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The PC Gaming Era | February 2019
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What does this even mean when were talking about a pure popularity contest? Why does a excellent but niche game not deserve the spotlight over an average but very mainstream title?
Yeah, this is just bullshit. You literally named the only game where this is regularily the case.
Eh, kinda of a mixed bag, while I like the font of the key caps, not being able to have the light shine through it is a bit of a bummer.
I even tried mixing the Anne Pro keys with the other key set, wasn't too bad but I might just switch back, the keycaps might be used for another project.
I even tried mixing the Anne Pro keys with the other key set, wasn't too bad but I might just switch back, the keycaps might be used for another project.
I decided to start Dead Rising and I remember why I dropped it 10 years ago. I will continue though till I beat the game.
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I ultimately don't think the awards should be limited to the calendar year. Every other site on the planet does the "Best graphics, best sound, best gameplay..." categories for the year. Valve should keep making weird specific categories that involve digging through your library to pull out the games that fit. It's a nice break from the norm. That said, once the nomination choices are in it's just so easy to tell who's going to win each category which is a bummer.
Finished Prey and still consider it one of the best games of the generation but fuck if Arkane don't put out the worst endings in the industry. Super sudden, short, and barely acknowledges your actions like the environmental storytelling does.
Edit: take it back since there's a post credit sequence I need to process and is much better than what they normally do.
Edit: take it back since there's a post credit sequence I need to process and is much better than what they normally do.
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I feel a (classic) Fallout style epilogue would be fairly appropriate for their games in terms of the vast number of things you can ultimately effect , except that it would spoil a lot of the things you are free to do in the first place. So I understand that they don't want to make a long and drawn out "here's all the things you did, in case you forgot" reel.
God Eater 3 #1 in global top sellers. During sale too so kinda impressive for a somewhat low key launch.
The ending is definitely of the weakest part of the game from what I remember. But that whole adventure along with everything leading up to it was amazing.
By far and away the most underrated game this gen. Such a shame it didn't get all the acclaim, hype and sales like the other big games this gen. Thankfully it was made and it exists in our libraries. Being cryengine gonna make it age well and worth replaying in the future too.
The ending is definitely of the weakest part of the game from what I remember. But that whole adventure along with everything leading up to it was amazing.
By far and away the most underrated game this gen. Such a shame it didn't get all the acclaim, hype and sales like the other big games this gen. Thankfully it was made and it exists in our libraries. Being cryengine gonna make it age well and worth replaying in the future too.
Got to say even at 4K it had the worst anti-aliasing solution I've ever seen for a pc game and there wasn't enough performance headway at 60 to force msaa. Going to need to replay it at 8k in a few years lol
Prey's level design, environmental storytelling and RPG elements are soooo good but I wish it wasn't so reliant on bad jump scares and had not-terrible audio design. Would've been so much more compelling if it had just kept this sense of eerie dread (not unlike DH2) rather than encouraging you to beat the shit out of every coffee mug you saw with a wrench.
Just played the demo for Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning and it was super fun! Kinda want to buy the entire package which is on sale.
It's a better game than it had any right to be, but also gets repetitive sooner than you expect. They kinda needed to tighten it up and not wait so long to bring some environmental variety to the table.
Ace Combat 7 hard mode is actually hard in a way I'm not used to when a game says that and you can't change difficulty. Tearing my hair out on half these missions
Dialogue/story in this thing in hysterical, feels like it was written by aliens. Early game plot point is a secret base that's actually just a decoy detention center with prisoners who they make fly fake missions.......where you do real mission stuff like blow up planes
Dialogue/story in this thing in hysterical, feels like it was written by aliens. Early game plot point is a secret base that's actually just a decoy detention center with prisoners who they make fly fake missions.......where you do real mission stuff like blow up planes
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Putting 95% of the ending after the credits was not a smart move, but when it gets there I really like what they did and how the game comments on how you played.
It's a great game marred by repetition and mmo elements in a sp game.
https://www.gameinformer.com/2019/0...blizzard-will-result-in-hundreds-of-lost-jobs
Time to get dat Sekiro moneyhat Bobby
Time to get dat Sekiro moneyhat Bobby
Honestly hope this means people will quit/lose their jobs and start their own companies that will "bring back the glory days of PC gaming". But now that I think of it, if those studios do well they'll just get swallowed by the EA/Activision type and the cycle will continue.
Very tempted to get VC4 but I have GE3 and Metro coming up.
We actually hired a few freshly former Blizz/Act guys here at my firm recently. Wild. Guess they knew.
This whole mess is just gonna force Blizzard to announce and release some new game way too early. It will probably be a disaster.
I'd agree if Valve were creative with the categories again, but this year, Most Fun with a Machine was the exception, not the rule. If we presume that Valve shifted to a more traditional "best thing" format because it'll be the template going forward, then surely it would be better to limit the scope to games released on Steam over the past year so that there's no risk of familiar faces hogging the spotlight.
I got pretty absorbed into Riddick because unlike RE2 I can play it for more than an hour or so without getting on edge.
The ending really threw me for a loop
On a related topic. Has anyone played Assault on Dark Athena? I've never heard anything good about it so I figured I would skip it.
The ending really threw me for a loop
it wasn't the ending! Hopefully I'll finish it tomorrow.
On a related topic. Has anyone played Assault on Dark Athena? I've never heard anything good about it so I figured I would skip it.
At the end of the show they seemed to indicate that they'd be taking category suggestions from the chat. So aside from all the "games that weren't HL3" categories, I'm sure there were some interesting ones in there. In my opinion their 2017 categories were more fun. The nominations were better too.
So, I've just 'bought' Game Corp DX from Chrono.GG's coin store, for once without checking my Steam library... and of course, I already own it. Drop me a PM if you'd like the key.
It's becoming more Australian. Up is down, down is up...
Oh yes, fuck this crap, bowling cutscenes are the worst, almost gone mad while trying to get 3 strikes in a row.
Obisidian dreams of being able to create emergent storytelling like Paradox does.
Edit: Video as explanation
So I bought Tetris Effect on sale on PSN.
I hope it comes to PC one day because that game is fucking AMAZEBALLS. I know, it's Tetris, but the "depth" VR adds to Tetris is insane. Feels like Im meditating or something while playing it.
Liking it much mroe than Puyo Tetris and I love Puyo Tetris.
I hope it comes to PC one day because that game is fucking AMAZEBALLS. I know, it's Tetris, but the "depth" VR adds to Tetris is insane. Feels like Im meditating or something while playing it.
Liking it much mroe than Puyo Tetris and I love Puyo Tetris.
Since we've been dissing trashy game journalists I have to give props to Game Informer, they're one of the few gaming sites I still bother with and their coverage of Outer Worlds is pretty good so far (goes for every big cover story they have).
Eh, kinda of a mixed bag, while I like the font of the key caps, not being able to have the light shine through it is a bit of a bummer.
I even tried mixing the Anne Pro keys with the other key set, wasn't too bad but I might just switch back, the keycaps might be used for another project.
nice, what is that?
Spellbreak is the next Epic exclusive, someone broke the NDA:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Spellbreak/comments/aorerf/there_was_a_post_questioning_the_epic_launcher/
Similar to Operencia, the betas all were using Steam...
And its a paid BR game on "the Fortnite launcher".
https://www.reddit.com/r/Spellbreak/comments/aorerf/there_was_a_post_questioning_the_epic_launcher/
Similar to Operencia, the betas all were using Steam...
And its a paid BR game on "the Fortnite launcher".
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News from the great PC overlord front: ( ;) )
PC Gamer - Microsoft talks Crackdown 3 PC's unlocked framerate, ultrawide support and modding potential
Xbox Wire - Help gaming on Windows and play State of Decay!
Seems like they are really pushing PC gaming.
PC Gamer - Microsoft talks Crackdown 3 PC's unlocked framerate, ultrawide support and modding potential
Xbox Wire - Help gaming on Windows and play State of Decay!
Seems like they are really pushing PC gaming.
PaiD BR on the same place as Fortnite? Bold move.
In general I think paid BR died some months ago, it is just not capable of reaching the mass necessary (once each mp requires 50 players and death is fast and kicks you out of the game, you need maaany simultaneous games to have good player response). Launching in Fortnite launcher and just after Apex is some bad luck.
Hopefully the devs got paid enough so even if the game flops they dont go under.
In general I think paid BR died some months ago, it is just not capable of reaching the mass necessary (once each mp requires 50 players and death is fast and kicks you out of the game, you need maaany simultaneous games to have good player response). Launching in Fortnite launcher and just after Apex is some bad luck.
Hopefully the devs got paid enough so even if the game flops they dont go under.
To be honest until Valve starts suing them they won't stop doing this.
Metro Exodus probably sold more on Steam during those few hours after the Steam removal announcement came and it was removed then it will do during it's lifetime on EGS.
Goddamn, this is nice!
It seems to be shaping up well, doubly so with the unlocked framerate not having an effect on the multiplayer capabilities of destruction physics.
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