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looks like quite a bunch of devs waited for after Winter sale to graduate from early access into v1.0 launch
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When I finished Wateland 3 my saves didn't upload to the cloud for some reason. I uninstalled the game but seems like I'll have to install it again just to backup the saves. Should've kept the game installed until I could sync the saves.
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also I received 5 friend requests on Steam today, all from a level 0 "Playerunknowins Battlegrounds" with the same avatar image (the game logo). I didnt take a screenshot then but when I wanted to do that now, all these friend requests had reverted to random people. So Im guessing a scammer got them and they got their accounts restored now – Im bringing this up in case there is a scam wave making the rounds; be vigilant (always)
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also I received 5 friend requests on Steam today, all from a level 0 "Playerunknowins Battlegrounds" with the same avatar image (the game logo). I didnt take a screenshot then but when I wanted to do that now, all these friend requests had reverted to random people. So Im guessing a scammer got them and they got their accounts restored now – Im bringing this up in case there is a scam wave making the rounds; be vigilant (always)
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Folks, I finished SIGNALIS yesterday and it was an incredible game, and this coming from someone who isn't a fan of the survival horror genre. I know it takes inspiration from various games and media like older Resident Evil games, Silent Hill series and Neon Genesis Evangelion.
The RE inspiration is mainly noticeable in its inventory system, being able to carry only six items made really conscious about what I was picking or carrying, though you're always unlocking shortcuts to the save points. Reading the notes and paying attention is essential to solve mostly of the puzzles, and once you solve them get that feeling of "I'm smart".
The way the enemies looks and moves were clearly taking inspiration from SH, though you can pass unnoticed by mostly of them, just don't run or use your lantern/radio near them. Still talking about the enemies, one of the revelations you get quite early in game is that they can come back to life so you need to burn them, but the item used for it is rare and it kept tense every time I had to pass through a room I didn't burned down the enemies.
Aesthetically the game is a love letter to the PSX era, there is a CRT filter option you can enable that I liked and used it for part of my play through. The illumination is superb, just watch the gif bellow:
GIF from IGN Africa
The OST can be relaxing and unnerving at the same time, some songs sounds like they were made by hitting things. The enemies screaming when noticing you always made me feel nervous even though I knew I could just run and outpace them.
I got the Memory ending and I watched the other endings, and I'm still trying to process what the fuck was going on so I'll probably read and watch some videos theorizing about the lore, but meanwhile I read that text from Paste Magazine (beware spoilers) and was an interesting analyze of some themes from the game.
The RE inspiration is mainly noticeable in its inventory system, being able to carry only six items made really conscious about what I was picking or carrying, though you're always unlocking shortcuts to the save points. Reading the notes and paying attention is essential to solve mostly of the puzzles, and once you solve them get that feeling of "I'm smart".
The way the enemies looks and moves were clearly taking inspiration from SH, though you can pass unnoticed by mostly of them, just don't run or use your lantern/radio near them. Still talking about the enemies, one of the revelations you get quite early in game is that they can come back to life so you need to burn them, but the item used for it is rare and it kept tense every time I had to pass through a room I didn't burned down the enemies.
Aesthetically the game is a love letter to the PSX era, there is a CRT filter option you can enable that I liked and used it for part of my play through. The illumination is superb, just watch the gif bellow:
GIF from IGN Africa
The OST can be relaxing and unnerving at the same time, some songs sounds like they were made by hitting things. The enemies screaming when noticing you always made me feel nervous even though I knew I could just run and outpace them.
I got the Memory ending and I watched the other endings, and I'm still trying to process what the fuck was going on so I'll probably read and watch some videos theorizing about the lore, but meanwhile I read that text from Paste Magazine (beware spoilers) and was an interesting analyze of some themes from the game.
10 million players is the more impressive metric IMO, especially since last year had the one two punch of Elden Ring and Lost Ark. Goose Goose Duck is also >600k CCU and is doing a ton of heavy lifting.
To put this in an even more wild perspective, big budget games that go into production a year from now will be for release on PC2.
but Deck is already out
So, on the deck?
but Deck is already out
That's PC Portable, not PC2.So, on the deck?
Big fan of open source and having a CLI so thanks for the tip on Ludusavi! Going to use that instead of GSM this time.
finished NMH3 on the Spicy difficulty, gonna get back to it in some time to get through it 100% later
but for now, not-gaming related time in smaller text and different font so you know it's not a mandatory read
this semester, I think I'l try to get a little better grades - this entire time I never actually cared much for them, they were mostly a last-second type thing, I basically procrastinated on all of them and never gave it good elbow grease throughout the semester, which worked out fine at the start when I got my many B's, but with my previous semester amounting up to two C's, a E and an unavoidable F, my ego's a bit down and I'd like to have my average grade of B back, not a mediocre average of C (even though it has no role in the end as my master's degree allows anyone with a C or higher average grade to enter)
It'll totally be harder than before, with these being advanced topics and shit, but that's what work is for, and I don't find it really challenging, just fucking time-consuming
but for now, not-gaming related time in smaller text and different font so you know it's not a mandatory read
this semester, I think I'l try to get a little better grades - this entire time I never actually cared much for them, they were mostly a last-second type thing, I basically procrastinated on all of them and never gave it good elbow grease throughout the semester, which worked out fine at the start when I got my many B's, but with my previous semester amounting up to two C's, a E and an unavoidable F, my ego's a bit down and I'd like to have my average grade of B back, not a mediocre average of C (even though it has no role in the end as my master's degree allows anyone with a C or higher average grade to enter)
It'll totally be harder than before, with these being advanced topics and shit, but that's what work is for, and I don't find it really challenging, just fucking time-consuming
I don't remember there were missables in terms of achievements, I did a quick search and people said there weren't, so probably safe to do it in your own pace.
After over 18 hours of Old World, I can say it's a pretty good Civ-like game for an indie team. The game doesn't have the depth and opitmization as Civ, but as a beginner game, it's pretty nice.
I got all the achievements and never used a guide until the very end so I don't think anything is missable. Post game has important story points rather than just super bosses like a lot of jrpgs so I would advise against skipping it.
To be honest this isn't anything new, and if anything the news is good because it means it hasn't gotten even longer than it already is.
Both horizon 1 and god of war 2018 had roughly 7 year cycles. Now that obviously doesn't mean it was in full production that whole time but that is when the director (and probably a few leads) first sat down to iron out the very beginnings of the project. I believe cyberpunk and RDR 2 also fit into similar time frames. FF16 by the time it's out will qualify as well since I believe schreier said it was first started after Heavensward came out which was in 2016. So even if you want to be lenient and say it started in 2017 that's still 6.5 years by the time it comes out in June.
I like playing games that push cutting edge tech, especially animation and physics. Unfortunately that's how long these things take, nothing we can do about it.
This year is the one I'll be 90% PC gaming and 10% Switch. I am already prepping my consoles for sale, cancelling subscriptions and all that.
This year I think I'll try to mostly be tackling older games, except of course the bigger titles. Also might concentrate more on longer RPGs. So I have a feeling I won't play many games this year but still play a lot.
As i said before for many studios issue is that they are not efficient. They would often go back and forward during pre-production and production, rebooting things and changing things based on demands from higher ups. They would also often spend a lot of time on stupid things like cramming in as many currencies as they can in game (or crafting materials) and then spending tons of time balancing things for no reason (i mean we all know reason, make game as confusing as possible so it is easier to just go and buy resource packs as MTX). And things like that. CP2077 wasn't almost decade in development because they were making sure that game is polished, full of things to do and engaging. It spent almost decade in development because they didn't know what to do, changed direction multiple times and rebooted game multiple times. In comparison you can see where time was spent in RDR2 but even with that i can bet that they wasted at least 20% of time on rebooting smaller things and changing things that didn't need to be changed just because.
Last day for the Midnight Suns discount on GMG.
Uh. Tempted.
Uh. Tempted.
I plan to limit my gaming purchase to 20 games in 2023. Shouldn't be too hard to do because I will still be able to get at least one game per month.
This year will probably be RPG year for me, or in general longer games year. i intend to replay Mass Effect 2 and finally play Mass effect 3 (i have Legendary Edition and last year i replayed ME1), maybe play Mass Effect andromeda, play Dragon Age Inquisition, replay GTA V, play Dying Light 2, if they fix Witcher 3 maybe do replay of that, maybe play Stalker games for the first time or simply just jump into Stalker 2, finish Gotham Knights, play Hogwarts Legacy that i got for Christmas, maybe finish Assassin's Creed Valhalla DLCs, if Assassin's Creed mirage is good i will play that too, Star Wars Jedi Survivor is day 1, maybe play Fallout 4...
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This year in gaming I'll do as I do every year.
Claim at the start of a month "not much for me" - during the month I'll buy lots of things - at the end of the month realise I haven't played even half of them.
Maybe at the end of the year I'll be at 30% played if that.
Claim at the start of a month "not much for me" - during the month I'll buy lots of things - at the end of the month realise I haven't played even half of them.
Maybe at the end of the year I'll be at 30% played if that.
Yeah inefficiency is definitely part of the problem. In ff16's case I'm wagering a huge reason why it has taken 7 years is because of the engine they're using which is a modified ffxiv one. The team being familiar with it doesn't really matter that much when it's just not a good engine (the ffxv/forspoken team and luminous engine is an even better example of this). By comparison the FF7R team will have made 2 games in the same time span that 16 has taken to come out, and that's including the 2 years of work CC2 wasted on FF7 Remake. But it really shows what a difference a good engine makes versus a crappy one in development time.
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One day after Steam reached 32 million CCU, it just hit 33 million. I didn't think it would achieve that until the end of the month with the Lunar New Year celebrations.
Winter AGDQ starts today. Always a fun week when they do this stuff.
Lol if you believe they won't lock it to the current gen only.
Also, I imagine this will be the driver that will disable Gamestream and Shadowplay, because poor baby NVIDIA can't afford paying $0.25 licensing fees for each person using these...
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