Caporegime
Latest gossip says it's NBA 2K21 or whatever it is, basketball game. Meh.
Epic is giving away big games for the next few weeks again
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That would be a massive disappointment, but I doubt it. The whole point of the giveaway is to have highly rated and desirable games with mass appeal.
Caporegime
Oh dear.
Soldato
And with is the mystery of the second game.
And for the record (in case I am right), these are the other possibilities I think they might be:
Division 2
Doom (2016)
Forza Horizon 5 (or which even the latest one is that is set in the UK)
Witcher 3
Fallout 4
Collection of Grid or Dirt games, I know Codemasters are owned by EA now, but I think they are allowing them to remain autonomous.
No Man's Sky
Project Cars 2
State of Decay collection
A collection of Assassin's Creeds or Far Cry games
The Outer Worlds
Or maybe something like Vamyr, the Evil Within or Prey.
As for the games it will not be, I don't think it will be any main EA game, or one from Activation (ie CoD), or any popular multiplayer game like Pubg or Rainbow Six.
Soldato
Anything to do with baseball, basketball and American Handball and I'm out.
That's kind of the point, there is no point having a game that only appeals to one country. If it is true I give permission to mods to change my name to Mr. Knows Nothing for one week.
Soldato
Not trying to change anyone's opinion about basketball, but it does still make for a good videogame.
Plenty of Americans hate football but will still play Fifa games because it still translates to a good video game, the same can be true of basketball games even if you don't like basketball. The 3 point risk and reward vs 2 points blend does make for a good game.
I didn't like basketball but became a moderate fan though playing video games of it, NBA Jam alone was well worth playing whether you knew anything about basketball or not.
If it helps a Scottish Canadian invented the game when Canada had much closer ties to the UK, so it's not as American as you might think.
You might find you enjoy the games even if you don't like the sport, a bit like golf games.
Plenty of Americans hate football but will still play Fifa games because it still translates to a good video game, the same can be true of basketball games even if you don't like basketball. The 3 point risk and reward vs 2 points blend does make for a good game.
I didn't like basketball but became a moderate fan though playing video games of it, NBA Jam alone was well worth playing whether you knew anything about basketball or not.
If it helps a Scottish Canadian invented the game when Canada had much closer ties to the UK, so it's not as American as you might think.
You might find you enjoy the games even if you don't like the sport, a bit like golf games.
That might be the case, but the point is that it doesn't make for a good headline grabbing, let's wait for the servers to crash game. Which is what happened last year with GTA V.
Soldato
Indeed, people will moan whatever game it is.
Whether its NBA or one of the games you listed there will always be a vocal group of people that hate it. Don't forget these games are free.
Yes that will always be true, but from Epic's perspective its not really going to make people start up their launcher and take a look. Also just took a look at that game, 39% user rating on Steam with a release date of less than 9 months ago. And from the developer's perspective its suicidal, they risk the trust of their paying player base. A player base that paid £49.99 for the game just a few month prior.
No, that's kind of the point. The whole effectiveness of these big giveaways are for games you have heard of.
Unless you ask anyone in a FIFA thread, where you'll be told it's the worst game ever*
*until next year's version comes out
Although this can work positively too, I picked up Little Nightmares and absolutely loved it. May even buy the sequel now which obviously also benefits the developer, would not have even heard of it unless it popped up on Epic.
Soldato
Aaaaand it is the basketball game.
Meh
Meh
Half of their random games are better than this.