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Durante said:
I've been playing Afterimage for 25 hours over the past 5 days or so. I wanted to post about it, but every time I thought about it I decided that I'd rather play :p

If it had a better translation, some better balancing, and a bit more effort put into UX this could honestly be up there with Hollow Knight. The sheer size, the area designs, the visuals and the variety are absolutely first class.
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No too hard ? Is it this year's Ender Lilies ?
 
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Li Kao said:
No too hard ? Is it this year's Ender Lilies ?
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Definitely not, there are some difficulty spikes, but the game is much more approchable in general, plus you have a lot of healing items at all times.

I liked it, but it wasn't very inspired and the true end was just annoying to get. The translation (all voice acted ironically) being really bad means that the first third of the game is just spent trying to understand where to go (gotta guess that you have to skim along areas with a level range 30 levels above yours and get into specific boss fights, but not those other ones in those other areas), and then the side quests are Souls-like in being obscure with NPCs in random places... nice and varied, but close to being too bloated for its own good.
 
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I noticed that shared cart across devices doesn't work. I added games to the cart via web browser on PC and there is no cart in PC client or on Mobile app. And yes I am in beta channel (I was always).
 
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Morten88 said:
Was looking at Against the storm or Pioneers of Pagonia, ive been looking for a great city builder, have anyone played either of these and can recommend them?
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I didn't play Pagonia but it just released in Early Access, so expect something rough. I watched a streamer, it does the job and I'm tempted, but yeah, limited.
Against the Storm has left Early Access on the other hand. Meaty, possibility to make it a side job by the look of the unlock tree. Downside is that a full session / city is quite long.
 
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LRB1983 said:
New DLC for Illgames’ (former illusion) HoneyCome come come party is out
Dolce expansion (+18)
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40 dollar dlc for a 70 dollar game. holy shit.
 
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RiruLumia said:
40 dollar dlc for a 70 dollar game. holy shit.
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Yep that’s usual Illusion games price :-/. I’m even surprised they released this as DLC and not like a standalone game and charge another 70$ like they used to do. (f.e. all Honey Select versions and updates)
 
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Dragon1893 said:
Yakuza 8 and P3R releasing almost simultaneously is fucking insanity. What are they thinking? These are among the very rare games I'm willing to buy day 1 but there's no way I can afford both.
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I'm going with Yakuza. I'm ice cold on Persona right now.

Durante said:
I'm curious if/how media will spin this as a bad thing.
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I'm not against these specific regulations, but I see it as the government continuously cracking down on the gaming industry. They have already spent more than two years enacting various regulations, such as child limits, that may not even properly work.

Companies will find loopholes and the government will continue its cat-and-mouse game.
 
Dragon1893 said:
Yakuza 8 and P3R releasing almost simultaneously is fucking insanity. What are they thinking? These are among the very rare games I'm willing to buy day 1 but there's no way I can afford both.
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Yeah Christ knows what Sega are thinking, I expect these have wide crossovers in their fanbases
 
AHA-Lambda said:
Yeah Christ knows what Sega are thinking, I expect these have wide crossovers in their fanbases
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SEGA does have a history of poor release dates, such as releasing Sonic Superstars in the same week as Mario Wonder or Binary Domain a couple weeks or so before Mass Effect 3.
Though I'm guessing for Like a Dragon and Persona, they'd rather compete with themselves than compete with FF7 Rebirth, even though that one is exclusive to one platform?
 
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Wave 2:

Soulstone Survivors
Dr. Fetus' Mean Meat Machine
ASTLIBRA Revision
Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon
Death Must Die
Lonely Mountains: Downhill - Eldfjall DLC
The Last Case of Benedict Fox
Bright Lights of Svetlov
Cruelty Squad
Astral Ascent
Soundfall
OXENFREE II: Lost Signals
American Arcadia
RoboCop: Rogue City
Sanabi
Ion Fury: Aftershock DLC
Amid Evil: The Black Labyrinth DLC
Faith: The Unholy Trinity
Risk of Rain Returns
What the BAT
Let's Build a Zoo
 
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Never mind me, I'm just testing using Steam chat as image dumping ground.

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The one thing that bugs me about steam images is that the image urls don't have extensions. But that's just a me thing I guess, since the image links work just fine either way.





Durante said:
I've been playing Afterimage for 25 hours over the past 5 days or so. I wanted to post about it, but every time I thought about it I decided that I'd rather play :p

If it had a better translation, some better balancing, and a bit more effort put into UX this could honestly be up there with Hollow Knight. The sheer size, the area designs, the visuals and the variety are absolutely first class.
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Sounds excellent. It didn't light the charts up quite like some other metroidvania's have so I was a bit hesitant.
 
CCP is bad. That shouldn't even be a question unless you are IN China and under direct threat of the Social Credit/Monitoring system. People are latching on to 4 little lines in a 27-Page piece of legislature and going "ho-hum good on them! The world should be more like China."

FUCK NO.

This is like when people blindly applaud them for being "Pro-Feminist" when they mandate censored art. Like, nah dawg, they don't give a shit about Feminist ideals and everyone knows it. (I hope.) I don't believe for an instant this is about good intentions and protecting the kids.
 
I generally lean on the side of parents having control and being responsible for what their kids consume… to an extent.

But there comes a point where the state needs to step in and legislate.

Gacha/lootbox shit should’ve been legislated years ago.
 
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NarohDethan said:
The industry has proved incapable to regulate themselves so...
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For clarity's sake I generally agree with this sentiment.

What I don't agree with is applauding the CCP for 27 Pages of new privacy invading, rights stripping, forced monitoring, move all your servers and network personal to China so we can control them bullshit, just because 1-page of those 27 is semi-agreeable. The CCP issues legislation for the State's interest, not the People's and to think otherwise is folly.

Imagine having to supply an SSN, your fingerprints, tracking data, registering for a database, facial monitoring/scans, etc... Just to play a game. This is the government that sends personalized police squads around based solely on Social monitoring. Certain people in that country turn off their phone for 5 fucking minutes and get a Police Squad at their home asking questions...
 
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Bandcamp just announced that they're skipping Bandcamp Friday for January, but that they're going to do it again in February. But I feel like this is an indication that they're going to try to phase it out at some point. Notably, https://isitbandcampfriday.com no longer says when the next one is.
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this poster jumped the gun with some assumptions - the first bandcamp friday of 2023 was also in february, so this is no different than last year and not indicative of anything. they even say the same thing wrt announcing the full schedule of bandcamp fridays at a later date

edit: in fact, bandcamp friday has never taken place during january. the original was in march of 2020, and the following year began in february, which has been the pattern since. so yeah this is literally nothing
 
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just got the email from Valve about The Day Before refund.
Great had to do nothing but I'm quite surprised they removed the game from our library. I mean I know now it was unplayable but I think it's one of the first times they remove a game from user libraries without call for it.
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but well, 39 more € to spend on Steam games, no idea what to get xD and I have 2016 games on my wishlist.
 
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ListeningGarden said:
this poster jumped the gun with some assumptions - the first bandcamp friday of 2023 was also in february, so this is no different than last year and not indicative of anything. they even say the same thing wrt announcing the full schedule of bandcamp fridays at a later date

edit: in fact, bandcamp friday has never taken place during january. the original was in march of 2020, and the following year began in february, which has been the pattern since. so yeah this is literally nothing
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ahhhh, good to know! thanks for the explanation :blobhug:
 
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