Community MetaSteam | November 2019 - You Can't Spell Steam Without EA

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MJunioR

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Finished all Atelier Ryza side quests because I don't want to finish the story, I'm enjoying it so much! Honestly, it has been ages since I complete all side quests in a game, no matter if the game had 2 or 20 or 200, and while most side quests on Ryza are less than 5 min to complete, I still consider this an achievement. There's still some other side activities to do though, and I probably will start grinding a bit now since some specific optional bosses are pretty hard.

Anyway, Ryza truly is something special, definitely the best pre-order I did this year after Kiwami 2.
 

Kvik

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Downunder.
Finished all Atelier Ryza side quests because I don't want to finish the story, I'm enjoying it so much! Honestly, it has been ages since I complete all side quests in a game, no matter if the game had 2 or 20 or 200, and while most side quests on Ryza are less than 5 min to complete, I still consider this an achievement. There's still some other side activities to do though, and I probably will start grinding a bit now since some specific optional bosses are pretty hard.

Anyway, Ryza truly is something special, definitely the best pre-order I did this year after Kiwami 2.
Unlocking the banter and skits between characters in Atelier games by doing sidequests are enjoyable and worth as much as collecting all the event CGs. It's super comfy. :02comfy:
 

Tizoc

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What other factors do you use? I have it sync'd but it really only shows what I have wishlisted. Do you use it to search other stuff too?
Click your wishlist from the top then click price and set it to 'historical low then arrange by price lowet to highest
This way u can see what is currently the cheapest a game u want is being sold for either on steam or legal key sellers
I Do search using it but usually just settle for the method i mentioned.
I know its Meta council here, not Era but I know that some of you are still a part of Era. Your choice of course. Just happened to notice ANOTHER thread on era celebrating violence.
If it is what i think it is, please make a new thread for it over on postmeta and u can link to it on here to discuss it there.
 

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It's funny, there are so many things I don't like in State of Decay 2 but I'm still loving it! I'm probably just such a sucker for open worlds games and the zombie apocalypse that I'm willing to overlook all the jank.
 

kafiend

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I kind of want to play The Sims 4, but I don't want to pay these outrageous prices for DLC. Do they ever get bundled?
They go on sale quite a lot but usually 50% off is about as good as it gets. I got sucked (suckered) in a long time ago and try not consider how much I spent on the Sims.
Tho as I think I said before, I curse when I buy them and then think much later of the exceptional value as I sink yet another 100 hours in the game.
 

Durante

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The amount of content in ToCS2's is fascinating.
I'm currently trying to finish up my own playthrough, and I got to the "Finale" ~12 in-game hours ago.

And from a game development perspective it's pretty wild how -- after the point at which a sane game would have ended -- it doesn't just throw new dialogue or reused stuff at you, but tons of entirely new maps, what feels like more unique enemy models than the average Tales game, even new playable characters and in one case entirely new mechanics that took quite a bit of dedicated development effort.
 

Hektor

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Does my earlier post confirm that MC like H games?
My real name is Christian Christiansson and i do not condone the Hentai. :H02angry:

Please, perish the thought. :02police:

We're a 100% wholesome internet forum observing only the noblest and pure Christian values. We certainly weren't aware of this developer called 'Alicesoft' and we definitely never frequented this 'sad panda' site. No sir. No siree.
I for one certainly do not nor will i ever!
To quote the bible:

Asuka 25:1
"For thee i will not allow you to masturbate at sinful sight,
that is my tiddy bound to hospice in the night"

Where's that Nier remaster Square teased with if Automata did well? They did tease that right, I didn't make it up?
They just recently confirmed that they still want to make it happen

"The idea of a NieR Gestalt/Replicant remake was brought up again, and Saito seemed very positive about such a prospect. I’m not sure anything like that would be possible for the 10th Anniversary… but it may still be possible at some point…?"
 

Kvik

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Downunder.
The amount of content in ToCS2's is fascinating.
I'm currently trying to finish up my own playthrough, and I got to the "Finale" ~12 in-game hours ago.

And from a game development perspective it's pretty wild how -- after the point at which a sane game would have ended -- it doesn't just throw new dialogue or reused stuff at you, but tons of entirely new maps, what feels like more unique enemy models than the average Tales game, even new playable characters and in one case entirely new mechanics that took quite a bit of dedicated development effort.
Reverie Corridor dungeon is pretty cool in the sense that it is almost a 'fan service' dungeon because it allows you to add special characters to your party. Good farming spot too, although most people will already had top-level gear at that point in the game.
 

derExperte

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GRID's multiplayer has so many issues it borders on being broken and as a result is already dead, at least on PC. So they can f' off with that wankery, way things are going you ain't gonna find 40 people playing online anyway, I have yet to see a race with 10.




I feel like I just read the same story last month. What's wrong with nvidia drivers?
That's because the article linked is from last month, just very slightly updated. Also not that I'm defending Nvidia's drivers, they regularly have severe issues with quality control, but security vulnerabilities are just something that happens everywhere, impossible to avoid.





The Legend of Bum-bo launched only a few hours ago and it has easily become one of my most successful launches of all time when it comes to sales! so i want to give a huge thank you to the fans who supported us!
But reviews are now mixed, many complain about the game being unfinished and should've been Early Access.

Unity of Command II is having issues too like an unfinished manual and other stuff missing.
 
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beep boop

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damn that draw distance
Everyone who thinks this game looks bad is just insincere and is nitpicking!! This game looks great for a Switch game. You're all just blinded by #DEXIT.

(I'm not even making this shit up. This was an opinion that I read and people agreed with. SwSh looked really rough from the first trailer they showed imo. It's gonna be a skip from me and I played all of these except B/W2 and US/UM)
 
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derExperte

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Everyone who thinks this game looks bad is just insincere and is nitpicking!! This game looks great for a Switch game. You're all just blinded by #DEXIT.

(I'm not even making this shit up. This was an opinion that I read and people agreed with. SwSh looked really rough from the first trailer they showed imo. It's gonna be a skip from me and I played all of these except BW2)
Under that tweet, paraphrased: "why are you talking about this, please shut up, don't ruin my hype, everything's fine, only small issues that will be patched easily' They never learn.




 

Durante

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Reverie Corridor dungeon is pretty cool in the sense that it is almost a 'fan service' dungeon because it allows you to add special characters to your party. Good farming spot too, although most people will already had top-level gear at that point in the game.
Yeah, it's pretty fun. Vita's set of Crafts and Arts is just silly.
 
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RionaaM

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I think the recent friend activity worked for a grand total of two days for me... it simply doesn't show most of the time. But at least I still have the What's new section.

This beta was a little rushed (specially for Valve standards) so .... maybe you are right and all the bugs are getting together and becoming sentient :)
Funnily enough, the beta worked FAR better for me than the (un)stable release. They are going backwards with this.
 

Mor

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You know? I think we are getting some Steam store pages from MS, maybe Forza, AoE4 for sure AND something tells me (my gut) that we are getting both Reach release date (2019) and a Gears of War remastered collection. We will see if it happens tho.

No, this is not insider knowledge, just personal guesses-
 

Trisolarian

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Fucking freezing today.... second nov in a row where it was in the 30s mid-day by the 12th of Nov. Pure bullshit. Let us have four seasons damn it.

Interested in the Pokémon reviews, both for the fallout and just to see how Pokémon fairs in this age. I haven't played a pokemon game since like 2002.
 
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Li Kao

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Fucking freezing today.... second nov in a row where it was in the 30s mid-day by the 12th of Nov. Pure bullshit. Let us have four seasons damn it.

Interested in the Pokémon reviews, both for the fallout and just to see how Pokémon fairs in this age. I haven't played a pokemon game since like 2002.
You will only have two seasons and you will like it young man.
Oven and Freezer :loudly-crying-face:
 

Digoman

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Funnily enough, the beta worked FAR better for me than the (un)stable release. They are going backwards with this.
Since the official release on Oct. 30 we already had one update to the "stable" client, I think 5 or 6 to the beta branch, and who knows how many on their end (as the new library seems to be a lot more dependent on the server side of things). They do appear to be scrambling a bit to deal with all the issues.

I don't know why the beta was so short, but I hope things get more stable by the time of big holiday sale.... otherwise things will probably be even buggier than usual :p
 
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beep boop

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The Dolby Atmos virtualized spatial sound mix for Shadow of the Tomb Raider is pretty cool. Though I wonder why the game isn’t mixed like this normally if the work for this feature was put in already. Like, it sounds really tinny when using Windows Sonic. Must be some kind of sponsored deal. I’m just gonna use my trial for the Atmos stuff while playing this. Seems like it isn’t used in many games at all.
 

fantomena

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Stormland looks way better than I thought.

Excited for it.

It's an Oculus exclusive, but can be played with Index and Vive via Revive (probably works better on Indes due to the Index controllers ae more similiar to Oculus Touch controllers) and Quest when Oculus Link is out sometime this month.

 
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