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Community MetaSteam | June 2020 - Month Of The Seal, With Many A Deal, Throw Money With Zeal, The Wallet Will Kneel
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Oh, just noticed that The Surge 2 got a price drop earlier last month. I guess I'll have to buy the game soon.
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The Surge 2 · AppID: 644830
In a bid to survive, explore the sprawling, devastated Jericho City. Fight ferocious threats in brutal, unforgiving combat, slashing and tearing the limbs off your opponents to steal their equipment. The Surge 2 Steam charts, data, update history.
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Oh, just noticed that The Surge 2 got a price drop earlier last month. I guess I'll have to buy the game soon.
The Surge 2 · AppID: 644830
In a bid to survive, explore the sprawling, devastated Jericho City. Fight ferocious threats in brutal, unforgiving combat, slashing and tearing the limbs off your opponents to steal their equipment. The Surge 2 Steam charts, data, update history.
If I could only keep attention when playing the first one. That and don't get lost. Plus DLC never goes deep.
New thread smell, etc etc.
Getting pretty deep in my first Stellaris game. The pesky galactic Senate is starting to annoy my glorious empire. Might have to pull a Chancellor Palpatine and do some Order 66 on the nations that don't want to be a part of my glorious hegemony of definitely peaceful ambitions.
In unrelated news I have so many battlecruisers now lol.
Getting pretty deep in my first Stellaris game. The pesky galactic Senate is starting to annoy my glorious empire. Might have to pull a Chancellor Palpatine and do some Order 66 on the nations that don't want to be a part of my glorious hegemony of definitely peaceful ambitions.
In unrelated news I have so many battlecruisers now lol.
Other than the world falling apart, should be a good month. I hope some of these 
games have good launch sales. Wouldn't mind trying out the Outer Wilds.
Giving me two dripfalls at the start? ez pz
Bonus: Seraph entering the train.
games have good launch sales. Wouldn't mind trying out the Outer Wilds.
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Giving me two dripfalls at the start? ez pz
Bonus: Seraph entering the train.
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More like how is it still only Jun? it feels like 2035
I got ninja'ed by the new thread. Again 
Here's to a good sale and to the best community on the Internet !
pàoooooooço <- my cat
Here's to a good sale and to the best community on the Internet !
pàoooooooço <- my cat
I tried reading it, but I just can't stand the Little Orphan Annie vibe of part 1. Maybe it's just for the first few eps but snooze.
And ODST. And the Gears of War
Time really moves so fast! First I was happy because summer is here but then I remember that winter will be here fast too.
Have to make sure to savour every last minute of summer!
Have to make sure to savour every last minute of summer!
We survived May! Yay!
Let's hope that the pandemic crisis is ending soon
Let's hope that the pandemic crisis is ending soon
In Paris it feels like it pretty much is over, in how everything is opening up and parks are packed. I do hope there wont be a second wave but little worried.
In Lyon it's the same, looks like the worst is behind us. Like you, if there's a second wave I hope it will be short and less deadly.
What I'm worried about is the "decompression" with people going crazy, it's already happenning on the roads with people driving like there's no rules anymore and people partying at home and in the streets without any respect for the noise. But I guess it's human to behave like that after so much pressure.
Already half a year gone, I have done almost fuck all with all that Covid19... at least I replayed old games I guess
And in honor of the Dreamcast 2 coming soon, I replayed Skies of Arcadia.
Yup, it's still a very fun RPG, one of the best for exploration. All these hidden discoveries add so much life and meaning to the world, and there's tons of charming elements working together: finding the source of all those weird ballons monsters all over the world, then fighting their granddaddy in a ship battle is so fucking cool and flavorful.
Plus there's just so much to discover, with plenty of variety and neat sequences like discovering that the world is round. Even the music is amazing, and nicely creepy when you're into super weird locations like the Dark Rift and its weird unique lifeforms.
It also helps that the cast is not annoying even if tropey, and the story is a classic well done without sinking into absurd evil villains. It feels upbeat and hopeful all the time, working together is the way to go in SoA, and that's cool. It's not only about chosen ones doing everything.
On the other hand, it does look a bit dated, but what can you do... but I would have liked to see more care put into the level design, some levels like the fire temple are fine, but then you get the sewers... and it's super bad. Big contrast here, I wonder if different people worked on different dungeons. When you get really bland and flat prison dungeons, but then hang around a destroyed Machu Pichu in the middle of a foggy twilight, the quality difference is pretty staggering.
But more important, combat is pretty busted... sure you can fast forward on an emulator and it removes a lot of the annoying parts (especially for ship combat which is mostly waiting around), but the balance is terrible... Aika can just one shot most groups of ennemies in a majority of the game! A lot of it is made trivial by overpowered skills.
And by the moon elements!
I had no idea how it really worked because it's never explained properly; yes I know that the purple ice moon increases damage against the red fire moon... but I didn't know it was by 40%. It's a lot. But not as much as 100% when you hit the blue moon with purple and green! Green, which you assume is plant related... only takes 10% extra damage from the fire red. The same bonus that you get by hitting it with electric yellow. How the hell do you guess that? It's not like there's a chart ingame.
Anyway, I still loved it, and I hope we'll get a new game in the franchise one day. It's definitely the one to use when you want to do large open worlds with shit to find everywhere.
And in honor of the Dreamcast 2 coming soon
, I replayed Skies of Arcadia.Yup, it's still a very fun RPG, one of the best for exploration. All these hidden discoveries add so much life and meaning to the world, and there's tons of charming elements working together: finding the source of all those weird ballons monsters all over the world, then fighting their granddaddy in a ship battle is so fucking cool and flavorful.
Plus there's just so much to discover, with plenty of variety and neat sequences like discovering that the world is round. Even the music is amazing, and nicely creepy when you're into super weird locations like the Dark Rift and its weird unique lifeforms.
It also helps that the cast is not annoying even if tropey, and the story is a classic well done without sinking into absurd evil villains. It feels upbeat and hopeful all the time, working together is the way to go in SoA, and that's cool. It's not only about chosen ones doing everything.
On the other hand, it does look a bit dated, but what can you do... but I would have liked to see more care put into the level design, some levels like the fire temple are fine, but then you get the sewers... and it's super bad. Big contrast here, I wonder if different people worked on different dungeons. When you get really bland and flat prison dungeons, but then hang around a destroyed Machu Pichu in the middle of a foggy twilight, the quality difference is pretty staggering.
But more important, combat is pretty busted... sure you can fast forward on an emulator and it removes a lot of the annoying parts (especially for ship combat which is mostly waiting around), but the balance is terrible... Aika can just one shot most groups of ennemies in a majority of the game! A lot of it is made trivial by overpowered skills.
And by the moon elements!
I had no idea how it really worked because it's never explained properly; yes I know that the purple ice moon increases damage against the red fire moon... but I didn't know it was by 40%. It's a lot. But not as much as 100% when you hit the blue moon with purple and green! Green, which you assume is plant related... only takes 10% extra damage from the fire red. The same bonus that you get by hitting it with electric yellow. How the hell do you guess that? It's not like there's a chart ingame.
Anyway, I still loved it, and I hope we'll get a new game in the franchise one day. It's definitely the one to use when you want to do large open worlds with shit to find everywhere.
New thread!!!! Thanks lashman , and thank you everybody, for the wholesome discussion every month, getting through quarantine is a little easier because of you lot.
Nextgen news month, at least something interesting (even if i can't play it 
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Will try to beat Kiwami 1 and some DOS oldies (PQ4, QFG3 etc)
)Will try to beat Kiwami 1 and some DOS oldies (PQ4, QFG3 etc)
Have a good June people and stay safe with all the shit going on out there. Cheers for the new thread lashman
C&C for me this month. Really looking forward to it. Maybe get Desperados too.
C&C for me this month. Really looking forward to it. Maybe get Desperados too.
Guess I will start Shadow Tactics soon so I can get Desperados 3 with good conscious later. Definitely gonna get Satisfactory and Outer Wilds.
Also thinking about getting one of these 8bitdo SN30 Pro Plus controllers. Don’t play much that would need a controller currently but heard very good things about it.
Also thinking about getting one of these 8bitdo SN30 Pro Plus controllers. Don’t play much that would need a controller currently but heard very good things about it.
Great thread lashman 
Can't wait for the C&C remaster and Desperados 3. My backlog will have to wait this month.
Can't wait for the C&C remaster and Desperados 3. My backlog will have to wait this month.
edit: Thinking about it. Didn't he even distance his game from having any kind of political message in the past? It was just about Androids or some other stupid thing.
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This is an edit of an even shittier tweet that said All Lives Matter. I don't think he really understood the context of saying that, though, so replaced it with this. Sometimes it's best to say nothing at all, however...
Detroit takes a delicate subject and bludgeons it. Terrible game, terrible developer. What's sad is there's something interesting to say about the rights of artificial life and while the subject is well walked territory, real life developments keep posing new quandaries that can be discussed and considered through a fictional lense. Alas, David Cage wrote it so we didn't get any of that. Instead he's just hijacked a subject he knew nothing about, added his own special brand of emotion, and sold it as a santised and packaged product.
I'm really hoping him and his company don't get any further funding. But we all know if no one else will, Epic's got that shit on lock.
Anybody know of a blogging platform that works a lot like this forum in terms of embeds of material and stuff?
I tried google blogger but the embed was shite, I tried wordpress but I cba to theme and set it up nicely, just something real simple.
Something as simple as blogger but with nice embeds of links etc would be ideal.
I ran a mod site ages past and wanna do something similar in terms of content but really not in the mood to actually build/customise a site atm.
I tried google blogger but the embed was shite, I tried wordpress but I cba to theme and set it up nicely, just something real simple.
Something as simple as blogger but with nice embeds of links etc would be ideal.
I ran a mod site ages past and wanna do something similar in terms of content but really not in the mood to actually build/customise a site atm.
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Sometimes maybe good, sometimes maybe shit.
Warhammer 2 DLCs are a bit different than let's say paradox DLCs or Civ 6 DLCs. I'd say owning TW1 and TW2 is the only real must have. The free DLC stuff is also pretty self explanatory, take all of it.
In general all campaign map changes, game play overhauls and feature improvements are free in TW2. New sub- / mainfactions and units will also appear in your campaign independent of you owning them. Therefore there is no "must buy" DLC.
My tip: Play the main TW1+TW2 combo and add new factions and units based on what factions you like to play. Skip the rest.
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Ah, the good old "I don't like something, so I wish these people crash and burn, and everyone loses their job" bit.
If you don't like something, why not just, I don't know, skip it? Why go overboard, and wish ill on people?
But... Quantic Dream's games are good ! I read this on the Internet
Different folks, different strokes.
One man's trash, is another man's treasure.
I can agree with that. But what a shitty way to promote your game, especially if you're trying to promote their political message in such an opportunistic way.
I can't help but being way more skeptical about the political views of Quantic Dream's games now (if their policy of work harassment was not enough).
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I agree with that.
It's insanely stupid, and tone deaf, to mention your game on a tweet about equality.
But, to be fair it's as shitty and cynical as seeing Amazon (yeah, Amazon!), or companies like Warner, Sony, and plenty other big companies releasing similar comments on their social media channels.
This is done purely to earn goodwill, and potentially some monetary gain, and it always rubs me the wrong way when I see companies on social media trying to "empathize" with the "common people".
He's not wrong but just like Randy, his trying to use this to prop up his game is rather nauseating. I hope this bad taste isn't going to become a common thing or I'll be needing a bigger bucket.
great anime thread as always lashy
also looks to be quite great month, with probably quite annoying dose of console warring
also looks to be quite great month, with probably quite annoying dose of console warring
Im hoping there won't be much timed exclusive money hattign that delays the PC version in the coming gen. I don't see MS doing it considering how they have embraced PC and Steam, Im afraid of Sony doing it, even if they might embrace PC more.
I hope they are at least a bit more open, like "Silent Hill is coming to PS5 fall 2021, PC version later".
Im getting a PS5 at some point, but I will most likely still be waiting for the PC version of Silent Hill if it get's a PC version.
I wonder how Nintendo will do in regards to indie moneyhatting. Will they delay other console versions, but PC will be getting the games day 1 or will PC also be delayed?
I hope they are at least a bit more open, like "Silent Hill is coming to PS5 fall 2021, PC version later".
Im getting a PS5 at some point, but I will most likely still be waiting for the PC version of Silent Hill if it get's a PC version.
I wonder how Nintendo will do in regards to indie moneyhatting. Will they delay other console versions, but PC will be getting the games day 1 or will PC also be delayed?
Codies doing WRC soon-ish
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News - Codemasters signs 5-year deal with WRC (first game in 2023)
Codemasters has signed an exclusive five-year deal to develop and publish games based on the FIA World Rally Championship series. The firm will also handle the esports tournaments associated with the franchise. The WRC series has been previously handled by publisher BigBen Interactive, and...
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Unfortunately Moneyhats will still happen, they are paying for an exclusivity and while we will get most of the games in the long term (see DxM in the case of Switch exclusive) we will have to wait for some time (6 months, 1 year...) HOWEVER, as seen with FF7R, we might see more clear conditions in terms of timings, but until the time comes, we will just have to wait and see how things come.
Tomb Kings first and for all. And the pirates are very cool as well.
The other dlc's are new factions and legendary lords for the existing races, each with their own unique gameplay mechanics and a few unique units. These dlc's are very good as well, but be sure to play and master the other factions first. There's lots of free DLC as well.
nah i totally expect something that happened last console gen to happen again
aka companies inventing dozens of terms how to describe time exclusivity
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