Yeah, like g said, the reviews are starting to come in and the scores are "I guess?/10".

Wait until it's on sale/on gamepass/given away in a box of cereal, have some fun and then never think about it again.

Shame.

There's so much to play now at such a high level of quality, and services like Gamepass spoil us rotten. Time becomes more valuable than money.

I find it the opposite, scratching around for things to play so look forward to all new releases. Aliens, Tormented Souls and may try Pyschonauts this week.

Surely depends on how many games you go through a year and i guess everyone is different. Even back in the day when i played a lot, a 7 out of 10 game would not have moved my needle.

Also now there is not only too many quakity new games but also too many great legacy games as well. Look at how good a response a re-release (skyward sword, quake etc.) gets on here alone. Plus, BC and the boost fron the new consoles has given fresh life to games from the ps2 and 360 era. Very hard to compete with all that noise

Im playing Hades non-stop right now. Then I want to start doing SoR4 weeklys again.
Psychonauts 2 will definitely get a go after that.
By that point Halo will be on its way hopefully.
Still need to go back to Immortals.

If I run out of stuff from there a second rate Aliens game will probably not grab my interest before something else.

Verecocha wrote:

£30 game that’s a 7 pretty much across the board is deemed too expensive and not worth it. Wow.

No one's saying it's a rip off and/or a shit game. But I've got a thousand and one other things to do, and a middling game can get to the back of the queue.

regmcfly wrote:

There's so much to play now at such a high level of quality, and services like Gamepass spoil us rotten. Time becomes more valuable than money.

I am starting to feel like games are going the way of TV in this regard. You spent ages scouring the libraries of Netflix, Prime, Disney ect only to end up turning off the TV and not watching anything.

Sometimes when you flood a pass-time with easily accessible content at a fraction of the price it becomes like you said, more about time and less about money. It also starts to bleed into having way too much choice than you actually need.

Remember the good old days when we had a handful of TV channels and you knew what was on at what time and day each week off by heart? Remember when you also knew all 6 games that were coming out that year on your N64

Sometimes less is more I guess, at least that's how I feel about it.

**Also, there is there weird internal economy that assigns more value to a gaming experience when you are committed financially. As in, you are (at least I am) more likely to stay with a game when you have paid €60 for it as opposed to just downloading it off game pass.**

Well, on PC I think we're kind of spoiled with all the cheap ways to play games so I tend to get real indecisive sometimes about what I want to play. Having said that, I've pulled myself form this mindset of a backlog and playing games because they've been critically well received and just started to reinvest in the genres I know I love. Also, I agree with the Netflix issue usually arising when in company.

The cost of access is now time for me. I want to play game X, it appears on GP, I have maybe 6 or 12 months to play game X before it’s gone. It’s a very different experience to me than, say, downloading a ROM dump which I can get around to next week, next year or next decade.

g.man wrote:

Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught, or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the game is over, thought I'd something more to say

Class g.

I just play, watch, listen to what I like really.
If a game is shit I'm not going to play it but now I haven't spent £50 on it. If a game can't hold my interest because something else has popped up on GP then I can't be that interested in it, or it will be something I can come back to when I get bored of the new thing.
A game is considered complete when Im done playing it, I have no desire to see everything through to the end, or to milk every achievement out of it for the sake of it.

Its easy to say that makes the hard work of devs disposable but at least they get a chance. Back with the N64 I wasn't buying or playing anything that wasn't a top, top reviewed game because it was too damn expensive to do so and lets face it that meant Nintendo or Rare developed games most of the time. Now I pay my GP money and that (via whatever fucking system MS is using) pays the devs something whether I play it for an hour or 100.

FranticPea wrote:

I expected this to be bad but.....fuck me. It's embarrassing dirge. Managed one mission and now I have to explain to my cousin, that bought it, that no I don't want to play co-op really tbh.

"I'm not gay, but I'll learn"?

Wait, that's for a different problem...

Some of the unlocks in the trailer had me keen. I'd genuinely enjoy running around in alien handler armour from Alien 3.

Matchmaking? Intriguing.

Reports of Fireteam Elite's death are greatly exaggerated, it seems.



Season 4 adds various cosmetic gubbins to unlock, because we all love a good dopamine hit, as well as (drum roll please) crossplay in all game modes between Xbox, PlayStation, and Steam.

The free update hatches on July 26th.