Are you holding off on any game in particular right now?
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?
For me is it starfield. I am a bit to hyped up for it. I will try to wait a year or more. Just like I did for cyberpunk and I was hyped for that game since the first trailer haha
if you wait that long then stuff that is still buggy usually have a mod that fix it.
Same here. Any Bethesda game deserves time to simmer for a good while before playing in my opinion.
This is gonna sound crazy, but I've basically played every Bethesda game (except redguard) from release, going all the way back to Arena. I know they have bugs, but they're not really more buggy on release (or later) than a lot of other games I'd played back then. I agree that we should always be expecting better from game companies that are expecting more profit, but if I compare tES games to my other faves... well, let me use examples.
I love Vampire Bloodlines. Famously fan patched for its extreme bugginess after the studio dissolved. Master of Magic? Yup, fan patched. In fact, I think almost every game I put on my top 20 list has fan patched for major bugs that never got fixed in the full lifecycle of the game.
I would wait on Starfield myself and wait for mods, but considering it's part of gamepass, I see no reason to not give it a fair shake, especially since I have a few more months of gamepass I got gifted. I do however plan on buying the game like a year or two from now (or maybe ten, if Skyrim is anything to go on) on Steam to do another modded playthrough
Still half life alyx because i need that vr Headset…
In waiting on it because my vr headset isn't as good as it could be
I finally got one and played it this summer, worth the wait for sure
Oh so many!
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
Starfield, waiting to see how many issues it has and what actual gameplay and graphics looks like.
Same, I'm probably going to wait until the first sale since I don't want to support $70 as the new game standard unless the game is actually worth it (not a big ridden mess and bugs get patched in a timely manner, content and gameplay lives up to the hype, etc). If it sounds like there aren't many bugs and the content lives up to the hype I may buy it at $70, but I'm trying to avoid it without missing out
It's on Game Pass if you're on PC/Xbox and your country is covered. Feels good to be able to play a triple A game for "free" tbh
I'm just glad it's on gamepass so I can try it out without having to pay full price
I've been holding out on getting Stray for about a year now. I'm just not willing to pay full price for a relatively short game.
Same. It looks adorable but the price is a little too high for me.
I thought it was worth the $30, but I do wish it had a bit more. Like an extra Zoomies mode for timed runs or races.
I'm sure it really is worth the money but I'm a patient gamer because I'm cheap. I'd rather support a good company in other ways like buying soundtracks and swag versus getting burned on a overpriced game.
Same! Waiting for it to hit the $10-15 range.
Same! It's like Abzu, or Journey and I'll get it when it's 9.99 or less.
Eh it has so much more production wise than journey though... I love journey, it's a one of a kind play experience... but everything is minimalistic. Stray is the opposite so chucking them another 15 bucks to cover character design and animation, level design, voice acting, etc doesn't feel too bad to me
Every playstation exclusive that ends up on PC.
Those Spiderman games look SWEET. I'm super excited about Ghost of Tsushima and can't wait for it to be released in 2024, and finally play it in 2027 when it's on sale.
Same here, I don't have $499 burning in my pocket to justify getting Spider-Man 2 when I have a perfectly serviceable PC that can do about as much as a PS5 and then some.
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.
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.
Tears of the Kingdom because I basically just purchased Breath of the Wild a few months ago and haven't finished it.
Baldur's Gate 3, because my friends want to play it all together and so I'm waiting for them
Starfield, Baldur‘s Gate 3, and Cyberpunk.
I‘m so tempted to just be part of the Starfield start hype but… let‘s be honest, it‘s a Bethesda game so it probably needs another year of patches and mods.
And Baldur‘s Gate seems to also require a few patches and I‘m not paying more than 40 bucks for any digital copy of a game, even if it‘s the second coming of Christ among videogames.
Cyberpunk I‘m merely waiting to have a PC that is powerful enough to play it in all its glory. So probably gotta wait half a decade lol
Obviously, on top of my mentioned reasons, it‘s not like I don‘t have 100+ untouched games dozens of them critically acclaimed, so it’s not like I’m just staring at my wall waiting for my moment to strike lol
BG3 is the only game in my life I've bought at launch. No regrets. This studio definitely deserves the full price tag. I've experienced like 5 bugs throughout my 130 hours of playing. I came from a poorer country and still made sense to me to vote with my wallet what games should be striving to look like on launch.
For me there are a couple.
Hades (2020) - I'm not in any hurry with this one. I'd get it if GOG starts to sell it, otherwise I'll wait a bit more.
Outer Wilds (2020) - I'm getting impatient with this. I'd like this more on GOG too, but I think I'll just buy it when Steam winter sale comes.
The Guild III (2022) - quirky trade/life sim game and I have some fond memories of the second one. But that had quite a few bugs even long after release and I hear the third game still looks unfinished so I'm patient.
It's a shame that the Outer Wilds went for a timed exclusive to epic, but it did help me wait to get it!
Hades is so very good.. I don't think it will come to gog soon ish because, if I remember correct that is, epic payed a lot of bucks for it.
Their exclusivity period is over either way. The game has been on Steam for years. I don't think it would block a GOG release in any way now.
GoG has a sale right now, and Outer Wilds is in it. I played when I had Game Pass but have almost no desire to buy it, even though I almost beat it.
Are you sure that's Outer Wilds? https://store.steampowered.com/app/753640/Outer_Wilds
Maybe what you are thinking of is Outer Worlds, which is a common mix-up. https://store.steampowered.com/app/578650/The_Outer_Worlds
I don't think Outer Wilds is on GOG unfortunately.
im so patient that im waiting for BG3 to come to ps5
Have some respect for those of us waiting for Xbox 🥲
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I am still waiting for Cyberpunk 2077 to go better than half price.
Stray as well, it seems too expensive for a short game.
Just Starfield. They keep making statements that, as a long time Bethesda fan, sound ridiculous. Tell me lies, tell me sweet sweet lies, Todd. I would like to be pleasantly surprised, but I am reserving judgment for the actual release of the game.
Remember when Todd went on stage and spent 5 minutes joking about the "tell me lies" memes before lying his ass off to sell the steaming pile of shit that was Fallout 76?
I bet he's laughing his ass off at all the Starfield preorders, cupping his hands together like a Saturday morning villain and preparing to drink the tears of his customers - Granting him eternal youth.
I believe every single thing you said to be true, except the part about eternal youth. He is definitely looking older lol
Maybe a Sith like extension of life? He'll still be around in 50 years, but looking like Palpatine after being left scarred and deformed.
it just works
I'm holding out on starfield. There must be a cyberpunk moment waiting right around the corner because you can't jam all that in a game and expect it to work too.
Also 80% what's out there of so called features of this game only exists inside the heads of influencers. That hopium is the real problem.
I tried holding out on armoured core. I couldn't. Glad I didn't. Amazing game. Easier then Elden ring but still very clearly a from software title.
People are mad because starfield doesn't have things they never said they would have. It is not no man sky, but the comparison is going to be hard to shake
No, they're mad because the developers have a really bad habit of speaking in generalizations that they know will make the fans assume a bunch of shit and then claim it was all their fault later when it turns out none of that exists or works like they heavily insinuated.
"Yeah you can walk around a whole planet!"
If you don't mind walking back to your ship so you can fly to the next chunk of the planet since there's seemingly no mechanic to "call in" your ship and the terrain will eventually block you with invisible walls.
It's not the lack of features, it's the developers willing to let the players invent things in their heads until release day when it inevitably comes crashing down.
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 :/
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
I've got Disco Elyseum, factorio, and Cyberpunk 2077 waiting for me to get into the mood to play them.
Stray, cyberpunk and red dead 2 and forza. I'm waiting until they come down in price and it forces me to play through my backlog.
I already bought RDR2, but I have been holding off for a good time to play it. I plan on taking a week break from the gym, so maybe I'll take advantage of that extra hour or two to get into the game
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.
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Im just waiting to get a new computer before I burn through my steam games. I havent purchased a new game in a long time. My backlog is huge!
I'm savoring Baldur's Gate 3, not necessarily waiting to play it per se but not wanting to binge it. I'm planning on waiting on Starfield for at least a few months.
As always, waiting for sales.
Looking forward to Baldur's Gate 3 and its horny crazy shenanigans, Cyberpunk 2077 now that it's in better shape and I have a PC that can run it decently. Hi-Fi Rush is definitely on my list, rhythm action is a cool genre. I might go for Elden Ring if the price is good, see if I'm going to finally like a single souls games or if I'll bounce off that one too.
Still waiting for a rare chance at a 33% off on Smash Bros Ultimate and who knows Wario Ware Get It Together.
BG3, Elden Ring, Armored Core 6, just to name the high profile few I'm going to wait for significant price drops in maybe 2 years.
Besides, I do want to play several other RPGs before diving into Baldur's Gate, especially Tyranny, Divinity Original Sin 1 and 2, and the Pathfinder games. Maybe also the old Neverwinter Nights, got the GOG version of them, am yet to begin a campaign
All in all, those ~5 old-ish RPGs alone can probably run me through an entire year.
I never buy any games now until they're under a tenner.
The irony of that is I will willing spend £30-60 on #TTRPG books instead :D
Baldur's Gate 3
Armored Core 6
Remnant 2
...and (depending on your definition of "recent") a lot more. Any of the big games coming over from PlayStation (God of War, Spider-Man), Cyberpunk, etc. I don't generally buy games for over $20, unless it's someone I want badly and it hasn't gone below that after a couple years.
Remnant 2 looked so sweet. So I got Remnant 1 on sale for like $5 to see what the deal was.
Wow, that first game is pretty solid. And to read that Remnant 2 is the first game but way more polished and tighter? Hell yes.
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.
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.
I purchased outer wilds and soma… haven’t touched them.
You're holding off on two serious video game gems right there. Hope you get time to play them soon. :)
Like many others Balders Gate 3. I am now going through the first two. Hopefully when I have completed I and II I might have a PC that can run BD3.
I splurged on Baldur's Gate and have enjoyed every minute I've put in so far. I'll have to get back to Tears of the Kingdom at some point too.
But I'll be fully holding off on Armored Core, Starfield and the Metal Gear Solid Master Collection for a while.
If we can get both volumes of the MGS collection in one bundle at a discount, I’d easily bite. For now, I’m still content playing MGS1-3 emulated. I’m mainly just excited to get MGS4 on PC
Armored Core 6, Jedi Survivor, Starfield. Until some sale I think. I’ve already bought Elden Ring, Diablo 4, and Baldurs Gate 3 this year, and I might get another before the year ends. Gotta slow it down lol
Edit: Hogwart’s Legacy, forgot about that one.
Tears of the Kingdom! I actually never finished Breath of the Wild, I had one more divine beast to go before I got to Ganon, but instead of finishing it I always just chose to run around Hyrule. Now I feel like I can’t start TotK until I’ve finished BotW but I don’t have any plans to finish BotW 😅
I'm in a similar predicament except with ToTK - the game is so good I don't want to see the credits roll so I've been running around doing side quests instead lol. And I'm someone who could not get into BotW, I gifted my copy away
Another Tears of the Kingdom here.
I'm like ... 5/3 subscribed between professional and personal obligations for the next several months, so don't have time for that in my life.
When I got around to Breath of the Wild in late 2020, I arranged it so I could basically take a vacation from reality to Hyrule for over a week with it, and the experience was delightful, so I want to hold off until I can properly enjoy it.
I did similar things at the ends of periods of over-obligation with Fallout: New Vegas and Skyrim (earlier, but both years after their release), I'm a sucker for disappearing into an open-world RPG as a vacation.
To an extent, Kingdom Hearts. Still waiting for the Steam Deck release
I wish, I think epic helped them with KH3, so they're just stuck there. I'd just emulate them, everything up to KH3 is very doable on the Steam Deck.
Re4 remake. I really love Resident Evil, but I haven't set up the time to get immersed in it and experience it.
Wayfinder. They released into early access and it's very early. Needs more time to cook.
Palia. Interesting concept, but the launch reviews say it's kinda shallow. I'll check in a year or so to see if it's got any depth.
Diablo 4. It started pretty good! Then went to the shitter and hasn't recovered.
Palia is decent for a farming sim but kinda barebones for its MMO aspirations. It needs more content. I wonder how it's going to handle end game content without getting repetitive. For what's worth, it's free, so trying it a little comes at no cost.
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.
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.
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.
I'm focused on back-to-school and getting some outdoor projects done before winter. To help with that, I disassembled my PC. Once snow starts falling and (hopefully) the Adventure Mode update is released, I plan to snuggle up and finally enjoy the graphical version of Dwarf Fortress.
Pathfinder WOTR - they still have like 2 DLCs planned to release
I'm not a big CRPG guy but all this talk about Balder's Gate has definitely sparked my interests, that said there's three or four games coming out in the next month that I'd much more likely to enjoy (Trine, Lies of P, LOTF and Starfield) so I'll hold off and wait for a price reduction.
Starfield is honestly the only new game that mildly interests me (ES6 is years away still), and I'm holding out on that one until 1.) a GPU that can run it smoothly at 2,5k with no DLSS/FSR shenanigans costs 500€ or less so I can actually afford it; 2.) script extender comes out and lays the framework for not just mods, but amazing mods; 3.) the ongoing thargoid war reaches its conclusion and wraps up and doesn't immediately lead to rogue guardian AI showing up or Empire and Federation throwing themselves into mutual assured destruction or whatever.
On the other hand, if Starfield won't have HOTAS support, I'll probably put it on hold indefinitely and try out Star Citizen instead, if I ever get bored of Elite. Maybe pick it up when it's 10€ on a sale in half a decade. Fallout 3 didn't turn out to be my cup of tea, after all, and Starfield may fall in the same category. And this is fine.
I used to be in the same boat as you, pretty hopeful that Starfield will be the space game to replace Elite for me. But the more I read about it, the more I realize it can't.
I dread the day I put Elite down cause I'll have no space sim to scratch the itch.
My Phantom is always chilling in the black, ready for me to come log in and take her exploring again.
I'm still waiting on Star Wars Jedi: Survivor to go on sale. I refuse to pay full price, months after release, for a game that seemed to have a few performance issues on release, plus it's an EA game. I also have a bit of a backlog of games I'm still playing, so I'm in no rush to buy a new game at the moment.
It already went on sale once, but it wasn't a very low sale. I think that's a good sign that it won't be too long before it drops to decent a price.
It had an amazing story, but the visual glitches were constant. Luckily I didn't run into any glitches that actually affected gameplay. But the visual glitches really broke immersion.
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.
Honestly in the indie area, it's not recent, but Blade Kitten. Spotted that on Steam and remembered having fun with it on my Xbox 360 long ago. Real cheap at 3$.
But I need to finish more indie games First! So it will be a reward once I finish Protodroid Delta. Which would've been a lot easier if it had cloud support so I could play it on my Steam Deck without restarting the game, but nooo
BG3 like most people and I'll hold of on Starfield for a few months to see how it held up against the hype.
Not one that’s already out, but I am anticipating the cyberpunk expansion and starfield. Especially the latter will be hard to be patient on if it’s anything close to what is promised so far.
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.
BG3 too Bust mostly cause of the two things I saw
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.
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'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.
Does Starfield count? I know it's not out yet but I have no plans to get it until/unless it starts getting near universal praise for quality and stability.
That's my usual approach for Bethesda games. After about six months, the community will have made some much-needed quality of life mods, and Bethesda will peobably have fixed any major performance issues or game-breaking, savefile-bricking bugs.
And this is supposed to be a huge game, so there will be a few serious issues as a matter of course.
Waiting for Elden ring to go on sale. Have enough games to keep me busy at the moment. But I'm getting there almost done with the Dark souls series.