Community MetaSteam | January 2021 - It's Rare to See a Medium So Well-Done
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Insomnia (or more precisely completely fucked up sleep cycle there). Planning to play Wasteland 2.
I can’t believe how much I love playing this game. It’s bugged, stands together with strings and tape, it’s super bland looking, and I fucking love it.
I can’t believe how much I love playing this game. It’s bugged, stands together with strings and tape, it’s super bland looking, and I fucking love it.
I wonder what happens to the shopping carts
Their digital store flops, so they buy an entire mall. Truly Sweeney has beaten Gabe in the storefront wars
I'm enjoying Yakuza Like a Dragon but not as much as I could be due to this painfully bad combat change. I predicted it would be the slow turn based jrpg combat I was dreading and...yep it is. I feel like I'm playing a game from 1993 and no that's not a good thing. The majority of battles are filler junk that take longer to clear than before and it's harder to avoid regular patrolling enemies than it was in past games, their aggro range is ridiculous. Most of the jobs from what I can tell offer no real satisfying difference from each other. Most have a raise stat/lower enemy stat moves or two to go along with offensive moves you use HUNDREDS of times (I already have the challenge for using skills over 300 times and I'm only in chapter 6), if only to make things go a little faster since the battles aren't challenging at all and I could have cleared them all mashing attack if I wanted to. The rest of the game is standard yakuza fare and almost to a fault. I know many are relatively new to the series but I've been playing them since Y3 so a lot of these minigames are getting really stale for me.
For the life of me I'll never understand what people see in turn based jrpg systems. They're the pinnacle of outdated design. I agree the series could have used a change but it didn't need to go backwards in time to a period when consoles couldn't handle anything too complex or fast. It's especially bad in a year when FF7 Remake came out and completely changed its mid 90s battle system into something extremely fun, modern, and kinda unique too.
edit: I should clarify that I'm only talking about turn based jrpg systems. I like turn based in crpgs and games like xcom and I find them very engaging. The way jrpgs do turn based is outdated and dull though.
For the life of me I'll never understand what people see in turn based jrpg systems. They're the pinnacle of outdated design. I agree the series could have used a change but it didn't need to go backwards in time to a period when consoles couldn't handle anything too complex or fast. It's especially bad in a year when FF7 Remake came out and completely changed its mid 90s battle system into something extremely fun, modern, and kinda unique too.
edit: I should clarify that I'm only talking about turn based jrpg systems. I like turn based in crpgs and games like xcom and I find them very engaging. The way jrpgs do turn based is outdated and dull though.
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The main problem with turn-based JRPG is the move animations.
It's cool to see them for the first few times, but you're going to use and see the moves hundreds, if not thousands of times throughout the 50-100 hours of playtime. In CRPGs and strategy games, moves are more on the simple side and much more natural and bearable to see over and over again. And yeah, the combat is usually more engaging than your average JRPGs. The only engaging combat system in turn-based JRPG that I can think of is the SMT series with their weakness and one more system. It's a good thing that Yakuza 7 copied that, but they failed to follow the snappiness of SMT combat. Instead, they make it worse somehow with how characters can learn and use lots of moves, which makes combat slower than it already is.
It's cool to see them for the first few times, but you're going to use and see the moves hundreds, if not thousands of times throughout the 50-100 hours of playtime. In CRPGs and strategy games, moves are more on the simple side and much more natural and bearable to see over and over again. And yeah, the combat is usually more engaging than your average JRPGs. The only engaging combat system in turn-based JRPG that I can think of is the SMT series with their weakness and one more system. It's a good thing that Yakuza 7 copied that, but they failed to follow the snappiness of SMT combat. Instead, they make it worse somehow with how characters can learn and use lots of moves, which makes combat slower than it already is.
What if they set up like a physical but digital store?
You travel to the store, go in, get a physical shopping cart, walk around a bit looking at displays of games, then use a computer at each display to individually purchase the game through the EGS storefront?
That has to be efficient and unique, right?
Someone is bad at unit conversion... or maybe I am wrong? I don't know
From Google conversion
980 000 square feet = 91 044.9792 square meters
New Build.
Whaddaya Think?
RTX 3090
Ryzen 5 3600 (Plan to replace with one of the Zen 3's when they're more widely available)
32GBs of DDR4-3600
Two Samsung 980 Pros @ 1TB each
1250W PSU
And topped it off with that beast of a monitor right there. 4K, 144Hz, HDR.
Everything I could ever need and want.
Averages in the 60's in Cold War at 4K with all RTX features turned on with DLSS.
Whaddaya Think?
RTX 3090
Ryzen 5 3600 (Plan to replace with one of the Zen 3's when they're more widely available)
32GBs of DDR4-3600
Two Samsung 980 Pros @ 1TB each
1250W PSU
And topped it off with that beast of a monitor right there. 4K, 144Hz, HDR.
Everything I could ever need and want.
Averages in the 60's in Cold War at 4K with all RTX features turned on with DLSS.
Fuck mondays. Fuck them.
Not jealous at all. Nope.New Build.
Whaddaya Think?
RTX 3090
Ryzen 5 3600 (Plan to replace with one of the Zen 3's when they're more widely available)
32GBs of DDR4-3600
Two Samsung 980 Pros @ 1TB each
1250W PSU
And topped it off with that beast of a monitor right there. 4K, 144Hz, HDR.
Everything I could ever need and want.
Averages in the 60's in Cold War at 4K with all RTX features turned on with DLSS.
DOPE!New Build.
Whaddaya Think?
RTX 3090
Ryzen 5 3600 (Plan to replace with one of the Zen 3's when they're more widely available)
32GBs of DDR4-3600
Two Samsung 980 Pros @ 1TB each
1250W PSU
And topped it off with that beast of a monitor right there. 4K, 144Hz, HDR.
Everything I could ever need and want.
Averages in the 60's in Cold War at 4K with all RTX features turned on with DLSS.
I may misread the scale but isn't that a TV at this point ?
Isn't it too big ?
(yeah, yeah, that's what she said)
Evidently super nice otherwise, eh
You are out of handkerchiefs.
And I can see that you have activated RTX on the side of your PC case.
Wow, there's a whole site dedicated to turn-based games that I just found out.
turnbasedlovers.com
Turn Based Lovers - Covering RPGs and Strategy Games
Covering the Best Turn-Based RPGs and Strategy Games. Reviews, Top 10 Lists, News and Interviews.
turnbasedlovers.com
No, the TV was just out of frame, to the right of the Switch and empty box of tissues.I may misread the scale but isn't that a TV at this point ?
Isn't it too big ?A little cramped.(yeah, yeah, that's what she said)
Evidently super nice otherwise, eh
You are out of handkerchiefs.
And I can see that you have activated RTX on the side of your PC case.
Ok fixed.
And yeah, the case has glass sides that open via magnetic latches. Gave me a real incentive to engage in Cable Management for once, because I would stare straight into my sins every day I sat down.
SaberVS7 Nice machine! Too colourful for my taste, of course, but neat specs =)
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@Epic buying a mall: they probably got sick of people telling them to implement shopping carts, so they decided to research that elusive, exotic feature by the only way they know to do things: spend millions on something.
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@Epic buying a mall: they probably got sick of people telling them to implement shopping carts, so they decided to research that elusive, exotic feature by the only way they know to do things: spend millions on something.
Yes, but in Japan, it did the same numbers as "Spiderman: Miles Morales".
Given that one is a remake of a very niche game, and the other is a classical big budget AAA 7-to-77 wholesome-for-the-whole-family game, branded with one of the most popular superheroes in the world (according to my very superficial understanding of such trends), I for one would not have expected to see them do the same numbers at all.
Is Spiderman maybe not that popular in Japan?
Would be bad numbers for a COD, but for a Souls game on limited hardware, to show up at all, I take as a good sign.
Surely nobody expects a Souls game on every shelf? There is a large-ish hardcore fanbase that can be relied upon to buy the games, it's guaranteed ROI, but it's not going to shake the world.
I wonder what proportion of that fanbase might be on PC at that point, though? No idea.
At the time, Sony said BB sales "exceeded their expectations".
No time to look for more numbers, it's Monday and all that...
Thanks for the reminder, not only is Monday but a really slow (and boring?) one
Looks like people are still recovering from New year's party and the weekend haha
Thanks, you know who!
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That's why I like the old Dragon Quests the most, pacing wise. No bullshit about dancing before battle, watching the painfully slow and ugly animations go off in 3D (hi DQ9, blight on the franchise), extra "cinematic" cut scenes all the time to fill in those CDs... just here's your enemy, choose your skill, here's a fire sprite, next.
All those very real JRPG problems are entirely technical... but not because consoles couldn't handle it in the 80's, but because the PS1 was all the rage, and you needed those fancy visuals. And that also added extra loadings, and shit framerates, for the triple combo.
But now at least we're going back to faster, snappier combat. Or just with an option to remove the busywork.
Though I can only laugh when Derrick01 call XCOM and the like as a better option, as they are now the kind of game that suffer from utterly pointless animations repeated a million times while their originals didn't waste time. ESPECIALLY for movement, XCOM is disgustingly bad with constant shuffling around of the ennemies while... nothing even happens on screen because you haven't spotted them!
I see you are a man of turn-based games love so I thought you might want to know about this steam group Steam Community :: Group :: Turn-Based TacticsWow, there's a whole site dedicated to turn-based games that I just found out.
Turn Based Lovers - Covering RPGs and Strategy Games
Covering the Best Turn-Based RPGs and Strategy Games. Reviews, Top 10 Lists, News and Interviews.
Monday is the 2nd working day over here, and as I am off work now, I am almost half way through the week
One of the bigger Norwegian newspapers wrote today about Steams 25 mill ccu record, they rarely write about games. And what do they call it? "Gaming-platform Steam" not "Gaming-launcher Steam".
Even a newspaper who don't really write about games calls Steam a platform and not a launcher.
Just thought it was funny.
Even a newspaper who don't really write about games calls Steam a platform and not a launcher.
Just thought it was funny.
I mean, it's not just 25 million users, it's 25 million CONCURRENT users from which 7.4 were playing games (about 29-30% of total) so it's kind of impressive and it also happened at the very beginning of the year.
Do you think you can share a link or take a picture of said newspaper? it would be kind of amazing.
OP
I don't work till the 21th, nation wide mandated yearly recess baybee
I accomplished nothing on my first day of work today, other than a zoom meeting in the morning, chatting with the folks.
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Making Return as a Digital Games Mark
The Bleem Powered Marketplace simplifies retro gaming – download, open, play.
pikointeractive.com
also - that website address is just ...
Piko already bombed enough on two well positioned platforms because their content wasn't hot enough for people to care (and the only thing people cared that was glover never released, sooo)Making Return as a Digital Games Mark
The Bleem Powered Marketplace simplifies retro gaming – download, open, play.
also - that website address is just ...
So the thing is, do they really think it will be any different on their own platform no one knows? I mean, have they checked their numbers on Twitter? their interactions? if so and they decided to go ahead with this, congrats, you already braver than me.
I have the feeling this will bomb so hard that they will comeback to Steam and GOG and won't complain ever again, that or make their own console like Madz tried to do.
Damn, she was the first character I beat the game with and even in the old games she was my favorite.
New Build.
Whaddaya Think?
RTX 3090
Ryzen 5 3600 (Plan to replace with one of the Zen 3's when they're more widely available)
32GBs of DDR4-3600
Two Samsung 980 Pros @ 1TB each
1250W PSU
And topped it off with that beast of a monitor right there. 4K, 144Hz, HDR.
[UWSL]MONSTER RIGGGGG!![/UWSL]
Nice build! I was looking on amazon for my country an the RTX 3090 is like 2.000€New Build.
Whaddaya Think?
RTX 3090
Ryzen 5 3600 (Plan to replace with one of the Zen 3's when they're more widely available)
32GBs of DDR4-3600
Two Samsung 980 Pros @ 1TB each
1250W PSU
And topped it off with that beast of a monitor right there. 4K, 144Hz, HDR.
Everything I could ever need and want.
Averages in the 60's in Cold War at 4K with all RTX features turned on with DLSS.
much appreciated, thanks.
Picked up Heave Ho, Trials of Fire and When The Past Was Around. Hopefully it's the last stuff I buy on the sale, thanksfully the sale is over tommorrow.
Thinking about getting into Total War Three Kingdoms after I finish Ori and the Will of the Wisps. Any advice for a Total War noob?
I feel like i should understand more of this, but all I'm getting is flashbacks to being 12 and playstation emulators. But yeah, avoid steam and gog with your retro releases, that can't fail, right?Making Return as a Digital Games Mark
The Bleem Powered Marketplace simplifies retro gaming – download, open, play.
also - that website address is just ...
edit: Oh god that website. It's like the psychedelic levels from Psychonauts threw up all over a Bleem logo
One more day and the recent purchase in the activity feed is still absent. I want to see your purchases
Looking at the steam achievements she's still the second most used with Axel being 9.3. I think a lot of people used the retro character (as I certainly did) when they were unlocked. Don't know if you have to only play as the character throughout or finish with them. Since they made switching so easy it's possible people just switched around for variety.
Leave me alone with my anime!One more day and the recent purchase in the activity feed is still absent. I want to see your purchases
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