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Gabe Newell on why game delays are okay: 'Late is just for a little while. Suck is forever.' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[-] Hubi@feddit.de 149 points 7 months ago

Interesting spin on the "A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad"-quote.

[-] MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world 68 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

These quotes are from a time when games were stamped into hard plastic and circuitry. No Man's Sky and Cyberpunk are two examples of games with rocky launches that are both amazing now. Saying a game is forever bad simply isn't true anymore provided the makers stand behind the product.

[-] e-ratic@kbin.social 34 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

NMS is better since release but saying it's amazing now is a bit of an embellishment. At its core it's the same game with all the fundamental issues it always had, there's just more fluff added on.

[-] jaspersgroove@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I mean, IMO it’s good enough to get your moneys worth out of it, its a hell of a lot of fun actually. It’s just that the main storyline is relatively short and the gameplay loop after completing the main story is not engaging enough to make it one of those games that you end up sinking 500+ hours into. To me that puts it in the same tier as Subnautica.

[-] Morgoon@startrek.website 4 points 7 months ago

Out of all my VR games almost none make it into double digits playtime (notable exceptions, Beat Saber and Boneworks) but I have logged hundreds of hours in NMS VR. No other VR experience comes close in terms of content.

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Same goes for Cyberpunk 2077 tbh.

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