Xaris posted:

Tencent purchased a rather large stake in them a couple of years before it came out, and they were hurting for money. I don't think most devs want to set out to build a flavor-of-the-month free2play lootbox MOBA for funsies but instead were likely, lets' just say, heavily incentivized to chase the flavor dragon.

Orv posted:

Can't wait for Harald Hardrada to be a complete rear end in a top hat/best bud to me.

Cardiovorax posted:

For some reason I can't quite articulate, something about that makes me like it even less. I mean, at least the Common Era system is fairly unapologetic about being culture-bound and arbitrary. The Holocene calender basically just takes that and adds ten thousand years to it as if that didn't really just make it the same thing, but with an added "pretending it's not" on top.

I mean, if we set it to the exact beginning of the Holocene epoch then fine, but this just feels like sneaking Anno Domini back in through the back door.

DatonKallandor posted:

Doom Eternal is the Shadow Warrior 2 to Doom 2016's Shadow Warrior 1. If you like the gameplay changes enough in you'll be fine, but they come at the expense of everything else being worse, in many cases much worse.

Wamdoodle posted:

I don't actually

John Murdoch posted:

I have to admit, my interest in FC5 is now piqued. I mean, beyond already owning it because I was planning on playing it at some point anyway. I'll take "clumsily executing on some thematic idea" Ubisoft over "completely vapid dear god don't think about any of it" Ubisoft.

Ulio posted:

Far Cry 2 is like the opposite fun but at the same time I think that's what the dev wanted. It really feels like being a random mercenary stuck in the middle of a tribal war in malaria stricken Africa. Everything is literally trying to kill you, you can only save at certain points and there is no real fast travel apart then the bus rides. Even in the ending the game basically tells you the conflict here is bigger than you and your actions had no effects at all.

While pretty much every other Far Cry is the opposite, the world is you playground and everything you do has a consequence on the islands(areas).

I definitely like FC2 but it's a weird game and I can see why some people found it overbearing.

Ramrod Hotshot posted:

I just grabbed Supreme Commander: Forged Alliances, on sale for 4 bucks. Why not?

Turns out it's great. I know it's ancient, but the graphics hold up. In many ways its the massive battles RTS I always wished Starcraft 2 could be. Dunno how this game passed me by all these years, I guess reviews were kind of lackluster.

I'd recommend it if you want to get back into an RTS but are tired of Blizzard's games.

Tax Oddity posted:

Nobody cares how many people are watching a game on Twitch.

Ciaphas posted:

I've finished unlocking everything for that mission with that last run now, yeah. And that includes that sniper feat anyway, so I'm not too bothered. Getting in and out with the fireworks trigger without changing clothes taught me a lot about how the ai, stealth, distractions, and even camera works. Should help going forward, but I still got more stuff to look at in this level somehow

Also taught me the rules of SA. it took me a while to work out that killing a guard was stopping me - I kept thinking there must have been someone seeing him die and that was the problem, not me being slightly indiscriminate

StrixNebulosa posted:

I have 20 minutes in SupCom 1 and 40 minutes in SupCom 2, both from 2015. Which is to say, I should play them. And get Total Annihiliation finally and experience an oldie-but-goodie.

God I did not mean to make this sale the RTS zone but hey. They Are Billions is doing good things for me, as is C&C.

SolidSnakesBandana posted:

I couldn't get into it. I really liked Doom 2016, but Eternal felt like a whole different beast. It felt like it added too much to the formula, when all I wanted to do was shoot bad guys with a bigass shotgun. Seeing that tiny shotgun clip at the beginning was a huge bummer.

BobTheJanitor posted:

I was ready to jump on this game as soon as it released, and then I saw some reviews mentioning that it has an arbitrary 15 minute timer for your work day, and that kind of killed my interest. I glanced through the forums to see if there was any chance they were going to redesign that, and there's a lot of argument, but no sign of a change coming. There's a bunch of defenders alternatively saying that the timer is meaningless and not to worry about it, or that the timer is there to add challenge, and I'm not even sure how those things can both be true. But I see a game about methodically disassembling space ships and it sounds like a great chill game. Something like House Flipper or Viscera Cleanup Detail. But then slap a timer on top of that and it seems like it would ruin the vibe without adding anything fun.

HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:

That's pretty standard when it comes to licensing music, or at least it definitely was before digital distribution became mainstream and standard. It's the same for licensing planes and guns - it's the big reason why Ace Combat 5 can't be re-released, even though they have a version that runs perfectly on PS4.

Jimbot posted:

Are there any games that are similar to Mount and Blade? I hate that Talesworld seemingly is the only one making these kinds of games because I honestly think the designers are gross incompetents who can't seem to refine their ideas. Instead they just take a "throw everything at the wall and see what sticks, eh, we're bored now let's throw more poo poo at the wall" approach. How do any of these stats, perks and skill interact with the world? Who knows! What determines these percentages in dialogue options? Who knows! Let's just give people ten variations of the same tutorial and call it quits for ever explaining anything else ever.

Playing this early access mess (I'm sure it'll be done in about 5 to 10 more years, only after two separate full-priced expansions) just makes me wonder what the gently caress they were working on for all those years.

Cardiovorax posted:

Parkitect is supposed to be really excellent, although I haven't had the chance to buy and try it yet. It's a Theme Park/Rollercoaster Tycoon style game. Planet Zoo is purportedly a real disaster where you can't get new animals because the online market is an extortionate racket and even what few rare animals you can buy are almost guaranteed to be stunted, sterile runts so that you can't take the sellers' income from them. I would really read up on that carefully if you intend to buy it, the whole sounds like a horrible trainwreck from start to finish.

HopperUK posted:

Jesus Christ that line from Battle Brothers about refugees is monstrous.

anilEhilated posted:

5. Every single war ever is orchestrated by citizens of one dismantled country that have scattered across the globe and infiltrated the top political, military and scientific echelons all over the place.

Not gonna lie, that bit was hella uncomfortable.

SolidSnakesBandana posted:

So Assassin's Creed Odyssey has this photo mode, and when you take pictures in it, those pictures can show up on the map of other people playing the game online. For whatever reason though, the starter island I'm on has this one guy taking a bunch of pictures of peoples legs/feet and its starting to get annoying.

Mokinokaro posted:

And the only thing that sucks about SupCom is that it is single threaded so it'll chug on any system.

K8.0 posted:

Is there a single game in your Steam library you'd actually want to live through? Probably not, but they're fun to play, right?

orcane posted:

Maybe in the US but here in Europe I didn't really know any people IRL who had the X360 over a PS3.

Jamfrost posted:

Oh brother.

How is it still raising so much money? It's a black hole for wallets.

SolidSnakesBandana posted:

There's a f2p zombie game with similar graphics that has a fuckload of positive reviews for some reason. I can't remember what it was called, but I tried it out and I am just mystified as to why it was so popular. A lot of it seems to stem from the fact that they are made by a single person, who is also a child, and that somehow translates into a massive amount of goodwill from a large group of mysterious people. My guess? There's a genie involved somehow.

yegods posted:

re: re-reckoning... I enjoyed the original a lot... two playthroughs, and always wanted to play it again, so this release is perfect. Only $15 too. I'll probably try it on a harder difficulty, and use Chakrams, which were my favorite weapon. Fun times!

Hollandia posted:

Cartoon Man posted:

https://www.polygon.com/reviews/2020/10/1/21495929/star-wars-squadrons-review-ps4-xbox-one-pc-vr

It’s good!

quote:

I’ve spent a lot of time flying in modern spacefaring games like Star Citizen

Psycho Landlord posted:

Late to this but in the current build there's a lot more depth to the "scuttle or recover" question. Several ship types are extremely hard to find outside salvaging (and at least one is salvage only) and there are skills that make damaged ships punch way above their weight class without a lot of downsides. I highly recommend making use of the previously mentioned https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3570400&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1 for your questions and such.

HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:

more of a game than elite dangerous

Orv posted:

You're not entirely wrong and there are some control issues reported that the devs have already said they're working on but I really just wanted to highlight a bit of one review.

quote:

Still the Hotas support is a little janky (only recognizes first 40 buttons on a device and first 4 joystick devices)

I'm gonna take a swing and say that maybe some of the negative reviews are uh, a bit dumb, cause gamers.

Insert name here posted:

I'm using a HOTAS and I don't even think there are 40 buttons to bind in Squadrons. Maybe I'll find out I missed a bind somewhere but I've got 2 throttle switches and my joystick hat switch (so the equivalent of 12 buttons) currently unbound.

Mehrunes posted:

I'm drawing a blank...

Sininu posted:

They've been around for at least 8 years, started as MacGameStore. Many of the games they sold were for Steam, which means SteamPlay, so a big chunk of their customers were not actually playing those games on Mac, so they branched out to selling Windows games as well. Not sure how long time ago that happened, maybe 6 years?
They are listed on ITAD, (which is the easiest way of telling if a store is legit, as they only list legitimate resellers) pretty much since the beginning too.

CarlCX posted:

I'm one of those annoying "#1 was the best Mass Effect" people so it's unfortunate that they're gonna be changing it so much, but I can also just play Mass Effect 1 when I want to, so I hope this helps make it more accessible to people so they can agree with me that it was the best one.

Propaganda Hour posted:

You're not alone. History will prove us right!

The 7th Guest posted:

Vive just announced the Vive Pro 2

$800
5k resolution (4896x2448 per eye)
120hz refresh rate
120 degree FOV
Inside-out tracking
supports DSC (Display Stream Compression)

it still uses the 2.0 base stations, seems like it's still wired

honestly I don't know who this is for, as the Reverb is cheaper and makes more sense as the mid-end VR solution, and Steam Index has surpassed HTC as the go-to high-end VR (with a likely revision in the next year)

The 7th Guest posted:

sorry, meant to remove that, the Pro and Focus were announced simultaneously and the Focus has inside out tracking