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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Ah, so managerial problems again who would have thought but that's OK we that make the things can suffer a little more

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The Last of Us is still selling.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Which one? The original? The Remaster or the Remake? Or the 2nd or the Remaster of the 2nd?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I liked Frostpunk and would have loved a story driven game in that universe.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Ok guys valid points from everyone here. But who here has bought the latest 11bit Studios games? And I'm not talking about Frostpunk 2. I'm taking about Indika, The alters (not out yet, my bad) , The Traumathurge, Creatures of Ava ,... all of these games seemed like really cool things to me, sadly I could not afford them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The Alters isn't out yet. Expected release Q1 2025. It's on my wish list because I love the demo.

Indika they were just the publisher. On top of which, maybe has a story that not everyone is interested in. I watched these guys play it, https://youtu.be/MuiHtAYOqgI and while it's creative and it's overall a fantastic game, is not one I'm going to play myself.

The Thaumaturge, again they are just the publisher. I hadn't even heard of this one which means as the publisher they did a terrible job marketing it.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Not agreeing, but if I look at my own purchases for the last few years, there aren't many story driven games there. God of War and Starfield. Didn't play much either one.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

NGL the title always seemed like it wanted to be a mobile game so the studio saying this doesn't surprise me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Sad but I can see their point, considering that most customer attention spans are limited to memes now.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You're not wrong at all.

Baldurs Gate 3 was a surprise success. But then again, it took them many years and many Divinity games.

Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk also are narrative darlings. But CD Projekt took a lot of chances over the years to get here.

A bunch of my favorite heavy-story games are sitting at under 2000 steam reviews. While Meme game for Twitch Streamer hits 10k-100k reviews.

I'm currently playing Shadows of Loathing right now, and I can't believe it took me this long. Next up is Beyond Shadowgate.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

I'm in there. I see "story rich" and it reads as a crutch for no gameplay, or a premise for a book without the responsibility of pacing.

I know that's far from true, and there are loads of great story-rich games that are fun and engaging. But when that's the main tag, it turns me away.

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