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I think I have a review key for Mosaic I didn't use beause the preview key I used was transferred to the finished build.

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Phil is high enough up in the games industry chain to know stuff like this. I hope. :p

I assume they wrote that Tweet as people will just not buy Control on Xbox/PC as it might release on game pass.

Or it could just be a mistake from Phil.
 
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Ascheroth said:
Man, Kawazu really knows how to make good battle systems, Scarlet Grace is pretty awesome.
That music too
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I wish we'd get another Dream Team game out of Square Enix, like the original Chrono Trigger.
Kawazu doing the battle system.
MONACA doing the OST.
Yuji Horii doing the scenario.
Tsutomu Nihei making the background CG, Junji Itou making the enemy design CG.
Heck, have Shigesato Itoi do all the writing for the game, why not go for broke.
 
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Knurek said:
I wish we'd get another Dream Team game out of Square Enix, like the original Chrono Trigger.
Kawazu doing the battle system.
MONACA doing the OST.
Yuji Horii doing the scenario.
Tsutomu Nihei making the background CG, Junji Itou making the enemy design CG.
Heck, have Shigesato Itoi do all the writing for the game, why not go for broke.
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What about Yoshida art :[
 
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Just read an update on the Black Mesa game. Sounds like they are on the final push to get Xen done and complete the game. Looking forward to playing it.
 
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Anyone played this game? I paused Humble Monthly when they had it, wondering if I should bite now.
 

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That's DLC I can get behind.

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Anyone played this game? I paused Humble Monthly when they had it, wondering if I should bite now.
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Me, the story was well told but slow, no real puzzles, choices did matter somewhat, loved the artstyle, didn't regret my time spent but it's nothing special really. Still certainly worth 7,49€.
 
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With a 1070 and an i5-6600k I need to put everything on low and completely turn off AA to have 60 fps at 1080p. Brilliant. Not sure I'll keep it tbh.

I get 24 cinematic fps pretty much for every other setting, no matter if medium or ultra.

EDIT: nvm I managed to make it work, now I need to understand which setting made the difference.
 
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Xcom 2: WotC might be one of my favorite games. It good.

Only thing I dislike is the triple rng on hitting an enemy with hit percentage, damage range and some occurence where damage can be further reduced. I hope they get rid of the latter two aspects but I won't get my hopes up. With hit percentage I can live because you can manipulate it by moving units, destroying cover, etc. For the other two I haven't found out to bypass it if it is even possible. And it is always frustrating if 2 possible outcomes would kill an enemy unit but the outcome is the one that doesn't.

Another thing I don't vibe with are the number of enemy units. At a point where some of them mush together.

Not that far off of killing my first Chosen and I have an objective of building something since 10+ hours and so far ignored it completely :fatchu:
 
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I tried to dump the UI textures for Scarlet Grace and it seems that the PS4 pad symbols are there. Not sure why it didn't change the X360 symbols in-game, though. Also tried to force exclusive fullscreen mode with '-window-mode exclusive' and it seems to work fine. Managed to run the game at 5120x2880 and Alt-Tabbing didn't result in CTD.

Since I already made an undub mod for the OP video maybe I'll mod the gamepad buttons as well for just for fun.
 
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Ok, this isn't right as I'm going to give my opinion about a direct answer from another forum but just saw this and needed to answer myself. ToraShiro is RIGHT, NISA hasn't abandoned the platform and I'm not sure why a lot of people has that impression, please let me explain myself.



NISA's support has been comparable to Square-Enix for me, you can't know when things will come to PC from them (a lot of their little stuff, my favorite, doesn't get announced for PC at first) but somehow it always come at a later date, in that regard I can agree that NISA has room to improve their communication (we still don't know about Disgaea 3 and 4, void tRrLM(); //Void Terrarium, or pennies) but in general, the more I look at their catalog, the more content I see coming from them.

I don't think AT ALL that they abandoned Steam, if anything, they could improve their presence by confirming stuff earlier, but again, a lot of Japanese companies have this very same problem. In my opinion sometimes silence can mean contractual things, timing, resources, etc... so I'm not really worried about their presence.

Someone wrote the other day on a Steam forum (can't remember the game) that Japanese developers are jumping the platform because of our complains and so, and I can't disagree more, WE HAVE MORE THAN EVER AND MORE COMING DAY AFTER DAY, they are improving their PC presence and I can only imagine the future will be as bright (if not more) as it's right now.

Again, I want to apology if this pic is not allowed or if you want me to remove it, please just tell me, but I really wanted to say this as I cannot understand why always the "NISA is leaving or has already left"

 
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Spiritual successor to FEAR has a steampage now. Played the demo a long time ago. It was surprisingly decent for being so early.
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Steam :: Steam Client Beta :: Steam Client Beta - December 5, 2019

This update has been re-released on December 5th at 8PM PST with an additional fix: Overlay Fixed an issue where the overlay could become stuck on top of the game in Red Dead Redemption 2. The Steam Client Beta has been updated with the following changes: General Fix URL bar displaying on HTTPS...
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Hm, guess I'll go back to beta again 😄



90%off maybe a price glitch?
 
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Once upon a time you did not have many games to play. Not like today at least.
Once upon a time, you would cherish the time you put into a game. The game could be very imaginative taking you to worlds that looked visually appealing or the game's story awed you in your youth and/or to your impressionable mind.
It was a simpler time then; the hours you would put towards a game would be worthwhile due to your circumstance at the time. There is nothing wrong with that at all.
But you see, all of that; that was 'Once upon a time'

We are in the here and now, and what is to come. And as we indulge in new experiences it makes going back to older experiences difficult or often times saddening.

Why am I writing this? Why am I 'waxing philosophical' for lack of a far better term at 1:30 AM in the morning for?

It is because of this one game I recently dropped
This one game that made it to my 'video game shit list'
Y'all know me; have you ever known me to mention a 'video game shit list' or outright despise a game so much to curse it like that?
So what game could've done this? What game could've soured your good ol' Uncle Birdman so much that he would cast it to the same pit as games such as Bubsy 3D or Sonic the Hedgehog (2006)?
Well I wouldn't compare the game to those 2, that is way way too harsh even for me, but it's a game that I cannot find myself appreciating or liking any time again soon.

The game in question
Is this game

 
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Probably some people feel like it because NISA at some point was annoucing everything for PC while now it's "not everything".
Imho they just don't have the resources/a steamlined process to pursue day and date and are now just confirming stuff when they can.
 
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Wait a sec, isn't NISA supposed to be dead by now? I read somewhere one of their high profile releases bankrupted the company?
 
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NeuralProxy said:
With a 1070 and an i5-6600k I need to put everything on low and completely turn off AA to have 60 fps at 1080p. Brilliant. Not sure I'll keep it tbh.

I get 24 cinematic fps pretty much for every other setting, no matter if medium or ultra.

EDIT: nvm I managed to make it work, now I need to understand which setting made the difference.
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OK so, after tinkering with the settings for about 2 hours, these seem to give me a relatively solid 60fps at 1080p with a 1070, i5-6600k, 16 gb RAM



 
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OMEGALUL said:
Wait a sec, isn't NISA supposed to be dead by now? I read somewhere one of their high profile releases bankrupted the company?
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NIS is "poor" the only reason that company even exist anymore is because of NISA. NIS games in Japan sell very little copies, NISA localizes games for cheep and is basically able to keep it's parent company alive. YS VIII on N/S sold something like 500k copies while most of NIS titles don't even sell 100k.

And maybe you are talking about their mobile game which had issues
How should I go about fresh installing my Windows 10 OS on a new hard drive without losing stuff on my other drives?
How should I go about fresh installing my Windows 10 OS on a new hard drive without losing stuff on my other drives?
 
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My current goty is Disco Elysium and so far the only one that may rival it is Boneworks.
 
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I noticed a while back that Daedalic has a lot of DLCs (mostly soundtracks, sometimes artbooks, ...) available for older titles that were previously included for free with the purchase of the game, and are now sold as DLC (and those who bought before this change don't have it listed on the DLC tab).

Does anyone know what games are in this condition?

thanks
 
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OMEGALUL said:
Wait a sec, isn't NISA supposed to be dead by now? I read somewhere one of their high profile releases bankrupted the company?
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That's NIS, the Disgaea Gacha launch was a mess because their infrastructure couldn't handle so many international players so they pulled the game and tried to improve it IIRC, which costed them a lot of money. They re-released it with region locking last week I think, and I believe even if they fell under, NISA won't go anywhere.
 
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Joe Spangle said:
Just read an update on the Black Mesa game. Sounds like they are on the final push to get Xen done and complete the game. Looking forward to playing it.
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I know they'll finish it someday, but damn, haven't they been saying that since before Portal 2 or something?

BlueOdin said:
Xcom 2: WotC might be one of my favorite games. It good.
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All this Phoenix Point talk lately has me wanting to get back into XCOM, but the one more turn thing has me afraid it'll consume my time and mind space for the next 8 weeks or something. It's perma-installed, but I don't dare boot it! I can't afford it right now.
 
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To be honest: So far I've not encountered a game that deserves the rank of "Game of the Year" so far. Some good ones, but not that good.
inb4: No, I've not played Disco Elysium yet, or LiS 2.
 
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Mor said:
I don't think AT ALL that they abandoned Steam, if anything, they could improve their presence by confirming stuff earlier, but again, a lot of Japanese companies have this very same problem. In my opinion, sometimes silence can mean contractual things, timing, resources, etc... so I'm not really worried about their presence.

Someone wrote the other day on a Steam forum (can't remember the game) that Japanese developers are jumping the platform because of our complains and so, and I can't disagree more, WE HAVE MORE THAN EVER AND MORE COMING DAY AFTER DAY, they are improving their PC presence and I can only imagine the future will be as bright (if not more) as it's right now.
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I don't think NISA will abandon PC either. They're catering for niche RPG fans which games are probably didn't sell all that well on PC, but a blessing for us who prefer to play these games on PC.

However, there's still a lot which can be improved in terms of PC features they offer, since most of these PC ports have some baffling decisions which frankly didn't inspire confidence for us. Take this Scarlet Grace OP video, for example. Or the lack of arbitrary resolution support in Gundam CrossRays and Death end Re;Quest, or the lack of KB/M options in Shibuya Scramble. And lest we forget, NISA's own Ys VIII which still have problems to this day and probably won't receive any updates ever again.

Someone could say "You should be happy that these games are coming to PC at all!". But on the contrary, it's actually not OK. It's important to have some standards, especially when we consider that some of these features we asked for are relatively trivial to implement, in addition to the large budget of the publisher of some of these games. There are plenty of articles published on the importance of port quality and its correlation to the number of sales, no matter what the platform is. SEGA had the right idea with VC4 and Yakuza releases, for example. Great games, excellent PC ports. And of course, Cold Steel 1/2 which are practically the reference ports everyone should adhere to.

Anyway, I think I'm getting off track so I'll stop right here. :dana_blanket:
 
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