Community MetaSteam | January 2020 - Toss A Coin To Your Gaben
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Crazy, so Half Life Alyx will not get delayed and a bunch of other games will.
Just how much power must Half Life have.
If this was anyone else you would see ads and stuff left and right. Maybe we will see some stuff in March, hell Oculus might even make some Half Life ads to let you know that you can play the game on that.
Just how much power must Half Life have.
If this was anyone else you would see ads and stuff left and right. Maybe we will see some stuff in March, hell Oculus might even make some Half Life ads to let you know that you can play the game on that.
You can spot the Gordon Freemen with the "Do not Ask Me Anything, I don't talk" look.
Kaci (the woman) looks happy. Everything points to her joining Valve has made Valve a ton more communicative. According to VNN (and it seems true considering how Valve does stuff) they considered to just drop Alyx out of nowhere on the Steam store, but she might be a big reason they released a trailer for it.
Seems ridiculous to stealth drop the game when they invested so much money into VR and a premium device for it. Would have been very careless.
The whole communication thing with Valve is overblown imo. Reason they rarely communicated with the community is probably because any communication over the years would have been met with "WHERE IS HALF-LIFE 3" questions nonstop. Social media is a shitshow. It would have never been meaningful on their part to be the way they are now.
But now that they are actually making and about to release a new Half-Life game they have a reason to communicate. All these other theories are just dumb rumors.
Dragon Age Origins is (Ultimate edition) is one of the few games I've beat and complete multiple times so that one's cooool from me
Yeah, but this is Valve we are talking about. They don't need to profit on Alyx, they don't even need to make another game ever again, they earn so much money from various of form of Steam revenue. They make Alyx because they want to, not because they need to. They can take all the time in the world on Alyx with 150 people on the game and sell 10 copies and not need to care about going bankrupt.
I can definetly see that Valve wanted to just drop Alyx out of the blue on Steam, but Kaci made them rediscuss it.
Also, before at least, all press messages from Valve came from Doug Lombardis own personal Valve email, but now it's been reported Kaci is part of the press messages.
I intend to play through it this year at least, as I already got the mods for it that I want :3
I've done 3 completionist runs off DAO, plus 2 others that I didn't do all of the DLC and side quests. Such a great game.
We are doomed!
Finally a good Witcher product.
We are doomed!
It's being animated by Studio Mir who did Netflix Voltron and Legend of Korra so i'm definitely down for it.
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Durante apparently has some major pull over at Netflix.
Ahah, so true!
Lashman will ban me for it, but I really think The Witcher 3 is way more anime than any of you no anime blob people would like to admit
Not the heretic i was expecting, but damn does unity look nice when used like this.
Find me a picture of Remo not looking high as fuck. Go ahead, I'll wait. At least, I assume that is Chris Remo who always looks bemused.
As for Valve and communication -silence doesn't work, and clearly laid out responses to questions would go a long way to killing the problems gamers have with expecting announcements (entitled as it is). Say one thing concisely one time and it stops hype from becoming biblical. That's all they have to do.
Stealth dropping things wouldn't have helped any.
About the whole Tyler saying that Kaci hired changed everything, I think he is completely wrong and mixing stuff:
Valve had already started doing more PR from one year before (ca. mid 2018) and had already started ramping out more stuff along the year on the PR department. I think hiring Kazi was part of the growth of the PR and putting it as its own separate function rather than the whole catalyst of "OH NOW VALVE DOES PR!!!". Valve developers had already become quite talkative for a while and even had a discord for a game where they were present and talked with the community in Dota Underlords.
If anything, I believe it was the combination of the PR backlash of the October discovery bug on Steam and Artifact failure (and well, the esports side) that made the faction more abverse to talking lose a bit of power and open the floodgates slowly.
Basically, Kaci being hired is not the cause of increased PR, but Kaci being hired was caused by the increase of PR.
Valve had already started doing more PR from one year before (ca. mid 2018) and had already started ramping out more stuff along the year on the PR department. I think hiring Kazi was part of the growth of the PR and putting it as its own separate function rather than the whole catalyst of "OH NOW VALVE DOES PR!!!". Valve developers had already become quite talkative for a while and even had a discord for a game where they were present and talked with the community in Dota Underlords.
If anything, I believe it was the combination of the PR backlash of the October discovery bug on Steam and Artifact failure (and well, the esports side) that made the faction more abverse to talking lose a bit of power and open the floodgates slowly.
Basically, Kaci being hired is not the cause of increased PR, but Kaci being hired was caused by the increase of PR.
Beautiful rendering, especially the facial capture and skin/eye rendering. From an artistic standpoint, what a great cinematography! That bit where the tunnel shift left me wondering how? I can't even understand how that effect worked. The owl's particles, how those strands animate is black magic to me and I can't fathom how it works at all. It reminds me of stuff people pull on shadertoy and raymarched fractals
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you won't have to wait for that lol
What I mean is, please be patient, in less than 65 days, exclusivity for All-in-one collection will end and MAGICALLY it could appear a totally unknown port out of nowhere.
EDIT: just saw it looked like a real tease, please, don't, what I meant is what I wrote here, it's Square, it's always the same, my bad if you thought something else
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Still refusing to give Square a cent of my money until they properly support DQ11 on PC with the definitive content.
Their bickering with Platinum over Nier Automata is unacceptable as well. Shipped broken, never fixed. I'm half-amazed From got a pass from how broken DS1 remains.
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You will get it on Bethesda.net when you link your Steam account.
That's how preorder extra worked on RAGE 2, so yeah.
Who is this Dur-ant-ey you speak of?only because Durante fixed it
Did they have a different user name on GAF?
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only because Durante fixed it
That's my point. With all due respect to Durante, it wasn't his job and it's not a stretch to say that they owe him a debt of gratitude for a large part of the IP's popularity to this day. Without DSfix, I think the picture for souls games might look a little different. The fact From never patched DS1 is loathsome to me.
Though I should say that N:E released in a state that is from another perspective much worse. 720p internal resolution is shameful but crashes make the game flat-out unplayable. FAR isn't a perfect solution and... Yeah. You get the idea
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I never actually thought about it from that angle, interesting.
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But they did let Polish superheroes QLOC patch it. Just released the results as a separate app.
It looks like you can now filter user reviews by number of hours played.
I'm pretty sure my SaGa Scarlet Grace PC review is still the only one on metacritic. User reviews are essential!
So if you do it at your monitor refresh rate odds are it's going to fail most of the time and you won't get your monitor refresh rate but +/- 1,2 or 3...
This is especially important for G-sync / Freesync, because if the framerate goes above your synching monitor's max sync rate, it's effectively off and you get tearing, or standard vsync latency is vsync is enabled.
Hadn't watched a Zero Punctuation review in a while and hey this one expresses my feelings on Boneworks so I'm posting it
Most of his VR complaints are already addressed, newer sets don't use up many ports and there are more affordable options and will likely continue to be.
But then he digs @ pc gaming as a whole with the cooling/cost so meh @ that. Takes a minute and a half with outdated misinformation to get to the game.
And no Boneworks isn't the first effort to do this or that, physics or story or optional seated play or whatever, that's just him being ignorant of other VR games.
Dude needs to go back to making cool video games like Trilby: The Art of Theft and _ _ _ Days a _ _ _ _ _ _ and leave reviews to others if he's gonna phone it in.
But then he digs @ pc gaming as a whole with the cooling/cost so meh @ that. Takes a minute and a half with outdated misinformation to get to the game.
And no Boneworks isn't the first effort to do this or that, physics or story or optional seated play or whatever, that's just him being ignorant of other VR games.
Dude needs to go back to making cool video games like Trilby: The Art of Theft and _ _ _ Days a _ _ _ _ _ _ and leave reviews to others if he's gonna phone it in.
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