Community MetaSteam | October 2021 - Guardians of Ashes: Maiden of Empires

[fantomena]

Even when it is on Game Pass, you can play it when you want.

No, because you have to be subbed, technical issues, 3rd party titles leaves or need Internet if you use cloud.

One of the reason I stopped using game pass was due to technical issues, which did not allow me to play when I wanted.

 

[Wok]

I thought you were talking about the psychological burden of having a timer on your subscription, but sure.

My point was that, whether a game is in your Steam library or on Game Pass while your subscription is active, you can play or not play it whenever you want.

 

[fantomena]

I thought you were talking about the psychological burden of having a timer on your subscription, but sure.

That was another issue yes.

 

[sk2k]

Thanks to Mr. AHA-Lambda i'm now owner of The Good Life.

 

[prudis]

and another early access graduation


so many of them

 

[Deleted member 113]

fantomena

To quote a certain fictional psychopath, "A hobby's supposed to pass the time, not fill it".

Ultimately, videogames, like any hobby, are supposed to distract you, and provide you with an enjoyable time.
If you are not enjoying your time with a game, or start feeling any stress or "pressure" to do something videogames related, it's time to take a step back, and rethink your habits.

In my case, I always loved long games, in particular RPGs.
Now, the truth is the available time I have is frequently short, and even when I have time I frequently don't have any patience to play something "taxing", so what I find myself playing are arcade games, short games.

For example, I've mostly been playing:
-arcade games on Capcom Arcade Stadium;
-Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania
-Bubble Bobble 4 Friends: The Baron's Workshop

We frequently forget about it, but our time is limited, and it's a bit pointless when you waste some of it on hobbies, when you are not enjoying what you are doing. That's why I don't hesitate to drop a game, when it starts feeling like I'm forcing myself to continue, and not having a good time with it.

 

[Li Kao]

We frequently forget about it, but our time is limited, and it's a bit pointless when you waste some of it on hobbies, when you are not enjoying what you are doing. That's why I don't hesitate to drop a game, when it starts feeling like I'm forcing myself to continue, and not having a good time with it.

Looking at Octopath Traveler... I feel weirdly triggered

 

[beep boop]

Looking at Octopath Traveler... I feel weirdly triggered

I bailed on that when I got to act 2 and realized it was gonna be the same thing as in act 1 again. Thankfully it was the physical Switch release so I could trade it in. It's so bizarrely repetitive. Hopefully Triangle Strategy is a bit better in that respect.

 

[Futaleufu]

You know whats the weirdest part of a forum selling out? That some of the members, who made a lot of threads and provided the value of that place are getting zero for their efforts.

And I thought the UFC was trash for paying less than 15% of their income to their fighters

 

[Wok]

some of the members, who made a lot of threads and provided the value of that place are getting zero for their efforts.

Welcome to the era of platforms and user-generated content.

 

[Li Kao]

I bailed on that when I got to act 2 and realized it was gonna be the same thing as in act 1 again. Thankfully it was the physical Switch release so I could trade it in. It's so bizarrely repetitive. Hopefully Triangle Strategy is a bit better in that respect.

This.
I can't say it's particularly bad, it's just that a couple characters in, let's say 10-20 hours, you know in your heart of hearts that this is exactly what you will get for untold amount of hours. Like when I play it I have an adequate time, it's competent though too verbose, slow and boring, but thinking about playing it again after that, I'm 'why, though ?' every time.
I know what I must do but it's hard

 

[Deleted member 113]

Looking at Octopath Traveler... I feel weirdly triggered

If it applies, do it. You can always return to it later.

Sometimes, it's just a matter of not being the "right" game for a certain moment. I started plenty of games, stopped them, and quite some time later returned to them (re-started), and actually had a good time. There are times when you just don't have the "mind" to play something, and you return later on, have a great time, and wonder what the hell happened the first time.

For example, I'm a huge fan of INTI CREATES output, in particular their Blaster Master Zero series.
I bought Blaster Master Zero 3 at launch, played a few hours, was lacking time (and patience) to continue, and was not really feeling it, so I dropped it. I'll surely re-start it one of these days, and probably have a great time doing so, but when I dropped it, I just wasn't having "fun", so I played something else.

 

[DeejayDoom]

Sega decided today was a good day to just....increase again the regional price of Total Warhammer I and II:

Seems people were using VPN for... 30 countries or something, poor Sega.

 

[beep boop]

So the World of Horror dev communicated for the first time since the beginning of this year... While I'm glad they're seemingly okay and the game may yet be finished, I can't say I'm not salty about how they handled their absence. I'd have been satisfied even with a simple message saying they're on hiatus. I'd have been okay with it if the game was canceled and they said as much.

 

[Mor]

Remember Deadly Premonition 2 coming to Steam in 2021 from that document back in April? Rising Star/Thunderbolt won't remember and it's driving me crazy.

 

[dex3108]

Activision yesterday


Internet today

 

[Panda Pedinte]

That was fast lol

 

[Kal1m3r0]

Naturally, elaborate trolls could manage to abuse the system, but I doubt anybody would find it worth it to go through this waste of time... for now

Perfect, nobody suspect me (all according to my keikaku)

 

[Deleted member 113]

In case anyone is interested in giving it a try, there's now a demo available on Steam for Drox Operative 2, currently on Early Access:

 

[Wok]

Perfect, nobody suspect me (all according to my keikaku)

lmao

I realize I did not use the right HIDE tags. You were not supposed to be able to read this! I misclicked!

 

[DeejayDoom]

Why stop on just the games?

 

[Kyougar]

man I'm so shit at Zomboid
Rhadamant made it look so easy and I'm here savescumming for 3 hours just to get beyond the first day (only got to night one time.

But that was also true for Dwarf fortress and Aurora 4x

 

[Wok]

Tomorrow's schedule at TI 10.

 

[fantomena]

Tried a bit of Deathloop, I find it to be a really good game, but don't have the interest to play it now so I uninstalled it and added it to my curated backlog, so Im going for Ender Lillies and Metroid Dread now instead, both that I really wanna play.

 

[Deku]

You can purchase a share for 38 SEK, which is 3.80 € (easy conversion).
Maybe I could invest ~ 100 € by buying 25 shares. I feel like it is a safe bet, as it is unlikely that the site would go down without Cerium.

I bought 10 shares today, so I now own a bit of ResetERA?

 

[Wok]

I now own a bit of ResetERA?

Roughly 0.00005 %.

 

[Kyougar]

I bought 10 shares today, so I now own a bit of ResetERA?

And it all goes to shit when MOBA has to pay the 20 million € GDPR fine.

 

[Stevey]

In case anyone is interested in giving it a try, there's now a demo available on Steam for Drox Operative 2, currently on Early Access:

Will check that out, first one was pretty neat, but the controls were a bity weird for me

 

[Le Pertti]

I bought 10 shares today, so I now own a bit of ResetERA?

I was also going to do it earlier ! But the investing app that I use didn't have the stock.

 

[Doctor Ironic]

Activision yesterday


Internet today

There’s nothing the internet loves more than a challenge. Announcing it in this big, boisterous way made this inevitable.

 

[Mivey]

Remember Deadly Premonition 2 coming to Steam in 2021 from that document back in April? Rising Star/Thunderbolt won't remember and it's driving me crazy.

Looking forward to it repeatedly crashing on my PC later this year.

 

[fantomena]

Took an overview of what Im interested in playing next that I own and have installed....and it's a lot

Ender Lillies, Eastward, Amnesia Rebirth, Arise: A Simple Story, The Artful Escape, The Forgotten City, Huntdown, Orcs Must Die 3, Lone Echo 2, Metroid Dread.

And still, Im receiving so many "just releases" mails from Steam. fucking hell.

For better or worse, there are daily releases of Super Meat Boys, Limbos and Braids.

 

[Mor]

Very interesting

 

[Madventure]

Watched a bit of Project Zomboid Lets Play, now I have bought it

The thing with Project zomboid is the actual mainline branch of the game and the beta branch are leagues apart so if you want to see where the game actually is you have to play the the one that is updated frequently. They're like on 3d models in the beta branch and still using 2d models in the production one. So it gives off the appearance that they're not actually doing anything

At least that was the case the last time I paid a lot of attention to it but that was awhile ago so dont take my statement as fact, I just know there was a big disconnect

 

[Kyougar]

The thing with Project zomboid is the actual mainline branch of the game and the beta branch are leagues apart so if you want to see where the game actually is you have to play the the one that is updated frequently. They're like on 3d models in the beta branch and still using 2d models in the production one. So it gives off the appearance that they're not actually doing anything

I am using the 0,41 bums beta

 

[Madventure]

I am using the 0,41 bums beta

Then you're probably playing the latest and greatest, I'd imagine? I try and check in on it once in awhile as it's the closest to a zombie survival game as I'd want from a game. Though state of decay gets pretty close

 

[PC-tan]

https://twitter.com/ondeck?t=Whj7Hu6hnDN8_uzPJQQoLw&s=09

It doesn't look official (looks fan made) but it is real

 

[MomoVideo]

https://twitter.com/ondeck?t=Whj7Hu6hnDN8_uzPJQQoLw&s=09

It doesn't look official (looks fan made) but it is real

I'm hoping for some juicy content from Valve itself

 

[xinek]

Activision yesterday

[ anti-cheat ]

Internet today

[ anti-anti-cheat ]

This really sucks. 90% of the reason I still have a playstation is for competitive multiplayer. I'd like to make PC my main platform for that, but cheaters make it impossible. It's not terrible with Battlefield 1, since there are plenty of community servers that don't hesitate to kick cheaters, but that's not something you can rely on for every game. I do like modding and other advantages of PC, but I guess you can't have that and also stay away from lame ass cheaters.

 

[lashman]

(via Nzyme)

 

[LEANIJA]

Looking forward to it repeatedly crashing on my PC later this year.

edit: sorry, I meant to reply to this:

This really sucks. 90% of the reason I still have a playstation is for competitive multiplayer. I'd like to make PC my main platform for that, but cheaters make it impossible. It's not terrible with Battlefield 1, since there are plenty of community servers that don't hesitate to kick cheaters, but that's not something you can rely on for every game. I do like modding and other advantages of PC, but I guess you can't have that and also stay away from lame ass cheaters.

Im all in favour of AntiCheat for multiplayer games, but a) Kernel-level sounds defintely wrong, and b) I fear if ActiBlizz puts this into Overwatch or WOW, I might not be play to play those games on Linux anymore. And theyre the only MP games I play.
Unless they also wanna have their games work on the Deck and port their stuff to Linux.

(via Nzyme)

its hypnotic

 

[rybrad]

Has anyone picked up Dungeon Encounters? I can't tell if I would actually like it or not from watching videos.

 

[mastemas]

https://twitter.com/ondeck?t=Whj7Hu6hnDN8_uzPJQQoLw&s=09

It doesn't look official (looks fan made) but it is real

i'll let valve know what games i'm gonna play on it when it becomes available here

 

[NarohDethan]

Fuck you Valve for not letting me preorder a deck.

 

[lashman]

Steam :: Steam Deck Deposit :: Introducing @OnDeck

Steam Deck gameplay videos and development updates on Twitter and on Steam

steamcommunity.com

 

[Wok]

After 13 hours, I have finally reached one of the endings of Ring of Pain. That is a nice rogue-like game: simple, yet a lot to learn from and to experiment with.

These were my stats. I had the underwear hat.

 

[prudis]

After 13 hours, I have finally reached one of the endings of Ring of Pain.

i should step up my game

and havent beat the ending yet .... although i often use it as a background while multitastking so lots of the time is just pause or not paying full attention to it

 

[Cacher]

I have been zoning out from deck news for a while as pre-order is not available here, but I will probably grab it on ebay next year provided that the price is not outrageous.

 

[xinek]

Im all in favour of AntiCheat for multiplayer games, but a) Kernel-level sounds defintely wrong, and b) I fear if ActiBlizz puts this into Overwatch or WOW, I might not be play to play those games on Linux anymore. And theyre the only MP games I play.
Unless they also wanna have their games work on the Deck and port their stuff to Linux.

Yeah, I hate the kernel level anti-cheat as well, and I don't consider it a solution. I wish those dipshits shooting themselves into space would redirect their efforts to solving this problem.

 

[lashman]