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Watch this also release on June 20th
It's just reporting on what that xboxera dude said.
A Indie dev friend of mine launched his Kickstarter yesterday
The kickstarter is for a Steam port with animated intro, steam deck support etc
You can try the game for free on Itch
timbojay.itch.io
The kickstarter is for a Steam port with animated intro, steam deck support etc
You can try the game for free on Itch
Bubble Frog by Timbo Johnson
timbojay.itch.io
It does kinda feel too early for Ghost of Tsushima.
The next in line has to be TLOU2 after Forbidden West.
Just as a guess...
Late 2024 = TLOU2
Early 2025 = Ghost of Tsushima
Late 2025 = Ragnarok
Early 2026 = Spider Man 2
I don't really see Sony having resources to pump out more than 2 big games per year. Would be nice if they go faster and put 3 out every year but they really don't have much to port at this point. The only big PS5 game left to port that is not on that list is Demon Souls which I guess they could slide in there somewhere. And I don't really see them bothering to do Gran Turismo.
The next in line has to be TLOU2 after Forbidden West.
Just as a guess...
Late 2024 = TLOU2
Early 2025 = Ghost of Tsushima
Late 2025 = Ragnarok
Early 2026 = Spider Man 2
I don't really see Sony having resources to pump out more than 2 big games per year. Would be nice if they go faster and put 3 out every year but they really don't have much to port at this point. The only big PS5 game left to port that is not on that list is Demon Souls which I guess they could slide in there somewhere. And I don't really see them bothering to do Gran Turismo.
Ghost was released in 2020 was it not ? It's time for a PC release.
I see TLOU 2 released on a PC a bit sooner than late 2024 as well as Ragnarok this December or early 2025.
We'll see.
I do wonder if we see Sony accelerate the releases of these ports.
Because if they do that could be an indication they need them out fast so they can move Nixxes and all the other resources to port newer titles in the future.
If they manage to do 3-4 this year then it basically means 2025 and onwards we are getting everything day n date from them.
Their CEO clearly indicated a more pronounced push for PC, have you not heard about it ? Look at 2022 alone, how many PS ports did we get ?
Nixxes are not the only one with PC experience,
Is this why PS games say you can only get the game in Japanese if you're in Japan and buying the game? So a big warning like that?
Is the thing that Steam is seeing an increase, but the increase is not that huge?
I remember some one on here saying this might be why they aren't sharing certain numbers. Because years ago, there was a massive increase year over year, but now it's started to slow down a lot and is becoming more stagnant. Or the increases are so "small" that it doesn't look like there is a lot of change and there for it looks like it has finally reached its peak and won't go further than this.
Who else has experience?
The pace of Sony PC releases is going to accelerate. Remasters are going to be flooding PS5 to try and fill the monstrously long gaps between AAA game releases from their first party studios, especially since it looks like they’re restructuring.
I expect they’ll mostly be PS4 games, but maybe a few PS3 games sneak in too.
Most of these will be day 1 on PC, like Until Dawn.
And I expect most of the ports will be completed by contracted support studios, like Nixxes only third party.
I expect they’ll mostly be PS4 games, but maybe a few PS3 games sneak in too.
Most of these will be day 1 on PC, like Until Dawn.
And I expect most of the ports will be completed by contracted support studios, like Nixxes only third party.
Naughty Dog. They did really well with the TLOU patches.
PC version is alright now. Heavier on the CPU than it probably should though.
I imagine Naughty Dog's PC team is busy with TLOU 2 Remastered right now.
But of course they could always outsource ports to various companies. They have options is what I'm saying.
I don't think Valve is interested in such a heavy handed approach. They probably just want NISA and Clouded Leopard to come an agreement and find a solution that does not put Valve on the spot legally. Feels a bit like Clouded Leopard messed up and causing trouble with faulty language settings on their store page. So most likely scenario is that both games come back up and things continue as usua
Backed. The game looks fun. Also, dev is from Wales so that means he gets a pledge at one tier higher than I normally would.A Indie dev friend of mine launched his Kickstarter yesterday
The kickstarter is for a Steam port with animated intro, steam deck support etc
You can try the game for free on Itch
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The platform itself is not declining in numbers in general but it is true that growth is slower now and feels stagnant right now, not a bad thing per se yet but it's something to keep a close look just in case.
Their main absence this year was MAU numbers.
Here is one that will ruffle some feathers XD Thief 2014 is decent game overall. It is held back by some technical limitations but Eidos Montreal did good jobs with many self contained levels.
I should ask that in the Deck thread, but everybody post everything here (not me, uh )
So here.
I make no secret that I
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scanlines. But what about the Deck OLED screen ? Should I refrain from gloriously artificially fucking up my pixels to avoid burns ?
I'm fully expecting at least 4 PC ports this year. And you're correct not only Nixxes have experience in this task, the God of War 2018 port made by Jetpack Interactive turned out great, and there was also a leak back in the day of one of their employees putting on Linkedin that they were working on GOW Ragnarock so I'm fully expecting those guys to handle that port, and Iron Galaxy (yes I know TLOU1 port was a disgrace) should be working on TLOU2. So if the GoT PC port rumors are true I'm expecting that this year 4 PC ports would be: HFW, Until Dawn, Ghost of Tsushima and TLOU2
If you want to add a 5th game in there my money would be on GOW Ragnarock for the holiday season 2024.
Naughty Dog themselves did the PC version of The Last of Us. Iron Galaxy merely assisted.
I'm expecting them to help with Part II as well, and I'm also expecting it to release this year.
I liked that game a lot. So much in fact I finished it more than once; did some challenge runs later. it let you customize your difficulty to a crazy degree; and ...it was just fun to play, and I liked the levels as well (but I also liked the hub world, which many didnt).
I think people disliked it because it was called Thief but didnt really feel like a Thief game to them (not that I cared, having not played the older Thief games) ... and it launched with some weird bugs (audio was especially busted), if I remember correctly.
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regarding games this month; most likely just Horizon 2 for me.
I can see GoT, Tlou 2 and gran turismo this year
but who knows with Sony
but who knows with Sony
Strong month. I hope Alone in the Dark turns out good.
Having such a blast with Infinite Wealth. I'm playing it with the mindset that I'll be savoring it for many months without worrying about actually finishing it. There's so much content that it's actually overwhelming. Just gonna take it slow and play other stuff on the side.
Having such a blast with Infinite Wealth. I'm playing it with the mindset that I'll be savoring it for many months without worrying about actually finishing it. There's so much content that it's actually overwhelming. Just gonna take it slow and play other stuff on the side.
Precisely this, for me.
I love the older Thief games. Thief 2 especially. They are among the first games I played with any amount of seriousness, and the first games I modded for. I actually started learning English as a means to understand the tutorials to DromEd, Thief's finicky level editor.
THI4F (as it was originally and infelicitously labelled) was inferior to the originals (especially Thief 2) in every way possible except graphical fidelity and objectives customisation. It being a soft reboot, reusing the names of existing places, concepts, and characters (Garrett chief among them) but with none of their history and their most interesting personalities and unique characteristics and flavours excised, felt downright insulting.
Had it not presented itself as "Thief", or even simply taken place with a new generation of characters some decades after the previous games, instead of trampling over the existing continuity, its reception might have been.... OK, I suppose. Perhaps even quite good.
I wish there were true modern successors to Thief 2. I can't really think of anything that really scratches that itch.
Alone in the Dark must be approaching some kind of record for number of games in a franchise with the. exact. same. name.
Found another pair.Looked up upcoming (not already in early access like Gloomwood) imm sims I know of for a forum reply so here they are: Peripeteia, Core Decay, Neet, Selaco, Judas, DataJack 2020, Safe Not Safe, Final Defect, Neverlooted Dungeon, The Muller-Powell Principle, Sorceress, Retrospace, Heartrender, Serpens, Streets of Rogue 2, Psycho Patrol R, Monomyth, Corpus Edax, Memories of a Spy, Lonely Space, Imprisoned Hyperion 2, ETOS, Skin Deep, Spectra, Athanasia.
Most have a Steam page. Not in any particular order so if you look up a string of crappy looking ones that doesn't mean all the rest are the same
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Finished Yakuza 6 beginning of this week and started Judgment. It's really nice variation to normal Yakuza formula. I was really tired after playing Y3-6 in Dec-Jan-Feb as Kiryu and pals
Yeah that's basically what I heard from several people, and I totally get it. I'm glad I could view this game on its own.
Oh and yeah, I remember the "THI4F" thing
I also remember the Garrett in this game was supposed to be a different person sharing the name, but that doesnt really help.
They shouldve just called it something else
(same applies to a bunch of other games, naming in video gaming industry is weirdAnyway, I'm gonna rewatch TBs videos on this game for nostalgia's sake now
A lot of exciting things have been happening with gaming on Linux lately. Nvidia Reflex support was merged into DXVK & VKD3D. VRR was finally merged into GNOME/mutter after years (as an experimental flag for now; it already worked for X11, this is for Wayland). DVK (open-source Nvidia driver) making significant progress and will be built in upcoming Mesa versions by default. A lot of improvements across the board for Wayland support.
Proton even got a logo now.
Proton even got a logo now.
This weekend I got a few time and managed to configure Retroid 4 Pro and Analogue Pocket to play ROMs and make Steam Deck nice to play them too.
I've been very suprised with Retroid 4 Pro, perfect console for <PS2 consoles era emulation.
I've been very suprised with Retroid 4 Pro, perfect console for <PS2 consoles era emulation.
Portable console family pick. Now I'm done with new consoles 'til next Switch
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A different person named Garrett that happens to have a friend named Basso that's totally a different person from the original Basso, etc, in a city with familiar names but unrecognisable factions, and so on. No, it didn't help.
I was so utterly bewildered for my one and only playthrough, at least until I had the epiphany "oh! this is just not Thief at all, it just wears its clothes. Now things can start making sense." That state of confusion sabotaged any enjoyment the game might have offered.
I suppose the reasoning is "let's ride on name recognition of existing IPs to maximize ROI & minimise risk".
And it can work... when implemented by people who understand the existing IP well enough to extend and enrich it, not butcher it.
The tragic thing with Thi4f (I'll never not call it that
) is that some of the people working on it actually understood Thief. For instance, the existence of the custom difficulties shows that someone on the dev team had been paying close attention to what was going on in the community; ghost iron runs etc. But the people in charge of plotting, characterisation, lore, artistic direction, and some key aspects of level design (a largely linear Thief with neither true rope arrows nor wall-climbing is not a Thief!) completely lost, or more likely never cared to understand, the plot.The name "Thi4f" is for me the perfect metaphor for the whole project. Someone heard, from a focus group, that 1337-speak was "in", but didn't bother learning it well enough to know that E is 3, and A is 4; and so it came to pass that they called their game "THIAF". So close, yet so very far.
I read that notice about Balatro but it can be bought on consoles here, I suppose is more country law than PEGI rating.
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Balatro es un creador de mazos roguelike inspirado en el póquer donde creas poderosas sinergias y ganas a lo grande. El roguelike de póquer. Balatro es un creador de mazos hipnotizante donde juegas manos de póquer ilegal, descubres comodines que cambian tu juego y activas combinaciones...
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Balatro
Balatro es un creador de mazos roguelike inspirado en el póquer donde creas poderosas sinergias y ganas a lo grande. El roguelike de póquer. Balatro es un creador de mazos hipnotizante donde juegas manos de póquer ilegal, descubres comodines que cambian tu juego y activas combinaciones...
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I felt a shockwave in the force which summoned me here and I see this. I got permed on gaf for relentlessly trashing this and I stand by it 10+ years later!
I view Thi4f the same way I view DmC - an okay game that wouldn't have been hated if it didn't have a beloved franchise attached to it.
Little did you know,I have access to Photoshop. It will soon be a "X lashman" post.
Hitman Absolution too
(except in that case it's a great game in a mediocre otherwise franchise)
Maybe not modern, but Black Parade and Dark Mod are fantastic thief games.
Thief: The Black Parade mod
Thief: The Black Parade is an unofficial expansion for Thief Gold in which players assume the role of Hume, a returning convict, as he is inadvertently thrown into a web of intrigue and conspiracies.
Download the Game | The Dark Mod
www.thedarkmod.com
I take it you did not like the new Hitman trilogy then? I did not mind Absolution, but it felt a bit arcadey and overly linear, and I was really surprised that the same developer followed it up with what is arguably one of the best series of modern immersive sim games, with ridiculously complex levels, fairly intricate NPC schedules and well communicated and easy to understand AI. I remember at the time the games were poorly optimised, but with Hitman 3 and DLSS/FSR support, it should run on pretty much any PC from the last 5 years fairly well and scale down (and up) effectively.
Their weird business model of selling the game in a million DLCs was also strange, but from I understand the "World of Assassination" is now one complete package that includes all three games, all levels and DLCs.
Hitman Absolution is shite. Literally a complete stinker. I wouldn’t use “great” to describe that game in or out of the Hitman franchise. It’s a blandified AAA game emblematic of the era where every game was the same goddamn thing.
IOI course corrected with the new Hitman World of Ass trilogy for sure. Shame about the online focus, but they’re undeniably great games.
IOI course corrected with the new Hitman World of Ass trilogy for sure. Shame about the online focus, but they’re undeniably great games.
DmC is the best DMC game. I'll die on this hill.
The new trilogy is not really a GaaS game. It doesn't have any mtx shit or anything that would qualify as GaaS elements. At worst are the dlcs and how they have made upgrade path for a complete gameplay experience and of course the infamous always online for no apparent reason.
Thanks, I didn't know about Black Parade, it seems right up my alley, as a full-fledged Thief campaign. Back in the day I greatly enjoyed T2X: Shadows of the Metal Age.Maybe not modern, but Black Parade and Dark Mod are fantastic thief games.
Thief: The Black Parade mod
Thief: The Black Parade is an unofficial expansion for Thief Gold in which players assume the role of Hume, a returning convict, as he is inadvertently thrown into a web of intrigue and conspiracies.www.moddb.com
Download the Game | The Dark Mod
I did know about TDM, and I tested it several time; it's great but... I never could really get into it because there is no clear overarching campaign, just a collection of unrelated missions of varying quality, and the ones I tried didn't grab me. I'm not purely gameplay-focused; not even mainly so where Thief is concerned, and I do need an overarching narrative to get hooked.
My dopamine moments in Thief are when I find a secret area with some environmental story-telling and a letter signed by someone whose name I recognise from three missions ago, uncovering secrets that change my understanding of the world and its characters. You can do that at the scale of one mission, but it has less impact.
But that's my point, isn't it? There are no modern successors to Thief. Those games are fan mods, not commercial products. They are continuations of Thief, not a successor to Thief.
It boggles my mind that those games are so beloved that 25 years later (!!!!) many people are still spending ungodly amounts of their free time making total conversion mods and/or reimplementing the engine / reimplementing the game mechanics in another engine, but nobody has actually made a commercial product that genuinely competes with it.
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Since we're all throwing molotovs into this thread this weekend....
Splinter Cell Conviction was a fun game that got a bad rep for no proper reason.
It's often the case that games or movies are judged not by what they are, but what people expected them to be. There's nothing wrong with having expectations from a franchise but at the same time a game doesn't become bad because it isn't what you wanted it to be. Franchises like Mario or Zelda reinvent themselves with every iteration and nobody has ever said for example Mario Odyssey is bad because it's not another Mario Galaxy.
Splinter Cell Conviction was a fun game that got a bad rep for no proper reason.
It's often the case that games or movies are judged not by what they are, but what people expected them to be. There's nothing wrong with having expectations from a franchise but at the same time a game doesn't become bad because it isn't what you wanted it to be. Franchises like Mario or Zelda reinvent themselves with every iteration and nobody has ever said for example Mario Odyssey is bad because it's not another Mario Galaxy.
Here's a take that everyone is going to kill me for... but EVERY linear game is a disservice to gaming as a medium.
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