Community MetaSteam | July 2024 - Summer arrived to Dawntrail
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Decided to replay Enslaved as a palette cleanser between all the RPGs.
I've always liked the art direction in this game and was curious to see how it looks on the Deck Oled. It actually looks nice.
Funny how on the day I finished Jeanne D'Arc Sony announced it as a PS+ classic. I'm glad more people will get to play it, had such a blast revisiting it, it's a sublime srpg.
SRPG's used to be able to tell great stories while still dedicating 90% of their runtime to the battles. Now you have stuff like Fire Emblem 3 Houses and Marvel's Midnight Suns putting all this fluff between battles and it annoys the hell out of me.
I've always liked the art direction in this game and was curious to see how it looks on the Deck Oled. It actually looks nice.
Funny how on the day I finished Jeanne D'Arc Sony announced it as a PS+ classic. I'm glad more people will get to play it, had such a blast revisiting it, it's a sublime srpg.
SRPG's used to be able to tell great stories while still dedicating 90% of their runtime to the battles. Now you have stuff like Fire Emblem 3 Houses and Marvel's Midnight Suns putting all this fluff between battles and it annoys the hell out of me.
Probably the reason why I still haven't played Three Houses, although it seems to have an incredible story.
I also love the combat of Midnight Suns, but I dropped the game at one point because the social sessions are too long. The writing is fine but there are so many things to go through in-between battle. Still haven't gone back to finish the game.
I powered through Midnight Suns and even as a fan of the in between segments it got to be too much. Three Houses has a similar problem but ultimately it has LESS (somehow) to do between battles and is better for it.
A case of the devs put way too much behind the out of combat stuff that it overwhelmed the (IMO pretty great) combat.
I'm really enjoying the convenience of Steam's recordings feature. It doesn't look like I can embed the video here though?
I'm on the Orc campaign now in Warcraft III.
I'm on the Orc campaign now in Warcraft III.
didamangi
Sometimes maybe good, sometimes maybe shit.
Unless you need the background recording feature, you can also just use it in "record now" mode.
I think the worries about recording to SSDs are a bit overblown. I saw someone do the math for 1TB SSDs, and you'd pretty much need to play for like a decade or two straight (or on that level) for a 1 hour background recording to do any damage to a modern SSD. Given how cheap SSDs have gotten, I think it's fine to treat them as just "infinite" storage and stop thinking about it. You should back up any data that is important in an external location anyway, and have fail safes there too.
didamangi
Sometimes maybe good, sometimes maybe shit.
Yeah, it's for background recording. Since my 32gb of ram is mostly unused while gaming, would be rad to have a replay buffer on all the time with the steam overlay..
Speaking of SSD/Nvme, they're 50% more expensive now in my region than a year ago.
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I just checked, and you are right, they have gotten more expensive since about 2023. I'm not seeing 50%, more like 30%, but that's within the normal regional differences. I think the overall trend for SSD prices over like a decade is still positive, but I suppose the strong inflation over the last years has driven prices up for just about everything.
I wonder if Concord will live or die? Some people that were skeptical before seem to be enjoying it? And you also have other people clowning on the game.
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Yeah I love it. I was basically always too lazy to actually share any clips since even when I took a shadowplay recording I'd have to cut it to the actual part I want, but the timeline makes that really quick (and I can even do it while in-game).
Can't believe that I have forgotten to open a new thread on Sunday as I have been doing this for... 2 years I think? Apologies.
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Sorry for forgetting to open a new thread. What are you playing? I am still playing One Piece Odyssey. Finished most of the side content, only a few more tedious ones left to do. Meanwhile, I also step into the final dungeon and already reached the front gate of the final boss (I think?)...
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didamangi
Sometimes maybe good, sometimes maybe shit.
Found this gem to replace GameSave Manager, which was very slow for me.
github.com
It's very fast. Useful for non steam games or those steam games without steam cloud support.
GitHub - mtkennerly/ludusavi: Backup tool for PC game saves
Backup tool for PC game saves. Contribute to mtkennerly/ludusavi development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
It's very fast. Useful for non steam games or those steam games without steam cloud support.
Talking about Steam Recording:
store.steampowered.com
(I wrote "one of the first" in that post since I'm honestly not sure, but I think we might be first?)
The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak - Version 1.3.5 Patch Notes - Steam News
Steam Game Recording Timeline support and a few smaller fixes.
(I wrote "one of the first" in that post since I'm honestly not sure, but I think we might be first?)
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Nice tool, trying it now. I haven't used GameSave Manager in a long time since I was able to backup the save files to my NAS drive for some reasonFound this gem to replace GameSave Manager, which was very slow for me.
GitHub - mtkennerly/ludusavi: Backup tool for PC game saves
Backup tool for PC game saves. Contribute to mtkennerly/ludusavi development by creating an account on GitHub.
It's very fast. Useful for non steam games or those steam games without steam cloud support.
Do you know if it can delete save files as well?
didamangi
Sometimes maybe good, sometimes maybe shit.
Jackbox unifying all their games under the megapicker is actually awesome. They've needed this for a long time.
Warhorse Studio is going to give Kingdom Come 2 free to their Kickstarter backers who had backed at the tier that offered them 'Act 2' of the game at the time. Even though this is a full sequel, they feel obligated to the people who supported them when they were starting out.
Fucking fantastic gesture
Fucking fantastic gesture
This type of game will be all about post launch support. I haven't played Helldivers 2 but from what I remember the support was good.
With this tho they are gonna have to fix and balance all the issues out on the fly. If its good people will play it but that price tag will probably prevent it from ever being big. They'll need some luck too and hope some big streamers jump on board. Not much else happening next month so its always a possibility the game blows up like Helldivers.
Got a new red Xbox controller during Prime Day. It wasn't so cheap, but still, the Xbox one I have still works, but the sticks are peeled. So instead of getting two sticks, I just buy a new controller. But I also just like having a bunch of controllers, so don't feel bad for me.
Supraland - Supraworld editions and price revealed - Steam News
Which edition is it gonna be for you? Btw, you already shortened development time by 2500 minutes with your likes the other day. If you keep going, the game was released last year. And don't forget to wishlist:
Maybe Wolfire should have sued the console manufacturers instead of Valve.
Also I'm guessing Nintendo is the one most likely enforcing it, but I can't say for sure.
Maybe Wolfire should have sued the console manufacturers instead of Valve.
Also I'm guessing Nintendo is the one most likely enforcing it, but I can't say for sure.
Bah can't see the first Twitter post and reply doesn't give me a link.
Nice find.
I'm already doing a nightly backup of Steam's userdata folder and non-Steam games, but I'll give this a go.
One thing I kind of neglected is emulator saves, so this might be the answer to that as well.
As I slowly trudge my way through Dawntrail I continue to ask how this team got a reputation for great writing when their last 3 projects (this, ff16 and endwalker) have had PAINFULLY bad writing. Without spoiling anything I'll give an example I came across today
Character 1 speaking to a bad guy: You should make peace with the protagonist
bad guy: No I hate them and if you ask me this again I'll kill your family
character 1 to the protagonist like 5 minutes later: Soooo you should try to make peace with the bad guy
Were they dropped on their head? How do you not understand who you're dealing with after that first conversation? The expansion is full of annoying writing like this as well as incredibly one note characters who say the same thing over and over just like how FF16 beats you over the head for 20 hours about how bad slavery is. The game still has the rambling for too long issue most CBU3 games have too. They're like mihoyo on that level they don't even try to improve.
Character 1 speaking to a bad guy: You should make peace with the protagonist
bad guy: No I hate them and if you ask me this again I'll kill your family
character 1 to the protagonist like 5 minutes later: Soooo you should try to make peace with the bad guy
Were they dropped on their head? How do you not understand who you're dealing with after that first conversation? The expansion is full of annoying writing like this as well as incredibly one note characters who say the same thing over and over just like how FF16 beats you over the head for 20 hours about how bad slavery is. The game still has the rambling for too long issue most CBU3 games have too. They're like mihoyo on that level they don't even try to improve.
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Zenless Zone Zero surpasses $50 million in 11 days
HoYoverse’s new action RPG Zenless Zone Zero generated nearly $52 million from player spending on mobile in the 11 days following its official release on July 4th.
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Ellen Joe putting in work
Supraland - Supraworld editions and price revealed - Steam News
Which edition is it gonna be for you? Btw, you already shortened development time by 2500 minutes with your likes the other day. If you keep going, the game was released last year. And don't forget to wishlist:
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