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    10 months ago

    Emotionally pre-ordering a game based on your own expectations is a meme.

    I shouldn’t expect a sequel to do at least what the previous game did and a little more? I don’t have to pre-order a thing to still be disappointed about the state of it’s release when it doesn’t even meet the bare minimum expectation for a sequel.

    It even works in the opposite way. I didn’t get The Witcher 3 at launch because of the expectations set by the first 2 games being technical nightmares. But it turned out to actually be good.

    • @EatATaco@lemm.ee
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      1310 months ago

      I shouldn’t expect a sequel to do at least what the previous game did and a little more?

      Should it be the case? Yes. But we’ve been burned enough times that it’s incredibly naive to expect it.

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        210 months ago

        I agree with that sentiment for movies; not so much with video games. I can think of way more video game sequels that were actually better than the originals than video game sequels that were worse.

        • @EatATaco@lemm.ee
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          210 months ago

          I agree. But also we’ve seen so many games come out that are absolute disasters that if you are buying it on day 1 (or even before) instead of waiting for the reviews to come out before buying it, you only have yourself to blame when you get burned.

          I loved C:S and was very excited for this sequel to come out…but I haven’t bought it because the reviews before it came out were mixed (being generous lol) and so I still haven’t bought it. I’ll wait or maybe never buy it. Likely I wait for the price to drop to like 15 bucks and buy it then.

      • @xkforce@lemmy.world
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        110 months ago

        Weve been burned precisely because no one held the gaming industry accountable for the state of their games.

        • @EatATaco@lemm.ee
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          110 months ago

          Speak for yourself, I haven’t bought a game at release for well over a decade, and even at that point it was pretty rare for me.