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[Valdien]

Looks like Biomutant got another huge patch update: BIOMUTANT - BIOMUTANT Post-release Patch 1.5 18/06/2021 - Steam News

Having read the current and previous patch notes, I feel like I dodged a bullet. But hey, with all these updates and fixes, I might give the game a try in the future... when it's on a deep sale. It's still priced $100 AUD for me.

 

[Cacher]

Give me Vandal Hearts and do it now!

Please be normal faces instead of those in the Xbox360 version

 

[Panda Pedinte]

So many demos to try from the Steam Festival

 

[TioChuck]

They won't be back until Metal Gear Solid Legacy collection is on steam.

After that they have my permission to be back.

 

[Ge0force]

[UWSL][/UWSL]

i bought their version as well

Why?

 

[lashman]

Why?

it's a good game ... i guess?

 

[Lashley]

meanwhile at EA:

They did the exact same shit with FIFA 21 and like I already said, I fully expect them to do the same with FIFA 22

 

[fantomena]

Why?

5/10 2 times means 10/10.

 

[lashman]

They did the exact same shit with FIFA 21

ea gonna ea

 

[thistestnow]

I like legendary mode in Halo 3, but yea, it pretty much makes a bunch of the weapons useless too. Plasma pistol almost always a necessity

You guys thinking of Halo 2 instead of 3? Halo 3 is pretty straightforward on Legend.
Halo 2 is insane running Legendary Solo

 

[PC-tan]

A thought on EGS, instead of buying exclusives why don't they focus on making their store better? Steam is old and has a lot of backend stuff, so it's very hard to change stuff without messing stuff up (this is very likely why SIE ditched the old PSN web store and why the Xbox 360 web store is different than the current Xbox marketplace one.


Steam isn't perfect and it's still being worked on. I mean one of the features that people would like to see would be midnight releases. I'm told that's something that Valve could actually let publishers set up? But they choose not to. In a way I guess it makes sense as to why they don't allow it since the whole Valve team is based off Pacific Time, so they would be asleep or something just in case there was an issue (handling Steam back end stuff?)

Just a thought.

 

[Lashley]

Nobody knows, at this point I'm not even sure Epic knows why.

 

[Madventure]

Spoiler

The shadow knows

 

[didamangi]

Directed by Michael Bay.

 

[toxicitizen]

They won't be back until Metal Gear Solid Legacy collection is on steam.

After that they have my permission to be back.

That actually reminds me of something I've been meaning to ask. Rumors of the MGS Legacy Collection being rereleased have been around for a while but was it ever among the things Queen hinted at? It recently occurred to me that it's been a while since the last time I replayed MGS2 and MGS3. I could use a Steam release right about now...

 

[Madventure]

I know I'm "supposed" to be impressed by how amazing stuff looks in those videos but all I see is how annoyingly shiney everything is: Rusty knife? It's a mirror! Tiny coat buttons? MORE LIKE LITTLE MIRRORS! Rain? Mirror glaze sauce!

 

[didamangi]

I know I'm "supposed" to be impressed by how amazing stuff looks in those videos but all I see is how annoyingly shiney everything is: Rusty knife? It's a mirror! Tiny coat buttons? MORE LIKE LITTLE MIRRORS! Rain? Mirror glaze sauce!

It's ray tracing shiny fad. Like the blinding bloom in the ps3 era and chromatic shit in ps4 era.

 

[Mivey]

I know I'm "supposed" to be impressed by how amazing stuff looks in those videos but all I see is how annoyingly shiney everything is: Rusty knife? It's a mirror! Tiny coat buttons? MORE LIKE LITTLE MIRRORS! Rain? Mirror glaze sauce!

Considering how the use of mirrors in games used to be something crazy expensive, it's kind of natural that the first ray traced games would overdo it a bit.

Gameplay seems nice, though.

It's ray tracing shiny fad. Like the blinding bloom in the ps3 era and chromatic shit in ps4 era.

Ray tracing isn't a fad, but this overuse of shiny elements will definitely be seen as pretty embarrassing and lame in a few years.

 

[Madventure]

Considering how the use of mirrors in games something crazy expensive, it's kind of natural that the first ray traced games would overdo it a bit.

Gameplay seems nice, though.

Yeah it isn't a knock on the actual game its self or what it looks like its just shiney

 

[didamangi]

Ray tracing isn't a fad, but this overuse of shiny elements will definitely be seen as pretty embarrassing and lame in a few years.

yeah that's what i meant. not the ray tracing.

 

[yuraya]

That actually reminds me of something I've been meaning to ask. Rumors of the MGS Legacy Collection being rereleased have been around for a while but was it ever among the things Queen hinted at? It recently occurred to me that it's been a while since the last time I replayed MGS2 and MGS3. I could use a Steam release right about now...

Queen leaked the Ninja gaiden collection earlier in the year but I don't think there was any Konami stuff.

I wouldn't expect anything from Konami anyways. People been talking about new Silent Hill game for years now and there has been nothing. Its constant letdowns from them or some crappy bomberman game. I would love to replay all the MGS games too Imagine all of them on a SteamPal. Would be so good especially PeaceWalker

 

[Digoman]

Developers always go overboard with the new shinny (in this case literally) thing. I still remember how suddenly everything got "bumpy" when tessellation was introduced. Raytracing is specially bad for this because I'd imagine that working with "real" lighting/reflections after so many years of using every trick in to book to try to simulate the effect is really fun

As for the trailer itself... eeesh that is a lot of shaky cam and quick edits. But I suppose the "young kids" already watch everything at 2x anyway

 

[lashman]

But I suppose the "young kids" already watch everything at 2x anyway

 

[Madventure]

At this point with that gif anymore it should be grandchildren or great grandchildren depending on how frisky they are

 

[toxicitizen]

I wouldn't expect anything from Konami anyways.

Yeah, that's why I asked. Normally I take rumors with a handful of salt but if it's something that Queen corroborated at some point, that gives it a little more credibility. Unless we're talking Nintendo on PC. That will remain complete nonsense to me until the day it actually happens.

 

[Cacher]

There's no rumor on Konami, btw. It's deduction from news and interview. No insider knowledge involved.

 

[Durante]

I'll consider Konami truly back when they release Suikoden 6. Till then their dead to me!

Given that it looks like lots of people really passionate about Suikoden left and founded the Eiyuden studio, would we actually want Konami to try and make a Suikoden? (also consider their last few attempts to use that name)

 

[Dinjoralo]

I got an update for Windows' "Store Experience Host". Apparently it's a thing that's needed to run W10 store apps. So that's interesting.
...And all my apps said they needed to be repaired again gad dang it

 

[Nabs]

The Messenger is the only GP game where I can't seem to find the save file. I bought it on Steam for nothing /jk

 

[Madventure]

The Messenger is the only GP game where I can't seem to find the save file. I bought it on Steam for nothing

Even the Steam save file seems hard to find.

The Messenger - PCGamingWiki PCGW - bugs, fixes, crashes, mods, guides and improvements for every PC game

www.pcgamingwiki.com

has their locations for save files but there was a person looking for them as well and mentioned gamepass and that game using cloud saves so you might be boned

 

[Nabs]

The Messenger - PCGamingWiki PCGW - bugs, fixes, crashes, mods, guides and improvements for every PC game

www.pcgamingwiki.com

has their locations for save files but there was a person looking for them as well and mentioned gamepass and that game using cloud saves so you might be boned

Yeah, it's no big deal. Thanks for trying.

 

[MaskedCircle]

Told you Konami is coming back

wait which franchise they're going to ruin now?



BTW guys, what's this velvet veil rumors I keep hearing about?
Anyone has any idea on that

 

[QFNS]

If I was a mega-billionaire I would help the world by liberating dormant classic IPs from shit holding companies.

Take back all the classic franchises that aren't being properly used by their IP holders by throwing insane amounts of money at them to get control of the IP. Get control of classics like Asteroids , Joust, and Pitfall and put out definitive arcade perfect ports of them to PC and modern consoles, but also include as much art, and materials surroudning the games as possible. Megaman Legacy collection style except with good ports of the individual games.

Then move forward in time liberating the dormant classic games that need ports to PC with love and care that they deserve. Get all the classic NES games that deserve PC collections, then SNES/Genesis, PS1/Saturn/N64, etc. Its foolproof and will guarantee to sell tons of copies as long as its priced well worldwide and is actually made by people who give a shit about the games involved.

 

[crimsonheadGCN]

 

[Tizoc]

 

[Knurek]

Question for Etrian Odyssey fans here, if I could only play one or two - which ones?

People generally tend to say EO4 in this case, but that's missing the FM soundtracks, so dunno...
Either that or start with EO1, I guess.

 

[Stevey]

Halo 3 is a lot more fun when the game's not on legendary or whatever the third difficulty level is. It's fun when you can dance around enemies, or, kinda dance with how stodgy movement is. It's not fun when all enemy damage is so high and your damage is so low that you'll die if you try to play with any kind of gusto.

I'm sure I read somewhere back in the day that Bungie said that they're meant to be played on Heroic.

Legendary is pretty fun in co-op but can be a pain to solo

 

[Alexandros]

Sorry, I just hate what Nacon did to Frogwares and that Steam version. Seriously, noone should have bought that version and I got really sad seeing people playing it on the Steam chart.

I refuse to buy it until the court clears everything out.

That's commendable but we should always keep in mind that Nacon did that, not the people buying the game, and that the courts will decide who is right and who is wrong. Regular buyers don't have much say in this matter.

A thought on EGS, instead of buying exclusives why don't they focus on making their store better?

Because even Epic knows that it has no argument for why customers should prefer its store over Steam. The only reasons to buy something on EGS are a) it's not available anywhere else and b) it's much cheaper than on Steam.

 

[AHA-Lambda]

The lord and saviour of PC Gaming Tim Sweeny is omnipotent and knows all about PC Gamers.

What actually happpened

Epic hired iam8bit to send marketing info to iam8bit's customers or iam8bit sold your marketing info to Epic.

well fuck, I was wondering how I got one of those f*cking things, I'll be unsubbing from iam8bit right away now

 

[Tizoc]

A 'let's play' of the demo-

 

[texhnolyze]

Len's Island is one of the most popular demos from this event. Saw a bunch of screenshots on my Steam feeds.

 

[Jav]

lol, nah ... just one

not even gonna install it ... i already have the frogwares version installed

So there is two versions on the library depending if it's the frogwares or the nacon version? I should try to snatch it next time Nacon infiltrates the game again

 

[Ganado]

So there is two versions on the library depending if it's the frogwares or the nacon version? I should try to snatch it next time Nacon infiltrates the game again

The Sinking City on Steam

In the 1920s, on the East Coast of the United States, the half-submerged city of Oakmont is gripped by supernatural forces. You're a private investigator, uncovering the truth of what has possessed the city and corrupted the minds of its inhabitants... and yours.

store.steampowered.com

I really want the Frogwares version though...

 

[Kyougar]

Lashman has sinned and bought a game from an asshole publisher just because he needed a +1

To atone for your sin, watch this for 10 hours.

 

[Ge0force]

A thought on EGS, instead of buying exclusives why don't they focus on making their store better?

This is exactly why so many people - myself included - don't like EGS. Epic doesn't even try to make a better storefront than Steam. Instead, their business model is based on convincing devs and publishers to ignore other storefronts by offering them better deals.

For us as consumers, this is the worst outcome possible. Games wouldn't be offered in the best or most popular stores anymore, but would rather be exclusive to shitty storefronts owned by billion dollar companies. This really shouldn't happen.

 

[curi0usBystander]

A thought on EGS, instead of buying exclusives why don't they focus on making their store better? Steam is old and has a lot of backend stuff, so it's very hard to change stuff without messing stuff up (this is very likely why SIE ditched the old PSN web store and why the Xbox 360 web store is different than the current Xbox marketplace one.

Because right now the "cool" (and easy) thing to do is to throw money and see what sticks.

The problem though, is that we aren't in the 2010-13 period when there weren't that many games releasing and a strategy like that might have been a good idea back then.

 

[Cacher]

Lately, I have been planning my playtime and what I play with the help of an excel. I juggle between two games and switch around them everyday. For example, I will play A on Monday and B on Tuesday, then returning to A on Wednesday.

This approach works really well so far. I am able to play games bit-by-bit and do not need to worry of playing too little / too much, burnt-out and the thought of not sure what to play next. Yes, first-world problems, but it is an effective approach to combat decision paralysis. I am also enjoying my gaming session so much more, and it actually helps curb my urge to buy something because I know the game will be straight into the waiting list unless I am near the end of a game. It makes me feel that the game should better be purchased at a later time.

 

[Tizoc]

A Mother/Earthbound inspired game

Lashman has sinned and bought a game from an asshole publisher just because he needed a +1

To atone for your sin, watch this for 10 hours.

Aye, tis sad to see

 

[AHA-Lambda]

Lashman has sinned and bought a game from an asshole publisher just because he needed a +1

To atone for your sin, watch this for 10 hours.

Absolute banger

 

[kafiend]

Considering how the use of mirrors in games used to be something crazy expensive, it's kind of natural that the first ray traced games would overdo it a bit.

Gameplay seems nice, though.

Ray tracing isn't a fad, but this overuse of shiny elements will definitely be seen as pretty embarrassing and lame in a few years.

I have a friend that still still shouts at lens flare every time it crops up. It used to be everygoddamwhere and it still sends him mad - especially in places where it really shouldn't be a thing.