Valve's refund policy allows any game that's been played for under two hours to be immediately refunded
    • MolochAlter@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 days ago

      if it really is so bad you feel you should get your money back on principle, you know before the end of the meal/film.

      I disagree that you would necessarily know.

      Mass Effect 3 is stellar, until the ending invalidates basically all of your choices and destroys the galaxy no matter what you do, because the lead writer and the director thought it right to bypass their internal review process.

      Firewatch feels like it’s going to take at least some of the dialogue choices you made in the game into account but then it turns out it’s entirely linear and smoke and mirrors.

      A bad ending can absolutely restrospectively destroy the experience of an otherwise good story.

      • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        10 days ago

        A bad ending can absolutely restrospectively destroy the experience of an otherwise good story.

        Don’t forget The Witcher 3, where bad end is on par with Mass Effect 3 and the logic to get it is really dumb and poorly telegraphed.

        I still have CDPR (and by extension GOG) blacklisted. They burned me on that entire franchise and wasted a ton of my time. As far as I’m concerned, they owe me a game yhat doesn’t suck.