I'm shocked!
For anyone who can't see the now deleted tweet, Borderlands 3 is an Epic Store Exclusive.
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Good thing I don't care about Borderlands at all. Sad that this will drive many people to Epic's Store, leading to even more moneyhatting.
I'm shocked!
For anyone who can't see the now deleted tweet, Borderlands 3 is an Epic Store Exclusive.
Handsome Collection is really worth it for the full experience, but for the Pre-Sequel Season Pass, I wouldn't give into it. Get it if you really want to play it.So is it still worth getting the handsome collection? I'm mostly missing the season pass for presequel
Nah, still 100% your decision. I won't judge but the 'can't help it' attitude always weirds me out when it comes to entertainment products.Sadly, my roommate's favorite game is Borderlands 2, and I'd rather play BL3 with him at launch than wait a year (if it's exclusive), so looks like this one is out of my hands. At least I can, like, sandbox the launcher right?
That you responded with something other than "I still acts like loot crates are required and feels like they botched their removal' means its been patched out properly, in my opinion. I'm slightly more interested than before, but your run down and others here as well have made me more cautious. Will wait for a deep sale. I don't need to simply walk into Mordor War right awayI can't say really, I bought it after they removed all that crap.
A nice compilation of some of the great looking adventure games coming out this month:
And anime! Steam has a monopoly on anime games on Steam.Borderlands 3 is no big loss.
Series peaked with 2 IMO, so it being exclusive to EGS means more money to buy RAGE 2,. DOOM Eterrnal and Wolfenstein Youngblood on STEAM![]()
This is the point where you step back, take a deep breath and do something else for a bit.I fucking hate Sekiro.
I'm at Genichiro and I've managed to get him to an inch of his health left on his 3rd phase a bunch of times but no dice.
My hands actually hurt now, and I can see I'm just getting worse now, I need a break -_-
It's not my birthday
Borderlands 3 is about five years too late anyways.I played the shit out of Borderlands and Borderlands 2 with some friends way back. Never gotten around to play the Pre-Sequel.
I played a bunch of BL2 with another friend not that long ago and I didn't find it funny anymore, guess I outgrew the juvenile humor
Borderlands 3 announcement does nothing at all for me tbh.
I was still interested, but you right that it did miss it's big window. The irony is that with The Division 2 on UPlay and Destiny 2 on Battle.net, if it was on Steam it would directly serve that audience with a looter shooter. Now it has to convince people to "move".Borderlands 3 is about five years too late anyways.
I played the game multiple times through with friends, bought the DLC for multiple friends, and now I don’t even talk to those people anymore.
I dunno, it seems like way past it’s window. Maybe people will still go crazy for it, but I’m not going to be there even if it ends up on Steam. Short of me magically reconnecting with the IRL friends I played it with, what’s the point? It would have to be some kind of massive, generation shifting game for it to pique my interest now. And given the trailer, it seems to be distinctly not that.
The best Borderlands game (Tales from) isn’t even a Gearbox production so![]()
That's because From games are secretly (not so secretly really) puzzle games masquerading as action games.Yup, i've read it tons of times in Sekiro threads. People hit a particular wall then come back the next day and get it done after an attempt or two.
Step away, have a nice cuppa and a biscuit, do something else to recharge and melt his face off tomorrow.
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I'm on the same boatI'm not going to know if I get snapped till tomorrow, but I'm ready to declare my month long exclusivity to MC.![]()
Jesus Christ. Well, I guess the one good thing out of all this is that everyone sees their true colors now.Are game "journos" in an April Fool's contest?
I'm so lost y'all.
IGN:
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(you'd think Dan in particular would have a little self-awareness to not show his ass (aka not knowing anything about the state of PC gaming) after the other embarrassments that have happened under his "editorial" watch)
PC World:
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From the same dude a few days ago:
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Game Informer:
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I genuinely cannot believe this is anything other than April Fool's Day trolling.
And as a bonus:
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How the eff do you become the Senior Editor at a popular PC focused website and not know how legal key resellers work? Like, what amount of investment and interest would you have to have in a platform to not know that? I guess in fairness, maybe he's interested in the platform, but this is just what happens when you're in a position of privilege, never pay for any games, never have any actual skin in "supporting the devs" like you demand the customers do, and therefore have no idea how storefronts work.
At this point I'm pretty sure I'm Kirk Cameron in Left Behind, everyone else has left planet Earth, and I got left still plugged in the simulation.
Man I hope Hat isn't as dull as Yooka-Laylee was. Finishing that game was almost as big of a torture as finishing Rise of the Tomb Raider.
- My backlog list for April is Yooka-Laylee and A Hat in Time. I need to start those soon.
Yeah, we had RE2, DMC 5, Sekiro released, alongside the MCC collection and Bethesda games on Steam coming later. It seems that some journalists want to control the narratives on how Steam will become a barren wasteland, which makes no sense.Also what's up with new narrative that Steam has no big releases? Even with all the EGS exclusives, Steam is still has way more big games..
I'm aware of the general disdain people have for Yooka-Laylee. I've played a chunk of the first world and actually had a pretty good time. I believe people have said it starts alright and goes downhill, though. Regardless, it's the style of platformer I generally enjoy so I'm looking forward to checking out more of it.Man I hope Hat isn't as dull as Yooka-Laylee was. Finishing that game was almost as big of a torture as finishing Rise of the Tomb Raider.
In other news, case 1 of DGS done, a bit difficult to give any meaningful opinion about it so far, aside from the fact that I love its courtroom suite. Easily one of the best in the series.
Yeah, I believe the general consensus about the first world is that it's pretty good or at least enjoyable. The point of contention usually appears at the middle and late parts of the game. Which is to say there are definitely people that enjoyed Yooka-Laylee in its entirety, I am just not of them unfortunately.I'm aware of the general disdain people have for Yooka-Laylee. I've played a chunk of the first world and actually had a pretty good time. I believe people have said it starts alright and goes downhill, though. Regardless, it's the style of platformer I generally enjoy so I'm looking forward to checking out more of it.
And I think it's widely accepted that A Hat in Time is a much better game and a great platformer so I'm not too worried there.
I almost feel like I should add Poi to the month if I get through both of those with plenty of time leftover.
Part of the complaint when Assasult Android Cactus was denied was Epic wants a dev/pub to bring over an established fan-base.So my biggest issue is that people first painted Epic as a savior of indie games, but so far, I haven't seen them care about actual indie developers except ones who with already established fanbases (except Three Fields Entertainment from my understanding), and are mostly focusing on AAA releases. They changed that narrative to developers in general it seems. The one exception seems to be Three Fields Entertainment though, but even then they don't advertise them as much and are overshadowed by big AAA titles.
I also wonder if the publishers get these cuts rather then the developers? I'm not 100% sure on that but if there's more info then that would good to know.
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Here is what I have thus far:So, Hektor had a great idea and is already working on something that I was recently thinking of doing myself: He's creating something of an FAQ for people unaware (or 'unaware') of the reasons behind the Epic Games Store controversy. The goal as I understood it is to create a resource that we can link to whenever someone enters an EGS thread on Era 'just asking questions' so we can avoid having to debate the same 'arguments' again and again. He's going to post it here on Metacouncil when he's ready, I think it would be cool to work on it as a community, provide feedback to Hektor and hopefully come up with something as comprehensive as possible.
It doesn't matter if these same people ignore it. What matters is the public can access these sources and therefore can check for themselves rather then regurgitating the same points over and over.Idk I feel like I have to write the same things over and over these days, it's getting tiring and it's always ignored anyway, those people aren't interested in debate.