Community MetaSteam | March 2025 - Ronin's Creed of the Split Atom
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In world where Raven, Microsoft, Actvision, and id are all under one roof, we still can't get official sequels to the real thing.or Hexen
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You have to believe
Doom 1, 2, Final and 64 all got something. Surely Heretic and Hexen will have their turn in the future
Doom 1, 2, Final and 64 all got something. Surely Heretic and Hexen will have their turn in the future
Early going so far and my initial impression is Fantasy Forest is an appreciable step up from Tropical Island.
The first thing you'll obviously notice is the new art design that looks absolutely gorgeous. This is night and day compared to Island, which also had its own folk-art charm. This time out the entire presentation feels far more professional.
I noticed there are more body regulation systems in place such as urination, etc. This takes the appreciable depth found in the original and goes even further, making the survival-simulation mechanics feel even more authentic.
Proper questing in now on the menu. Where Island was strictly a sandbox, now in Forest there are tangible goals that lead to increasingly complex recipe unlocks. I understand this was a controversial choice for some but I enjoy the smooth learning curve & direction it allows for. At the same time I think it was super-smart for the dev team to respond quickly and provide an alternate game mode that is strictly sandbox without questing elements or need to unlock recipes. Best of both worlds now properly in place.
Based on the initial rollout of what is here now, and dev responsiveness to feedback I think Card Survival: Fantasy Forest is gonna go down as a classic in the survival genre. It's such a unique take with an offbeat, snappy gameplay loop that makes the genre feel quite fresh.
SUPER happy with what is here now and can't wait to see the game evolve through Early Access.
Ubisoft suddenly deciding they actually care about Steam is quite funny.
They'd remove Udon'tplay from their games if they truly cared about Steam.
Sonic Unleashed PC and Tony Hawk 3+4 announcement tomorrow. What a week for me.
All I need is a proper Burnout 3 port and I'd be good.
All I need is a proper Burnout 3 port and I'd be good.
With Onimusha 2 and Tony Hawk 3+4 both coming this year, all I need is for Konami to confirm Master Collection Vol. 2 with MGS4 in it.
Steam Visual Novel Fest is live.
FREE animated avatars and frame from the Point Shop.
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It's 2025 and I am playing Sonic Unleashed on my SteamDeck at mostly 60 FPS. This whole N64 and now Xbox360 static recompilation stuff sounds like black magic.
Sonic fans are so insane they basically skipped several generations of console recompilations to do a much-loved but otherwise mediocre game in the series.
And I hope we get recompilations of Lost Odyssey from these efforts.
I know anti anime but I would love to see a port of Blue Dragon, the Darkness. The 360 era has so many games that were never released on PC due to it being the dark ages (especially early 360).
Speaking of Suikoden
Starts in 40~ minutes
Will it be a whole bunch of nothing or will Konami continue their winning streak
Im still only at 1080p, but goddamn the 9800x3d is a CPU beast. Tried Alan Wake 2, cranked everything up and the CPU was max like 25% is usage.
And finally time to have with the new technologies like DLSS, DLAA, RT etc.
And finally time to have with the new technologies like DLSS, DLAA, RT etc.
MGS Delta is probably coming out earlier than Vol.2, and that's such an ass backwards way of doing things lol. Konami is funny.
So they announced a f2p mobile Suikoden. Shame, it looks rad (HD-2D style or as Eiyuden Chronicle).
www.gematsu.com
www.gematsu.com
Didn't notice that they added diagonal movement to the remasters, that should make them feel much nicer too (apparently Japan only PSP ports had it before). It's a little bit weird that the in engine cut scenes and gameplay NPC movements are still orthogonal only but that's a minor disparity I can live with, probably.
Suikoden STAR LEAP announced for iOS, Android
Publisher Konami and developer MYTHRIL have announced Suikoden STAR LEAP for iOS and Android. A release date was not announced, but it will be free-to-play with in-game microtransactions.
www.gematsu.com
Suikoden: The Anime announced
Konami has announced Suikoden: The Anime, an anime series based on Suikoden II. The production studio is Konami Animation, who will be tackling an anime series for the first time.
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Buying games and not playing them? Get on my level: installing games and not playing them. Just put a second 4TB SSD in my PC. That's now 8TB dedicated entirely to Steam.
Hey that Konami Suikoden livestream announced some shit I don't care about (Suikoden Mobile Gacha game, which desipte all of what I just said is actually somehow a canonical story). But they did announce some cool stuff about the HD Remasters.
THEY ARE ADDING A WAY TO DISABLE THE BULLSHIT TIMER FOR THE CLIVE QUEST IN SUIKODEN 2!!!! That's actually a really nice QoL change which will allow people actually experience those scenes which otherwise required a speed run to see. Very cool.
Also a Suikdoen 2 anime? I'll try that.
THEY ARE ADDING A WAY TO DISABLE THE BULLSHIT TIMER FOR THE CLIVE QUEST IN SUIKODEN 2!!!! That's actually a really nice QoL change which will allow people actually experience those scenes which otherwise required a speed run to see. Very cool.
Also a Suikdoen 2 anime? I'll try that.
Alan Wake 2 and Indiana Jones plays fantastic. Also downloading Pacific Drive, VII Rebirth, Starfield, Space Marine 2, Wukong, Immortals of Aveum from Steam, basically games that didn't play well at all or not at all on my previous PC.
Got my hands on 3 months of PC game pass, so will try Stalker 2 and Avowed to see if they are worth a buy.
Got my hands on 3 months of PC game pass, so will try Stalker 2 and Avowed to see if they are worth a buy.
Don't forget you can force DLSS4 to get better image quality from all games with DLSS (well, except maybe FFXV), by forcing it via nvidia profile inspector.
Do I need to uninstall the Nvidia app before I do this? Getting mixed report on that.
No. If the game still uses dlss 3, you just need to force that game profile individually in inspector. I have app installed and force globally/per game via profile, it works.
You can enable the dlss overlay to check. Enable Show DLSS Indicator on screen easy on/off registry. Or use the DLSSTweaksConfig.exe from DLSSTweaks.
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Heh, me on the other hand I have only a few games installed (otherwise I get choice problems, can't handle too many games installed at once). So I have currently 3 m.2 nvme ssds, 1 tb for os, 2 tb for games and another 2 tb for games. So far I have only used one 2 m.2 nvme ssd for games, so Im actually not sure when I will take the second on in use.Buying games and not playing them? Get on my level: installing games and not playing them. Just put a second 4TB SSD in my PC. That's now 8TB dedicated entirely to Steam.
Currently Im downloading all those big ass games with the new PC, but since those are "one and done" games, I will uninstall them after I finish them to free up space again.
Forgot that I also have multiple other external HDDs and 1 external 1 tb ssd.
This is actually pretty dope indeed.
Here's hoping the games do well for them overall.
Monster Hunter Wilds sales top eight million in three days
Total sales for Monster Hunter Wilds surpassed eight million units in just three days, Capcom announced. It is the fastest a title has reached this milestone in Capcom company history.
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Day one PC port did wonders as World "only" did 5 million in 3 days. Guessing the platform split is something like PC 4 million, PS 3.25-3.5 million and Xbox 0.5-0.75 million.
Man, this new Monster Hunter is another hyped game that’s totally gone over my head.
Never played one, but I guess all the growth happened with the last two games getting bumper discounts over the years.
I just hope Capcom supports it now it’s sold a lot. The cynical side of me thinks if it’s good enough to net 8m sales, they’ll let it fester.
Happy to not play this series, regardless. I don’t need another game to play right now.
Never played one, but I guess all the growth happened with the last two games getting bumper discounts over the years.
I just hope Capcom supports it now it’s sold a lot. The cynical side of me thinks if it’s good enough to net 8m sales, they’ll let it fester.
Happy to not play this series, regardless. I don’t need another game to play right now.
The Monster Hunter games were already big in Japan before World (in 2 days, MH4 sold 1.8m physical copies and MHX 1.5m), but the PS4 and PC releases of World brought the series to the global mainstream.
Unfortunately Wilds has alot of technical issues on PC...
My point was the new global audience that jumped on World were not all there at day 1 - they trickled in over years of discounts.
Capcom have been cultivating an audience for the series for years, and Wilds is them harvesting. Day 1 on PC, worldwide global release, full price, massive fan base built up over years.
Kind of a perfect storm for them, other than the performance issues. But it looks like the series has crossed the rubicon into Pokémon territory, where they can release a turd and still sell 10m or more guaranteed.
8 million in 3 days is disgustingly good.
Capcom has been on fire basically ever since RE7 and their RE engine debut.
Now with Wilds out they are finally able to unveil and focus on RE9. And hopefully the Code Veronica remake/remaster rumors are/were true.
I would guess RE9 gets unveiled this summer and next year they go all out with RE9 + Onimusha + Wilds expansion.
I would bet Okami 2 is 2027. And ofc there is always that possibility of RE5 remake but I feel like people won't be very hyped for that one.
Capcom has been on fire basically ever since RE7 and their RE engine debut.
Now with Wilds out they are finally able to unveil and focus on RE9. And hopefully the Code Veronica remake/remaster rumors are/were true.
I would guess RE9 gets unveiled this summer and next year they go all out with RE9 + Onimusha + Wilds expansion.
I would bet Okami 2 is 2027. And ofc there is always that possibility of RE5 remake but I feel like people won't be very hyped for that one.
Capcom and Sega both being in a stride of producing absolute peak is great to see. Konami re-entering the industry and Atari actually doing something with their IP is also super cool. Lots of surprising good news for releases, despite the general industry turmoil.
Fuck the Oscars indeed. Gonna play it when my buddy finishes Rebirth so maybe some time in June.
ER sold 12 million in 17 days. Wilds could (should) surpass that, but it isn't a given yet. I know Capcom wanted to sell 11 million units by the end of its FY on March 31 and I think Wilds can beat that pretty easily.
Tropical Island was such a surprise hit of a game for me. Don't know if I got the recommendation from you or someone else here, but I love the premise.
I'm gonna take a stab and guess it was me as I don't recall anyone talking about either Card Survival game.
Ever.
Anywhere.
(lol)
March 2025 | Humble Choice
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Tony Hawk's™ Pro Skater™ 3 + 4 | Best Skateboard Series
The legendary game series returns with Tony Hawk’s™ Pro Skater™ 3 + 4, with more skaters, parks, tricks, music, and more. Coming soon to Xbox, PC Microsoft Store, Battle.net, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, and Steam.
Two EA app games in Humble Choice?
Utter shite.
Utter shite.