I don't wanna say I don't believe the developer, but I checked out their only released game on Steam, and apart from one weird review (guy played 370 hours but hadn't updated his review from 2017), it seems like many liked it (overall reviews are very positive) while some complained about the easiness of the game or controls/resolution options than having constant updates. I skimmed through them and I didn't see any mention of dead game updates unless the complaints are on itch.io
To be fair, publishers did this to themselves when they realized they could release broken ass games and patch them later. The tradition caught on, I guess. Even if the game is perfectly playable.
yeah, it's pretty much all on the big publishers ....
Thanks for all the info! I'll wait and see how the Steam release pans out and skip the PS4 version for now. I imagine I will be able to find it cheap again in the future on one platform or the other if I am dying to play it.Not my tweet but I found it on the net. It seems Pqube and MAGES are not getting along very well and this will be their last project together. Not to worry though, since it seems the Western branch of Spike Chunsoft will be handling MAGES Steam releases now.
As for the quality of the title... I played the JP PS4 version and liked it but didn't like it at the same time. Overall story is whatever, but some of the characters were pretty interesting and kept me hooked. Puzzles are stupid easy, but maybe that's for the best, since it let's you solve them quickly and get back to the VN segments.
I would say both it's VNDB and Metacritic scores are fair, the game is really just decent or average at best.
The only time I recall see "dead game" reviews are on games that are expected to be updated for legitimate reasons. I.e., multiplayer games, games that came out extremely buggy/unfinished, early access games or whatever.
Though to be fair to the publishers, they didn't force indie devs to adopt their practices. They didn't tell the indie devs to abuse early access or "live service" to make more money. They did that on their own because it was often better for their own bottom line.
Yeah, me too. On top of base building, the time limit was also a major turn off for me. I know it's part of the system, but I hate it.
But I thought Steam reviews were bad!Kurt Russell You made it into a Kotaku Article
Mordhau, As Told By Steam Reviews
Games with good swordplay are rare. Multiplayer games with good swordplay are rarer still, like Excalibur of Arthurian legend. It’s no wonder, then, that Mordhau has cut through the clutter and laid siege to the Steam charts. Steam users are digging the heck out of it.kotaku.com
Remember when 15 hours was a perfectly acceptable length for a game? Do you imagine the SHITSTORM if Assassins Creed or whatever big franchise new game 'only' lasted for 15 hours?
A 15-hours long Assassin's Creed game won't be greenlighted in the first place. That said, I think TLOU 2 will be 15 hours long more or less, and it'll be accepted just fine.
Yeah, but that's the problem, I do think you can tell any AC story in less than 20 hours and still make it an engaging game. But it seems that every new game HAS to be a bigger one than the last one.
Those people are like this:Imagine if Steam user reviews are being removed.
Those people who keep complaining about it are completely clueless.
B-Tier games need to make a come back. Like the PS1-PS2 days. Not everything has to be a big and flashy Live-Service blah blah.
In 2016, Square-Enix released two Final Fantasies one of them cost a fraction of the other, and involved way less stress and hands on. Yet it reviewed fairly well and by many long-time fans reckoning, it was the better of the two.
Also NieR: Automata. It's praises are rightfully sung to the heavens, it came on a shoestring budget, and spawned countless merch and a legion of new fans for an old-time Director who was almost lost to the shadows. (Taro.)
Tecmo, Bandai, they also seemingly make the majority of their (non-mobile) money on B-tier releases...
When will the west try to embrace this? At the moment it seems all the non-indie Western devs are chasing the live-service , constant updates, constant engagement dream... To their detriment.
Yea the whole premise of the complaint is dumb as hell. I, and a bunch of other people including those on Meta now, were talking about the over saturation of GAAS early last year, and other people probably even before that. The developers design games to be endless loops, but there's so much competition now they have to be the best at updating or they lose because no gamer can support more than 1-2 GAAS reasonably. My favorite streamer plays multiplayer FPS and he basically only "mains" 2 at a time ever, and his job is literally to play games hours a day. And those skills are even reasonably transferable - I enjoy Forza, BF5, Apex, League (kinda), 4x like Civ and Endless Space 2, Cities: Skylines, Diablo 3, the list is goddamn endless and each one is going to be inevitably on the curb for a while when I'm playing a different one.Maybe if game developers released a fully fleshed out product instead of a half assed game that they labeled as finished they wouldn't need another year+ to actually fucking finish it and go "Done"
"Why do we have to keep working on this game forever? We only specifically made it for that purpose of creating an infinite loop with no actual end so that players never actually stop playing it! Why are they so demanding! Ugh!"
I see a lot more people who are honestly happy to play short games and complete them in a single sitting as opposed to being locked into a game for days and days because it just doesn't end. They're essentially just palette cleansers from the seemingly normal never ending games that we constantly have now.
It's nice now to have a short story of something like that.
When I continually played WoW I felt obligated (Yeah obligated) to log on every day otherwise I wasn't getting my moneys worth from it even though I didn't ever actually do anything worthwhile in it besides just... Log onto the game.
It feels like this entire post has turned into something completely different now but I really don't feel any sympathy in general towards what they've (Developers complaining about a never ending development cycle) created for themselves. It's like throwing an axe into the air and staring at it and eventually it hits you, then being dumb enough to be angry at the axe for hitting you.
I think you need to change the right stick to a Button Pad, and then you can just map any direction to buttons.
Hm, you can simply map the other buttons to their right stick directions in that case.
Hmm. Aren't analog sticks usually mapped to two axes? Like x- to x+ and y- to y+? It would be kind of strange if you could map half an axis to a button. What would the other half be used as?
In velocity ultra, you launch a bomb when u press a direction on the right stick. I want one direction assigned to a button so i can have bombs+laser on one button
I hadn't read your first message about this. But now that I have, I get it.
Damn, I completely misread your question, sorry. Just woke up
You should be able to configure a steam profile for this. There was a good thread on Era regarding the steam controller which might help...
I like this change a lot, wording is perfect, most of the games have at least one delay so this puts less pressure to the devs when it comes to release dates, this mostly says "hey consumer, this game is planned for this date but if there is a delay don't be surprised"
looks like Steam changed the UI for upcoming games. Its not updated for every upcoming game though for whatever reason.
to be fair - it's mostly big publishers doing this ... it's not like all indie devs started doing 500h+ open-world "micro"transaction-laden grindfest slogs all of a sudden ...
fuck, i WISH we could get a new AAA game that's 15h long max .... even better - 8h ... but that will never happen
life is overrated
I honestly don't recall ever seeing this. Not saying it doesn't happen, because I'm sure it does (people suck after all), but I can't remember reading Steam reviews where people complained about lack of new content for finished games. I saw my fair share of "not enough content" opinions, but never a "devs should go back to this game and add more stuff". Luckily these idiots don't seem to have a big audience for their stupid demands, although it's a shame that devs have to suffer through that crap anyway.
In all the ACs I've been playing these last few months the main story missions could usually be beaten in less than 20 hours. It's the extra content, collectibles and tons of other stuff that pad the hell out of their length.
Some of you might have already played this game on cell phone,for it has already been recommended globally by app store and Google Play.But in fact,Super Phantom Cat was first designed to be a PC game,there were some trouble(like not enough money...experience...some kind of stuff
Altough Super Phantom Cat was free to play on cell phone,but in the PC version,we canceled all of the In-game purchase and advertisements.Besides,there will be a lot of chapter and achievements designed only for PC platform.
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I've only seen that with games that are in Early Access or multiplayer focused indie titles. In the case of the former there is the argument to be made that breaks between updates should be properly communicated to avoid this. And maybe keep making posts in between updates to keep engagement with the people you are asking for money to show that you are still working on the game. If a developer is dead silent what else should it be taken as them dropping the game?
It should be obvious to anyone that players time and money is finite, so everyone creating games that are attempting to be an infinite
Pretty sure she's been even more vocal about Steam than Rami since the birth of Epic. Blaming everything else for the lack of success of their games.
This looks beautiful! Wishlisted!
they didn't ... because they don't care about the future ... they just want all the money NOW ... and they all saw they can make more money doing gaas, so they all jumped on it
agreed ... absolutely
Oh snap this looks like Jalopy.
They don't want pity, they want Steam to be blamed for problems Valve and Steam did not create, as if it was meant to be both content delivery platform and fascist big brother. How is it Valve's fault that gamers opinions are shaped by more than the platform they buy games on?
Oh, I'm sure it does happen, there is no shortage of idiots in the world. I doubt this is anything more than statistical noise though.
