JediPanther, on 02 March 2018 - 10:59 AM, said:
In the 80s games weren't forced to have loot boxes, always online for single player content, dlcs, season passes, drm, or pay-to-save-konami. You just just needed one copy of the game and all your friends could use it. Co-op was local and there was lans and beer and sex. You could also just go to the arcade and bum around getting free games.
Id gladly take all of that to be gaming today. 1k's of incredible games.. and i can go back and play every great game made from that point on for the most part. (some i can't sadly because of compatibility issues, but that is why i have a win 2k system to game on. Others you can't find unless you can find a copy on e-bay.)
the amount of games you can play for free is also staggering.. and getting older games for free too. In the past few years, Dragon age, the witcher, sims2, starcraft, asssines creed, splinter cell, and about 20 others i can't name off the top of my head have all been added to my digital library from gog and Origin all for just having an account.
I also pick up tons of games for 2-5 dollars, and far better than any bargain bin of Hope, which is basically games that didn't sell well in the first place. Now i get top indy games or older AAA games for peanuts in sales.. Even better are the new games made like old classics with modern tech blowing away the old games because of GUI improvements and pathing alone. A game like "Stardew Valley" which you can grab for 15 bucks is amazing, or a free game like "Heroine's Quest" which has a great story and puzzles, and RPG system, with the classic cheesy simple combat but it works. In the days of old, this game would of cost me 40-50 bucks.. Instead you can DL it for free in all it's classic 16 bit pixel glory.
I got a stack of boxes of great games from the 90's in my "BOX Collection" every single one of them has a 50 dollar sticker on them. I haven't paid 50 bucks for a game in 6+ years since i moved over to buying digital.. Unless you add up all the DLC i picked up for CKII, which is about 50 bucks now, maybe 60 and that was over 5 years time. Just picked up mass effect Andromeda for 20 a few months back and i am greatly enjoying it. 20 bucks is typically my ceiling on games these days. In the old days you often did not even have that option. A game could sell out and then when those copies were gone, you were SOL.
Yea, i'll take these days over any of the so called past glory.. Because if i don't like a price, i can easily wait.. Some games i waited 8+ years to buy and that was fine by me. Just bought Starcraft II last winter, which was why i didn't grab the BT kickstarter package for 25 bucks.. my bad, but ohh well. Finally grabbed the Mass effect III DLC for 24 bucks the other day and now i have about 20 hours of quests to experience when i replay 2 and 3 (I choose that over buying BT for the time being) All i know is my dollar goes so much farther these days with watching sales, and waiting. I rarely buy a game now a days that i don't at least get my monies worth.
BT i know i'll like. it is just a mater of me fitting it into my budget, and honestly with summer coming i may just wait till fall anyway. My extra cash is going to beach trips!
I know i went completely off topic which was, we don't get good games because people per-order conspiracy is just so funny to me. We get the games they make, and most games are patched after launch anyway. Some you will like, and some you won't pre-order doesn't change that IMO.
Edited by JC Daxion, 02 March 2018 - 12:30 PM.
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