Community MetaSteam | February 2021 - We Don't Do Regional Pricing in This House

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Li Kao

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I have to find some cheap but not terrible speakers for my mum.
Looking at the Logitech Z207, 30 euros. In a normal month it would not be the end of the world, but... :confounded-face:

Or we can do what I planned to do before, buying a Bose Companion Series 3 for me and giving her my speakers. But it becomes 99 euros...

Can we take February in the back and shoot it ?
 
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Mor

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What I would like to know is if Epic is actually responsible for the KH games coming to pc, or only for these games skipping Steam.
the latter.
Does that meant that this statement is bullshit or is this just another PR spin?

It's basically PR as they have been partners since 2.8 days, when it comes to PC ports Epic did shit but moneyhat.



fun fact: both Xbox and PC were announced within days of difference, so yeah, expect 12 months.
 

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Consider getting "Consider It"

Historical low right now. Two rare Japanese Switch exclusives.

 
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Imagine a year later Squeenix launching KH on Steam and the asking price is still the same (probably with rubbish regional pricing), and the port quality is scuffed to hell and back (like Squeenix ports usually do). Like, I'm not a KH fan, but if I am, I would be absolutely fucking LIVID.
 

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Yeah, fortunately I don't care about Kingdom Hearts, but this doesn't bode well with their upcoming Final Fantasy games.

We already have to wait for a year for the initial Sony exclusive deal. And with EGS, the wait will become 2 years. Fun times ahead.
 

Mor

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Yeah, fortunately I don't care about Kingdom Hearts, but this doesn't bode well with their upcoming Final Fantasy games.

We already have to wait for a year for the initial Sony exclusive deal. And with EGS, the wait will become 2 years. Fun times ahead.
This is not what it will happen, KH is a completely different thing but what fucks things is that the last thing SE needs is another cunt moneyhatting their stuff.
Let's not get "2019 vibes" style.

Do you have a source you can reveal? If so, make a thread on Era or Reddit and let it go viral. Many people seem to think that Epic is the one to thank for KH coming to pc. 😕
No, it can't go viral, you will have to wait.

And seriously, we have been showing over and over again that PR stuff is PR and yet people still want to believe the marketing instead of the facts, nothing none of us can do.
 

ZKenir

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Waiting a year for KH is nothing for me.

I already have to wait 2 years in FGO for characters I like for a 0.7% chance of getting them.
 
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Do you have a source you can reveal? If so, make a thread on Era or Reddit and let it go viral. Many people seem to think that Epic is the one to thank for KH coming to pc. 😕
No, it can't go viral, you will have to wait.

And seriously, we have been showing over and over again that PR stuff is PR and yet people still want to believe the marketing instead of the facts, nothing none of us can do.
yup ... what Mor said
 
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Do you have a source you can reveal? If so, make a thread on Era or Reddit and let it go viral. Many people seem to think that Epic is the one to thank for KH coming to pc. 😕
Just wait until the Steam version comes out, SteamDB will say exactly when the SteamApp went up. Then if you see anyone praising Epic for bringing KH to PC you can just use that. Easy

I mean, honestly doesn't seem worth the effort for Kingdom Hearts of all things.
I'll wait until it's all 5€ on Steam at some point. Maybe I'l play them then.
Some times I get the urge to replay KH then I remember the countless parts of all of those games that I absolutely hated playing through and I change my mind.

KH3 had really fun flashy combat but holy god most of the Disney worlds dragged and the final areas of the game that weren't based on disney properties felt super rushed. I'd only be interested in playing it again on PC because I havent played Re;mind and I really enjoyed the Tangled + Monsters Inc worlds.
 

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Friends you are worried about ports that are already late to begin with.

Stop letting Timmy live in your head rent free, specially for games that will always skip PC for at least a year. If they turn out to be exclusive what difference does it make when console players will be playing the sequels?
 

Li Kao

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Wait years to play Nier Remake because in my view bro-Nier is true Nier.
Watch some footage. Oh, they changed things, like character models.
...
Maybe I should play old Nier ?

Sometimes I swear, I could slap myself. But yeah, like Mass Effect, what I want is a remaster and nothing more. If you change things too much I end up wondering why I don’t play the original versions.
In the case of Nier, that would maybe unfortunately be Papa Nier, but if they intend to change things to much this will end up in a ‘you can’t swim two times in the same river’ or something situation, so meh, might at least go with the most vanilla version I can read.

Hektor sama, please advise.
 

Mor

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Just wait until the Steam version comes out, SteamDB will say exactly when the SteamApp went up. Then if you see anyone praising Epic for bringing KH to PC you can just use that. Easy
EXACTLY THIS.

Remember when people said Journey came thanks to certain company? yeah, Journey was registered 2 years prior the announcement (2017 to be more precise) and similar case that some other games, so yeah, I would not worry about what people think or not, at this point I'm tired of explaining the same things over and over again.
 

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Do people still play Battlefield 4? I always loved BF3 and the chaotic Metro map, gasp, almost a decade ago and the franchise is on sale now.
 
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Feedback, suggestion, ideas, anything you would like to see on future posts like this are all welcome.
 
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Ascheroth

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Imagine a year later Squeenix launching KH on Steam and the asking price is still the same (probably with rubbish regional pricing), and the port quality is scuffed to hell and back (like Squeenix ports usually do). Like, I'm not a KH fan, but if I am, I would be absolutely fucking LIVID.
I have waited for KH on PC for so long that another year for a Steam release and another one for discounts if the price is still laughable really doesn't faze me at all.
Lives too short to worry about that and honestly the constant EGS fearmongering makes this forum a bit unwelcome
Friends you are worried about ports that are already late to begin with.

Stop letting Timmy live in your head rent free, specially for games that will always skip PC for at least a year. If they turn out to be exclusive what difference does it make when console players will be playing the sequels?
Alse these.
It's been getting a bit much lately tbh.
 

Hektor

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Wait years to play Nier Remake because in my view bro-Nier is true Nier.
Watch some footage. Oh, they changed things, like character models.
...
Maybe I should play old Nier ?

Sometimes I swear, I could slap myself. But yeah, like Mass Effect, what I want is a remaster and nothing more. If you change things too much I end up wondering why I don’t play the original versions.
In the case of Nier, that would maybe unfortunately be Papa Nier, but if they intend to change things to much this will end up in a ‘you can’t swim two times in the same river’ or something situation, so meh, might at least go with the most vanilla version I can read.

Hektor sama, please advise.
I mean, Papa NieR best NieR, so you already are playing the losing game.
But they already are changing some things about the game, there's new content, music rearrangements etc.

Just play both games!!
 

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Lives too short to worry about that and honestly the constant EGS fearmongering makes this forum a bit unwelcome
It would help if a certain lasher would abide by this but they keep doing it again and again :V

Non the less you are correct.
I want to add that any such discussions about EGS, should be taken to the EGS thread please.
 

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Lives too short to worry about that and honestly the constant EGS fearmongering makes this forum a bit unwelcome
Just wait until the Steam version comes out, SteamDB will say exactly when the SteamApp went up. Then if you see anyone praising Epic for bringing KH to PC you can just use that. Easy
AfuckingMEN ! how are you folks even so friggin scared of it when if you look closely at last 3 epic reels/shwocases , you can clearly see how dissapointing and bad they are , for example here is the full sumarry of recent showcase, its literaly nothing

so summary of whole thing
  • Binary Smoke - new game from ex-Bungue devs , Spring 2022 , EGS first ,other platfomrs planned
  • Kingdom Hearts series - 4 titles, 30 March, 2021 , debuts on PC via EGS
  • Godfall - Primal update out now
  • Rocket League - Lucky lanterns event starts today
  • Rogue Company - new map and new rogue reveal for spring, known scloosie
  • Core - Spring 2021, F2P roblox clone cretion tool, been in open alpha on its own site since July 2020
  • Dauntlesss - Reforged Hunting Grounds content update, known scloosie
  • CRSED: F.O.A.D. - F2P , now also on EGS
  • Fortnite - Predator in S5Ch2 Battlepass
  • Warframe - new Spring 2021 ontent lineup
  • Magic Legends - open beta March 23 ,known scloosie
  • World of Warships - soon on EGS
  • Chivalry II - releasing June 8 2021 with closed beta in march, known scloosie
  • Showrunner - Season 3 DLC launch trailer, known scloosie
  • Kings Bounty II - releasing August 24,2021 , multistore
  • Sherlock Holmes: Chapter one - Gameplay teaser traier , multistore, full trailer in march
  • Oddworld: Soulstorm - new trailer , Spring 2021, known scloosie
  • Axiom Verge 2 - PC announcement , 2021 , coming to Steam eventualy
underlined are new (timed) scloosies

I get some of you feels strongly about KH series , but well its mostly PS2 series we have been waiting years already , another year is nothing. Especially for overpriced square port.
No need to be scared of "what will they take next" , just look at the miserable selection of what is their big showcase


Anyway,
everyone get Osteoblasts .the skellingtons RPG for skellingtons made by skellingtons

 
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ZKenir

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Valve still hasn't fixed their shitty "You cannot ignore a curator you already follow." bug and it's driving me insane

edit: got off my lazy ass and removed them altogether with a steam skin
 
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Wait years to play Nier Remake because in my view bro-Nier is true Nier.
Watch some footage. Oh, they changed things, like character models.
...
Maybe I should play old Nier ?

Sometimes I swear, I could slap myself. But yeah, like Mass Effect, what I want is a remaster and nothing more. If you change things too much I end up wondering why I don’t play the original versions.
In the case of Nier, that would maybe unfortunately be Papa Nier, but if they intend to change things to much this will end up in a ‘you can’t swim two times in the same river’ or something situation, so meh, might at least go with the most vanilla version I can read.

Hektor sama, please advise.


There are some things here and there that I'm not happy that they changed but overall it should still be the "same" game with a great story and OST. And those two things are the main reason to play the game.

It is true that Nier Onii-chan is the "true" Nier because of some of the events that happened in the game seem to be made with that version in mind.


Also it makes sense that they would change his face since he is very much meant to be a Bishonen since that actually is part of the character development of his.


Gameplay is going to be the main things that will likely feel off, but that shouldn't really matter since it will make the game more easier for others to pick up.
 
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Played a bit of Final Fantasy 12.

Lost interest even faster than the first time: you, the player, are just not needed. Point your bots in the vague direction of the enemy, and they will operate their program, you don't even need to touch the joystick.
Literally the worst gameplay of any RPG I have ever played. And I've played broke ass games, and awful ones, but FF12 does not even register as a game. It's outright a youtube video where you have to press confirm sometimes.
And on top of that, the level design is lazy as fuck but I could forgive that if it meant something else than "waste time running around to pick endlessly respawning shit with a chance to get something useful", it's worse than the fucking MMOs it's trying to ape.

And it's too bad, because the setting is just so interesting, but it's not worth my time playing through complete shit to get a story... that will get told by a narrator because important things happen out of camera anyway.

What a waste.

And it goes down to the bottom of my list of Final Fantasy, way below even FF13, which I did not thought would happen after all these years.
But it is the worst Final Fantasy game by a country mile, and one of the most foul RPGs in existence. Aggressively bad game, that does everything to be the worst it could be and ruin what could have been.
 

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Played FF12. Didn't like it. Found the areas and battles uninteresting though the art and story were intriguing. I'm putting it under FF13 as my least liked FF. I'll just go trash it in public as an irredeemable piece of shit with supposedly objective non-points to attention seek then wonder why people think I'm just hating :unsure:
 
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Played FF12. Didn't like it. Found the areas and layout uninteresting though the art and story were intriguing. I'm putting it under FF13 as my least liked FF. I'll just go trash it in public as an iredeemable piece of shit with supposedly objective non-points to attention seek then wonder why people think I'm just hating :unsure:
But I've used very clear points about why it's bad?
It's a game where you spend your entire time doing everything to... do nothing. Up to the post game, where you finally get the end goal: being afk while your team depletes massive health bars.
The gameplay is so harrowing that it is made so you don't have to interact with it. Which is... quite something. Especially since its cool unvierse is ultimately very much underexploited at best.

And yeah, I would very much say that I hate FF12.
Totally deserved for that game.

But maybe instead of talking about my experience with videogames, I should complain more about Timmy and his fat stacks for likes on the forum.
That would be more meaningful I'm sure.
 

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Li Kao Remembered another puzzler that was released recently and might be suitable for your mum.


Ahhh, Nostalgia. Love it.



Unironically, FFXII & FFXV are my favourite Final Fantasy games and the only FF games i've pretty much fully completed all achievos in.
 
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Part of my the reason I like FF12 has to do with its writing
Alexander O Smith created an outstanding localization of FF12 which is reason for me to replay it again

I don't mind its combat system being 'programing' as there aren't many games where they assign in their combat system or gameplay around it.

Time to repost this scene again

Just an FYI, we ain't starting a manhunt here on peeps who don't like certain FF games. The FF series will always have one person favouring certain games over others, and the other person sharing an opposite preference.

I couldn't really get into FF12. Tried the first few hours but just bounced off it really.

X will forever be my favourite. Then VIII.
FFX is an odd duck to me; much of the game's battles re uses the same enemy types that Tidus, Lulu, Wakka and Auron can 1 hit ko. Furthermore, the sphere grid, interesting as it is, seems more designed to benefit you in the late game and for the harder OPTIONAL boss fights.
I also didn't like the side stuff you could do to get ultimate weapons which really take 'going off the main path' to ridiculous extremes :V
Still FFX has high highs and low lows, and I think its high highs are worth it.
I plan on replaying it again in the future for better Sphere Grid utilization :V
 

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I never got into FF12 (or 13) myself, yet at least, I tried it once or twice, so of course my post had nothing to do with judging liking or disliking game x or y. Just maybe not acting like only some shit eating asshole could dare like a game you subjectively find sub par by writing as if that subjectivity is objective truth. That is what I metacommented on, purposefully toxic behavior stood out for me much more than any EGS talk even though it's one person and Idc about the game.

As for EGS discussion (once again brought up by someone not into it essentially forcing me to respond and talk about that in here, ironic), I don't think it's so obtrusive/happens so much, if people wanna get so strict with directing members to specific threads then might as well only post game opinions in the game OT or "what are you currently playing" thread, only post screenshots in the screenshot thread, talk emus in emulation, VR in the VR thread, etc. I think people converge to this thread just because the community is too small to support a billion different threads a la GAF for now and people go where people are.

It's like a chat, just happens most members also are basically Steam based gamers so this thread naturally came to be the one to converge to for the most part. Maybe the chat function we have for events or a generic thread can be open to use for random game talk? But if people migrate this thread would be dead too.
 
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FFXV is the worst FF I've ever had the displeasure of playing, mostly because of the shadow Versus XIII cast over it.

Still, hunting anyone because of their tastes in game is bullshit and I've tried to step in whenever it was done seriously.
 

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I just want to say that I'm finally starting to understand Battletech, how you manage positioning and your armor, how you handle aggro and more or less getting a handle on the early campaign. Still, I'd welcome any advice! I feel like a monkey trying to pull levers in a 60t hulk of steel and death.
 

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Funny that people bring up FF12. I just played it last year after never finishing it before for some of the same reasons that were mentioned.

Yet this time I got to the ending and really enjoyed it. What was the difference? Beside being on PC and the Zodiac Age version, the difference was I cheated! Cheat engine and some googling let me find some unbelievably powerful equipment in the first few hours after which my tea was essentially unstoppable. Turned the combat into something you could breeze by while running and the boss fights into pretty shows that you could end whenever you got bored of looking at them. You can almost completely ignore the gambit system until late in the game and if you want basically never deal with magic other than revive, and cures.

It rules! The story is really good for a Final Fantasy and I do like the world they've built here. But the combat is a real slog especially if you want to automate it. Cheating means you don't need to automate anything and this avoids gambits being annoying.
 
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Part of my the reason I like FF12 has to do with its writing
Alexander O Smith created an outstanding localization of FF12 which is reason for me to replay it again

I don't mind its combat system being 'programing' as there aren't many games where they assign in their combat system or gameplay around it.

Time to repost this scene again

Just an FYI, we ain't starting a manhunt here on peeps who don't like certain FF games. The FF series will always have one person favouring certain games over others, and the other person sharing an opposite preference.


FFX is an odd duck to me; much of the game's battles re uses the same enemy types that Tidus, Lulu, Wakka and Auron can 1 hit ko. Furthermore, the sphere grid, interesting as it is, seems more designed to benefit you in the late game and for the harder OPTIONAL boss fights.
I also didn't like the side stuff you could do to get ultimate weapons which really take 'going off the main path' to ridiculous extremes :V
Still FFX has high highs and low lows, and I think its high highs are worth it.
I plan on replaying it again in the future for better Sphere Grid utilization :V
For myself, FFXII is a great memory, but I wouldn't replay it. The combat is meh. What I really remember from the game is the awesome Intro, and most of the story. Especially the dubbing was great.

Overall:
8 >> 10 > 12 > 13 > 6 >>> 7 >>>>>>>>>>>> 9

Setting: (as in: I wanted to experience the world first hand)
8 >>>> 10 >> 13 > 6 > 12 > 7 >>>>>>>>>>> 9

Battle system
10 >> 13 >> 6 > 8 > 7 > 12 > 9

overall Music/BGM
10 > 8 > 13 > 12 > 6 >>> 7 >>>>>>>>>>>>> 9

Intro
10 > 12 > 13 > 8 >>> 6 >> 7 >>>>>>>>>>>>> 9

Songs
Eyes on me (8) >> 1000 Words (10-2) > Suteki da ne (10) > Liberi Fatali (8) > Serahs Theme (13-2) > Maria and Draco (6)

Epic CGI
8 >>>>>>>>>>>>>> 10 >> 12 >> 13 >>>>>> 7 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 9

In all of my dozen restarts (and sometimes full playthroughs!) of 8, I was always playing to get to the CGI. This is something that feels it was lost through the advancements of technology. CGI sequences always felt special, until they were not, just indistinguishable from gameplay, nothing really special.
 
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I played FF12 for the first time last year and it shot right to the top of the list if my favorite FF games.

The thing is, its more of a RTwP CRPG than a JRPG, think Baldur's Gate and Pillars of Eternity. And if you think those games play themselves just because the characters auto-attack or follow simple scripts in between user inputs you’re not going to get far.
Beyond that the story and characters are pretty great and pull the game along. Fast-forward in the Zodiac Age ver helps too. And the voice acting was better than expecting, especially for the time, Balthier more like Bae-thier
 
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