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PC Gaming Era | April 2019 - Goodbye, Uzzy is your new King

Tombstone for Orange should say:

  • Windows ME is a good operating system

    Votes: 42 16.4%

  • UN Ambassador for PC Gaming

    Votes: 34 13.3%

  • Report this Orange man

    Votes: 10 3.9%

  • Still thinks PC Gaming is dead

    Votes: 22 8.6%

  • ༼ つ ▀̿_▀̿ ༽つ (I have no idea if this one is allowed)

    Votes: 57 22.3%

  • nice thread btw :)

    Votes: 91 35.5%
  • Total voters
    256
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Yunyo

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InquisitorAles said:
It's not really a secret that Galyonkin was a huge Ubisoft fanboy long before he started to work in game development, he always defended them in his blog no matter what, he has very notorious posts about how Ubisoft did nothing wrong with broken DRM they implemented in their late 00's-early 10's games. Seriously, as someone who followed his career since days he was an editor in chief of a local gaming magazine, all those weird decisions and deals that happened with EGS so far are entirely based on his own preferences, things he likes and what he thinks is right.

For example, he praised studio lead of Metro games creators several times and always followed S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and Metro development, he even tried to spread a dumb rumor about Bethesda buying S.T.A.L.K.E.R. franchise when the sequel was canceled in 2013 - and 5 years later Epic, US-based company which was never a big market for Metro and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games, suddenly spending crazy money on Metro Exodus exclusivity. After launching SteamSpy he started to think he is a best friend of indie developers now, and when Valve borked SteamSpy with GDPR changes, he cried in his blog about how this was a planned attack against him - and literally a few months later EGS launched and they started to "help" indies by giving them loads of cash for exclusivity. I've mentioned his rooting for Ubisoft above, it's really not about Epic in this case, it's just him wanting Ubisoft to succeed as much as possible and in his eyes, Ubisoft getting all profits and not giving 30% cut to anyone else is a success.

I could have provided even more examples of his obvious bias in this whole situation, but recently he took down his blog and most of the news and articles about him are in russian, so it's hard to track down everything. My only question about this mess is why the hell Sweeney allowing him to do all this, I mean sure, Galyonkin has a wide experience in game development, but it doesn't explain how he got almost unlimited access to Epic's money warchest. I can only see it as Sweeney being slightly delusional and having "savior of the gaming industry" complex as well (and he basically proved this with some of his responses and tweets), and that's why they got along with each other so quickly. So, my advice to everyone is to not waste your time trying to see any valid reasons in what's going on with EGS right now - because in reality there are no such reasons, only excuses for shareholders while they keep feeding their huge ego.
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Honestly doesn't surprise me in the slightest with how the game industry has worked since it existed.
 
Rhaknar

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Ge0force said:
Humble Monthly isn't a game renting service like GP, you can actually keep the games when your subscription runs out. You may want to consider Origin Access (with or without premium) instead if you don't care about owning your games.
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I have a yearly sub to humble monthly. Can't wait for those epic keys any day now.
 
Ge0force

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oldbob2k said:
Where are the offline tank games? What are my options? I do not want to play online games like WoT. :(
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Battlefield One had some campaign missions with a tank...


Rhaknar said:
I have a yearly sub to humble monthly. Can't wait for those epic keys any day now.
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I always sub on a monthly base, skipping months when I don't want/need the announced games. But yeah, no doubt Epic will push them very hard to include EGS games. That's when PC gamers are really gonna rage against Epic... :)
 
AHA-Lambda

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dex3108 said:
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/artic...-labs-undaunted-quest-for-cross-platform-play

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PC storefronts have been more like storefronts
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Uh....
 
Lashley

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Should have it in the PC release when it comes out in 2050
 
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Mentalist

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Google suggested I read this, and for once it was right

http://wccftech.com/greedfall-interview-with-jehanne-rousseau/

There's also a link for a gameplay preview in the article.

Genuinely one of the games I'm most intrigued about this year. Spiders have been ridiculously prolific, if not always producing the most polished games; this is their fifth RPG setting, and each one had something unique about it.

They were essentially a C-tier Bioware; and now that Bioware is making GAAS games, I wonder if they can leapfrog them, the way CDPRED did back in DA2/Witcher 2 times.
 
JD3Nine

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Nov 6, 2017
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That Dauntless interview is full of dumb stuff. The game was fun for awhile but MHW came along and ate their lunch.

Even if I was still playing, there is no way I would be following them to the Epic store.
 
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eonden

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Steam Controller discontinued?
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019...f-vrs-first-generation-but-is-it-worth-999/3/

Valve's Steam Controller, which has since been discontinued, was also announced with support for modularity and redesigns. That hope didn't play out as Valve had anticipated. "Input for 2D gaming, especially from a couch, is kind of solved, right?" one Valve staffer said to Ars. "Whereas we think there's a long road ahead for VR. Extensibility for VR is far more important than for a gamepad." Another staffer chimed in to add, "the ability for someone to add something meaningful [to the VR world] without being gated by having a huge customer base is important." Valve's own example for a fan-made add-on appears in the above gallery: an LCD panel with a hard-coded animation pattern. But that's only decorative.
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I don't know if this was announced before, but it looks like the Plus update for the dope twin-stick shooter Assault Android Cactus made it to Steam from Switch. Harder remixed campaign, unlockable costumes, auto-aim mode, and some more QOL bits and pieces. It's half-off right now, and there's going to be a price increase after the sale to bring it in line with the Switch pricing.

Also one of the devs posts here, if you care about that. Hi Paz, you made a good game.

 
UltraJay

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Oct 25, 2017
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I paid 1200 AUD for the Vive. Will pay the 400 AUD for the controllers, then sometime down the line, get the headset for 700 AUD. I don't need the trackers unless my 1.0 lighthouses break.

Will have to get it through Amazon or some other means.
 
Mad

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I played dauntless during it's alpha? Beta? In desperation waiting for a new Monster Hunter finally it was basically just similar enough to it to make me go this is a knock off but feels like ass. I would say of all the games trying to be monster Hunter that aren't any real story just go with it. There's a lot more Japanese games that fit the bill , that get a lot closer but monster Hunter is monster Hunter.
 
Ruruja

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My Lenovo Explorer was £140. I can't see how their headset can justify being 7 times more than that based on what it's offering.

I'll wait until foveated rendering is more popular.
 
stan423321

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Oct 25, 2017
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1079€ + shipping? I'm sorry, Valve, I don't see myself buying this anytime soon.

One, because of whole brain drilling talk.

Two, since I'd need eight for couch multiplayer.
 

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GibdoInferno said:
I don't know if this was announced before, but it looks like the Plus update for the dope twin-stick shooter Assault Android Cactus made it to Steam from Switch. Harder remixed campaign, unlockable costumes, auto-aim mode, and some more QOL bits and pieces. It's half-off right now, and there's going to be a price increase after the sale to bring it in line with the Switch pricing.

Also one of the devs posts here, if you care about that. Hi Paz, you made a good game.

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I take that if I have the original it will be upgraded? It says its already on my library :0
 
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