Community MetaSteam | January 2025 - Remember cloud, a great remake comes with great responsibility, kuppo.

Eila

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This version isn't coming to PC (no announcement/hint to it) but if yall are curious about Ys Memoire (I covered most of this in my preview), my full review is up on RPG Site. Instead of being the definitive edition, it is just a good portable version of a fantastic game.



Falcom should've gotten PH3 to do it instead of an internal release.
That's cool that more people get to play it, but honestly the new AI upscaled textures and even the artwork are a downgrade to me. Crazy that they do that to their own classic game, if it was indeed developed in-house.
 
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Cacher

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Pretty excited for LSFG 3, especially for the improved latency. Releasing on Jan 10.

 

STHX

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As I said a few months ago, my only interest in the Switch 2 is in the 3rd party games that are going to be announced with it. Why would a 3rd party company announce Switch 2 games on their own since the first Switch 2 direct is obviously going to have millions of viewers?
 
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All the best for 2025!

Mivey

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So, are there any 'DLSS was shit before, now it's great, blessed Nintendo showing incompetent NVIDIA how to program' takes yet?
(I mean, it's pretty obvious the new model is only due to Switch 2 releasing.)
NVIDIA talked about how the new transformer model is pretty huge and complex compared to the older CNN one. So given how Nintendo has almost a fetish for using the most outdated tech they can still get away with, I'm pretty sure it will only support older versions of DLSS.
 

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Looking more and more forward to the RTX 50-series is out. Finally get to play Indiana Jones and Stalker 2. Also finally get to try ray tracing after all these years.
 
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toxicitizen

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I wonder how far Ubisoft will be taking their 180 on Steam Achievements. I interpreted "achievements are in the works for Far Cry 3 and 4" as "we'll flip the switch once we come back from the holidays break" but it hasn't been done yet, so maybe older games require additional work or something.

As far as I can tell, these are the only AC and FC games left that don't have Steam achievements and aren't confirmed to be getting them yet :

Assassin's Creed III Remastered
Assassin's Creed Rogue
Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon
Far Cry Primal
Far Cry: New Dawn

Beyond that there's the Watch_Dogs games, The Division (Division 2 got them back in august last year) and Immortals: Fenix Rising. I almost added Ghost Recon Wildlands and Breakpoint to the list but I can see they got achievements on December 16th. I either missed that or forgot.
 

STHX

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I wonder how far Ubisoft will be taking their 180 on Steam Achievements. I interpreted "achievements are in the works for Far Cry 3 and 4" as "we'll flip the switch once we come back from the holidays break" but it hasn't been done yet, so maybe older games require additional work or something.
I didn't play them, so I could be wrong, but I think FC3&4 don't have "Ubisoft Connect Achievements", or how they're called. AC Revelations did, as well as the other games that got Steam achievements, but those 2 games are like AC Brotherhood in which they lost achievements tracking with the move to Connect
 

toxicitizen

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I didn't play them, so I could be wrong, but I think FC3&4 don't have "Ubisoft Connect Achievements", or how they're called. AC Revelations did, as well as the other games that got Steam achievements, but those 2 games are like AC Brotherhood in which they lost achievements tracking with the move to Connect
I have some achievements unlocked for FC3 when I check in the Ubisoft Connect app. I would need to reinstall the game to see if they're still active/unlockable, though. It's possible something got broken along the way, yeah.

As far as I can tell, AC Revelations was the first AC with achievements in any form on PC. I can't see anything in the Ubi app for ACB or the older games.
 

yuraya

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:thinking-face:
You know what? With all the constant rumors, smoke and teases. And the fact that Valve made those Half-Life anniversary docs.

I'm now fully on board the Half-Life 3 train.

I always thought Valve would do L4D3 before anything since that is the type of game that you can push GaaS and other bs making it into a big $$$ cow.

But now it really does feel like its gonna be Half-Life 3.

Fuck it.

happeningbunker.jpg
 

CommodoreKong

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You know what? With all the constant rumors, smoke and teases. And the fact that Valve made those Half-Life anniversary docs.

I'm now fully on board the Half-Life 3 train.

I always thought Valve would do L4D3 before anything since that is the type of game that you can push GaaS and other bs making it into a big $$$ cow.

But now it really does feel like its gonna be Half-Life 3.

Fuck it.

happeningbunker.jpg
Well they were working on L4D3 in the mid 2010s but it got cancelled (I believe because Source 2 wasn’t far along enough at that point). You can find leaked screenshots online.
 
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Kyougar

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I mean, if you can't tell the difference (and I'm not saying that this is an invalid perspective) then, in a way, you are lucky since you can just buy a much cheaper GPU (or skip more upgrade cycles).
doesn't work like that, though.

Farming Sim 25 and Victoria 3 are maxing out my 1660 super and those games are not graphic powerhouses.
 
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Arulan

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I don't recall if posted anything here, but I recently put together my first fully new build since 2016:




Going from a 6900K to the 9800x3D.

I was waiting to see what the new cards at CES looked like, and I think I'll be aiming to get a 5090.

Looking forward to playing Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, and Avowed over the next few months.
 

Ge0force

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Another thumbs up for the case, so beautiful! I love Fractal Design, have a Define C myself.

I'm planning to upgrade to a 9800X3D as well (currently using i7 8700k) but it's still €680 here. I hope the price gets back to normal during the next few months.
 

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So much writing this week lol. The TouchArcade Best Steam Deck Games of 2024 feature is up on the Patreon (public post) here. Just the main GOTY post left for tomorrow now. (Photo below is from my original Daybreak review so there's a spoiler for one of the games :p)



I think I've posted more articles here in a week than lashman has copies of DOAX Prism to buy for us now.
 

EdwardTivrusky

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Rather nice. One appreciates the way the artist is, in their way, attempting to both alleviate and represent and yet also subvert Man's inherant struggle against a cruel and uncaring universe. Delightful but one would suggest not passively experiencing the piece but rather that one "downloads" as the outsiders would say and interacts and experiences the installation for oneself without pre-knowledge for the greatest appreciation of the piece.

Indeed. Hmmmm.

Links in description.



(Somehow i originally posted this in the BST thread, DOH!)
 
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Derrick01

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Since they confirmed Rebirth has dualsense support I have 1 more tip. During world intel fights MAI can get very annoying by talking during them, like giving info on the beasts and stuff, but between her and the fight sounds and characters doing their battle shouts and quips it was a bit too much. She also will repeat everything if you have to redo the fight for whatever reason (like not getting perfect rank).

So people found a workaround on PS5 and it was setting it so her voice comes through the dualsense mic then lowering the volume of the mic to 0 which mutes her. I'm sure a mod will get made that does this too but it'll probably take a little time.
 

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hopefully "brand new game" means something more interesting than the rumored UE5 Oblivion remake. crossing my fingers for a Double Fine reveal
 
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yuraya

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hopefully "brand new game" means something more interesting than rumored UE5 Oblivion remake. crossing my fingers for a Double Fine reveal
Probably too early for Oblivion remake. The 20 year anniversary is next year so if its actually real and a big remake (not remaster)...they will probably do a blowout for it in the summer for release next year.

This is likely some smaller title from any one of their studios.

A New Vegas remake could be cool too if they want to hurry and catch up with the show's momentum going into S2.
 

toxicitizen

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I didn't expect any different but still bummed out by the lack of ultrawide support for Rebirth. At least they bothered to implement DLSS this time, I guess...
 
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