Community MetaSteam | April 2021 - So NieR Yet So FAR

[Theswweet]

Crazy that the 3060 ti and 3090 have about the same share.

Nvidia assembly line must be dead atm lol.

This actually tracks pretty well - my local Microcenter has been keeping a running total of how many of each card has shown up in stock; around the same amount of 3060 tis were sold as 3090s. 3070s and 3080s are the most common card - though it's a little early to say how 3060 stock will end up looking like in the long run.


As you can see, this also shines a light on how well AMD have been stocking their own cards. Besides for the 6700xt launch, they've been doing much, much worse compared to nVidia. Only 3 6900xts at the store this month, and at least one of those was open-box returned.

 

[MegaApple]

 

[Mivey]

A bit higher FOV is completely normal if you are using a monitor (though less sensible if you do play on a large TV with some distance to the screen), but I never understood people raising that FOV slider until they go full fish eye.

 

[Prodigy]

A bit higher FOV is completely normal if you are using a monitor (though less sensible if you do play on a large TV with some distance to the screen), but I never understood people raising that FOV slider until they go full fish eye.

To see the world through Sonic's eyes .

 

[Routa]

Thanks Mega Man




Stupid game

 

[gabbo]

A bit higher FOV is completely normal if you are using a monitor (though less sensible if you do play on a large TV with some distance to the screen), but I never understood people raising that FOV slider until they go full fish eye.

Clearly we've not been pc gaming long enough to know the added benefits

 

[Cordelia]

Part 6 Jojo

Thought everyone in the anime thread should know.

They changed her VA.

I'm mad.

Hulk smash.

 

[Tizoc]

They changed her VA.

I'm mad.

Hulk smash.

It is common for vg adaptations of such series to not necessarily share the same voice actor or actress.

 

[Tomasety]

Panzer Dragoon: Remake -81% - 3,94€

 

[texhnolyze]

Jank is a positive thing for me

Most of the jank came from the base game, Skyrim as it still has vanilla animation and combat. Everything else is different and/or a huge upgrade, from worldbuilding and writing, to brand new gameplay system and mechanics. For example, you need books to learn skills (weapon, armor, crafting, etc), and then there's a new way to learn spells/abilities. Quest design is quite varied, some quests have the regular marker, while some others give you nothing at all but a clue from an NPC or some notes. Enderal integrated a lot of common mods already so you should be good without additional mods. Personally, I use a few QoL change mods and a combat mod to make it more fun.

 

[crimsonheadGCN]

For the new The Oregon Trail:



I hope it gets ported. It sounds like they made some much needed changes.

 

[Deku]

Part 6 Jojo

Thought everyone in the anime thread should know.

I'm still waiting for Netflix to put part 4 and 5

 

[Le Pertti]

I am really liking Yakuza 5! But little sad that it seems it will be like 4 where you play different characters, would prefer to just play as Kiryu.

Also saw that Yakuza 6 is only 30fps on Series S so need to wait for fps patch for that one, so maybe time to finally play 0 after 5.

 

[Alextended]

This project just released a demo. It looks pretty damn great but why a demake instead of new fan stuff? Also they got a demo out of x years of work so I guess it's never getting done, but will also get a c&d now to justify it. It doesn't support gamepads atm, it's keyboard and mouse for 360 degree aiming only (I guess it'd be like a twin stick shooter if it did support it). The video shows most of it, there was no official trailer, so if you intend to play it don't watch it all.

Prime 2D Demo v0.1.21.4.1

Hey everyone! The time has finally come for the first public Prime 2D demo. When we first posted it, this post was this April Fools’ day page with fake screenshots, hiding the fact that it was actually our real demo, but we can clear that joke away now that April 1 is over. And here is the demo...

forum.prime2d.com

 

[Le Pertti]

Steam forums man, I fucking love those! The solution to get Pathfinder working on Mac? Waiting like 20 minutes for it to start haha! I would have never thought to wait that long but sure enough it did start! And runs buttery smooth maxed! I'm so happy!

 

[texhnolyze]

Steam forums are good if you're looking for specific game/PC related problems. But for actual discussions, especially during launch window of a game, it's a cesspool. The trolls and dickheads will eventually move to other games, and real discussions can be had then.

 

[Mivey]

Steam forums man, I fucking love those! The solution to get Pathfinder working on Mac? Waiting like 20 minutes for it to start haha! I would have never thought to wait that long but sure enough it did start! And runs buttery smooth maxed! I'm so happy!

Wonder what the game is doing for those twenty minutes?

 

[Le Pertti]

What what the game is doing for those twenty minutes?

I have no idea, maybe just setting up permission and files and such. But now it starts instantly.

 

[lashman]

The solution to get Pathfinder working on Mac? Waiting like 20 minutes for it to start

Mac Gaming™

 

[fantomena]

I mean, Mac is terrible at gaming. A colleague of mine at a school literally had to use her work laptop that had Windows because her own personal Mac was really bad at games despite costing far more than her work laptop.

Valve and other devs have complained many times that Apple is somewhat even preventing gaming to be better on Mac. It's one thing for Apple to not care about gaming on Mac, it's another thing to somewhat directly work to prevent it.

 

[texhnolyze]

I mean, Mac is terrible at gaming. A colleague of mine at a school literally had to use her work laptop that had Windows because her own personal Mac was really bad at games despite costing far more than her work laptop.

Valve and other devs have complained many times that Apple is somewhat even preventing gaming to be better on Mac. It's one thing for Apple to not care about gaming on Mac, it's another thing to somewhat directly work to prevent it.

That was intentional. Apple had their own plan for gaming on their platform, the Arcade. I think it's quite popular nowadays, and still growing.

 

[fantomena]

That was intentional. Apple had their own plan for gaming on their platform, the Arcade. I think it's quite popular nowadays, and still growing.

How do we know it's popular? Any data?

 

[Swenhir]

I have no idea, maybe just setting up permission and files and such. But now it starts instantly.

Sounds like shader compiling from the waiting pattern honestly.

 

[MegaApple]

Apple had their own plan for gaming on their platform, the Arcade.

Arcade came a couple of years ago.

Apple themselves were never into gaming ever since the new Mac in early 2000s, and because of their closed wall garden approach, developers had a very hard time making/porting games for it.

 

[texhnolyze]

How do we know it's popular? Any data?

No data, just a hunch from the recent news of more games being added to the service. That, and Apple users really have no other choice.

 

[Le Pertti]

I mean no one is buying a Mac for gaming, so sure it's not the main focus for Apple, but with them doing their own processor opens up a lot, for example it is no possible to run iOS games on a Mac. And I do think Apple Arcade is great in the same way I think game pass is great.

For awhile Mac got lots of ports on Steam but it has slowed down but I do think we will see more of them again, especially indie games that are on iOS also, shouldn't be that big of an issue to port them over to MacOS, the question is though if those ports also come to Steam. Which I really hope.

Apple users really have no other choice.

Well we do have Steam, and looking at my library, about 25% of it works on Mac.

 

[Mivey]

Sounds like shader compiling from the waiting pattern honestly.

Would be strange not to give the user some feedback though. At least a generic loading bar shouldn't be hard to write.

 

[Swenhir]

Would be strange not to give the user some feedback though. At least a generic loading bar shouldn't be hard to write.

I agree, but then again it runs on Mac which probably was judged by Owlcat as not being worth the trouble. It's also unclear what the problem was, I only hazarded a guess.

 

[Stevey]

Cant argue with any of that

 

[lashman]

Community - PC Gaming April 2021 Highlights | NieR Replicant ver. √π, Cold Steel 4, Lost Words, SaGa Frontier Remastered

Thanks to Mor for their help in preparing these highlight threads and for being a fellow of commendable decorum and class. First up are releases that don't have a Steam page or are major updates to existing games Noita gets 'Epilogue' Update Shadowman Remastered Serious Sam 2 update 2.90...

metacouncil.com

 

[ramoisdead]

Hooray new anime thread.

I got Isaac Repentance but still haven't played it as I'm trying to beat Delirium with other characters first. Also, Humble Choice is tomorrow. :wearyhype:

 

[Panda Pedinte]

This project just released a demo. It looks pretty damn great but why a demake instead of new fan stuff? Also they got a demo out of x years of work so I guess it's never getting done, but will also get a c&d now to justify it. It doesn't support gamepads atm, it's keyboard and mouse for 360 degree aiming only (I guess it'd be like a twin stick shooter if it did support it). The video shows most of it, there was no official trailer, so if you intend to play it don't watch it all.

Prime 2D Demo v0.1.21.4.1

Hey everyone! The time has finally come for the first public Prime 2D demo. When we first posted it, this post was this April Fools’ day page with fake screenshots, hiding the fact that it was actually our real demo, but we can clear that joke away now that April 1 is over. And here is the demo...

forum.prime2d.com

That's impressive, though I don't think it will ever be finished as posting a video of a Nintendo fan game is asking to receive a C&D from them. :/

 

[Nabs]

Humble Choice tomorrow. Any guesses?

 

[fantomena]

Ah ERA is down. I wondered why I felt so calm and nice today, like I was in harmony with nature.

 

[Wok]

Humble Choice tomorrow. Any guesses?

One of these games published by Humble, most likely Popup Dungeon or Ikenfell:

List of games

I would also list a few PC Game Pass suspects, which have never been bundled. I would say HyperDot is a good candidate for bundle fodder.

List of games

 

[Tizoc]

Was informed of this game recently

When Rivers Were Trails by indianlandtenure

A game about the impact of allotment acts on Indigenous communities in the 1890's.

indianlandtenure.itch.io

 

[lashman]

 

[Deku]

One of these games published by Humble, most likely Popup Dungeon or Ikenfell:

List of games

I would also list a few PC Game Pass suspects, which have never been bundled. I would say HyperDot is a good candidate for bundle fodder.

If it's going to be Dragon Quest XI then it better be the (not really the superior) Definitive Edition

 

[Li Kao]

Didn't watch yet but I can't say I disagree with the title. There is a huge elephant in the room in the industry, where license is concerned. Everybody know they are just buying a limited time license for games, and not the games themselves, but it never went further than TOS. If you are indeed going to treat game purchases as just 'licenses', as is your right I suppose, don't be surprised if things go poorly with some people.
Pushback, bad PR and goodwill, and a subset of people asking themselves why they bought all these 'licenses'.

I'm not a collector but for the sake of this argument: we collect games, not licenses that one day just go poof.

 

[Tizoc]

Pardon the title

Revealed: The 138 PlayStation games that won’t be available anywhere after store closures | VGC

PSP, Vita and PS3 digital stores are set to close – and some games aren’t available elsewhere…

www.videogameschronicle.com

 

[Le Pertti]

I'm going to admit, I have never felt it was "wrong" to pirate. I think it is a cultural thing, since that's what you did all from C64/VHS to digital ways. I do think for personal use pirating is alright. Hell the reason libraries exists is to bring culture to the people.

 

[Myradeer]

Part 6 Jojo

Thought everyone in the anime thread should know.

I'm admittedly more excited about Jojo part 7 which is much more likely to happen now

 

[Tomasety]

Humble Choice tomorrow. Any guesses?

Maybe Resident Evil 7? Although I have the feeling it will be part of May since its the month Village will be released.
I really like past Month. I prefer a good variaty of balanced games like Elex, COntrol and Chimera instead of one AAA and the rest fillers.

No way DQXI is part of Choice lol.

 

[Li Kao]

Modern game industry as found a pretty good balance between profit and customer satisfaction, seemingly by pure luck. And it now looks like it tries its darnedest to fuck this balance for its sole good. That's very short sighted and could bite them in the ass some day.

I'm afraid I don't feel that obligated to give my money to pubs or devs. I have no ill will toward people providing for my entertainment, but life is really though and all point to it becoming even harder in the comings years. When I buy something, this has an implicit meaning for me that goes past just a purchase, this is goodwill among other things, this is me acknowledging that you worked on it and I don't want to rob you of your work.

But, afraid there is always a but, the day one of my important game libraries goes poof, is the day I stop collecting games and start collecting hard drives. Simple as that.

 

[Le Pertti]

Oh wow I'm pretty damn impressed with RosettaStone, apples thingie that one can run x86 code on M1. I tried Life is Strange 2 and I can run it at 1080p with high settings and get 40fps! Huge jump from what I was playing it at before in bootcamp on my MBP.

See lashman, that is something even you could approve of!

 

[Li Kao]

Oh wow I'm pretty damn impressed with RosettaStone, apples thingie that one can run x86 code on M1. I tried Life is Strange 2 and I can run it at 1080p with high settings and get 40fps! Huge jump from what I was playing it at before in bootcamp on my MBP.

See lashman, that is something even you could approve of!

I would approve if these motherfuckers brought a way to emulate x86 on iOS. Talk about libraries going the way of the dodo...

 

[MJunioR]

Finished Yakuza 6 and I don't have words to describe its ending. Incredible game and a very interesting way to close Kiryu's story.

Now to join the waiting game on Judgment. Thanks SEGA and Stadia!

 

[Le Pertti]

I would approve if these motherfuckers brought a way to emulate x86 on iOS. Talk about libraries going the way of the dodo...

What do you mean? Has iPhone ever had x86 processor? Or you just want to emulate old pc stuff on them?

Because I tried GTA Chinatown wars today and it ran just fine! I bought that in 2010 for iPhone 3G or iPhone 4.

 

[Li Kao]

What do you mean? Has iPhone ever had x86 processor? Or you just want to emulate old pc stuff on them?

Because I tried GTA Chinatown wars today and it ran just fine! I bought that in 2010 for iPhone 3G or iPhone 4.

Err, did I show my noob side here ?
I wanted to say bring a way to emulate the stuff pre-iOSpocalypse.

 

[Panda Pedinte]

I could go as far to say that it's also morally okay to pirate games with ridiculous prices for your region.