Community MetaSteam | January 2021 - It's Rare to See a Medium So Well-Done

[Snakethesniper]

According to the publisher, sales in Japan have been trending stronger for the 2nd compared to the first. It had sold at least 150K copies from its Dec 3rd release and the press announcement around Dec 9th.

Sources:

Atelier Ryza 2: Lost Legends & the Secret Fairy shipments and digital sales top 150,000

Total shipments and digital sales for Atelier Ryza 2: Lost Legends & the Secret Fairy have surpassed 150,000 units since its launch on December 3 in Japan, publisher Koei Tecmo and developer G…

www.gematsu.com

Edit: Now where it has landed a few weeks out, not so sure.

That preview image, lol

 

[Sir Guts]

Don't sleep on this game its a gem.

 

[prudis]

upcoming city-builder with beavers just got a "steam festival" demo

News - Timberborn - coming to Early Access in Q1 2021 | demo available until Feb 16

Mankind turned Earth into a dry wasteland and perished, but some species adapted and evolved. Choose one of the unique beaver factions and see how long your colony can last! Wet and dry seasons Prepare your settlement for recurring droughts. Stockpile on food and keep fields and forests alive...

metacouncil.com

my first attempt went good .... all them bievers died of thirst

 

[Nabs]

Demo tomorrow

Don't sleep on this game its a gem.

I didn't realize it was out yet. I'll definitely give it a try later on.

 

[Wok]

I didn't realize it was out yet. I'll definitely give it a try later on.

It is on Game Pass.

Cyber Shadow is now available on Xbox Game Pass for PC

The new game published by Yacht Club Games is now available for Xbox Game Pass subscribers.

gg.deals

 

[Spamlynguist]

Still not sure if I added Kaze to my wishlist

 

[Sir Guts]

I didn't realize it was out yet. I'll definitely give it a try later on.

Get your neck ready. You'll be jamming hard!

 

[Swenhir]

If Yakuza has a fishing minigame, I'm doomed.

Also, it appears MS is going to be forcing people to create MS Accounts to play Minecraft going forward, even the Java version. I don't think this flies with UE regulations though?

 

[Stone Ocean]

Welp KT. I wouldn't be surprised if this affects visibility for the game. If you look at the sales charts it's pretty dang low .

Eh it will probably do fine. With that said I do wonder how many people are in the same situation as me where I'd love to get 2 but I wanna play 1 first and that game costs a billion dollars

 

[Swenhir]

upcoming city-builder with beavers just got a "steam festival" demo

News - Timberborn - coming to Early Access in Q1 2021 | demo available until Feb 16

Mankind turned Earth into a dry wasteland and perished, but some species adapted and evolved. Choose one of the unique beaver factions and see how long your colony can last! Wet and dry seasons Prepare your settlement for recurring droughts. Stockpile on food and keep fields and forests alive...

metacouncil.com

my first attempt went good .... all them bievers died of thirst

This looks absolutely awesome, I'll give it a shot, thanks for mentioning it!

 

[Dragon1893]

Demo tomorrow

That character looks a lot like Nights.

I need to give the first Ryza another shot.

Spoiler

Whenever I manage to replace my gpu...

 

[Kvik]

If Yakuza has a fishing minigame, I'm doomed.

Then you should get Yakuza 0, post-haste.


(It's actually still pretty standard fare in Y0, but fishing in Y5-Y6 are more involved)

 

[fokkusu]

Does Y3-6 have cabaret, disco or karaoke?

 

[prudis]

This looks absolutely awesome, I'll give it a shot, thanks for mentioning it!

it is , played only for like two hours , but for pre-Early Access demo ....this was super promising and got me quite hyped for v1.0 in future

 

[Cacher]

The Painscreek Killings is really creepy even though it is detective game. You are investigating a cold case in a completely deserted town. The atmosphere is superb and there is no hand-holding. Still playing it so I am not sure how's the game ends up, but so far the story is pretty cool as well.

Edit: Do make your own notes when playing the game. I recommend keeping a name list, an address list and a note for miscellaneous information (eg. date of events).

 

[fantomena]

I have noticed that more and more devs and pubs are focusing or mainly using the Steam news hub to announce new things. Like I checked on r/games and the Biomutant release date and Dead Cells DLC trailer are linked towards the Steamcommunity news page.

I guess it's quite frankly simply that devs and pubs sees they are reaching more people by announcing stuff on the Steam news hub than their own website and the news hub is easier to link to on social media, so they announce stuff on their own site and on Steam, but they link to Steam more than their own site. This makes console communities like r/nintendoswitch etc. also get linked to Steam.

Just a cool observation.

 

[EdwardTivrusky]

If Yakuza has a fishing minigame, I'm doomed.

Doooooomed!
Fishing | Yakuza Wiki | Fandom

Also, it appears MS is going to be forcing people to create MS Accounts to play Minecraft going forward, even the Java version. I don't think this flies with UE regulations though?

They announced that late last year and they'll start asking you to migrate to a new or existing microsoft account in batches starting soon i think.
I haven't seen anything about regulatory issues but that's probably because i haven't looked for anything either.

 

[lashman]

 

[MJunioR]

Does Y3-6 have cabaret, disco or karaoke?

They don't have the cabaret manager mini-game like Y0 and YK2, instead Y3 and Y4 have the hostess maker minigame, in 5 and 6 you can only visit the cabarets and talk with girls. All of them have karaoke. Disco is Y0 only I believe.

 

[FunnyJay]

I'm starting to get the itch to pick Yakuza 0 back up and continue my save, but the biggest issue I had with the game was that it at times didn't really respect one's time, since there could be overly long sequences without the ability to save.

The ability to quickly shut down a game and still keep any progress is very important to me.

 

[Mivey]

I'm starting to get the itch to pick Yakuza 0 back up and continue my save, but the biggest issue I had with the game was that it at times didn't really respect one's time, since there could be overly long sequences without the ability to save.

The ability to quickly shut down a game and still keep any progress is very important to me.

The thing that comes to my mind are sequences in the main story where you need to fight a lot of grubs until you hit a boss. And yeah, those are meant to be tackled in a single sitting, but also fairly well communicated I feel and there's maybe 10 of those in the entire game, each maybe 10 minutes long. The worst is probably the car shootout in Yakuza 0 and 1. Those are easily the worst bits in an otherwise great game
Outside of that though, I like how you can just boot it up, play a few minigames or sub stories and then easily save anywhere you want. This was added to Yakuza 0 in a patch, and I think Yakuza Kiwami 2 had that from the get-go.

 

[Mor]

I have noticed that more and more devs and pubs are focusing or mainly using the Steam news hub to announce new things. Like I checked on r/games and the Biomutant release date and Dead Cells DLC trailer are linked towards the Steamcommunity news page.

I guess it's quite frankly simply that devs and pubs sees they are reaching more people by announcing stuff on the Steam news hub than their own website and the news hub is easier to link to on social media, so they announce stuff on their own site and on Steam, but they link to Steam more than their own site. This makes console communities like r/nintendoswitch etc. also get linked to Steam.

Just a cool observation.

Yes, it's not only a good way to appear in multiple tools of the platform but also it's easier to share on social media as:
1- it's a known route for the URLs
2-Share buttons are just there
3- You can share the same information for all the public, Steam and non-Steam.

Also, it's included in the standard fee so, as the results have been favorable, studios just use it no problem, reception has been quite well by the data.

 

[FunnyJay]

Outside of that though, I like how you can just boot it up, play a few minigames or sub stories and then easily save anywhere you want.

Are you no longer forced to use the phonebooths? I thought they patched out the save anywhere ability.

 

[Mivey]

Are you no longer forced to use the phonebooths? I thought they patched out the save anywhere ability.

Oh yeah, you're right, just looked it up. I played and finished it before that was gone. That does make things a bit more annoying, but not by a whole lot. Phone booths are literally anywhere. But it's sad they couldn't find a way of just disabling the menu option when you're in a fight or otherwise "weird" state. Doesn't sound like a hard thing to detect. Just removing it feels like a cheep "solution"

 

[Tizoc]

 

[FunnyJay]

points to avatar used for the last 10 years or so

 

[Tizoc]

points to avatar used for the last 10 years or so

 

[fantomena]

Very looking forward to The Medium now after checking some reviews. Have enjoyed every Bloober game, even Blair Witch.

Wonder how many Steam cheevos there are.

 

[Panda Pedinte]

Yakuza Remastered Collection system requirements:

Minimum Requirements:

• OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 7
• PROCESSOR: Intel Core i3-2100 / AMD FX-4350
• MEMORY: 4 GB RAM
• GRAPHICS: Nvidia GeForce GTS 450, 1 GB / AMD Radeon HD 5770, 1 GB

Recommend:

• OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 10
• PROCESSOR: Intel Core i7-3770 / AMD FX-8350
• MEMORY: 4 GB RAM
• GRAPHICS: Nvidia GeForce GTX 570, 1 GB / AMD Radeon HD 6950, 2 GB

 

[fantomena]

Announced today.

 

[Swenhir]

So, uh, what the fuck.

Seems like some 4D chess market manipulation of gamestop stock and reddit is up against hedge funds and media moguls or something.

 

[dex3108]

Well bundle is finally complete XD

 

[NarohDethan]

The Medium looks fucking amazing, only 8 hours to go!

 

[ExistentialThought]

Announced today.

I love the art style!!!

 

[Yoshi]

DONTNOD ENTERTAINMENT

DONTNOD ANNOUNCES A BUSINESS COOPERATION AGREEMENT WITH TENCENT AND THE SIMULTANEOUS LAUNCH OF APPROXIMATELY EUR 40 MILLION CAPITAL INCREASE TO FINANCE ITS EXPANSION INTO MORE SELF-PUBLISHED GAMES

www.actusnews.com

 

[Joe Spangle]

Finished Ori Will of the Wisps.

Beautiful game.

 

[Tizoc]

Welp that's 17 games cleared thus far.
Will see if I can clear 3 more by the next couple of days~

 

[manchego obfuscator]

man, I don't even want to know how badly The Medium runs on my GTX 1660ti laptop. I'm not planning to play it until sometime later this year, so hopefully optimization will make it a bit less demanding

anyway, playing through Jedi Fallen Order via the EA Play $1 Steam deal and really enjoying it, for the most part

 

[LEANIJA]

Let me know how well the Medium runs on a GTX 1070 Ti or equal

 

[TioChuck]

I'm gonna try to play The Medium on a 1070, wish me luck.

 

[LEANIJA]

I'm gonna try to play The Medium on a 1070, wish me luck.

Me too, I just noticed its on Gamepass, so I can safely try it out there

 

[crimsonheadGCN]

Electronic Arts creates Full Circle studio in Vancouver to make #Skate4

Somehow, #skate4 is real, and Electronic Arts is building a new studio called Full Circle to oversee the project.

venturebeat.com

Electronic Arts revealed today that it is opening new development studio called Full Circle to build the next game in the Skate series. Full Circle joins EA Sports and Respawn Entertainment as the publisher’s third developer in Vancouver.

 

[Blu]

Ryza 2 keys are up for GMG for some people. Looks like they didn't get enough for everyone who preordered though.

 

[Joe Spangle]

What is this Medium game you all seem to be talking about?

 

[NarohDethan]

I know jackshit about the stock market but the whole Gamestop saga is very funny. And the suits freaking out makes it more hilarious. I guess it sucks for them when the proles get to play the game.

 

[Mivey]

So, seeing how poorly it runs, I guess we now know why it's called "The Medium". That's the highest settings you may use if you want to hit 60 FPS.

 

[Shahem]

It really does not help that the game does not look particularly impressive. The budget must be very low I guess.

 

[Stone Ocean]

I know jackshit about the stock market but the whole Gamestop saga is very funny. And the suits freaking out makes it more hilarious. I guess it sucks for them when the proles get to play the game.

The ultimate Boomer vs Zoomer duel

 

[Panda Pedinte]

What is this Medium game you all seem to be talking about?

This one, seems to be badly optimized

 

[Stone Ocean]

Hey now, they did tell people to play in 30 fps