games
Sunday, June 8, 2025
These are really good numbers for the pre-release Dune MMO
only people who spent $70-$90 can play rn
the $50 tier is for the "release" on Tuesday
ok, I spent longer figuring this out than I probably should have
excluding refunds, I have paid AAA prices ($60+) for PC games 25 times in my life
On steam I have never bought a game at full AAA price
I need to add in Switch games to my count
I made a list of all games I paid more than $30 for (to include launch discounts or w/e) and excludes games which launched for $29.99 which imo is a tier down
looking through my list of refunds was my favorite part
remember Biomutant, remember Code Vein, remember Tales of Arise, etc.
__$100__
Jun 2023 - Starfield Deluxe Edition
__$90__
Oct 2024 - Monster Hunter Wilds Deluxe Edition
__$80__
Jan 2024 - Dragons Dogma 2 Deluxe Edition
__$70__
Feb 2025 - Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Deluxe Edition
Feb 2024 - Fate/Samurai Remnant + Season Pass
Jan 2023 - Hogwarts Legacy Deluxe Edition
Nov 2022 - Valkyrie Elysium Deluxe Edition
Sep 2021 - AoE 4 Deluxe Edition
May 2018 - Ni no Kuni 2 Deluxe Edition
__$60__
Aug 2024 - Black Myth Wukong
Nov 2022 - Tactics Ogre Deluxe Edition
Dec 2021 - Elden Ring
Aug 2021 - Psychonauts 2
Oct 2020 - Baldur's Gate 3
Jan 2020 - Death Stranding
Jun 2019 - Cyberpunk 2077
Feb 2019 - Sekiro
Jul 2018 - Monster Hunter World Deluxe Edition
Jan 2018 - Kingdom Come Deliverance
Mar 2016 - Dark Souls 3
Jun 2014 - Divinity Original Sin 1
Jun 2012 - Boderlands 2
Nov 2011 - Skyrim
Aug 2011 - HoMM 6 Deluxe Edition
Mar 2011 - Crysis 2
other than Fate/Samurai Remnant being the most expensive non-deluxe ed. game I bought
my other funny observation was that I paid more for Divinity Original Sin 1 than I did for DOS2
Before I refunded it I spent like 25 CAD on DOS2
I pirate more games than I buy, but I was surprised how short my list was tbh
25 games over ~15 years
38 if you include $50 games
I bought Paradox DLCs for a couple years, probably pretty close to that before I just stopped bothering
once the quality dropped and the output increased
could be worse
Replying to Kribbles #kribbles1 >Civ 5: 671 hours >Civ 6: 40 hours I don't even own Civ 7 and probably won't ever buy it lol.
This is me with most series. I get into the series with a good game, play the other games and realize the newer ones aren't as good, then don't bother with future titles and go back to playing the ones I enjoyed the most.
I'm trying to think of a long-running series that does genuinely get better with each game
I can think of a couple 3-game series that are like that, but none past that
oh, that's a good one
even people who say P4 was peak, usually still really like P5
Yakuza sorta works as well, but then they did their big genre swap so it's hard to say it's 1:1 anymore
I can't agree with Persona getting better with each game because imo the Persona 2 games are way better than Persona 3
If you were around when Persona 3 came out then you definitely had the opportunity to experience Persona 2 (Innocent Sin, at least)
It got remade for the PSP. Persona 1 too
Most of my favourite games have random encounters, not that I particularly like that part though.
I am not a huge fan of the alternative of map encounters because then I just feel like I'm wasting time kiting them
Can you elaborate?
Oh yeah I really like SMT4A too.
I'm talking about games where either one, you are fighting them real-time in the overworld, or two, the game is not balanced well.
Replying to ChivesKirk #chiveskirk I'm talking about games where either one, you are fighting them real-time in the overworld, or two, the game is not balanced well.
Oh yeah, I don’t like fighting them in the overworld.
You probably haven't played the original Romancing SaGa but the overworld encounters are so abundant if you don't kite them on certain screens you can end up in very long gauntlets. What's worse is that the enemies scale to your level but not exactly, so you will typically end up in a couple of fights that are particularly strong and the enemies can two-shot your characters.
Replying to ChivesKirk #chiveskirk You probably haven't played the original Romancing SaGa but the overworld encounters are so abundant if you don't kite them on certain screens you can end up in very long gauntlets. What's worse is that the enemies scale to your level but not exactly, so you will typically end up in a couple of fights that are particularly strong and the enemies can two-shot your characters.
I have not indeed
They released the game unfinished just like most games today
Monday, June 9, 2025
I kind of opted to not do work today (was not feeling it), so if you and spooky want to fuck around with demo's tonight, I'm down
I'll be around a bit later, and will for sure join
^somehow in the top 20 of next fest
We planning an archipelago?
after you get your car