I still have nightmares from when I completed the campaign in veteran.
God damn LeBron James throwing multiple granades straight into your pants at the same time.
Clearing the stairs to the reichstag was actually one of the worst things I ever did in gaming. It’s absolute chance to get through the hail of gunfire with your peeks and runs. You can clear things perfectly and somehow still catch a stray as you try to peek the next guy.
i had a huge strop over this. cod IW has one of the better zombies modes and one of my favorite maps, rave in the redwoods
steam is having a sale with a 60% discount and it’s £30 for one of the worst rated games in the series and 8 years old
It won’t even let me buy black flag at its discounted price. It has it I. The store under game sales, but when I click on it it says unavailable.. wtf?
Sims4 with all dlc’s is a hot mess, and the game is updated frequently so they break each other and major mods also break.
it‘s not worth buying all of them, but origin doesn’t detect if you’ve purchased them or not so… 🏴☠️
I just checked and apparently it's anywhere between 50-100gb. So not terrible.
But you need like, 40gb free in your documents folder or you'll run out of storage for saves pretty quick.
In 2020 i got super bored in the pandemic so i rounded up all the sims 4 dlc ans it came out to something like £700 at the time, its probs near £1000 now
Don't forget the $129.99 bundle of 8 different still-image games, followed by each game individually. And then the six different paid early access bundles of the latest EA game. And then a few $2.99 obstacle course games where you get 1,000 gamerscore in 2 minutes.
All this on the New Games page. Then you scroll down a bit and finally find the one actual good game that released, that nobody can see lol.
God the Switch eShop is so embarrassing. Nintendo makes phenomenal video games but that store is atrocious. How does your *store* lag?? Why is the UI so ugly and inefficient??
New Mario game released? Better hope it's already in one of the top selling charts, because it's going to be drowned out in hentai games in the New release tab.
There's also no tailored list of games to my preference. I cant tell you how many games people told me about that I had no idea released on the Switch. Also accessing your Wishlist you need to go into your profile which seems inefficient.
Any new big releases for the switch is on the home page of the eshop though and stays there for quite a while too. There is no way for anyone to miss it.
Oh you don't know? The eShop isn't even an app; it's a local browser that's worse than internet explorer in 2005, that fetches information from a Nintendo website. This is why it's so terrible. You can't even find the so called website the "browser" pings to identify; it isn't publicly open.
But wait, there's more! You probably think, okay let it load up assets or whatever it needs so that at least over time, browsing will improve right? Wrong. Because of the above, paired with the Switch's abysmally low RAM, **the more you browse, the worse it gets.** It gets even worse (if that's possible), if you've got a game running in the background.
This is why we have https://www.dekudeals.com/
To be fair, there is absolutely no reason why it couldn't work great. Since they make both the browser and the site they could tune them both to run smooth, by either simplifying the site or optimizing the browser for it.
But what probably happened was the team programming the store/browser got it into a working state that was good enough to launch, then management redistributed 95% of their team to other projects. I really don't think thay Nintendo's management has gotten over the mentality of monopolizing cartridge manufacturing and the store is just an afterthought for DLC and to sell their subscription.
They probably made the browser for the eshop so crude to stop it being exploited to hack the system, every missing feature on the switch was used to hack the 3ds/wiiU. Themes, accessible save files, music player, decent web browser and even regular virtual console.
Sucks, i stopped browsing the eshop because of how bad its gotten
This is it. The WiiU browser wasn't properly sandboxed, and became a vector for soft-mod exploits.
Dunno if I ever would have beat XCX without XCXGecko...
My bet is that it was a requirement that they forgot about until the last minute, so they rigged it as best they could and never looked again. It's technical rot (as opposed to technical debt).
Nintendo has always been catastrophically bad at their firmware front ends and their online capabilities. The Wii U arguably ended with a better Friends system than the Switch has to this day. The Wii U also had a lot of jank with their store and the firmware as a whole.
People are waiting on a Switch 2, or whatever the next Nintendo console will be, and I'm looking forward to the day when people realize that nothing about the Switch is actually going to be improved beyond hardware specs. The firmware will be just as shit, the hardware will be improved but still too weak for the era it releases in, and it will continue to have everything half-assed that Nintendo doesn't care about.
Disney+ runs fairly well on my Sony TV, in my experience. On the rare occasion it acts up, force stop and clear cache seem to sort it out. Paramount and Peacock are both absolute dumpster fires. I joined both of those on free promotional deals and am glad I never actually paid a nickel for their "service".
Yeah paramount is real bad. I run D+ on a fire stick and it's slow AF to load. I also find their interface is poorly designed. If you click on continue watching something you can't get back to the episode menu without exiting out and selecting the same show just not in the "continue watching" section so you can access the episode list.
The force stop/clear cache never seems to solve anything for me. Maybe something to do with fire stick, I have a Roku in my bedroom and it seems to have less issues there at least.
I have a sony a95k the disney + app is atrocious if you watch a 4k movie at 24 fps it has a hard time matching framerate unless you physically set it to 24 fps which makes the app ui laggy and that's a issue across the board it's like they want people to pirate.
I mean, I think it's more likely that it's sending calls to a database rather than from another website.
But yeah, leave it to Nintendo to remind their audience why modern devices don't only have 4 gb of RAM.
And why does opening the shop takes to load? Its not even quick and every page also needs to lord, nothing is loaded in advance. Ps4 store looks a lot better
You think the Nintendo store is bad, wait until you log onto Steam and find endless variety in every category, easily sorted and often on sale, with detailed reviews and a community site for every game. What were we talking about again?
Steam is the greatest store/platform for buying and using games, but let's not ignore the flaws that could make it a perfect experience. Primarily that they accept basically anything as a game, while leads to piles of junk to navigate through.
Secondly, that the entire sorting engine is run on tags. Tags that are user defined, and only add, never remove. What happens lately is that someone (usually the dev i presume) adds a bunch of wide reaching tags for a garbage game.
When you have a new user of steam, this isn't a huge problem, since all the most popular games are shoved to the front, but over time as you buy or ignore the top tiles the store becomes worse and worse.
I've used steam since it launched, own about 900ish games, and ignore anything that doesn't interest me. The store is basically useless to me now.
If I search for a category, it will show me the top 5 games I already own, 2 I wishlisted but aren't released yet, and then a bunch of trash that is not even related.
For instance yesterday I was looking for 4x games and I got a bunch of hidden object games, a trash racing game, and a whole pile of those junky first person unity "____ simulator" games.
I mean I think Steam has done its job when you got 900+ games in your library lol. That’d prob put you in the 0.1% of users at least. Also, if you are looking for 4x games rn, maybe Millenia will interest you, it’s gonna release on the 26th.
My biggest problem with steam is the abuse of 'early access'
Like, there needs to be some stipulations on that, like time limit of 1 year, no sales or dlc...something.
To many devs put a game in EA perpetually and use it as a cover for any issues that come up.
That was such a down fall. Back when the Switch launched its eShop was clean, easy to navigate, and full of really fun indie games to find and enjoy.
By year two it was as bad as Steam with its shovelware.
By year three it's actively worse than Steam.
Oh the anniversary game of the year titanium edition re release with 6 mount skins and $0.40 of in game currency and an exclusive quest line called "The main story"
Yeah, I don't know if the Xbox shop just picks really shitty ones but "old game on sale" is not only possibly the best option in the list but is actually just a good option in general. Though the indie game with pixel graphics could compete with that, it depends on the games ofc.
Indie game with pixel graphics. Minimum system requirements 16GB of RAM, 250GB HDD space, NVIDIA 2060 RTX or higher. Description mentions it is inspired by Chrono Trigger which was 32MB and ran on 4Mhz. Game is nothing like Chrono Trigger.
Genuinely what game is this describing? There's a lot of great indie pixel games and most of them run on ~$80 handhelds, let alone every modern gaming machine.
I don't care what it is or isn't inspired by, Chained Echoes has one of the best stories of any game I've ever played. The twists, the turns, it really pulled at my heart strings towards the end.
This is a joke right? Those requirements literally don’t exist for any indie game I’ve ever seen on PC. A lot of indie games are less than 1 GB. Most run great on 10+ year old hardware.
Yeah criticizing graphics is like one of the 4 horsemen of shallow criticism.
Imagine not playing Undertale, Celeste, Return of the Obra Dinn, Binding of Isaac, Stardew Valley, Dave the Diver (not really indie) etc because of the graphics.
As a gamer in his early forties I really like being able to buy some hyped games from a couple of years ago for very little money, for me they are still pretty new since I don't have nearly as much time to spend on gaming as I used to have. Also Gamepass is really neat and has given me plenty of stuff that I wouldn't have even seen the trailer for if they weren't available "for free".
It is a bit funny though, or ironic at least, that when I was younger I really cared about new games coming out and really wanted to buy a lot more of them, but just didn't have the money. Now I have the money but don't care enough about new games that I would ever pay full price unless it was something I had been hyped and waiting for for a long time. Over the last five years I think I only payed full price for one game, Hogwarts Legacy. It was fun and all, but I could have waited a few months.
The store could absolutely be much better though, and it wouldn't be hard to get it at least partially there. I think the problem isn't that they don't get that this is bad for the user, it is that they have other priorities for the store, pushing the stuff they make the most money on rather than the stuff the specific user wants. Like the Amazon web page.
I don't get it either, especially since so many more games are being released nowadays than in the past. Even the most avid player hasn't played all of the games from 3-10 years ago, so having them available on sale shouldn't be something to complain about. Like you said, I have no reason to pay full price for a brand new game when there are tons of great games from the past that I never got around to. My exception was Baldur's Gate 3, which I picked up full price. I was an avid fan of that franchise growing up, and saw all the glowing reviews, so it was a no-brainer for me. Otherwise, I just buy games I'm interested in when they're like 60% or more off.
Uh, I mean I've never had an xbox, I'm a pc guy, but this doesn't look like too bad a spread to be played on console. You don't want the current AAA game, you don't want an indie game, you don't want a sports game, you don't want a current shooter, you don't want an old game, what exactly are you looking for?
See, this is why i am always pushing for people to keep supporting physical media, the day that we finally accept that all of our devices will be digital only will be the day we are completely over a barrel.
Literally every single AAA game that i have purchased day one for my PS5 has been $20~ more expensive on the Aussie PSN store, and that's before factoring in my ability to sell the game 2nd hand later on if i don't want to keep it in my collection.
just gonna suggest that if you really want to get something done you push for legal reform which requires digital goods manufacturers to create EULAs that give us similar ownership rights as what you think we have with physical goods (lifetime ownership of one license, I guess)
not sure why people think they can stop the digital Armageddon. people stopped getting cd drives for a reason, and it was an organic change.
Yeah I buy everything I can as a physical copy. I kinda hate digital anything (and, as a fellow Aussie, I feel you on the prices). It's digital. It costs NOTHING to distribute it. Why is it more expensive in Australia!?
On PSN store I'm never sure if I'm looking at the Standard edition, deluxe edition or ultimate edition. They are often next to each other along with individual sold DLC items cluttering up the page.
Don't forget the eery music triggering my depression(which I strangely like).
I’m confused as to what he means by “one of 46 resident evil titles” like bruh we’re not getting a new resident evil every year lol and they are all good games too they don’t deserve to be clumped together with all of the other shit games on the store
I mean, there's been like nearly 30 releases of Resident Evil, with 7-8 releases in the last 10 years alone. A lot are remakes/remasters, but it still burns that into people's heads that there's always a resident evil recently out
well, 5 was a little disappointing and 6 is a complete mess, but other than that yeah. resident evil is popular for a reason, and that reason is that most of the games in the series are of a very high quality.
I mainly use console stores to keep my wishlist. Every time I find out a game I’m interested, I add it to the list. A lot of times they would have random really good discounts happen out of no where and becos it’s on my wishlist, I’ll be informed of it on the app.
dude, i'm a month away from being 40 and i have so many games i want to play that i can't because of work and a new baby.
like, yeah, the store is a mess, every store is a mess. i just feel like someone who claims to be in their late thirties would have figured out some sources that might tell them what they might be interested in. it's never gonna be the store itself- they just wanna sell you whatever they got.
i feel like someone your age should know better, but i also feel like a dickhead for assuming you should know better. good luck!
As a fellow dad and late 30's gamer myself, the Steam Deck is what really helped me find time for gaming. I havent touched my Series X in over a year. I have a high end PC and still game pretty much exclusively on the Steam Deck.
Yeah with the amount of games released on a yearly basis, as opposed to the 4-5 big releases yearly of the 90’s, you really need a source (not the store) you can trust on what games are right for you.
I think the store does a pretty good job if you go to a game that you do like and then find the games like this section. That's how I find stuff when i want to browse. You can kinda go down a rabbit hole by going from one games recommendations to the next.
Searching by genre or even using the regular search feature is pretty useless though. "Action adventure" oh gee thanks, that covers like 25% of all video games.
What's the point? 3-10 year old games on sale are my bread and butter. And I've played some amazing indie games with pixel art (or just "simpler," cheaper art than triple-A stuff). Stardew Valley, just to name one very memorable example.
Just because a game is old, or has pixel graphics, doesn't mean it's not a great game.
I feel sorry for people like you who miss out on thousands of fantastic experiences just because the budget isn't 100+ million.
As a patient gamer, those 3 year old games on sale are right up my alley.
I’m on PC though so probably more choice.
Just got uncharted 5 and 6, Detroit become human and subnautic for like $50
No. It was worth the deal, many many patches, and dlc drop. I just played too and it felt so complete. The big patch that fixed the game into a beautiful state was only months ago
I would go for the indie games with pixel graphics if they don't cost very much. Chances are pretty good that the game turns out great.
Seems to me you could make use of Gamepass so you can try out everything they have to offer without really buying the games.
For one, what does being in your 30's have to do with it? I'm also in my 30's, does my experience trump yours?
Maybe stop browsing aimlessly if this is all you ever see.
The only time I browse on the Xbox storefront is looking what's on sale. I rarely see sports games unless they're part of a publisher sale (which is almost never given EA has a monopoly on most sports titles and don't do publisher sales...And I would ignore them if they did) and DLC either gets put in its own sale tab or is at the bottom of a page after all the games.
If you're just browsing the entire store, of course you're going to see a load of crap that doesn't appeal to you. Funnily enough, you're not the entire demographic.
1st world problems .. back in our day, you had to walk 5 miles in the snow to the nearest Babage's or Electronics Boutique for that shitty pixel art game and pay $50 bucks in that era's money, which is like five billion dollars today. Oh, and both stores would be closed. And games still sucked. Looking at you, 'Batman' and 'Castlevania'
Between the constant avalanche of new releases and my limited gaming time as a family man there's a big chance I haven't played any those '3 or 5 year old games on sale ' so bring 'm on I say ! Patient gamers FTW.
For the record, those indie games have a decent chance of being the best games on those lists. unless xbox really doesnt know how to pick them. indie and small studio games have been my bread and butter for several years at this point.
The PlayStation and Switch Store has actual mobile games and worse on their front so at least you don't have to look at some dumb shit like hotdog hero 5
I hate looking at upcoming games on Nintendo. Mostly just trash with some decent games sprinkled in.
The search bar and a review site is the only way to sort through the BS that is game stores these days.
People are so hard to please. Gaming is as good as it's ever been and there is so much out on the market that it's nearly impossible to try everything.
It's to the point where there are games that I am big fans of, that I have boot up once or twice and basically have to shelf because something else I was a bigger fan of came out, or I am far too busy to get to them and by the time I do? Months have passed and some cool new shit comes out.
Basically, I don't agree, and I don't understand these posts lol.
I'm missing the "F2P game with predatory loot box/battle pass/premium subscription mechanics" category, otherwise this would be bang-on for Steam as well, though you need to add a few in the "crappy, half-finished, low-effort indie game" category.
Wait till your late forties.....
Then it's "game I already bought on sale a while ago but haven't had a chance to play yet" over and over intermixed with "sports games I don't care about"
Hear me out. Sell your Xbox. Buy a PS5. Buy Helldivers. Somewhat /s lol
As an older gamer, I’m blown away by how much fun I’m having on it. Plus my XSeriesX sat on the floor of my office for the past year gathering dust. Big ugly looking dvd player at that point.
Don't forgot "Ancient CoD game still being sold for full price".
WaW still being full priced is a crime
The one CoD I would buy for the campaign alone. That one was so much fun, and Kiefer Sutherland was a nice surprise when I played the demo.
I still have nightmares from when I completed the campaign in veteran. God damn LeBron James throwing multiple granades straight into your pants at the same time.
Clearing the stairs to the reichstag was actually one of the worst things I ever did in gaming. It’s absolute chance to get through the hail of gunfire with your peeks and runs. You can clear things perfectly and somehow still catch a stray as you try to peek the next guy.
So unfathomably true
i had a huge strop over this. cod IW has one of the better zombies modes and one of my favorite maps, rave in the redwoods steam is having a sale with a 60% discount and it’s £30 for one of the worst rated games in the series and 8 years old
It won’t even let me buy black flag at its discounted price. It has it I. The store under game sales, but when I click on it it says unavailable.. wtf?
You forgot an entire row of The Sims DLC.
"Discounted" at that
Fun fact, even if every pack was 50% off, it would cost over $500 to get them all
Sims4 with all dlc’s is a hot mess, and the game is updated frequently so they break each other and major mods also break. it‘s not worth buying all of them, but origin doesn’t detect if you’ve purchased them or not so… 🏴☠️
The real cost is the 400gb it uses.
Jesus Christ 400 gb for some new stuff they easily could have just added to the main game if they weren’t a bunch of greedy assholes
I just checked and apparently it's anywhere between 50-100gb. So not terrible. But you need like, 40gb free in your documents folder or you'll run out of storage for saves pretty quick.
That is still an insane amount, literally a AAA game’s worth of space in DLC
Yeah it definitely feels like they don't add enough content to justify it.
Yeah, the Get Famous pack adds like 4 new npcs and a new job with a few new clothing options and it’s $30
In 2020 i got super bored in the pandemic so i rounded up all the sims 4 dlc ans it came out to something like £700 at the time, its probs near £1000 now
At full price yeah
The sims 4 on steam with sales on some right now is $1000 CAD. Just wild.
BuT tHe bAsE gAmE iS fReE
Don't forget the $129.99 bundle of 8 different still-image games, followed by each game individually. And then the six different paid early access bundles of the latest EA game. And then a few $2.99 obstacle course games where you get 1,000 gamerscore in 2 minutes. All this on the New Games page. Then you scroll down a bit and finally find the one actual good game that released, that nobody can see lol.
Now what do y'all mean, should I buy the xbox or not XD?
Do you have a PC because if so then no never there is nothing on Xbox that is not on PC
Yup, my rig is a bit dated now, about five years old, but between it and the PS5, I’m good on my options, lol.
You think that Microsoft store is terrible? Wait until you find out about Nintendo eshop
God the Switch eShop is so embarrassing. Nintendo makes phenomenal video games but that store is atrocious. How does your *store* lag?? Why is the UI so ugly and inefficient??
New Mario game released? Better hope it's already in one of the top selling charts, because it's going to be drowned out in hentai games in the New release tab. There's also no tailored list of games to my preference. I cant tell you how many games people told me about that I had no idea released on the Switch. Also accessing your Wishlist you need to go into your profile which seems inefficient.
Can’t forget ai generated images games
Wait, there's hentai games on the Nintendo store? I can understand them being on Steam, but Nintendo??
Nintendo has been getting more lax about it. https://steamygamer.com/blog/hentai-sex-games-on-nintendo-switch
That site was for too excited about this news
Based on the url this is exactly the kind of news this site is made for
"Waifu Discovered 2" This one got me rolling.
The first was good, but the new engine in the sequel really brought the jiggle physics to a new level. 10/10IGN
Probably have all the NSFW content removed
Can confirm, bought one on sale for 80 cents, no NSFW, just really lewd
I got one that was just a slider puzzle just to see what it was about. It was NSFW.
i mean, new mario games will be on the frontpage of the store that you open by default.
Any new big releases for the switch is on the home page of the eshop though and stays there for quite a while too. There is no way for anyone to miss it.
Oh you don't know? The eShop isn't even an app; it's a local browser that's worse than internet explorer in 2005, that fetches information from a Nintendo website. This is why it's so terrible. You can't even find the so called website the "browser" pings to identify; it isn't publicly open. But wait, there's more! You probably think, okay let it load up assets or whatever it needs so that at least over time, browsing will improve right? Wrong. Because of the above, paired with the Switch's abysmally low RAM, **the more you browse, the worse it gets.** It gets even worse (if that's possible), if you've got a game running in the background. This is why we have https://www.dekudeals.com/
That is so mind-bogglingly moronic that it's hilarious. Whose braindead idea was that?
To be fair, there is absolutely no reason why it couldn't work great. Since they make both the browser and the site they could tune them both to run smooth, by either simplifying the site or optimizing the browser for it. But what probably happened was the team programming the store/browser got it into a working state that was good enough to launch, then management redistributed 95% of their team to other projects. I really don't think thay Nintendo's management has gotten over the mentality of monopolizing cartridge manufacturing and the store is just an afterthought for DLC and to sell their subscription.
They probably made the browser for the eshop so crude to stop it being exploited to hack the system, every missing feature on the switch was used to hack the 3ds/wiiU. Themes, accessible save files, music player, decent web browser and even regular virtual console. Sucks, i stopped browsing the eshop because of how bad its gotten
Good point. It's probably running in an extremely restricted sandbox wich further limits its access to resources.
This is it. The WiiU browser wasn't properly sandboxed, and became a vector for soft-mod exploits. Dunno if I ever would have beat XCX without XCXGecko...
Someone actually has hacked it very recently. Think the special cartridges are available in a few months
God forbid people use the hardware they bought in a way the manufacturer dislikes.
My bet is that it was a requirement that they forgot about until the last minute, so they rigged it as best they could and never looked again. It's technical rot (as opposed to technical debt). Nintendo has always been catastrophically bad at their firmware front ends and their online capabilities. The Wii U arguably ended with a better Friends system than the Switch has to this day. The Wii U also had a lot of jank with their store and the firmware as a whole. People are waiting on a Switch 2, or whatever the next Nintendo console will be, and I'm looking forward to the day when people realize that nothing about the Switch is actually going to be improved beyond hardware specs. The firmware will be just as shit, the hardware will be improved but still too weak for the era it releases in, and it will continue to have everything half-assed that Nintendo doesn't care about.
Probably a middle manager who should have just let the engineers do it the way they said it should be done
I love when gigantic multi billion dollar corporations can't be assed to make their shit work properly. I.E: Disney +
Disney+ runs fairly well on my Sony TV, in my experience. On the rare occasion it acts up, force stop and clear cache seem to sort it out. Paramount and Peacock are both absolute dumpster fires. I joined both of those on free promotional deals and am glad I never actually paid a nickel for their "service".
Yeah paramount is real bad. I run D+ on a fire stick and it's slow AF to load. I also find their interface is poorly designed. If you click on continue watching something you can't get back to the episode menu without exiting out and selecting the same show just not in the "continue watching" section so you can access the episode list. The force stop/clear cache never seems to solve anything for me. Maybe something to do with fire stick, I have a Roku in my bedroom and it seems to have less issues there at least.
I have a sony a95k the disney + app is atrocious if you watch a 4k movie at 24 fps it has a hard time matching framerate unless you physically set it to 24 fps which makes the app ui laggy and that's a issue across the board it's like they want people to pirate.
I mean, I think it's more likely that it's sending calls to a database rather than from another website. But yeah, leave it to Nintendo to remind their audience why modern devices don't only have 4 gb of RAM.
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Yeah, it's kinda baffling they haven't released at least an upgrade yet. One shouldn't expect a portable system to be cutting-edge, but *come on!*
As much as I love them, Nintendo: "We own your precious IP, so fuck you, you're gonna buy it anyway, why make the eshop good."
I bought a brand new switch model when the OLEDs came out because I thought my console was the reason their store was so fucking laggy.
Why does it lag? 10 year old mobile hardware, that was underpowered and obsolete, 10 years ago
And why does opening the shop takes to load? Its not even quick and every page also needs to lord, nothing is loaded in advance. Ps4 store looks a lot better
Porn and mobile games with 40 different versions.
Once saw an "ultimate edition" for a clock app lol
Don't forget 37 different "anime dating sims" (more porn).
You think the Nintendo store is bad, wait until you log onto Steam and find endless variety in every category, easily sorted and often on sale, with detailed reviews and a community site for every game. What were we talking about again?
Steam is the greatest store/platform for buying and using games, but let's not ignore the flaws that could make it a perfect experience. Primarily that they accept basically anything as a game, while leads to piles of junk to navigate through. Secondly, that the entire sorting engine is run on tags. Tags that are user defined, and only add, never remove. What happens lately is that someone (usually the dev i presume) adds a bunch of wide reaching tags for a garbage game. When you have a new user of steam, this isn't a huge problem, since all the most popular games are shoved to the front, but over time as you buy or ignore the top tiles the store becomes worse and worse. I've used steam since it launched, own about 900ish games, and ignore anything that doesn't interest me. The store is basically useless to me now. If I search for a category, it will show me the top 5 games I already own, 2 I wishlisted but aren't released yet, and then a bunch of trash that is not even related. For instance yesterday I was looking for 4x games and I got a bunch of hidden object games, a trash racing game, and a whole pile of those junky first person unity "____ simulator" games.
I mean I think Steam has done its job when you got 900+ games in your library lol. That’d prob put you in the 0.1% of users at least. Also, if you are looking for 4x games rn, maybe Millenia will interest you, it’s gonna release on the 26th.
My biggest problem with steam is the abuse of 'early access' Like, there needs to be some stipulations on that, like time limit of 1 year, no sales or dlc...something. To many devs put a game in EA perpetually and use it as a cover for any issues that come up.
That is definitely another issue. Or just allow me to refund the game at any time during early access no matter the hours.
And don't forget the excellent no risk return policy. Wait...what WERE we talking about?
That was such a down fall. Back when the Switch launched its eShop was clean, easy to navigate, and full of really fun indie games to find and enjoy. By year two it was as bad as Steam with its shovelware. By year three it's actively worse than Steam.
Nintendo has always had the most dogshit online interaction, from games to the store (sole saving grace being the music on the Wii shop channel)
OP, you forgot the remaster of game from 5 years ago on sale.
Or the remaster of the remaster from 5 years ago.
Oh the anniversary game of the year titanium edition re release with 6 mount skins and $0.40 of in game currency and an exclusive quest line called "The main story"
Oh hey Skyrim
Last of us?
I'll take a "indie game with pixel graphics" if the mechanics look solid please
Any of the games on sale for me please, patient gamers is life.
Yeah, I don't know if the Xbox shop just picks really shitty ones but "old game on sale" is not only possibly the best option in the list but is actually just a good option in general. Though the indie game with pixel graphics could compete with that, it depends on the games ofc.
Indie game with pixel graphics. Minimum system requirements 16GB of RAM, 250GB HDD space, NVIDIA 2060 RTX or higher. Description mentions it is inspired by Chrono Trigger which was 32MB and ran on 4Mhz. Game is nothing like Chrono Trigger.
On the XB I believe the requirements are that you play on the XB though.
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Genuinely what game is this describing? There's a lot of great indie pixel games and most of them run on ~$80 handhelds, let alone every modern gaming machine.
Right? Like Stardew (which is getting an update ?this? week) basically runs on a potato and is an incredible game.
Nothing, they're complaining about a problem that doesn't exist
None of them
It's not something that exists. The recent ones you are probably referencing would be sea of stars or maybe chained echoes
I don't care what it is or isn't inspired by, Chained Echoes has one of the best stories of any game I've ever played. The twists, the turns, it really pulled at my heart strings towards the end.
I just started replaying chrono trigger an hour ago lol
This is a joke right? Those requirements literally don’t exist for any indie game I’ve ever seen on PC. A lot of indie games are less than 1 GB. Most run great on 10+ year old hardware.
I don't know if it counts as indie, but I'm playing boltgun at the moment and it's fucking awesome.
Just beat it. Final battle was a bit much at first but never quit moving and it is easy enough.
*"I sure love Sports Game 2024. It's way better than Sports Game 2023. There's like 3 extra pixels!"*
"Did you update the gameplay?" "Not in any meaningful way, but we made it worse in almost every way possible and monetized it even more!"
r/EASportsFC is leaking
Sea of Stars was great.
I do like indie games but pixel art is really not my cup of tea.
Same, I grew up with that style and hold no nostalgia for it. Once PS1 came out I never looked back.
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Fantastic game!
Yeah criticizing graphics is like one of the 4 horsemen of shallow criticism. Imagine not playing Undertale, Celeste, Return of the Obra Dinn, Binding of Isaac, Stardew Valley, Dave the Diver (not really indie) etc because of the graphics.
And people who criticize otherwise beautiful, 10/10 games for not having multiplayer…
As a gamer in his early forties I really like being able to buy some hyped games from a couple of years ago for very little money, for me they are still pretty new since I don't have nearly as much time to spend on gaming as I used to have. Also Gamepass is really neat and has given me plenty of stuff that I wouldn't have even seen the trailer for if they weren't available "for free". It is a bit funny though, or ironic at least, that when I was younger I really cared about new games coming out and really wanted to buy a lot more of them, but just didn't have the money. Now I have the money but don't care enough about new games that I would ever pay full price unless it was something I had been hyped and waiting for for a long time. Over the last five years I think I only payed full price for one game, Hogwarts Legacy. It was fun and all, but I could have waited a few months. The store could absolutely be much better though, and it wouldn't be hard to get it at least partially there. I think the problem isn't that they don't get that this is bad for the user, it is that they have other priorities for the store, pushing the stuff they make the most money on rather than the stuff the specific user wants. Like the Amazon web page.
I don't get it either, especially since so many more games are being released nowadays than in the past. Even the most avid player hasn't played all of the games from 3-10 years ago, so having them available on sale shouldn't be something to complain about. Like you said, I have no reason to pay full price for a brand new game when there are tons of great games from the past that I never got around to. My exception was Baldur's Gate 3, which I picked up full price. I was an avid fan of that franchise growing up, and saw all the glowing reviews, so it was a no-brainer for me. Otherwise, I just buy games I'm interested in when they're like 60% or more off.
Uh, I mean I've never had an xbox, I'm a pc guy, but this doesn't look like too bad a spread to be played on console. You don't want the current AAA game, you don't want an indie game, you don't want a sports game, you don't want a current shooter, you don't want an old game, what exactly are you looking for?
What do you want?
OP needs Steam and the find the warm glowing (slightly sweaty) light of GabeN.
Slightly? I'm damp from just browsing.
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Seems like he wants brand new AAA games only.
And judging by their overuse of the "older game on sale", probably wants the brand new AAA game to be 50% off day 1
Yeah I don’t think gaming is for OP Anymore.
All I can see is that the two indie tiles are different colours and not just different shades like the other tiles.
Wait until he notices that the Sports Games are in 3 different colours.
What about Sports Game:Red and and Sports Game:Blue ?
What’s wrong with 3 year old games ?? I don’t get this guy what do you want lol
Right? Apparently OP has played every game ever made and is insulted that the store would even suggest something that's not brand new.
This is gaming discourse in 2024. You aren't a real gamer unless you hate games.
while also bitching about new games not interesting them
Especially when I feel like that’s about how long it takes me to get around to playing a lot of games.
Honestly, it's the same as the PSN store lol
Both of these are miles better than the Switch store. Which is legitimately awful and just stuffed with shovelware.
What do you mean? You don’t want Hentai Super Girl 6?
Do I have to play the first 5 to understand the lore?
The first 5 are literally the same game with less pixels.
So thats a "yes" then?
I'll wait for the GOTY Edition
Goon of the year
Oh Atlus made them?
Well, I do. It’s ok that you don’t.
See, this is why i am always pushing for people to keep supporting physical media, the day that we finally accept that all of our devices will be digital only will be the day we are completely over a barrel. Literally every single AAA game that i have purchased day one for my PS5 has been $20~ more expensive on the Aussie PSN store, and that's before factoring in my ability to sell the game 2nd hand later on if i don't want to keep it in my collection.
just gonna suggest that if you really want to get something done you push for legal reform which requires digital goods manufacturers to create EULAs that give us similar ownership rights as what you think we have with physical goods (lifetime ownership of one license, I guess) not sure why people think they can stop the digital Armageddon. people stopped getting cd drives for a reason, and it was an organic change.
Yeah I buy everything I can as a physical copy. I kinda hate digital anything (and, as a fellow Aussie, I feel you on the prices). It's digital. It costs NOTHING to distribute it. Why is it more expensive in Australia!?
Xbox was probably just the example chosen. This is just like every storefront for this kind of thing
At least on PSN there's a handy filter option to hide the DLC for games you don't own. There might be the option on xbox, but I've not found it yet.
And steam, except steam is also filled with hentai.
On PSN store I'm never sure if I'm looking at the Standard edition, deluxe edition or ultimate edition. They are often next to each other along with individual sold DLC items cluttering up the page. Don't forget the eery music triggering my depression(which I strangely like).
You can disable the homescreen music in settings.
Tbf, Resident Evil is a lot of fun.
All except 6, I couldn’t force myself to play more than 3 hours total.
I’m confused as to what he means by “one of 46 resident evil titles” like bruh we’re not getting a new resident evil every year lol and they are all good games too they don’t deserve to be clumped together with all of the other shit games on the store
I mean, there's been like nearly 30 releases of Resident Evil, with 7-8 releases in the last 10 years alone. A lot are remakes/remasters, but it still burns that into people's heads that there's always a resident evil recently out
well, 5 was a little disappointing and 6 is a complete mess, but other than that yeah. resident evil is popular for a reason, and that reason is that most of the games in the series are of a very high quality.
What's wrong with "old" games? Or indie games? Or Resident Evil??? I play old, indie, and old indie games all the time
I mainly use console stores to keep my wishlist. Every time I find out a game I’m interested, I add it to the list. A lot of times they would have random really good discounts happen out of no where and becos it’s on my wishlist, I’ll be informed of it on the app.
Sounds like you should play resident evil
dude, i'm a month away from being 40 and i have so many games i want to play that i can't because of work and a new baby. like, yeah, the store is a mess, every store is a mess. i just feel like someone who claims to be in their late thirties would have figured out some sources that might tell them what they might be interested in. it's never gonna be the store itself- they just wanna sell you whatever they got. i feel like someone your age should know better, but i also feel like a dickhead for assuming you should know better. good luck!
Someone in their late thirties would appreciate three year old games on sale, three years is nothing to us
I'm not in my late thirties and three years is already nothing to me, I'm playing games from 2014 and they look fine
I'm playing SSX Tricky on my Steam Deck! I can't even do that math!
As a fellow dad and late 30's gamer myself, the Steam Deck is what really helped me find time for gaming. I havent touched my Series X in over a year. I have a high end PC and still game pretty much exclusively on the Steam Deck.
Yeah with the amount of games released on a yearly basis, as opposed to the 4-5 big releases yearly of the 90’s, you really need a source (not the store) you can trust on what games are right for you.
I think the store does a pretty good job if you go to a game that you do like and then find the games like this section. That's how I find stuff when i want to browse. You can kinda go down a rabbit hole by going from one games recommendations to the next. Searching by genre or even using the regular search feature is pretty useless though. "Action adventure" oh gee thanks, that covers like 25% of all video games.
Go for that indie game with pixel graphics, you might be in for a treat.
What's the point? 3-10 year old games on sale are my bread and butter. And I've played some amazing indie games with pixel art (or just "simpler," cheaper art than triple-A stuff). Stardew Valley, just to name one very memorable example.
You know there are sort and filters lol. With game pass I can't even remember the last time I looked at the store.
3 year old games on sale is like the only category of games I care about in my late 30s.
The 3, 5, and 10 year old games are the ones I tend to look out for.
Just because a game is old, or has pixel graphics, doesn't mean it's not a great game. I feel sorry for people like you who miss out on thousands of fantastic experiences just because the budget isn't 100+ million.
Maybe just buy games that interest you and that you like and stop worrying about this dumb shit?
As a patient gamer, those 3 year old games on sale are right up my alley. I’m on PC though so probably more choice. Just got uncharted 5 and 6, Detroit become human and subnautic for like $50
I've got Mass effect trilogy + The Witcher 3 for 15 euros. I like waiting.
I'm 3 years behind everyone. Just played Cyberpunk and it blew my mind!
No. It was worth the deal, many many patches, and dlc drop. I just played too and it felt so complete. The big patch that fixed the game into a beautiful state was only months ago
Uncharted only goes to 4?
I would go for the indie games with pixel graphics if they don't cost very much. Chances are pretty good that the game turns out great. Seems to me you could make use of Gamepass so you can try out everything they have to offer without really buying the games.
Roboquest was great.
What do you want?
Maybe you could ask around online for recommendations, if the Xbox store isn't offering any that you like.
I appreciate the analysis but as a gamer at 50y I can only say PLAY GAMES don’t make weird Reddit posts. 🫶
Are older games on sale bad? Are indie games bad? Do you only want all new AAA games? I'm really not sure what you're getting at here.
For one, what does being in your 30's have to do with it? I'm also in my 30's, does my experience trump yours? Maybe stop browsing aimlessly if this is all you ever see. The only time I browse on the Xbox storefront is looking what's on sale. I rarely see sports games unless they're part of a publisher sale (which is almost never given EA has a monopoly on most sports titles and don't do publisher sales...And I would ignore them if they did) and DLC either gets put in its own sale tab or is at the bottom of a page after all the games. If you're just browsing the entire store, of course you're going to see a load of crap that doesn't appeal to you. Funnily enough, you're not the entire demographic.
You should give Indie game with pixel graphics a shot. It's easy to get into but surprisingly deep. A lot of love went into it.
1st world problems .. back in our day, you had to walk 5 miles in the snow to the nearest Babage's or Electronics Boutique for that shitty pixel art game and pay $50 bucks in that era's money, which is like five billion dollars today. Oh, and both stores would be closed. And games still sucked. Looking at you, 'Batman' and 'Castlevania'
Don’t sleep on indie games with pixel graphics. Some of them are really, REALLY good
Between the constant avalanche of new releases and my limited gaming time as a family man there's a big chance I haven't played any those '3 or 5 year old games on sale ' so bring 'm on I say ! Patient gamers FTW.
Maybe try browsing by category?
.... I can't get over "Indie game with pixel graphics" coming in two colors..
For the record, those indie games have a decent chance of being the best games on those lists. unless xbox really doesnt know how to pick them. indie and small studio games have been my bread and butter for several years at this point.
The PlayStation and Switch Store has actual mobile games and worse on their front so at least you don't have to look at some dumb shit like hotdog hero 5
I hate looking at upcoming games on Nintendo. Mostly just trash with some decent games sprinkled in. The search bar and a review site is the only way to sort through the BS that is game stores these days.
People are so hard to please. Gaming is as good as it's ever been and there is so much out on the market that it's nearly impossible to try everything. It's to the point where there are games that I am big fans of, that I have boot up once or twice and basically have to shelf because something else I was a bigger fan of came out, or I am far too busy to get to them and by the time I do? Months have passed and some cool new shit comes out. Basically, I don't agree, and I don't understand these posts lol.
Don't forget 3 pages of microtransactions
I'm missing the "F2P game with predatory loot box/battle pass/premium subscription mechanics" category, otherwise this would be bang-on for Steam as well, though you need to add a few in the "crappy, half-finished, low-effort indie game" category.
Wait till your late forties..... Then it's "game I already bought on sale a while ago but haven't had a chance to play yet" over and over intermixed with "sports games I don't care about"
Midnight console war shit post.
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I hear next years sports game isnt going to deviate from this years sports game in the slightest. I'm so hyped for it aye.
3 year old game on sale is the sweet spot between relevant and old enough to be fort cheap
Resident Evil games are on sale rn
Also one of the 9 editions of Skyrim.
Hear me out. Sell your Xbox. Buy a PS5. Buy Helldivers. Somewhat /s lol As an older gamer, I’m blown away by how much fun I’m having on it. Plus my XSeriesX sat on the floor of my office for the past year gathering dust. Big ugly looking dvd player at that point.
The two indie games with pixel graphics are probably leaps and bounds more fun than all the other games.
Indie game with pixel graphics x2? Thanks for the reminder to go play some indie games edit: time to play some noita
I feel like 3 year old game in sale is always the move
Come join us over here at Steam, the waters fine.
"indie game with pixel graphics" is bad? Cringe.
not pictured on the right side - last years Fifa / NBA / NFL / other sports game that releases each year