Community MetaSteam | August 2021 - Openness Is Its Superpower

[fantomena]

The thing is:
For longer games: I would never use a service that "deletes" games after a while, I would always feel the time ticking in my head. I play games for years.

For shorter games:
I can do that ("trying" games) on Youtube or Twitch without any time restraints or a heavily curated experience that maybe has 5% to 10% of games that interest me. The times where I would install and play every game regardless of genre are gone for a dozen of years.

Definently. Tons of games I've come back to after years despite finishing them (SP games), like a feel a sudden urge to replay something, can't do that with game pass. Like I would never play LiS True Colors on game pass because I have no doubt I will enjoy it and will come back to it in a few years. That happened with LiS and BTS.

Another type of game that works badly with game pass are endless games like roguelikes, strategy games, factory/management types of games. Those can be played until the end of time or when I lose interest.

Like Hades, is on game pass, roguelike, somewhat endless, takes a long time to play, will never play it on game pass.

Im not even pirating games anymore due to my backlog and for many games, piracy gives you a better service than game pass.

 

[CommodoreKong]

So since some people mentioned how much (or how little) they played Skyrim: its my most-played game on Steam (but compared to WOW, its absolutely nothing )

But Im wondering, what are your Top ten on Steam? Mine are:

1​	Skyrim​	291,4​	(Original version: 261, Special Edition: 28, VR Edition: 2,4)​
2​	Deus Ex: Human Revolution​	232,8​	(Original version: 166, Directors Cut: 55, Missing Link DLC: 11,8)​
3​	Rocket League​	188​	​
4​	Hitman 2​	149​	​
5​	The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt​	136​	​
6​	Cyberpunk 2077​	136​	​
7​	Terraria​	125​	​
8​	Deus Ex: Mankind Divided​	110​	​
9​	Grand Theft Auto V​	93​	​
10​	Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning​	90,8​	(Original version: 90, Re-Reckoning: 0,8)​

1	Team Fortress 2	3,023 hours
2	Divinity: Original Sin 2	241 hours
3	Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion	203 hours
4	Rise of Nations: Extended Edition	169 hours
5	The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim	127 hours
6	Pillars of Eternity	92 hours
7	Mass Effect Legendary Edition	87 hours
8	Divinity: Original Sin Enhanced Edition	67 hours
9	Dragon Age: Origins	66 hours
10	Wasteland 2: Director's Cut	56 hours

 

[Mor]

Last 2 weeks

 

[Taborcarn]

Here's mine from Steam, but like other it's not counting MMOs, Destiny, and the console version of MHW.

RPGs, plus Dota and Chess (non-auto)

 

[NarohDethan]

Arcade stick is here. Steam recognized it as a Xbox 360 controller which is great. It feels good to the touch and it is heavy enough. Plus I love that the leds change depending on whether you choose Switch mode or xinput mode.

 

[Snakethesniper]

Arcade stick is here. Steam recognized it as a Xbox 360 controller which is great. It feels good to the touch and it is heavy enough. Plus I love that the leds change depending on whether you choose Switch mode or xinput mode.

Which arcade stick did you buy?

 

[NarohDethan]

Which arcade stick did you buy?

8BitDo Arcade Stick

 

[Wok]

Two games with similar mechanics (top-down puzzle and 2D platformer).

 

[Alexandros]

Am I the only one who think MC is kinda quiet lately? Summer break?

Counting the days until Steam Deck launches.

 

[FeedMeAStrayCat]

Some notes: definitely some idle time here.. probably around 10%-15% of total time on Warframe, PoE, Outriders, etc.
Still though, I'm pretty surprised at how high Outriders is on the list and that FO4 appears at all. I didn't finish FO4 main story, nor in No Man's Sky either. Nor did I finish the Icebourne main story in MHW.

Warframe	753.6 Hours
Path of Exile	206.9 Hours
No Man's Sky	138.4 Hours
Outriders	125.5 Hours
Monster Hunter World	93.5 Hours
Hades	87.3 Hours
Stardew Valley	78.8 Hours
Subnautica	75.9 Hours
Fallout 4	72.3 Hours
Dying Light	65.5 Hours

 

[EdwardTivrusky]

I don't get my Deck 'til next year so by then all you beta-testers will have worked out the bugs for me ( Thanks! ) and this whole "Perfect for Deck" malarky will have died down to ignorable levels.

 

[Mivey]

Started re-playing Psychonauts 1 on Steam, in preparation for the sequel later next week.

Gotta say, the very first impression isn't very good. The game boots by default at the lowest resolution of 640x480, and the entire UI is broken when you use a 16:9 resolution, super stretched. There's a fix for this on the internet, but why couldn't Double Fine ever update the game to work normally on modern PCs? They revamped the game on Steam in 2013, from what I can tell, releasing it on Linux and MacOS, adding Achievement and so forth.

It's a bit of a shame since the actual game is still super addicting and fun. I think with a light remaster, this could be released on next gen consoles without major issues. The only thing that might require more work to fix, if you wanted to fix it, are the cutscenes. Those are literally old fashioned videos, at super low resolution. Redoing all of them would be a ton of work, but even just upscaling the videos should be doable, I'm sure Double Fine has the source video files somewhere.

Hope the sequel is a success and allows them to go back for a re-release of the original game.

I don't get my Deck 'til next year so by then all you beta-testers will have worked out the bugs for me ( Thanks! ) and this whole "Perfect for Deck" malarky will have died down to ignorable levels.

And speaking of it, Psychonauts 1 would be perfect on the Deck!

 

[prudis]

Well, I booted up Nier Replicant sqrt(2). Wish me luck....

Ah fuck me the math was wrong its sqrt(1.5). Whatever.

damn you perv

making errors in squirts

 

[manchego obfuscator]

Definently. Tons of games I've come back to after years despite finishing them (SP games), like a feel a sudden urge to replay something, can't do that with game pass. Like I would never play LiS True Colors on game pass because I have no doubt I will enjoy it and will come back to it in a few years. That happened with LiS and BTS.

Another type of game that works badly with game pass are endless games like roguelikes, strategy games, factory/management types of games. Those can be played until the end of time or when I lose interest.

Like Hades, is on game pass, roguelike, somewhat endless, takes a long time to play, will never play it on game pass.

Im not even pirating games anymore due to my backlog and for many games, piracy gives you a better service than game pass.

makes sense. my preferences skew heavily towards shorter, single-player games with definitive endings, so Game Pass is a pretty good fit for me. if I want to replay those games after they leave the service, well, odds are they'll be in a Humble Choice or such eventually

Two games with similar mechanics (top-down puzzle and 2D platformer).

Haven't played the first one, but Tandem demo was pretty good

 

[Amzin]

interesting project just matured form Early Access

I just gave this a shot, because $6 for a decent looking deck builder, why not? But I actually am refunding it. There are a lot of bugs (like, not being able to play cards a few times every battle), some things have no explanation whatsoever, and they announced they are not supporting it, so... it's just going to have actions bug out on you and not happen forever. Initial impressions were balance was nonexistent too, but hard to know without more time.

It sucks because there are some neat ideas in it but honestly, I think it's a dev to avoid now.

 

[prudis]

damn , thats unfortunate :-( Amzin
but well ... its always a lottery with chinese game

 

[EdwardTivrusky]

Here's the announcement, it was in their launch news.

Shadowplay: Metropolis Foe - THE LAST MAJOR UPDATE OF SHADOWPLAY IS LIVE! - Steam News

After a year of hard work, we say goodbye to this project with new events, some promised visual upgrades, and more bug fixes

store.steampowered.com

 

[Digoman]

Just finished Heavy Rain. That was just boring and stupid. At least Indigo Prophecy went batshit insane in the end

Also, could someone please find the man responsible for the idea of those shaking QTEs and start to shake his monitor while he works? I think it's safe to assume it's a man given the rest of the game.

 

[lashman]

That was just boring and stupid

that's all David Cage games

 

[prudis]

another interesting project maturing from Early Access

this time , spaceship designing

 

[inky]

Top 10 (well, top 11, but Skyrim is Skyrim)

Spoiler

Football Manager 20/21 are not there because they were gamepass games lol

Thanks Phil

 

[Mivey]

that's all David Cage games

That's a gross oversimplification.
While they are mostly boring and stupid, occasionally the games also manage to be unintentionally hilarious and stupid.

 

[prudis]

this one llooks interesting too

 

[AHA-Lambda]

that's all David Cage games

I liked a couple tbh, even as stupid as they can be
Beyond Two Souls I recall to be irredeemably bad though

 

[dummmyy]

Just checked Battle.net, I have 573 hours in Diablo 3

I was too scared to look. LOL

 

[Digoman]

that's all David Cage games

That's a gross oversimplification.
While they are mostly boring and stupid, occasionally the games also manage to be unintentionally hilarious and stupid.

Well, it's only my second David Cage game.... but yeah, for me Indigo Prophecy was hilarious stupid

Heavy Rain tries to be more grounded, and without the fantastical elements his really, reaaaaalllyy bad writing just manages to be boring. Well, that's if you ignore the uncomfortable racist and sexist elements,

In short, while I still remember the stupidity of Indigo Prophecy. I doubt I will remember much of this game next year.

 

[lashman]

That's a gross oversimplification.
While they are mostly boring and stupid, occasionally the games also manage to be unintentionally hilarious and stupid.

I liked a couple tbh, even as stupid as they can be
Beyond Two Souls I recall to be irredeemably bad though

all Cage games have LITERALLY one thing that kinda/sorta makes them entertaining enough to at least check out the good bits on youtube ... in Omikron it was Bowie ... Fahrenheit/Indigo - bugs, lol ... Heavy Rain - Press X to Jason ... Beyond - Dafoe ... Detroit - not sure this one has anything, maybe the """"""""subtle"""""""" metaphors

 

[NarohDethan]

maybe the """"""""subtle"""""""" metaphors

White people discovering racism is bad and actually robots is a metaphor for black people

 

[Dinjoralo]

all Cage games have LITERALLY one thing that kinda/sorta makes them entertaining enough to at least check out the good bits on youtube ... in Omikron it was Bowie ... Fahrenheit/Indigo - bugs, lol ... Heavy Rain - Press X to Jason ... Beyond - Dafoe ... Detroit - not sure this one has anything, maybe the """"""""subtle"""""""" metaphors

I know I've heard multiple people say Detroit has a pretty good buddy cop story, or something like that.

 

[AHA-Lambda]

I liked Detroit

 

[lashman]

i guess Microids are done with regional pricing as well

 

[EdwardTivrusky]

Wow, that must seem like a "Budget" game to Argentinians, it's only 500% not 1000%+

 

[TheTrain]

i guess Microids are done with regional pricing as well

I think we can definitely say that regional pricing isn't a thing anymore. I wonder if, and how, valve will ''fix'' it on Steam

 

[lashman]

Wow, that must seem like a "Budget" game to Argentinians, it's only 500% not 1000%+

actually, the final price for Argentina is higher than the US one ... because they also have another 65% to pay above the listed price

I think we can definitely say that regional pricing isn't a thing anymore. I wonder if, and how, valve will ''fix'' it on Steam

i don't think they can .... not like they can force devs to use it ...

 

[TrishaKit]

OwO

 

[ExistentialThought]

OwO

I super hope it works out, I love Onion games. Black Bird is a masterpiece.

 

[NarohDethan]

OwO

Gonna buy BlackBird.

 

[Cacher]

Sooooo... moon?

 

[Kvik]

Yes, please put moon on Steam, but please do something about that bilinear filtering. Seeing screenshots of the Switch version hurts me.

 

[Arulan]

Am I late to the party?

Title	Hours Played
Left 4 Dead 2	682
Dota 2	484
Kingdom Come: Deliverance	429
Pillars of Eternity	365
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim	282
Battle Brothers	249
Cyberpunk 2077	207
Divinity: Original Sin (Classic)	183
Warhammer: Vermintide 2	178
Europa Universalis IV	175

This is just Steam though. A lot of my playtime of earlier CRPGs come before Steam or go through GOG now.

Role-playing, Co-Op, and Strategy games tend to rack up the most time for me.

 

[NarohDethan]

And that's Dusk done. That second to last stage was brutal, cant imagine doing it in Duskmare.

 

[Digoman]

Yeah.... can put me on the camp that's not really happy with the Twelve Minutes ending.

Game itself is fine and with some actual nice touches with all the variations of what you can do, including accounting for you doing some actions in front of the wife. But I'm not usually a fan of the type of ending they went for, nor do I think it was well done here.

These past few days I watched the last Evangelion movie, played Heavy Rain and now this game.... I think now I need something with a nice simple linear story

 

[hersheyfan]

i guess Microids are done with regional pricing as well

Developers/publishers: Guys, if you want to support us and give us more money to make your favorite games, buy our stuff on EGS or other alternative storefronts so we get a better cut. Yeah, you lose out on a lot of QOL features, but its a small price to pay as at the end of the day it's just a launcher, right?

Also developers/publishers: Regional pricing? Nah, fuck those guys! We've done the math lol

 

[FunnyJay]

Are we doing top 10 on Steam?

Alright!

Factorio	232 hours
XCOM 2	150 hours
Secret World Legends	109 hours (this includes the play time from The Secret World, since they changed what game version is in your Steam library)
Mount & Blade: Warband	104 hours
Snowrunner	85 hours
Stardew Valley	84 hours
Payday 2	80 hours
XCOM: Enemy Unknown	79 hours
Grand Theft Auto V	70 hours
X3: Terran Conflict	62 hours

 

[thekeats1999]

So most played.

Not shown is the 3,000+ hours I have put into Minecraft. Plus Stardew Valley has another 600 hours on the iPad version. Only reason there isn't more is that the tablet versions haven't had the latest update yet.

Tabletop simulator was mainly used for D&D during covid.

 

[Prodigy]

that's all David Cage games

I remember loving Fahrenheit, first time I had experienced something like it. Although it then got stupid with powers later on.

Definently. Tons of games I've come back to after years despite finishing them (SP games), like a feel a sudden urge to replay something, can't do that with game pass. Like I would never play LiS True Colors on game pass because I have no doubt I will enjoy it and will come back to it in a few years. That happened with LiS and BTS.

Wouldn't that work more as a plus for Gamepass. Play a single player game and when you feel like coming back to it years later it is cheaper to buy?

 

[Kiru]

My most played game on Steam is Fall Guys...

 

[Mor]

OwO

THE TIME HAS COME! IT'S TIME TO SHOW THE MONEY!

 

[lashman]

Developers/publishers: Guys, if you want to support us and give us more money to make your favorite games, buy our stuff on EGS or other alternative storefronts so we get a better cut. Yeah, you lose out on a lot of QOL features, but its a small price to pay as at the end of the day it's just a launcher, right?

Also developers/publishers: Regional pricing? Nah, fuck those guys! We've done the math lol

yup, this ... all of this!

I remember loving Fahrenheit, first time I had experienced something like it. Although it then got stupid with powers later on.

it really REALLY did, lol ... it's actually not too bad ... until the bugs show up

 

[Li Kao]

Tried the demo of Ultrakill, ah ah, nope, don't want to die of a heart attack
Funny how I have the same feeling toward it than with Souls-like, I want your levels, not interested in your bosses.

Maybe in easy ? Because I'm sure it won't be easy anyway.