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scrubbles, do gaming w Do I purchase RDR2 ultimate edition which is on sale or hope for a proper Xbox series x version?
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You’ve waited now 7 years - waiting a bit longer won’t hurt - but then again if you wait for the next one there will probably always be another one after that.

chloyster, do gaming w Do I purchase RDR2 ultimate edition which is on sale or hope for a proper Xbox series x version?

Rumors say there is a proper “next gen” version coming so probably wouldn’t hurt to wait a bit. Games not going anywhere :)

RightHandOfIkaros, do games w Did nightreign flop?

No?

80-60k players is still incredibly successful. I don’t think Nightreign was ever expected to see those kinds of numbers given the nature of the game.

ogeist, do games w Did nightreign flop?

I like your question but you should formulated better, that’s why it’s getting downvoted.

Short Answer: No, it’s not a flop. Long answer: Many have given the meaning of a flop so I will not repeat. What you want to know it seems is if ERN succeeded as a multiplayer and I get the feeling you are comparing it to FPS, but they have very different markets. ERN made good money and satisfied the Soul-Like gamers Multiplayer addiction. Elden Ring is also not massive when compared to Counter Strike but in proportion ERN is very successful. The learning curve for the Souls-Like games is usually also a detractor for many.

grueling_spool, do games w What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality

First thing that came to my mind was Crysis 2. Absolute mid-tier FPS, which was unfortunately pretty disappointing coming off of the first game.

Definitely worth a look if you just want to run around and shoot shit.

Poopfeast420, do games w Did nightreign flop?
@Poopfeast420@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Depends on who you ask. Square might have projected 15m sales on the first day, in which case it did.

RightHandOfIkaros, (edited )

What does Square have to do with a Bandai Namco published game developed by FromSoftware?

Poopfeast420,
@Poopfeast420@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

It’s a dumb hypothetical, because of a dumb question.

Halosheep, do gaming w What are your favorite metroidvanias?

I’ll throw in a few that I enjoyed (all pc with a controller):

Hollow knight (probably the common favorite). Fun gameplay, interesting story, felt like a great entry into the genre as someone who didn’t like them previously.

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. Really interesting farming mechanics to unlock new skills and fun combat. I think I liked this one mostly for the gameplay and don’t remember the story much.

Grime. This one felt really, really clunky at first. However, like most games in the genre, it really picked up at one point and I enjoyed the whole experience. I think there were some sections that really dragged on but overall a fun game with interesting movement, mechanics, and enemies.

chloyster, do gaming w What are your favorite metroidvanias?

hollow knight silksong

  • Hollow Knight
  • Islets
  • Ender lilies
  • Ori and the will of the wisps (don’t love blind forest personally)
  • Blasphemous 1 and 2
  • Pretty much all the 2d metroids, especially Dread
  • Guacamelee 1 and 2
  • The messenger kinda
  • Steamworld dig 2
  • Animal Well

Oh and what I like about them. Exploration is 90% of a good metroidvania for me. Unlocking abilities and finding secrets in old locations is just my favorite gameplay loop. I don’t tend to love super linear metroidvanias a-la Metroid fusion, though it’s still a good game. But exploration usually can’t be all of it. Combat if it’s there should be decent at best, puzzles are always good. But really if exploration isn’t there just right I probably won’t love it. Also most of these I play on steam deck / PC. Except metroid

jordanlund, (edited ) do games w Did nightreign flop?
@jordanlund@lemmy.world avatar

From the Wiki:

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elden_Ring_Nightreign

“released for the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S on May 30, 2025. It received generally positive reviews and sold 3.5 million units.[1]”

So, first, it doesn’t matter how many concurrent players it has, it sold 3.5 million so it’s not a flop.

Second, it was released on 5 platforms, you are looking at concurrent players on Steam only.

ZeroHora, do games w Did nightreign flop?
@ZeroHora@lemmy.ml avatar

60-80k players for a paid game is a lot wtf?

SolidShake,

Kind of? It’s a 73% drop in Conccurent players though and it hasn’t even been out that long.

ZeroHora,
@ZeroHora@lemmy.ml avatar

Still top 10 right now in concurrent players on steam. Every other game on the tier list is a free to play game or Dune(with less players than Nightreign) and Dune is a big IP with a multimillion movie trilogy. Calling it flop is absurd.

victorz, do gaming w Playstacean

What on earth does “I / [on/off symbol]” mean? “On / On / Off”?

cenzorrll,

On or a juxtaposition of on/off, you won’t know until you push it.

Breezy, do games w What are your favorite Tactical RPGs?

There was an old one on the first sega console controlling different knights on a board. It was the first game of its kind i played but could never remember what it was.

Coelacanth, do games w Did nightreign flop?
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Pretty much every single game has a massive drop off in concurrent players after the initial spike. That’s just how humans work, not everyone who tries something will like it.

ampersandrew,
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Even if you like it, there’s a high chance you’re not playing it for more than a month.

Zahille7,

I bounce around and go through “phases” of games I like to play quite regularly. Sometimes I like boomer shooters, sometimes I like platformers, sometimes I like RPGs, sometimes I like a weird mix of all of them.

ampersandrew, do games w Did nightreign flop?
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

No, it did not, and concurrent players is a very bad metric to use for something like this. They sold north of 3.5M copies. At $40 each, that’s about $100M. Even looking at concurrent players, right now, at 98k players, it’s the 14th most played game on Steam, so with the information you did use, as a paid game and not free to play, it would be hard to say that it flopped.

SolidShake,

Selling doesn’t mean anything to me. Companies don’t make a game just so people can play it for one day. (Well… Some do… (the day before))

There are LOTS of games that sold really well and then just died right away.

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

Typically, that’s how you’d measure a flop. Seeing as you only need two other people to play, this game isn’t dead as long as there are 3 people who want to play and a server running to facilitate them.

De_Narm,

You see, that’s your problem. Companies don’t make games for any other reason than money. Since there are no microtransactions or subscriptions available, they quite frankly don’t care if you ever play the game after you’ve purchased it.

They moved a lot of units already and considering it’s only a side game with reused assets, they made a profit. Therefore, the game by all means is a success for them, even if nobody would play anymore.

Concurrent players also shouldn’t influcene future sales by much, since you only need 3 people at a time

SolidShake,

So they won’t update it or anything?

Zahille7, do gaming w Anyone wanna come?

My brother lives in the lower-left corner of Vegas, kinda by the edge of the city. Every time I visit (I’m actually out here right now) I can’t help but think of New Vegas. Anytime we drive on the 215 to go somewhere I’m almost always looking around at stuff and trying to picture how it’d look in-game but in real life.

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