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PC Gaming ERA | September 2019 - The Girls Are Back In Town
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Yeah, absolutely, it's just really unfortunate. I think if Valve had considered it, they would've given devs/pubs a few days notice to categorize stuff before the system went live, but, eh, what can you do?
They resold this game to PC users (not even offering some kinda discount to owners of the original) with the only major change being a few character models got updated, a couple of idiots getting angry over censorship isn't why people are giving it mostly negative reviews. Plus this seems to be the only way SE will listen, let's not forget:
Negative reviews is the only reason they fixed the shity Chrono Trigger port. You don't do that they leave the game as is, like Nier with all its problems.
Hmm, is Nier Automata that bad of a port? I was considering playing it before the Nier stuff hits FFXIV.
Am I better off borrowing a PS4 and buying it there?
It's not TERRIBLE mind you but it has a few issues that needed fixing, SE never put out a single patch for the game since release cause it stands at Mostly Positive.
Here's a screenshot from before all the updates.
I think Nathan Grayson might actually be an insane person:
https://kotaku.com/it-wasnt-meant-t...msite&utm_source=kotaku_copy&utm_campaign=top
https://kotaku.com/it-wasnt-meant-t...msite&utm_source=kotaku_copy&utm_campaign=top
Actually, nope, fuck it, it's not worth going down this road. That's a shitty article, but I'm not even going to dissect it. He isn't worth it.
The article mentioned Ion fury. How did that end? they just pretended nothing happened and left the homophobic shit inside the game in the end?
I don't think Schreier has much love for Valve either so idk what that would achieve. They'd probably end up just comparing notes.
aka. Jason "I think Valve giving employees vacations is bad" Schreier... Yup.
Wrong person. They'll instead write a collaborative article about Valve bad, martye, and weaponized charity.
Game seems really good, weird that nobody is talking about it. Then again, I've only seen two reviews in German so far (9.0 at GamersGlobal, 8.5 at 4Players), hope it's gonna gets some more attention.
Not sure I played the original back in the day but it feels a little like Panzer General meets Advance Wars in a medieval / fantasy setting; I'm not exactly a wargamer but it is pretty accessible, devs put a lot of effort into UI, tooltips, and stuff. Looks good and runs fine, too. I'll try to post more impressions over / after the weekend.
It's only on sale for the first day IIRC, so they are hoping they'll get a lot of impulse buys early on, similar to Risk of Rain 2 (albeit that was 2 for 1, but still came out pretty cheap if you split the cost).
Was tempted but have too many games to play this period of the year anyway.
Yeah I ended up buying it, myself. It's got heavy fantasy wargame vibes, but also a lot of RPG aspects too. It's actually... an SRPG! At least for the campaign.
Game seems really good, weird that nobody is talking about it. Then again, I've only seen two reviews in German so far (9.0 at GamersGlobal, 8.5 at 4Players), hope it's gonna gets some more attention.
Not sure I played the original back in the day but it feels a little like Panzer General meets Advance Wars in a medieval / fantasy setting; I'm not exactly a wargamer but it is pretty accessible, devs put a lot of effort into UI, tooltips, and stuff. Looks good and runs fine, too. I'll try to post more impressions over / after the weekend.
I'm a few missions into the campaign and it seems fun. Reminds me a lot of Battle for Wesnoth in how it's set up, except the RNG isn't infuriating which is a huge plus. It seems very approachable.
If the campaign is meaty or is replayable (sorta seems like it might be, but it's hard to tell), it will be a super satisfying game overall. I'm pleased by it thus far.
This is the most positive steam tweet he's done since everything started lol
An official search function with filters similar to these offered by "Enhanced Steam" (and infinite scroll):
I remember a time when Jschackles could not get Valve to sign a contract for him to work on enhancing the store, similar to what he did with Enhanced Steam. It only took a decade for Valve to decide to improve its search options. Thanks Epic? Or just a coincidence that they are finally implementing it in 2019?
Micro-trailers for every game and tag:
*scroll*
I remember a time when Jschackles could not get Valve to sign a contract for him to work on enhancing the store, similar to what he did with Enhanced Steam. It only took a decade for Valve to decide to improve its search options. Thanks Epic? Or just a coincidence that they are finally implementing it in 2019?
Micro-trailers for every game and tag:
*scroll*
Tip: maybe adjust your "adult" filter first.
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literally incapable of being happy about something without complaining. Really Rami?
If you look who is most vocal against Valve and who jumped first on Epic train you could notice pattern. Both Tommy from Team Meat, SuperGiant Games and Rami were there for the first wave of Indie mega hits when Steam was closed platform. They all praised Steam then and for years after. But then Valve opened doors to everyone so they weren't special anymore and competition got tough. And now they speak against Valve.
2/3rds of your examples have barely (if at all) released games in this new period you're referring to. Vlambeer hasn't released a game since 2015, and Team Meat since 2010. If you want to cite this reason, it makes sense with Supergiant, but not really with them. And really, 2015 was when the floodgates were already open, and it was probably Vlambeer's biggest PC hit.
Rami is releasing Ultrabugs on Steam tho (paraphrasing here, but something along of the lines of "thats where our community is, and we appreciate that")
So, he recognizes the relationship and doesn't want to burn bridges with his audience the way Epic is advocating, but resents it all the same and just generally blames Valve...for everything.
We don't know if Epic courted Rami. Maybe he would have accepted the moneybag, if given the opportunity.
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To me, Rami's only goal is to lower Valve's cut ("blink"). He is welcoming the cosmetic changes of the Steam library, but he was expecting other changes. That is all.
Come on...
Also, the "most vocal" are the most well-known devs and publishers, because these are the ones whom we listen to.
Nobody pays attention to IndieDev#94857 on Twitter. For all I know, they could be very vocal, yelling at the clouds, and nobody would ever notice.
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From the cesspit of Steam discussion forums
Rami (adderssing questions about EGS)
Right, he might have refused the moneybag if given the opportunity. However, that is all conditional, despite his forum post.
Rami said:
Rami said:
Rami is not clear about the alleged offer. It does not make sense to release the game "on Steam first, or simultaneous", and "likely on EGS in the future".
In hindsight, I believe Rami was making things up. First, he was unsure about what he wrote. Second, what he described is incompatible with Epic's strategy.
Rami said:
The only clear take-away from his message is that he wants to force Valve to lower their cut. This has been the recurring theme.
Even in his last tweet, he welcomes the store changes, but is unhappy that Valve has not "blinked" yet (regarding store cut) despite Epic's millions.
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Weird how having to condense thoughts to 280 characters makes him come off a lot worse compared to what he wrote here.
Rami: Hey, Tim. Lets talk about getting our game on your store.
Sweeny: Umm...actually your game does not meet our standards of quality.
Rami:
So much waffling but he never mentions actually approaching Epic for any exclusive deals. I can't even imagine what it must feel like if he did and they rejected him after all that stanning he did for them free of charge.
Of course they haven't "blinked" yet because what is there to "blink" about?
Wasting millions on vapid timed-exclusive deals is all the EGS has done thus far, there quite literally is nothing for valve to react to beyond offering those timed-exclusives a bigger paycheck before they sign with epic.
Valve has no worry of ever losing customers to epic because no person would actually buy a non-exclusive on the epic store over steam right now.
Just like a popular sit-down restaurant wouldn't have to worry about an ugly, stinking take-out setting up shop in their proximity.
In regards to the developers side of thing, valve has nothing to worry either because most devs will go where the customers are, not the other way around.
This is becoming increasingly obvious as everyone pops back right onto steam the moment their exclusive contract is done for, whatever revenueshare be damned.
This isn't a question of monopolies and marketshare, this is a question of a dog being all bark and no bite.
Valves only Monopoly is on customer satisfaction.
If Valve ever decides to lower their cut, it will be for the ongoing conversation and criticism of devs at large, the EGS on the other hand, will have been a complete non-factor in such a decision.
If anything not having a dab animation would be a reason to remove from the wishlist.
The discovery tour in Egypt was amazing, and now it's added to Odyssey I'm considering buying it.
It feels like the amount of amazing work and research the artists of Ubi Soft are doing for AssCreed was being wasted, and they finally decided to give them credit.
I hope at some point they'll remake the Ezio games with the same amount of care as these ones, and add a discovery tour to Rome, Istambul, San Giminiano...
I'm really enjoying Shadow of the Tomb Raider so far. Each game since TR2013 seems to have markedly improved over the other. I continue to be surprised that this one reviewed worst of the three. The ethics around the conceit of looting ancient tombs and then using the gold you found there in exchange for goods from native peoples as well as the part where you kill endangered animals are pretty questionable, but I haven't seen that mentioned in the reviews I read.
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That later part gets subsumed by the much larger debate about Tomb Raider being colonialist fantasy, it's just a small element of much more problematic themes throughout Shadow of the Tomb Raider. This Waypoint/Vice review delves into that quite a bit.
A discovery tour of the Ezio trilogy would be fantastic, and worth the remake alone tbh. I quite enjoyed the factoids you'd get in game about the locations and people you met.
Honestly, the potrayal of LC was so embarrassingly awful in the first 2 games that I doubt I'll ever touch Shadow of the Tomb Raider. Not being fond of what current Crystal Dynamics considers "Tombs" doesn't help either.
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