The Video/PC Game Discussion Thread

That, Starfield and Rage 2 were the only good things to come out of Bethesda's E3 conference, imo. Fallout 76 looks like it's exactly what I DON'T want from the series, just like Anthem is exactly what I DON'T want from Bioware. Multiplayer gaming is really taking over the AAA gaming industry in a bad way, and it makes me pretty depressed.

Thankfully, I don't have any money right now, so I don't have to worry about trying to get purchases to go through. I am trying to scout out for next week, when I will money, though, and I can't even get my wishlist to load to see which games I have there are on sale, lol!

Having had a chance to look now I have to say that this sale doesn't actually look very good at all! I know that no Steam sale is ever going to be as good as your first one but it does seem to me as if the deals are nowhere near as good as they were when I first joined Steam. Titles that used to always get 75% knocked off without fail in the Summer/Winter sales now only go to 50%, such as the early Far Cry games (which have also had an increase in base price, in spite of their age). A lot of coveted titles don't go on sale as high as they do at random times during the year either, if they get a discount at all. 

Unexpectedly, Life is Strange 2 is beginning to look like it might not be a day one purchase for me, after I was initially excited to get more of the series. First of all, Dontnod really screwed up with Vampyr, the worst game I've played in years, and now they put out a free demo called The Awesome (more like "Mediocre") Adventures of Captain Spirit, meant to be a teaser for LiS 2, and I wasn't all that thrilled by it. Turns out, maybe I just loved Max and Chloe too much, and playing with other characters won't work for me. Either way, the game has good exploration, as usual, and I like the way it throws in imaginary super powers and worlds, but the actual writing seemed very forced and not at all up to the levels of season 1, though I think it may just be that I miss the original cast too much. 

Yeah, I plan on getting all those as well. I already have the Croft Edition of Tomb Raider preordered. The only concern for Cyberpunk is, people are describing the behind closed doors demo as being far ahead of current technology, so that has me feeling I might be buying a whole new console to play it, which would be expensive, obviously. And in your case, you'll most likely need a new PC for it, if it ends up being as demanding as it appears to be. Either that or it'll get seriously downgraded, which if anything would be more disappointing.

The thing about Witcher 3, though, is even at release it still looked absolutely amazing, especially for such a big open world game, so that controversy never really made sense to me. It's like people wlll find any little thing to complain about. Though, seriously, I think that started from Watch Dogs, where it looked insanely good the first time Ubisoft showed it off, but then when it came out the game, both graphically and in the gameplay, wasn't anywhere even close to what was originally shown. I think people have been quick to call out devs on making downgrades ever since that debacle. 

I do see your point about the female protagonist tag and I do agree that it should die out, but with the way that the gaming industry was and still somewhat is geared up to male player characters and as someone who tends to find a lot of those male characters to be generically designed (including the default Male Shepard in Mass Effect), as I player I do tend to find female lead characters a lot more interesting so in that respect the female protagonist tag (which is seen a lot on Steam) is useful. Of course not all the lead characters or the games themselves are interesting to me (you get a lot of anime stuff), but it's a good starting point and has led me to a gem every now and then.