Here’s some on my list:
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Red Dead Redemption 2 - I do not want to deal with the Rockstar Games launcher.
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Tom Clancy’s Breakpoint - The game’s add-on packs feel like Ubisoft is trying to nickel and dime gamers who would instinctively buy the GOTY equivalent of a title. I do not want to deal with a Ubisoft launcher or account.
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Zombi - According to the Steam reviews it required a Uplay login to validate the game before you play and that version of the Ubisoft service no longer exists. This seems to have been rectified but I still don’t trust it and don’t want to go through the refund process if it hasn’t.
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Skyrim VR - I’ve already bought too many copies of Skyrim.
A bit of a “this is why I pirate” thread but more targeted at individual games.
I was gonna buy the foundation game, so I checked out the pirated version (fitgirl repack) first. Seems like it doesn’t run quite as well on my laptop. Had to play in low settings to be bearable.
saved some money, ig. There’s always next sale.
I really got impatient last year and just decided to pirate games left and right.
I got Balatro, Iron Meat, Marvel vs Capcom Fighting Collection, MMPR: Rita’s Rewind, Sea of Stars, Scott Pilgrim, Shadows of Doubt, Bit Trip ReRunner, Xenotilt and Castlevania Advance Collection.
I mean, it just feels like I’m seeing the same prices, every. damn. year. I’m sorry but I thought the point was mind-staggeringly good deals, not stagnated deals. And most of the games that are on sale, are games I don’t particularly care for. While everything on my wishlist, stagnates, regardless of how old the game becomes.
A couple of Sony games because they don’t want to sell them in my country 🤷 They leave no other choice but to pirate them.
Ghost of Tsushima is well worth pirating!
a few weeks ago I have seen watchdogs legion in a few streams an liked it. Recently it had a sale (maybe now again) but saw that it uses denuvo, the ubisoft launcher and that it needs a ubisoft account. no thank you. I’ll rather pirate it and be reassured that it’ll have less malware in it
I’m not giving America any of my money right now.
As an American i wish i could do the same.
I guess you can only support the least-fascist-right-now countries as much as you can?
Other than GOG is there even any other storefronts that don’t give you a steam key that aren’t American?
Tangentially related but I was browsing the list of Steam curators and I was surprised by how many of them are dedicated to discouraging people from buying games from specific countries.
X4 Foundations Community of Planets Edition. Got it on GOG instead which was cheaper due to local prices. This is quite rare since usually it’s the other way around.
I won’t buy any paradox games because they invariably end up with 100 DLCs each
They also support their games for over a decade.
Also you can buy the base games and then just pirate the dlc. All dlc can be downloaded off of cs.rin.ru forums. I do this because modding the games through workshop is just worth the price.
Then you run creamapi to unlock the dlc.
No need to buy them.
And for all the money you spend on a Paradox game, you end up with something that feels like a half-finished beta.
It only feels like if you’ve played the previous, fully loaded $500 of DLC version.
On that note, absolutely steal Stellaris and its DLC.
I remember my first game of Stellaris many years ago - I had bought some pack that included some of the DLC out at the time. The crisis was bugged so that even after I beat the crisis and wiped it from the galaxy, the game didn’t recognize that I had done so which left the game unbeatable. This was my first playthrough, no mods or anything like that, and I hit a game-breaking bug.
I played quite a bit of Stellaris as it was (still is?) a fun game, but I am more of a casual gamer and every time I picked the game up again they had changed at least one major mechanic, and there was yet another DLC out if you wanted the full experience. Encountering bugs in a play through was common, and game breaking ones would still pop up from time to time. Finally I just got fed up, especially for the cost of some of the pricier DLC you can buy a game like Factorio which is a much better value.
So at this point I’m done with Paradox. I suppose if I really had the urge to play Stellaris again I’d find something out on the high seas, but there’s enough other, better polished, games out there to keep me busy.
Studio fan death by 1000 papercuts.
This is where I’ve gotten to with their games as well. I love them, but tired of it basically becoming an MMORPG DLC subscription.
Most of the game genres they excel at are the type I like buying and playing because they are complete from day one, and you maybe get 1 to 3 DLCs. Like movies, the trilogy (original game and two nice DLCs) is the sweet spot.
Stellaris got insane and most of the individual races should have been bundled somehow into larger expansion packs.
Anything with DRM. I refuse to put up with it anymore.
Including Steam DRM?
Depends what you mean, Steam is not DRM, most of the game is sells don’t have DRM. However Steam API has a DRM feature that developers can use of they choose to.
So what do you mean?
then why can’t i download an installer without using their client?
because the game itself wants to load the steamapi program library and connect to the steam client. but there is no encryption or other heavy protection involved. grab a steamemu (like the famous goldberg emu), install it for the game (basically copy/replace a file) and done
Most of the games Steam sells are also shovelware.
Major releases typically use at least Steam DRM, and Steam itself only mentions if 3rd party DRM is included. So in most cases, you can’t know if a game uses Steam DRM until after you’ve installed it.
I got fed up with Rockstar Launcher so I got myself a cracked version of Red Dead 2 a few days and I can’t believe I put up with that goddamn launcher for as long as I did.
Next up I’ll be trying the Red Dead Redemption remake/remaster.
I’ve had such a hard time managing to get these games specifically because I’m new to the games side of things. If it’s not against the rules/ you don’t mind answering, which site on the megathread did you use to get it?
I mean pretty much anything from EA, Ubisoft, 2K, Blizzard/Microsoft, Xbox, Rockstar, etc.
I did actually end up buying a Sony game after they dropped the account-linking requirement.
Prince of Persia The Lost Crown looks like a banger, but I am unwilling to spend any amount money on it until Ubi gets the memo and strips Denuvo from it (at least outside of the launch window).
I’ve wanted to try out NFS Unbound for a while now, it regularly goes down to single digit prices but I’d rather eat shit than install an EA launcher on my machine.
I got caught out by RDR2, tried playing it a few evenings ago, even signed up for a crappy Rockstar account only to be greeted by the “this game is registered to another account” message. Screw them
Got this when I went to play fucking Max Payne 3 a few months ago. Why the hell does a 10 year old name need a rockstar account and why is it such a pain in the dick to restore access? It was easier to just pirate the fucking game and actually own it.
The assassin’s creed games because of Uplay being a pain on linux.
I had no problem playing Origins through Heroic Launcher.
Lol I was trying to play Dragon Age games a couple months ago, and the EA app is so terrible that I couldn’t get them to run on windows. But on Linux in the proton sandbox? No problem, worked right out of the box. 😂😂
Apparently the next one wont require uplay (on steam) and will be supported on linux. I’m still not interested in it because of the trend of assassins creed becoming supermassive open world RPGs but it would be nice if it became a trend.
Assassin’s Creed died a long time ago. The skinwalkers can’t compare.
I liked Origins, but not as an Assassins creed game. I’d say Assassins Creed died with Syndicate.
Absolutely this. I have to admit I’m seeing some things I like in Shadows much more akin to what we should have been having for the past decade but I just don’t trust Ubisoft anymore and even on Deaths’ door they can’t let the corpo scummery go and I refuse to have Uplay or Denuvo infect my computer so I’ll not play it until it’s been broken.
I played Anno 1800 with Proton a week or two ago and it worked just fine… I didn’t have to log in, I just exited Uplay when it popped up and the game still worked.
Dunno if that’s the case for all Uplay games or if I got lucky.
Red Dead Redemption 2
RDR2 went on sale for $20 a couple of months back which was about what I was willing to pay for it, so I grabbed it then. I tried playing it and it’s just boring. WAY too much riding around on horses just getting to the next bit of action or story. I dropped it and doubt I’ll ever get back to it.
I knew this was a horse riding simulator and I had zero interest. like, how did that sneak up on you?
fuck the guy who thought fast travel is bad for immersion
Fast travel is a bit hidden in that game. You have to upgrade the boss’s tent to unlock it.
I did get far enough to unlock fast travel, but it’s extremely limited to the point of uselessness.
