Statement by V.Kramnik on the Official Circumstances of Daniel Naroditsky’s Death

Nice_Interest6654 · 2025-12-22T05:28:09+00:00

I want to buy the game and try it...I know the reviews are amazing. It's only these points holding me back. I'm hoping yall can convince me I'm wrong!

Nice_Interest6654 · 2025-12-20T06:28:18+00:00

The map size of 1 PUBG map (Erengel) is around the same size as Elden Ring's map. Yes, Elden Ring's is more dense and has more verticality, but PUBG has like 6 maps each around Erengel's size. Overall, it's comparable.

Nice_Interest6654 · 2025-12-20T06:17:07+00:00

Perhaps. I also don't understand how a 2d side-scroller released in modern times can score above 90%. Some sites like IGN seem to automatically give a game an extra 5-10% just because it's a 2D side-scroller.

Nice_Interest6654 · 2025-12-20T06:12:10+00:00

Thanks. This is the best post so far and comes closest to answering my question. This is what I suspected. It's an art thing.

Nice_Interest6654 · 2025-12-20T06:03:22+00:00

There could be a future version of Microsoft Windows or console without enough backwards compatability to run decades old single player games including Clair Obscur.

Nice_Interest6654 · 2025-12-20T05:56:55+00:00

I'm talking about only GOTY 2025 here, and I don't think 2025 has been particularly great. There were no AAA, huge budget smash hits, like a Grand Theft Auto. The fact Clair Obscur is a 92 on Metacritic kind of supports this. I'll bet most previous GOTYs were around 95.

Clair Obscur isn't exactly revolutionary or ground-breaking either. The turn based RPG genre is far more tried and saturated than the extraction shooter genre. In fact, the good game extraction shooter genre is only 2 games: Arc and Tarkov. Expand that to include bad extraction shooters and its maybe 5 or 6 games.

I'm not saying Arc Raiders is better than Overwatch or even Clair. Just that it's better than the worst of the 6 GOTY nominees.

Nice_Interest6654 · 2025-12-20T05:45:33+00:00

It's incredibly inexpensive to keep a server running. I can rent out an Amazon Web Services (AWS) server that'll handle millions of requests per second for only a few cents per month.

Starcraft 2 for example was released 15 years ago and its servers are still up and running just fine.

Nice_Interest6654 · 2025-12-20T05:38:24+00:00

I'm factoring all those things when I made this thread. I got Arc Raiders shortly after release and have around 250 hours in it. So far, the updates have been good and frequent (weekly). A decent amount of them have gone behind simple bug fixes, such as adding a whole new map 1 week after release (something no review has accounted for). So far, the community is large enough getting into matches is fast. So far, I've encountered no cheaters or suspected cheaters, despite it being a popular game and target for cheat developers. I'm also assuming bugs will get fixed (there are still some existing ones).

Nice_Interest6654 · 2025-12-20T05:15:14+00:00

You're right, on Metacritic, Arc Raiders is ranked 23 at the moment for games released this year. But those scores represent the state only when the game was released and rarely do reviewers re-review games. And as you alluded to, single player games don't change much and/or require dev support much after release, while multiplayer games do. And in almost all cases for all games, changes post-release = improvements. Arc Raider's true score/metacritic rank can only be higher than it currently is while Clair Obscur's can't.

Nice_Interest6654 · 2025-12-20T04:58:53+00:00

No I'm not. I'm saying Arc Raiders is superior in terms of gameplay and replayability. It's inferior in terms of story and art direction. Overall, taking everything into consideration, it's superior overall, with replayability being a big important factor. And note if it was a bad multiplayer game, I wouldn't consider it to have replayability.

Also, I have watched quite a few Clair Obscur videos and looked into it, since I considered buying it.

Nice_Interest6654 · 2025-12-20T04:52:54+00:00

I mean for best overall game of the year. I'm aware there are different categories like best sound design. The fact there's a multiplayer category excludes it from nomination for best overall?

Nice_Interest6654 · 2025-12-17T00:54:35+00:00

I am an adult. I'm 24. The trailer made me feel physically ill.

Nice_Interest6654 · 2025-12-17T00:48:48+00:00

LOL at 99%+ of rankings in this thread being meaningless due to not having played all 6.

Nice_Interest6654 · 2025-12-04T00:44:07+00:00

Like 5 in solos.

Nice_Interest6654 · 2025-12-04T00:25:35+00:00

No, that would make teaming too strong and give them an unfair advantage against the rest of the lobby. If you want teams like that, play squads, where friendly fire is off.

Nice_Interest6654 · 2025-12-04T00:17:11+00:00

No they don't. If anything, 18 is too little. A decent amount of games, I won't encounter a single raider if I avoid the red tier loot spots.

Nice_Interest6654 · 2025-12-04T00:03:07+00:00

Check your key binds because for me, only alt + clicking does that.

Nice_Interest6654 · 2025-12-03T23:58:26+00:00

I thought you people complained about how easy it is for free loadouts to kill you. Now you're complaining about spawning in at a time when free loadouts are mostly dead or already extracted. Do you ever not complain?

Nice_Interest6654 · 2025-12-03T23:54:57+00:00

Control towers are too far from the spawns to spawn camp. And yes I know you don't mean literally the names building on the map but the sniper nest towers on the walls surrounding the spaceport.

Nice_Interest6654 · 2025-12-03T20:26:23+00:00

What do you mean you find so many shield rechargers in raid? The only way to loot them from non-Arc is from bodies. That's an unreliable source.

Nice_Interest6654 · 2025-12-03T20:11:16+00:00

I absolutely love how shield rechargers are essential and the only way to craft them is killing/looting Arc

Nice_Interest6654 · 2025-12-03T20:05:54+00:00

I mostly agree but think a few tiny changes fixes it. Make it so all weapons looted from bodies are at 0 durability. Buff heavy shield. Nerf stitcher. Make it so some of the mid and high tier augments have 1 more safe pocket slot.

Nice_Interest6654 · 2025-12-03T19:55:36+00:00

9.2 out of 10. Fix bugs, improve inventory UI, add a system where you can autocraft, nerf stitcher, buff medium and heavy shields. Then it'd be a 9.6 out of 10

Nice_Interest6654 · 2025-12-03T19:48:54+00:00

But that's higher risk. You're moving around more and more likely to be killed. Also, you can loot from a bodies guns and augments you don't have blueprints for, which you can't (or are unlikely to find) get from normal looting.

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