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C-Dub

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If you actually do that then you are voting with your wallet that these companies should keep moneyhatting games. If you want things to change then you have to change too.
I agree, but there are some games I don’t want to miss. Persona 6 especially - the game will be spoiled within weeks of it releasing.

For most games I’m happy to wait, but FF and Persona are different so Sony has me by the balls here.
 

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What's the deal with FF7 Rebirth being on two discs? What does it really mean? Bigger game? Larger world? More to play?
Pandering to nostalgic millennials.

I agree, but there are some games I don’t want to miss. Persona 6 especially - the game will be spoiled within weeks of it releasing.

For most games I’m happy to wait, but FF and Persona are different so Sony has me by the balls here.
Unless Atlus signed an exclusivity contract with Sony for Persona 6 years ago, I don't see any reason why it won't be multiplatform.
 
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What's the deal with FF7 Rebirth being on two discs? What does it really mean? Bigger game? Larger world? More to play?
Gotta have 4k pre-rendered videos, I actually have no idea. I just wanted to make the joke.

Persona 6 especially - the game will be spoiled within weeks of it releasing.
I always wonder how people do that, I never really get spoiled about games unless I want to. But then again, I'm the kind of guy who doesn't care that much about spoilers, sometimes knowing where a story is going is more interesting than going blind, but every person is different.

As far as exclusivity goes, people have been assuming that (and while it might be). I don't know how many times I've heard people saying that a game is exclusive just because someone saw PS5 promo material or stuff like that.
 
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C-Dub

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I always wonder how people do that, I never really get spoiled about games unless I want to. But then again, I'm the kind of guy who doesn't care that much about spoilers, sometimes knowing where a story is going is more interesting than going blind, but every person is different.

As far as exclusivity goes, people have been assuming that (and while it might be). I don't know how many times I've heard people saying that a game is exclusive just because someone saw PS5 promo material or stuff like that.
Give it a few weeks and the fan base will be sharing memes on social media. Unavoidable, really.
 

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I really enjoyed my time with this.

The engine is butter-smooth and traversal/shooting feel great.


What's the deal with FF7 Rebirth being on two discs? What does it really mean? Bigger game? Larger world? More to play?
Honestly, Square/Enix's naming conventions with sequels to the numbered FF games has always completely baffled me.

Is Rebirth the next step in the FF7 Remake that came out some years back?

Is it all new content, like FF7 Remake: Part 2?

Is it a remix of the OG FF7 Remake, like a GOTY package with DLC and some extras thrown in?

Do I even care enough to do a simple Google search?
 
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ezodagrom

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I know people don't care but curious how SEGA removed Windows logo from the sign-up letter to get exclusive Amy Rose skin.

the game is comming to Steam according to trailer and website:


so Epic paid for a fucking free DLC on PC?

weird.
Could also be just incompetence from SEGA's side, when the site went live, the video's thumbnail there still had a logo with the game's internal codename, Sonic Orion, maybe they'll fix the newsletter to include Steam later...?

EDIT: Nevermind...

 

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What's the deal with FF7 Rebirth being on two discs? What does it really mean? Bigger game? Larger world? More to play?
Larger uncompressed textures and 4k uncompressed cutscenes. Being on multiple discs was impressive in the PS1 era. Now with Blu-ray discs, it seems just like a marketing campaign.
 

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With talk of FFVII Rebirth being the victim of Epic fuckery and the chances of Persona 6 being a lock for PS5, I’m probably gonna grab a slim whenever it releases to play those two games and then double-dip on Steam like the sucker I am.

I fucking hate exclusives.
Persona 6 will be a Launch Window exclusive PS6 game
 
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What's the deal with FF7 Rebirth being on two discs? What does it really mean? Bigger game? Larger world? More to play
Games used to fit on two floppy discs. Then 2 CDs. Then 2 DVDs. Then 2 blurays.

Now the natural next move is games that fit on two separate hard drives!
Preferably 3 TB drives.

We need the most textures and the most mandatory uncompressed optional language files.

You don't use these terabytes for anything else right? At least now you won't.
 
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There are people who actually lose their shit if a game’s sequel comes in at a smaller size than the predecessor. You just know if FF7R3 is on one BR disc people are gonna have conniption fits.

People are fuckin’ weird.
I can see only one solution for the complete collection - it must come with a 1 - 1 reproduction of the entirety of Midgard that you have to move to to play the true game experience.
 
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There are people who actually lose their shit if a game’s sequel comes in at a smaller size than the predecessor. You just know if FF7R3 is on one BR disc people are gonna have conniption fits.

People are fuckin’ weird.
I remember the Skyrim 7 GB "controversy"
 
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Aaron D.

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This is wild.

OG Loaded on OG Playstation is one of my All-Time Hall of Fame faves.

I loved that damn game so much.

It likely has a LOT to do with why Dysmantled landed my GOTY 2021.

You just don't see many exploration, top-down shooters of this nature by & large (i.e. NOT Diablo/PoE/Grim Dawn-likes).

Wish the Steam release was the first Loaded, as I do remember enjoying that one more, but I'm still keen on seeing how Re-Loaded pans out.

Do Return Fire next!
 
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Wish the Steam release was the first Loaded, as I do remember enjoying that one more, but I'm still keen on seeing how Re-Loaded pans out.
there were steam releases of both Loaded and Re-Loaded a few years back, but they (other devs, i mean) took those down after a while
 

Hektor

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I really don't get how there hasn't been a single japanese anime 4x strategy game yet.
The most subscribed mods for all 4X Games from CIV to Hearts if Iron IV are all Anime Conversions.
There is CLEARLY a huge market there
 

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I was watching a youtube video about 2023 horror games.
this looks quite good

not sure if this was posted on the forum (search does not show results).

Not related with this game, ILL was there too, I forgot that game, it's been time with no news, but looked awesome.
 

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Is sucks that I have to use Playnite to track playtime in Diablo 4. I actually find Battlenet to be a solid client in terms of it not feeling it's being put together by ducktape like GOG Galaxy, but Battlenet on the other hand has so few features and QoL.
 
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I really don't get how there hasn't been a single japanese anime 4x strategy game yet.
The most subscribed mods for all 4X Games from CIV to Hearts if Iron IV are all Anime Conversions.
There is CLEARLY a huge market there
As it's often the case, games like this exist but are japan only, meaning most of the english speaking gaming world never heard of them. Look at Ghiren's Greed which is basically a Gundam 4X
Ghiren's Greed
 

Derrick01

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What's the deal with FF7 Rebirth being on two discs? What does it really mean? Bigger game? Larger world? More to play?
It just means it's more than 100gb which isn't a surprise considering part 1 was 90-100gb too. People are going wild thinking it automatically means it's 200gb...err no, it's anywhere from 110-200 most likely. A lot of games are like that now but most pubs are too cheap to pay for a 2nd disc so they will mandate a download to finish installing the rest of the game. Since this is from a japanese company who still operate in the old ways they're likely hesitant to ship anything requiring a download still, hence the 2nd disc. But it was kind of a genius marketing move to highlight 2 discs yesterday. For some reason that has a weird nostalgic effect on people from what I'm seeing lol.

However the game is expected to be pretty damn beefy. It needs to be to finish this up in the 3 parts they're planning. We have confirmation from the trailer that it at least goes up to cosmo canyon so that's kalm, chocobo ranch, mithril caves, junon (I'm assuming they're skipping fort condor for now), costa del sol, the mountain pass, corel, gold saucer, the prison, gongaga and then cosmo canyon. That's honestly already the majority of the game's locations and they were essentially confirmed yesterday, and they will probably go even further than that. I'm expecting this game to be upwards of 100 hours in content if you go the full completionist route but the story itself will probably be 50+ just to cover all the stuff they need to cover.

They've been working on part 2 since 2019 before part 1 came out and considering the core systems of the game are already in place that's gonna be roughly 5 years of doing nothing but churning out content and improving the systems that were already there. Switching to unreal engine for this project was a brilliant idea and it has helped smooth their historically messy development process into a finely honed project. Last year nomura said he's already working on part 3 too.
 
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Plague Tale: Requiem finished. Incredible game.

Surely this is the end for the series though? I can't see how they can do a third?
Well the final cutscene hints at when the third game could take place, but according to developers that was there as just a kind of tease that should not indicate anything and they are probably gonna work on other IPs now. Amicia and Hugo story is over.

Of course it would not surprise me if in few years they reconsidered and made another game with Amicia that would have new story unrelated to Macula and what not.
 

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Plague Tale: Requiem finished. Incredible game.

Surely this is the end for the series though? I can't see how they can do a third?
hmmm like Paul said, the ending leaves further adventures of Amicia open, so who knows? Could be basically anything, she could just end up in another part of Europe where the Plague breaks out and she has to help some other kid that is like Hugo, or maybe some Plague-unrelated.
I dont expect a new game soon, however. I would like to revisit playing as Amicia at some point, since she is a delightful psychopath ;)


Lies of P demo is really good
and it runs well on the Steam Deck :)
 

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Pathfinder WotR really rolling now. Into Act 5, and a bunch of stuff is being clarified. Really into the story now for sure.

And I still don't hate the crusade stuff! It's not awesome, definitely more busy work, but I don't hate it.
 

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Jesus, I am pulling my hairs with the simplest shit. I have a pdf of a comic book. I want to extract to fucking jpg because fuck pdf.
And no, I'm at my third rotten app and the quality is NOT the same, I am not blind.

So tired of proprietary shit.
 
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The only time I did something like this I used this site from Adobe: PDF to JPG: Convert PDFs to images free online | Adobe Acrobat
Not really a fan of having my data on Adobe side unfortunately. But thank you, every suggestion helps.
I stopped caring and am now using some script from github. There is still a difference to my eye between the pdf and the cbr I want to use, but there are a lot of things that make comparison difficult, my cbr viewer working on the image before displaying it. When viewed on a jpg basis, it doesn't ook that different to the pdf.
Fuck Adobe though, I'm astonished that a format so widely used as the pdf is not totally free to use as you want.
 
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Not really a fan of having my data on Adobe side unfortunately. But thank you, every suggestion helps.
I stopped caring and am now using some script from github. There is still a difference to my eye between the pdf and the cbr I want to use, but there are a lot of things that make comparison difficult, my cbr viewer working on the image before displaying it. When viewed on a jpg basis, it doesn't ook that different to the pdf.
Fuck Adobe though, I'm astonished that a format so widely used as the pdf is not totally free to use as you want.
Use Photoshop.
 
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