall was less of a live-service thing and more just that they fucked up and we got an absolute stinker of a game. From my understanding, that game had significant issues from the very beginning. I’m willing to give Arkane another shot, at least- I love basically every other game they’ve made so I’ll give them a chance and won’t pre-judge their future stuff based on Redfall. Hopefully Microsoft lets them go directly back into their niche.
So basically, I think my take is that usually shit games are just shit games, and even good devs deliver them once in awhile. The fact that they’re live service titles is maybe a part of the issue, but certainly not the whole issue.
How was it a flop? It is/was huge, I thought.
It was a disappointment, sure, but it’s not like the game is trash. It’s just incredibly mid. And I thought it did extremely well on sales.
That seagull’s foot was really close to her nosering. That could’ve been extremely bad lol
If you mean singleplayer campaigns: as far back as you can stomach the graphics of.
If you actually want good campaigns, Black Ops 1 is fuckin legendary. World At War was also great. As is Modern Warfare (2007) and Modern Warfare 2(2009). Modern Warfare 3 (2011) was also good. Black Ops 2 was good. I wouldn’t bother with any further Black Ops games- one of them doesn’t even have a campaign iirc.
For the much much newer titles, Modern Warfare (2019) was good. Modern Warfare (2022) was also solid. Modern Warfare 3 is ‘last years title’ being referred to in the OP.
None of these are narrative masterpieces exactly- the closest is probably the Black Ops games. With that said, they’re very much ‘action movie’ videogames. Tons of crazy set pieces, unique segments, and then the cutscenes that usually tie together a reasonable enough plot to be interesting.
If you mean multiplayer: honestly just jump into Black Ops 6. None of the older titles are likely to be a great experience at this point. Or just spend your time on a better game lol