{"id":7495,"date":"2023-05-25T11:26:45","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T16:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghostgamer.news\/?p=7495"},"modified":"2023-05-25T11:26:55","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T16:26:55","slug":"2023-game-releases-have-been-disappointing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ghostgamer.news\/2023-game-releases-have-been-disappointing\/","title":{"rendered":"2023 game releases have been.. disappointing."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
The Last of us Part I’s PC port<\/a>? An epic crash and burn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Redfall<\/a>? A disappointment even when I didn’t pay for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Lord of the Rings: Gollum?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Well, I am not even going to bother reviewing it at this point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As a small independent content creator, I rarely get review copies of games.. And almost never from anybody but indie developers themselves. Combine that with limited time and I make a really hard decision about what games I will review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This week I decided to pick up Miasma Chronicles; I figured I could play it a bit, get my first impressions out, and then do a full review next week or the week after, and then grab Gollum; I’m taking my first multi-day trip in years this weekend, so timing was better to cover Miasma Chronicles first, and then Gollum (although Real Life(TM) pretty much eliminated my available time).<\/p>\n\n\n\n The delay worked out even better than I could imagine, because reviews of Gollum from nearly every reviewer I personally trust have been.. Disappointing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It’s not much of a shocker to say that; the writing was already on the wall, but I had hopes that things could be recovered enough to still make a fun game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Apparently that’s just not a thing for many developers this year, and you know what?<\/p>\n\n\n\n I’m going to just keep saving my money and delay most – if not all – my reviews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Given that I don’t get early copies to review anyway, delaying by another day or two won’t hurt me at all when it comes to visibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And, as a bonus, I get to save a little more money in the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Last of us Part I’s PC port? An epic crash and burn. Redfall? A disappointment even when I didn’t pay for it. The Lord of the Rings: Gollum? Well, I am not even going to bother reviewing it at this point. As a small independent content creator, I rarely get review copies of games.. …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"games":[55,76,49],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n