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PC Gaming Era | January 2019 - Return of the Obra Dinn wins PC Gaming Era GOTY
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Bungie hasn't been good since the 90s.
They're an independent studio. The only thing that would keep them tied to Activision would have been some weird contract or a complete lack of capital.
Damn even the little poster is freaky lol.
Think I'll make myself a cup of tea and watch a Lets Play...
*one Lets Play later*
LOOOOOL, I'm never playing this game ever. You have my respect fantomena.
o-oh a light at the end of the tunnel. Sort of.
I too wonder about the troubles. At least they aren't 100% ignoring the situation now...
Uh, if Steam is just gonna be a cut-down version of Chrome now can I please get some options for Zoom/Scale separate from Windows DPI/Scale?
Like I don't use Chrome, but Firefox let's me set a zoom level on a per-page basis. I'm not even asking for something that fancy...
Like I don't use Chrome, but Firefox let's me set a zoom level on a per-page basis. I'm not even asking for something that fancy...
A bit late now, but still relevant.
I hadn't heard about the refund change, that's good for consumers at least, it's still telling that they didn't have a real system when the store went live but doesn't make much difference after the fact.
What you describe isn't "discovery" compared to Steam at all, which was my comparison point because they've literally cited Steams terrible discovery as one of their reasons devs might use Epic.
- The social feed is already in Steam, and has been for ages
- The curated lists exist on Steam and outside of Steam already and "app stores" are not a model to copy for quality discovery
- Following developers / curators already exists in Steam
- Influencers already exist and already have an impact on game sales, Epic is offering to eat the "influencer" cut at first but later on devs will be expected to from the sounds of it. Also, it's essentially just paid advertising which devs could already do
The "tighter standards" is still a nebulous concept, they want to allow devs to self publish but require their games to be tested... which Steam already does. Maybe they're more aggressive, or maybe a ton of low-effort devs just don't bother with Epic for various reasons, and maybe it works out, but again their whole argument is that they're trying to compete with Steam and be pro-developer and they really, really aren't. The literal 1 thing they've done better is the cut devs get and if they aren't doing anything actually good to get help sell those games, what's the point? Otherwise every "good" thing (free games, getting Journey on PC, etc.) has been them throwing money at something to try and generate returns.
I still haven't seen anything from them that they actually care, at the end of the day, about developers or consumers. Rather, they care about turning their Fortnite money into a bigger wedge of that digital storefront economy. Which yes, most companies ultimately care about profit, but they at least offer basic reasons to use them.
The nonsense game companies are trying to pull over the more recent years would get so much pushback in a traditional market. It's so frustrating.
I mean, I know the whole discovery things are already on Steam, I added that information to drive the point that Steam already has those things and the really only new thing was the influencers part. And even then, Steam allows for streaming into the store page and actually promotes games that are doing that. I also didnt say anything abot the influencer cost because I had mentioned it before.
On the "tighter standards" part. Yeah, I have no idea but the information they gave is that. I thought I had already used a tone that clearly gave away my position on the "dont think they will really be able to actually be anything useful".
I just want to point out my first sentence. I do not really like Epic Store and I dont think they are really bringing anything new to the table (except the 12% cut). I just wanted to more or less explain their "solutions" to some of the points (and how they fare against Steam), as well as explain that they did talk about some of the points you hadnt gotten the more updated information about.
Edit: some extra information about discoverability- Galy seems against the whoel concept of automating most of the busywork for it so "Discovery Queues" is probably not something they will work with. Also, they will not have "Wishlist"s as he believes that just encourages a "wait for the sale" culture.
I think both of those things are mistakes.
I heard the same about Penumbra but that just kept putting me to sleep, maybe this one is legit.
It's been that for a decade plus. I'm amazed the nose isn't a different color and it's actually a metaphor and not Gabe and Tycho discussing shit over a plain background.
Kinda expected but sucks :(
Wingamestore?
I mean, the game was on sale in lots of places, GMG aswell and somewhere else at least, so clearly it was a planned sale before going live.
The house in Paranormal Activity is fucking creepy aaaah I can't do this, but I want to do this.
Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck
Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck
Yep, I'll just stay put and no biggie if they cancel my order
Depends on the game. I remember Final Fantasy 13 skipping some achievements when I played it in offline mode.
As for offline mode, it also depends on the game. I didnt have internet for some months and a couple of games didnt start. Must be that it needed to be played online once every couple of months or something...
That would be weird. I mean most of Steam is a webpage right now, but I expected the client specific stuff to be panorama.
Though panorama is really close to web tech in many ways, so I don't know what to think now.
I bought there no issue but it wasnt on launch day it was a couple days before...
...when i linked it here for everyone to see! >_>
also here's a scorching hot take for all of you. Onimusha is doing absolutely nothing for me, its a huge bummer in fact. And yes I played it at the time, it did not age well at all imo.
I wouldn't say that's conclusive proof at this early stage. Although Panorama is designed to be webesque, the tab may just be tied to a dummy HTML file in public builds of the client so that the new design doesn't accidentally leak.
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How people keep falling for these Facebook hoaxes year after year is truly fascinating. My timeline is literally everyone sharing the same post about not allowing Facebook to claim ownership of their pics and other info.
Last year it was about Facebook charging you unless you shared a specific post. How dense can people be?
Last year it was about Facebook charging you unless you shared a specific post. How dense can people be?
There are people that believe the world is flat and they shouldn't vaccinate their kids...
True. There are also many who believe man landed on the moon. It's crazy.
People really enjoying that free Braveland, aren't they?
Unless steam stats are lying to me...
Unless steam stats are lying to me...
Uh, never? Like, you can fly around when you get the ship, but only to a few dungeons or loot spots.
This isn't FF13.
It's a navigation map where you select places for the ship to land. It's mostly areas you already visited, and a few secrets.
There's no true open area in FFX. Come for the music, stay for the ending, skip the sequel.
Just a little bit of the first one. Why would I want to dodge Lightning. She can strike me right in the heart.
You should go back. It's a fantastic game (as long as you realize it's an action game, not a JRPG). The story is not great, but it's honestly not that bad either by FF standards.
Production values are off the chart, and the music is the best in the entire franchise.
I'm pretty sure it's only temporarily free so it bypasses that rule
I plan to. I get in these weird phases where I want to finish FF games. First I was going to play them in order. Then I got stuck on the final boss of 1 and that didn't happen. Then I was going to play forwards from 7. Got derailed quickly. Then I was going to go backward from 15. Nope. I've touched every game from 7 on at one time of the other.
The funny thing with me and video game music is I really don't care about it. There's like 3 games I can easily recall music from - both Nier games and the big sweeping theme from Kingdom Hearts. I more often remember music when it's really annoying, like Xenoblade X. I don't know why, being that I love music and have been an amateur musician for a good chunk of my life. It's just not a selling point for me in games. I'd make a thread but that would just be an invitation to get shit on by most of ERA lol.
I hear you. I have never finished a modern FF game except for 10 and 13.
My playthrough of FFX on PC is stalled when you go to the wedding. My playthrough of 12 is stalled after the Raithwall tomb. My playthrough of 13-2 is stalled just after Academia. My playthrough of 15 is stalled just after Cape Caem.
Actually, a lot of my playthroughs are stalled. It's become a thing for me, somehow. The way I play games doesn't lend itself to me actually finishing a game before needing to start another one. I probably have like 10-15 in-progress games that I will in all likelihood never finish (sometimes I really get pumped to revisit one... but then I just go start a different game instead).
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