Some people really like to delete their post.
To the person I suspect of doing so, I'm not blaming you, it's odd but you do you.
To the person I suspect of doing so, I'm not blaming you, it's odd but you do you.
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Community MetaSteam | July 2023 - This one will turn you into a furry
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Team behind PlayStation’s Patapon reveal successor game ‘Ratatan’ | VGC
The project, announced during BitSummit, will come to Kickstarter this month…
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Patapon spiritual successor is coming to Kickstarter at the end of the month. No platforms listed, but I have to imagine it'll come our way.
So Baldurs Gate 3, Starfield and Shadow Gambit in the span of some weeks. Huh.
..and Jagged Alliance 3 and Cyberpunk Phantom Liberty and Alan Wake 2..
I'm hoping I can get through BG3 in August. I have a week off near the end of it, so I should be able to. Then onto Starfield!
Went to PS Store for once to check out the price of Jagged Alliance 3 for curiosity sake, didn't find the game at all, then I discovered that the game is only available on Steam, nowhere else, not GOG, EGS, Playstation, Nintendo or Xbox.
Gabe must really have given THQN his wallet for the game.
Gabe must really have given THQN his wallet for the game.
Jagged Alliance 3
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Jagged Alliance 3
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THQN doesn't care about marketing GOG then.
it will be, probably later (already has full controller support)
Exoprimal is an awful, awful game. Conceptually it is great (Left 4 Dead with dinosaurs), but it has a major identity crisis and doesn't know if it wants to be a horde shooter or a PVP game. The dinosaur part is underwhelming as there never feels like there are that many enemies to mow down and there are only a handful of boss dinos. The PVP aspect feels tacked on and it's super frustrating to lose at the last minute after you were dominating the PVE part.
After two hours I feel like I've seen everything the game has to offer and have no desire to play any more. I can see why Capcom took the Game Pass check because it would have gigaflopped otherwise. The nicest thing I can say about the game is it made me appreciate Capcom's years long streak of putting out quality titles, but everyone stumbles at some point.
After two hours I feel like I've seen everything the game has to offer and have no desire to play any more. I can see why Capcom took the Game Pass check because it would have gigaflopped otherwise. The nicest thing I can say about the game is it made me appreciate Capcom's years long streak of putting out quality titles, but everyone stumbles at some point.
I was going to buy a new CPU for my mobo to get a few more years out of AM4. It got out of hand and now I got a whole new build to do.
My general mood is so low that all I been doing is looking at the boxes on the table and issuing empty promises to myself that I'll build it later. Maybe tommorow.
Don't try to spend your way out of being miserable. It doesn't work.
My general mood is so low that all I been doing is looking at the boxes on the table and issuing empty promises to myself that I'll build it later. Maybe tommorow.
Don't try to spend your way out of being miserable. It doesn't work.
Team behind PlayStation’s Patapon reveal successor game ‘Ratatan’ | VGC
The project, announced during BitSummit, will come to Kickstarter this month…
Patapon spiritual successor is coming to Kickstarter at the end of the month. No platforms listed, but I have to imagine it'll come our way.
Oh man, this looks so goo....
It feels like a weird mix between Left 4 Dead and Team Fortress 2, but I'm kinda enjoying it, though I can see why some may not like the game.
The cube escort pvp final mission, it's possible to completely avoid that one after the first run. Before starting the matchmaking, there's options for pvp, pve or random, the random option is default and gives extra exp, but the pve option doesn't have the cube escort for the final mission and it doesn't have direct confrontation between the 2 parties (though it still has the time competition aspect).
Heard that it takes like 5 to 6 hours of progress for more enemy variety to start unlocking, but I haven't reached that point yet. :/
Visiting Belgium for the first time this weekend, and I have to say, the fries over here really are extraordinary! 
Apparently Troika proposed their own version of Baldur's Gate 3 many years ago! It would've been first person with third person melee combat, and featured a competitive mode where players race to see who can finish a quest first...
And people lost their shit when Larian made BG3 turn-based!
My mind can't even process the amount of jank that game would have had if they were allowed to make it. 3rd person melee combat from pc devs in those days was absolutely horrid.
Apparently Troika proposed their own version of Baldur's Gate 3 many years ago! It would've been first person with third person melee combat, and featured a competitive mode where players race to see who can finish a quest first...
And people lost their shit when Larian made BG3 turn-based!
THANK GOD it never materialized.
Visiting Belgium for the first time this weekend, and I have to say, the fries over here really are extraordinary!
See if you can get some carbonade flamande / stoofvlees. Beef stew with beer and fries. Insanely good!
So I decided to restart JA3 after realizing that I messed up my agility stat, resulting in really low AP.
I also switched up my starting crew a bit, and immediately it worked a bit better.
But I still like to say that the tutorial doesn't really give you good tips on how to play.
I finally managed to figure out how to prep stealth melee kills and pull some off, but stealth is still very hard to master.
But everything else feels like JA. In other words, this game feels GREAT.
I also switched up my starting crew a bit, and immediately it worked a bit better.
But I still like to say that the tutorial doesn't really give you good tips on how to play.
I finally managed to figure out how to prep stealth melee kills and pull some off, but stealth is still very hard to master.
But everything else feels like JA. In other words, this game feels GREAT.
Visiting Belgium for the first time this weekend, and I have to say, the fries over here really are extraordinary!
Yes they are! We are getting fries at the "frituur" every week. Be sure to order lots of mayonnaise as well.
What cities have you visited?
No, that's what the next version is for, the iconic Ubisoft haptic pants.
I guess Yves is just making sure to cover all bases. If gaming isn't working out, there's always the high end sex tech peripheral market
Heroic games launcher is getting / has Amazon Prime gaming support on the latest git version. Really nice to get all the Neo Geo stuff that prime is giving away up and running. Heroic is really shaping up into becoming a great way to install non-steam games on Linux / Steamdeck.
Didn’t know Jagged Alliance 3 is made by ex Tropico people, I’m interested.
It's also better than the Windows clients for EGS, GOG and Amazon, plus it automatically adds the games to Steam as non-Steam games and pulls artwork down from SteamGridDB (though I sometimes have to go into SGDB and Boop different artwork because some daft vaseline cover has become the most popular for some games).Heroic games launcher is getting / has Amazon Prime gaming support on the latest git version. Really nice to get all the Neo Geo stuff that prime is giving away up and running. Heroic is really shaping up into becoming a great way to install non-steam games on Linux / Steamdeck.
Unless one of the client operators starts clamping down on that and blocking the app (or, even worse, banning users who use it - though that would be monumentally dumb considering they're paying customers) there's really no need to use the official clients for Epic, GOG and now Amazon.
In other news...
So I started messing about with a version of Baserow installed on my home server just to see how I get on with tinkering with an Airtable-like application, and decided I'd catalogue my games on there and move my backlog over.
It took a bit of learning (I'm a complete database novice), but I've got a really functional setup now. I still need to tweak a few of the number values, but I can do that without having to re-enter my entire game library, which I've laboriously added to the database.
I setup a series of criteria and then scored values within that criteria. The highest score for each criteria then goes into a "master number" that partially determines backlog ranking.
So the criteria I scored are:
- Gameplay genre
- Story genre
- Visual aesthetic
- Personal tilt
For the first three, the the highest ranking attribute contributes to a game's total score. The fourth one is just a preference number I put in.
Right now all the numbers are 1-100, but I'm thinking of lowering it to 1-20 to make the gaps between the numbers smaller, which will allow me to create a view of the data with certain biases (such as sorting in favour of my gameplay preference, or visual aesthetic preference, and so on). I also added optional gating for the games so they'd have categories that can be the main sorting before the numerical scores. These gates are Must Play, High Priority, Medium Priority and Low Priority.
I won't go into how I did the calculations too much because I've spent enough time on it and it's probably very crude, but it actually works and depending on what bias I select in terms of displaying Backlog data, I get different games.
Here's my backlog top 5 for games that I've ticked I want to play (or replay) with no biases:
1. Persona 5 Royal
2. Cyberpunk 2077
3. Street Fighter 6
4. Persona 4 Golden
5. Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade
If you don't know my tastes well, looking at that list means I've trained the numbers very well, and games that are closest to my tastes have risen to the top of my backlog.
But I can setup other biases. If I bias by my categories, here's how my top 5 looks.
1. Street Fighter 6
2. Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade
3. Metal Gear Solid
4. Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth
5. Shenmue II
All these games are in my "Must Play" list and the backlog has sorted them by my calculated preferences after categorising them.
But I can do other biases too. For example, if I'm more interested in a story game, my backlog looks like this:
1. Cyber Manhunt
2. malViolence
3. Digital Exorcist
4. Deus Ex
5. Metal Gear Solid
But if I want to play older games, here's how it pans out:
1. Sonic the Hedgehog
2. Sonic the Hedgehog 2
3. Sonic CD
4. Shenmue II
5. Deus Ex
There are some similarities between some of the lists, and that's probably because all my scoring is on a 1-100 scale, which means some games may just pull ahead on score regardless of bias. I think dropping my scale down to 20 or 10 may make things easier to shake up.
Plus I'm only using these lists as an indicator - I'm not gonna abstract my entire decision-making on what game I play next to a few numbers on a database table. But if my tastes change or I'm in the mood for something different, I can adjust the values for gameplay or story genres and get a whole different ordering. Might throw something in my face that I wasn't thinking about, but may just be the right game for the moment.
It's certainly an improvement on my old backlog, which was essentially a list in my Apple Reminders app that always got unwieldy after a few months.
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Girls' Frontline 2 has some of the best anime character models I have ever seen. Having played GFL1 for a few years in the past, I know the story is going to deliver as well.
Temptation rising...
Temptation rising...
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Big CRPG mood here. But Baldur’s Gate 3 is right around the corner and I don’t think I can play an entire game before that. Shit.
And Jagged Alliance 3 pricing on key sellers keeps rising.
I hate Sundays.
And Jagged Alliance 3 pricing on key sellers keeps rising.
I hate Sundays.
These higher budget gacha games looks and play nice but man does their monetization model and the fomo events suck all the life out of them.
Yeah, wish they'd release offline versions with gacha disabled and all the events intact after killing the game.
First game is very F2P friendly. I hadn't spent one single dime on it during those few years. I was a casual player though so I didn't mind missing units and costumes.
My main problem with gacha game would be daily missions (which feels like having a second job after work) and life cycle (if the game is not successful they will kill it asap and no money refund).
Yeah, that would be great.
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Today I’m receiving my headset. Nothing cray cray, HyperX Cloud Alpha. Because I obv needed a decent headset for lazy media consumption on ipad in bed for example.
But I also have a plan. Because keikaku is maybe the only thing I’m good for. I’m proud of that one, so let’s savor it : I weaponize my OCD to fight my social anxiety. Yeah.
So a couple years ago, I used my obsession for board games to go, alone, in a boardgaming club.
And now I may or may not use my obsession for TTRPG to talk with people on the Internet.
That’s the plan but I’m shitting myself.
And I also entertained the idea of making some youtube gaming video, but that would be less useful and most assuredly promised to fail as I’m shit and half ass everything.
But I also have a plan. Because keikaku is maybe the only thing I’m good for. I’m proud of that one, so let’s savor it : I weaponize my OCD to fight my social anxiety. Yeah.
So a couple years ago, I used my obsession for board games to go, alone, in a boardgaming club.
And now I may or may not use my obsession for TTRPG to talk with people on the Internet.
That’s the plan but I’m shitting myself.
And I also entertained the idea of making some youtube gaming video, but that would be less useful and most assuredly promised to fail as I’m shit and half ass everything.
No surprises. A portable open platform is bound to be popular at events like these. No need to lug around PCs (or even monitors) to demo your game.
Add to that the audience, a nation of handheld users, and it's a perfect storm really.
I saw a meme on Reddit regarding using agile sprint planning to manage your gaming backlog, and my initial reaction was: "That might actually be a good idea!"
You might want to look at The Outer World. It's inspired by Fallout New Vegas, which I would count as a CRPG of sorts. And Outer Worlds is really short. Like 13 hours for critical path, and maybe 25 with more optional things.
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But then people would play those far superior versions rather than pouring their time and money into their latest game.
I suppose it's cuz i grew up playing cardgames like magic and yugioh, but i unironically love gacha as a feature.
Although ideally the gacha works like in Xenoblade 2, wherein it's exclusively an ingame currency feature with the game balanced around it, rather than anything involving real money.
Although ideally the gacha works like in Xenoblade 2, wherein it's exclusively an ingame currency feature with the game balanced around it, rather than anything involving real money.
Went one day in Brussels and then to Mons, but only visiting friends there so not really seen the city. But I definitely want to come back to Belgium, still have the waffles and chocolate to taste!Yes they are! We are getting fries at the "frituur" every week. Be sure to order lots of mayonnaise as well.
What cities have you visited?
on a side note, all the strong Belgian beers are kicking my ass lol
yeah I loved the gacha in xenoblade 2, I wish more games used that model where you're just using ingame currency that doesn't involve money
I'm fine with gacha as a purely in-game thing, like how it's used to unlock characters in Holocure (Hololive Vampire Survivors like fan-game), but real money gacha for characters or equipment is a deal breaker for me (though I find cosmetics only gacha tolerable).
Talking about Holocure, 0.6 version/Steam version releasing on August 17:
Gacha might not exactly be the more thrilling mechanic (except if you're a gambling addict, then don't play the things, EVER), but it has the huge, huge advantage of making the games fully F2P.
For good ones anyway.
We can take an example just this week, Exoprimal would feel a lot less like gutter trash if it was a gacha for mechs and weapons skins or whatever, and didn't come with a 60 bucks price tag, along the battle pass, boosts and cosmetics...
For good ones anyway.
We can take an example just this week, Exoprimal would feel a lot less like gutter trash if it was a gacha for mechs and weapons skins or whatever, and didn't come with a 60 bucks price tag, along the battle pass, boosts and cosmetics...
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