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Nfntordr, w Stalker 2 could still release this year, according to distributor listing

Release about 1 month after Starfield to potentially capitalise on everyone realising it didn’t live up to the hype.

regbin_, w After 27,000+ Steam reviews, Overwatch 2 is graded as 'Overwhelmingly Negative'

I personally think Overwatch 2 is a great game compared to OW1, especially for going F2P and removing the loot box. I have played OW1 since 2017 but since it is a paid game, none of my friends play it and we all played Apex instead when it came out.

Fast forward to 2022, they actually removed loot box (fuck gambling) and made it F2P. I have been playing OW2 almost every day since launch. Haven’t touched Apex a single time since then.

sylverstream,

I never played ow1 but I did enjoy OW2. One of the few multiplayer shooters where I didn’t suck. However I noticed I got very frustrated by it and seemed to get addicted as well. Also noticed I enjoyed other games less. Stopped playing and feeling better now.

time_fo_that,

I liked the free lootboxes with chances of getting cool stuff than the damn $20 every couple months battle passes where you actually cannot get anything interesting without paying for it.

regbin_,

You liked getting free cool stuff, not the loot boxes. They can still give away cool stuff for free even without loot boxes but they chose to stop doing so and it sucks.

I think the Battle Pass is fair, it’s $10 every 2 months. It helps keep the game running. Overwatch 1 was going to die if they kept going with the old business model.

LilBagOfBunnies, w Overwatch 2’s Story Missions Are Good, But Not $15 Good

A buddy of mine loved OW1, ranked top-100 for Rein, and preordered OW2 a long time ago. Not only did Blizz not refund his $60 after they changed directions, he said he still has to pay for this content.

Obviously the main takeaway is another reminder to never preorder games, but that is so slimy.

scrawdaddy, w Humble Bundle: Take Your Turn: Tactics and RPGs

Any of these co op games?

Hubi, w Stalker 2 could still release this year, according to distributor listing

I hope they get all the time they need, I really want this game to be good.

AnonTwo, w Overwatch 2 is now Steam's "worst game of all time"

Review bombed. Still getting peak 75k players says the article as well.

I do think the game's quality has gone down since OW1, but to call it the worst steam game of all time is silly. There's straight shovelware on steam.

bappity,
@bappity@lemmy.world avatar

the worst “triple a” game for sure

weirdo_from_space,

Almost every AAA release these days seems to earn that title.

vaultdweller013,

Well they havent hit the core with the bar so it can always be lower still.

true_blue,
@true_blue@lemmy.comfysnug.space avatar

With no context, completely in isolation, yeah Overwatch 2 isn’t the worst. But for a lot of players, it’s not just about what Overwatch 2 is, but also about what it did and what it means. That factors into players’ feelings about the game.

loutr,
@loutr@sh.itjust.works avatar

Spot on. I dont give a single fuck about shovelware, but I absolutely care about OW and how Blizzard managed to turn me off a game I was pretty much addicted to.

Syrc,

It depends on what metrics do you use. In general, lowest-rated stuff on sites are not the worst by objective terms, but because of propaganda or other stuff that pisses off people.

djsaskdja, w Stalker 2 could still release this year, according to distributor listing

This feels like a classic Spring release type game.

Zoldyck, w Overwatch 2 is now Steam's "worst game of all time"

I miss the old Blizzard.

Blizzard,

How old are we talking about? For me peak Blizzard was Diablo 2 / StarCraft 1 & 2 / WarCraft 3. Of course D1 & WC2 also remember fondly.

iMastari,

For me it was Orcs and Humans.

Pxtl,
@Pxtl@lemmy.ca avatar

Rock n Roll Racing.

the_post_of_tom_joad,

Blackthorne and that one with the 3 dwarves

Pxtl,
@Pxtl@lemmy.ca avatar

Lost Vikings! I love how they keep bringing that one back in their branding. I’ve got Olaf as my bnet icon.

sugar_in_your_tea,

I was with you until Warcraft 3. Warcraft 2 was the best of the series, fight me.

Blizzard,

I loved WarCraft 2, but it came much earlier so it wouldn’t fit the “peak Blizzard” timeline. For all those years to this day I’ve been humming music from that game.

sugar_in_your_tea,

IDK, I think Diablo 2 was peak Blizzard. We had StarCraft and Warcraft 2, and imo World of Warcraft was kind of the sign of the end, at least when it seemed they would keep doubling down on expansions instead of new games. I thought StarCraft 2 was just alright (bought Wings of Liberty on launch), and I didn’t bother with Diablo 3 due to it being always online.

So for me, peak Blizzard was around 2001. Granted, I never played Warcraft 3 (was just too different from the earlier Warcraft games), nor did I play World of Warcraft (didn’t have stable Internet, stable income, or stable time), so maybe the peak should be pushed out a few years.

Sharkwellington,

Personally I think of StarCraft 2 as Blizzard’s last good game. It was the last time they made something new and didn’t cut it up to sell to you in pieces.

Firemyth, (edited )

But sc2 was cut up and sold in pieces. You literally had to buy the protoss and zerg campaigns. Separate

Sharkwellington,

Ah I guess my memory is messed up because I bought the whole pack at a later date.

ElectricCattleman,

They were the GOAT for SC:BW, D2:LOD, and the first couple years of WoW.

SC2 has done well over the years but I remember being really disappointed when it came out. The original’s campaign was so gritty. Playing each race, you felt like you were in this strange scifi world. It was brilliant.

The SC2 campaign was so bad. Cartoonish, one dimensional characters. They made zerg and protoss more human like and boring. They were already focused on making their games sports, so single player was not their focus at all. I was fine with the esport focus but not at the cost of making it more cartoonish.

subunit317, (edited )

I was so excited to play the SC2 campaign when the game came out. Starcraft and Brood War was my life for years.

I was so disappointed by SC2 that, to this day, I haven’t even read the wikipedia summary of the expansion campaigns. Never bought either of them. I stopped playing around the time they introduced paid maps (in 2010 or something). Playing competitive was good, but UMS was botched just as bad as the campaign when the game was new. That was my most anticipated thing after the campaign. Even now people mostly only play the same 3 UMS maps.

The original game still holds up too. We got robbed of a good sequel. And don’t even get me started about diablo 3 lol. RIP blizzard.

Edit: did some googling and it turns out they announced, but did not implement paid maps in 2009. Map micro translation did eventually get implemented though.

ElectricCattleman,

I watched SC2 on YouTube on and off over the years. UThermal is worth checking out, he’s a great player and super positive self-conmentator. I’m pretty sure I’ve watched SC2 a lot more than I’ve played it. Which is sort of weird for a game…

ME5SENGER_24, w Ubisoft has a new Far Cry IP boss

I like these games. I do. But at the same time I don’t. They’re repetitive in the gameplay and it gets stale to the point where I never finish them.

Along with the Assassins Creed series, they have sucked me in and don’t deliver enough to maintain my business, yet a couple of months after a release when I see them go on sale the end up in my collection.

I’m hoping this news will end in an awesome game that I’m obviously going to buy and that I will actually finish, for once

coffinwood,

Agree. I’m playing Far Cry 6 and somehow got the feeling it’s even slightly worse (more stupid) than the 5th entry.

The map is filled to the brim with NPCs and animals, yet I’ve rarely witnessed such a dead world. Not a single NPC has a purpose or life. Cars outside the render distance disappear from the game too: turn around and that vehicle is gone like in those 1980’s video games. Turn around again: new NPC.

Finished a checkpoint / road block: your car is gone Baddies reappear in enemy areas although I just cleared it out. Such a lack of persistence is almost an offense.

Not one car that doesn’t sound their horn at me because they think I’m trying to ram them off the road. Arcade games from decades ago were less dumb.

Nfntordr,

Ubi really need to scale down the size of these games and adopt a quality over quantity mindset. I’ve played multiple Ubi IPs and they’re the fucking same at its core.

BitingChaos, w Overwatch 2 is now Steam's "worst game of all time"
@BitingChaos@lemmy.world avatar

They destroyed Overwatch 1 and gave us Overwatch 2.

I want to play Overwatch 1. :(

GeekFTW,
@GeekFTW@kbin.social avatar

Don't worry, another year or two and they'll be selling us Overwatch Classic™ for $15 a month.

Pxtl,
@Pxtl@lemmy.ca avatar

Which one? The game was rebalanced so many times it was basically several different games. If they put in a 2-2-2 mode with the weaker open-queue tanks, I’d call that close-enough to Overwatch 1. Of course, that still would mean the new expensive monetization model. Like there’s one skin in the free tier of the current battle-pass, and it’s for Torb.

adrian783,

i miss 6 torb games, ow was good when quick play was just goofy

Swedneck,
@Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

All match-based games should have competitive, casual, and anarchy modes.

ADHDefy,
@ADHDefy@kbin.social avatar

SAME. OW1 was one of my favorite games. Still mad about it.

JustZ,
@JustZ@lemmy.world avatar

What happened to it?

ADHDefy,
@ADHDefy@kbin.social avatar

When they made OW2, they replaced OW1 with it. Technically, I think OW2 is just a really big update for OW1. But now there's no way to play the old version that a lot of us liked better. :(

Holyginz, w Overwatch 2 is now Steam's "worst game of all time"

I remember fondly playing overwatch 1 with my friends and sinking in hundreds of hours. If they wanted to break into the steam market they should have done it with the first one. Not with their lackluster, phoned in sequel. This was just stupid of them.

DarkGamer,
@DarkGamer@kbin.social avatar

Let's be real, Overwatch 2 was an update patch that they tried to sell as a sequel.

Mereo,

An update patch that introduced the most amazing feature: monetization!

VanillaGorilla,

I loved Assassin's Creed 2, so I didn't bat an eye buying Brotherhood and Revelations as they had the same basic background. They were full price games and I played for about 15 to 20 hours on each. That's not much for full price. They were basically just new story lines for the main game.

WarmSoda,

You can still play Assassin’s Creed 2

VanillaGorilla,

Sure, and I did. Multiple times. It's just that the tower spin offs are too expensive. AC2 was about double the gaming for the same price.

WarmSoda,

Let us know when we can play Overwatch 1

CoderKat,

Personally, I sometimes like when a game feels like just a new storyline (and map) for the same game. Sometimes I just want more of a good thing and don’t want to have to learn new mechanics or risk the game making things worse.

And since dev time is limited, I think in theory, this could mean more time could be spent on making the story missions perfect. But in practice, I don’t think that usually happens. Publishers would rather cheap out.

Zalzabar,

Lol when I first updated it the game didn’t replace my desktop icon so it was still saying overwatch 1 so yes just stupid patch that ruined a perfectly good game haven’t returned since

LadyAutumn,
@LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

An update implies they changed something to the game. This was just an update to the monetization. A blatant pure cash grab sold as a sequel game. Its a travesty, and if they had any decency they’d scrap it, apologize, and release “Overwatch 2 A Realm Reborn” that is an actual legitimate sequel to the original game.

fibojoly, w Titan Quest II | Announcement Trailer

Uh, did you miss the updates and even a full extension to TQ that were released recently? Didn’t look like the devs wanted to abandon that IP. Glad to see they went all the way and made a full new game!

altima_neo, w After 27,000+ Steam reviews, Overwatch 2 is graded as 'Overwhelmingly Negative'
@altima_neo@lemmy.zip avatar

Because it’s s shit game

Contend6248,

From a shit company.

They earned their reputation pretty hard

Sebastrion, w Gothic 1 Remake | Welcome to the Old Camp | Showcase Trailer 2023

I think the lightning looks odd. But the locations etc look exactly like the original and I love it!

pomodoro_longbreak, w Quake II - Official Trailer (2023)
@pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works avatar

I still remember watching this with my friend and saying “imagine when games look like this.”

We still say it to eachother jokingly. Good memory.

Edit: oh actually just watched the video, and I’m only referring to the first part

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