• Sordid@beehaw.org
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    8 months ago

    I’ve had a similar experience with a lot of early-access games. They always end up disappointing, and I’ve come to realize it’s because the fun comes not just from playing the game and watching it develop and improve but also in equal part from expectations. It’s easy to look at an unfinished game and imagine what it could be in the future, and those fantasies inevitably exceed what is actually feasible to put into the game. I try to steer clear of early-access games now.

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      8 months ago

      I don’t mind early access, but in also not tripping over myself to play them.

      If the game is fun as it stands, then awesome. Anything extra is the cherry on top.

      If the game feels half baked and like it’s missing all sorts of stuff, then naw. A game like that is just abusing it’s early access status. Trying to sell itself on the promise of what’s to come.

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        8 months ago

        What about games that become less fun as their development goes along? That’s another thing I’ve noticed with some early-access games whose early versions were more… concentrated, for lack of a better term. If there’s progression involved, it tends to go pretty quickly in early versions. Development then doesn’t change how the game plays or where the progression begins and ends, instead it just adds padding between the fun bits and makes everything take longer. Ever encounter a game like that?

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          8 months ago

          In those cases, as long as I got my moneys worth with the amount of time I invested in the game, then Im at least breaking even. But either way, Im not really spending much time on early access games. They really gotta be compelling to lure me in…