dragon504 posted... Zelda and Starfield are the only two from that list that I'm looking forward to. Also quality/enjoyment of hours spent > number of hours played.
adjl posted...
"I don't mind paying rapists so long as I get to play my vidjergames."
Beyond that, Blizzard tanked any chance they had of me trusting their new releases with Reforged. They've conclusively indicated that they're not above actively breaking games I already own for the sake of making their new ones more attractive (not just in the sense of shutting down servers), and while that backfired hard enough that I doubt they're going to try it again any time soon, they aren't getting a cent from me until they can prove to me that they won't continue to push that envelope. In a similar vein, everything that's been seen so far is suggesting that they're going to be monetizing D4 as hard as they can get away with. While it's not going to be as egregious as Immortal (which I strongly suspect was made as bad as it was in part as a deliberate effort to make 4 look better by comparison), that's still just not something I feel like involving myself with. Diablo's not the only ARPG on the block anymore. If I'm in the mood for one, I can get my fix without having to deal with Blizzard's nonsense.
Game length doesn't mean a whole lot in terms of overall appraisal. Sure, it's the only objective measure of value there is for games (specifically, hours per dollar), but it doesn't really factor in at all in determining how excited I am for an upcoming game, nor in how great I think a game was after I finish it. I'm not about to call WoW the best game ever, after all, despite putting more play time into it (~250 days by the time I quit) than probably any other game I've played. I can quite happily say that I enjoyed playing BotW for ~80 hours more than I enjoyed playing D3 for 200 (and I've actually considered going through BotW again, whereas the thought of going back to D3 just makes me feel pre-emptively bored).
So you both admit to being fools. Nintendo is never going give you anything for kissing their butt, by the way. So you may as well stop doing that.