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Base price on EGS 19,99 EURO. Base price on Steam 24,50 EURO. Thanks dear devs.
Shit like this makes sure i buy the game only in a sale.
only 23 gb?! Not gonna lie guys. I'm gonna bite lol
I wonder how many EULA, Privacy Policy pages and phone number request this will have...
That is just Steam's new regional pricing standard taking effect.
Base price on EGS 19,99 EURO. Base price on Steam 24,50 EURO. Thanks dear devs.
Shit like this makes sure i buy the game only in a sale.
Tried it on pc game pass, It's pretty much like their previous games, except with a force 21:9 aspect ratio for some reason.
Base price on EGS 19,99 EURO. Base price on Steam 24,50 EURO. Thanks dear devs.
Shit like this makes sure i buy the game only in a sale.
These kind of games are perfect for game pass tbh. One and done, like the rats of us 2.
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Don't blame the dev. Clearly they are just passing on the savings from the 88% on to us consumers. Finally Tim Epic's dream of lower prices for consumers is becoming reality.
Base price on EGS 19,99 EURO. Base price on Steam 24,50 EURO. Thanks dear devs.
Shit like this makes sure i buy the game only in a sale.
looks like egs is still using the old regional pricing table: Epic - Steam Price :: Somerville General Discussions
Base price on EGS 19,99 EURO. Base price on Steam 24,50 EURO. Thanks dear devs.
Shit like this makes sure i buy the game only in a sale.
so volvo made the game super-expensive for like half of the world
good job, lads
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In some other weird news. Auto Chess is coming to Steam after all lol
Blue Protocol stream going on right now, while it's mostly about the JP version, they just said that there will be an announcement for the west at the game awards.
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Thank goodness, I have been following that game for what seems forever.
$36.50 on Steam, $37.99 on Epic for me.
Base price on EGS 19,99 EURO. Base price on Steam 24,50 EURO. Thanks dear devs.
Shit like this makes sure i buy the game only in a sale.
I'll use this as a springboard for my 2 cents (I haven't played Plague Tale 2 yet but very much looking forward to it cos I loved the first)
Quite incredibly I've not played any of the 6 picks but when 3 of them are open world and I don't own a switch it's not too surprising then.
Stray as a GOTY pick amongst all the other indies this year is a joke, and if I want to be even harsher the game only got attention for "omg it's a cat" memes
Similarly, Horizon 2 I admit I haven't played but if it's like the first then it'll be a boring Ubi style open world game but happens to be very pretty and PS exclusive
The TGA picks this year are woeful even by their usual standards
yes I am cranky this morning
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And the award for weirdest launch of the year goes to... JR EAST Train Simulator!
Let me try to explain all the mess behind this launch. A Japanese train company decides to release the training simulator they use to train their employees, which makes use of FMV capture of real-life Japanese lines. So far, so good.
The game launched in early access at 8,19€, with a couple of short routes, back in September.
Today, the game updated to its "full" version.
This resulted in the following changes:
-the price increased from 8,19€ to 29,89€;
-all content/routes from the early access version were removed, and replaced with 3 new short (apparently 5km each) routes;
-in order to get the full routes for the lines included in the basic package, one needs to buy the DLCs. The prices of the DLCs are: one is 39,99€, and the other 29,89€ (the third one still isn't up);
-they are planning monthly DLCs, apparently with similar prices.
So yeah, launch in early access for 8,19€, then remove all content from the early access version at launch and increase the price almost 4 times, for 3 short routes (whose full lines cost 4-5 times the price of the early access version, each).
Let me try to explain all the mess behind this launch. A Japanese train company decides to release the training simulator they use to train their employees, which makes use of FMV capture of real-life Japanese lines. So far, so good.
The game launched in early access at 8,19€, with a couple of short routes, back in September.
Today, the game updated to its "full" version.
This resulted in the following changes:
-the price increased from 8,19€ to 29,89€;
-all content/routes from the early access version were removed, and replaced with 3 new short (apparently 5km each) routes;
-in order to get the full routes for the lines included in the basic package, one needs to buy the DLCs. The prices of the DLCs are: one is 39,99€, and the other 29,89€ (the third one still isn't up);
-they are planning monthly DLCs, apparently with similar prices.
So yeah, launch in early access for 8,19€, then remove all content from the early access version at launch and increase the price almost 4 times, for 3 short routes (whose full lines cost 4-5 times the price of the early access version, each).
The only games I've played from all of the categories are Genshin Impact and Tower of Fantasy, where the former is a game from 2020 and the latter I wouldn't have picked as a nominee if I were in charge, lol.I'll use this as a springboard for my 2 cents (I haven't played Plague Tale 2 yet but very much looking forward to it cos I loved the first)
Quite incredibly I've not played any of the 6 picks but when 3 of them are open world and I don't own a switch it's not too surprising then.
Stray as a GOTY pick amongst all the other indies this year is a joke, and if I want to be even harsher the game only got attention for "omg it's a cat" memes
Similarly, Horizon 2 I admit I haven't played but if it's like the first then it'll be a boring Ubi style open world game but instead is very pretty and PS exclusive
The TGA picks this year are woeful even by their usual standards
yes I am cranky this morning
Most games I've played this year didn't come out this year, but my fav 2022 game is a VN
Tactics Ogre is really good. I never played the original, but the fact that a nearly 30 year old game has such deep mechanics and a highly gripping story blows my mind. I've pretty much dropped God of War Ragnarok for the time being to play this instead.
Also the GOTY nominations for TGA aren't really surprising. They usually have a pattern of several highly polished prestige games, a Nintendo game and a well regarded indie game. I've played all the GOTY contenders and they fit the mold for what journalists and an awards ceremony would like. My personal favorite game this year is probably the Sunbreak expansion for Monster Hunter Rise, but even I would be wary of calling it GOTY since that is almost like saying Madden is GOTY.
Also the GOTY nominations for TGA aren't really surprising. They usually have a pattern of several highly polished prestige games, a Nintendo game and a well regarded indie game. I've played all the GOTY contenders and they fit the mold for what journalists and an awards ceremony would like. My personal favorite game this year is probably the Sunbreak expansion for Monster Hunter Rise, but even I would be wary of calling it GOTY since that is almost like saying Madden is GOTY.
Not sure if Xenoblade 3 is worthy for the GOTY, but nearly every single streamer I searched on youtube turned into a crybaby during the end of chapter 5. That alone is an achievement.
Personally I don't have a GOTY yet. Played too few new releases, and I haven't even finished either XB3 or Harvestella although they are very good games in my mind.
Personally I don't have a GOTY yet. Played too few new releases, and I haven't even finished either XB3 or Harvestella although they are very good games in my mind.
I need to stop looking at TGA noms. Every year it's the same shit: boring AAA games with pretty graphics getting elevated over anything interesting. I mean, Stray getting the obligatory indie nod over games like Tunic, Neon White, and Vampire Survivors kind of says it all.
The academy may get baited by trash regularly, but at least they're not handing out all the Oscars to whatever Disney churned out that year.
The academy may get baited by trash regularly, but at least they're not handing out all the Oscars to whatever Disney churned out that year.
I enjoyed Xenoblade 3 more than Elden Ring.
Fight Me.
But I'm totally fine with Elden Ring being GOTY.
Fight Me.
But I'm totally fine with Elden Ring being GOTY.
I haven't even played Elden Ring yet. Sue me!
Just put more thoughts into it, I feel that my personal GOTY will be Marvel Midnight Suns. My 2021 GOTY was Fights in Tight Spaces and Midnight Suns is literally FiTS with high budget and Marvel heroes. I don't even love Marvel but I know this game is made for me.
Just put more thoughts into it, I feel that my personal GOTY will be Marvel Midnight Suns. My 2021 GOTY was Fights in Tight Spaces and Midnight Suns is literally FiTS with high budget and Marvel heroes. I don't even love Marvel but I know this game is made for me.
I’m an Elden Ring refusenik. But I acknowledge that a lot of people love it, so more power to them.
I've played all of the TGA picks and goty is easily god of war, though by talking with others I think I'm only around 30% done. But in that time it has really separated itself from the rest of those games in scene direction, acting, and fun characters and it holds its own in gameplay too (lets be honest, souls games don't have the amazing combat we're led to believe they do. Sekiro does). I didn't really love gow 2018 but so far this really stands above it in every area.
Horizon being there irks me a bit but everyone knew it would be there. They could have really screwed up and put dying light 2 on there, aka the worst game of 2022. Honestly I don't find a lot of faults with their goty list, pickings are extremely slim this year and it at least gives rather off the wall choices like xenoblade and plague tale some attention.
Besides we all know FF7R is goty again since it finally hit PC this year.
Horizon being there irks me a bit but everyone knew it would be there. They could have really screwed up and put dying light 2 on there, aka the worst game of 2022. Honestly I don't find a lot of faults with their goty list, pickings are extremely slim this year and it at least gives rather off the wall choices like xenoblade and plague tale some attention.
Besides we all know FF7R is goty again since it finally hit PC this year.
Sonic Frontiers should win every award ever made for achieving the gruesome task of making a half decent Sonic game.
It says on or before the 18th but the announcement for noms was done yesterday so that's a bit lol right there.
But some of this is just how the voting is done. TGA uses around 100 people on its voting process and iirc only one ballot is sent to outlets. So you can have situations where say the IGN person who gave pentiment a 10 really loves it but maybe everyone else there doesn't or didn't play it. They're going to get overruled on IGN's ballot in that case.
I mean, are we only talking AAA-space here?
Because there's been multiple straight-bangers this year in the non-prestige blockbuster space.
The Game Awards are like the Oscars and neither of them has a place to be besides of pure marketing
I basically never understand the idea that a given year is "slim pickings" for good games. At least not since 2013 or so. But then again, I am also very much outside the AAA space most of the time.
That said, my GotY actually is an AAA game this time around (ER).
I played it for ~12 hours, thinking "hey this is awesome". Then I played 5 more hours and just... stopped, since I wasn't motivated to continue.
So far, that's a relatively rare but hardly unique pattern for me with games. However, what happened 2 years or so later is that I tried it again, thought "hey this is awesome" again, played for another 15 hours, and then dropped it again since I just wasn't motivated to continue.
That's pretty unprecedented. I do (rarely) have a second wind for some games, but usually I then proceed to finish them.
That said, my GotY actually is an AAA game this time around (ER).
Personally, I only ever played the first Xenoblade, but it's a really interesting case.
I played it for ~12 hours, thinking "hey this is awesome". Then I played 5 more hours and just... stopped, since I wasn't motivated to continue.
So far, that's a relatively rare but hardly unique pattern for me with games. However, what happened 2 years or so later is that I tried it again, thought "hey this is awesome" again, played for another 15 hours, and then dropped it again since I just wasn't motivated to continue.
That's pretty unprecedented. I do (rarely) have a second wind for some games, but usually I then proceed to finish them.
The real question about the TGAs is why the fuck they didn't nominate Vampire Survivors instead of several of these other games.
I played MORE Vampire Survivors than most of the games they nominated, and I like it more than almost all of the games up there.
I played MORE Vampire Survivors than most of the games they nominated, and I like it more than almost all of the games up there.
Nah, at least Oscars is able to look beyond the top box office charts for its picksThe Game Awards are like the Oscars and neither of them has a place to be besides of pure marketing
I only watch TGAs for the new announcements, I don't pay attention to the awards themselves.
I saw the Game Awards compared to the Oscars or the Grammys, but in all honesty they are more comparable to a Christmas selection flyer from Wallmart.
The shows have the opposite problem of each other. TGA is too much of a popularity contest due to handing out ballots to outlets instead of hand picking actual people and going "this is YOUR ballot, not your company's". The more people involved in anything the more it dilutes down into the most popular choices.The Game Awards are like the Oscars and neither of them has a place to be besides of pure marketing
However people complain about the oscars every year too mostly because they're TOO snobby and insular. The movies they pick each year are movies that only the biggest movie nerds have even heard of let alone watched. If TGA went that route you'd have 6 indie games most people never heard of as goty and no one would watch the show, which is what's happening with the oscars each year.
Oh, Pentiment is Deck friendly. Ohhhhh.
I personally think there should be a place for the Elden Ring's and God of War 2's of the world during awards season. They deserve to be there.
The problem is that the awards are dominated by that singular brand of gaming at the expense of virtually anything else.
It's simply too myopic as it stands and gives the impression that the entire gaming industry is nothing more than the equivalent of a Superhero Summer Blockbuster movie.
Summer Blockbusters can certainly be fun for sure. But the (nearly) complete absence of broader representation makes the playing field look incredibly shallow.
The problem is that the awards are dominated by that singular brand of gaming at the expense of virtually anything else.
It's simply too myopic as it stands and gives the impression that the entire gaming industry is nothing more than the equivalent of a Superhero Summer Blockbuster movie.
Summer Blockbusters can certainly be fun for sure. But the (nearly) complete absence of broader representation makes the playing field look incredibly shallow.
Horizon 2 also shouldn't have been a GOTY candidate, too much the same from the first game and the first game was already quite the "ubisoft formula", but enjoyable enough to play through.
Is ER AAA? Seems to have budget on par with, say, Risen or Elex...
As a movie nerd myself I assure you the opposite is true
I randomly came across this game and had a lot of fun with the demo.
It's like the robotic version of Gladiator. You play as a robot who tries to survive each round of the arena. After every successful round, you're given the option of different upgrades to make your robot stronger. The scenery of the arena changes each round, and new enemies are introduced. There's also a TON of levels on Steam Workshop.
Check out the demo if mindless fun is your thing.
It's like the robotic version of Gladiator. You play as a robot who tries to survive each round of the arena. After every successful round, you're given the option of different upgrades to make your robot stronger. The scenery of the arena changes each round, and new enemies are introduced. There's also a TON of levels on Steam Workshop.
Check out the demo if mindless fun is your thing.
What do you mean, don't you enjoy your drunk uncle embarrassing everyone else.I’ve always hated that moment
like the f**king Game Awards are worth anything
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