Earthshade looks really beautiful and I really want to play it, thing is that I'm not in the mood of playing lately, don't know why but I think I will buy it sometime this year.
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yeah, exactly ... same with me for all emulated gamesHonestly im the exact same way. Persona 3-5 are playable on pc through emulation but I need an official pc port before I can play it
Nier:A at "over 4 million" is interesting, because by conservative estimates based on the number of reviews it has on Steam it should have sold at least 2.5 million there.
(Unless the specific type of game/circumstances makes people more likely to write reviews for it than for any other game we ever got numbers for, which is always possible I guess)
(Unless the specific type of game/circumstances makes people more likely to write reviews for it than for any other game we ever got numbers for, which is always possible I guess)
It DID get review bombed on like 4 seperate ocassions. So you never know.
But “over 4m” could mean 4.8m for all we know and character action games like Bayo, MGR, and Devil May Cry always did really well on PC. So it is possible.
Should I buy Cities: Skylines? The sim part sounds fantastic, but I also don't want to get sucked into DLC hell. Every time I look at the store page, I start scrolling through the DLC list and my interest just ... fizzles out. Every single DLC looks like it contributes something interesting, but the one bundle is like $155, and that's after a 9% discount. Ugh.
Ashamed to admit that I haven't left the first village yet. I'm planning to get back into it and properly play it, though!
I've had this on my wishlist for a long time so I just went ahead and pre-ordered through their site, which goes through Humble. It's the last day for the pre-order discount of 10% plus you get the Steam version and a DRM-free version.
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After some hours playing Kiwami 2 I can say that the game looks impressive (sadly no AA solution seems to fully remove the jaggies, and downsampling/SSAA is obviously killing my performance). Other than that it seems fine. I haven't played much, tho. I guess I'll try to unlock the cabaret today.
I need a good sale for Monster Hunter World.
The beta on PS4 was all underpowered weapons whacking a whimpering wild animal while it tried to run for safety.
There has to be more to the game than that, but I need a good sale so I can feel alright about dropping the game if it turns out to be Animal Abuse Simulator.
The beta on PS4 was all underpowered weapons whacking a whimpering wild animal while it tried to run for safety.
There has to be more to the game than that, but I need a good sale so I can feel alright about dropping the game if it turns out to be Animal Abuse Simulator.
The game is super basic at the start and takes until High Rank to really get into. So if you’re not willing to give it a fair chance and will just drop it after an hour or two it probably isnt the game for you.
Also its significantly better with friends.
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here's what Playtracker says:
you ABSOLUTELY should buy it ... it's great ... even without any of the DLC stuff
It's really important to find a weapon that clicks with you. I spent like 2 or 3 hours at the beginning going through them before I found something I liked (+watching weapon tutorials on youtube to get an idea on how to use them).
They're all pretty cool, but also really different and everyone has different preferences, especially at the beginning.
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Fear of missing out is a heck of a thing - in fact, it drives a massive amount of the decision making that drives the industry. It's a perfectly reasonable thing to market with, and indeed FOMO can often be justified, as time sensitive cultural events do indeed have value.
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Shouldn't it be FOMO instead of FEAR in the title? 'Fear Of Missing Out'?News - Used On YOU: The Power of FEAR In AAA Game Marketing | Value Isn't All We Think It Is...
Fear of missing out is a heck of a thing - in fact, it drives a massive amount of the decision making that drives the industry. It's a perfectly reasonable thing to market with, and indeed FOMO can often be justified, as time sensitive cultural events do indeed have value.
EDIT: Wait I'm being silly, using FEAR is a better way catch attention than FOMO :x
So I dont have cable at my house but I was at my mom's for mothers day and after the Blue Jays game there was "Overwatch League" on basic cable! I watched a few minutes and it was something...I cannot imagine there are more than 5 people in Canada that watched that.
Overwatch League rakes in millions of views on TV. I have it on in the background occasionally
Interesting. That is the first I have ever seen of it, but again I dont have cable and I dont follow esports. What a time to be alive.
Yeah its crazy. It aired on Disney and ESPN in the US and some other channels too. Its a huge money maker for Blizzard
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OK, Assassin's Creed Unity's story missions are done. It's a nice game, a little buggy at times but nowhere near what I expected from the comments at launch. Maybe they patched it a lot, which is good, though it doesn't excuse the state it apparently launched in. Now I need to play the Dead Kings DLC so I can move on to Chronicles: India and Syndicate.
If there's something I learned from all this, it's to install beat-and-delete open world games on my SSD. The loading times in Unity were excessively high, and since I'm going to uninstall them as soon as I'm done with the story and DLCs, there's nothing bad with temporarily filling the SSD. Hell, I've had GTA V installed there for over 4 years and I haven't played it yet (apart from the first 2 missions and the online tutorial).
If there's something I learned from all this, it's to install beat-and-delete open world games on my SSD. The loading times in Unity were excessively high, and since I'm going to uninstall them as soon as I'm done with the story and DLCs, there's nothing bad with temporarily filling the SSD. Hell, I've had GTA V installed there for over 4 years and I haven't played it yet (apart from the first 2 missions and the online tutorial).
I just realized Hyponospace Outlaw is on sale apart of the LudoNarraCon sale. (which ends in an hour and 20 minutes oops lol)
Its 15% off and its pretty fantastic. It got overshadowed by Baba Is You which came out a day later but I absolutely loved it. Super bizarre parody of Yahoo GeoCities with a great soundtrack. The writing feels really authentic and every area of hypnospace felt like a clique with their own slang and personalities, the game also has time skips as you go through the story so its fun to go through every website as time goes on to see how they change and how the users react to your moderation. Great character development and world building really kept me interested in what was going on.
I loved every second I spent with it and I definitely recommend it to anyone who is interested in these types of games. There's also workshop support planned so people can make their own websites so that could be pretty cool too.
I'm a big fan of the weird 90s/early 2000s internet aesthetic though so this game was a magnet for me
EDIT: Also for clarity's sake this game isn't a nostalgia piece. When Y2K happened I was a baby so nostalgia has no effect on my opinions of this game.
Its 15% off and its pretty fantastic. It got overshadowed by Baba Is You which came out a day later but I absolutely loved it. Super bizarre parody of Yahoo GeoCities with a great soundtrack. The writing feels really authentic and every area of hypnospace felt like a clique with their own slang and personalities, the game also has time skips as you go through the story so its fun to go through every website as time goes on to see how they change and how the users react to your moderation. Great character development and world building really kept me interested in what was going on.
I loved every second I spent with it and I definitely recommend it to anyone who is interested in these types of games. There's also workshop support planned so people can make their own websites so that could be pretty cool too.
I'm a big fan of the weird 90s/early 2000s internet aesthetic though so this game was a magnet for me
EDIT: Also for clarity's sake this game isn't a nostalgia piece. When Y2K happened I was a baby so nostalgia has no effect on my opinions of this game.
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Ryna Agreed!
If anyone is interested in the Hypnospace Pagebuilder and Tune tools they are here: Hypnospace Creation Tools
My idea was to make this video as a page in HypnoSpace!
If anyone is interested in the Hypnospace Pagebuilder and Tune tools they are here: Hypnospace Creation Tools
My idea was to make this video as a page in HypnoSpace!
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the most important question has been answered!!!
GOTY!!!
GOTY!!!
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I've been playing Gothic 2 and it's the hardest ARPG I've ever played. Good luck getting through chapter 3 without having played the expansion first, and even then it's still very hard.
because it got good reviews and fans loved it
Gothic 2 is great, but imho the expansion totally fucks up the stat progression and requirements and is designed to be much harder.
There's probably a mod to change LP requirements back to vanilla Gothic, that probably messes up some other balancing thingies.
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10 years old next month. You might be thinking of the crappy XBLA/PSN ghostbusters from 2011 or the reboot from 2016.
Kind of bummed that the Cities Skylines news from a few days ago was just another DLC thingy.
They must me getting closer to a full sequel though, it's been over 4 years now.
I remember someone figured out a pretty good reshade setting for it that kind of sort of counteracted it, but it's a shame.
They must me getting closer to a full sequel though, it's been over 4 years now.
The worst thing about Dead Kings is that you can't turn off chromatic abomination, from the menus at least. Hopefully you aren't too sensitive to it.
I remember someone figured out a pretty good reshade setting for it that kind of sort of counteracted it, but it's a shame.
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yeah, same ... and yeah, i'm really hoping the sequel isn't far off
As much as I like new content for Cities Skylines, I am interested on what the sequel would look like.
Welp, there's my daily reminder that I'm getting old.
Saw new video about Plague Tale, hype-level went from 'oh ya I preordered this' to 'move over RAGE 2, imma play this first'. Visually lovely, decent length with 10-12hrs, good story and characters and some fun mechanics (speaking of the rats). Afraid it'll get buried though.
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you already are
... and has a pettable doggo! that's the most important thing!
The good thing is that the game is totally playable even without DLCs.
The bulk of the game are mods more than anything, and every DLC brought with it a beefy free update containing the core changes, so by and large new mods should work no matter what.
Anyway, my approach with C:SL DLCs has been to just pick the ones I'm interested into.
For example, Snowfall and Mass Transit added a lot of transports options, and I love them.
Natural Disaster brought disasters (duh), and I've never really cared about them since the Sim City days, so I've never bought it.
All in all, pick the base game, try it for a while, start subscribing to some mods (IIRC the most downloaded/rated lists on Steam is good enough to start) and see how it feels.
It goes on sale all the time and on many stores, so you'll have time to pick the DLCs up.
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I'm all for a Ghostbusters remaster.
The game is probably the closest we are ever getting to a Ghostbusters 3, and while it certainly isn't an old title, and still looks pretty good, just a few QOL improvements (achievements, some added graphics options, maybe adding back the multiplayer mode that was removed from the PC version) is enough to make me want to buy the game again.
Plus, it will be great to have the game back on sale, for those who missed it.
The game is probably the closest we are ever getting to a Ghostbusters 3, and while it certainly isn't an old title, and still looks pretty good, just a few QOL improvements (achievements, some added graphics options, maybe adding back the multiplayer mode that was removed from the PC version) is enough to make me want to buy the game again.
Plus, it will be great to have the game back on sale, for those who missed it.
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