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Chris Evans possibly returning as Cap in MCU is one of the best news so far this week for me.
New update for Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night 
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Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night - Classic Mode and Kingdom Crossover Launch Today - Steam News
A brand new mode and a new boss area based on Kingdom: Two Crowns bring retro gameplay to the world of Bloodstained!
While I couldn't watch it fully, seems like the SEGA stream was pretty much only about the Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 DLC, which was announced several hours before the stream.
Source engine with ray tracing seems interesting, but I cannot picture what it would look like in game.
One of the things I have always liked about Source is the lighting, or at least how Valve handled lighting in Source. They never fell into that trend of making everything super reflective and glisten. I sometimes think that is why Half Life, L4D and such seem to have aged so much better than some 3D games from that era.
Granted I know so little about engines and game design so take my thoughts with a grain of salt!
One of the things I have always liked about Source is the lighting, or at least how Valve handled lighting in Source. They never fell into that trend of making everything super reflective and glisten. I sometimes think that is why Half Life, L4D and such seem to have aged so much better than some 3D games from that era.
Granted I know so little about engines and game design so take my thoughts with a grain of salt!
I mean, Source 2 getting raytracing support makes perfect sense and has to happen sooner or later if Valve want to continue using it.
This doesn't necessarily mean that we'll see any products based on the engine actually using that support any time soon though.
This doesn't necessarily mean that we'll see any products based on the engine actually using that support any time soon though.
It'll be hard to tell through the nausea of VR at 20 fpsIt's really interesting to see this tho, I would really like to know how would Alyx look with RTX shaders
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I think I need to address a few things here:
1. The report saying Sakura Kakumei's budget 30 million YEN (not USD) is sourced from a YouTuber. People choose to believe in what they want, but do you believe in a YouTuber? No sir, I don't.
2. Did the game bombed? The game launches on 12th December, so the rumored monthly revenue (ie. 7 million YEN) only counts half-a-month. Oh, btw, another tracking site reported that the game actually has 9 million YEN revenue so the number is disputed.
3. Am I pessimistic? 7 million or 9 million is bad for a big IP. Many players drop the game at the beginning two weeks. But it is a mobile game, so longevity is the key. Based on reception, I can confirm to you that most of the players and their mum agree that the story and characters are great. Chapter 3 of the main story, which was released on Tuesday this week, got very strong impressions from players. The game has flaws, mostly in mechanics and bugs, and the developers promised updates to come on 19th. With all things counted, the game has potential to continue growing. Btw, the developer also confirm that the game has been downloaded for 1 million times already.
4. Why should this mobile game grow? In an industry where everyday more girls decide to wear revealing clothes so that they can attract the players to pay for gacha, this game has no (NONE) scanty-clad girls so far. Their outfits make sense and all of them has their own position in the main story and introduced properly. And Sakura in this game (main girl) is such a good character. She doesn't fall short compared to the Sakura in the mainline games.
5. Should they port Shin Sakura Wars to PC / Switch? Yes, they should. What are you waiting for, SEGA?!
6. Does the franchise need saving? Purely my opinion. No, please stay this way. Shin and Kakumei are growing to be their own thing. The IP is over 20 years old and changes are inevitable, yet the spirit and central themes are untouched. The latest opera show (HUGE aspect of the franchise) got very good reception from fans, too. Overall, I am fairly optimistic to the franchise. But, I don't think the game will grow much in the west. It will stay as a niche franchise due to it still being a visual novel and dating sim.
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Ah yes, tech; wonderful tools that represent the summation of human knowledge and ingenuity. A field vast and significant enough to report and discuss on different products and iterations. Whether it's a phone, tablet, laptop, operating system, app, website, display, camera, etc. There is...
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Battle.net just got a total makeover
Battle.net 2.0 looks nicer, is easier to use, and more accessible.
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Just downloaded, looks better, and theres room for more games now, Activision probably gonna release everything on it soon. theres a tab for Blizzard and a tab for Activision, only CODs on Activision tab for now.Battle.net just got a total makeover
Battle.net 2.0 looks nicer, is easier to use, and more accessible.
How about this?
I thought here is the mobile thread on MC. Am I wrong?|OT| - General Tech Discussion Thread
Ah yes, tech; wonderful tools that represent the summation of human knowledge and ingenuity. A field vast and significant enough to report and discuss on different products and iterations. Whether it's a phone, tablet, laptop, operating system, app, website, display, camera, etc. There is...
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Did he (Sakura Taisen)get caught creeping on the girls' shower again?
Anime, anime never changes.Did he (Sakura Taisen)get caught creeping on the girls' shower again?
Series traditionDid he (Sakura Taisen)get caught creeping on the girls' shower again?
Totally optional, btw. You can avoid the event easily.
It seems that PS Now has a deal of 15 months of PS Now for just $60USD. That's decent. During Black Friday it was $45USD for 12 months. So the difference is that you are just paying $4 more USD for the 15 months deal which funny enough is enough to pay for 1 month of PS Now itself with the $45 deal.
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I just played the first mission of Black and it has not aged well. Half life a game from 1998 has aged much better than this game from 2006.
I don't like how some games will use radio chatter to try to tell you what's going on. I don't understand that lingo.
I am not sure if there is a way to increase controll sensitivity since you can't even hit the side of a barn in this game.
It also has live action parts in the game and yeah all of that is just confusing.
So what is this game remembered for?
And military style shooters can be okay but this just feels mediocre so far. The NDS N-space developed Call of Duty games feel better than this and their story made more sense.
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I just played the first mission of Black and it has not aged well. Half life a game from 1998 has aged much better than this game from 2006.
I don't like how some games will use radio chatter to try to tell you what's going on. I don't understand that lingo.
I am not sure if there is a way to increase controll sensitivity since you can't even hit the side of a barn in this game.
It also has live action parts in the game and yeah all of that is just confusing.
So what is this game remembered for?
And military style shooters can be okay but this just feels mediocre so far. The NDS N-space developed Call of Duty games feel better than this and their story made more sense.
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The delicious feeling of using diplomacy to instigate a war between your two most powerful rivals and then sitting back and watching them tear each other apart while my armies build up their strength to sweep up the ashes. That will teach them to refuse my extremely reasonable demands for their allegiance.
Total War Three Kingdoms is so much fun.
Total War Three Kingdoms is so much fun.
By the way is there any point in playing Black on higher difficulty? There seems to even be a "black ops" difficulty option. .
It says something about silver weapons what ever that means.
It says something about silver weapons what ever that means.
In anticipation of The Frontier, I've been playing Fallout 4 in the past couple weeks. With Horizon as the base this time, I also installed a bunch of immersive mods like weather, dynamic HUD, stalker music, etc. It's been a blast so far, it's like playing a truly hazardous and creepy post apocalyptic game, unlike the vanilla experience. Horizon also adds lots of difficulty to the game, which I love so much thus far.
Not my video, but close enough.
Not my video, but close enough.
Hnng, bip bop, fuckity fuckI thought here is the mobile thread on MC. Am I wrong?
Is the sounds I just put out when I thought of posting something here and realized it was OT and I could maybe put it on MetaConsole (where it will still be OT but, less so ?)
I have nothing against MetaConsole btw. I'm just wired to this thread.
I feel bad for NarohDethan since they have already made phone discussion thread.
tbh, it will happen probably this year, we will see tho.
I still think it's the most barebones service out there, and still don't think they will release exclusively everything there, probably just the MP stuff like COD, Crash, TH, Spyro... all those will probably release on multiple services at the same time as there is no revenue over time there.
Don't ! He's a bastard !I feel bad for NarohDethan since they have already made phone discussion thread.
kidding, Naroh
But yeah, more seriously it's the unfortunate state of Meta, where a good majority only gravitate around the Steam Thread. I wish I had a solution to make people browse other topics, but alas.
And yeah, me posting OT in here is a perfect example of a self-fulfilling prophecy
GPU arrived in my city, I just got call from customs and I will probably pick it up next week
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It was 12 something in the Winter Sale.
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Ask them what happened, I'm sure it will be an interesting storyGPU arrived in my city, I just got call from customs and I will probably pick it up next week
Ask them what happened, I'm sure it will be an interesting story
It was stuck in Vienna for a month. It arrived here on 11th, processed on 13th and because yesterday was holiday here it arrived to my local post this morning. Things went wqst when it arrived here. Two main issues were leaving US and getting stuck at Vienna.
That November 25th and 28th entries were false ones.
Battle.net just got a total makeover
Battle.net 2.0 looks nicer, is easier to use, and more accessible.
Why does the article says that the new version is only available for NA users and it reads like this update was recently released?
Im in EU and have had that update for months.
Because PCGamer couldn't be arsed to check ?
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huh, Im in the EU too and still had the old layout yesterday. Didnt check today yet because Im at work.
Did I ever mention that its weird to me that "OT" both means Original Thread and off-topic? I always read it as the latter, but saw it being used for the former much more in recent years. Ah well. but I'd prefer if people used less acronyms in general, anyway.
But yeah, more seriously it's the unfortunate state of Meta, where a good majority only gravitate around the Steam Thread. I wish I had a solution to make people browse other topics, but alas.
And yeah, me posting OT in here is a perfect example of a self-fulfilling prophecy
We should just rename it MetaEverything or something, problem solved.
I always read OT as either "Official Thread" or "On Topic" haha!
See, like I said. Don't give up hope, tracking isn't always accurate.GPU arrived in my city, I just got call from customs and I will probably pick it up next week
I always thought all the other threads should be deleted and we'd just have this one giant mess. Way easier to keep track of.
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Gearbox Humble Bundle next week, I wonder?
Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition Duke Nukem Bundle - 91% off - [UWSL]~3,19€[/UWSL] - Steam
We Happy Few - 92% off - [UWSL]4,59€[/UWSL] - Steam
Gearbox Humble Bundle next week, I wonder?
Sigh... Covid outbreak at work, time to destroy the backlog again
People, if you read books with no illustrations, you know we have a thread for it ? Just checking
If pretty pictures are more your thing, we also have a thread for it, by the way.
What will it take for this wonderful community to get out of the steam thread a little ?
If pretty pictures are more your thing, we also have a thread for it, by the way.
What will it take for this wonderful community to get out of the steam thread a little ?
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