• RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Wow, if I ignored everything that was posted outside of Lemmy, I would have thought this was a great game that everyone should be buying.

    Good thing I knew this would flop. Its especially funny considering Outlaws’ marketing campaign was Ubisoft most expensive marketing campaign ever.

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      2 months ago

      I bought it on PS5 and I’m having fun playing it. Sure, it doesn’t do anything new, the gameplay is very familiar and the enemy AI is dumb as rocks, but you get to play in the Star Wars universe, the locations look great and the story so far seems decent enough (although I’m not that far into the game yet).

      Not every meal needs to be a 3 Michelin star gourmet affair, sometimes having a Big Mac with fries is perfectly fine.

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        2 months ago

        Not every meal meeds to be a 3 Michelin star gourmet affair, sometimes having a Big Mac with fries is perfectly fine.

        I don’t think you really understand what you’re saying because this is an even bigger insult to Outlaws than anything I have ever said about the game.

        Imagine a food served by a restaurant claiming to have 4 Michelin stars (Outlaws is a AAAA game -made up thing just like 4 Michelin stars- afterall) being compared to a Big Mac. That’s hilarious.

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        2 months ago

        This is a $70 game with a ‘season pass’ and the ultimate edition is $130. That’s hardly big mac price.

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          2 months ago

          For me it was €79 (gotta love that VAT).

          Still, considering the hours of entertainment I’ll get out of it, the price-per-hour feels reasonable to me compared to other forms of entertainment.

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            2 months ago

            What can I say, value is subjective, but at least to me it’s not what I would describe as Big Mac pricing.

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            2 months ago

            What about compared to other video games?

            Edit: even putting hundreds into rocket league its still a better deal, so how does this game add up to a good deal?

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              2 months ago

              If this game takes me 40 hours to complete at a price point of $70 that’s $1.75 an hour to be entertained. That’s not bad value at all IMO. And seeing how I’ll prob take longer doing side missions and such I see that going to under a dollar an hour. Not a ton you can do on a rainy day that will keep you entertained for less than that.

              It seems to line up with a lot of other open world games for me. I’m not saying this is an amazing value, I just don’t see it as a bad value.

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                2 months ago

                Yeah thats fair, although ubisoft tends to slash the price of their games very quickly, but thats not to say its still not worth it now for you.

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      2 months ago

      Opposite experience for me. Outside of lemmy, it seems people actually like it. I was destroyed by downvotes for simply suggesting that it’s a nuanced topic to flame a game on its day one release.

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      2 months ago

      The sad part is that it’s a fun game. The company rep and horrible pricing structure set them up for failure. Release this on steam for $60 and I think it would do great. It doesn’t have all the Ubisoft BS like tons of micro transactions or a million map icons. It was a really good direction shift that they just wouldn’t let succeed.