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Tried a few games from LudoNarraCon. I usually consider these events a success when I play one game that makes me want to buy it on release, or find games that I was going to buy but now I wont. I found three I'll be getting first thing, and took one off my wish list too. So quite successful, all told!

So yeah, some great stuff, some okay stuff, and some awful stuff.


I'll start with the awful first.


I hate musicals. I knew this going into this game, but that didn't stop me viscerally hating it as soon as the protagonist started singing.

I'm sure this is not a bad game for people who dig that, but I don't.



Again, I'm saying "awful" but it definitely falls into the "not for me" category. I don't like roguelites/likes and found the gameplay pretty barebones and uninteresting.



Stilted dialogue and bad voice acting killed this one within a few minutes.


These next lot were quite intriguing and I gave them a solid chance and/or reached the end of the demo, but I've decided I probably don't think they're worth my time.


This demo just didn't come together for me. I dig the idea but the execution didn't grab me, the story was not as interesting as I'd hoped and the battle system was confusing.



An interesting concept, great artstyle and I love the use of Malaysian-English dialect, which does give it a nice regional flavour. I just don't think the story grabbed me. I'd be willing to give this another try depending on reviews, and when it's discounted.



Nice graphics, excellent production values, but I'm done with walking sims unless the story concept is really interesting. Sadly, the story concept for this was not that.



This game almost grabbed me, but I found the overly-stuffy language used in the dialogue was offputting. No one spoke how people actually speak... it was jarring and took me out of the experience. But cool concept and I love the gameplay duality of solving a murder mystery through the perspective of a detective and a mind-reading magician.


This last lot of demos were awesome, and I'll definitely be getting these games.


I love a classic point & click. This feels like a 90s-style adventure game adapted beautifully for gamepad controls. It has the almost irreverant humour of the genre, some decent (and absurd) puzzles with a great visual aesthetic. I think this'll be great fun!




Quite a generous 2 episode demo. I was sold on the concept after episode 1. The nice visual style, partially animated, blended with the fun writing grabbed me immediately. Because of this, I'm saving the second episode until release.



This is the highlight for me. The production values on this game are insane. Great voice acting, amazing visual style that's beautifully animated. We're not just getting moving lips and a few poses here - character portraits feel alive, environments are stunning and the the story idea is really well-polished. I think this game is a cut above everything else shown in LudoNarraCon, and I can't wait to play it next month!
 
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if anybody is curious Card Sagas Wars works nice on Steam Deck with Lutris wine through Heroic Launcher.
You can add the game to steam (if this don't work just create a desktop shortcut and then add this shortcut to Steam) so you play perfectly on Gaming Mode.

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it wasn't working for me with Steam compatibility options -I was getting black screens- but that made the magic.
 
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Underground Blossom: cool point and click game, not much to say as the demo was short but I liked the puzzles and I didn't got stuck in any of them.
 
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yuraya said:
Yea Rare has wasted so much time with Sea of Thieves. I know it made a lot of money and all but 10 years is ridiculous. And we've still had very little info on Everwild. On the flip side I'm not a fan of SoT but its still better than some crappy Kinect games they were making beforehand.

Xbox needs to have a really good showcase next month. I want to see a lot of gameplay trailers and release dates/windows. No CGI stuff unless they are announcing a new IP.

Also I don't think Phil can become the strict dictator type. Based on all the interviews he has done over the years he comes off as very calm and chill. The only way they go more hands on for their studios is if they fire Phil and replace him with someone else. There is a lot of danger in that imo. The more people want Xbox to be like Nintend0 and Sony...the more likely they stop supporting PC gaming. If they get someone like a Don Mattrick in there again I can see them ending day n date PC support. I can see them push more timed exclusivity garbage. Gamepass would increase in price, windows 10/11 fuckery etc etc. I would prefer they remain the way they are now. I don't think the risk is worth it and Xbox in the pre Phil days was terrible. They actually went out of their way to hurt PC gaming because of their backwards ass views. And it becomes even more dangerous as they acquire more studios and publishers. If they radically change their strategy and start tightening things up...they can piss off a lot of people.
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I do think phil is probably too much of a nice guy for the position he's in. Like no one wants him to become bobby kotick but like with everything there is such a thing as the opposite end of the spectrum too and somewhere in between is more of a healthy balance. I think with all these buyouts he was too afraid of the reputation MS has of ruining companies they buy and that led to being too hands off of bethesda (and their own studios too). Too much of a course correction so to speak.

Like yeah I get that MS ruining bethesda would be bad but I could also argue allowing bethesda to operate as they were is just as bad as well. I think people forget just how awful bethesda the publisher could be, not just what projects they approved in recent years but the scummy practices they were involved in too. Remember the human head fiasco? That was a common tactic bethesda used to try to absorb devs they worked with. Remember how they fucked over Obsidian with new vegas? Not with the meta score thing I mean only giving obsidian 18 months to make new vegas on that busted engine (which you could argue was a purposeful tactic to ensure the game got lower scores I guess, thus making sure they didn't have to pay bonuses). They were one of the scummiest pubs around pre-buyout AND they stopped approving good projects after their string of great single player games flopped. So really what's the risk of MS taking over? How much worse could it have gotten?
 
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Derrick01 said:
I do think phil is probably too much of a nice guy for the position he's in. Like no one wants him to become bobby kotick but like with everything there is such a thing as the opposite end of the spectrum too and somewhere in between is more of a healthy balance. I think with all these buyouts he was too afraid of the reputation MS has of ruining companies they buy and that led to being too hands off of bethesda (and their own studios too). Too much of a course correction so to speak.

Like yeah I get that MS ruining bethesda would be bad but I could also argue allowing bethesda to operate as they were is just as bad as well. I think people forget just how awful bethesda the publisher could be, not just what projects they approved in recent years but the scummy practices they were involved in too. Remember the human head fiasco? That was a common tactic bethesda used to try to absorb devs they worked with. Remember how they fucked over Obsidian with new vegas? Not with the meta score thing I mean only giving obsidian 18 months to make new vegas on that busted engine (which you could argue was a purposeful tactic to ensure the game got lower scores I guess, thus making sure they didn't have to pay bonuses). They were one of the scummiest pubs around pre-buyout AND they stopped approving good projects after their string of great single player games flopped. So really what's the risk of MS taking over? How much worse could it have gotten?
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could also be a case of Microsoft trying the unconventional because doing what the other console makers have done hasn't worked out for them the last 20 years.

I am okay with their approach, I have no fight in the outcome of their AAA Studios, but I am VERY happy for their hands-off approach with their AA studios. If Obsidian can do what they want (*) I don't care what AAA game is tanking at the top, only care if that impacts the freedom of the smaller studios.

On Rare doing 10 years of SOT: Be real folks, the Rare you guys remember fondly doesn't exist anymore. It's just a name, the likelihood that over 99% of the people who made these games 2 decades prior still work at Rare is 0.
Just like the people who made the PS1 and PS2 Final Fantasy's are not at Squeenix anymore. That's why I don't care about Final Fantasy anymore.
 
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Curious what MS thoughts are about how much MS is struggling to get Japanese games onto Xbox (and Windows Store) and having to pay them (game pass) to get those games while Valve just get's almost everything (looking at you, Vanillaware).
 
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Finished Redfall in just under 20 hours, did all the quest and sides apart from a bugged one. Apart from some fixable bugs and some weird slowdowns at times the major issue was the complete lack of ambition in the game. Poorly told story, no characters, very limited builds, average weapons etc...

100% feels like a ubisoft game, build a pretty nice world and then forget to put anything in it.
 
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CPU usage better? temps? what CPU and GPU? :p
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It was easier to record video XD


Also DLSS Should be newest one and Quality preset should be 80% of the resolution (i use DLSS Tweaks). Also sharpening is turned off with exe edit.
 
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If I buy an external SSD, can I dare to hope that in the year of our Lord 2023 and on Windows 11, I can plug / unplug it while the PC is turned on and that it will be detected ? So, yeah, hotswap, so to speak ?

Because that's totally not how my external HDD enclosure works. And that pisses me off.
 
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Kyougar said:
could also be a case of Microsoft trying the unconventional because doing what the other console makers have done hasn't worked out for them the last 20 years.

I am okay with their approach, I have no fight in the outcome of their AAA Studios, but I am VERY happy for their hands-off approach with their AA studios. If Obsidian can do what they want (*) I don't care what AAA game is tanking at the top, only care if that impacts the freedom of the smaller studios.

On Rare doing 10 years of SOT: Be real folks, the Rare you guys remember fondly doesn't exist anymore. It's just a name, the likelihood that over 99% of the people who made these games 2 decades prior still work at Rare is 0.
Just like the people who made the PS1 and PS2 Final Fantasy's are not at Squeenix anymore. That's why I don't care about Final Fantasy anymore.
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In terms of their studios "doing what they want" I feel like that's a bit misleading not to mention subjective. I'd rather obsidian, the people who used to be kings of the western/crpg, not make survival games and tiny games like pentiment that MS couldn't even bother to pay for voice acting. However with redfall no one will ever be able to convince me that arkane wanted to make that. That project reeks of executive meddling just like with suicide squad and rocksteady and MS being so hands off allowed that project to continue after they bought bethesda. I know we have the benefit of knowing redfall is garbage now so saying they should have swooped in and cancelled it is easy to say whereas if they had done that they'd have probably caught a lot of shit online, but I think that shitstorm would have been much easier to manage than the one they're dealing with now (just leak what the game was to the media and people won't be so angry that some GaaS looter shooter got cancelled).
 
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For those interested, I guess there's a price error on GMG for the deluxe edition of Atelier Ryza 3?
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It's 44% off for 38€, and the normal edition is like 50€ discounted at 15%.
All other websites have the game on sale for like 15%.
 
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Snakethesniper said:
For those interested, I guess there's a price error on GMG for the deluxe edition of Atelier Ryza 3?
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It's 44% off for 38€, and the normal edition is like 50€ discounted at 15%.
All other websites have the game on sale for like 15%.
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Bought, thanks!
Was actually looking forward to playing the game when i’m done with yakuza 5 and 6
 
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Snakethesniper said:
For those interested, I guess there's a price error on GMG for the deluxe edition of Atelier Ryza 3?
www.greenmangaming.com

Atelier Ryza 3: Alchemist of the End & the Secret Key Digital Deluxe Edition | PC - Steam | Game Keys

Pick up your Atelier Ryza 3: Alchemist of the End & the Secret Key Digital Deluxe Edition PC copy from Green Man Gaming today and remember to sign in for our best price
www.greenmangaming.com www.greenmangaming.com
It's 44% off for 38€, and the normal edition is like 50€ discounted at 15%.
All other websites have the game on sale for like 15%.
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Grabbed this, many thanks.
 
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Did anyone else have a hard time navigating Wo Long's environments? All the areas I've seen so far are like 1 color the entire way through but different shades of it and everything is blending in, making it really hard for me to process everything in the area and also figure out if I've gone a certain way or not. It's extremely annoying.
 
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Derrick01 said:
Did anyone else have a hard time navigating Wo Long's environments? All the areas I've seen so far are like 1 color the entire way through but different shades of it and everything is blending in, making it really hard for me to process everything in the area and also figure out if I've gone a certain way or not. It's extremely annoying.
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Yea the design and overall visual consistency was very weak. Not that Nioh games were amazing in this regard but they definitely had a lot of well thought out and memorable locale. Wo Long levels felt very sloppy and a bit short by comparison. The combat and boss fights hard carry the game tbh. The rest of it felt kinda like a rush job. A lot of room for improvement if they ever do a sequel.


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Ubisoft is slipping, it's almost June and we have yet to have big Assassin's Creed leak.
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Its been really quiet for Ubi. Their output has been lacking for a long while now. They need some big splash announcements this summer.
 
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Speaking of Ubi I just picked up Watchdogs Legion off NewEgg. $10 for the Deluxe Edition. I’m hearing it’s an immersive sim, so I’m pretty excited to play it.
 
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I’m hearing it’s an immersive sim, so I’m pretty excited to play it.
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I would disagree with that characterization...it is more of a stealth city action game. But it is not terrible. The prequel expansion (Bloodline) I found to be better than the main game, mostly because it is more focused and story+character driven (though I know lot of people whine about Aiden, I didn't mind him).
 
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Funny thing about the Xbox, especially with what Phil said about the Xbox One.


The main reason I use my XSX almost daily is because compared to the PS5 it's just a way better multimedia device. The game features and stuff are also pretty cool as well. But when it comes down to it, is can do a lot of "basic" things that the PS5 can't do, such as play CD, and playing local content over a home network.


That is all.
 
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Nothing funnier than watching Nintendo try to fight the internet when its the end of the Switch gen and all the roms are out there anyways :ROFLMAO:

Can't wait for the Switch 2 release and see how fast people turn that thing inside out.

The only unfortunate thing with all of this is that Nintendo is actually not losing any serious $$$. If they did it would be a good wake up call and slap to their face to finally start releasing their games on PC.
 
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It’s pathetic, they even are doing DMCA claims against steamgriddb images which don’t have any ROM or game link cause it’s usually used to make your yuzu games look better on Steam library. It’s just an image database nothing else.
The great thing I usually get those images from official Nintendo Store.
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Emuparadise and LoveROMs takedown few years ago thanks to Nintendo was a terrible movement against game preservation. They can go f**k themselves.
 
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