[quote]And err... Thats about it. But the end result is that I haven't played a game that:

*Has a story
*Is actually finished
*Doesn't involve micromanagement
[/quote]

I think you've discovered Pinback's online persona.

[quote="RetroRomper"]Planetary Annihilation[/quote]

BTW: FUCK YOU maggot

[quote="RetroRomper"]Pinback (very strongly) suggested I purchase Planetary Annhiliation because it is fun and officially released. Except that he admitted the game is still having patch after patch pushed out for it, leaving it more in late beta than even a RC.

At this point it is normal for all of us to just suck it up and play games that are still building themselves out? I am willing to admit it is probably fun, but when the base product is going to be wildly different in six months, what's the point?[/quote]

The base game will not be wildly different. If the "gaming community" wasn't full of whining, entitled children, it would be considered a full, complete release, and you'd never hear about it again except for the occasional bug fix.

But because the developers are saying they're committed to continuing development, the whineboys jump on that as an excuse to scream "WHY AM I PAYING FOR AN UNFINISHED PRODUCT??!?!?!?!?!"

Some early access games belong there. PA is ready for prime time.

Pinback (very strongly) suggested I purchase Planetary Annhiliation because it is fun and officially released. Except that he admitted the game is still having patch after patch pushed out for it, leaving it more in late beta than even a RC.

At this point it is normal for all of us to just suck it up and play games that are still building themselves out? I am willing to admit it is probably fun, but when the base product is going to be wildly different in six months, what's the point?

You weren't supposed to agree with me! CHRIST!

Don't you know how this is supposed to work?!

It's true.

I have six game icons on my task bar. Two are trifling little distractions (Hearthstone, Retrobooster), and the other four are incomplete, broken messes.

(E4, SR2, GC3, OTC)

Pinback and I have been buying or suggesting games to each other over the last few months and after looking over and categorizing the ones we have been playing, they fall into either:

*Early release (pre-purchase, alpha access, whatever)
*4x
*SPAAAAAAAAAAAAACE

And err... Thats about it. But the end result is that I haven't played a game that:

*Has a story
*Is actually finished
*Doesn't involve micromanagement

In months. And I have become burnt out due to the constant nature of things such as placeholder art, crashes, driver updates, lack of coherency, etc, etc.

In short, PINBACK HAS RUINED VIDEO GAMES.

That is all.