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If the game in question has the words or phrases "Prologue" or "Prelude" or "Overture" or "Chapter 1" or "The Beginning" or something along those lines in its title, especially if it's something like "<Game Title> <colon> <One of the above mentioned words or phrases>," then I essentially just move on and pretend I never saw that game in the first place, these days. May as well not exist (yet), as far as I'm concerned. Granted, I don't literally go so far as to press the "Ignore" button on these games the way I do with other games, but I do put them out of my mind completely when I see them.
If, later, I happen to see that the game no longer has the "Prologue" or "Chapter 1" or such in its title and is, indeed, a complete, finished game, then, maybe, I'll give it the time of day at that point. If I see the game later and it still has a "Prologue" or whatever in the title, then at that point I damn well better also see the other entries up to and including the "Finale" or "Epilogue" or whatever entry in the series, and it damn well better be available in a reasonably priced bundle sufficient for a single game (which I'd still probably only care about if it were at a discount on top of that, same as most everything else). Failing that, then back to being ignored the game goes, once again. But, honestly, if I saw the game again in its complete state, there'd likely be a 99% probability that I wouldn't even remember that I'd seen it before in its incomplete, unfinished state, given how quickly I skip over such games, lately, barely even looking at them long enough for them to leave an impression at all.
If, later, I happen to see that the game no longer has the "Prologue" or "Chapter 1" or such in its title and is, indeed, a complete, finished game, then, maybe, I'll give it the time of day at that point. If I see the game later and it still has a "Prologue" or whatever in the title, then at that point I damn well better also see the other entries up to and including the "Finale" or "Epilogue" or whatever entry in the series, and it damn well better be available in a reasonably priced bundle sufficient for a single game (which I'd still probably only care about if it were at a discount on top of that, same as most everything else). Failing that, then back to being ignored the game goes, once again. But, honestly, if I saw the game again in its complete state, there'd likely be a 99% probability that I wouldn't even remember that I'd seen it before in its incomplete, unfinished state, given how quickly I skip over such games, lately, barely even looking at them long enough for them to leave an impression at all.
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Date: 2020-05-17 08:37 pm (UTC)From:There's one game I can't bring myself to buy even now that it's probably complete - that being Minecraft Story Mode. They had the balls to do a physical release of chapter 1 with a DLC coupon for "the rest of the game", specifically "chatpers 2-5".
And then they released chapters 6-8 separately as DLC anyway iirc.
I had almost bought that chapter 1 version of the game. Luckily for them I spotted the chapter 1 loophole before getting it to the cash. I do say "lucky for them" since it would have essentially pissed me off so much if I got it home before realizing the con (I wanted a full physical game.) I would have blanket boycotted every single thing they ever put out or would put out after that until the end of time.
Of course I think they've bankrupted at this point anyway iirc, so it's a moot point. In the end I still barely purchased anything they put out.
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Date: 2020-05-17 09:00 pm (UTC)From:Then I started the first of the extra episodes, which I guess was supposed to be a new plotline, since the main threat from the previous story had been dealt with already. But then, I ran into a bug where the info pop-up things were just empty boxes with no text in them. I sent a tech support ticket to Telltale, got one of those completely useless, checking-off-a-list, "did you try resetting computer" type of dumbshit form letters. At that point I just gave up and uninstalled the game entirely.
In any case, Telltale's QA was always notoriously bad, anyway. Most of the time, it was progression bugs from episode to episode, which I ran into with The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones (which you'd think would be kind of a big deal and not something they'd let just stay there for years and years, if they ever fixed it, I don't know), but when I tried playing the Batman game (the first one, haven't tried the second series at all yet), there was some kind of horrendous graphics issue in the first episode, apparently as a direct result of them having just released a massive, gigabytes big patch a few days prior to when I bought it, which I didn't know about at the time, and that basically made the game utterly unplayable. No idea if they ever got around to fixing that, either. *shrug* All that kind of dogshit might be at least part of the reason why they went out of business, aside from just general piss-poor management. People probably just got sick of continually giving them chances to not break shit, and then them continuing to break shit.