Comment on What are some good games that have a bad reputation due to unreasonable expectations?

• SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well you’re mostly right in your original post, game was a solid 7/10 on release, but the studio just did so much disservice to themselves by hyping it up for nearly a decade before release, and especially hyping a bunch of stuff that never made it into the final product, and on top of all that breaking their own promise to not release until it’s finished.

  The whole reason people liked The Witcher 3 was people were convinced the multiple delays to release “made it a better game.” They had their own studio history working against them when they made the promise of “It’s finished when it’s finished” and people were expecting that. People loved that CDPR was so dedicated to the gamers that they wouldn’t let pesky things like money-men push a game out too early when it’s half-baked. Oops, they did exactly that with their next game, which absolutely shot all that goodwill from the players right through the heart.

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  • Stillhart@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I get it. I said I didn’t think the expectations were unreasonable.

    I think you’re pretty much proving my point, though, that the game is unfairly maligned due to unmet expectations. The game they released, while buggy, was fun. You’re pissed off about a lot of things that aren’t how fun the game is to play.

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    • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m not really pissed off, I’m just listing off things that were unmet based on the studios own desires.

      There’s still videos out there from when they were hyping wall-running and the Ghostrunner class. *shrugs

      I really don’t think it’s unfairly maligned when those expectations were set by the studios themselves.

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      • Stillhart@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Fair enough, we can agree to disagree on the OP’s intent for this post. Thanks for the civil discussion regardless.

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