Community MetaSteam | July 2019 - Racing Towards Empty Wallets
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Like that inspirational poet AVGN once said:Good news everyone, today is 4 degrees colder than yesterday:
'That's like saying the shit I took last night was better than the shit I took the day before'.
Shenmue controls are hell.
Uninstalled.
Glad I didn't buy the collection.
Blessed be PC game pass.
Uninstalled.
Glad I didn't buy the collection.
Blessed be PC game pass.
Give me those rainy, depressing summers pleaaase I beg you. All I've ever known are shitty 35 to 40 °C boiling hot summers every single fucking day every single fucking year here in Italy.
I want rainy, depressing summers.
In other news, I want to leave.
The fuck are ppl stanning for this weather
the fuck is wrong with you
the fuck
I literally never experienced weather this hot before outside of a sauna
the fuck is wrong with you
the fuck
I literally never experienced weather this hot before outside of a sauna
It's been 34-39 inside of my apartment these last three days. Sweat instantly starts dripping from my head whenever I step away from my fan. The air is also really heavy, so it actually feels better being outside. Any part of my body that is in contact with a surface becomes sweaty. Couldn't fall asleep until 4am last night. This weather sucks.
People liking this weather are definitive proof that aliens are already here.
haha i'm always happy when i have time to go to my apartment in Rome
sadly, most of the time i'm a few hundred km up north but hopefully, sometimes in the future, i can keep staying in Rome or Naples. Or fuck it, somewhere where it's hot 24/7 the whole year! (rome is cold in winter
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FYI, cdkeys has summer sale. Bought Shadow of War for ~5€.
Download is almost 100GB, what the...
Download is almost 100GB, what the...
It's nice to have 25 degrees for the last two weeks. Small rains, gentle sun, relaxing breezes, life's great.
I really do feel for you all that live in places not setup for extreme heat. I live in Florida and when my central air goes down I feel like I'm going to die. I couldn't live here without air conditioning.
Any highlights from the sale?
Edit: just checked myself. I find it crazy that their base price for some games are higher than other more official stores. This makes their sale price more expensive
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I would pay good money for a western-styled dress-up game with extensive/realistic wardrobe options, don't even need the lewd stuff (I mean I'm fine either way) so I can sort of understand it.
Games have always had, broadly speaking, 2 "loop" patterns: Endless, and linear. Endless games back in the day like Everquest, Age of Empires, Quake / Quake 2 MP, etc. didn't have GaaS stuff, they just were the games they were and had no real end in mind. People have always played these games, and mixed them up, gone back and forth, jumped on new things, etc. The difference now is the "GaaS" mechanics have escalated the stakes for players of those games, and the games themselves are designed around the GaaS model rather than GaaS being an enhancement. You, as a player, are punished for going to play something else for a day or a week, whereas it used to be it didn't matter.I notice that all those "player retention mechanisms" are turning me away from those games to begin with. I start some of those F2P gacha games now and then, but I always drop them quickly because those daily login rewards etc always start to feel like a chore or an obligation quickly and I can't be bothered with that nonsense, so more often than not I ignore those games without giving them a try at all.
I'm a "one and done" type of gamer. I value a complete package that I pay for once for that has a defined end (i.e story) and lets me consume it at my own pace. (Incidentally this is also why I'm not big on rogue-like/lite games. Shame most of the card games seem to go that way, I really like card games
Take Destiny 2. I enjoyed playing through the quest lines and story and such of Destiny 2, but the GaaS is layered on super fucking thick, it is grindy as all get out, and has effectively stopped me from playing the game, because as much as I enjoy the basic gameplay I don't want to spend 20 hours to progress 3 steps on 1 weapon quest, while juggling multiple daily / weekly bounties (as an aside, the inventory / bounty limits in D2 are obnoxious as well and a huge turn off), so I have effectively no reason to play and I am "punished" by not playing constantly so why play at all? The grind is so insane that every opportunity you don't take to chip away at it is essentially wrong.
Now take Battlefield V. I would argue the actual gameplay of BFV is not as polished or easy to get sucked into as D2, and BFV also has some GaaS traits, but they are on the opposite end of the spectrum - the dailies are essentially pointless, the weeklies reward an entirely new weapon or special skin can usually be done in an evening (I did the new one this week in 4-5 rounds last night). I will keep on coming back to BFV because it doesn't punish me for not playing, I could miss some weeks and really make no difference to anything.
GaaS isn't a genre, correct. But GaaS are inherently all competing against each other more than directly against non-GaaS games because of that model. Even gamers that only play one or two genres have a glut of choices for GaaS games of their genre more than likely, and that's an issue. Wolfenstein Youngblood is competing against those games, because it is a GaaS game, and frankly there's a lot of bad design decisions overall in the game (co-op game that's a GaaS with leveling and level gating? That's multiple ways to punish you for not playing consistently). I am always and have always played multiple non-linear, non-ending games, and will continue to do so, but GaaS are the worst of the bunch by far and I'll continue to avoid them, but that's personal preference. For most people it's just a choice of which 1-3 GaaS games can they juggle at a time? Because once you leave one for any length it's unlikely you go back. That's the market Youngblood is jumping into, and that's the market more and more games are trying to get a piece of, and it's not infinite.
I don't think "endless" games are inherently a problem, I think the GaaS model is the problem, because it warps the design of those games.
Thanks for posting! I'll stop hording coins now. It's just not worth it
I have Firefox installed on my work laptop, I should use Firefox more...
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yes ... yes, you should ... it's sooooo much better than chrome (or vivaldi, or whatever else - they all use chromium anyway)
I've been Firefox faithful for many years now.
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i've been using ff since like 2005 ... it's great
I used to really like FF back in the day then it became much slower (and uglier tbh) than Chrome and Chromium and I switched to that. I'll never use Chrome because fuck Google and their data-grabbing privacy policy but Vivaldi is pretty great (Brave desktop is also good). The only thing I miss about Firefox is how it renders text sooo much better, way easier to read than with any chromium-based browser. I've tried it again recently but it just feels slow compared to Vivaldi and I can't go back to it.
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I switched from Chrome to Firefox, but I kinda want to go back. FF is such a crazy memory hog. People rag on Chrome but I've never seen it eat up 2,5 gigs of memory as easily as FF. Also had more crashes in the few weeks I used FF than the years I've spent with Chrome. Most importantly however, the Dark Reader extension sucks on FF. Kills performance really badly whereas on Chrome it's pretty much problem free. Definitely not the most hassle free browser out there. But at least it's not run by Google.
It's nice to see Japan only games on Steam that are not region locked (does that show that there is a market in Japan for PC games.....??)
I just hard dropped Apex Legends after season two started due to the tasks. The dailies and weeklies sap all the fun out of the game for me. And no, I can't ignore it, because they're constantly staring me in the face -- TO DO, TO DO, TO DO. The last thing I need in my life is another goddamn TO DO list. When I see those lists and contemplate doing them, I figure I may as well fucking sign off and go do chores irl. At least it would be a good use of time, unlike video game chores.
Oh hey a Wolf: Youngblood banner that says 'Purchase now!'
Clicks banner
Game is still not available in my region
Bethy whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Clicks banner
Game is still not available in my region
Bethy whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
GMG sent me a 15% voucher for their sale, so I've looked around a bit and their sale is pretty crazy?
Like, I can buy Prey for 4,84€, additionally get 4 games from that Intel pack + 1 other game from the gold rewards.
Brb, buying Prey.
And Moero Chronicles for 2 bucks to counterbalance this non-anime purchase with enough anime.
Like, I can buy Prey for 4,84€, additionally get 4 games from that Intel pack + 1 other game from the gold rewards.
Brb, buying Prey.
And Moero Chronicles for 2 bucks to counterbalance this non-anime purchase with enough anime.
That's actually great with this one. You can finally buy the normal ROW version in Austria, no need to get the key from outside sources./
The more people play Prey, the better place the world becomesGMG sent me a 15% voucher for their sale, so I've looked around a bit and their sale is pretty crazy?
Like, I can buy Prey for 4,84€, additionally get 4 games from that Intel pack + 1 other game from the gold rewards.
Brb, buying Prey.
And Moero Chronicles for 2 bucks to counterbalance this non-anime purchase with enough anime.
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I've checked my friendslist and enough people on it either already have it or want it that I don't feel too ashamed about itMoero Chronicle!
That said, are there any standouts among the games you can claim from a bronze purchase?
Claimed War Tech Fighters for the gold purchase, never heard of it but it has mechs.
I followed the devs on twitter months ago. That game looks really great for a 3-student team.
A Plague Tale Innocence has been added to Origin Access Premier for those who is subbed to that.
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Well, I did a quick check on that list, and you can do a lot worse than any of the following, especially for free:
Megamagic: Wizards of the Neon Age
Toybox Turbos (this one is a lot of fun; it's a Micro Machines game done right, in terms of gameplay, despite lacking the branding)
Onikira: Demon Killer
The Last Door: Season One
The Silent Age
You also have several games from the Lucius series, which are sort of a guilty pleasure of mine.
I reviewed it in 2015, early when I first started writing them.
It holds a special place in my heart as the first game that I reviewed that I didn't have to buy.
It's an overwhelmingly mediocre ARPG with some hella racist stereotypes concerning people of color.
is that the dungeon-ish game with every mosnter being either boobey or phalic?And Moero Chronicles for 2 bucks to counterbalance this non-anime purchase with enough anime.
Moero Chronicle!
I checked the store page after reading this and-I've checked my friendslist and enough people on it either already have it or want it that I don't feel too ashamed about it
Like I have so many IFI games and I haven't touched a single one nor do I know when or where im buying them. What the fuck is wrong with me?
Thanks. Yeah some of that stuff is not gonna fly by well. I'd still play it to judge its gameplay on my own merits tho.I reviewed it in 2015, early when I first started writing them.
It holds a special place in my heart as the first game that I reviewed that I didn't have to buy.
It's an overwhelmingly mediocre ARPG with some hella racist stereotypes concerning people of color.
Not sure if Nvidia inspector settings is cause of the crash I encountered but man were some non essential textures so ghetto from the PS2 and PS3 era
It's almost like EA putting the game on their service, but not paying to remove the game from others stores is a good thing.
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