Community MetaSteam | January 2025 - Remember cloud, a great remake comes with great responsibility, kuppo.
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Just purchased Fort Solis for 1 euro because of the latest humble choice.
If I was a developer, I would never add my game to humble bundle. The way its value instantly drops to pennies, and basically stays there forever, killing all future sales on Steam and non-reseller platforms, is just suicidal. I actually saw interview with one czech indie dev where he lamented exactly this - after he added his game - really cool strategy: to HB, all his sales basically dropped to zero and even years after the bundle, people are buying the game for 1 euro on reseller websites instead of on Steam. The regret was palpable.
If I was a developer, I would never add my game to humble bundle. The way its value instantly drops to pennies, and basically stays there forever, killing all future sales on Steam and non-reseller platforms, is just suicidal. I actually saw interview with one czech indie dev where he lamented exactly this - after he added his game - really cool strategy: to HB, all his sales basically dropped to zero and even years after the bundle, people are buying the game for 1 euro on reseller websites instead of on Steam. The regret was palpable.
Uhhhhhhh
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What in the goddamned
Fortune's Run - Extremely Sad Depressing News, Act III - Steam News
In which Dizzie explains why the development is imploding and what will happen with the project in the near future
What in the goddamned
It's one of my favorite RPGs of the past decade, and I think arguably up there with Morrowind, Gothic 1 &2, and New Vegas for 3D open-world RPGs. There is a lot of flexibility in the quest design, though it asks you to come up those options instead explicitly telling you about them. It does a lot to really immerse you in its world.
I started Sunday (minus about an hour for a false start last year). I saw the previews for KCD 2 and it looked nifty so I decided to go back to the first once. I don't know if I'll actually finish it, but it's gotta be doing something right.
Have fun!
Hey can I just say
FUCK THE GODDAMNED CHIMERA FIGHT IN PHANTOM LIBERTY
Completely invalidated my Stealth Netrunner build, had to tank the difficulty to Easy to just cheat it, and now I've lost all motivation to continue this run. It's basically set a tone that my build is no longer viable.
FUCK THE GODDAMNED CHIMERA FIGHT IN PHANTOM LIBERTY
Completely invalidated my Stealth Netrunner build, had to tank the difficulty to Easy to just cheat it, and now I've lost all motivation to continue this run. It's basically set a tone that my build is no longer viable.
Nice 
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Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma launches May 30
Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma will launch for Switch and PC via Steam on May 30, publishers Marvelous, Marvelous USA, and Marvelous Europe announced.
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Starting preparing GOTY stuff now, so if anyone STILL hasn't voted, now is the time!
checking if there is GOTY pm from lashman ... none found!
checking if there is GOTY pm from lashman ... none found!
The whole intro sequence to Phantom Liberty and then
fucking loot boxes falling from the sky
Once you get past that it picks up again though (and plays like the base game), the DLC has some great content very much worth playing.
lashman only posts about games, we know he prefers watching anime over actually playing them.
lashman is too busy with move stuff right now, sorry
but i suppose i can send one
Why do you call yourself lashman instead of using "I"? Are you an anime girl in disguise?lashman is too busy with move stuff right now, sorry
I kid, I kid.
Good luck on the move!
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We're New Blood... We Love You And We Hate Money.
jfc what did I just readUhhhhhhh
Fortune's Run - Extremely Sad Depressing News, Act III - Steam News
In which Dizzie explains why the development is imploding and what will happen with the project in the near future
What in the goddamned
Community - MetaCouncil's Games of the Year Awards 2024 Results
Welcome to our annual games of the year awards! Thank you all for voting! Let's get directly into the fun! Top 10 Games of the Year ]Animal Well was a very good metroidvanian in a world of a billion metroidvanians. It stood out with its interesting visual style and unique weapons and...
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Good new for my fellow Lil Gator fans:
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Lil Gator Game - Lil Gator Game: In The Dark! - New DLC planned for Lil Gator Game! - Steam News
You didn't think the adventures were over, did you?! That's right! Lil Gator (and friends!) will be back for a brand new adventure In The Dark in a brand new, game-sized DLC for Lil Gator Game coming... when it's ready! In The Dark takes place in the mysterious underground caves (where else...
Loved the original, very glad to see thisGood new for my fellow Lil Gator fans:
Lil Gator Game - Lil Gator Game: In The Dark! - New DLC planned for Lil Gator Game! - Steam News
You didn't think the adventures were over, did you?! That's right! Lil Gator (and friends!) will be back for a brand new adventure In The Dark in a brand new, game-sized DLC for Lil Gator Game coming... when it's ready! In The Dark takes place in the mysterious underground caves (where else...
You know what? More games should have strategy layers like XCOM.
otherforum:
"fuck yeah"
"I like him even more"
"Techjesus for the win"
someone posts a tweet where Steve speaks positively about Totalbiscuit
the next posts:
"I KNEW he was sketchy"
"lost all respect"
"Steve should clarify his stance on TB!"
I covered Tales of Graces f Remastered on Steam Deck, ROG Ally, and Switch for RPG Site. The game on Steam Deck has an issue you need to fix by forcing a 16:9 resolution else the game is stretched lol. Tested this on both my Decks. Other than that, lovely experience. (Posted in the wrong thread before. )
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So it would stretch the image vertically to 16:10? that's pretty funny. Is that also a bug on Windows when you play on an ultrawide?I covered Tales of Graces f Remastered on Steam Deck, ROG Ally, and Switch for RPG Site. The game on Steam Deck has an issue you need to fix by forcing a 16:9 resolution else the game is stretched lol. Tested this on both my Decks. Other than that, lovely experience. (Posted in the wrong thread before.
Yea and just the gameplay not the menus and UI haha. I couldn't test ultrawide for this one as it didn't let me change aspect ratio in game and I don't have ultrawide monitors at home.
They can't be taken seriously. They wonder why they have no allies left when they're willing to burn everyone at the stake for the slightest perceived offense.
TotalBiscuit was a true consumer advocate. His support of Gamergate wasn't because he hated women and minorities, he (mistakenly) believed that it was an honest movement for 'ethics in game journalism'. He made a mistake but it was an honest mistake and it shouldn't be used to sully his memory.
There were quite a few youtubers who were like that at the start. I mean I too thought it really was about ethics in journalism and I was like yeah we should talk about this. People forget not everyone obsessively read forums at the time and learned the minute to minute breakdown of what was really going on. It's not all that different now just instead of forums it's "oh you didn't follow this 27 tweet thread by someone with 6k followers exposing that thing everyone's talking about how dare you".
For some of the left, if you made even one error in the past, you are irredeemable. And that you can never change.
When I said that part of the AFD voters in Germany are poor protest voters who were left behind by the policies of the last three decades and that we need to address this issue and get them back to vote for "us", there was a wall of:
"one time a nazi, always a nazi"
"they just show their true colors"
"we don't want them anymore"
And even if some were secretly racist and not just protest voting, as long as they are racist in their head or in their little bar or at home or whatever, I will take their vote for left or centrist parties with open arms if it means no facsist party gets into the state elections.
No nuance, only outrage.
But yeah, IIRC his "support" for gamergame lasted about 5 mins. TB did have a tendency of speaking before thinking and putting his foot in his mouth but I think anyone that was actually familiar with his content/views would know better than to label him as an actual gamergater.
That post in the GamerNexus thread was the exact moment I pressed the eject button. I just can't anymore with that fucking forum lol. I still have an account but I don't see myself engaging with that community ever again.
BTW I am currently browsing this report:
www.matthewball.co
some very interesting slides
PRESENTATION: The State of Video Gaming in 2025 ā MatthewBall.co
A (free) 220 page presentation on the past, present and potential future of the video game industry.
www.matthewball.co
some very interesting slides
To be fair youād be hard pressed to find PC centric Youtube channels who are not TB fans.
Just looked through it, quite good.BTW I am currently browsing this report:
PRESENTATION: The State of Video Gaming in 2025 ā MatthewBall.co
A (free) 220 page presentation on the past, present and potential future of the video game industry.
some very interesting slides
Checked a bit through those slides, talks a lot about how spending is down, how it must go up... but people just have less money to spend, unless we find a solution for that, everything is going to go down, higher profit year after year is only go on for so long until it just breaks.
I've been noticing more bot reviews on Steam recently.
And Trump is coming baby, time for more austerity.
The slides of industry and market research groups and experts predicting growth of some games, the industry or VR are especially hilarious where they predict near exponential growth every year for a decade. Like the VR slide.
or this slide:
with reality
I like this oneBTW I am currently browsing this report:
PRESENTATION: The State of Video Gaming in 2025 ā MatthewBall.co
A (free) 220 page presentation on the past, present and potential future of the video game industry.
some very interesting slides
And since Valve hasn't given Steam's MAU in several years, this is now the absolute truth and nothing can change my mind.
Hell yeah the hair rendering wars are heating back up!
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RTX Hair is coming to Indiana Jones and the Great Circle - OC3D
Nvidia's Jacob Freeman has confirmed that "RTX Hair" is coming to Indiana Jones as part of a future update.
It looks good. I feel like hair is often an undercooked portion of character assets and I'm not quite sure why.Hell yeah the hair rendering wars are heating back up!
RTX Hair is coming to Indiana Jones and the Great Circle - OC3D
Nvidia's Jacob Freeman has confirmed that "RTX Hair" is coming to Indiana Jones as part of a future update.
Meanwhile modders in Skyrim can pull off thousands(!) of realistic hair mesh and textures complete with physics, like bounce, movement, and swaying in the wind. For longer hairs you even have hair that reacts to body/armor instead of just clipping through.
Part of me has always been curious about why it's such an afterthought or not even a thought at all for actual game devs. It doesn't even take up that much CPU juice these days.
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We're New Blood... We Love You And We Hate Money.
This stood out to me from that presentation
I could stop buying games and just game my backlog for a couple of years. Now how would that be for your graphs and profits, money people!?
The thing I like the most about the slide is that it can be boiled down to "the open and customizable nature of PC is winning people over". It's a wonderful message that customers are sending against walled gardens.
Out now. There's also a bundle with Bloodstained (which I already owned) so I got it for a bit over 15 bucks.