Community MetaSteam | July 2020 - Blood on the Horizon

[Kyougar]

My top eight reasons to not move to Spain, sponsored by Google Weather, Square Space, NordVPN and the LTT Store:

We are fortunate in Germany this year. apart from a few days earlier this summer, this year the temperature was a constant 15 to 20 degrees with a raining day sprinkled in between.

 

[TioChuck]

I wanted to play Grounded so I subbed to Gamepass for R$1 for a month, the price of the game on Steam is almost the same of 10 months of Gamepass here.

 

[lashman]

We could be anywhere. Smelling.

take a shower then!

 

[Parsnip]

Yeah but where's Saboteur?!

 

[lashman]

Yeah but where's Saboteur?!

forgotten

 

[Swenhir]

• Play Pathfinder: Kingmaker for 57h
• Think to myself: "I must be getting close to the end"
• Checked a guide and I'm nearing the end of chapter 3
• The game has 7 chapters...

It's a good game and the Pathfinder ruleset is very cool but I had no idea the ride would be this long, even by cRPG standards.

It is amazingly long, it boggles my mind over and over how much of a journey, of a feeling of campaign this game conveys. I think I'm easily past the hundred hours mark and I have just entered chapter 3 too.

And I really need some cold iron for those worm thingies

 

[Parsnip]

forgotten

 

[Madventure]

My only comment on the Gabe stuff is that I like how they call him a Gaming Tycoon

that word isn't used enough anymore, I want to be a tycoon of something

 

[Cacher]

Well, Vampyr just gets to historic low on steam. I remember someone said the current trend is games getting to historic low after the summer sale. Guess it is true.

 

[NarohDethan]

Is steam ded?

 

[lashman]

Is steam ded?

RIP Gaben

 

[texhnolyze]

Tycoon status cancelled!

 

[Cordelia]

If I want the vanilla android experience, can I modify a phone to have it somehow ? Or am I glued to the modified os of the company that make the phone ?

If you want vanilla android experience straight from the box get Google Pixel phones. If you want somewhat modified a little vanilla android experience get OnePlus. For everything elses go check XDA-Developers Android Forums

These days I just use what came with the phone.

 

[NarohDethan]

I asked because I couldnt access steam

 

[crimsonheadGCN]

 

[texhnolyze]

Anyone here remembers that game that blends Mass Effect with XCOM?



It looks like they just released a major update last week with fully voiced storyline as well as additional modes. They also rebranded it as "Enhanced Edition". and planning for a controller support soonish.

 

[Cacher]

Night in Grounded is terrifying. See leaves moving due to something walking under it rather than wind? See a group of giant insects with red eyes hiding within bushes? See a green fog of poisonous gas?

You better nope out as quick as possible. Because you will die, horribly.

 

[texhnolyze]

 

[Knurek]

Imagine this happening to non-anime game...
AAA? Major shitshow all around, not limited to Valve being sued.
Indie? Twitter would explode, Rami would want Gaben head on a platter.
I guess double standards are just a thing.

 

[ZKenir]

i knew I should have grabbed that immediatly as it was out...

 

[Le Pertti]

Yeah wish steam would stop banning games, let me choose what I want to play and what I don't want to play.

 

[Knurek]

It all up to them what games they want to sell in the end, but removing a game they were okay with for almost a year without any notice being given to the publisher and no warning to the clients is just an all around shitty move.

 

[Tizoc]

Anyone here remembers that game that blends Mass Effect with XCOM?



It looks like they just released a major update last week with fully voiced storyline as well as additional modes. They also rebranded it as "Enhanced Edition". and planning for a controller support soonish.

Did it get a new image banner in the client?
I had it in my backlog for years now xp

 

[Li Kao]

Why can't I find a game in the Google Play store (emulated by MumuPlayer) ?
Game in question is Zenonzard, a ccg.

Does it happen when a game isn't emulated ?

Edit - It appears in Memu

 

[bobnowhere]

Anyone here remembers that game that blends Mass Effect with XCOM?



It looks like they just released a major update last week with fully voiced storyline as well as additional modes. They also rebranded it as "Enhanced Edition". and planning for a controller support soonish.

Interesting, I got it at launch, two weeks later it was in an Indie Gala bundle, burnt.

I really liked the idea of it but hated the hard time limits on levels. The game allowed zero freedom in gameplay and punished you with failure if you didn't play it the right way.

 

[texhnolyze]

Did it get a new image banner in the client?
I had it in my backlog for years now xp

No idea. They never actually announce the Definitive Edition thing, but I found it when searching for latest gameplay videos on YT. People call it that. Weird.

Interesting, I got it at launch, two weeks later it was in an Indie Gala bundle, burnt.

I really liked the idea of it but hated the hard time limits on levels. The game allowed zero freedom in gameplay and punished you with failure if you didn't play it the right way.

Huh, I see. That's why I keep reading people complaining about balance and difficulty. That's too bad if they never addressed the problem.

 

[Li Kao]

I'm toying heavily with the idea of restarting FF14 for the third time. They say it's the charm after all.
But god it's been long enough to be foggy but not enough for me to not remember.

 

[PC-tan]

A coworker once told me that Mexico is a Spain copy paste both in infrastructure and architecture.

I wonder why??.....

 

[Tizoc]

I'm toying heavily with the idea of restarting FF14 for the third time. They say it's the charm after all.
But god it's been long enough to be foggy but not enough for me to not remember.

Wait for new updare then go play it

 

[Le Pertti]

I made a twitter again! I need friends. https://twitter.com/vraipertti

 

[Tizoc]

I'm toying heavily with the idea of restarting FF14 for the third time. They say it's the charm after all.
But god it's been long enough to be foggy but not enough for me to not remember.

Wait for new updare then go play it

 

[ISee]

I made a twitter again! I need friends. https://twitter.com/vraipertti

 

[Li Kao]

I made a twitter again! I need friends. https://twitter.com/vraipertti

Done

Wait for new updare then go play it

Bah, the way I understand it, the big change is in the post-ARR progress, I won't be there by the 12th

Edit - Or not, I see they seemingly will shorten the bring xx number of xx quests.

 

[Nabs]

The Touryst is coming out on PC tomorrow. No real PC or Steam announcement, just a game pass press release. Weird.



Also Rocket Arena is $5 on PSN and I believe there's a free weekend on Xbox. I wouldn't be surprised if we get both on Steam. I wouldn't be surprised if we don't.

 

[Spamlynguist]

 

[Mor]

The Touryst is coming out on PC tomorrow. No real PC or Steam announcement, just a game pass press release. Weird.

Yeah it's really weird, we will have to wait and see what happens

 

[beep boop]

Why do some games on Steam have these 'adult patches' that you have to download externally anyway? Steam allows adult games, after all.

 

[Kuro]

Why do some games on Steam have these 'adult patches' that you have to download externally anyway? Steam allows adult games, after all.

But you need to enable Adult content to see games tagged as such, so games without that option get more views.

 

[Exzyleph]

Why do some games on Steam have these 'adult patches' that you have to download externally anyway? Steam allows adult games, after all.

In addition to what Kuro said, which made the all-ages game + adult DLC model popular for a while, Valve will outright reject games if they judge the characters to be too young. And these days those rejections are permanent, with no chance of appeal unless you happen to have a friend at Valve. So it is safer to simply cut that content before submitting a game to Steam and make it available elsewhere as a patch.

There are also a lot of games that were released on Steam prior to Valve allowing adult content, and it probably wasn't worth the effort to get the patches added as DLC or to get the games re-classified at the time.

 

[beep boop]

But you need to enable Adult content to see games tagged as such, so games without that option get more views.

That's true. But whenever I read about these VNs getting banned, it's often the ones that are the AA version. So maybe therein lies the problem.
Do agree that Valve should be more clear with its policies or more rigorous with its approval so that games don't go on sale for an extended period and then get removed without a stated reason.

 

[sanhora]

Steam allows adult games, after all.

*Except when the game is from Japan.

 

[beep boop]

*Except when the game is from Japan.

With the amount of hentai games on Steam, I don't think it's entirely that. The Sakura games stick around, among many others. My assumption is that it's gotta be something with the combination of an adult patch being available externally and containing overly suggestive content given the setting/script? It's weird though. I'd think something Nekopara would get the ban hammer as well, but that's around.

I think Valve should simply be more rigorous with adult games. The publish anything you want approach is a nice ideal, but it doesn't seem to work well universally. Given the work that's put into localizing these games and cleaning them up so to speak, I'm sure the publishers/developers would be fine with a longer approval process if it means they have some certainty over their livelihood. Plus, maybe low-effort hentai jigsaw games would finally stop being released so frequently.

Given that Steam is the market leader in the distribution space on PC, they should really start acting like it more often. If they can't handle the volume of requests, then they should do something to make the situation more tenable; weed out more low-effort adult games before it gets to a formal application. That hands-off, automated, no person-to-person communication approach doesn't seem to work all that well.

 

[Exzyleph]

*Except when the game is from Japan.

Tons of English made games get rejected as well.
There was even one that seemingly got rejected in the same batch as Bokuten (steamdb).
Most of them are just so low profile that nobody pays attention when they get the boot.

There have also been a lot of Chinese games banned, though they obviously also tend to have an "anime" aesthetic.

 

[Dandy]

• Play Pathfinder: Kingmaker for 57h
• Think to myself: "I must be getting close to the end"
• Checked a guide and I'm nearing the end of chapter 3
• The game has 7 chapters...

It's a good game and the Pathfinder ruleset is very cool but I had no idea the ride would be this long, even by cRPG standards.

I usually don't consider it a bad thing when games are long... But Kingmaker felt too long, for me. Part of it may have been that the side content wasn't all that great... Or that there were SO MANY TRASH FIGHTS... but I ended up skipping most of the side quests, left the map largely unexplored, and it still took me 90 hours to finish it.

 

[texhnolyze]

I usually don't consider it a bad thing when games are long... But Kingmaker felt too long, for me. Part of it may have been that the side content wasn't all that great... Or that there were SO MANY TRASH FIGHTS... but I ended up skipping most of the side quests, left the map largely unexplored, and it still took me 90 hours to finish it.

Indeed. The game is too long and too big for its own good. There are too many nodes/locations on the world map which mostly just lead to trash fights. Now they introduced turn-based combat, it'll only get worse since fights will take even longer with that mode enabled. The game is great with good characters and story, but there is too much busywork in-between.

They need to streamline everything in the sequel or I won't be getting it day 1 again.

 

[fantomena]

Is Monster Hunter World finishable? I know it's a long game, but since it takes almost 100gb Im considering to focus on that after Carrion and Death Stranding.

 

[beep boop]

Is Monster Hunter World finishable? I know it's a long game, but since it takes almost 100gb Im considering to focus on that after Carrion and Death Stranding.

Depends on what you call finished, I suppose. You could go through the entirety of the story quests and then some of the extra content after launch. Lots of fun hunts there. There's some gated content, but a lot of the stuff that's behind a big grind is more for additional challenge than anything else. And there's not much of it in the base game compared to Iceborne.

Be sure to do expeditions rather than repeating regular hunts if you need certain monster materials.

 

[fantomena]

Depends on what you call finished, I suppose. You could go through the entirety of the story quests and then some of the extra content after launch, I suppose. Lots of fun hunts there.

Be sure to do expeditions rather than repeating regular hunts if you need certain monster materials.

Mainly thinking about the story.

 

[beep boop]

Mainly thinking about the story.

Definitely finishable in that sense. After the mainline story, there's a whole host of other quests that progressively unlock, which are quite fun and have new monsters as well. Would recommend it, but you'll have spent a good chunk of time already just following the story/'assigned' quests.

 

[texhnolyze]

Is Monster Hunter World finishable? I know it's a long game, but since it takes almost 100gb Im considering to focus on that after Carrion and Death Stranding.

Yes, there's a story to follow and ending to achieve, as well as ending credits. Your journey doesn't stop there though.