I suppose Baldur’s Gate 3 could be an example for a lot of people. Any recent or just “recent” release you are waiting for to get at the moment?
I’m a big Larian fan and D&D enjoyer, so I made an exception for BG3 since I knew I’d be sinking hundreds of hours easily into that game :P
I just picked up Moonlighter for like 3 bucks so that’s my next adventure.
Cyberpunk 2077 comes to mind with the Phantom Liberty DLC being around the corner. Also waiting out on Starfield to see how it goes, Fallout 3 and New Vegas have a special place in my heart but Bethesda has had a lot of misses for me since then.
The Expanse: A Telltale Series
I see it has been received well but I’m avoiding all details and waiting for all episodes to be released.
My friend was the motion capture actress for the main character in this game! Her job is so much cooler than mine…
I was a patient reader and just finished the last Expanse book last weekend (it was fantastic). Now I’m having to work very hard to remain patient for this game. I may buy it just to support the franchise and play it on my own time later.
Oh so many!
- Cyberpunk 2077
- Elden Ring
- God of War Ragnarok
- Hogwarts Legacy
- Jedi Survivor
- Horizon Forbidden West Burning Shores
- Baldur’s Gate 3 (though it’s not on consoles yet …
I’ve a huge backlog that I’m chipping through one by one, and thse games are only going to get better with patches or cheaper with sales, I can wait for that and reduce my backlog at the same time :D
Bout cyberpunk 2077 for $20 three months ago.
Still buggy. It was okay. Lots of boring combat. But the story, acting, and world? Amazing! I had to use a mod to help change some of the hotkeys.
After 25 hours… Update broke my save.
Id say keep waiting until 2025 when the GoTY is released and fanpatches exist.
BG3 is the only game I’ve bought at launch price in my life. No regrets, what an amazing job from Larian.
+1 for God of war ragnarock, no ps5 here so I’ll be waiting for steam release. I just played the prequel this year anyways so I can wait
- Tears of the Kingdom - I thought BoTW was fun, but not as fun as older Zelda games; I’ll probably get it eventually, but I want to pay $40 or less
- The Great War: Western Front - still seems pretty buggy, so I’ll wait a bit for patches
- Victoria 3 - I love Paradox games, but they seem to need a few years to get good
- Mount & Blade: Bannerlord - still getting patches and some new content, so I’ll keep waiting
- Starfield - undoubtedly going to be buggy, so I’ll be waiting at least a few months, if not years, after launch to get it
I’m actually considering getting BG3 soon, once I get a few days to play a lot of it. It looks like a solid launch, so I’m happy to pay a bit more for something high quality. I hope they continue to work on it and maybe provide content heavy DLC at some point.
Mount & Blade II is frustrating for me. I’m just not good enough at the combat to play on the front lines and I’m a shit commander trying to organize my troops in battle.
Basically i just play the exploration and management side and auto-resolve the combats :/
Doing the tournaments is a good way to practice combat.
Actually I’m half decent at one on one and the small melees. But once it’s a ‘real’ fight I get so sweaty palmed lol
Maybe I should try a console controller instead of mouse & kb?
I never tried it with a controller it seems like that would make it harder to manage your army. As for the bigger fights I usually try to get my army positioned first with my archers on a hill or across a river or something from them and then put my infantry in front of the archers to block them. Then I lead my Calvary to go provoke the enemy to come at them. Usually that works pretty well or at least lets me put a big dent in their calvary which gives you a decent advantage when they don’t have one because you can get behind them and wreck their archers.
This strategy works most of the time with minimal casualties
Okay I’ll give a shot! Thanks
Your comment is why Im still waiting.
I bought Victoria 3 shortly after release and it’s frustrating how long it’s taking. It clearly has the potential to be a great game, but there’s still so much to be done.
On the other hand, a buddy and I got into Victoria 2 a few months ago and it’s been a blast. A bit clunky at first but it’s so easy to map paint with a friend in vanilla
Starfield. Too expensive at release and likely to be buggy
Same. But add not having anything able to efficiently run it at a satisfactory level at the moment.
Granblue Fantasy Versus since they’re coming out with Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising in November. I’m not in a rush since I have Street Fighter 6, and Guilty Gear Strive had a big update recently as well.
Diablo 4. I’m gonna wait quite a while for this one I think. Firstly I’m not willing to pay the price it is right now but mostly because the game needs to get better. It took a long time for Diablo 3 to turn in to a decent game.
Starfield. I’ll definitely be giving this one at least a year, probably more. I’m expecting it to be riddled with bugs at release, possibly even borderline unplayable.
Personally I can’t wait to play Starfield so I can explore the same caves as in Fallout and Skyrim, and watch the familiar NPC animations they’ve used for fifteen years while paying $70 for the privilege of main quest breaking bugs
I can’t wait to find out what generalizations they’ve been using to lie by omission and what game mechanics don’t exist as the hype train believes them to be.
Bought Diablo 4 because how impressed I was at their Stress Test.
It’s okay and I go through bouts of Buyers Remorse and “Well Blizzard games rarely go on sale”.
I loved Diablo 2. And thought Diablo 3 expansion was pretty fun and arcade-y, but not what I wanted. Diablo 4 is right between the two but it just doesn’t suck me in for hundreds of hours. And I should have known. D2’s & D3’s expansion was when the game went real good. And maybe the same will happen for D4.
Hate to say it, but wait for PoE2.
Diablo 4 at launch was decent. It’s been downhill since. The first patch sucked. The next patch (season 1) walked back half the changes, so it wasn’t terrible, but it wasn’t fun. Waiting on season 2. Contemplating POE.
BG3 too Bust mostly cause of the two things I saw
- A couple years ago, the intro cinematic, which was a tentacle spaceship flown by cuthulu
- And the beastiality “joke”
The game made it kinda easy for me to be patient for the inevitable “GOTY” edition
Mind flayers (the “Cthulhu”) are prominent bad guys in DnD, super popular. They’re canonically aberrations from a different realm, so they’re designed to be freaky Lovecraft aliens. Idk if you’re saying BG3 looks weird or crazy, but aliens and spelljammer space-ship like things are established canon in DnD, the source material.
im not entirely new to Dnd and im well aware that BG IS DnD, but i have never seen nor heard of the tentacle boys before, nor alien spaceships, ever
but my second point is like 80% of my apprehension
What beastiality joke are you referring to? I’ve been playing BG3 and nothing comes to mind
the druid dude transforming to a bear “sex” scene (not like i favor cringy sex scenes in games to being with but thats almost besides the point)
Saints Row. I don’t see it being a possibility but I have this false hope that volition will bounce back and give a good game.
Cyberpunk 2077. Waiting for the complete police overhaul to play the game. Have not played it yet.
Volition needs to reboot Freespace and/or Descent.
They need to reboot their studio 😭. The entire team feels like they have no direction and trying too hard to stay afloat
Saints Row. I don’t see it being a possibility but I have this false hope that volition will bounce back and give a good game.
Well, that aged badly.
😭😭😭😭😭
I’ve been waiting for tears of the kingdom. I know the game won’t go on sale by a lot, so I’ll just wait for a good deal at my local swap meet.
Factorio, waiting for the sale that will never come
Didn’t the Dev say it’s never going to go on sale ever? Or was that the joke and I missed it
it has gone on sale once but it’s not often
I might be thinking of the Rimworld dev
Nah you were right. Factorio devs have gone on record saying that they’ll never put their game on sale. Something to the effect that it lowers the value of the players who bought it earlier. That said, before it reached 1.0 it was cheaper. The closer to release the higher the price had gone. Think I got it way back when it was $20.
It has not, that I’m aware of
They literally said that?
Dark and Darker, it’s out on Chaff games but with their legal troubles I’m not sure I wanna give them my money and risk the game getting taken down again.
I really want Armored Core 6 after seeing gameplay but my budget is tight right now. Also itching for BG3 but I have owned BG1 EE for years so finally playing that, and also just bought BG2 EE last night on steam for $6 so those will hopefully hold me over a while.
And then there’s MK1 coming out soon but I know that’ll eventually be packaged with all the Kombat packs for cheap in a few years so holding off there too.
Well, I already have it, Quake 2. I haven’t played yet cause I’m trying to get a couple friends to coop our first go.
Was in the military when Quake came out, so it’s one if the few true classics I get to play now for the first time.
