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[Chazore]

Captain_Yuri said:

Chazore said:

I've learned to just wait for a sale when it comes to MS/Sony games these days.

Bought HZD and Days Gone when they both went on sale last yr, bought them both for the price of a single AAA game of today's price (£50). I'll wait for GoW to go down in price, probably by this summer and then I'll likely nab it by then. 

Also waiting on AoE IV to build up more content and updates, then I'll possibly nab that, but MS seems to take a lot longer at sorting their games out on PC compared to Sony's 1 yr (State of Decay 2 has taken years to get the updates it sorely needed and 1 reboot mega update as well). 

I am not quite as patient depending on the game so I generally use cdkeys or greenmangaming to get 20-30% off pre-orders/launches.

Idk if I'd ever actually buy AoE IV after playing it on gamepass. It lacks the spark of AoE 2. It looks too off beat stylistically but the FMV sequences can be neat in the campaign.

Yeah, ngl, I saw some of the day 1 footage and saw that physics for projectiles were tied to something other than where the unit is standing, and how they home in like darts on any sort of unit no matter the distance and that will forever be etched into my mind.

The other fact that the game looks a bit more cartoony/mobile-like and the too clean UI (reminds me instantly of DoW III and not AoE II) put me off for the most part. The lack of other civs atm makes me not wanna touch it. The only time I'm ever likely to buy this is at a probable deep discount, and since it's not on a must have list for me, I'm fine waiting for years till it goes cheap.

Hopefully there will be more RTS's in the next few years, that might spark MS to actually do a bit more with the genre, since EA just did the remaster C&C collection of two games and then stopped caring after that (no known plans to do with the franchise since that collection's release). I don't see SC 3 being a thing for at least another 5 or more years either, so I'm gonna hope Homeworld 3 does something great, as well as that RTS from Ex Blizz devs are supposed to be working on rn. 

I still don't think AAA pubs/devs are into full on effort for the genre just yet. Prob gonna be another one of those jobs for indie devs to prove that the genre is still viable (I mean it should be, every genre should be viable and treated with respect).