First one felt kinda rough and didn't really have a proper ending (I felt). While I expect the sequel to improve things, I kinda hope they can go back to that one eventually and give it more polish.
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First one felt kinda rough and didn't really have a proper ending (I felt). While I expect the sequel to improve things, I kinda hope they can go back to that one eventually and give it more polish.
It was going to be a light sale for me anyway, but I miscalculated the dates and almost missed it entirely as well.
Realized it was ending about 15 minutes before it was all over, lol.
Just enough time to drop Far Cry Primal and Forever Skies in my basket.
Kinda took a gamble on Skies, but it's going 1.0 in a few weeks and had a nice 40% discount. Looks like a slightly jankier version of Subnatica & Grounded with a dash of Planet Crafter thrown in. And I'm all about these story-based crafting/survival sims these days.
Hopefully it comes off well in the end.
The first one ends in cliffhanger and I guess that's the point the sequel will start
I beat FC6 but it was such a downgrade from 5.
I need to replay 4 at some point, I remember enjoying that but have only played it once.
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I also hope they figure out whether to use RT shadows or not. The game had this very strange half finished look, where some places looked horrible without them, but other places would not cast shadows if you turned RT on. I get that it's a small team, but to me it feels strange to move on so quick when that game could use some more care.
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Ending the work week with a feature covering Atomfall's PC port on Steam Deck. Some ROG Ally impressions as well. This one actually earns its Steam Deck Verified rating IMO. Read it on RPG Site.
Depends on what you're looking for.
It's an open world ARPG like Genshin. The combat is more action and combo-heavy, traversal is more streamlined (to the detriment of the exploration imo, but ymmv), visually it's very pretty but the writing is bottom of the barrel garbage (The 1.o story is one of the worst stories I've experienced in any media and I completely checked out at that point. People say it's been better with 2.0 and you can skip directly to that point, but I can't confirm or deny).
There's a good amount of people that do enjoy it though, so if any of that sounds interesting to you, nothing wrong with giving it a try
I read Forever Skies as Foreskinbeen a long tough week at work lol
I always read this as Drova - Foreskin
Welp, glad I'm not the only foreskin thinking guy lol
AssCreed looks good, 100%. And I'm not even a hater of the series. I loved AC 1-3 + Ezio trilogy, kinda burned out by 4. But Odyssey brought me back with it's setting and Kassandra being a witty bosslady that was a genuinely fun protag. I think i still have screenshots from that game somewhere in our SS thread.
Shadows though... Like, looking good just isn't enough for me. Worst of all it's a game designed around mtx, and that means the baseline for the game is designed around incentivizing that. And just on a personal level that's not a type of game design i want to see rewarded.
Then there's the fact that it's just a mid RPG in a time of Great RPG's and action combat games.
And as a Japanese, i do have some less than favorable thoughts about various aspects of Ubisoft's interpretation of history and portrayal of cultural aspects. I heard the day 1 patch is going to address some of the culture stuff, but I've watched like 16 hours of gameplay from multiple streamers and have yet to budge from my opinion.
RotR may be jank, but at least it's a feature complete game, with good combat (the main focus of the game) and it isn't built around bloat/mtx to shorten that bloat.
That's my 2 pennies anyway.
Bought AdGuard lifetime license super cheap via StackOverflow. Holy shit, this adblocker is good.
Haven't used ublock Origin when it stopped working for me a long time ago, but I find AdGuard better as it also block ads in videos on different news sites that have their own media player to show videos.
Yeah been using AdGuard on both on my Mac’s and phone and found it being pretty great, and I just have the free version
There's a sort of "What we plan on doing" thing in steam announcements for the base game:
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord - Announcing the War Sails Expansion & Base Game Plans! - Steam News
Greetings warriors of Calradia! We’re thrilled to announce a major expansion to Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord - War Sails. We also discuss our base game plans so join us!
the TL : DR of it is basically they wanted to expand upon the base game via expansions or dlc instead of the traditional way of big patches and they seemingly got caught up in a half-baked failed attempt of a DLC that they couldn't kill or whatever that then begrudgingly turned into the War Sails expansion.
So that's why there hasn't been any actual update to the base game for basically 2 years, let alone communication
I've actively not bought the game even tthough I want to play it because there was supposed to be some sort of mythical "1.3" update that would fix massive amounts of things and whatever but it doesn't look like thats coming anytime soon and the DLC is kind of dumb looking to be honest.
Most of the complaints I can gather from reading is the mid to late game mostly became the exact same thing and diplomacy options are nonexistent and modding is greatly hindered by some stuff being locked away by the devs
POOLS - Release dates for Chapter 0 and PC VR locked in! - Steam News
Chapter 0 21st April 2025 15:00 CEST / 13:00 UTC PC VR 30th May 2025 15:00 CEST / 13:00 UTC Countdowns at poolsthegame.com Both will be released as free updates to the main game. Final phase of beta-testing will start next week and last all the way until the release. Thank you everyone for your...
How is it a game built around MTX, though? Do you mean the materials you use to build out the base? Based on personal experience, It's completely unneccesary to actually buy any of that stuff, you get plenty of materials just by playing the game.
I share your opinion that having a cash shop in a purely single player game is kinda sleazy, but to say that you need to spend money in any way to progress normally isnt accurate.
I know youre a fan of the older AC games (hell, your Era avatar is Auditore styled), but ironically the more old school AC stylings of Shadows is a big part of why I love it so much, 14 hours in. As a person who really didnt like Valhalla's increased focus on hand to hand combat, the return to more stealth focused gameplay was glorious.
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Today I discovered there's finally an arcade in my home town. Everything you expect is there, from retro games to mario kart, modern racers, VR games and pinball machines. If my wife wasn't with me, I'd probably would have spent the rest of the day there. 
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Those poor grifters.
The fact they're using 'players' and not 'sales' is highly sus, but all the culture war bullshit surrounding the game and the right wing dorks crying about it for months makes me hope it's a massive success.
Players should be a valid number here for sales, since it isn't on anything like Gamepass. Of course, given AAA budgets, I suspect they will need this to sell more like 10 million (within its first year) to be the kind of success to really turn things around.
Those poor grifters.
The fact they're using 'players' and not 'sales' is highly sus, but all the culture war bullshit surrounding the game and the right wing dorks crying about it for months makes me hope it's a massive success.
There is no more useless stat in all of gaming than player numbers since it always accompanies a game that's either f2p or on a sub service. Even if it was 2 million sales is that worth celebrating? This is a game with probably a 200m+ budget, 2 million isn't getting them anywhere close to breaking even.
Also as a bit of an aside we really need to stop treating 1m sales announcements as a big deal. We've been treating 1m as some massive barrier even though games 25-30 years ago were breaking it with relative ease and the industry has hundreds of millions more players now. Most AAA and even AA games easily clear 1m nowadays.
Also as a bit of an aside we really need to stop treating 1m sales announcements as a big deal. We've been treating 1m as some massive barrier even though games 25-30 years ago were breaking it with relative ease and the industry has hundreds of millions more players now. Most AAA and even AA games easily clear 1m nowadays.
Though, even with Ubisoft+, the current CCU for Shadows on Steam has almost reached Odyssey's CCU, and it may end up surpassing.
59.8k CCU for Shadows atm, Odyssey had a peak of 62k.
On another note, Atelier Yumia has nearly doubled the CCU of Ryza 3 (previous highest peak CCU for non-f2p Atelier games), 13.5k for Yumia, 7.1k for Ryza 3.
Who cares, at least 2 million players are trying out the game, that is still something.
Game sales is always relative to budget. Some games passing 100k is still a big fucking deal and a massive success for the developer/publisher.
2m players in a couple of days for a AAA game doesn’t sound so bad. That’s 2m people who will be talking to people at work/college/school about the game. If it’s a good game, those numbers will lead to more sales.
Not that I give a damn because I haven’t played an Ubisoft game in years.
2m players in a couple of days for a AAA game doesn’t sound so bad. That’s 2m people who will be talking to people at work/college/school about the game. If it’s a good game, those numbers will lead to more sales.
Not that I give a damn because I haven’t played an Ubisoft game in years.
yeah, but . . . it's Ubisoft+. Doesn't it have like a negative amount of users?
It comes as part of PS+ (the expensive two tiers) and also as part of something called “Blacknut”, which is apparently a cloud streaming service.
Civ 7 has completely fallen off, it is only in the 16k-22k ranges the last week.
losing steadily from
Launch peak 82k
W2 54k
W3 39k
W4 34k
W5 28k
W6 22k
While Civ 6 hovers around 40-60k every week
and Civ 5 around 20k every week.
This isn't about Civ players hating the new game and then loving it, it is a complete misread of their audience. The previous games didn't lose so much CCU after launch (and Civ 6 had double the CCU)
But maybe that's what the developers want? They were going on and on about the fact that 80% of players never finish their civ games to completion and started a new round after another. Well, now they finished the round, but don't pick up another, it seems.
losing steadily from
Launch peak 82k
W2 54k
W3 39k
W4 34k
W5 28k
W6 22k
While Civ 6 hovers around 40-60k every week
and Civ 5 around 20k every week.
This isn't about Civ players hating the new game and then loving it, it is a complete misread of their audience. The previous games didn't lose so much CCU after launch (and Civ 6 had double the CCU)
But maybe that's what the developers want? They were going on and on about the fact that 80% of players never finish their civ games to completion and started a new round after another. Well, now they finished the round, but don't pick up another, it seems.
Just started Wukong, weird story introduction, but so far Im very much enjoying it. Very pretty game with full ray tracing enabled.
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Also, on the subject of AC, it has fucking yellow ladders and climbing shit.
Good? Modern games are otherwise just unreadable nonsense. Being able to quickly read the map is good. I'd love them in real life too, when you are in new places and need to figure out how to go where
After Monster Hunter Wilds and the auto-following chocobo I'd rather go back to yellow paint
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Hey you know what game is pretty good?
Suikoden 2. Just saying yall.
Suikoden 2. Just saying yall.
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