Yeah this sucks but:
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if you buy it you’re giving Ubisoft money
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you should emulate the gamecube version if you don’t want to set it up
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if you want to tinker pirate the gog release
Giving Ubisoft money is not a good reason just to have the game and playtime tracked on your Steam account.
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For anyone curious/looking to keep a copy just in case, GOG still has it listed and on sale for $3 US.
If you’ve never played it before, go. Now. Buy it on sale, hunt down an old physical copy, pirate it, just play it. There is a reason BG&E is so well loved, even today. It’s an absolute blast of a time.
ETA: Instead of just mentioning it, here’s the link.
Sold. Just picked it up for €1.49. Thanks for the tip and the link.
Can you give me some quick teaser spoilers or something to reignite my interest? I’ve tried to start this game 3 times and every time i fall off cuz it feels like a clunky Dreamworks movie game
photo journualist against dictatorship, interplanetary adventure, fun and heartwarming characters.
Share with the kids and teens in your life
Genre mix of 3rd person brawling and some stealth sections. Hovercrafting including some races (many optional). Some adventure style puzzles. Awesome soundtrack. French style and subtle + not so subtle and satirical storytelling that doesn’t assume you’re a doofus. It actually made me a little sad at one point.
Technical: GOG version supports multiple threads/cores. Widescreen fix available. Check here: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Beyond_Good_%26_Evil
You might have replied to the wrong guy?
Yup. Hope he still sees it. Mine is more a bonus to what you wrote. Should’ve been next to yours tho.
It is “for” a very specific subset of gamers. If you have played and didn’t enjoy it, you are just not in that subset. For those of us that enjoy it, it was immediate and throughout. Also if you didn’t play it when it was new, it will of course feel like an old game now, as it is. There are always microadvancements in video games that we barely even perceive as they incrementally build on each other. But you go back a whole generation or more and feel ten plus increments at once, it’s just gonna be pervasively uncomfortable.
I have been playing video games for 30 years. Thank you so much for telling me about video games.
So… if not that, what did you actually want people to tell you about why you may not enjoy a game that other people do? That it’s actually a conspiracy and you are the first person to figure out we were trying to trick you into thinking it was good to waste 5 minutes of your life?
Nothing in your response was telling me about the game. All you said is that the game is old and that game’s change over time. Not helpful. P.s. I DID try playing it when it was new.
You said you tried the game, there is no special surprise that happens later into that makes the beginning worth it. Which is actually what I said, if you didn’t like the start, you won’t like the rest either. For the people who liked the game, it was good the whole way through. You didn’t, there is no secret you missed, you just didn’t like it, which is also what I said. The game is only well liked by a specific subset of people, you apparently are not in that subset. The second half of my post was also just one guess if you thought you should enjoy it but didn’t. There was no way for me to know you tried it when it was new, but then at least the first half of my post was the important part for you then.
I have the old physical copy. The DRM on it is awful, get the GOG copy.
When a Ubisoft game gets delisted:
Ubisoft or not, it still adds to the game preservation issue
You can ignore all games from publishers on Steam. I’d recommend doing this with any publisher with anti-consumer practices.
Best thing is: I heard they see the number on their publisher dashboard next to the followers. Don’t know if it’s true, but I like the idea.
Fuck Ubisoft.
Wow thanks!
It’s been delisted because a remaster is happening. It was leaked recently. So if you don’t get playing it now then you still can in future.
Except it will be infected with a Ubisoft launcher and Denuvo malware and I do not pay for anything with Denuvo filth in it.
Good for you. Does not change that the game will still be playable in some form either for those who already own it or those who want to play it in future. But this is Lemmy so your crusade of course gets upvoted when you’ve provided fuck all to the conversation.
While Denuvo is bad, there’s light on the end, because it will get removed from the game 100% in the future (due to licensing costs).
This can’t be said about Ubisoft shitlauncher on the other hand, unfortunatelly. This sucker is here to stay and ruin games for as long as Ubisoft will care. And once they decide it costs too much, bye bye games…
At least launchers can usually be patched out pretty easily by the community, as they are always hastily and poorly patched in in the first place. And often times aren’t even patched in but just a seperate executable that the shortcut points to instead of the actual game executable, in those instances you just need to make the shortcut go to the game instead.
So if you don’t get playing it now then you still can in future.
Only when online and DRM servers are up
Yeah, cause remasters always go well coughGTAdefinitive ahemWarcraft3cough.
Even then, what motive is there to prevent people from getting the original if they want to? Well, other than being able to charge $20-$40 for a 20 year old game.
