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Speaking of FF9, is the PC port good? Or does it have that always online, Square-Enix account required, barebones mobile port stuff that other Final Fantasy ports have had?
 
N++ is one of the best pure skill-based platformers of all time. Incredible amount of content too.

And fantastic local coop too! (in which we are at the top of the leaderboards for more than half the levels :P)
 
It's my favourite Nippon Ichi game. I love it.

Wrote this Steam review about it:
Question! You say the game is the definitive version, however I'm curious about "Equipment % Display" which was supposedly lost in the Wii version (discussed HERE). Not having played the game, I wonder if it's there or not in the PC version!
 
N++ is one of the best pure skill-based platformers of all time. Incredible amount of content too.

And fantastic local coop too! (in which we are at the top of the leaderboards for more than half the levels :P)

I'm currently playing through this and my damn completionist mind won't let me move on to the next level set until I've found all of the gold bits on each level.

I'm currently stuck on that one piece in the second level on C-02
 
The House in Fata Morgana - Chapter 4

Fuck.

Btw, something curious I've noticed at the beginning of this chapter:
There's text that only shows up in the log after stepping through the last door. ...Ominous text.Link to a screenshot of what I mean.

Upcoming chapters will blow your mind and yeah chapter was interesting
 
Devil Daggers is insanely fun. If any of you are active players, shoot me a PM with your steam name so I have some scores to match up/watch the replay of.

What are you alls high scores? I just got 130k after about an hour and a half of overall play, feelsgoodman
Welp.. Hour and a half later and I haven't beaten this score
 
Speaking of FF9, is the PC port good? Or does it have that always online, Square-Enix account required, barebones mobile port stuff that other Final Fantasy ports have had?

I would like to know this as well, thinking of picking up IX. From the curator groups, I can see it has a 30fps lock, but thats not so bad if at least has an offline mode and runs well.
 
I'm thinking of getting a JRPG but I'm not entirely sure which of the following to get:

Final Fantasy IX
Final Fantasy X + X-2
I Am Setsuna

I'm thinking of saving IX until later, working my way throughout the franchise backwards for now (not sure I'm in a mood for kinda-old-school atm). Is X + X-2 still awesome even if I vaguely remember some of the ending I've learned about in the past?

Really curious about I Am Setsuna, though, so I might get that regardless.

IX is your best bet, but honestly you can't go wrong with any of those choices!
 
In other news, I'm trying to decide what to spend my Xmas Steam dollars on -- these are all high priced items that were on my list. I've got about 100 bucks, so at max I can get 1 or 2 of them (not planning on spending a large amount of my own money).

Tyranny - 40.49
Planet Coaster - 38.24
Xenoverse 2 - 37.49
Civ VI - 53.99

Thoughts from those that picked these up recently? I'm kind of leaning towards ones with bigger discounts, but I'm still unsure. The alternate of course is to pass on all of these and just buy them later on down the line. But, where's the fun in that. Make a case for why I should choose one or the other!
Not experience with the other 3, but Civ6 needs some more patching before it's worth it Imo. There's a great foundation there, but AI issues, bugs, and a poor UI are currently dragging down the otherwise great game play. By the time they fix that, it should also be cheaper too :)
 
Can I buy The Division season pass on Steam if I own The Division on uPlay? I know with some of the Assassin's Creed DLC, Steam gives you a code to redeem on uPlay.
 
It's not on sale but what's the consensus on Astroneer? Does it lose luster after a few hours or is there enough content at this point to keep people coming back?
 
I'm thinking of getting a JRPG but I'm not entirely sure which of the following to get:

Final Fantasy IX
Final Fantasy X + X-2
I Am Setsuna

I'm thinking of saving IX until later, working my way throughout the franchise backwards for now (not sure I'm in a mood for kinda-old-school atm). Is X + X-2 still awesome even if I vaguely remember some of the ending I've learned about in the past?

Really curious about I Am Setsuna, though, so I might get that regardless.

Either X/X-2 or IX is my suggestion. Setsuna is... not as good as those (and it performed very poorly for me with a 970 and an i5-2500k at every resolution outside of 720p). IX can be kind of slow but I think it's the best of those 3 story wise and if looking for old school. X-2 has a great battle system. X has an interesting battle system with the swapping.

Does the Final Fantasy 13 trilogy run as poorly as the comments suggest? I'm really looking forward to trying out XIII-2.

There are frame pacing issues. You can't have constant 60fps all the time (you'll have dips). Outside of that, the trilogy on PC is the definitive version, I'd say.
 
Can I buy The Division season pass on Steam if I own The Division on uPlay? I know with some of the Assassin's Creed DLC, Steam gives you a code to redeem on uPlay.

You can't (you wouldn't be able to see the Season Pass code, since it requires the base game in order to be activated)
 
I'm thinking of getting a JRPG but I'm not entirely sure which of the following to get:

Final Fantasy IX
Final Fantasy X + X-2
I Am Setsuna

I'm thinking of saving IX until later, working my way throughout the franchise backwards for now (not sure I'm in a mood for kinda-old-school atm). Is X + X-2 still awesome even if I vaguely remember some of the ending I've learned about in the past?

Really curious about I Am Setsuna, though, so I might get that regardless.

They're all good (OK no, X-2 is shit) but they're pretty different so I think it depends on what you're looking for. I really enjoyed Setsuna but if you aren't really into Chrono Trigger you might not dig it as much. Both Setsuna and IX are interesting mechanically, but IX is slower and longer. On the other hand IX is much more light-hearted and I can see someone finding Setsuna a bit... homogenous.

X is great but it's long and fully voiced and some people really like to make fun of it these days, so if you're the type who's going to complain about the "ha-ha-ha" scene you might find the whole plot really cringy, so maybe just avoid it.

Can't speak to the quality of the IX or X ports, and actually I'd like to hear impressions if anyone else can. Setsuna's great on PC of course.
 
Not experience with the other 3, but Civ6 needs some more patching before it's worth it Imo. There's a great foundation there, but AI issues, bugs, and a poor UI are currently dragging down the otherwise great game play. By the time they fix that, it should also be cheaper too :)

Thanks. I was def leaning "no" on Civ VI. Tyranny is the main holdup, I suppose. I have some free time now that it's the holidays and I'd love to jump in, but with 10 percent off only I don't know if I can justify it. Especially when i can potentially get planet coaster and/or DBZ Xenoverse II for about 5-8 dollars cheaper and potentially get the other one too.
 
Does anyone know if there are other Rogue-lite games like Rogue Legacy and EVERSPACE? Games where you can use resources of your previous run for your next runs?
 
Bloodlust is the only game I ever refunded.

There's my opinion on it.
 
Is there any reason to get Talos Principal on PC over PS4?

Right now it is on sale on both platforms, but the PS4 version is cheaper and also includes the DLC whereas the Steam version the DLC is a separate purchase.

Its a few dollars difference, however if there is a good reason to go PC like better performance for example, Ill do that.
 
i had a fair bit of motion sickness when playing the talos principle with a controller

if you're sensitive to that stuff like i am you might want to buy it on pc since u can also try the mouse out (which is how i played it, also tweaked the settings a bunch and switched between 3rd and 1st person a lot)

also the game itself feels really complete, i haven't played the dlc and i'm pretty happy with what i got
 
i had a fair bit of motion sickness when playing the talos principle with a controller

if you're sensitive to that stuff like i am you might want to buy it on pc since u can also try the mouse out (which is how i played it, also tweaked the settings a bunch and switched between 3rd and 1st person a lot)

also the game itself feels really complete, i haven't played the dlc and i'm pretty happy with what i got

Agreed. It also seems like the ps4 version has rough performance, probably adding to potential motion sickness problems.
 
Agreed. It also seems like the ps4 version has rough performance, probably adding to potential motion sickness problems.

I can be quite susceptible to motion sickness in the circumstances mentioned, so I will get the PC version instead. Thanks!
 
I can be quite susceptible to motion sickness in the circumstances mentioned, so I will get the PC version instead. Thanks!

That's a good idea. The refund system might come in handy.

I had to tick all of the motion sickness options + play in 3rd person + play at 720p. I don't know what it is about the Serious Engine, but it always makes me feel bad.
 
Is there any reason to get Talos Principal on PC over PS4?

Right now it is on sale on both platforms, but the PS4 version is cheaper and also includes the DLC whereas the Steam version the DLC is a separate purchase.

Its a few dollars difference, however if there is a good reason to go PC like better performance for example, Ill do that.

I can't speak to the PS4 versions performance, but the PC version has more graphics settings than I've ever seen in any other game. It's clear that a lot of care and effort went into it. Hard to argue against a cheaper price that also includes the DLC, though.
 
can you not sell cards anymore?

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this is all i see
 
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