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PC Gaming ERA | July 2019 - Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of RICHAAAAAAARD!
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Sea of Solitude was added to Origin Access Premier, and being a short game I decided to play through it today.
It took about 3.5 hours, getting almost all of the collectibles. It's a game about dealing with personal issues, along the lines of Papa y Yo, Rime, Blue Sheep, Hellblade, etc. It has a cartoony art style that I found pretty charming. The gameplay is unfortunately lacking, with very little challenge. There is some decent exploration and some minor platforming, but the bulk of the activity feels a lot like busywork. The collectibles seem added for just a little extra exploratory gameplay, as they don't seem to offer much to the story, and there doesn't seem to be any reward for getting them all. In addition, while there is a chapter select, there's no indication of how many you've missed, so good luck tracking down the stragglers once you've completed the game.
It performed well on my PC, with the exception of some occasional hitching and slowdown I wouldn't have expected from a game that doesn't appear to tax the hardware.
It took about 3.5 hours, getting almost all of the collectibles. It's a game about dealing with personal issues, along the lines of Papa y Yo, Rime, Blue Sheep, Hellblade, etc. It has a cartoony art style that I found pretty charming. The gameplay is unfortunately lacking, with very little challenge. There is some decent exploration and some minor platforming, but the bulk of the activity feels a lot like busywork. The collectibles seem added for just a little extra exploratory gameplay, as they don't seem to offer much to the story, and there doesn't seem to be any reward for getting them all. In addition, while there is a chapter select, there's no indication of how many you've missed, so good luck tracking down the stragglers once you've completed the game.
It performed well on my PC, with the exception of some occasional hitching and slowdown I wouldn't have expected from a game that doesn't appear to tax the hardware.
No you are people who pay money to play Ubisoft games.
Time for self reflection.
People are purchasing items from old Steam sales (to convert them into gems, I assume). If you have not sold yours yet, it might be a good time to list those.
I imagine Cyberpunk will be filled with choices like that. I like them and I cannot wait.
How does that make it stupid?
Huge cornerstone of a story like the Witcher series is that you're frequently between a rock and a hard place. Half the decisions are like that, the other half have options that might seem good or better but end up being twisted around and biting the hero in the ass.
In case of Blood & Wine
Detlaff is guilty but he doesn't deserve to be killed but punished. Same goes for Syanna. But you only have choice to kill one of them as far as I know and 3rd option is even worse where Anna dies too. And everything could be avoided if Syanna went to meet and talk with Derlaff.
Yeah, when I went to their website to redeem the Control code from my 2070 Super I scrolled down a little bit and thought: "This layout is like the last time I visited 9gag 6 years ago which was terrible then with the endless scrolling down. Who thought that is a good idea?"
Except none of the witcher is really like that because there are zero consequences to anything you do.
"Huh, I got a slightly different conversation option or quest reward. Oh well, guess it is time to work on the next meaningless fetch quest."
Repeat 100 times (or 78000 times for TW3) and you are done.
Which is a pity. Even old games like BG2 made you feel like an evil as fuck badass if you played in a certain way.
Witcher has always had an established preconception about them in the series. I think it works well in context.
That wouldn't make sense with Geralt as a character, though.
Somewhere on Twitter, a dev is writing another scathing rant about how Steam screws him over and does nothing about the Wishlistapocolypse.
You are driving devs out of their Job with your wishlist deleting extravagance.
wow, during the sale I sifted through my wishlist and by the end of the event I went from 400ish games to 230 (now back to 260ish) and it felt like a chore, can't imagine doing that with 2000 games.
Yeah, the whole thing is a shitshow that happens because a bunch of characters wouldn't take the time to listen about important plot points.
It's well-written, and the fact that I care enough about the characters to feel that the best option was walking away from the game rather than seeing things play out badly is probably telling of how involved I became with the game, :o
But it's still an idiot plot- I.e., a plot that happens only because every character is acting like a (very believable and clearly motivated) idiot.
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Edit²: I think the results were updated.
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In the sense that he doesn't really have one besides "yes I am a witcher...is that a problem? ... a little bit but not really? ... umm well ok then. Need some stuff fetched?" I agree. I don't think that is for the better.
There are quests in the game where you have a direct impact on character fates or plot resolution.
None of them lead to completely separate narrative branches like the Roche/Iorveth decision in The Witcher 2, but they still have more impact than just changing the quest reward or showing a different dialogue option.
It's really stunning. On my 2080 Ti in 4K and Ultra, there are many moments when I can't think of a single better looking game this generation. Incredible to think what this team could do with a bigger budget.Also, Plague Tale is a really pretty game
I don't think they want you to know, but
Edit: found the list on reddit
Mechwarrior 5 updated it's FAQ
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Old FAQ mentioned Steam 8 times. No mention of Steam in the new FAQ
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Old FAQ mentioned Steam 8 times. No mention of Steam in the new FAQ
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Oh no. Please PGI, just don't.Mechwarrior 5 updated it's FAQ
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Old FAQ mentioned Steam 8 times. No mention of Steam in the new FAQ
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I think my brain started leaking out of my ears.Tim Sweeney posts there regularly
Tim Sweeney posts there regularly
They support idea of organizing and expressing views but they don't care about those views.
I casually check subreddits only to discover that the game designer of Eternal Card Game has been arrested on charges of rape.
Paging Rhaknar.
Paging Rhaknar.
Yeah, but Steam has official support forums of their own and we don't see Gabe trolling reddit to shore up support and put out fires
Apart from Moonlighter and This War of Mine, upcoming games could include:
- Bad North
- Celeste
- FEZ
- Hyper Light Drifter
- InnerSpace
- Next Up Hero
- Pyre
- Rayman 3 (on Uplay but not on Steam for now)
- The Escapists
- The Settlers History Collection (exclusively on Uplay for now)
I'm desperately trying to think of a "Skull and Bones" joke but I'm not even sure if that game is still happening
Heck yeah. The board game is huge and obviously due to the size, it is expensive. Will gladly buy the video game version of it.
Which makes you wonder, if they don't care about the views being expressed, what is their argument against Steam forums again?
I played through Seasons After Fall and had a nice time with it. It's not a challenging game with no combat at all, but the mix of puzzle and platforming is quite fun. The game looks beautiful and is really charming. The fox is animated so cute as well! I really enjoyed it.
It got a bit tiresome during the end - new pathes open up, but sometimes I had trouble seeing, where exactly the change took place, and so had to search the whole area for it. And sometimes everything can look a bit similar, so it wasn't so easy to keep track where I am and where I'm coming from.
Another time I was stuck because I had overlooked an exit. And I was close to drag up a walkthrough, because the controls suddenly changed for a puzzle.
Climbing back up after falling down can be a bit slow as well, especially when you have to change the seasons a lot for that to happen.
The only thing a little bit challenging is to find all flower fields and all 4 memory fragments. It's not that hard, especially the flowers are hard to avoid, though some are a bit more to the left or right.
For the memories you have to look more carefully, but they are no big deal either. They reward you with a little extra ending. As a good game should do, your last checkpoint lets you collect everything you might have missed, even after seeing the credits.
Overall I'm glad I grabbed it. I think I needed around 7 hours to finish it.
It got a bit tiresome during the end - new pathes open up, but sometimes I had trouble seeing, where exactly the change took place, and so had to search the whole area for it. And sometimes everything can look a bit similar, so it wasn't so easy to keep track where I am and where I'm coming from.
Another time I was stuck because I had overlooked an exit. And I was close to drag up a walkthrough, because the controls suddenly changed for a puzzle.
Climbing back up after falling down can be a bit slow as well, especially when you have to change the seasons a lot for that to happen.
The only thing a little bit challenging is to find all flower fields and all 4 memory fragments. It's not that hard, especially the flowers are hard to avoid, though some are a bit more to the left or right.
For the memories you have to look more carefully, but they are no big deal either. They reward you with a little extra ending. As a good game should do, your last checkpoint lets you collect everything you might have missed, even after seeing the credits.
Overall I'm glad I grabbed it. I think I needed around 7 hours to finish it.
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