• HuddaBudda@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I haven’t preordered a game since fallout 76.

    I have yet run across a pre-order where I have regretted it either.

    Most of the time, you wait 3 months or a year for PlayStation,

    • all the bugs are fixed,
    • game play has been thoroughly tested by $90 beta tester whales who pay for the privilege.
    • It’s on sale
    • Wait long enough, even with the DLC
    • If it is a good enough game, it will survive the test of time (Elden Ring), and if it doesn’t you didn’t miss anything important.
    • tal@lemmy.today
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      1 year ago

      Players will also typically have done the work of putting together a wiki.

      How important that is varies by game, but it can be pretty nice. For many roguelikes, having the mechanisms more-fully-documented can be important in making decisions about how to build out a character, for example.

      Also, while I suppose this is less of a factor on console, and the impact varies a lot on a per-game basis, players will have often made mods. They don’t even have to be huge things either – but fixing the one quality-of-life thing that has been driving both you and the modders nuts can be awfully nice.