If you're attempting to genuinely engage with people here, try avoiding being reductive with things like "steam die hards" and "still bearing grudges". Not a good look for you or whatever point you're trying to make.
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PC Gaming ERA | March 2020 - The month between 2 and 4
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If you're attempting to genuinely engage with people here, try avoiding being reductive with things like "steam die hards" and "still bearing grudges". Not a good look for you or whatever point you're trying to make.
No, not at all, stay. It's more like this topic doesn't really belong here. Nothings changed since the service started and people have done this back and forth so many times. It's draining and people don't have much patience for it anymore.
I want you to stay, I just don't want to be told what someone thinks I am. :)
Is there any reason to avoid pre-ordering something via CD Keys?
They currently have the the best price I can find on RE3, but I've got visions of not actually getting a code through for 5 weeks..
They currently have the the best price I can find on RE3, but I've got visions of not actually getting a code through for 5 weeks..
Sheva's great and I'd like to see her return one day, but who knows when Capcom will get around to RE8 or what form that'll take!
Come on man, my stance is similar to yours and here I am, you just have to forget about it and just enjoy your stay, in the end no matter what launcher do you use or whatever, we all play on PC and have a cozy thread over here to speak our minds, as silly as our ideas could be.
Just respect others' ideas. I learnt that after a lengthy ban, pretty sure can learn to do it too.
One drawback to pre-ordering early from them is that if it turns out there's some pre-order bonus DLC as a separate key, you rarely get that DLC with your early pre-order. They put up another product for sale that contains both the game and DLC, and sell the DLC separately for few bucks. It's a pretty minor issue unless the bonus is something actually useful. Also their prices often fluctuate quite a bit when the release is near. Sometimes the price drops, but more commonly the price raises so pre-ordering at the right moment gets you the best deal. What happens with prices after release, that's a bit more broad subject... it depends on who the publisher is and how well the game did on release.
I wouldn't worry about getting a key that late. Sometimes they only deliver on release day though, but usually few days before. However they rarely tell you when your key is ready, you just have to check the link you got in order confirmation and at some point the key will be available through that link.
As always when new info comes about I am here to post a link
New Elden Ring info, a lore post this time.
New Elden Ring info, a lore post this time.
Is there any to see the Metacritic score of all the games in my Steam account? There are so many games from years (maybe a decade even...) ago that I bought and never played and knowing their MC score would happen narrow down the list and maybe make me play them.
I will finish The Red Strings Club (bought not long ago) this weekend and want to have something else installed on my PC.
I will finish The Red Strings Club (bought not long ago) this weekend and want to have something else installed on my PC.
You can sort by Metacritic Score on the Steam Library:
However, the metacritic score is linked by the devs, so there might be games which dont have it even if they actually have a metacritic page. You can always use Steam Review tho.
I will write something on Cloudpunk and Hellpoint tomorrow.Still open for recommendations for next month! Send them into me via PM or Discord or whatever.
Notable games next month include:
- Resident Evil 3 - Uzzy
- Gears Tactics
- Predator Hunting Grounds
- SnowRunner
- Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord (Yeah I know it's the 30th but still)
- Fallout 76: Wastelanders (Do it, do it for Todd and Derrick)
- HyperParasite (leaving Early Access)
- Totally Reliable Delivery System
- Someday You'll Return
- Cloudpunk
- Over The Alps
Great! DIdn't even cross my mind that Steam itself could have it. Easier for me to sort them like this and do some research about 5-10 games I bought years ago instead of checking the hundred or so one by one.You can sort by Metacritic Score on the Steam Library:
However, the metacritic score is linked by the devs, so there might be games which dont have it even if they actually have a metacritic page. You can always use Steam Review tho.
I want for Decker and failed the very first fight as someone died
That sounds right
Also the best is to play a shotgun samurai. Go tanky but use a shotgun instead of melee. Fuck yeaaaaah
Super good controller! Basically like a XInput DS4 without the touchpad.
The battery solution is so good. Starting in different modes is easy and it remembers each sync separately.
I looked on the AC Odyssey forum and many with recent similar stories have pointed to the latest Nvidia driver if you're in that camp. They even released a hotfix for the last one due to DX11 issues.
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Nvidia's most recent GPU driver introduced a bug that is stopping some DX11 games from launching in certain situations.
Can't wait for Cloudpunk!
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Finished Alyx and really enjoyed it. It felt really different from playing a FPS on a screen and I really enjoyed the new experience. Hopefully we get another VR Half Life game sooner rather than later (especially with that ending).
Oh hell yes. I have this, it's a really good controller. The overall quality of its build and feel is on par with first party console controllers.By the way, got a new controller coming
Kinda hyped for it
That controller look really great!Microsoft should reunite all their services in one single app already. It's negatively hilarious that to redeem a code of a DLC for a game i'm playing on PC Gamepass i have to go the Windows store to redeem it and download the content, and if i want insider services i have to boot another app, and another one for anything related to the controller.
It's like we're back to their Windows XP mentality or something.
By the way, got a new controller coming
Kinda hyped for it
RE5 has a lot less "puzzles" than I remember...
...as in, it has ZERO puzzles. It really is just a action game. I don't even mean that in a bad way necessarily, I just remember it being closer to RE4, leaning more towards action, but no, its just action. At least up to chapter 3-1 (the marshes).
...as in, it has ZERO puzzles. It really is just a action game. I don't even mean that in a bad way necessarily, I just remember it being closer to RE4, leaning more towards action, but no, its just action. At least up to chapter 3-1 (the marshes).
I looked on the AC Odyssey forum and many with recent similar stories have pointed to the latest Nvidia driver if you're in that camp. They even released a hotfix for the last one due to DX11 issues.
Nvidia graphics card not loading DirectX 11 games? Try this hotfix driver
Nvidia's most recent GPU driver introduced a bug that is stopping some DX11 games from launching in certain situations.www.pcgamer.com
Tnx I will try that even though same happened when I had February driver installed.
Google translate says it's an 'upgraded' version, so I'm expecting some new stuff.
I think there is just the one Xbox app on PC?
Its competition no matter if we like how they have gone about it or not.
EGS created competition with pricing and sales, basically their most successful tactics have been their insane sales instead of the moneyhats.
1 more choice in EGS, so there is technically more choices.
Oh sweet summer child, you have no idea how deep this rabbit hole goes.
Its another icon to press on your PC and have access to whatever exclusives they have. Just like Origin or the Xbox app.
And those exclusives did nothing in the grand scheme of things, people that wanted them bought and played them, others waited and got them later. Nothing more or less than that.
Cant use Nintendo Online on PC.
PC is the platform, then you have choices on how you use that platform with just one mouse click.
EGS moving to publishing games we might have never seen already far outweighs any negatives from the consumer unfriendly tactics they used with the moneyhats.
Using EGS doesn't stop you from using other storefronts.
Was it successful though ?
We know that 3rd parties generated 251 millions of dollars of revenue, which is rather low in a year. Especially when Borderlands 3 might have generated close to half of that revenue.
We also know Epic subsidized for 23 millions of dollars of 10 dollars coupon during their mega sale and holiday sale. Which means in a month of mega sale and 2 weeks of holiday sale, they saw slightly over 2.3 million sales in their entire store. That's considering each purchase in holiday, even free ones, generated a 10 dollar coupon and that in their mega sale, it was working starting from 15 dollars which means a lot of 5 dollars games that weren't even out yet.
That fully depends on the expectations from Sweeney and his troll ass will never admit anything negative.
But in the strictest definition of the word it did create competition and drew eyes to the EGS store.
Paying such a massive price for it is a whole other conversation.
Well, I'd agree if those games weren't exclusive.
If those games were also on other stores and you have epic competing against them with lower price, then I'd say : Wow, it is indeed good competition. They distinguish themselves on pricing with heavily subsidized discounts.
Ironically, their exclusive only stance prevented that from happenning because competition lies in comparison.
If you compare, let's say Metro Exodus. It's 30€ on Steam. But hey ! It's 20€ on EGS ! That's a good look for your storefront because you can say "you see, it's cheaper than X competitor". But because they locked themselves, there's no point of comparison when it comes to pricing. Save for Ubisoft games.
That comes back around to the argument of it just being another icon on your PC to click on and how much the features on one storefront matter to you over an exclusivity.
Like a PS4 only game is really exclusive because the expectations of it moving to PC are low (although not impossible if following recent news). I think that is where the disconnect in this conversation lies.
Well, that's one point of competition indeed.
There's a lot more to what a person can value or not in a service.
For someone, it can be just a glorified downloader and seek the best price possible.
For someone, it can be various software integrations.
For someone it can just be convenience or even the way a UI look.
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Well, yeah, the competition angle is bollocks. When games are exclusive and you don't allow key resellers to, well, resell keys you're not generating competition at all.
I'm still looking for a way to test play Control, because no matter how much I love Remedy, I'm not paying full price for their (or any, for that matter, not even Nintendo's) games.
I can see myself resort to torrenting and, if I like it, buy it in a sale, like I did during the last recession.
I'm still looking for a way to test play Control, because no matter how much I love Remedy, I'm not paying full price for their (or any, for that matter, not even Nintendo's) games.
I can see myself resort to torrenting and, if I like it, buy it in a sale, like I did during the last recession.
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And you are perfectly fine doing this, I dont understand why anyone would give you shit for this at all!
I'm ready for the launch version of the game to struggle on my 3080 Ti and be forced to wait for mods lol.
Just buy it and refund it if it doesn't run / you hate it, don't do that tired ass "I pirate games to test how they run" shit that nobody believes. Hasn't the game been on sale multiple times anyway at this point? Istheranydeal lists at has having effectively been 40 dollars for nearly all of January.
I got Control for $6 ($23 regular price) because of the Christmas coupon deal and EGS does regional pricing here where nobody else does.
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