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Steam's #2 most wishlisted game, The Day Before, has been removed from Steam. It was expected to come out March 1st, but has since been delayed to November 10 due to trademark issues.
Also apparently the patent holder/claimer is apparently in Korea for what it matters so I mean uhh...
I always consult my lawyers to publish gameplay videos 10 months in advance when I already talked to them about releasing a gameplay videoa month ago
This game reeks of scam lol
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that can't be the real reason, can it? it's rare for a game to have to change its title very late in development due to copyright issues, but it's not unheard of (Ion Fury comes to mind as an example in the past few years); that shouldn't necessitate an eight-month delay
twitter accounts subbed to twitter blue is automatically sus to me.
The Day Before looks ambitious n all but not some impossible project. If that dev team can create something like PropNight they should technically be able to make an open world DayZ game type game.
They probably just promised too much and now stuck in endless dev hell. They should be smart enough to know about steam early access. Release what you have and let the community beta test that shit as you polish it up.
They probably just promised too much and now stuck in endless dev hell. They should be smart enough to know about steam early access. Release what you have and let the community beta test that shit as you polish it up.
I may have been unclear, the issue is more on the powering down everything on a whim than powering on.
Would be cool if he was trained to power the pc on in the morning
Maybe try taping a piece of carboard or flat plastic over the button from one side so that it acts like a flap that you need to flip to access it. Or get a little more creative and jerry rig some contraption like a matchbox cover over a pencil or something that can slide over the button to limit accessibility.
One other option is to rewire your motherboard and connect the power switch connector to the reset switch header. Reset buttons are typically smaller and harder to accidentally press so maybe that might help.
I just cannot get a read on this game. In the 10 minute video they showed it seems like they're trying really hard to pretend you can play it in single player when it's clearly designed for multiplayer/replayability. There are obvious markers like color coded weapon rarities (with presumably randomized drops), randomized events at locations (like the nests they mention) and the fact that you need multiple characters to synchronize abilities. There will be a marked difference between playing Corvo Attano/Cole where you have all your abilities in your control and this game where you have to pick one character with limited abilities if you play it single player. I'm sure it will technically be viable to play the game solo from start to finish but I feel like you'll be fighting the game design as you do.
The thing is, there's nothing wrong if they're trying to make a multiplayer L4D type game but it doesn't gel with the kind of immersive sim games they're known for. Immersive sims ask you to explore and patiently observe the game world. It's how you absorb the setting and the story and decide how you want to proceed for any given situation. I have never played a co-op action game where any of this was possible. In most cases I'm talking with my friends over voice com and barely paying attention to even the main story cutscenes, let alone anything that isn't explicitly presented to you (such as environmental storytelling). You also end up taking the easiest path to complete any objective which is shooting your way to it. Even in games like Sniper Elite or Ghost Recon or Payday, we can start out trying to play in stealth but it almost inevitably goes to shit and we end up in a firefight. Playing this as an immersive in co-op is going to be challenging.
Deathloop was an okay game but still a disappointment. It was great for the first 8 hours or so when you are exploring the new maps and locations, but the experience degraded sharply once the groundhog day mechanic really kicked in and there was no reason to ever do anything other than the primary objective. And the fact that a game that was supposed to allow you to figure out how to achieve your overarching objective but in the end there was only one linear path to success and the game literally tells you what that path is soured me on the experience.
Still, Arkane makes nice games so I kind of want to play this. A friend of mine said we could try it in c0-op. I'll decide closer to release. It's also very expensive for the full version of the game, but then everything is very expensive these days.
Copyright != Trademark
The brand name was trademark and they can't use the name "The Day Before" because someone else trademarked the name for whatever reason they had...
FUGA 2 got release date
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Steamworld Build demo was surprisingly meaty.
Good stuff.
Good stuff.
Yeah I've been trying to jam this into people's heads for years but there's no such thing as "optional" co-op and devs always say that to try to ease people's fears. The mere existence of co-op changes how a game is designed dramatically.. Look at gotham knights and how they had to make the combat arenas huge just in case you were playing with multiple people and it led to the SP experience having these huge rooms with like 4 guys in it and you would awkwardly stumble around from person to person. Redfall looks like it has the same problem in yesterday's video, huge uninspired combat zones. It also changes how missions are designed and how story is delivered, you rarely ever have unique in depth scripted story parts in these types of games because it's hard to keep 4 people corralled and focused on the same thing. One person may be sprinting ahead and screwing everything up.
This is why I have always been so vehemently against co-op in games. I would much rather we go back to the 360 era where games had separate cut off multiplayer modes as that is far less likely to impact the campaign.
Out of 60k+ Steam games there are like 18k that has listed partial or full controller support.
There are more games with achievements then controller support. Around 31k.
I wish every game had both.
There are more games with achievements then controller support. Around 31k.
I wish every game had both.
Oh heck yes! Oh heck Yes! So excited!
Tex from the BPL had a quick playthrough of this and my nostalgia went through the roof!
This is a 7 month old video showing the Alpha, link to the googledrive in the comments.
Yeah! BattleMercs is a spiritual homage to the old BattleTech Inception/Crescent Hawk games!
There is a video coming up on the 29th showing modding side of things.
GDI! There's supposed to be a Beta version download link but they are pushing people to effing Discord by the looks of the update in the description. ffs.
I don't want to be a million fucking discords just to try stuff out.
Moodiness over...
There's a BattleMercs post on Grogheads that has the GoogleDrive Beta link.
I might join the discord anyway...
Tex from the BPL had a quick playthrough of this and my nostalgia went through the roof!
This is a 7 month old video showing the Alpha, link to the googledrive in the comments.
Yeah! BattleMercs is a spiritual homage to the old BattleTech Inception/Crescent Hawk games!
There is a video coming up on the 29th showing modding side of things.
GDI! There's supposed to be a Beta version download link but they are pushing people to effing Discord by the looks of the update in the description. ffs.
I don't want to be a million fucking discords just to try stuff out.
Moodiness over...
There's a BattleMercs post on Grogheads that has the GoogleDrive Beta link.
I might join the discord anyway...
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So with Base Builder Fest in full swing I thought it was time to fill my Cart with all kinds of strat/sim goodness.
To my (not) surprise, turns out I already own like 90% of the Top Sellers list (lol) so I had to dig a little deeper.
I'm in a holding pattern with some of the more popular releases. Stuff I'm 1000% planning to get but want to wait on while they cook in the Early Access oven a bit more. Clanfolk, Stardeus, Timberborn, that kind of thing.
Then there's the stuff that's just been collecting dust forever on my Wishlist. I've passed on Judgement and Dwarrows at -50% sale so many times now that I think it might be time to cut them loose off of my Wishlist.
So I randomly homed in on Learning Factory. It's from the dev behind While True: learn().
On the surface it looks like Factorio-lite with cats, on top of that it branches off into a full machine learning suite (which is this dev's thing). You're automating production lines that sell various goods to cats. Different cats want different things. AI analyzes the sales data to create workflow charts that can eventually automate production schedules and pricing caps (the machine learning part).
So far I'm giving it a thumbs up. The presentation is about as charming as it gets when it comes to a traditionally dry genre (the watercolor visuals are awesome and the machine animations elevate it to the next level). Love that it's both a relaxing take but not a slave to the source material. Digging a bit deeper into the dev studio reveals that they're heavy into school learning programs and teaching children about technology, which is a bonus feel-good vibe.
Played HiFi Rush for 30mins on game pass and I can already say this is going to be one of the best games in 2023. Tango nailed it.
As always Wild Hearts looks well made for a MonHun clone, we'll see if it has the longevity in its game flow and stuff and how good the weapons feel. Also if Capcom will one up them by showing a spectacular next MonHun before this comes out, though Rise going multiplatform now indicates that's still far.
They really need to optimize their engine so they can use higher resolution and what not, the game looks so darn muddy. I also liked the first couple monsters shown more, I thought they'd all have that flower/plant motif which weirdly reminded me of the corrupt beast gods in Princess Mononoke but others don't.
They really need to optimize their engine so they can use higher resolution and what not, the game looks so darn muddy. I also liked the first couple monsters shown more, I thought they'd all have that flower/plant motif which weirdly reminded me of the corrupt beast gods in Princess Mononoke but others don't.
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Dead Space Remake starting with an opencritic of 88/100, out of 50 reviews:
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Dead Space (2023) is rated 'Mighty' after being reviewed by 177 critics, with an overall average score of 89. It's ranked in the top 2% of games and recommended by 97% of critics.
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I also played for 30 minutes or so. I liked the graphics and the music. The PC port seemed technically good, but I don't know about the mouse+keyboard controls. Felt responsive, but it did not seem ergonomic to have a rhythm game where the main inputs are the left and right mouse buttons.
Super excited for this, especially as the Ender Liles devs are making it. At first glance it looks like a Fire Emblem clone, but watching the video it shows you field a small group of elite soldiers instead of an entire army. There doesn't appear to be permadeath and upgrades are character specific. My main concern is there might not be as much breadth of mechanics compared to FE and the game could lose steam in the final leg, which is common in strategy games where you have maxed out nearly everything and can't anticipate getting anything new.
Forspoken’s PC system requirements are still weird, so let’s fix them
Forspoken's PC specs are unusually high and based on some unusual resolution/framerate targets. We've tested the game to see which hardware you actually need.
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RPS have an article up that looks at Forspoken's bizare specs and then makes their own version.
I take back what I said about Forspoken running on the steam deck yesterday. Apparently, it runs better on Steam deck than on a desktop, just like Elden Ring last year. The only difference is that Elden Ring is not mid lmao.
I love Battletech and Tex.
BTW Roguetech new massive update was released this week.
Hitman AssAss(ination) discount
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seriously tho it's a good game
seriously tho it's a good game
A Plague Tale Requiem is such a beautiful game even when everything except textures turned down to low
Wash Dogs Legion is out, 12€
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Yeah thats the funny thing, it ran better on Deck than my PC, and also looked like ass on my PC...
Fucking hell is Hi-Fi Rush tempting, but I have so much work to do and so many other games on my plate.
I caved and bought Hi-Fi Rush and Dead Space.
My self control is nothing right now.
My self control is nothing right now.
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