Also, how is Cloudpunk? It's currently on sale right now and it's been sitting on my wishlist for some time.
I thought the game was really good. The highlights are obviously the visuals/music/atmosphere of the cyberpunk city they've built. The actual gameplay isn't particularly complex or stimulating... you basically just fly around from point to point to complete missions. You can also park your vehicle and explore small bits of the city on foot. There were some performance issues when I played but I believe they were fixed after I finished it. They also added a first person view option which I expect will be stunning. I took me about 14 hours to finish the game but I did spend some time visiting places that were not required on the critical path of the story.
I guess the question is do you enjoy the 'walking simulator' type of game? Because that's what this is, except you're not strictly walking. The appeal is the atmosphere and to some extent the (passable, not great) story. I think it's worth it for the current price.
Horizon was mispriced in UK too, though in that instance it was under rather than over.
I got it at the reduced price and Sony/Steam honoured the price I paid.
In my country Horizon released with Valve's recommended pricing. Then a year later their next game (Days Gone?) came in at 3x the recommended pricing. And then Sony decided to hike the price of Horizon as well and tripled it to match. Just a straight fuck you from Sony.
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I just spent a while looking around for a particular kind of game and fell into a (pleasantly) large hole of completed and WIP stuff that looks super interesting to me. But one game I came across just made me think.
It's a GZDoom game called Mala Petaka being developed by one guy. It looks like this;
It's a WIP game and he puts out point release demos from time to time. In fact, the newest demo was supposed to go up on Steam on July 31st, but it didn't. Why not? Because this guy is from Indonesia and Steam got banned the day before he was going to release it.
Can't imagine how heartbreaking that must have been for him. These old farts in government who make these decisions don't understand the damaging consequences of their actions when they try to impose their dominance over others (which is always what these bans come down to). I'm sure the Steam situation will eventually get resolved for Indonesia and the game will show up there but imagine if that wasn't the case. Imagine you spend months and years making a GZDoom 'boomer shooter' (which is not what this strictly is) and then you can't distribute on Steam. That's all your work down the drain. The GPL license means it'll never be on consoles. And on PC you can't distribute on the one marketplace where you have any hope of commercial success.
Nobody should have to feel like this
Anyway if you are at all interested in this kind of game then maybe follow the guy on Twitter and have a look at his game when the Steam situation over there gets resolved.
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Okay the next part of this post was meant to talk about a similar (game banning) issue happening in my country but it turned into a nearly unhinged rant about how rubbish my government is. It has nothing to do with Steam so feel free to ignore it. I should probably just have deleted it but meh... you've been warned.
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