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PC Gaming ERA | February 2020 - Tonight, imma fight, till my combo comes out right
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After advising someone who was looking for PC games to go try Settlers II, I reinstalled the GOLD version off GOG. I figured, " I could just do some work on my laptop, while my settlers are building up proper production chains"
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I'm hooked again. It's simple, but so, so good. The military is totally rudimentary, bu that just makes the whole thing feel even more wholesome.
Apparently the Anniversary edition only has 3 races though. Wtf, Ubi? How would that be considered a good deal? I'll stick with my DOS-pixel sprites, tyvm.
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I'm hooked again. It's simple, but so, so good. The military is totally rudimentary, bu that just makes the whole thing feel even more wholesome.
Apparently the Anniversary edition only has 3 races though. Wtf, Ubi? How would that be considered a good deal? I'll stick with my DOS-pixel sprites, tyvm.
Surgeon Sim 2 is self published by bossa and is timed exclusive.
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Ah. I see this is reflected on the website and EGS store page, but the announcement trailer says Epic owns the game, so there must have been some sort of misunderstanding going on when it was put together.
Welp, it took me around 6 hours to ghost the entire Clockwork Mansion level (including the two city parts before the mansion) in Dishonored 2 while also non-lethally taking out every guard and destroying every clockwork robot.
It doesn't help that the clockwork soldiers are weirdly inconsistent with their awareness states. I'd drop onto a robot, carving off its head, land next to it, and half the time it'd register as seeing me and half the time it wouldn't. Same with tossing grenades at one; you'd throw one, and go around the corner before it explodes and sometimes it'd register as seeing you and sometimes it wouldn't (though it was consistent to the situation - ie - if a robot would register as 'seeing you' when hit with a grenade, it always would, whereas one that doesn't, always doesn't). It's also weird that the clockwork soldiers that would register as 'seeing you' when a grenade goes off, would not register as seeing you if you point blank shot them with the pistol (which is basically as loud). So it's not the noise that was setting them off. Lots of save scumming to ghost them all dead.
I also realize now why they did away with the marble clockwork soldiers from the announcement CG trailer - the entire premise of the level is that the clockwork soldiers are ridiculously expensive and the inventor was looking for a way to reduce the costs of making them so he could make an army of them. It sure wouldn't make sense to have them encased in marble under that lore, so it makes sense they went with wood ones, even if they don't look as cool.
Also, Dishonored 2 delivers some next level memes on the enemy barks.
"Gotta keep my mind on my duties. Forget about that kiss. Mmmmmmmmmmmm that kiss....."
"Of course I can read! What does he think I'm stupid? I know all my letters and then some..."
"H I J K... el..ement..aly"
It doesn't help that the clockwork soldiers are weirdly inconsistent with their awareness states. I'd drop onto a robot, carving off its head, land next to it, and half the time it'd register as seeing me and half the time it wouldn't. Same with tossing grenades at one; you'd throw one, and go around the corner before it explodes and sometimes it'd register as seeing you and sometimes it wouldn't (though it was consistent to the situation - ie - if a robot would register as 'seeing you' when hit with a grenade, it always would, whereas one that doesn't, always doesn't). It's also weird that the clockwork soldiers that would register as 'seeing you' when a grenade goes off, would not register as seeing you if you point blank shot them with the pistol (which is basically as loud). So it's not the noise that was setting them off. Lots of save scumming to ghost them all dead.
I also realize now why they did away with the marble clockwork soldiers from the announcement CG trailer - the entire premise of the level is that the clockwork soldiers are ridiculously expensive and the inventor was looking for a way to reduce the costs of making them so he could make an army of them. It sure wouldn't make sense to have them encased in marble under that lore, so it makes sense they went with wood ones, even if they don't look as cool.
Also, Dishonored 2 delivers some next level memes on the enemy barks.
"Gotta keep my mind on my duties. Forget about that kiss. Mmmmmmmmmmmm that kiss....."
"Of course I can read! What does he think I'm stupid? I know all my letters and then some..."
"H I J K... el..ement..aly"
It was like watching anime (in a bad way).Plague Tale ending
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If you're on Firefox, I found that disabling "enhanced tracking protection" (which is on by default) does the trick.
I usually reload the page and they appear.
It's also a mobile-only problem for me.
Amazing.
This also reminds me I need to pick up 3,4 & 5.. and finish Judgment,
It's more of a chose-your-own-adventure type of game. I suppose it's closer to some CRPG?( I haven't played many of those, so I'm not sure the comparison is good). I haven't played one in over 10 years, so my memory is a bit foggy. But generally:
You arrive in a town, there's several factions, depending on your actions you either ally with one or several, make them kill each other or make peace with each other... There's often a lot of different endings depending on what you did, said or chose. The combat is generally serviceable, with many different sword moves to learn, though in the differences were not really obvious in ones I've played (1 and 3).
It's written like a lot of historical TV drama, with very cliché writing (on purpose) that make them quite entertaining. The breadth of possibilities in the scenario is often really engaging, so a game should be replayed several times to try to fuck up the situation in different ways (or discover more secrets about the town). It's generally 10h long, and you have NG+ to re-start from scratch with the combat possibilities you had (or money?).
I haven't played the new one, but it's supposed to have a sort of infinite dungeon, so I suppose the combat should be better than before?
There was also a spin-off towards the end of the PS2, Samurai Western, which was the same kind of thing, with a wandering samurai arriving in a gold-rush town and going through western movie clichés instead of TV drama clichés. I've heard it was really fun.
All in all, you could call them proto-RGG in terms of combat and "it's a small open world with high density of characters and quests on PS2", except with many different outcomes. I do think RGG killed the series by being superior in terms of gameplay, even though they removed the branching narrative. Even though I enjoyed WS3, I only finished it once because the gameplay, by that time, had become quite antiquated so I went online to read about the other possible outcomes.
Way of the Samurai IV is a comedy based ARPG and it's amazing and you should buy it
It also does a better job at being a roleplaying game than most roleplaying games
I also meant the one that's in the in-game overlay — messed up my post. No issues there either? Wonder if I should reinstall or something. I'm in the beta too.
Just arrived at work, can't test on windows right now, but on my Mac here 20 tabs without problems on the overlay browser.
Try leaving beta to see what happens.
I'm still having problems with the new library. The performance is just not good. When I search a game, by typing it's name in the search field, the characters appear one by one with a heavy lag.
Is it just not build for libraries with 2000 games? Does anybody else experience these kings of problems?
Is it just not build for libraries with 2000 games? Does anybody else experience these kings of problems?
I have 3600 games and I do not experience that. Everythings as fast as it should be.
I laughed so hard when I got
"boiled" ending.
I wonder if we wll ever see Way Of The Samurai 5....
I also have the issue that it takes around 3-5 minutes until a game starts, when I freshly booted my system.
When I started one game, they all start really quickly afterwards, but the first start takes really long.
Maybe I have to do a clean install or can I clean up my Steam install somehow?
Five minutes? That's pretty wild. Are you running games off of an external backup drive or something?
No, nothing like that. All on my internal drives, mostly on SSD.
I think it's some issue with Steam itself.
I'll try this clean up guide here: https://forums.steamrep.com/threads/steam-client-clean-up.104175/
Edit: That did improve the overall performance.
Money for exclusivity and then sells well a year later? Deep Silver aint slipping.Still going up
I wanted to get the Daemon game cause we sure as heck have been starving for a mech action game on PC but I wasn't too sure about the gameplay and the pricing was a tad high for something that I was not 100% on. Decided to get the State of Decay update instaed.
Good to see it doing well though, game didn't seem like it had any real press before release.
Good to see it doing well though, game didn't seem like it had any real press before release.
So people do wait.Still going up
Nice, it's at 9k now.DAEMON X MACHINA also doing well
Been among the global top sellers a lot during pre-orders and has been sellotaped there since its release, now I hope Marvelous will port stuff like RF4S and RF5
They probably did on PS4 and Xbox. I wonder how many of the complainers a year ago never had any intention of buying it anyway, so you can't count all of those as lost $60 sales. I'm sure they weighed up all of their sales forecasts and guaranteed revenue and made the best decision for their business at the time.
Console sales are less profitable than Steam sales though.
And clearly there has been tons of people who did wait and are now buying game,
surely not all might have bought at $60 but they might have bought at $50,40 or 30 instead of $24.
They might have bought on console too at full price rather than wait. Margins on console digital are almost the same as Steam. All I'm saying is, the publisher had more information than us and probably made the best decision for themselves at the time, and we don't have enough information even with hindsight to say they made the wrong choice for their business.
Critics are busy with other games.
Sure Wolcen is popular, but reviewers are usually bogged down by 5-10 other games.
Yeah except there's no other games, this is the quietest start of a year possibly ever. I think it has more to do with the game being indie and having been EA.
It's usually the same, indie games in EA tend to not get reviewed until full release, if at all.
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