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Can't believe it is already August. Last few weeks have been crazy busy, I have barely had any time to play on my PC.
Oh, speaking of Arkham Origins, has anyone else seen the box art on GOG Galaxy 2.0? It's fucking rad, and I don't know where it came from. A Google image search suggests it is fan made from 6 years ago!
Oh, speaking of Arkham Origins, has anyone else seen the box art on GOG Galaxy 2.0? It's fucking rad, and I don't know where it came from. A Google image search suggests it is fan made from 6 years ago!
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No Man's Sky beyond out August 14th (Now removed from their facebook page)
Also an event popup window popped on Steam a couple of minute ago with the title No Man's Sky Beyond release date but when I clicked on it a blank page loaded. So I think that today they'll announce it officially.
Also an event popup window popped on Steam a couple of minute ago with the title No Man's Sky Beyond release date but when I clicked on it a blank page loaded. So I think that today they'll announce it officially.
Ah, August. The time to reflect on the backlog I meant to at least look at during the summer, but instead played more XCOM.
Ah speaking of Arkham Oranges-
So the game has fast travel towers that you can unlock. If you want to do these first, it is best that you wait; once you've completed one of the mains tory missions and got an EMP-like gun only then should u go about activating these towers. I couldn't activate one early on as it turned out I needed that one item first.
I think I'll go for a near 100% completion in this game by doing everything, I guess FF14 got to me in the 'clear stuff and fill % bar' dept :P
So the game has fast travel towers that you can unlock. If you want to do these first, it is best that you wait; once you've completed one of the mains tory missions and got an EMP-like gun only then should u go about activating these towers. I couldn't activate one early on as it turned out I needed that one item first.
I think I'll go for a near 100% completion in this game by doing everything, I guess FF14 got to me in the 'clear stuff and fill % bar' dept :P
Random travellers? like a MMO? or NPCs?No Man's Sky beyond out August 14th (Now removed from their facebook page)
Also an event popup window popped on Steam a couple of minute ago with the title No Man's Sky Beyond release date but when I clicked on it a blank page loaded. So I think that today they'll announce it officially.
Man.
I always wonder about Era and its so called "leftist" community.
Crunch is apparently okay, if you like the dev and is considered "normal."
If devs dont speak out about it, that means they are totally okay with it.
But if you dont like the dev, crunch is the worst thing ever.
Also "I hate crunch" vs. "Where are my 10 new heroes in Apex Legends?"
Then in other threads how big billion dollar companies are in their right to charge whatever they want, add casinos to games etc. and how thats fine.
I always wonder about Era and its so called "leftist" community.
Crunch is apparently okay, if you like the dev and is considered "normal."
If devs dont speak out about it, that means they are totally okay with it.
But if you dont like the dev, crunch is the worst thing ever.
Also "I hate crunch" vs. "Where are my 10 new heroes in Apex Legends?"
Then in other threads how big billion dollar companies are in their right to charge whatever they want, add casinos to games etc. and how thats fine.
Good tip. Im going to fire it up later. Havent played it for a long while. Keen to re-visit an Arkam game.
Also been watching the new Gotham series so am well in Batman mode.
The average person of Era isn't left, they are "socially liberal, but fiscally conservative"
The game's combat is something one needs to keep in mind; Batman's base attack command is identified as Strike and can home in on nearby enemies, so you want to manage enemies around you by punching one after another. Recall how in Mordor, knocked down enemies can be killed with a specific command? Same in this game (I must've forgotten it was an element in prior Arkham games too?), except that once Bats does this command he comits to it and cannot cancel it into another action such as countering. Also if you're going to counter it might help to mash the counter button twice to be on the safe side.
EDIT: Bah turns out there is still one more item you need to get in order to activate one of the towers, namely the one in the Diamond District @_@
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It's the Batman game I've been wanting to go back to for a while now. It has the best detective stuff in any of the Arkham games, and best boss fights.
GTA-Online Casino is so nasty. Gambling has become a great epidemic in poorer neighborhoods since the Great Recession and part of the fault is in the media (and gaming) in normalizing it.
Having a full on casino were you can gamble (even if it is a very restricted amount of money per day) is basically removing the wool out of our eyes and showing that yes, even if we were playing with fake money, it was gambling.
Edit: this goes to a lot of gambling mechanisms in gaming such as lootboxes in Valve games.
Having a full on casino were you can gamble (even if it is a very restricted amount of money per day) is basically removing the wool out of our eyes and showing that yes, even if we were playing with fake money, it was gambling.
Edit: this goes to a lot of gambling mechanisms in gaming such as lootboxes in Valve games.
Second time I read that in this topic and third time I am surprised people use the Steam feed!
But in the other hand people can have fun with that. For example i really wanted to play poker in RDR Online with a friend that is on the other side of the globe just for fun. I can't do it because for some reason R* blocked my country so i can't have fun.
Also these recent indie devs talks really showed why they can't find publishers that easy. I mean if everything you want is money to make game you want to make no matter if it is successful or not you are asking a lot.
So I bought Tetris Effect from the Epic Game Store (yeah, I couldn't wait), and I've installed it. It said it came with some tracks and wallpapers. But I can't find the wallpapers anywhere in the installation folder. Does anyone know where these extra contents are located?
You have to distinguish between Gaming side and OT side and even then it's not quite that easy.
I guarantee you, a lot of people don't even consider crunch when asking for more content, not because they don't care about it but simply because they don't think about it.
Reality is also that it's super easy to be for or against a concept as long as it doesn't touch you in real life.
If not maybe try the specific games community/discussion forums? They tend to be really helpful helping out people with problems....
I spent a bit of time with Crystal Crisis and Jupiter Hell last night. Both of them seemed pretty solid.
Crystal Crisis is kind of ugly looking and I really didn't enjoy the angled view of the playfield, but apart from that it seemed great. Splitting gems across the far sides of your screen is a cool addition to the formula, and the controls were snappy.
As for Jupiter Hell, the RNG nearly got me to refund it after my first run. The game managed to give me what must have been the most boring seed imaginable. I went down 4 or 5 floors and found no grenades, no armor, and no weapon mods and was worried I had just bought the most barren roguelike imaginable.
Fortunately, my second run was much more interesting. The game is very simple, but it has some great design that forces interesting decision making. Your inventory space is very limited, and it pushes you to make careful decisions about what to keep and leave behind. The reloading mechanic is also pretty neat (which is not something I expected to say about a game with major Doom influences). The shotgun needs to be reloaded after every shot, and the revolver can fire 6 times, but would then need 6 separate reloads to get it back to full. It hasn't had a huge effect on the game yet, but I can see larger/tougher enemies forcing some really careful gun/ammo management. Overall it seems pretty good.
There are too many games coming out in August.
Crystal Crisis is kind of ugly looking and I really didn't enjoy the angled view of the playfield, but apart from that it seemed great. Splitting gems across the far sides of your screen is a cool addition to the formula, and the controls were snappy.
As for Jupiter Hell, the RNG nearly got me to refund it after my first run. The game managed to give me what must have been the most boring seed imaginable. I went down 4 or 5 floors and found no grenades, no armor, and no weapon mods and was worried I had just bought the most barren roguelike imaginable.
Fortunately, my second run was much more interesting. The game is very simple, but it has some great design that forces interesting decision making. Your inventory space is very limited, and it pushes you to make careful decisions about what to keep and leave behind. The reloading mechanic is also pretty neat (which is not something I expected to say about a game with major Doom influences). The shotgun needs to be reloaded after every shot, and the revolver can fire 6 times, but would then need 6 separate reloads to get it back to full. It hasn't had a huge effect on the game yet, but I can see larger/tougher enemies forcing some really careful gun/ammo management. Overall it seems pretty good.
There are too many games coming out in August.
Jason says some really unnecessary trolly stuff sometimes. It would have been very easy to tweet that info without the snark, but no doubt he enjoys poking the bear.
Part of the problem that gamers look at game development as their dream job, and in many cases they probably also realize that game developers make more money than they do, so I suspect it's just hard for some folks to truly connect with the problem that is "crunch time". Particularly if they themselves deal with shitty hours, whether it's for less or more pay. Unless it's some monolithic "evil" faceless corp like EA, in which case it's easier to get on board in outrage, than it is with specific individuals, particularly those like Kojima that are venerated by the community.
Jason and Rami love throwing out inflammatory shit like that, and yet they're the first to cry foul and complain about tOxIC gAmerS when anyone else does the same.
Funny how that works. After perplamp's discord tantrum, I'm starting to see a pattern.
GNOG? fuck yeah, been a few months since EGS gave away a game I actually really wanted and didn't already own
Ok now that I have time I can explain this better:
The problem is not in the games inside the casino but the gambling part of the game. Gambling is not problematic only due to the adiction but because they are games that are slated against you, causing you to lose money in the long term while hooking you up so that you keep playing. The games by itself are nice, and I have played cards / poker before without any stakes between friends, but once you add an element where (real) money is put into place, it starts to become dangerous. Gaming has already jumped that shark before, with the whole lootboxes (and card packs in FUT for instance), where you get the high for getting random drops in packs you pay for.
The problem of the Casino is not the Casino itself, but feeling cocky enough to just drop the pretense of it being a game and putting the gambling in a place everyone can easily identify and go to outside in the real world and play the same games. To be fair to Rockstar, the daily limits they put into the game are quite OK (low!), but the fact you can easily convert real money into chips is disgusting and pretty much similar to a real digital casino.
TLDR: the problem isnt the games itself but feeling cocky enough to put it into an easily recognizable place.
Isn't that intentional from them? I remember them saying that EGS is where you go when you already know what you want, and that discoverability is something devs will have to fix with influencers.
I think so. With a 12% cut, discoverability is not part of their business.
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My biggest problem with EGS is how western focused it all is.
For the select few indie devs and not the many others.
A secret club where the leader chooses who succeeds.
Talk about keeping "crappy" games out while having no explanation of what that even entails.
Keeping "porn" games out while having no explanation of what that means. Are only AAA games with sex/sex related scenes like the Witcher allowed? What about indies that focus on LGBT+ content that is of a sexual nature?
There's so many questions but none get answered as only the important ones are picked to join the club of a "curated" storefront.
For the select few indie devs and not the many others.
A secret club where the leader chooses who succeeds.
Talk about keeping "crappy" games out while having no explanation of what that even entails.
Keeping "porn" games out while having no explanation of what that means. Are only AAA games with sex/sex related scenes like the Witcher allowed? What about indies that focus on LGBT+ content that is of a sexual nature?
There's so many questions but none get answered as only the important ones are picked to join the club of a "curated" storefront.
Up front I get the impression that it's very similar to the model Nintendo was following during the early stages of the Switch. Picking and choosing based on exclusivity, exclusive features, dev/game popularity, previous relationship with the developer, etc.
You're not wrong. The curation is what worries me most about the EGS. Let's assume Epic finds a modest degree of success and siphons off X% of Steam's users. Those users start using the EGS primarily and log into Steam far less often. That's X% less potential customers seeing Steam releases. For niche titles, how big does X have to be before it starts to no longer be viable to do PC releases? Genres like, say, shmups or dungeon crawlers have always struck me as teetering on the brink. They rarely ever have high review counts, which means low sales counts, but they keep coming out nonetheless, so presumably devs are managing to keep the lights on despite a small audience. Based on what Epic has said, I don't think a lot of these niche titles stand a chance of releasing on EGS.
If Epic's strategy was to build a new audience off of their Fortnite userbase, that would be one thing. But their strategy is to pull users out of Steam's ecosystem for their curated one. Maybe they succeed and it doesn't matter, because the people who support those niche titles never leave Steam's orbit. But if some of them do, it feels like Epic's success will have a stifling effect on what sort of indie games can be successful.
I might be an edge case but I thrive on hyper-niche indies.
I took one look at my preliminary 2019 Top 10 candidate list and realized that EGS wouldn't touch most of them.
They've still secured a number of exclusives that have ruffled my feathers, but it's still kinda nice knowing that by and large my personal tastes fly completely under the EGS radar.
And those that don't? S**t I can't even keep up with titles I already own. My FOMO has decreased dramatically over the years, so I give zero f's waiting for 12 month contracts to expire.
Started Arkham Oranges. Loving it. Looks great. I love all these old games that i can max out at 4k 60fps everything turned up to 11.
Made some progress and got to...
Other than that im enjoying the re-play. The Arkham game are all great.
Made some progress and got to...
Deathstroke fight. I remember getting stuck here the first time. I just cant get through the stage where he whips out the sword. 4 tries and ive turned it off in frustration
Other than that im enjoying the re-play. The Arkham game are all great.
yup, one big page, and you need to use the search for genre filters instead of tabs or filters like everybody else.
I agree that it should be regulated but it was just too good opportunity for them not to include MTX.
Also i played more of FAr Cry 5 and i like it so far but Ubisoft really has to overdo every new thing they include. In case of FC5 you get info about some location from like every second person you rescue.
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