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So... Prince of Persia is out on Steam in a few hours, with achievements. And there's Steam Deck support too, the game uses an invisible lightweight version of Ubisoft Connect.
On the other hand, still mandatory login with a Ubisoft Connect account and still no support for Steam's cloud saves or family sharing. And of course there's Denuvo as well.
I'm really torn on this one. It seems to be one of the best metroidvania's ever made and Ubisoft finally made a new game that isn't live service or checklist open world. On the other hand, I still hate that company for dozens of reasons and I really don't like mandatory login for single player games because of privacy and game preservation concerns.
Let's see what the price will be...
On the other hand, still mandatory login with a Ubisoft Connect account and still no support for Steam's cloud saves or family sharing. And of course there's Denuvo as well.
I'm really torn on this one. It seems to be one of the best metroidvania's ever made and Ubisoft finally made a new game that isn't live service or checklist open world. On the other hand, I still hate that company for dozens of reasons and I really don't like mandatory login for single player games because of privacy and game preservation concerns.
Let's see what the price will be...
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It's up there with Hollow Knight and Super Metroid IMO. It's currently 40% off on EGS, so I assume the Steam price point will be similar.
Specs seem fine to me, especially since they are not including DLSS (upscaling) for the resolution targets.
I suppose the near 200GB is a lot but I don't have more than a couple games installed, and a 2TB SSD, so whatever.
If you want to vote with your wallet I would say that this game is a pretty good candidate. If the game flopped on Ubisoft Connect and EGS and it sells well on Steam, it will send a powerful message to Ubisoft.
Remaster releasing...
?????? (they are all removed from the store)
Done with Twitter. Realized I never really use it anymore and I'd rather not support something that grotesque monstrosity has their talons in.
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Twitter, in its current state, should be outlawed.
Looks like the UK might finally start doing it
And TBF I just had an account still I rarely if ever posted
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Bit of an inflammatory title but they did more or less say that's why it doesn't have it. It's a hilarious excuse because a game this year figured out how to have a pretty deep action combat system and still have controllable party members.
The kicker is it's not like DA has some unheard of deep action combat system either. They've already gone on record saying it has less skills than any of the previous games and the party members can only hold 3 abilities at once (less than even mass effect). Their biggest addition to the combat seems to be a parry button, which every pseudo action game has for years now. They've said more about what the game doesn't have anymore than things it actually does.
Bit of an inflammatory title but they did more or less say that's why it doesn't have it. It's a hilarious excuse because a game this year figured out how to have a pretty deep action combat system and still have controllable party members.
The kicker is it's not like DA has some unheard of deep action combat system either. They've already gone on record saying it has less skills than any of the previous games and the party members can only hold 3 abilities at once (less than even mass effect). Their biggest addition to the combat seems to be a parry button, which every pseudo action game has for years now. They've said more about what the game doesn't have anymore than things it actually does.
lol no
Meh, I'm fine with it. Rarely swap to other characters in RPGs anyway unless forced.
The 7R games have no trouble letting you control other people despite having full action combat with dodges, parries and even air attacks. Even tales of arise came pretty close to figuring it out too.
Like with FF16 this is just a studio that isn't as talented making excuses for why their game can't do what others have already figured out.
The real reason is that they designed it to be a simple action game, and they did not want to develop the animations for half a dozen other characters, and balance the game around their abilities.
Honestly, maybe this isn't even a bad thing. Modern Bioware is kinda shit at combat, so dumbing it down is maybe not the worst thing. I'm more worried about how it seems the writing is taking a turn for the worse too. Still can't believe they are swapping Solas, the villain they built up over an entire game, for two faceless, generic evil elf gods that are complete unestablished. It's like if a football team had both Messi and Ronaldo ( both in their prime, somehow), and then decide to put them on the bench.
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Thank you! I had the same problem and didn't think to just try it with Doom 2. Can't believe I didn't already have these, but I guess I was playing them before Steam.
I don't know if I have anymore Doom and Doom 2 in me.
I played them so much in the past 5 or so years.
I did the playthrough of the modded BFG versions.
I then played through them again when they did the 60fps update on my PC
Then once more on my Deck including some Doom 64.
These new enhancements don't really look like much. The bonus created levels thing is interesting tho maybe I'll check it out later down the line.
The characters, world and downtime in XV is what made that game fun/memorable for me.
I played them so much in the past 5 or so years.
I did the playthrough of the modded BFG versions.
I then played through them again when they did the 60fps update on my PC
Then once more on my Deck including some Doom 64.
These new enhancements don't really look like much. The bonus created levels thing is interesting tho maybe I'll check it out later down the line.
Feels like this will be a Final Fantasy XV type of deal. Gonna be a lot of busy shit happening on screen at all times but not much control from your point of view. Hopefully the story, environments and at least the boss fights are good + well designed.
The characters, world and downtime in XV is what made that game fun/memorable for me.
Impressive that it only needs 8 MB of RAM. Nice to see developers targeting historical PC hardware from the early 90s.
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I think it could be a new two point game (two point hospital/two point campus), since the two point studios twitter account has been teasing something recently?
I mean, it is not even out on PC
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Just kidding. Good on Epic for funding the game, but I am not buying it on EGS.
I agree that Yakuza 8 likely has a much higher budget than any other Yakuza that came before it.
That said, I'm also very certain that it has a total lower budget than Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. Hence, if Yakuza 8 underperformed relative to expectations (our speculation, given the lack of celebratory press releases), then I imagine that Square experienced an exponentially larger burn. I've finished Rebirth front to back, and from what I saw that game must have been expensive af to make.
Yes, JRPGs sadly do have a fairly hard cap on their sales. The best case scenario is probably something like Atlus, where the games are made with a manageable budget, lowering the threshold for success - ideally, you'd just make up for the comparatively inferior technical chops with A-grade art direction.
Regarding your correlation of budget to game depth though: I don't think it follows. I'd argue that the modern Persona games have a lot more "depth" to them than Final Fantasy Rebirth (which to be clear, I enjoyed a lot) ever did, and they accomplished that on a comparatively lower budget. Durante's points above regarding Falcom's output are equally valid. Hell, I thoroughly enjoyed the Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters (the ones that I played so far, anyway), which were made for relative peanuts.
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Bought entirely too many games on Steam as of late (outside of the Steam sale, too). I always get in trouble whenever I browse Metacouncil, as somehow I keep getting recs relevant to my interests. You guys are good at this shit!
I'm lukewarm on Thank Goodness You're Here so far, as I feel its humour might be too British for me to fully appreciate, but its fun enough to play the rest of the way through I suppose. Hype to finally play Prince of Persia tommorrow!
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