11 mo. ago • 97%

A tale as old as time

Gaming @lemmy.ml A tale as old as time

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It's interesting to see how Cyberpunk 2077 is actually selling really well still. Looks like it worked out well for CDPR eventually.

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- Only took almost 3 years to make it actually worth it.
  
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  Same question as No Man's Sky, though. Sure, the game wasn't good on release... but they stuck to it, fixed it, and now it's better. So what matters more, that they screwed up initially or that they managed to patch it up over time?
  
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- It sold 18 million copies within a few months of launch. It worked out immediately.
  
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- I mean, it's a great game. Sure, it was published in a far too buggy state, but story and gameplay wise it is fantastic
  
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- Well, they did invest more time after making millions on profit enough for online discourse to shift to the point people argue that the launch wasnt that bad (it absolutely was worse than bad)
  
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- Yea the team really loves this game, they made it good
  
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- I actually just bought it for Xbox Series X about a month ago and I’ve been having a blast! Yeah it’s got glitches lol no shit but they’re not that awful at least on xbox but I heard they’re worse on PC
  
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People still preorder games in high volumes. It’s like when are they going to learn to just relax

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- And if there’s something of value in the pre order (bonus DLC, pre-install before launch, etc), you can just pre order it the day before it launches.
  
  You get your “stuff” and the company accountants don’t get to squeal with delight 3 months prior to launch.
  
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There was so many people waiting for Cyberpunk that they were basically in a lose-lose situation. I think they reflected on that, given that they gave up making their own engine, mostly to eliminate time spending on fixing the engine

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Which rockstar game had a bad release?

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- The GTA trilogy "definitive edition". Complete disaster lol. I haven't kept up to see if they've gotten better but it was really bad on release
  
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  They didn’t fix it, it’s still bad and not worth it.
  
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  Ah forgot about that one. Kind of ereased it from memory.
  
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  They just took a crappy 3rd-party mobile remaster and made it runnable on PC.
  
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Meanwhile like a dragon gaiden just dropped and its really fun go play it if you're looking to play a fun, modern game that isn't greedy bs

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- Doesn't it have Denuvo, though?
  
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  Yes, publisher bad. Dev team really, really good tho. There are some Yakuza games on GOG tho which are really good as well. Just not the newest ones at the moment. I think 0-6 is on GOG but idk
  
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- I feel like in the last few years, Japanese publishers have been atoning for a lot of their early-2000's sins (except Square Enix and Konami who seem to have doubled down)
  
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