Why You Should Stop Buying New Games
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- Опубліковано 30 тра 2024
- Tired of paying full price for unfinished, buggy games? In this video, I dive into why you should consider buying older games instead. By waiting just a bit, you can snag massive discounts and avoid the frustration of being an unpaid beta tester for AAA titles. For a fraction of the cost, you get access to a wider selection of high-quality games. With the gaming industry's prices skyrocketing-like the Star Wars Outlaws Ultimate Edition at a whopping $130-now is the perfect time to rethink your buying habits. Join me as I break down the benefits of opting for older games and how it can level up your gaming experience without breaking the bank.
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Earlier you used to go to a shop to find a game.
Now you go to a game to find a shop
Got whole metro series for $9. What a steal
I got Baldur's Gate 3 a couple months ago and I think it was only the 2nd time the game had gone on sale. It was only $10 in savings, BUT I got all the benefits of patches and new ending scenarios right out of the gate. Plus, that money saved basically paid for the Little Caesars pizza I got that night and had a 10-hour session. Something I'll never forget.
IMO Baldur's Gate 3 is worth it in its full price and more.
I feel like bg3 is an exception the devs said they’re not making dlc. Any way the game is amazing and I don’t feel bad at all about paying the 70 bucks because I enjoyed every minute of the game. Nonetheless I’m glad you got to enjoy one of my favorite games.
Buying games on day 1 is a "lose lose" situation as you pay for a unfinished game usually.
When the games are 50% off, they are usually fixed. Win win.
Modern triple A games are games designed by committee rn. The love and labor is just barely there and i just can't see it through all the live service designs. Maybe it's also because I'm getting older and I'm now more busy than when I was a child. I can't connect like I use to.
I waited a year to play Cyberpunk and so glad I did, a first playthrought on day one would have ruined the whole experience
A few months ago I looked up and realized I barely played anything from the 360 generation aside from Halo, CoD and Titanfall. So I am buying up 360 games to play through that I never played. Early Assassin's Creed, Arkham series, Skyrim, Fallout 3/NV, and on and on. I've got a lot to last me through the video game apocalypse. Love the videos Dragoon, cheers.
If you can afford the initial cost, a PC is really the way to go here. Many of those titles you mentioned can be had for as little as $5 - 10, especially on sale. Especially for Fallout / Skyrim because of the modding capabilities and that they're FPSs you'll enjoy much better with a mouse and keyboard.
@@nomad9584 This is true. I think both have unique play value. PC can offer better fps and, in some cases, better graphics. But the feel is totally different when playing on an old console. That's when the nostalgia dopamine really hits different. So it just depends on how and why you wanna play.
@@solorowry9683totally agree with you there, call of duty world at war xbxo 360 vs pc feels so different.
Apparently Amazon is selling 12 tb "retro" drives with a bunch of those installed already. I don't think I'm brave enough to run them on a computer connected to anything else though
I am also playing through the 360 catalogue, just played Borderlands and Alan Wake 1. Having a blast 😄
I waited for Re8 Gold to drop down to $20 and I felt i got my money's worth since it didn't look good enough at full price.
The whole Yakuza series. I passed on them forever because I thought they were just quirky open world games. Turns out, they have some of the best stories in gaming, and the pacing is pretty almost perfect. Picked them up for under $10 each and have been blown away.
I’m currently on Kiwami 2 (3rd game) and I’m sure the most recent game will be on sale by the time I finish the others. It is kind of a perfect example because of the whole new game + paywall drama with the newest game. By the time I get around to buying it, it will probably be under $30 with all features included.
Yakuza series goated
Would recommend Judgment it's a spin off from the main series. But the story is one of the best of the series
I’ve been doing this for years, I used to get 90% of my games for the year on Black Friday or similar sales. I have such a large backlog that I don’t really care about rushing out and buying on release anyways.
I get a bit frustrated with the gaming community complaining constantly about the price of $70 games or $100+ deluxe editions, I always think “isn’t my strategy of waiting completely obvious to everyone else?”
It is to me. I wait for a 70% off sale at minimum, unless it's a small indie dev I'd rather support. Only problem is I buy more games than I have time to play.
Totally agree, in almost every case I wait around one full year before diving into a game these days, I get the complexity of today's advanced games and graphics but my time is limited and getting spun out over glitches, crashes, etc. is not how I want to spend my time looking for fixes/workarounds and perhaps ultimately hating the game before it has reached its potential.
The last game I bought at launch was Elden Ring because I was extremely hyped for it leading to launch. Thank goodness it came out great!!
Factssss I can’t wait for the dlc to drop this month
Great video! Older gamer here, 52. Love those older 360 games! Metro Exodus is one of my faves as well! Incredible game!
Remember the 360 games were only 7-12 gigs? And they were amazing! 🎉
Cuz these new games suck a lot of the time 😂
Plus less content you pay way more for an unfinished game 😂
Most of the time there is a good/decent game there... but rushed out of the oven wayyyyyyyy too early. The game is undercooked. Spoiling any hype that was built for the game. Shame. Amazing how company's just don't understand this, they will never learn. Best way to reach them don't buy it when it comes out. Don't buy at full price, the game isn't finished so why pay full price for a non finished game.
Compared to what?
Skill issue
@@-Yekiexactly.
I think is so obvious, but most people specially younger (I'm 46) have a hard time with delayed gratification.
All your points are so valid, also hardware wise it's always great to see older games ( I usually end up waiting 4 years average) max out in settings.
I agree with breaking the rule for certain studios, that release iron out games that you know you want to support if that's the case, CDPR, Larian, Warhorse, FromSoftware, Gunfire games, and some others I forget.
For cyberpunk I waited till a few months back bought it for 35dlls dlc included, and topic aside have been "slow playing" meaning not rushing it, it's a special game. It does suffer of to easy of gameplay even in very hard. But for compensation I bought Monster Hunter world for 7 dlls and been also playing that .
Gaming is the best hobby if you manage time spend, and budget wisely 🤙🏻
I got Freedom fighters for $3. Having a banger as playing a plumber fighting Russian occupation of NYC.
Soundtrack hit hard. Really set the mood.
I buy very few games at release. The last ones were Baldurs gate 3 and Helldivers 2. When EA or Ubisoft are publishing a new title, I don't even bother looking at it😂.
Should i buy dragons dogma 2? Im On Xbox series x and dont have a problem with 30 fps
I should stop buying games period, because I have a massive backlog of great games
But you'll be called mean names for not wasting money on garbage games.
I'll argue you should buy new games, but it's mainly for indies & Double A games. Games like Helldivers 2, Hell Let Loose, Deep Rock Galactic, Battlebit, and Vampire Survivor come to mind.
Support your local game devs! 😅
I basically just pay full price when I want to support good practices in game development. I don’t care what the size of the team or budget is. Elden ring was totally worth full price, as was Baldur’s Gate 3. On the other hand, Yakuza is one of my favorite series, but there is no way I’m paying full price for a game that had new game + and a dungeon cut out of it.
Rock and stone brother
I’m just planning on playing the XBox 360 CoD games with no intention of buying a new one. Way better product for way less cost
One thing that really ticks me off is content that is not available anymore:
Stuff like events that have passed (like ff15 assassin festival, some event quests in monster hunter World etc) or pre-order/early purchase stuff that was never made available after that window
I'm incredibly happy to see a video like this. Ever since I got a pc a few years ago I've probably only bought like 4 $40+ games at full price. Games that are good will stay good, no matter how long it has been since it was released.
Dang I just bought metro bundle for like 10 bucks last night. Such a good deal
Hi commented ok your video about playing older FF Which I have been but taken a break to finally play Skyrim like you said in the video about new vegas I'm glad I'm playing it now as much as I had never before because of the love for it the mods and it's aged really well loving the world and atmosphere
The only thing I buy day one is either expansions or fromsoftware games. Can't wait for The Final Shape! Game Pass has also been really good for day one games.
Love the general industry topics. You’re the goat.
I never buy games new anymore. Always wait for a price drop. They usually go half off at least during the first year they’re out. Plus, I need to know whether or not they’re actually any good. The last time I bought a new game at launch was 2018 and that was the Spyro remasters. Think I’ll probably get Monster Hunter Wilds at launch too, but that’s because World was a complete masterpiece and I know it’s the same people making it.
The 2020s is the age of retro gaming
It’s a controversial take for me. When it comes to expense, it’s a no-brainer
But when it comes to multiplayer, being there at the beginning can be really fun. However that varies from game to game
In the case of elden ring, it was really fun imo to be there right at the start. Tons of action, and most players aren’t using meta builds. After a while, a lot of the pool of players dies down, and you get a lot of all-day grinders using maxed meta builds (which makes a BIG difference in elden Ring)
Another example is split gate. Playing it now-you get mostly bots in the lobbies. I’d imagine it was really intense during the early days
A game I did get on fast was the finals. It was fun, but I can’t say there’s really a big difference from then to now-except for seeing the patches that did and did not take place. The multiplayer gameplay itself is more of less the same experience
Also that is a very interesting point you talked about-the difference in the first-time experience when the expansions are included
And of course the games that have been vastly improved since launch…
Multiplayer games aren't worth spit when the cheating situation gets so out of hand that it ruins the entire point of the multiplayer game.
Depends on the game or franchise. I'm not waiting for star wars outlaws though, day 1 with the early access bundle for me.
Cool video bro but why do you play Metro with hitmarkers on?
I honestly didn't know I could turn them off lol
Yup last December I bought Jedi Survivor, Hogwarts Legacy, Remnant2, Hi Fi Rush and RE4 Remake. All games that they were less than a year old and payed under 40 dollars per game. I can’t imagine paying 70 dollars a pop for all those games.
You still wasted you're money
@@abcdefg3214 your*
I waited on Horizon Zero Dawn and bought it for ~15€.
I played it enough to know that I'll want Horizon Forbidden West but hadn't actually finished it.
So I started playing Horizon Zero Dawn and pre-ordered Forbidden West on PC while I still wasn't finished with HZD because I knew the game was worth it and that Nixxes was the studio responsible for the port.
Now I have finished HZD and the main Campaign of Forbidden West and it's side missions back to back and I am glad I waited with getting HZD because the port was not good at launch sadly, and the lower price tag convinced me to give the series a shot but I also happily pre-ordered Horizon Forbidden West because it was an amazing experience and I can't wait for the inevitable 3rd game in the series!
I will miss Lance Reddick as Sylens tho.
But also while I happily pre-order great PC Ports of Sony singleplayer games they really are underestimating my power and patience when it comes to NOT buying a console just to play a sequel of a PC ported game!
Worst case I will wait years for an emulator and then buy the console copy of the game and emulate it on my PC. Mainly because there will never be enough exclusives on consoles that warranty a 500€ investment compared to my +1k game library on PC! This is also why the only "console" I bought was the Steam Deck!
A lot of my backlog consists of older titles. The last newer titles I bought were Thousand Year Door and System Shock and they were both remakes.
I stop buying day 1 years ago. It started with Dead Space 3... paying $70 for a game that was not very long felt really weird. Then MGSV was such a let down. The final nail was when games started coming out unfinished day 1. Now I will get Starfield when they actually finish it for way less.
I couldn't agree more with what was said in this video. The only game i have bought near release at full cost, costing me £109.99 was Microsoft Flight Simulator Premium Deluxe 40th Anniversary Edition for my Xbox Series X. Other then that i wait for sales and deals, you get a better game with all the patches and stuff. I still haven't yet bought Starfield. I'm looking forward to it hearing it recently got an update but really in no rush, i have a huge backlog to play so i'm giving that game more time. I'm doing this with all my modem systems, Series X, PS5, Switch OLED and Steam Deck OLED.
some games are so old they are FREE abandonware like the original Prey
100% support this message!
I bought ONLY used games on the flee market ..
20 dollars ? Heck no.. I got red dead redemption 2, doom 2016 and 50 more ps4 games for around 5 bucks each.
But PC games are a problem. These developers started to pack only a download program on their discs..
I do this but mostly for gamepass. Jedi survivor just got added, for example
I did the opposite with Witcher 3, got it in release having an extremely underpowered PC and binged it in two weeks at 15-20 fps with crashes all the time just before I had to start a new job. No regrets, magical experience, but goddamn
Waited and got Metro Exodus Gold Edition about a month ago on PS5 for about $8. Totally worth every penny. Having the added DLC included adds the extended play on a great, visually stunning shooter with story.
Quake Remaster, and Castlevania Anniversary Collection are both $20 or less. The Arcade Archives and ACA Neo Geo games released by Hamster Corporation are generally inexpensive. Unlimited quarters can really change appeal for difficult arcade games. Unless its an arcade title with a limit on continues.
I have so many games I have no need to buy a new release and that is compounded by the fact games do not release finished and we don’t know how much it will change after a year of patches. So, I never pre-order I never buy day one, if I want a game I put it on my Steam wish list and wait for a Steam Sale.
Been doing this . Since games are 70+ dollars, that was my breaking point to say I’ll never buy a game above 50% off or more. 70 bucks is too much in this climate .
I currently have Cyberpunk 2077 Ultimate ed and Lies of P on my PS5 wish list. Will buy when they hit £30 or less. I stopped buying games on release day more than 10 years ago. I did buy Helldivers 2 though, as it was £40. Well worth it as i have spent 150+ hours on it.
I also just picked up Battlefront 2 on 95% off sale,you can still find a few PvE games with a lobby
What were the first two games shown?
The only games I buy for their regular retail prices are:
a) Online games I want to play now (because they are the current hot thing atm 🤣) or
b) smaller, indie games I want to play right now.
I can't remember the last time I bought an AAA game at release date (Baldur's Gate 3 maybe? At least after v1.0), exactly because I hate those unfinished patchwork games, that are sadly the norm nowadays.
E.g. I recently got both "A Plague Tale" games for less than 1/3 the price of one game at launch, and the Definitive Edition of ReCore for less than a burger. And as a PC player you often can benefit from bundled games from places like HumbleBundle, Fanatical etc. That said, it helped reduce the build up of my pile of shame drastically, but I still buy more games, that I play.... First world problem, I guess. 🙈 Reminds me, that I still have to play through Deus Ex: Mankind Divided that I also bought for less than 5 bucks during one of the Steam sales during the "human malware".
4:15 That's the only one I have not (yet) beaten, because I was working for the PR team of Bandai Namco at that time. Because of this, I had to play the latest dev build over and over again, which drained my enthusiasm for Dark Souls II completely, when the game was finally released. It did not help, that the game was eventually also ported to PS4/Xbox One. 😁
This could very well be the most important video for Gamers to watch ever.
I have built such a huge catalogue that I can play a new game for every day for 3 years and then some, it's crazy all my wishlisted games are usually old games and newer indie games....the AAA scene is cooked.
I bought Elden Ring on release because Fromsoft is the last good bastion in the gaming industry and it probably is my favourite gaming experience. I was invested in that game as if I was a teenager again. It was really cool to experience that hype combined with exploring the amazing world without looking up guides.
It's not that you should stop buying games, it's that you should stop buying new games before more info, reviews, and or price drops hit. For instance, if I didn't just immediately buy Star Wars Outlaws, I would be missing out on a possible great experience while i wait for goobers in the reviews to rant about the game with pessimism. If I have the money, people are saying good things about it, and the game looks good, I will grab it.
I buy games I want to play day one to support, but play them months later (patches). If everyone would wait for a big price drop, what a great situation this would be.
I would recommend GOG sales as well. Right now I am getting the offline installers on a external SSD so I own it.
Lowkey hoping Battlebit gets the same treatment. Very small dev team tho, we can only hope.
Better yet buy indie and AA titles instead. Launch prices are much lower and generally quality is higher than many AAA titles. Here are a handful of great ones...
Psuedoregalia - $5
Cultic - $10
Crow Country - $20
Wrath: Aeon of Ruin - $25
Tiny Kins - $25
Super Kiwi 64 - $3
Vomitoreum - $10
Supraland - $20
Last Hero of Nostalgia - $25
Toem - $20
Salaco - $25
Graven - $25
Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom - $17
Gloomwood - $20
And many of these go on sale much lower than the launch prices above. And there are so so many more. You just have to look beyond the slop.
I agree with you, but also I'm happy that I'm able to play gray zone warfare rn, and that I got to play combat champions.
Sometimes the junk creates more memorable experiences, takes me back to my childhood era of finding shitty java script games online and spending 5 hours playing the shit out of em
I can understand if you're young and excited, now I preffer to look for bargains when shopping for games. I have zero £70 games, Steam has games on sale 365 days a year. I bought Days Gone from Steam for a tenner, out of roughly 250 Steam games I play about two or three a week.
I agree but There’s something special to me about getting a game on release day
Funny enough, the video started dropping frames when you were talking about the 2.0 update in Cyberpunk. I thought it was your footage of Cyberpunk for the first 30 seconds.
Than the UA-cam app crashed and closed out. 😂
Since last year, hunting PS3 games from Dark Souls to Dragon Crown still searching
I wait till after Jedi Survivor came out to buy Fallen Order and that was a ton of fun especially considering I got it for $5.
This may explain why Nintendo is against preserving old games; they can't sell new games at a high price, especially since they don't cut the price of games nearly as often as other companies.
I only play new games for making guides for my channel. And now enjoying old games on my backlog, and still making guides for it, even it has no views. Because the games give my joys 😊
On financial sides, games subscription save my thin wallet.
Currently have a ton of backlog games both on PC/Steam and PlayStation so not in a rush to buy 150$ new game.
been doing this for years, makes no sense buying games at release in my opinion, ive started to even just download the catalogue games now
I’ve been buying used games for a while now and I can’t sing its praise enough
Lately I've been waiting for digital games to hit single digits ($9.99).
This is what i'm doing atm!
And now I'm enjoying videogames again!
I'm about to buy 18 Xbox360 games for 60 bucks. Mostly crazy, timeless titles I haven't played before.
the Steam wishlist works wonders for my game budget
I think the game i had the most fun with in the past 6 months is either spiderman 2 (PS5) and terraria
Idk I'm still playing halo 2,ce, cs2, and 2600 hours in idle champions of the forgotten realms with constant updates
battlefront 2 released back in 2017 and the game is extremely beautiful look at that 6:52
waited months for xenoblade 1 definitive to go on sale on the switch and it was peak(even though it was still $55 Canadian it was so good
Couldn't agree more to wait on a game and pick it up on sale. Brought dying light 2 last black Friday physical for $10 a steal. At that point dying light 2 was at a better state than launch.
I can't remember the last game I bought that was new! I'm more of a casual gamer though..
I just cant play new vegas. The buggy mess, awful frame times and constant crashing makes it hard to play.
I bought halo infinite because I love buying every single halo game, and the campaign was the best part of it, too thiiss daayy, the campaigns graphics amazes me, and the ambition and scale of the halo ring is something that everyone needs to see, it’s truly perfect!🙂
The reason why I needed to wait on cyberpunk 2077 is because I only had a Xbox one s at the time, and the Xbox one version was unplayable! I now got a Xbox series x, and I bought the Xbox series x version so that it’s playable, and it’s got the best optimization!
bought the entirety of just cause 3 for 2 euros that was probably my biggest sale of my life
I didn’t even know it was possible to buy new games 😂 GameStop used bin and eBay has ALWAYS been the standard! Now steam sales 😂
I wish I could play Mass Effect again for the first time.
The only modern franchise that I still buy (for now) is Monster Hunter. Aside of that and every From software game, yeah, I wait for sales or just pirate them
I rarely buy new games anymore. They always go on sale so wait. Unless it's a game I really want. Most of the time though I won't have time to play it anyway.
My advice is the EGS freebies, sure some are junk, but some are bangers you never even knew about.
Also the Epic Games Store gets hate, I believe most of it is invalid.
TLDR free is better than not
I'm enjoying Deep Rock Galactic and Sniper Elite 5 these days.
Or just wait until it’s on gamepass :) been playing so many great games that eventually come out on there. I have a big back catalog . I just finished control and it was great
You don't need to tell me twice lmao but that might be due to my hockey jersey collecting addiction and with how stupid expensive it is.
I got all of borderlands 3 for around 30 euros and thats insane value
Is cyberpunk playable on ps4 yet?
This is why indie games are rising upon the big company garbage, i really hope these small creators get all the fame and fortune they deserve.
If you know it's gonna be good, buy it day 1 anyway. GoW Ragnarok on pc is definitely a buy.
Or I could be no new games and spend my money on skins in live service games 😂
On a serious note, I waited on 2077, and so glad I did coz it's now one of my all time favourites. I did buy the DLC full price tho.
Idk how people have time to play all these games. I've only played about 3 games in the past year all on my switch
you make a lot of good points
Ironically they sell new games at full price but go cheap years later when the game has been fully fixed. Yea, spent $70 on D4 just to beta test it. Never again and plenty of games in queue to keep you busy while you wait for price drops in your wishlist 👌
I got metro exodus for like 10 with all the other games a while back, might as well play it them now lol. edit: Exodus is 5.99$ rn
Metro is on sale for $6 right now!!!!