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STHX

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Not to mention the studio's only project before that was a single doujin game
And even when talking about that old doujin game, just compare it to the remake released in March and see how much difference all these years can make. Presentation, gameplay, ambition, size, pace. All of them have been greatly expanded
GFL in the end is a product of its time made by a team which had way less experience, and that's fine. Like for the vast majority of the story all characters only used one portrait no matter what was happening, instead of having different expressions (or poses), because that's how similar games were. Hell, the protagonist was completely faceless and personality-less, and never even spoke, at least until a few years passed and the story changed gears. Exilium is instead a product of these times, and so it has a new, more modern, type of presentation, gameplay, ambition, size and pace (and the protagonist also has a canon face, voice and role in the story from the very beginning)
 

Madventure

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I would imagine that the big reason they're dumping avowed on Battle.net is they're curious to see if they'll have the phenom that usually happens when they put games on it

IE: Wow nerds mass dump gold to buy gametime tokens for battlenet money to purchase other stuff so they essentially get free money
 
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I bought a Trimui Smart Pro as a companion for the Deck during singles day for 50 EUR. I have always been a fan of the PSP formfactor and this thing doesn't disappoint. It feels premium and the screen is pretty decent. Installed CrossMix on it and it can play pretty much everything upto Dreamcast. It also has moonlight installed for inhouse streaming which works surprisingly well. Only downsize so far is that it has no L3 and R3 capabilities and the screen is smudge city.

I also bought a R36S, which I will give away to my nephew as a gift. It was only 20 EUR and provided a ton of value at that price-point, but playing on it was not comfortable at all.. Bit to cramped for my hands.

Software wise, Portmaster is really awesome. That these little devices can run so many games out of the box is pretty awesome.
 

BaoLunia

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List of games mentioned
  • Gacha games
  • More gacha games
  • Battle Royale mobile games
  • Apex Legends
  • Splatoon
  • Overwatch
  • And some tradition single player games
A friend of mine from Japan who is 40+ plays steam games exclusivly. Mostly Indie games.
Another one who follows me on Threads been recently playing wizardry gacha, remnant 2, monster hunter worlds
 

ZKenir

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Alright i love the gamesir g8+ only issue is that when it’s connected with my iphone it’s detected as DS4 so i have the ps glyphs in my gacha games, gonna buy some keycaps on ebay for the controller, else it bugs me.
 

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I bought a Trimui Smart Pro as a companion for the Deck during singles day for 50 EUR. I have always been a fan of the PSP formfactor and this thing doesn't disappoint. It feels premium and the screen is pretty decent. Installed CrossMix on it and it can play pretty much everything upto Dreamcast. It also has moonlight installed for inhouse streaming which works surprisingly well. Only downsize so far is that it has no L3 and R3 capabilities and the screen is smudge city.

I also bought a R36S, which I will give away to my nephew as a gift. It was only 20 EUR and provided a ton of value at that price-point, but playing on it was not comfortable at all.. Bit to cramped for my hands.

Software wise, Portmaster is really awesome. That these little devices can run so many games out of the box is pretty awesome.
Nice, I have the same handheld and I quite enjoy it. I bought it as a prelude to my turn towards handhelds, to see if I enjoy gaming on such a form factor. Turns out, I very much do. I am still on stock though, is Crossmix worth installing?
 
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Le Pertti

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You can make a bingo card for every big game's release
"IS THIS GAME WOKE?!?"
"DAMN, THIS GAME INFECTED WITH DEI CHARACTERS!"
"ANOTHER GAME RUINED BY SWEET BABY?!?"
etc.
It's depressing, they have to be everywhere on steam, and they are always looking for it too, always eager to make drama.
 

Alexandros

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So I have noticed that a few users are posting multiple Steam links to various games in a single post, presumably via some sort of bot. Since there is a separate thread for new Steam releases, is there any point to this besides cluttering up the thread? If it was a recommendation for a specific game I would welcome it, like "hey guys I saw this game and it looks cool, here's the link and a brief explanation". But just spamming links with no other content in the post? I am personally ignoring these users. I really don't want to but it's just spam at this point.
 
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Mor

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So I have noticed that a few users are posting multiple Steam links to various games in a single post, presumably via some sort of bot. Since there is a separate thread for new Steam releases, is there any point to this besides cluttering up the thread? If it was a recommendation for a specific thread I would welcome it, like "hey guys I saw this game and it looks cool, here's the link and a brief explanation". But just spamming links with no other content in the post? I am personally ignoring these users. I really don't want to but it's just spam at this point.
Not only that but this user got warned about this some time ago for the same reason, again, if they want to keep doing this, either do it on a different thread or create a new one, but don't overflow this one, and again, SAY WHY YOU ARE SHARING THEM ffs
 

Bhodi Li

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I actually dig through the discovery queues by hand, and I only post what I think could be fun, I also sometimes post stuff that isn't my cup of tea but has a neat premise or theme...

I also dig through these by these tabs in the steam client!

New & Trending

Top Sellers

Popular Upcoming

Specials

Trending Free


And sometimes click through the see more of each tab, and literally dig through the mind bogglingly large piles of games...
 
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jads653

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Nice, I have the same handheld and I quite enjoy it. I bought it as a prelude to my turn towards handhelds, to see if I enjoy gaming on such a form factor. Turns out, I very much do. I am still on stock though, is Crossmix worth installing?
It has better performance in N64,PSP and Dreamcast games and some misc tweaks like build in scraping. I would say it is worth it if you are not satisfied with the performance of those platforms.
 
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ezodagrom

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I actually dig through the discovery queues by hand, and I only post what I think could be fun, I also sometimes post stuff that isn't my cup of tea but has a neat premise or theme...

I also dig through these by these tabs in the steam client!

New & Trending

Top Sellers

Popular Upcoming

Specials

Trending Free

And sometimes click through the see more of each tab, and literally dig through the mind bogglingly large piles of games...
I think it may be better to have a separate thread for these and post here only the ones that really standout?
 
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Aaron D.

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I can't tell you the number of upcoming releases that I've Wishlisted based on a store page link and a few screenshots in these threads.

Mind you a lot of these are titles that will NEVER be mentioned on message boards. Ever.

And that's where the true value lies.

Admittedly I do blow past posts that are just store links with nothing else.

But the ones with actual pictures instantly tell me if this "undiscovered" release is something worth clicking into the store page for.

And it's a great discovery resource in that regard.
 

Alexandros

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I actually dig through the discovery queues by hand, and I only post what I think could be fun, I also sometimes post stuff that isn't my cup of tea but has a neat premise or theme...

I also dig through these by these tabs in the steam client!

New & Trending

Top Sellers

Popular Upcoming

Specials

Trending Free


And sometimes click through the see more of each tab, and literally dig through the mind bogglingly large piles of games...
Thanks for replying, I am happy to hear that you are handpicking the games. I would suggest that you change your format a bit though. A couple of recommendations with a brief handwritten explanation are much more meaningful I feel than just a bunch of links.
 

Bhodi Li

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I think it may be better to have a separate thread for these and post here only the ones that really standout?
Thanks for replying, I am happy to hear that you are handpicking the games. I would suggest that you change your format a bit though. A couple of recommendations with a brief handwritten explanation are much more meaningful I feel than just a bunch of links.
Thanks, you two! For being understanding, and for the positive feedback! I will try to limit the amount of games per post and be a bit more verbose than not writing an explanation and or reasoning...
 

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So I have noticed that a few users are posting multiple Steam links to various games in a single post, presumably via some sort of bot. Since there is a separate thread for new Steam releases, is there any point to this besides cluttering up the thread? If it was a recommendation for a specific game I would welcome it, like "hey guys I saw this game and it looks cool, here's the link and a brief explanation". But just spamming links with no other content in the post? I am personally ignoring these users. I really don't want to but it's just spam at this point.
the lashbot will not be denied!
 
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spindoctor

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I can't tell you the number of upcoming releases that I've Wishlisted based on a store page link and a few screenshots in these threads.

Mind you a lot of these are titles that will NEVER be mentioned on message boards. Ever.

And that's where the true value lies.

Admittedly I do blow past posts that are just store links with nothing else.

But the ones with actual pictures instantly tell me if this "undiscovered" release is something worth clicking into the store page for.

And it's a great discovery resource in that regard.
Yeah it really is a great source of discovery. Even this set of 6-8 new game page links per day is a tiny fraction of what is actually releasing on Steam, so I'm grateful someone is actually looking at everything and then choosing a set of what they feel might be of interest to this community.

Although I will also say that these days I just look at so many games coming out all the time and I really can't help but wonder how they can all possibly be successful from a business sense when there's just so, so, so much stuff competing for our money and attention.
 

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I can't tell you the number of upcoming releases that I've Wishlisted based on a store page link and a few screenshots in these threads.

Mind you a lot of these are titles that will NEVER be mentioned on message boards. Ever.

And that's where the true value lies.

Admittedly I do blow past posts that are just store links with nothing else.

But the ones with actual pictures instantly tell me if this "undiscovered" release is something worth clicking into the store page for.

And it's a great discovery resource in that regard.
That's the key for me. If it's just a store link embed, I barely register it and scroll past unless I recognise the IP. But for those that add screenshots and/or a description I've wishlisted plenty thanks to these threads and I doubt I would ever have seen some of them anywhere else.

All in moderation, there could definitely be a point where too many are posted.
 

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I saw that one meme about JRPGs, the one about name 6 final bosses one. And well I can't really even name one.

I'm a fraud.

I didn't buy DQ3, I would have, had they had a PC CE but sadly they did not.

I'm still playing through Metaphor I'm still only at the beginning were you are at the fort.
 

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Comparing today's DQ3 peak with tomorrow's will give us a good idea on how much Steam grew in Japan
Dragon Quest 3 is already the DQ with the highest peak on Steam but tomorrow numbers will be the interesting ones for the reason above
It passed FFXVI, it reached a peak of 37.2k today, I guess it'll break 40k or even 50k during the weekend?

 

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The year of J/RPGs keeps the hits coming. DQ3 HD is getting some good & great reviews.

I'm still waist deep in Metaphor and I haven't touched Veilguard which seems like it's better for gameplay than story.
 
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I can't tell you the number of upcoming releases that I've Wishlisted based on a store page link and a few screenshots in these threads.

Mind you a lot of these are titles that will NEVER be mentioned on message boards. Ever.

And that's where the true value lies.

Admittedly I do blow past posts that are just store links with nothing else.

But the ones with actual pictures instantly tell me if this "undiscovered" release is something worth clicking into the store page for.

And it's a great discovery resource in that regard.
Yeah, me too. Found several games to wishlist and buy from Lashmans post which included screenshots.
Or games that other users wanted to highlight with additional descriptions.
But only storepages? I scroll through them.