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A gaming community free from the hype and oversaturation of current releases, catering to gamers who wait at least 12 months after release to play a game. Whether it's price, waiting for bugs/issues to be patched, DLC to be released, don't meet the system requirements, or just haven't had the time to keep up with the latest releases.

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With the news of the latest Assasins Creed day 1 Denuvo patch. This community just keeps proving itself. Be Patient. (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by Atomic@sh.itjust.works to c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works

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When will people learn? Seriously. They keep touching fire and act equally surprised every time they get burned.

No Man's Sky. (Great now but holy hell was it a shit show)

Cyberpunk

Diablo IV

Far Cry 6

StarField

And now this latest Assasins Creed: Mirage.

Probably forgetting plenty of recent releases too that just faded into nothingness.

Personally, I'll be starting Batman Arkham Asylum this weekend. Heard it was pretty good. Should keep me busy for a while.

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[–] AdmiralShat@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

At this point I really only watch ACG, he seems the most honest out of them all.

Seems like most reviews are afraid to say bad stuff about a game until the general consensus has turned against it.

They make money from this, and I think many feel they'll be locked out of getting review copies if they don't "play ball" with these companies.

[–] yote_zip@pawb.social 3 points 1 year ago

I pretty much only watch Mortismal Gaming at the moment, who 100%'s every game before reviewing it, but I think with a strategy like that you're highly biased into playing games you're already going to enjoy, so it's not great at finding which games are bad. I believe he has also quit games in the past if he was not enjoying them, and then didn't review them as a result.

I think there are also other reasons that reviews trend positive - it's probably better for ad revenue/engagement to prey on people's hopes that a game is good, and people like for their purchases/prepurchases to be validated. Not as many people will stick around through a 30 minute review of nonstop negativity.

[–] stardust@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

I like Steam forums for PC games, since they are the ones who pick up things like game having mouse issues or lack of fov options. So many reviewers completely ignore that aspect. Even ones like digital foundry might be technical, but it's only for performance and graphics.

Actual pc gameplay quality is one users have been more informative on making me a lot of my times go wow none of these reviewers must use a mouse and keyboard, or they just copy paste their console review to the PC.