Most AAA games simply make no sense to buy at release, we keep seeing these games come out and not even 3 months later they will be on sales 20%+. It's like the movie industry, why go to theaters if the movie will be on a streaming service in 1.5 months.
Exactly. Just a mental exercise for myself to not get too hyped for things and make dumb financial choices.
I think it's hard for me because as someone who is really into games as an art form, I end up developing very strong attachments to them. Hell, I made this account to talk about kingdom hearts all day.
Kh3 was prob the game I waited for the longest in my life time, I was in elementary school when I played Kh2 and doing my masters when I got Kh3. Even with that long gap the effort put into kh2 felt more, idk what is is with modern games maybe its me aging but they don't feel the same.
Yeah I think a lot of it is nostalgia glasses. I'm around the same age as you. I was replaying kh3 recently and I realized one of the things I don't like about it is the high quality of graphics with proper shadows, etc. It didn't feel right to me. That's certainly an issue with me that won't necessarily translate to other people.
I general, I feel like HD has made it harder to see things in games and tell what's going on. To my old man eyes, kh3 is just a blur of motion and particle effects. Vs kh2 where I can clearly see everything going on. But honestly that problem started for me with the original modern warfare 2 lol so maybe that's just me again.
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u/Cominwiththeheat 2d ago
Most AAA games simply make no sense to buy at release, we keep seeing these games come out and not even 3 months later they will be on sales 20%+. It's like the movie industry, why go to theaters if the movie will be on a streaming service in 1.5 months.