While there are definitely a lot of broken stuff on early access, Darkest Dungeon is certainly not one of them. You could buy it now and not even notice it's not a finished product apart from the last dungeon not being available.
I don't blame you though. You have the right mindset. It's better to be safe than sorry.
Don't base your purchases on metacritic or scores in general. Read/watch the reviews and decide for yourself if it's something that's worth YOUR time and money. The game might not be for everyone but I'm sure there are a lot of people who will still have a blast playing through it.
I don't think the hard part is how to make the world big (look at just cause 2) but rather how to make it look good.
Just make the world interesting to explore and I won't care as much about its size anyway.
QTEs can be annoying if there are too many of them IMO. Insta-fail moments are also often frowned upon. I remember fighting a hard boss in Bayonetta 1 and nearly defeating it with close to no health left only to be killed by an out of nowhere QTE. I dunno, it just feels cheap at times if not implemented well.
Instead of scores, just add a tl;dr at the end in order to satisfy the people who quickly wants to know if the game is simply good or not.
No one expected the Master Chief collection to be broken either. Even the best games can end up being disappointments and there is no way of knowing when it will happen.
If you can wait ~2 years for a game to come out then you should be able to wait an extra day just to be 100% sure you're not throwing your money away. A tiny bit of extra content is rarely worth anything if the base game is horrible.
I don't blame people who preorder though. I get wha...
If you think that playing a game on day one is worth risking 60 bucks for then go right ahead. High risk with hardly any reward IMO.
AC: Unity (or 2014 in general) is a prime example for why you shouldn't do it. The review embargo for that game was even lifted AFTER it was out.
Well they DID say they were going for a filmic experience harharhar.
I highly doubt this is true.
Don't assume I think making threats is okay. I told you why I think this is happening and how I think it can be prevented. That's it.
Disagreeing with Wu (or Anita I guess) doesn't automatically make anyone a bad person. Seriously, get that idea out of your head and maybe people can have an adult discussion about the subject of sexism in gaming without it having to turn into a massive sh*tstorm.
The reason why trolls are harassing her is not because she's a woman. It's because she keeps feeding them with all this drama. They want this reaction. "Don't feed the trolls" is quite literary the first rule of the internet. Call me a victim blamer or whatever but that's the harsh truth. A lot of people get hate on the internet and there is only one way to prevent it from getting worse - ignoring it as much as you can.
The reason why GG has stayed alive for so long (and still going strong) has a lot to do with it being leaderless. There is no clear target for the opposition to aim for.
There are of course also downsides to it as well like you said. Still, I wouldn't call GG "doomed". With all the recent ethics policy changes I'd say GG has already won.
I'm slowly getting more hyped for this. It looks like a very competent 3rd person shooter and it's been a while since I played one of those. I've said it before and I'll say it again, I'm really looking forward to seeing the reviews for this.
I've never played any of these before and I don't know much about them but now when I have a Wii U I might look more into this one. The environments look really cool IMO despite having pretty low res textures.
Man, there's so much speculation surrounding this game and many different opinions on the small parts we've been shown. It's not often I'm this excited for reviews to come out. I hope the game ends up spectacular of course.
Photogrammetry! Stunning graphics confirmed.
Well, if the textures res hadn't been quadrupled it wouldn't have been increased at all so I bloody well hope so :) A 512x512 texture will be increased to 1024x1024 and so on.
Way too many people think that disliking third wave feminism = misogyny. In many cases it's quite the opposite. Just compare Anitas videos with the ones from CH Sommers. A lot of people (myself included) think that Anita's only reinforcing the idea that women are victims while Sommers is focusing more on strength and empowerment by using actual FACTS. In return third wavers call her "anti feminist" and other more derogatory words.
It's also worth noting ...
Keeping your expectations low can be a good thing. I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than utterly disappointed.
I'm usually pretty pessimistic when it comes to PS+ but this month is amazing! It's nice to see a high profile PS4 game in there as well.
4 = slightly below average. He says so in the video. People always complain about how 7/10 is the new average these days but at the same time there will also be people who complain when reviewers don't do that...