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Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 days ago by BurntWits@sh.itjust.works to c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works

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[–] duchess@feddit.org 10 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I will probably play it, but this is not patient at all.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I have confessed my sins previous weeks so I forgot about adding a disclaimer about the same game this week. You can't be patient all the time, sometimes it's fun to participate in the zeitgeist. This game is good enough to merit it, it's not even a full price game to begin with and they even had a release week sale.

I'll be back to the regularly scheduled programming soon enough. I have my Mankind Divided playthrough to return to and I have already installed F.E.A.R. as my next game.

[–] Ashtear@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Price isn't the only consideration with patient gaming, there are also features and bugs to think about. It's a good game, but there are lingering issues--softlocks (brutal in a game without manual saves), crashes, and especially sound problems--that I think would warrant patience for some players, especially on PC.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 1 points 1 day ago

I haven't heard about the soft lock, but the game keeps rolling autosaves for quite a while. I can usually go back a couple of hours, so unless it's one of those things where you don't realise you've been soft locked until way later you should be okay.

I'm with you in general, and I'm typically a patient gamer. However, sometimes you just want to be part of the conversation, even if it means eating a bug or crash or two. I played Elden Ring on release day a couple of years ago and it was an amazing experience to discover the game alongside everyone else back when the wikis weren't even filled out. I also played BG3 on release and while it was objectively a way worse experience than playing it now would be, it was still worth it to me to be able to participate in the whole world talking about that game for a couple of months proceeding its release.