Community MetaSteam | April 2022 - Crossing Spring in a Galaxy Far, Far Away

[「Echo」]

Watching a Vtuber play Gundam Evolution ... and it just looks like Humans dressed up in robot cosplay doing Valorant LARPing.

There's nothing mechanical about the movements at all, it's super fast paced and spammy. I can't really see it as a Gundam game...

Sunday is when we might here something about Kingdom Hearts on Steam, right?

I have doubts... But technically that is the day of the KH Event so... maybe?

 

[Cacher]

That was fast Page is up while trademark just appear yesterday

Yeah, totally did not expect to see it today.

And yet still no Etrian Odyssey on PC.

Atlus doing what Atlus do best.

Not even a new one even though they teased it long time ago

This bodes extremely well for Relayer PC port in the future!

Very exciting! I heard Relayer's story was pretty good.

 

[Mor]

Sunday is when we might here something about Kingdom Hearts on Steam, right?

Maybe? maybe they just announce them? maybe they release them? maybe they forgot and they won't come? we don't know.

Very exciting! I heard Relayer's story was pretty good.

YUUUUUP!

Hopefully it won't take too long!

 

[AHA-Lambda]

I don't get it D:


that's would be AWESOME!

There’s a mouse icon in bottom left

 

[derFeef]

 

[Hektor]

I have doubts... But technically that is the day of the KH Event so... maybe?

JUST GIVE ME KINGDOM HEARTS ON STEAM ALREADY SQUARE ENIX

 

[Mor]

There’s a mouse icon in bottom left

HOLY SMOKES, I THOUGHT IT WAS A HAND HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA

JUST GIVE ME KINGDOM HEARTS ON STEAM ALREADY SQUARE ENIX

Hopefully you will get it soon

 

[Cacher]

JUST GIVE ME KINGDOM HEARTS ON STEAM ALREADY SQUARE ENIX

Are you ready to pay 170 bucks for them though?

 

[ZKenir]

Are you ready to pay 170 bucks for them though?

Yes

 

[fantomena]

KH Steam info in 2 days?

 

[Cacher]

Yes

Good for you! To people who will grab them on steam soon, hopefully you will enjoy the games then.

Personally I really can't justify for paying full price for them. Going to wait for deep discounts.

 

[Mor]

KH Steam info in 2 days?

Maybe, we don't really know and as we don't know the steam packages we can't check if there are internal updates.

 

[Hektor]

 

[Mor]

I would recommend everyone to temper your expectations IN CASE S-E doesn't announce KH for Steam (yet?)

 

[Ascheroth]

Oh, I definitely expect nothing from SE.

 

[Deku]

How are the PC versions of Kingdom Hearts games anyway?

 

[fantomena]

How are the PC versions of Kingdom Hearts games anyway?

Pretty good apparently, it's just that the vast majority of people don't know they exist.

 

[Alexandros]

So, since I have never played a Kingdom Hearts game, what's the appeal? Should I try one out eventually?

 

[Anteater]

Did somebody say Kingdom Hearts

So, since I have never played a Kingdom Hearts game, what's the appeal? Should I try one out eventually?

It's a really simple hack and slash action rpg with 3 characters honestly, at least with the first 2 games, the story for first game is simple disney style/children fairy tale story, and the main draw is SE/Disney characters and fan service, 2 gets weirder and go into some Final Fantasy existential crisis thing their writers love so much but it's alright if you like that kind of stuff. Heard the games after get too weird but I haven't played them and can't comment.

 

[ZKenir]

Official announcement (although late)

 

[AHA-Lambda]

So, since I have never played a Kingdom Hearts game, what's the appeal? Should I try one out eventually?

Disney x Final Fantasy basically

 

[Lashley]

So, since I have never played a Kingdom Hearts game, what's the appeal? Should I try one out eventually?

The appeal is the Disney characters tbh

Mickey swearing vengeance on the baddies after Goofy is hurt, etc

 

[Hektor]

So, since I have never played a Kingdom Hearts game, what's the appeal? Should I try one out eventually?

It's genuinly good ARPG combat systems embedded into a JRPG ass story taking place in classic Disney Worlds that has Mickey Mouse getting chokeslammed by a guy who never grew out of his emo phase.

Also, the franchise has fantastic music and every game has very different gameplay systems outside of the combat, like KH2 has Shmup gameplay, Birth By Sleep has a Monopoly based Level up system, Chain of Memories is a card based Roguelite etc.

 

[derFeef]

The appeal is the Disney characters tbh

Mickey swearing vengeance on the baddies after Goofy is hurt, etc

And everything delivered in awkward pacing.

- Goofy: "Woahhu I am scared!"
5 second pause
- Donald: "Don't be scared"
5 second pause
- Goofy: "woahhu Ok"

 

[Dragon1893]

I can't stand the KH games.

Put a good amount of hours into ME Andromeda now and despite the flaws it has a lot going for it. When you're exploring the planets it feels like the vision they had for ME1 has finally been realized. The combat is pretty good and it still holds up visually.

 

[C-Dub]

You know how nice it is to get your life and time back from work? It’s amazing.

I started a new job last November and it’s been amazing work, and I’m really enjoying it, but I was in wave 1 of a multi-million pound recruitment drive to bring lots of new talent into our department.

That meant that the work for me has been insane. Non-stop pretty much. However, new starts are now trickling in, more interviews are happening and I was due to juggle two products this week as I transitioned between starting one and finishing the other, but one of the new starts has taken my new project off me and now my calendar is… looking rather empty for the next week or two.

I’ve had my string of bad jobs, so it’s nice when an employer says they are throwing money at the problem and promise the work will let up so we can take time for learning, development and mentoring, and then actually stick to that promise within the promised timescales.

I haven’t felt this relaxed in at least a year, when I was being paid a lot less (and as such didn’t have to give a shit). Feels good.

 

[gabbo]

Kristy Swanson's Buffy, is that you?

Seriously considering getting the Master Chief collection....
I haven't played a Halo game since Halo 2 on the original XBOX, and before that, Halo: Combat Evolved on PC...

It's a good set of ports, but the games didn't really impress me as a long time PC shooter fan when I played the MCC last year. Level and encounter design copy and pasted endlessly across the 4 main games.

 

[jads653]

Chrono Cross port,, I was looking forward to playing trough the game... Thanks Square for nothing!

 

[Cacher]

For all the shitty stuff that SQEX pulled, I applaud them for greenlighting so many strategy games in recent years. Triangle Strategy, DioField Chronicle, Front Mission remakes, the trademarked Tactics Ogre and the rumored Final Fantast Tactics remake. Strategy fans are going to have a treat!

 

[fantomena]

Got interested in continuing Returnal again afting winning BAFTA goty. I died 2 times and then stopped. I just can't bring myself to invest a lot of time into the game (it is a difficulty game that will take a lot of time to finish) when it can be announced for PC at any time. Same goes for Demon's Souls.

 

[Anteater]

Chrono Cross port,, I was looking forward to playing trough the game... Thanks Square for nothing!

HD PSX Ports are hard

Producer Koichiro Sakamoto reveals the exciting challenges of remastering and enhancing the classic PlayStation RPG.

 

[ZKenir]

For all the shitty stuff that SQEX pulled, I applaud them for greenlighting so many strategy games in recent years. Triangle Strategy, DioField Chronicle, Front Mission remakes, the trademarked Tactics Ogre and the rumored Final Fantast Tactics remake. Strategy fans are going to have a treat!

That’s me I’m really happy with what square is doing

 

[Tomasety]

If you don't own CIV VI or the Platinum version which was Choiced then this is particular a very good deal.

Sid Meier's Civilization VI Anthology -84% - $13.50/€13.50 - Using voucher "GG-DEALS"

 

[fokkusu]

Shitty port from SQEX. Who was surpriced?

 

[QFNS]

Yep. Not surprised. I'm sure modders will tear into it and fix it up but gotta give some time. I'll probably wait a few months.

Been playing some Triangle strategy in the meantime. Good tactics game so far. Only on Chapter 4, but lol looks like there's a lot to do if you want to.

 

[Kal1m3r0]

That fact is that with Square is always a roll of dice.
Chrono Trigger sucked and they fixed it without community help, Pixel Remasters are pretty good, FF7R sucks. Nier Replicant was ok, Automata sucked.
I just wonder if they'll try to improve it

 

[fantomena]

Tunic is really good. My plans after Tunic is Weird West then Wolcen.

 

[Mona]

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[lashman]

 

[Parsnip]

I'm sure ill be the only one with this opinion but the first game was more annoying than fun and the second one looks like it's just more of the exact same but with a 2 on the end for Rogue Legacy 2

Their upgrade system just felt stupid to me because if you went the "wrong" direction stuff that was actually good was horrendously expensive and required you to get massive amounts of gold

Maybe I played it wrong? Lol I don't know I like roguelikes and roguelites but there's so many better options comparatively at the time to the original and even now the sequel has to compete against the new stuff that's out

There are dozens if us.

I've tried to get into Rogue Legacy at least 3 times, so many people like it that I just had to try again and again. Always after the first boss I just think... Nah, I'm good.

 

[Lashley]

 

[NarohDethan]

Well, in fairness to Sega, they didnt have much choice in the matter. Johnny's (Takuya Kimura's talent agency) was responsible for vetoing the PC version, to avoid besmirching his image (yknow, nude mods and shit). Since Luna and Stadia are cloud based, theres no risk of that.

They should have ported it to Switch via Cloud or something.

So, since I have never played a Kingdom Hearts game, what's the appeal? Should I try one out eventually?

I played a bit of 1 HD some time ago and it was 'fine'. Definitely something that would feel very special back in 2002, but with nowadays with the IP orgy bonanza that permeates gaming, not so much.

 

[moemoneyb1]

I did pirate Kingdom Hearts 3 and played through the main story. The game was well optimized and I didn't have any technical issues with it.

 

[fokkusu]

TIL Gothics have Steam Workshop support

Steam Community :: Gothic 1 Classic

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[yuraya]

I played a little bit of the first KH game on PS4 and the performance was very uneven/clunky. I didn't like it at all tho I don't know if its just PS2 jank or if it was poorly optimized. Hard to tell and I didn't play it long enough/never returned.

From what I read the PC versions of all the games have unlocked framerate so that should be an improvement over the console feel.

 

[kio]

That fact is that with Square is always a roll of dice.
Chrono Trigger sucked and they fixed it without community help, Pixel Remasters are pretty good, FF7R sucks. Nier Replicant was ok, Automata sucked.
I just wonder if they'll try to improve it

What's their incentive to do a good job? People keep buying their stuff in droves no matter just how busted the product is or how little consideration they have for their customers. Even after countless busted ports, shitty monetization practices, price hikes, exclusivity deals and overall bad behaviour towards the general gaming audience, they get a fat wallet in the end.
They treat people like trash because people let themselves be treated like trash, and in a way, because of this fact, people deserve to be treated like trash. But in the end all is forgiven because in a couple of months they'll show a shinny new trailler for whatever new rehash of an old game they made 20 years ago and people will lose their collective minds once again. It's the SE cycle.

 

[Anteater]

almost bankrupting them will make sure SE will do a good job, like FFXIV 2.0 was good because they were so fucked with 1.0

 

[Parsnip]

I wouldn't say Square games sell in droves, on PC at least.

They've squandered all their best opportunities to actually make their brand a household name on PC, and they just keep putting in the lowest effort possible in most projects.

There are some exceptions of course. FF14 is one, and even then they had to literally remake the game because of the reception of original version.
But really in general, it's kind of pathetic how small the mainline FF games are on PC still, FF7R could have had a shot, if they hadn't first done a long Sony exclusive and then top that with EGS. Plus the port could have worked better too.


Pathetic.

 

[Lashley]

WWE 2K22 is 25% off on Steam already.

Bomba?

 

[fantomena]

3080s are starting to get dates for availability at decent prices.

Still waiting for 4080 to build my new PC.