Epic and success don't go hand in hand
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More like EGS, both unreal engine and fortnite are successful so eh
First lesson, stay completely silent on Uncharted for PC.
The Tactics Ogre filter doesn't look terrible on the environments at least when I view it on mobile, but on characters it's terrible.
I tried to play anno mutationem on the deck but was surprised at how hard it taxes it (fans were louder than with yakuza kiwami!) and the text was pretty small so I transitioned it to my desktop. The game is interesting so far, it has a lot of style and the mechanics are more solid than I was expecting.
Now that I'm home and looking at the Tactics Ogre again, the general look of the environment is alright. Maybe a bit too grainy on the surface. Some parts of the characters also look alright, like it's clear it's not just a filter that they applied on the original sprites, I'm pretty sure someone actually worked on these. Probably some after touching after a filter, someone clearly worked on atleast the hair of some of those sprites.
But the worst thing about how this looks is that they all have a really bad looking outline. Would look a lot better without it.
But the worst thing about how this looks is that they all have a really bad looking outline. Would look a lot better without it.
People are going to overreact to this because of SE's earnings but they were down about the same as everyone was and when you look back at their releases last quarter they didn't really have anything. It mostly means the games from the first few months of the year didn't really have legs and when that lineup includes garbage like stranger of paradise well..duh.
The over arching problem SE has is they seem to have no coherent plan. They plan releases in the most scattershot way and it's so random I sometimes wonder if they leave decisions like pricing and platforms up to the individual dev teams. Harvestella? $60 and pc/switch only. Valkyrie Elysium? PC/PS. Diofield? On everything including xbox.
Even on the remaster/remake side there's no consistency. Actraiser was like $30 iirc. Tactics Ogre is $50 and people are struggling to see the differences outside of including voice acting and it's skipping xbox. Crisis Core remake? Seems to have the most work done by far and is the closest to a full blown actual remake and it's also $50. Oh and it's coming out on every platform including the ones FF7R skipped because of course it is.
Something about Sony NFT but apparently it's a mistake on the app it was screenshotted.
Why does the Pupa from Solar Opposites have its own game?lol this one
i wasn't online that much these past few days so i don't know if this was posted
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At a later date I'm going to write a bit more about Degica because what I read about their history with Valve sure is something.
From what I read, Degica is now 2 company. Degica is in charge of money transaction via Komoju and Komodo is in charge of Steam/Valve related stuff in addition to their own publishing stuff that they do.
Can any one from Japan confirm that Steam Japan has a telephone that you can call for customer service? From the looks of things that seems to be one of the unique things about Japan since Degica (Komodo) is in charge of that
"Valve is a very smart organization. Unlike other companies, there is an interesting corporate culture that emphasizes finding and solving problems without considering figures such as KPIs (key performance indicators, which indicate the degree of achievement of goals), sales, and gross profit. We also studied. Valve is the only company that doesn’t listen to any sales-like proposals (laughs)."
That is a quote from Jack, from Degica and that's from earlier this year.
It seems that with the PC release of Monster Hunter Rise that Valve wanted to do something special so they contact Komodo about it and their proposal was to have "physical" Steam keys. In Japan Komodo is responsible for the release of physical Steam Gift cards. They partnered with another company and were able to make cards that you could buy at a store that would come with a key for MHR on PC. This way they could advertise PC version of MHR since you would see it mentioned in physical retail stores, they said that would possibly do this again for another game in the future but it would also likely be for another big release in Japan in the future.
At a later date I'm going to write a bit more about Degica because what I read about their history with Valve sure is something.
From what I read, Degica is now 2 company. Degica is in charge of money transaction via Komoju and Komodo is in charge of Steam/Valve related stuff in addition to their own publishing stuff that they do.
Can any one from Japan confirm that Steam Japan has a telephone that you can call for customer service? From the looks of things that seems to be one of the unique things about Japan since Degica (Komodo) is in charge of that
"Valve is a very smart organization. Unlike other companies, there is an interesting corporate culture that emphasizes finding and solving problems without considering figures such as KPIs (key performance indicators, which indicate the degree of achievement of goals), sales, and gross profit. We also studied. Valve is the only company that doesn’t listen to any sales-like proposals (laughs)."
That is a quote from Jack, from Degica and that's from earlier this year.
It seems that with the PC release of Monster Hunter Rise that Valve wanted to do something special so they contact Komodo about it and their proposal was to have "physical" Steam keys. In Japan Komodo is responsible for the release of physical Steam Gift cards. They partnered with another company and were able to make cards that you could buy at a store that would come with a key for MHR on PC. This way they could advertise PC version of MHR since you would see it mentioned in physical retail stores, they said that would possibly do this again for another game in the future but it would also likely be for another big release in Japan in the future.
Don't you love these updates now that the games are fucking dead
Samurai Shodown was already dead on arrival on PC thanks to the EGS exclusivity. Then again, I think the game had bigger issues than that before the PC version even released.
Do my eyes deceive me or Age of Empires 4 got a price cut
Hopefully it is an indication that the next games in those series will have crossplay right from the start.
Looks like ot got a price cut in some countries
I saw it's 25 bucks for me, that ain't bad!
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In the case of KOF15, the matchmaking being a mess is the main reason it's "dead" (though it still has more concurrent players than DNF Duel, which just released recently), but if the crossplay update also brings matchmaking fixes, the game has a 2nd change with that together with the expanded player base from the crossplay.
Samurai Shodown though, rollback alone isn't enough.
Still, it's a good thing to have more fighting game studios pushing for rollback and crossplay, even if it ends up not saving some of the current games, it could mean good things for future games.
Haven't seen this reported but Valve has been sued for Steam Deck violating some patent.
Turns out you can patent having chargeable battery powered display lol.
Turns out you can patent having chargeable battery powered display lol.
Found out about this upcoming point and click game with an amusing premise
Sony seems to have forgotten that Spidey is also on EGS, they reduces the Norwegian pricing to 599 on Steam, but it's still 769 on EGS.
Or publishers can't change prices on EGS and the only person managing EGS is on summer vacation.
People still thinking Sony is not gonna cash in on PC after seeing the ROI results are insane.
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What a fucking shame is the fucking US patent warHaven't seen this reported but Valve has been sued for Steam Deck violating some patent.
Turns out you can patent having chargeable battery powered display lol.
Or those people thinking that Sony is only doing it to entice PC gamers to jump ship to PS5.People still thinking Sony is not gonna cash in on PC after seeing the ROI results are insane.
The android feature is US only still asfaik so i have not tried it.., and i dont think they have added play store.
only amazon store. which makes the whole feature useless. gotta grab some scripts on github to sideload.
Time to get those 90% of PC gamers that don't own a PS system or plan on buying one while also getting some people to double dip.
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