Early Access: Does It Make Games BETTER?
19Early Access is a useful tool for developers, but is it something you should get involved in as a player?
It's almost inevitable that you're thinking about buying a game on Steam, that you'll find out it's in Early Access. It's happened to me a few times. It's something that really makes me reconsider if it's worth buying into.
In this video, I try to give my best analysis on Early Access and how it effects the game in the long term. Baldur's Gate 3 recently launched into Steam's Early Access, and considering Larian Studio's experience with the program with Divinity Original Sin, and if reviews are anything to go by, it seems like they know what they're doing. But do they really?
Allow me, a mere gamer, to fully explain everything to you.
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Production Notes: I'm not happy with my VO here. I had to re-record it because I lost the first VO file I recorded and edited. It felt awful to re-record and re-edit audio I had already done, so I wasn't as enthusiastic as I was the first time.
I think there's a lot I can still improve on, but I think I'm getting more efficient at working on these. It still takes me a hell of a long time to put together a video like this, but that's because my motivation is such shit. Hopefully I can feel better about putting videos out like this and getting no public feedback sometime soon.
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0:00 Intro
1:20 Divinity: Original Sin
3:40 Divinity: Original Sin 2
7:19 Baldur's Gate 3
10:47 Tower Unite
12:23 DayZ
12:50 Block game???
14:05 Tying it all back together
15:10 The Question
15:50 Endslate
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