Community MetaSteam | January 2021 - It's Rare to See a Medium So Well-Done
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Humble after they convinced everyone to agree to the 6 month deal.
rip to the villain.
Hmm...I want at least 4 games on that choice bundle
So that's $3 per game
Not bad....and I can't expect Hamble to offer a discount for buying it anytime soon
So uh
So that's $3 per game
Not bad....and I can't expect Hamble to offer a discount for buying it anytime soon
So uh
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I mean the review does contain TWO full length let's plays of the game, so yes... it is longer.
that's impressive ... but yeah - there's no fucking way in hell i'm gonna watch this ... i just can't take that shit anymore, lol
I will rather play videogames or read books than listening to review if I have six hours to spare
I too miss text based reviews, though I bet with the length of some of these he could just publish a novel instead. However, I think all of you are missing the point. His "reviews" aren't really reviews. You shouldn't be watching them to know if a game is good or if you should buy it. Hell you probably don't want to watch these videos without playing the games or at least have some foreknowledge of the games being discussed. These ARE dissertations. Critical essays about games. Stories about life. Discussions of game design. The fact that its called a review is really a misnomer, I wish he'd change the name to essays or something. I don't watch these to learn about the games (although you do A LOT of that), I watch them to learn about everything around the game.
FOR INSTANCE: Did you know Koji Igarashi (IGA of Castlevania fame) worked as a writer on Tokimeki Memorial? And that during the making of that game he helped playtest Dracula X: Rondo of Blood which was being made in the same office at the same time? And after Tokimeki Memorial came out asked to be transferred to the Castlevania team where the very next game they made was... Symphony of the Night which he co-directed? That sort of info is what makes these things interesting. Every video has this stuff. The tidbits that go alongside the info about the game is real draw.
Everyone of his videos has been 3 hours (and this one would be too if you omit the two full let's plays of the game in between). They are truly media to savor and enjoy a bit at a time when you are interested in having some thoughts about games. Not something to watch in the background. I make liberal use of youtube saving my place in a video when I am ready to go on. He also breaks them up into chapters, but honestly even those are often longer than I have time for.
I won't fault anyone for wanting to have some light watching or a quick read about a game, but I love that something like this gets made for people who want to think deeply about games and learn what connects them with each other. And as I said, DON'T WATCH THEM ALL AT ONCE. Like hell man, I'm not spending 6 hours, or even 3 hours watching these straight through. Holy cow. No. I could barely sit though Lord of the Rings Return of the King, and I REALLY LIKED that movie. Watch them in 20-30min increments while eating lunch or something. Thankfully he takes about a month or more to put out each one so you absolutely won't fall behind.
Tizoc if nobody helped you I can do it in a moment.
Tizoc As I was saying, I'm good now. What do you want ? Is this a 'refer a friend invite' ?
Invite sent anyway, but I helped a Meta peep get a discount last year and it doesn't look like what I have done then (in my very hazy memory).
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Oh, fuck, did you want the 20% off ? I will send that too, not awake 'awake' right now.
Horrible, horrible misunderstanding. At least I showed I care, but yeah
Tizoc As I was saying, I'm good now. What do you want ? Is this a 'refer a friend invite' ?
Invite sent anyway, but I helped a Meta peep get a discount last year and it doesn't look like what I have done then (in my very hazy memory).
...
Oh, fuck, did you want the 20% off ? I will send that too, not awake 'awake' right now.
Horrible, horrible misunderstanding. At least I showed I care, but yeah
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Wait what's happening?
Humble after they convinced everyone to agree to the 6 month deal.
Not sure it's what you are asking for but MF Doom has passed away.
So I've been hearing about this Xbox gamepass conversion ultimate/gold trick for a while now but I am still confused how it works exactly.
I have PC Ultimate now so if I go buy a couple years of gold...will it automatically be converted to ultimate when I redeem it?
Or
Is this just a thing for console owners who never had ultimate but do have gold. And they can just auto convert by getting ultimate for the first time?
I kinda don't wanna fuck around and buy gold subs since I don't even own an Xbox. But I do believe you can redeem subs through your MS account anyways right? The idea of getting several years of PC gamepass ultimate for cheap is appealing especially after they acquired Bethesda.
I have PC Ultimate now so if I go buy a couple years of gold...will it automatically be converted to ultimate when I redeem it?
Or
Is this just a thing for console owners who never had ultimate but do have gold. And they can just auto convert by getting ultimate for the first time?
I kinda don't wanna fuck around and buy gold subs since I don't even own an Xbox. But I do believe you can redeem subs through your MS account anyways right? The idea of getting several years of PC gamepass ultimate for cheap is appealing especially after they acquired Bethesda
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The other way around. You need to not have Gamepass Ultimate, so for example just standard Gamepass or nothing at all. Then you buy some time with Xbox Games Gold. It seems it's easy to find 36 month packages from resellers.
Then when you upgrade to Ultimate (this needs to be a paid upgrade), it will transform the time you have for Gold into Gamepass Ultimate, with a 1:1 ratio.
So it can be done without a console right?
So I wait until my ultimate expires later this year then sub to regular 10$ per month GP. Then I buy a bunch of gold + resub to ultimate and it will work?
You don't have to subscribe just let it run out, it works if you don't subscribe to anything, then just add the gold and then resub to ultimate.
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TIL: Steam Controller v2 and Neptune are separate projects.
So we can say that Steam Controller v2 is dead for sure, I guess.
I think Neptune sightings are from early 2020 Mor maybe remembers better?
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So we can say that Steam Controller v2 is dead for sure, I guess.
I think Neptune sightings are from early 2020 Mor maybe remembers better?
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I love Dark Souls, but those games are. way. too. long..... Never got passed Anor Londo in DS1 even though I've played countless hours. DS1 I've got 50+ hours and I'm halfway through perhaps? They are great indeed, but too freaking long. They sure are. Once one replays (dies countless times)...
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I would guess Neptune is new type of controller for a new VR system Valve is working on, a successor to the Index. Seems consistent to what Valve has been working on in the last few years.TIL: Steam Controller v2 and Neptune are separate projects.
So we can say that Steam Controller v2 is dead for sure, I guess.
I think Neptune sightings are from early 2020 Mor maybe remembers better?
Community - MetaSteam | April 2020 - A Disaster Report From Raccoon City
I love Dark Souls, but those games are. way. too. long..... Never got passed Anor Londo in DS1 even though I've played countless hours. DS1 I've got 50+ hours and I'm halfway through perhaps? They are great indeed, but too freaking long. They sure are. Once one replays (dies countless times)...
Why would a 2022 game be in the OP for January 2021?No Hitman 3 in the OP
I don't think VR uses Steam Input (Knucles don't exists in this at least), so this is likely actual Steam Controller variation Valve has (at some point of time) worked on.
New historical lowest price for:
Cities: Skylines - 88% off - €3.33 - Steam - // This game was given for free on Steam store on 3/27/2020 (yet I missed it )
GUILTY GEAR Xrd -REVELATOR- - 88% off - €3.33 - Steam
Horace - 77% off - €3.33 - Steam
Valthirian Arc: Hero School Story - 74% off - €3.33 - Steam
Hell Warders - 77% off - €3.33 - Steam
Bite the Bullet - 73% off - €3.33 - Steam
REZ PLZ - 77% off - €3.33 - Steam
Adventures of Chris - 73% off - €3.33 - Steam
Cities: Skylines - 88% off - €3.33 - Steam - // This game was given for free on Steam store on 3/27/2020 (yet I missed it )
GUILTY GEAR Xrd -REVELATOR- - 88% off - €3.33 - Steam
Horace - 77% off - €3.33 - Steam
Valthirian Arc: Hero School Story - 74% off - €3.33 - Steam
Hell Warders - 77% off - €3.33 - Steam
Bite the Bullet - 73% off - €3.33 - Steam
REZ PLZ - 77% off - €3.33 - Steam
Adventures of Chris - 73% off - €3.33 - Steam
The first thing that crossed my mind while reading Neptune was : "how is Hiperdimension Neptunia related to Steam Controller v2 lol" and then I saw the picture and got a better understanding about the topic.TIL: Steam Controller v2 and Neptune are separate projects.
I got kinda confused by this, what is the connection between V2 and Neptune?TIL: Steam Controller v2 and Neptune are separate projects.
So we can say that Steam Controller v2 is dead for sure, I guess.
I think Neptune sightings are from early 2020 Mor maybe remembers better?
Community - MetaSteam | April 2020 - A Disaster Report From Raccoon City
I love Dark Souls, but those games are. way. too. long..... Never got passed Anor Londo in DS1 even though I've played countless hours. DS1 I've got 50+ hours and I'm halfway through perhaps? They are great indeed, but too freaking long. They sure are. Once one replays (dies countless times)...
Humble is meh, another pause for me.
Only thing g I’m interested in is Not Tonight, so I’ll get that on BST
Only thing g I’m interested in is Not Tonight, so I’ll get that on BST
What a shame that it is a EGS exclusive.No Hitman 3 in the OP
Aaand got all the dlc for Chaosbane :V Hella whack mishmashing of dlc from everywhere in order to bring down the slayer edition's price but in the end I'm ready for playing it :V
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why would i include a game that's 12 months away?No Hitman 3 in the OP
I assume Neptune is second attempt at improved Steam Controller.
hopefully they got paid well
I am pretty bad at playing action games, so the challenges in Batman Arkham Asylum are... well, challenging. Going to spend more time practicing.
Players will pay them well if they release it on steam... Well, publishing is hard and economy is difficult, so I understand their decision to take the money from Tim. Hopefully they won't continue doing this when releasing 007.
Something that might help is the speed-hack feature of Cheat Engine. You open an application you want, then select it in Cheat Engine and can then try to use the hack to manipulate the speed at which everything is simulated. Together with a hotkey, it makes for a nice way to add a turbo mode to nearly every game. It can also use values lower than 1.0, I think, so you could slow down bits to make challenges easier.
At this price, Horace is a must-buy for everyone! This game is the most polished love letter to gaming I've ever seen!
Nobody has voted in 2021 yet! :stupefy: :wtf:
Dead? maybe notTIL: Steam Controller v2 and Neptune are separate projects.
So we can say that Steam Controller v2 is dead for sure, I guess.
I think Neptune sightings are from early 2020 Mor maybe remembers better?
Community - MetaSteam | April 2020 - A Disaster Report From Raccoon City
I love Dark Souls, but those games are. way. too. long..... Never got passed Anor Londo in DS1 even though I've played countless hours. DS1 I've got 50+ hours and I'm halfway through perhaps? They are great indeed, but too freaking long. They sure are. Once one replays (dies countless times)...
On hold? maybe yes
Neptune was early 2020, that is correct, we also discussed this and found out that it was an unknown config that got a firmware.
Don't worry, I will vote later today
I am not too worried. We already have 31 ballots, and based on my experience, many people vote during the last few days!Don't worry, I will vote later today
Thanks for the advice. But I am a traditional person, so I never cheat
. The challenges are difficult but fun, so I am willing to put more time into them rather than just abandon and move on.
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Yeah. It's the main reason I can endure to play most JRPGs. Ni No Kuni without that would be a terrible bore .But with it it's fun and enjoyable.Wait, you can hotkey speedhack in CE!?
Put about 1 hour into Castlevania LoS2 but it's such poorly designed game that it doesn't feel worthy of my time.
It also treats the player like a toddler, I can't believe how much it beats you over the head with explaining every little thing.
Trying to get into Atelier Ryza but it's not clicking with me, I really want to like it but I just feel bored, gonna give it another shot later.
It also treats the player like a toddler, I can't believe how much it beats you over the head with explaining every little thing.
Trying to get into Atelier Ryza but it's not clicking with me, I really want to like it but I just feel bored, gonna give it another shot later.
My main reason for why I play all JRPGs on PC is because of Cheat Engine and trainers. I really like them, but I suck at many of them for whatever reason, CE and trainers are my saviors.
The fact that I finished P5 on PS4 last year is incredible to me (and why Im not buying Royal unless a PC version releases). I also finished the Xenoblade games, but with "cheats". I bought the expansion pass for Xenoblade 2 mainly because it added a custom difficulty which made the game easier and I used a save editor on PC to edit my Wii/WiiU save of Xenoblade Chronicles and X to make it easier for me.
So P5 and Xenoblade games are the only JRPGs Ive finished on consoles.
JRPGs are mostly really long games and I got other stuff to do. Without methods of making them easier I would probably not finish them and the methods made the games far more enjoyable.
The fact that I finished P5 on PS4 last year is incredible to me (and why Im not buying Royal unless a PC version releases). I also finished the Xenoblade games, but with "cheats". I bought the expansion pass for Xenoblade 2 mainly because it added a custom difficulty which made the game easier and I used a save editor on PC to edit my Wii/WiiU save of Xenoblade Chronicles and X to make it easier for me.
So P5 and Xenoblade games are the only JRPGs Ive finished on consoles.
JRPGs are mostly really long games and I got other stuff to do. Without methods of making them easier I would probably not finish them and the methods made the games far more enjoyable.
This is extremely sad, since I loved the first LoS a lot. Incredible how they managed to ruin the sequel so much.
I actually made a post about this the other day.So I've been hearing about this Xbox gamepass conversion ultimate/gold trick for a while now but I am still confused how it works exactly.
I have PC Ultimate now so if I go buy a couple years of gold...will it automatically be converted to ultimate when I redeem it?
Or
Is this just a thing for console owners who never had ultimate but do have gold. And they can just auto convert by getting ultimate for the first time?
I kinda don't wanna fuck around and buy gold subs since I don't even own an Xbox. But I do believe you can redeem subs through your MS account anyways right? The idea of getting several years of PC gamepass ultimate for cheap is appealing especially after they acquired Bethesda
I spent like $200USD and was able to get 3 years of XGPU. I spent ~$80 USD during Black Friday buying 3 months codes of 3 months of GPU. I also spent about $120 USD on 2 years of Xbox Live Gold. Someone also gave me codes this holiday season.
So I redeemed 3 years of Xbox Live Gold and then I upgraded for $1 USD and was even given 2 months for free by MS even though the cap is 3 years of a sub.
I'm set until March 2024 and I still have another year code for GPU and I also have a 6 month code some one game me so I'm set until some time in 2026 it would seem actually.
For me it's worth it seeing how I have an XSX and right now I was playing Titanfall 1 on it. The main difference I noticed between that version and the PC version just seems to be AA and how it's much more noticeable on stuff like blades of grass. But I'm actually able to get into matches and not have it disconnect and stuff.
Since you have a sub right now for GPU and if you were to add Gold it would let you but it would not be 1:1 rather you would get it converted to just a few days/months. There is a table that you can look that up.
But once your membership expires then you should be able to convert stuff like that. That is assuming you can still even buy stuff like Gold. I think it was earlier this year that places like Costco stopped selling 2 year cards and MS themselves no longer let you buy a year of gold anymore. So if you wanted to I would recommend getting some cards assuming that they don't actually expire.
Also it's not just gold I think it works with regular game pass as well. The whole point of the conversion thing is to get you into GPU.
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