Tearing the cellophane off your shiny new timesink — providing you favored physical over digital, of course — is an innocent thrill that all players can relate to on some level. But there’s another, near-universal feeling that many of us have felt on launch days gone by, and that’s frustration.
Games such as Mad Max, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Batman: Arkham Knight desperately deserve a modern-day revisit.
RDR2 still looks astounding on PS4 Pro. i cannot imagine how it could look with a next gen upgrade.
It's obviously never gonna happen since Sony killed the game and studio, but Driveclub. Even in its current state, 10 years after release, it still puts many competitors to shame ...
Mad max ikr! Far cry primal, it amuses me how ubisoft just left ac unity hanging, sadly most of the good staff left from rocksteady while being forced to make that abomination smh
One way or another, these games provoked strong reactions.
I don't think Days Gone divided fans. For the most part, gamers loved it. It was the reviewers who were divided. Self-loathing racist pieces of shit that took exception to the main character being white. This was a fantastic game, one of the best open-world games I ever played, and I've played them all.
For the most part, when it comes to Last of Us 2, incels, homophobes, and closet national socialist types didn't like it. I repeat not all, but most.
Days Gone is a great game and it was attacked by the leftist socialist people that are actually closet fascists. As a great poet once said: "Socialism is the mother of fascism."
The Order got hit from anti-Sony Xbox fans.
Out of these 3, Last of Us 2 stands above as being a work of art. It's still generating a ton conversation to this day.
Amazing gameplay, but TLOU2 had one of the worst, most convoluted and uneccessary plots I ever seen in a sequel. Terrible story and the characters were forgettable. I didn't give an F about anyone in the story.
I don't think any of these divided fans, other than LoU2. The rest were either victims of biased reviews or just generally agreed that they weren't as good as they could've been or just overall disappointing.
Shaz from GL writes: "Assassin’s Creed Unity is looked at as one of the worst in Ubisoft’s iconic franchise. But playing it nearly 10 years later reveals it may just be the best"
I agree with the author, there's way too many factors in why day 1 is no longer the same feeling like it was before. My biggest reason is the patches the games come with afterwards. My other problem is Season Passes announced before the game even releases. I look at the stack of older games I own, and I can see good, complete, fun experiences. I look at the stack of newer games, and all I see is patches, broken promises, and hype. It's not "nostalgia" like some would say, it's the fact of older games carry more weight in their value than newer games today.
For 2017 I'm buying even less games than 2016 because $ is the most important factor anymore. Even Nintendo is thinking with their pockets. And those who argue/debate "$ is the new industry standard, get over it" is the problem, because they aren't the ones spending the $ on games, their parents/assistance is.
Older I get the less motivated I am for rushing out to buy games immediately. Rarely do I play competitively anymore so the initial run to rank up is less important, reviews are often misleading (prefer the opinions of people I know), day one patches/updates to elevate the teething problems are more and more common and I also manage to pick them up considerably cheaper.
Now days I'd rather wait a year or so and get the COMPLETE game, with most/all bug fixes for a fair price.
Over use of DLC's killed day one purchases for me, why would I pay full price for half a game?
Remember when Expansion Packs were a game release after thought?
Oh man lets make some new stuff for this already released game, make it even better.
Now DLC is announced before the damn game is even out....
To me, that is just content they purposely cut out to try nickel and dime me for, which is disgusting.
I have never bought a game on day one in more than 10 years and I will not start again anytime soon. I grew very sick of the hype train 🚂 and I know I can get it for free on PS plus eventually. I much rather wait for that or until the price drops to less than half.
Screw the corporate bullshot.
For me it is mainly that games are discounted already 2-3 months after release. So the only time I buy a game day 1 is if I am really excited about it (FF XV, Nioh, DS3). For the most part, waiting for a bit you can get the same game on sale for half the price. F.e. I was thinking about getting Uncharted 4, wait for 3 months and got Uncharted and ROTTR for less than 1 full game.