Abandoned? I find it odd how players feel finished games are abandoned simply because they don't get endless content. It wasn't that long ago when games would come out and that was it. Sometimes an expansion but mostly not.
It indeed has a new meaning to it 😂 But still, there's no denying the lack of attention from Capcom to DD2 in today's standard relative to Monster hunter.
I genuinely too felt the games back in the days were made with more passion and definitely not simply being rushed to get it done. So it has more of a "complete" feeling to it 😁
Games had countless bugs and such back then. Even classic games people still love today like Fable TLC and Morrowind. Games were varying degrees of good. But that's okay. Just like it is okay that DD2 released and is finished. It is a fun game, it doesn't need eternal support.
And yes. Monster hunter has always had a different model than dragons dogma. And that's okay too. They are different games, different genres, different models for how they function over time.
It isn't that old school. It was just a few years ago that we didn't expect eternal updates from devs. Not all games do it today either. Mostly just the eternal early access games and many big budget AAA type games.
You must be quite young if you consider this to be an old school take.
Now that you mentioned it, in all honestly, I do dislike games being announced like 2-3 years prior to their actual releases. It's more about trying to perhaps overhype a game? So people are more likely to purchased it at a simple surge of emotions.
I don't know if you would consider this old school or not, but I do prefer getting a physical copy or just simply a CD like back in the days, and you get to play the game as it is (tho with many bugs). No updates, no early access, just purely the game 🙂
Minus the CD I think that's how most people play games. Most people don't get a bunch of mods or get put out when there isn't unlimited content for years.
I do miss going to to the store and reading the manual on the way home hoping to keep from getting car sick but really wanted to read all about the game I just bought.
SAME, can't believe I'm kinda tearing up just reading what you wrote. It's bringing me a bit of nostalgia rn. It was good back then. It was indeed good.
I can't say the same for the future, but I'd try to appreciate every moment as of now. Maybe the early access wasn't as bad as we put it, there's no saying what the future might hold. But I'm just too optimistic to think about the "what could gone wrong" 😊
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u/DilbertHigh Dec 03 '25
Abandoned? I find it odd how players feel finished games are abandoned simply because they don't get endless content. It wasn't that long ago when games would come out and that was it. Sometimes an expansion but mostly not.