Community MetaSteam | January 2022 - With a new year comes great responsibility, BOY!

[Mor]

Well, people, all my new parts have been ordered.

I7 12700k
Asus TUF Z690 ddr4 (I'm using same ram as my previous rig)
Corsair Icue H100i Elite Capellix
2 nvmeS

 

[MonthOLDpickle]

Date confirmed. Mar 3rd.

What game? Prob blocked in my region. Everybody should also link steamdb links >.>

 

[Deku]

What game? Prob blocked in my region. Everybody should also link steamdb links >.>

Babylon's Fall

 

[AHA-Lambda]

I've been away for most of the xmas and new year holidays, so belated happy new year all

 

[Panda Pedinte]

I finished both Dark Souls 3 DLCs. The only thing that I disliked was the amount of enemies in certain areas, that was pure bullshit.

 

[dfghstrbght]

it’s very difficult when your main mascot hasn’t had an excellent game in forever.

following the positive reception of the sonic movie they're getting more collab inquiries

 

[beep boop]

I finished both Dark Souls 3 DLCs. The only thing that I disliked was the amount of enemies in certain areas, that was pure bullshit.

The boss health bar overload is what I got most tired of. If they didn't grow a second health bar when you thought they were down and out, they just had a monstrous amount of HP. The DLC was bit of a sour note to go out on in the context of the series, but I did enjoy the environments and enemy designs a lot.

 

[fspm]

nvm

 

[Mivey]

Witcher 1 was quite something... from the animations and character models to the rithm game combat and the sound degin and mixing. It's not just the german translation, it's every translation even english. Everything screams rough and jank and at the same time it's truly the labour of love and something that wouldn't be possible at any other time and in any other circumstances.

Also * raises shield* Witcher 2 is the best witcher game! * runs*

Witcher 3 wins for me due to sheer quantity of quality content, though Witcher 2 is pretty impressive in how much of a great RPG it packs into a fairly shot time frame (by modern standards) and how much it your few choices matter in affecting the plot. I will say, though, I really didn't like the combat in 2, and 3 felt far less broken in that regard.

If you ask me which Witcher game feels the best from a purely mechanical standpoint, I would have to go with Witcher 1, though. Very clean way of dealing with single monsters vs. groups and to this day has the most complex alchemy system that literally makes the difference between a fight being a complete breeze or dying within seconds.

Alisa got another patch so I figured I'll finally check it out since the dev's been supporting it. I've been burned by old school survival horror wannabes (Back in 1995!) and some complaints made me avoid it until now but it seems legit (although it did black screen hang when entering the very first house the first time which sucked). It seems to combine elements from different games, most closely resembling RE1 I guess but also taking cues from RE4 for sure. Beyond the vibe, look and feel it's neat when it also directly but tastefully references specific scenes, like in the way it introduces the very first enemy. Both pre-rendered and the engine scenes are of very solid quality, not trying to be 90s square but having a consistent neat look rather than also trying to look like the era's worst. I also like the voice acting which is just about right for this style and the so bad it's at times good acting in the games it apes, except for the main character which is just bad, the secondary characters are much more fitting. Anyway, the game seems great, though the controls feel a tad slidey and combat has little oomph.

Kickstarted this, and waiting for my Deck to drop later this year before playing it. Seems like a perfect game to play on a portable.

 

[Dinjoralo]

Yep, Gwent's got its hooks back in me. It helps that they're moving to a model with a lot less FOMO and all their other plans for the future sound enticing.

 

[YuqiSatori]

Date confirmed. Mar 3rd.

Stranger of Paradise also releasing in Mar. Guess which one will be the better game?

Spoiler

The memes of Stranger has already won me over.

 

[Hektor]

€70? F*ck off Square, you won't see a single cent from me anymore.

What's wrong with them releasing a budget price title?
I mean, it's not like they're charging full price for it

 

[YuqiSatori]

What's wrong with them releasing a budget price title?
I mean, it's not like they're charging full price for it

Support Indie/aa dev instead of this bs

 

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SteamDeck trademarked in Japan

 

[Mivey]

My final haul for this sale:


Mostly just some games that have been on my wishlist for some time, and moon which I have heard some pretty great things about recently. Looking forward to that one

 

[toxicitizen]

Well, people, all my new parts have been ordered.

I7 12700k
Asus TUF Z690 ddr4 (I'm using same ram as my previous rig)
Corsair Icue H100i Elite Capellix
2 nvmeS

Nice! That's awfully close to the build I made a few days ago.

i9 12900K (probably more than I needed but ¯\(ツ)/¯ )
Asus Strix Z690-A
Corsair iCue h100i Elite Capellix
32GB Corsair Dominator DDR4

I got a single nvme so I wouldn't have to immediately nuke my current Windows install just in case something went wrong. But once everything was up and running I just transferred all my SSDs over to the new PC.

 

[manchego obfuscator]

I kept wondering throughout 2020 and 2021 if Ghost Story Games’ project might finally be unveiled. Can’t say I’m shocked to hear why that didn’t happen

 

[Stevey]

Nice! That's awfully close to the build I made a few days ago.

i9 12900K (probably more than I needed but ¯\(ツ)/¯ )
Asus Strix Z690-A
Corsair iCue h100i Elite Capellix
32GB Corsair Dominator DDR4

I got a single nvme so I wouldn't have to immediately nuke my current Windows install just in case something went wrong. But once everything was up and running I just transferred all my SSDs over to the new PC.

How are you guys building new PCs without GPUs?

 

[toxicitizen]

I kept wondering throughout 2020 and 2021 if Ghost Story Games’ project might finally be unveiled. Can’t say I’m shocked to hear why that didn’t happen

Yeah, me neither but holy shit! It was supposed to be out in 2017. I guess it has been a long time since Bioshock Infinite but damn...

I can't help but wonder what kind of game it'll turn out to be. Shutting down Irrational to start a smaller studio made me assume it would be more of an indie-scope kinda deal but hearing this makes me wonder...

How are you guys building new PCs without GPUs?

I'm still using the GTX 1660 Super I bought two years ago (for Cyberpunk, which they announced the first delay of like a week after I bought it lol).

It was a recent enough purchase that I couldn't really justify upgrading immediately so I went big on the CPU instead. My hope is I'll be able to get a card once the RTX40 series is out but uh, we'll see about that.

 

[dex3108]

I kept wondering throughout 2020 and 2021 if Ghost Story Games’ project might finally be unveiled. Can’t say I’m shocked to hear why that didn’t happen

I mean story is not bad, dude is perfectionist and wants things to be done in certain way. There is no crunch, people are paid well and free to leave if they got bored of redoing things. It is experimental kind of studio. It is sad that we didn't get game from them for this long but i really don't think that this is some kind of bad story.

 

[Panda Pedinte]

The boss health bar overload is what I got most tired of. If they didn't grow a second health bar when you thought they were down and out, they just had a monstrous amount of HP.

Good point, I also felt every boss had inflated HP.

 

[Yoshi]

Amazon Prime freebies:

STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order (Origin)
Total War: WARHAMMER (EGS)
World War Z: Aftermath (EGS)

Other freebies:

Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy Remastered
WRC 7 FIA World Rally Championship
Abandon Ship
Paper Beast - Folded Edition
In Other Waters
Two Point Hospital

No Steam keys

 

[Mivey]

I mean story is not bad, dude is perfectionist and wants things to be done in certain way. There is no crunch, people are paid well and free to leave if they got bored of redoing things. It is experimental kind of studio. It is sad that we didn't get game from them for this long but i really don't think that this is some kind of bad story.

It does seem a bit weird that he still seems to aim at having similar production values like his old AAA titles, but maybe the article just exaggerates a bit there.

Looking forward what his next game will be by the time it hits. From the article, it doesn't seem like he doesn't really have a firm concept yet.

 

[Mona]

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[taril360dz]

Got those gog keys from a twitch giveaway so i'm not sure if they works

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[dex3108]

Also i spent 17h in Psychonauts 2 in past week or so and i didn't feel like i spent 17h. I love it that much and i know that i am near the end and i will be kinda sad when it's over even though i will spend over 20h in that game (and that is nice time amount). But all great things need to come to and end and i am glad that we got another game like this. Maybe we will get DLC in the future or another full game (prequel would be interesting). But i also started new long term game that i will play between "shorter" ones. I started with Days Gone today and 2 hours went by so fast XD And i have intention to finish Ghostrunner before GoW is out. Then it will be GoW, Days gone and probably some Bully in between.

 

[Panda Pedinte]

The Steam Awards: Winners

The Steam Community has spoken and we are proud to announce the winners of this year's Steam Awards. Thanks to everyone who participated!

store.steampowered.com

Steam Award Winners

 

[kio]

Somebody got paid to write this...

 

[QFNS]

The Steam Awards: Winners

The Steam Community has spoken and we are proud to announce the winners of this year's Steam Awards. Thanks to everyone who participated!

store.steampowered.com

Steam Award Winners

Inscryption got robbed. Ah well, good games pretty much all over the awards.

 

[yuraya]

Terraria and Nioh2 the only winners from my votes.

And yea Psychonauts 2 robbed so much during this award season its not even funny anymore.

 

[Dinjoralo]

Cyberpunk winning an award is a bit surprising. I guess it helps it's localized to PC players who had way better experiences than console players.

 

[PC-tan]

This is from 17 years ago but wow just wow. Crazy how things have changed so drastically but also stayed the same

Death to the Games Industry, Part I - The Escapist

www.escapistmagazine.com

 

[Blu]

Humble Choice tomorrow right?

 

[Dragon1893]

Best ost should've been Nier or P5S.

 

[YuqiSatori]

// Pretends to be shocked at this awful result
// Screams internally

 

[gabbo]

// Pretends to be shocked at this awful result
// Screams internally

Steam Awards are the anti-Oscars - never the smaller, artistic games, always the biggest titles, and one <random activity> Simulator

 

[Le Pertti]

We all know which GOTY list is the one that matters!

 

[Panda Pedinte]

Cyberpunk winning an award is a bit surprising. I guess it helps it's localized to PC players who had way better experiences than console players.

I'm also surprised even more as it won story-rich award.

 

[NarohDethan]

RE Village GOTY, talent won.

 

[thekeats1999]

Looking at the awards I think there are 8 games I have tried. Out of them it's only Dorfromantik I consider GOTY materail. Although I do need to grab Nier Gestalt at some point (I want old man Nier in it).

The category that Cyberpunk won is the one category that I will not contest. It was the best thing about the game. I do need to go back and complete it however. I was waiting for a few more patches first.

I am now debating whether I start cookie clicker before I go to work tomorrow to earn some cookies while I am away...

 

[prudis]

seems like AMD and NVidia events happening tomorrow

 

[NarohDethan]

seems like AMD and NVidia events happening tomorrow

Can't wait for the next line of GPUs I won't be able to buy.

 

[prudis]

so anyone remembers this

 

[madjoki]

Mor new hardware you can't buy reasonable priced..

so anyone remembers this

Not egslusive?

 

[ExistentialThought]

Not egslusive?

It already was for a year, though I would not blame you since it is surreal it has been a year already haha.

We all know which GOTY list is the one that matters!

I should vote, but I am honestly struggling to think of many 2021 releases I played and played all the way through

 

[C-Dub]

It already was for a year, though I would not blame you since it is surreal it has been a year already haha.

EGS has taught me that a year is not a very long time.

 

[QFNS]

That Meat Boy forever is the one that is an endless runner right? I think that's why no one cared about it. Even the EGSclusy-ness can't help you if you make a game in a boring genre.

 

[inky]

Yeah, I should've been a little more specific. I have Skyrim Special Edition, so any overhauls, i want to keep it pretty much vanilla just want to make sure it runs well and looks great.

IMO the vanilla game with just the patch and SkyUI is a perfectly good experience, even to this day.

There are maybe a couple base mods I would recommend, but you'll only notice an improvement once you've already experienced the vanilla game for a while. These are:

Static Mesh Improvement Mod - SMIM - Static Mesh Improvement. Improves the Meshes and basic textures of 3D models and clutter items in the world. Doesn't change anything from the game experience so it's a nice to have.
Realistic Water Two SE - Realistic Water Two. Improves the general look of water and makes water bodies better looking overall. There are a few of these water mods, but this one is fine.

That's it. The reality is, most mods are aimed at people who have already exhausted what Skyrim has to offer the first time around. Even stuff like re-textures, lightning or weather mods, etc. could probably stand out from the rest of the game if you are not modding extensively already. So my recommendation would be for you to just jump in. Then, if after a few hours you feel you need something to punch up your playthrough or found something annoying you wish you could change, then you can come back and check if there is a mod for you.

If you need help or anything, tag me up here and I'll see what I can do. I'm not on meta much, but I'll try to help.

 

[Prodigy]

I'm also surprised even more as it won story-rich award.

Probably the best game I played of that year, and I really enjoyed the overall story and side quests. I am itching to check it out again with the new update (and I see there have been some good mods).

 

[LEANIJA]

The Steam Awards: Winners

The Steam Community has spoken and we are proud to announce the winners of this year's Steam Awards. Thanks to everyone who participated!

store.steampowered.com

Steam Award Winners

I agree with some of that. REVillage was my GOTY2021 too.

Steam Awards are the anti-Oscars - never the smaller, artistic games, always the biggest titles, and one <random activity> Simulator

Well yep if you let people vote, thats what you'll get

EGS has taught me that a year is not a very long time.

indeed! also, how easy it is to forget about games even existing

Probably the best game I played of that year, and I really enjoyed the overall story and side quests. I am itching to check it out again with the new update (and I see there have been some good mods).

I recently played it again for a while. Its still great. I didnt really have any problems with it, so I cant tell if the patches made it better or not.