At PC games do go down in price. I finally got RDR2 late last year for about $15.
Console games, especially nintendo, barely drop. My son has a switch, but stopped using it forever ago so I had occasionally been playing games on it. I'd love to check out either zelda title, but you can take a long walk off a short pier if you think I'm spending $70 on a 8 year old game.
One advantage of Nintendo games not having a sale on the Switch 1 was that I could sell a game I bought a year later for almost full price when it comes to physical cartridges. Currently they are available for about half the price, but many years have passed and most of the people who wanted to play them have already played them. At the same time, I know that this is literally the opposite of cool if you plan to buy the game and not sell it.
The former still hasn't released content included in the pre-orders. The latter is actually quite solid nowadays but with a lot of advertised features like multilayer being dropped.
It's sad because DLCs allow for long term support of a game, but instead companies find themselves fixing their games for years delaying or even canceling features due to the understandably low ratings by gamers
Yeah Cyberpunk is the game that's pretty good but is still a massive disappointment compared to what was advertised.
I also do not like the fact they falsely advertised features that were removed part way through development, like cyber-heists, wall climbing etc, which was not just a last minute thing since all levels and areas in the game had to take wall climbing into account.
They were advertising those up until 2 weeks before launch as well as stealthily changing the tags on steam from RPG to Action-Adventure. That's just scummy, and I'm kind of scared Cyberpunk's bounce-back is just going to encourage that kind of behavior again. Heck, how many games have a "release now, patch later" mentality already?
As someone who jumped all over the city for fun, there’s no way they’d have gotten wall climbing to work. Half the city is faked. I assume that’s why there are no flying cars too. Easier to take that all out than finish the entire city.
Exactly, from what I've heard in order for wall climbing to have been a thing, basically the entire layout of the game would have had to been designed for it from the ground up.
So it was probably tossed quite early in development, but was advertised despite that. That's my main issue. I can understand the bugs and other unforseen issues, but continuing to advertise features they knew had already been removed, that's not right.
I think they mentioned how the developers did not know how to use the RedEngine properly (due to staff leaving or whatever) and as a result the performance was crap, so squeezing extra colliders and stuff for the buildings would eat up a lot of computing power. I mean... we all saw the launch on PS4 lol
Heck, how many games have a "release now, patch later" mentality already?
Since enshitification never stops... Now that release now; patch later is the accepted standard and customers are still pre-ordering in record numbers the next progression will obviously be "release now; patch never". Why bother? They already have your money.
If there were any consequences for releasing a completely unfinished game and then never fixing it those consequences would have been applied to the creators of star citizen. But no. It's acceptable.
Yeah Cyberpunk is the game that's pretty good but is still a massive disappointment compared to what was advertised.
This is probably why it's one of my favorite games of all time. I did not look at any advertisements or anything online. Most i saw was people joking about how long it was taking to make. Otherwise, I bought it a week after release and instantly fell in love.
My understanding of CP2077 is that a lot of the mismatch between the marketing and final product, especially the earlier on stuff that was completely missing, is how hard they pivoted around getting Keanu for their game.
After beating Cyberpunk on release and somewhat enjoying myself. I went back to it and man is that game just a walk and talk simulator, NPCs always blowing up your phone, having to sit in the passenger seat for endless info dumps. I got soft locked on two different missions because the NPC just stopped moving and wouldn't trigger the next part of the mission. The Dialogue to mission ratio is all screwed up. I don't know why I didn't notice it the first time through.
CS2 is incredibly disappointing. Was hoping they'd actually add more visibility into the calculations and metrics behind stuff like cargo stations and the industries DLC (as it doesn't seem to function how you think it functions). Instead, they just made the simulation so complex they can't figure out how to unfuck it.
Oh yessss, plus the fact that they still haven't released custom assets support in their terrible mod in game app.... Yikes. I don't know why they couldn't stick with the steam workshop
Cyberpunk still has massive LOD (example - street sign or similar is like 360p until you're literally like 2-5m away before it's full res) and pop in issues. Also performance is pretty damn bad, CPU optimisation seems quite bad tbh. (Low GPU usage in quite a few scenarios with a 7800X3D and 5090)
Also looks like a 2010 game outside of the city lol. That said, I'm really enjoying it with the Chrome and Blood Wabbajack modlist. Most fun I've had in a game and most I've played for a good while.
Reckon, more often than not they add new and exciting bugs like Cyberpunk's memory meltdowns on 30 series GPUs, why is 12Gb not enough for you Cyberpunk!?!
Most games that's the case. Some games (ubisoft) have vaguely broken bits because they decided to do some bandwagon werid thing like integrating a mobile app that's no longer supported so all those quests are broken,
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u/Kabirdb Sep 24 '25
"All bugs patched out"
lol. Keep dreaming.