I suppose Baldur’s Gate 3 could be an example for a lot of people. Any recent or just “recent” release you are waiting for to get at the moment?
Still half life alyx because i need that vr Headset…
In waiting on it because my vr headset isn’t as good as it could be
I finally got one and played it this summer, worth the wait for sure
Oh so many!
- Cyberpunk 2077
- Elden Ring
- God of War Ragnarok
- Hogwarts Legacy
- Jedi Survivor
- Horizon Forbidden West Burning Shores
- Baldur’s Gate 3 (though it’s not on consoles yet …
I’ve a huge backlog that I’m chipping through one by one, and thse games are only going to get better with patches or cheaper with sales, I can wait for that and reduce my backlog at the same time :D
BG3 is the only game I’ve bought at launch price in my life. No regrets, what an amazing job from Larian.
Bout cyberpunk 2077 for $20 three months ago.
Still buggy. It was okay. Lots of boring combat. But the story, acting, and world? Amazing! I had to use a mod to help change some of the hotkeys.
After 25 hours… Update broke my save.
Id say keep waiting until 2025 when the GoTY is released and fanpatches exist.
+1 for God of war ragnarock, no ps5 here so I’ll be waiting for steam release. I just played the prequel this year anyways so I can wait
Starfield, waiting to see how many issues it has and what actual gameplay and graphics looks like.
Yeah I’m shocked at how quick people forgot Fallout 76, and the plethora of other broken Bethesda releases.
Don’t get me wrong I’d love for it to be good, but I’ve just been burned too many times to trust it at launch haha
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first major release under daddy Microsoft, so things may be different
I wouldn’t hold my breath:
- Bethesda’s management have always unvalued spending effort on engine development
- Microsoft’s awful mandated top-down rules are what seriously messed up Halo Infinite:
- To go into this point in more detail:
- 343 industries hired a large amount of “temporary” contractors to work on Halo Infinite (this is standard in AAA games)
- For legal reasons, any contractor who had worked on a project for 18 months is given workers protections
- Microsoft mandated that each contractor be “let go” right before reaching this 18 month time-frame.
- During the regular process of development, different developers would build different things, then over time either help out with any questions on how to use it, or tweak it to support a new use case.
- During Microsoft’s mandated development, the developer who built a tool or best knew how it worked was let go. Since it’s easier to write new code rather than read existing code unassisted the developer who needs something done before a deadline has to build a new tool. After 5 years we now have 40 something tools that are all built based on different assumptions that keep overwriting each other’s results in wildly expected way. No one knows how anything works anymore.
Yeah I imagine Microsoft will push for less bugs, which seems to be the case, but that game engine is so jank. Unless they made giant upgrades to it, I expect it to still have many of the same old limitations
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I’ve been holding out on getting Stray for about a year now. I’m just not willing to pay full price for a relatively short game.
I thought it was worth the $30, but I do wish it had a bit more. Like an extra Zoomies mode for timed runs or races.
I’m sure it really is worth the money but I’m a patient gamer because I’m cheap. I’d rather support a good company in other ways like buying soundtracks and swag versus getting burned on a overpriced game.
Same. It looks adorable but the price is a little too high for me.
Same! Waiting for it to hit the $10-15 range.
Same! It’s like Abzu, or Journey and I’ll get it when it’s 9.99 or less.
Eh it has so much more production wise than journey though… I love journey, it’s a one of a kind play experience… but everything is minimalistic. Stray is the opposite so chucking them another 15 bucks to cover character design and animation, level design, voice acting, etc doesn’t feel too bad to me
Starfield. Too expensive at release and likely to be buggy
Same. But add not having anything able to efficiently run it at a satisfactory level at the moment.
Every playstation exclusive that ends up on PC.
Those Spiderman games look SWEET. I’m super excited about Ghost of Tsushima and can’t wait for it to be released in 2024, and finally play it in 2027 when it’s on sale.
For me there are a couple.
Hades (2020) - I’m not in any hurry with this one. I’d get it if GOG starts to sell it, otherwise I’ll wait a bit more.
Outer Wilds (2020) - I’m getting impatient with this. I’d like this more on GOG too, but I think I’ll just buy it when Steam winter sale comes.
The Guild III (2022) - quirky trade/life sim game and I have some fond memories of the second one. But that had quite a few bugs even long after release and I hear the third game still looks unfinished so I’m patient.
It’s a shame that the Outer Wilds went for a timed exclusive to epic, but it did help me wait to get it!
Hades is so very good… I don’t think it will come to gog soon ish because, if I remember correct that is, epic payed a lot of bucks for it.
Their exclusivity period is over either way. The game has been on Steam for years. I don’t think it would block a GOG release in any way now.
GoG has a sale right now, and Outer Wilds is in it. I played when I had Game Pass but have almost no desire to buy it, even though I almost beat it.
The Expanse: A Telltale Series
I see it has been received well but I’m avoiding all details and waiting for all episodes to be released.
My friend was the motion capture actress for the main character in this game! Her job is so much cooler than mine…
I am still waiting for Cyberpunk 2077 to go better than half price.
Stray as well, it seems too expensive for a short game.
im so patient that im waiting for BG3 to come to ps5
Have some respect for those of us waiting for Xbox 🥲
Tears of the Kingdom because I basically just purchased Breath of the Wild a few months ago and haven’t finished it.
Baldur’s Gate 3, because my friends want to play it all together and so I’m waiting for them
I’m holding out on starfield. There must be a cyberpunk moment waiting right around the corner because you can’t jam all that in a game and expect it to work too.
Also 80% what’s out there of so called features of this game only exists inside the heads of influencers. That hopium is the real problem.
I tried holding out on armoured core. I couldn’t. Glad I didn’t. Amazing game. Easier then Elden ring but still very clearly a from software title.
People are mad because starfield doesn’t have things they never said they would have. It is not no man sky, but the comparison is going to be hard to shake
No, they’re mad because the developers have a really bad habit of speaking in generalizations that they know will make the fans assume a bunch of shit and then claim it was all their fault later when it turns out none of that exists or works like they heavily insinuated.
“Yeah you can walk around a whole planet!”
If you don’t mind walking back to your ship so you can fly to the next chunk of the planet since there’s seemingly no mechanic to “call in” your ship and the terrain will eventually block you with invisible walls.
It’s not the lack of features, it’s the developers willing to let the players invent things in their heads until release day when it inevitably comes crashing down.
Starfield, Baldur‘s Gate 3, and Cyberpunk.
I‘m so tempted to just be part of the Starfield start hype but… let‘s be honest, it‘s a Bethesda game so it probably needs another year of patches and mods.
And Baldur‘s Gate seems to also require a few patches and I‘m not paying more than 40 bucks for any digital copy of a game, even if it‘s the second coming of Christ among videogames.
Cyberpunk I‘m merely waiting to have a PC that is powerful enough to play it in all its glory. So probably gotta wait half a decade lol
Obviously, on top of my mentioned reasons, it‘s not like I don‘t have 100+ untouched games dozens of them critically acclaimed, so it’s not like I’m just staring at my wall waiting for my moment to strike lol
BG3 is the only game in my life I’ve bought at launch. No regrets. This studio definitely deserves the full price tag. I’ve experienced like 5 bugs throughout my 130 hours of playing. I came from a poorer country and still made sense to me to vote with my wallet what games should be striving to look like on launch.
- Tears of the Kingdom - I thought BoTW was fun, but not as fun as older Zelda games; I’ll probably get it eventually, but I want to pay $40 or less
- The Great War: Western Front - still seems pretty buggy, so I’ll wait a bit for patches
- Victoria 3 - I love Paradox games, but they seem to need a few years to get good
- Mount & Blade: Bannerlord - still getting patches and some new content, so I’ll keep waiting
- Starfield - undoubtedly going to be buggy, so I’ll be waiting at least a few months, if not years, after launch to get it
I’m actually considering getting BG3 soon, once I get a few days to play a lot of it. It looks like a solid launch, so I’m happy to pay a bit more for something high quality. I hope they continue to work on it and maybe provide content heavy DLC at some point.
Mount & Blade II is frustrating for me. I’m just not good enough at the combat to play on the front lines and I’m a shit commander trying to organize my troops in battle.
Basically i just play the exploration and management side and auto-resolve the combats :/
Doing the tournaments is a good way to practice combat.
Actually I’m half decent at one on one and the small melees. But once it’s a ‘real’ fight I get so sweaty palmed lol
Maybe I should try a console controller instead of mouse & kb?
I never tried it with a controller it seems like that would make it harder to manage your army. As for the bigger fights I usually try to get my army positioned first with my archers on a hill or across a river or something from them and then put my infantry in front of the archers to block them. Then I lead my Calvary to go provoke the enemy to come at them. Usually that works pretty well or at least lets me put a big dent in their calvary which gives you a decent advantage when they don’t have one because you can get behind them and wreck their archers.
This strategy works most of the time with minimal casualties
Okay I’ll give a shot! Thanks
Your comment is why Im still waiting.
I bought Victoria 3 shortly after release and it’s frustrating how long it’s taking. It clearly has the potential to be a great game, but there’s still so much to be done.
On the other hand, a buddy and I got into Victoria 2 a few months ago and it’s been a blast. A bit clunky at first but it’s so easy to map paint with a friend in vanilla
Factorio, waiting for the sale that will never come
Didn’t the Dev say it’s never going to go on sale ever? Or was that the joke and I missed it
it has gone on sale once but it’s not often
It has not, that I’m aware of
I might be thinking of the Rimworld dev
Nah you were right. Factorio devs have gone on record saying that they’ll never put their game on sale. Something to the effect that it lowers the value of the players who bought it earlier. That said, before it reached 1.0 it was cheaper. The closer to release the higher the price had gone. Think I got it way back when it was $20.
