Topic is very simple: There are many western games coming nowadays that are plain unfun, boring, or shoved with ugly people and certain politics. TLOU 2receiving GOTY was a joke. Is there a game, if any, coming from the west, that you are kinda hopeful about?
Some of the western games I enjoyed playing this year were Deep Rock, Synthetik, Desperados 3, Children of Morta, Satisfactory and Hitman 2, though they are hardly recent. I’m kinda hopeful about Hitman 3 but I heavily dislike the “always online” game model.
What about you guys, though?
Also, to mods, add a gaming/ geek culture tag or whatever. Options here are limited as it is.
Speaking purely from Vanilla and not Redux experience, the second Metro was so bad I couldn't even pretend to care about the third. The being Epic fiasco certainly did not help.
If bugs were your issue then they are all cleared up in the redux. And in fairness to the devs it was entirely people above them forcing unrealistic expectations which made it bad. Like it got to the point where they had to smuggle equipment into their country to get the job done.
It was not bugs but the entire genre and thematic shift. It went from slow, anxiety inducing horror FPS to fast-paced action FPS with scary elements. I finally realized why it felt off when Khan, a calm spiritual man in the first game, was screaming at me like a madman in the second. Same with generic "baby makes the world less awful" plot often seen in apocalypse games, though this one was at least a monster baby.
These are all intentional changes that I cannot imagine they had zero control over, though it is unfortunate to hear how much struggle they had to go through. Its not like its an incompetently bad game, just a massive step down from the first.
And while I'm told Redux is a much better game, expecting people to buy bug fixes (at the time both were on the store and you only got a small discount for owning the original) is quite greedy. Metro 2033 was old enough to be somewhat valid as an updated version, but Last Light was barely collecting dust when they wanted me to buy it again.
Well, the redux version also includes a more 2033-esque "survivor" mode which makes ammunition scarcer and enemies tougher.
Mind you the redux versions go down to like $3 every steam sale so might be worth a try.