Idk seems to be about what its getting reviewed as. A solid 7/8 game. Starts out strong, but becomes a chore when they open the world up. Good for a play through of Act 1 at least. And yeah I think saves are synced across your live account.
PC Gaming ERA | September 2019 - The Girls Are Back In Town
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First sorry for not replying earlier busy day at work and even busier day at home (did i mention that i hate contractors?) so i just managed to cache a break and eat something after 12+ hours XD
They are all ready to release new game in next few months (or in case of SuperGiant they already did)and both Team Meat and Vilambeer are developing games that have kinda heavy competition on the market (for example when SMB was released there was almost nothing like it then). And i was bit hyperbolic but i still believe that we wouldn't see this much complaining if Steam was still what it was 6+ years ago.
I don't have anything against Rami he seems like cool guy. I just have issue with his views that customers don't matter that much and that everything is about developers. I believe that there should be middle ground.
Big publishers will always complain about something. And regarding best known devs, i see that as an issue. Ramis opinions are not more valuable than for example Supraland devs opinion. And should be treated equally in my opinion. There are lots of indie devs with great opinions that i follow on social media, more people should pay attention to them.
As i said above i was hyperbolic but i still believe that there is some truth to that.
All in all i still don;t have an issues with devs making decisions for their own interests as long as they don;t try to convince me that it is for my own good too. Do whatever you need to get food on your table, i am doing the same, that is perfectly normal thing to do, just be honest about it.
On the more bright side GreedFall Launch Trailer is really good and according to ACG there is almost no euro jank in it and world lore and story is super interesting.
They are all ready to release new game in next few months (or in case of SuperGiant they already did)and both Team Meat and Vilambeer are developing games that have kinda heavy competition on the market (for example when SMB was released there was almost nothing like it then). And i was bit hyperbolic but i still believe that we wouldn't see this much complaining if Steam was still what it was 6+ years ago.
I don't have anything against Rami he seems like cool guy. I just have issue with his views that customers don't matter that much and that everything is about developers. I believe that there should be middle ground.
Big publishers will always complain about something. And regarding best known devs, i see that as an issue. Ramis opinions are not more valuable than for example Supraland devs opinion. And should be treated equally in my opinion. There are lots of indie devs with great opinions that i follow on social media, more people should pay attention to them.
As i said above i was hyperbolic but i still believe that there is some truth to that.
All in all i still don;t have an issues with devs making decisions for their own interests as long as they don;t try to convince me that it is for my own good too. Do whatever you need to get food on your table, i am doing the same, that is perfectly normal thing to do, just be honest about it.
On the more bright side GreedFall Launch Trailer is really good and according to ACG there is almost no euro jank in it and world lore and story is super interesting.
Lol i am far from game development, i am poor architect XD And from what i know it is mostly magic attacks, guns and swords in combat. And you have companions that can fight with you.
Steam version surprised me with solid performance and the fact the bothered with actually adding all those Steam features like trading cards and cloud support. And most importantly, it even has properly implemented counters on Steam achievements, so every time you pick up collectibles it shows how many of them you collected and how much left:
It's been a quite while since last time I've seen developer bothered with implementing this feature properly. The campaign so far was fun, need to try other modes before making a proper preview.
It's been a quite while since last time I've seen developer bothered with implementing this feature properly. The campaign so far was fun, need to try other modes before making a proper preview.
I've been binging True Blood and this episode was the last one I watched! It's late in season 3.
Could be higher. For some reason sales in China have stopped and they changed the releasedate to 10th September now.
Trailers really need to get to the point faster. Many don't even have gameplay footage in them and some pages bury the in game screenshots way down the list too. With so much choice out there we need to see what the game actually is fast.
isthereanydeal is your friend for all the official key distributors around. It will autosync your steam wishlist if you want and email about new deals for games on there.
So he sold 20 copies last week? Edit: It is not even discounted on Steam. No wonder he sells 20-30 copies per week.
Anyway, his game is always available DRM-free on Humble Trove. Offering it on EGS should not matter much.
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Started playing Metro Exodus this morning. I'd been eyeballing it on the EGS since I got my new GPU (2070 Super) but didn't want to necessarily pay $58 for it and the new DLC. Imagine my surprise when I saw it was on sale on the Humble shop and, with a few discounts I had, I got them both for $37! That was a steal.
I'm really impressed with how well it runs. I'm running everything Ultra with full RTX on at 1080p with DLSS and it never drops below 60. I'm really enjoying it so far, though I enjoyed the other entries as well. I will say I don't think I've ever seen such a poorly representational benchmark, though. It ran concerningly crappy, and then I played the game and it has been smooth sailing.
I guess because I'm playing with DLSS it's actually rendering at 720p and then upscaling? I'm also using the new Sharpening filter and it looks like a damn sharp picture so I'm really impressed.
I'm really impressed with how well it runs. I'm running everything Ultra with full RTX on at 1080p with DLSS and it never drops below 60. I'm really enjoying it so far, though I enjoyed the other entries as well. I will say I don't think I've ever seen such a poorly representational benchmark, though. It ran concerningly crappy, and then I played the game and it has been smooth sailing.
I guess because I'm playing with DLSS it's actually rendering at 720p and then upscaling? I'm also using the new Sharpening filter and it looks like a damn sharp picture so I'm really impressed.
I'm not sure Windows 10 has that big of a marketshare in China. But yes, I believe the store works in China. No idea if Gears of any other games would be on it though.
Thanks. I was wondering if that was one of the reasons that MS sells their games on Steam.
The End is Nigh developer. (Basically the actual sequel to Super Meat Boy)
Played like 8 hours of Gears tonight and having a ton of fun. I am getting some stuttering issues though which is a pain. I think it might be due to having a 20xx series card and DX12? I feel like that's an issue I've seen before, although I've not really had any issues with other DX12 games.
Crazy that the Ghost Recon Breakpoint beta, Gears of War 5 EA, and MHW: Iceborne all dropped on the same weekend.
And the game I'm playing? The Division 2, lol.
I think it's pretty great. I kinda miss the snow, but I do enjoy all the QOL improvements, I like that the gun mods are just on/off and you don't have to search through thousands of them.
I think D2's open world mechanics are enough, Ghost Recon is too much with all the vehicles and everything.
And the game I'm playing? The Division 2, lol.
I think it's pretty great. I kinda miss the snow, but I do enjoy all the QOL improvements, I like that the gun mods are just on/off and you don't have to search through thousands of them.
I think D2's open world mechanics are enough, Ghost Recon is too much with all the vehicles and everything.
Physical PC version of AI: The Somnium Files for sale via LRG
Darksiders 3 done and dusted. Not bad, but Darksiders 1 is still my favourite in the series.
Now to start Creature in the Well on Game Pass. I hope this game is free of UWP bullshit.
Now to start Creature in the Well on Game Pass. I hope this game is free of UWP bullshit.
Nice hot take. The End is Nigh is made by both him and Edmund McMillen (you know, the actual Super Meat Boy creator), and McMillen did the bulk of the game design.
I think I prefer it to SMB as well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Division 2 really is better than the first one in every way. They improved every bit that was weak before.
I haven't even looked at Gamepass for PC yet. I'm subbed and have a few games installed but boy that is one big backlog for me. I'm currently trying (emphasis on trying) to play No Man's Sky but they fucked up Steam Controller so badly that it doesn't actually work from launching the game so I can't play on Steam Link. This is even worse because Hello Games specifically use Steam Input now too.
Playing Knights and Bikes with the girlfriend, absolutely loving the artstyle and general gameplay. I've got Cat Quest 2 coming out later in September, plus Yakuza 0 to still finish, Everspace, DARQ, Undertale, DMC 5, Gears 5, Tomb Raider, Kingsway, Riverbond, Dead Cells, Blair Witch if I feel like shitting my pants and probably waaaay too many others. I need some kind of spinning wheel to tell me what to play and lock out all other games until I've played it.
Playing Knights and Bikes with the girlfriend, absolutely loving the artstyle and general gameplay. I've got Cat Quest 2 coming out later in September, plus Yakuza 0 to still finish, Everspace, DARQ, Undertale, DMC 5, Gears 5, Tomb Raider, Kingsway, Riverbond, Dead Cells, Blair Witch if I feel like shitting my pants and probably waaaay too many others. I need some kind of spinning wheel to tell me what to play and lock out all other games until I've played it.
Creature in the Well on Game Pass is installed in a folder called "ModifiableWindowsApps", which is the first time I've seen that.
This bodes well for Game Pass on PC in the future, because as far as I can tell this is just a standard UE4 file structure and nothing is encrypted weirdly.
This bodes well for Game Pass on PC in the future, because as far as I can tell this is just a standard UE4 file structure and nothing is encrypted weirdly.
The End is Nigh is way better than SMB. And I really like SMB.
Obviously too late and maybe it wouldn't have been appealing to you, but as a reminder to anyone else interested in Metro, it can be played on Gamepass for Windows for as low as a dollar. (I think that deal's still on right now?)
This is true it is also a good idea that I completely forgot about. Thank you for the suggestion.
Really interesting article about purchase behaviors on Steam
https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/ChrisZukowski/20190906/350248/How_Steam_users_see_your_game.php
Makes you wonder how more barren stores fail at triggering that sale. So many little details are paramount to catching peoples interest.
https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/ChrisZukowski/20190906/350248/How_Steam_users_see_your_game.php
Makes you wonder how more barren stores fail at triggering that sale. So many little details are paramount to catching peoples interest.
That's EXACTLY how i browse games 1:1, only difference is that i never open the full-list of tags, i only look at the few being shown by default
Lots of interesting insights from the Gamasutra article. I pretty much browse the same way. Though the part about looking for similarity to the games I play probably depends on my mood. With the same example the article gives, Shortest Trip to Earth, I just ended up thinking that while I like FTL, I've played FTL and moved on.
I'm totally the same way about cinematic trailers and screenshots as that one guy. Totally pointless and tells me nothing about a game. Don't care. Give me UI, give me gameplay. Everything else is not informative unless your game is heavily story driven like Man of Medan.
I do the same thing on eShop. But there's an added rub: I almost always nope out if I get the feeling they're showing bullshots.
It's interesting how the top of store pages on EGS are all populated by trailers. Not just one but like three to five. Who watches all that? Screenshots are hidden in a drop down box. Like what.
I'm totally the same way about cinematic trailers and screenshots as that one guy. Totally pointless and tells me nothing about a game. Don't care. Give me UI, give me gameplay. Everything else is not informative unless your game is heavily story driven like Man of Medan.
I do the same thing on eShop. But there's an added rub: I almost always nope out if I get the feeling they're showing bullshots.
It's interesting how the top of store pages on EGS are all populated by trailers. Not just one but like three to five. Who watches all that? Screenshots are hidden in a drop down box. Like what.
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I am on-board in the same way about trailers except I don't even care about cinematic style trailers in story driven games. Cut-scene driven content tells me nothing about the gameplay or the UI and that is about all I care about.
I also move on pretty fast if I still don't know about how the game will play after skipping through the trailer. I'm impatient and irritable and have better things to do with my time than spend it searching the information a dev has provided about their game for actual information.
That's not to say that I won't go back at some point and buy the game but that will always be driven by talk in places like this.
Wasn't a hot take lol
Probably should have said worse SMB though, to be fair.
Didn't like it nearly as much.
I checked Twitch after a while and man did WoW hit Fortnite, or maybe it was Season 10. One way or another current trajectory is going downward for both number of channels that stream the game and number of viewers.
Lifetime Averge
This year Average
This year Peak
Last year
This year
In general all stat are down between 30%-50% compared to last year. My theory is that FPS games have 1.5 - 2 years of prime time before numbers are starting to go down and they stabilize when mostly core players are ones left playing the game. Same happened to PUBG for example. I wonder how long will WoW Classic last. Also i am really surprised by Minecraft and GTA Online raise on Twitch.
Lifetime Averge
This year Average
This year Peak
Last year
This year
In general all stat are down between 30%-50% compared to last year. My theory is that FPS games have 1.5 - 2 years of prime time before numbers are starting to go down and they stabilize when mostly core players are ones left playing the game. Same happened to PUBG for example. I wonder how long will WoW Classic last. Also i am really surprised by Minecraft and GTA Online raise on Twitch.
'The only one who buys our indie games are people with 100+ or even 1k+ games'
'But why aren't they buying them right away and just wishlisting in best case scenario'
Well cause they have 100+ or even 1k+ games already. That detective work is only second to Sherlock's. Also probably doesn't buy shit but wants everyone to buy his shit.
Well when you are essentially giving away a game, its probably smart to have a staggered release.
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