Community MetaSteam | January 2020 - Toss A Coin To Your Gaben

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fantomena

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Finally grabbed AoE 2 DE, really enjoyed what I played on PC game pass a while back. One of my favorite RTS games of all time.
 

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rybrad

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Not suprising. I would have bought games like Control, Outer Worlds, Outer Wilds, Blands 3 and so on day 1 on Steam, but now Im just waiting for the Steam release.
Same for me except a big chunk of what would have been day one purchases for me are now "wait for 75% off" purchases. I figure devs and publishers not giving a shit about making their product easy for me to buy where and when I want saved me $300+ last year alone. With over 2,500 games in my Steam account and Game Pass, it's not like I even feel like I am missing out on always having something awesome to play.
 
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Kvik

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Downunder.
exceedingly weak year overall in terms of games, its normal
Eh, I disagree. There's a bunch of great RPGs came out in 2019.

Disco Elysium
GreedFall
Code Vein
Bloodstained
Fell Seal
Atelier Ryza
Fire Emblem 3H

VN releases are pretty great too.

Saya no Uta
Baldr Sky
Uta2/3
Phoenix Wright
AI Somnium Files

Just on top of my head. Who the fuck cares about AAAs.
 

Mor

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Did Valve change the colors or brightness or something in the library? Looks better now than yesterday, for some reason.
This are the changes:
-Background is now a Dark Grey tone instead of the previous silvery color.
-Categories are now intense blue instead of grey-white.
-Home Button now has a little steam logo on it.
-Search bar is slightly different (unifies the button with the bar).



Is this the first time the experimental snippets are being used in a sale? Haven't noiced them before.
No it's not, it has been used since, at least, Lunar 2019
 

fantomena

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Just bought Sekiro in the sale, I will need something to fill the gap as soon as I finish Code Vein (For some reason I'm extremely invested in the story of this game).
Im gonna have to play Code Vein at some point, bought it during the winter sale I think. Really liked the demo.
 

EdwardTivrusky

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TioChuck I enjoyed Code Vein way more than i thought i would. Finished two playthroughs so far and it's still installed ready for another run sometime soon.

Also, post your vamp in the thread!
 
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Wildebeet

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Lunar Sale ... went with Minoria and that (non-GFWL) Bulletstorm remaster, which is down to a more reasonable $6 for the game I already pretty much have.

I'm also noticing that steam thinks I've played Wolfensten New Order for 1.5 hrs, despite having played through it entirely 4 or 5 times. I need to get into speed running (Awesome Games Timed Incorrectly).
 

MJunioR

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Dropped Darksiders, what an awful thing :sick:

And I bought TWD Season 2 and ICEY so far in this sale. I really don't want to put more money in my wallet but if I do I will probably pick FM20 plus something else. Maybe Disco Elysium but I'm not sure if it's my thing.
 

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Finished Children of Morta.
It was... alright.

The pixel art is real nice... but you don't see much of it as it's pretty zoomed in dungeons and you can't freely explore the "hub". Weird choice, although it does look good in the frequent cutscenes.
Speaking of which, I sure as hell did not expect the game to be this story heavy, with plenty of narrated cut scenes, even for the side content (that is cute but not exactly relevant to anything... it helps for the world building I guess? Kinda weak).

The combat is very satisfying, all six characters are very different and their skill trees are quite acceptable for the length of the game (around 12-15h), good variety of playstyles, plenty of party wide buffs, so you're not funneled into a single character (not that you can as they get tired anyway)... the RPG part is good.
On the other hand, the rogue-like (or well, The Binding of Isaac-like because it's more than a little inspired by) levels are pretty bland and pretty samey. They don't change enough, the boss is always the same in each level, the ennemies are not varied (with a liberal use of palette swaps, a skeleton, a mummy or a robot... are pretty much the same thing with slightly more range), and you don't get tons of unlocks like in other games. There's a decent amount of items to find (and lose after the run is over), but outside of skill runes to unlock in the skill tree of each character, you get similar stuff every run.
In general, it's undercooked, and the rogue-like aspect is more of a disservice. Especially for people that don't like the genre, as you lose progress... the minor one anyway, as any XP and gold gained is kept, so "true" upgrades are permanent and death is not punishing at all.

I don't like those systems, but here it works "okay", as it's much more of an RPG with RNG levels than a rogue-like. It's done better than in games like Rogue Legacy where you just grind grind grind, here at least you can win without many upgrades.
But it slows down the game quite a bit... and makes the late game very easy. When you have a whole bunch of cross character buffs and super strong runes (I dig that aspect, your other characters popping up to save your butt or giving you OP consumables mid dungeon is really cool) , access to strong skills like the stuns... the game's much harder early on than on the last boss that's for sure.

I would have liked the game to be better than it is. Story and combat are very solid, but it feels a bit shaky in its level design, pacing and progression.
 

MJunioR

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thats surprising as thats easily the best one but if it doesnt click it doesnt click
I heard that before starting it so I had high expectations, and it's a shame that it didn't click because the combat felt so good.

Everything else though.
 

Line

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I played Darksiders 3 recently, and it's probably my favorite of the three.
The first has the best dungeons by far, but combat is veeery simplistic, quite slow and repetitive. It feels like a slow ass God of War with finishers because QTE were all the rage back then. Fucking hell do I HATE those fucking "cinematic moments" repeated for every single mob.
Also, most zones are not very interesting, mechanically and artistically. The other two are better for that, especially the third with its Dark Souls-like approach in level design, rather than Zelda-ish.

Kinda want to replay Darksiders 2 now, maybe in the easiest mode available to avoid the loot grind. The gear system was an affront to the gaming gods.
 

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Since I missed my chance to wish you folks a happy new year here on Meta a few weeks ago, I guess I can technically do that now, so, happy new lunar year everyone! May it be a prosperous year full of anime for each and every one of us :p

Since its my birthday and no one's giving me anything I guess I have to give people stuff

Hiveswap: Act 1
Gris
My Friend Pedro
The Spiral Scouts

SYNTHETIK: Legion Rising
Endless Space - Collection
I'm not a Monster
Sword Legacy Omen
Steel Rats
I know, amazing crap. Shoot me a PM if you want something don't shit up the thread otherwise YOU DON'T GET NOTHIN YOU RULE BREAKER
Happy birthday Madventure !



I stopped, deleted and hid Spelunky, but I just had to share this moment from several days ago. Thanks Geforce Instant Replay
You wouldn't believe how rarely I managed to whip arrows.
You... can... do... that? :eek:
 

Theswweet

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Just realized that Utawarerumono's community discussions both have "Trading" sections, despite neither game having Trading Cards🤦‍♂️
 

TheLetdown

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I heard that before starting it so I had high expectations, and it's a shame that it didn't click because the combat felt so good.

Everything else though.
Definitely a shocker. I dropped the 2nd one because of how much of a departure it was to the first. I loved the dungeon puzzles and felt let down by the 2nd's more open design.

I have yet to play 3 because it keeps dropping to like $20, and won't budge.
 
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Sygmaelle

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Eh, I disagree. There's a bunch of great RPGs came out in 2019.

Disco Elysium
GreedFall
Code Vein
Bloodstained
Fell Seal
Atelier Ryza
Fire Emblem 3H

VN releases are pretty great too.

Saya no Uta
Baldr Sky
Uta2/3
Phoenix Wright
AI Somnium Files

Just on top of my head. Who the fuck cares about AAAs.
You're exactly showing why this year wasn't as good in terms of dollars spent

That's also completely omitting how most of the new live service games pretty much ALL failed which absolutely didn't help. It is a weak year for pc gaming because of all the shit ports / versions there were and how quickly informed people are now.

Long are now gone the loyalist non sensical days which inflated results (these old Bethesda / Bioware days). Also, gamepass and whatnot. Sorry but all these games outside of Elysium (which also is niche) aren't exactly what I'd buy a pc for
 
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Oldschool PC

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What's the discord that PC GAF/ERA/MC uses? I'm basically only using forums to be snarky now because the forums at Era have gone to shit
I've been testing the waters on Resetera for the last several weeks, and holy shit some of those moderators are insane. I wont go into full details, but your private messages are not safe there.
 

Sygmaelle

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I've been testing the waters on Resetera for the last several weeks, and holy shit some of those moderators are insane. I wont go into full details, but your private messages are not safe there.
i dont think ive ever asked for an account deletion yet i did it on era
 
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