Just get a switch, the entire crisis about this gen causing a second industry crash is nonexistent over there. We got like six new games for xmas this year
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jordanlund@lemmy.world 1 week ago
TBH, I can’t remember the last time I turned on any of my consoles for anything other than 4K movies.
This generation has just been awful for games, the Covid drop just never recovered.
Will look at Avowed, but not feeling great about it. Dumping games in Jan/Feb generally is not a good look (OTOH you get the occasional Hi Fi Rush instead of Forspoken).
icecreamtaco@lemmy.world 1 week ago
ripcord@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Or a Steam Deck.
mesamunefire@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Like 95% of my games now just target SD. Its so easy to work. And it works with emulation, its very open.
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I have been a patient gamer and for the last 2 years with psplus and a library card I have burned through every ps4 title worth playing and decided to finally upgrade to a ps5.
3 months in and I’m struggling to find games that look good to me. I keep trying unknown titles and they’re meh.
I can’t believe that years into the ps5 life and I don’t have a backlog of like dozens of ps5 games to play.
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Avowed is reviewing decently, at least. I trust Obsidian
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I actually liked outer worlds by them despite how short it was
tal@lemmy.today 6 days ago
I didn’t hate it, but it just wasn’t Fallout: New Vegas, and I walked away a little disappointed after hoping for a new Fallout-like game.
Some of the major elements from Fallout just weren’t there:
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Fallout provided neat perks/traits that substantially-impacted how one played; that’s a signature part of the series. The great bulk of the perks in The Outer Worlds were things like small percentage increases. They didn’t have a significant impact on how the game played out.
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The weapons didn’t “feel” very different other than across classes, with the exception of the “science weapons”, so there wasn’t a lot of variety in gunplay over the course of a game.
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While the world was open in that one could technically always backtrack, there wasn’t much reason to do so.
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Most of the content was in “cities”. Yeah, sure, there was wilderness, and maybe that added a sense of scale, but it was mostly just filler between cities. If you’re wandering around in Fallout: New Vegas or Fallout 4, there was interesting content all over to just stumble into. One only really got that in cities.
There were some things that I did like. In particular:
- It was pretty stable and bug-free. The Fallout series has had entrants from a number of teams, but one consistent element has been a lot of bugs at release.
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ampersandrew@lemmy.world 6 days ago
In a lot of ways, I liked it because of how short it was.
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Same. Definitely had its limitations but it was decent fun. Figure if they can pull that off on a shoestring budget they can make a great fantasy rpg
TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 1 week ago
If Avowed is bad I’m going to be really disappointed. I love Pillars of Eternity and played hundred of hours of Grounded.
Flamekebab@piefed.social 1 week ago
I'm still waiting for enough titles to come out on either platform to make the jump from my Xbox One X.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 week ago
There have been so many great games in the last few years that it’s been hard to keep up, but they haven’t required those new consoles.