Deathloop

_CreeD_ wrote: »

That trailer is just pre-rendered cutscene, no gameplay, why would anyone be talking pre-order at this stage? Not aimed at you personally OP, we see this year after year especially after E3 and it's a pet peeve, we need to stop perpetuating and feeding marketing vapour. I do like that studio also btw and will likely follow this but right now there's nothing here.

To be fair, I never said anything about pre-ordering, I don't pre-order games. I said it's a day 1 buy as in literally to be purchased on day 1 so that it's subject to reviews beforehand. That means if it reviews poorly or if the reviews mention anything about technical issues I won't get it until it's at a much cheaper price a year later.

I generally don't buy games until 1 or 2 years after release when the patch cycle has stopped and I haven't bought a game at launch since Assassin's Creed Odyssey (which imo was better at launch than it is now due to some weird patching issues). I've recently purchased Far Cry 5 and No Man's Sky only this year. The former came out over 1 year ago and the latter 3 years ago. I avoided both despite the hype and waited for patches and as a result I really enjoyed Far Cry 5 and I'm about to start No Man's Sky Next. Even Red Dead 2 I got several months after so didn't experience any bugs or game breaking issues with the single player portion.

However, this is Arkane studio. I've loved - not liked - LOVED their previous work and just got the plat for Dishonoured 2 after playing the campaign 3 times and I want to play it another 7 or 8 times. The devs behind Deathloop are the same people behind Dishonoured 2 and have described Deathloop as this:

Explore stunning environments and meticulously designed levels in an immersive gameplay experience that lets you approach every situation any way you like. Hunt down targets all over the island in an effort to put an end to the cycle once and for all, and remember: if at first you don’t succeed… die, die again.

After a while you start to know what you're getting with a certain dev studio and I think by now Arkane has earned my trust. I don't see people complaining about day 1 purchases when the hype is around games like Red Dead and Cyberpunk and rightly so - the dev studios who have created such titles have earned consumer trust. I think it's time Arkane is afforded the benefit of the doubt when they release a great trailer.

Cordell wrote: »

Prey was for me a bait and switch kind of deal, although I enjoyed it a lot I was sold a shooter and I got a stealth survival horror.

I think that was a lot of people's problems with it, it had some very misleading marketing. It's title, for one.
I also think people thought it would be like Doom but after I saw reviews and how 90% of gameplay footage seemed to feature the main character holding a wrench I knew it wasn't going to be like that (thank goodness, as I'm not a fan of Doom).