They confirmed last year more PC things, btw, in case you missed that, just nothing announced so far, a JRPG
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My GOTY 2021 contender, do get it if you want some 3D platforming goodness.
Sekiro will remember that.you're welcome
yup, WC3 (the original one, not the "remaster") was the last decent game either one of them published
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that one doesn't count, and you know it!
Man, things are really ramping back up at work. What a stressful week.
I think it's time to get my PowerWash Zen on this weekend.
I own a Steam Curator group, which I use to keep track of review scores from a French news outlet. Because it has a decent number of subscribers (~2k), I am sometimes offered free games to review, which I always refuse because I don't actually review games. Today's was a hard one: The Forgotten City. I have pressed the "No" button.
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great game ... highly-recommended
November 9th for PS4, Switch and Steam.
His criticism that the people in Fallout just mimic the capitalist society that came before them holds very true for Bethesda games, but far less so for Fallout 2 and New Vegas, where you are presented with factions and groups that hold a very different view. In Fallout 2 there's tribal societies that do not continue past traditions, and New Vegas has Caesars Legion.
I also think that Fallout, had it continued past 2 with the original development team, would have left the 50s parodies behind and explored new ideas in the setting. It's Bethesda lack of imagination that forever linked it with this boring 50s US style, not being able to explore any other topics and ideas of a post apocalyptical world.
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Huh, not a bad price IMO. Considering the OG game could go for sub $2.49 that's not a bad price for it, as there is visual upgrade done at least.
Dissapointed in the Ascent review scores. Will try for a few min on game pass and then see. ACG liked it a lot though.
Argentina is (or was) the current "famous" country to switch to if you want to abuse VPN and try to get cheap prices. You also have Russia, but some games there have runtime region locking, some missing languages, and so on. So publishers see this spike and use to kick Argentina specially hard, and also try to justify ending regional price overall.
My country (Brazil) was once the "good" one to switch to, and we also got fucked with absurd prices increases. To the point where several people over here decided to switch to Argentina. When Valve "deported" some VPN abusers you could see a lot of complaining in local forums/groups.
So yeah, basically Argentina is the current "symbol"/target against regional pricing. They will get fucked, and if somewhere else starts to get a reputation of cheap prices, it will be their turn....
well, it's still very pretty and looks fun (albeit likely not for its full 20-hour length) and it's on Game Pass, so I'll give it a try at some point
almost done with Last Stop, really been enjoying it but not sold on the narrative turn the plot takes in the final chapter. also started Omno and that seems pretty solid if you're a fan of the Journey/Abzu/Gris subgenre
Hmmm, it's been a LONG while since i read the documents but it's worth looking for info on "Van Buren" which was the in-development name for Fallout 3 before it was cancelled. That might give you an idea as to what they were looking to tackle with the game though whether those ideas would have made it to the end or changed is anyone's guess. Several aspects of the story did appear in the Brotherhood games though.
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Van Buren is the codename Black Isle Studios assigned to their second iteration of Fallout 3. It saw development by Black Isle Studios until its cancelation in December 8, 2003 and would have been published by Interplay Entertainment. It was planned to use an engine that Black Isle Studios had...
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Those middle east pricesi'd argue:
especially for Argentina and Turkey
But eh...for the most part the disparity isn't that bad, and for me the game is up on humble so I can get it for a decent price from there
That's because they get cut off whenever they get posted :V last 2 columns show what the price SHOULD BE using valve's recommendation along with how different the price is to the Valve's recommendation.
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Regional pricing is really a very interesting topic that I would like to get properly addressed in the future. There are many variables in play and I don't think there's an easy solution for publishers/developers and customers.
Valve has made great progress on cutting down the abuse through the Steam store but there's still the issue regarding keys.
A keyless system might help to prevent/fight against marketplaces (chargebacks/region exploiters/etc..) but could also start the foundation of "trust" between both parts involved in this eternal conflict. This applies mainly to big AAA games.
I don't know which company uses this kind of system but I believe SEGA does something similar with their freebies. If I'm wrong please feel free to correct me, I know there are two different systems at least.
As a bonus and to not make the post more dense there's also some misconception regarding videogames in that some people believe paying more than a few euros for most games is like some sort of heresy. I don't know why that happens so much in videogames but I don't think people have the same mentality towards other consumer products like most mobiles.
I'm sorry for the off-topic.
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New early access game from the makers of Trine. Out now:
In other news:
SkateBIRD has been delayed to September 16, 2021
Resident Evil Village sold 4.5 million copies across all platforms
In other news:
SkateBIRD has been delayed to September 16, 2021
Resident Evil Village sold 4.5 million copies across all platforms
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Looking over the locations, seems like they would have featured a few tribal societies and more ideas on how the world would change from just being rubble of the old world.Hmmm, it's been a LONG while since i read the documents but it's worth looking for info on "Van Buren" which was the in-development name for Fallout 3 before it was cancelled. That might give you an idea as to what they were looking to tackle with the game though whether those ideas would have made it to the end or changed is anyone's guess. Several aspects of the story did appear in the Brotherhood games though.
Van Buren
Van Buren is the codename Black Isle Studios assigned to their second iteration of Fallout 3. It saw development by Black Isle Studios until its cancelation in December 8, 2003 and would have been published by Interplay Entertainment. It was planned to use an engine that Black Isle Studios had...
The actual plot seems fairly boring, though, evil scientist wanting to kill everything, yada, yada.
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The game previously called Runnerdot has started a free promotion since few days and its still on course but this news makes me wonder if they knew all of this and made the game free before removing it.
Unfortunately the gaming industry itself is now really feeding the notion that you shouldn't pay more than a few bucks upfront for a game, with everything going F2P, GaaS and/or subscription based. It is all about getting the users into the door and getting that engagement, so it's all about lowering the initial costs (even at a great loss). And if you are outside the big hype machine, you are even more screwed. The amount of comments we see now that an indie game is not worth even it's cheap because either you will get for free on Epic Game Store or on Gamepass is worrying for me, to say the least.
And merging the two subjects: Over here when Steam offered good regional pricing a lot of people opted to pay for the game instead of pirating it. But now that prices jumped 2x or 3x, I don't know if even going back would "fix" the notion that is worth it.... people are just mad.
Also, I think the only off-topic on this thread is talking about actually playing games
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The price for argentina in steam is pretty shitty, but in the windows store is very good.
Unfortunately I don't plan to buy it there for the reasons you mention.
I'm not going to buy it on steam at that price either.
The Sonic sale is up on Humble as well, so an extra 20% for Choice subscribers. Sonic Forces - 7.99, Team Sonic Racing - 3.19, etcetc.
I really have to finish the first game at some point. I put in maybe 5-10 hours when it launched and while liking it I somehow got distracted and never went back.
Devil Daggers for 1€ is a steal!
Interesting. Didn't see it offered to the NeoGAF curator, which has like 12k followers still. Maybe they confuse you to be the official account/curator for that news outlet. I would have taken it.I own a Steam Curator group, which I use to keep track of review scores from a French news outlet. Because it has a decent number of subscribers (~2k), I am sometimes offered free games to review, which I always refuse because I don't actually review games. Today's was a hard one: The Forgotten City. I have pressed the "No" button.
If you're from Turkey, MS Store currently has the Ultimate Edition of FM7 cheaper than other editions (standard ed: 67,25 ₺, ultimate ed: 57,25 ₺). They might fix this later, so...
Played a bit of The Ascent on game pass and liked it a lot so will buy on Steam, just not sure when,have some other games I wanna play first.
Also, lol, no dlss for game pass
Also, lol, no dlss for game pass
DLSS is Steam exclusive? Is that mistake?Played a bit of The Ascent on game pass and liked it a lot so will buy on Steam, just not sure when,have some other games I wanna play first.
Also, lol, no dlss for game pass
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Bummer, I guess that means a port is out of the question. Kinda weird for them to port Forza Horizon 4 but not this one since Horizon is the one getting a sequel later this year. I wonder if that means the next Motorsports is having development troubles because as far as I can tell it's the first time that two games from the same series will come out in a row, usually they alternate between Horizon and Motorsports.
Hmmm, I'll need to do some research if there's an easy way to get some turkish xbox credit. I heard that if you're from EU you can choose the Icelandic Store to get cheaper prices (needs a credit card tho). I'll probably just use my Microsoft Rewards credit.
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I don't know if this might work for you but mediamarkt Deutschland and Hungary as well has it.
Grand Theft Auto V (PC)
Probably not worth the effort given how they would be only able to sell it for a few months.
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