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STEAM | January 2016 - Out of cash, out of cache
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Did you do a chargeback or use a dodgy VPN ?
shortsFortallPeople
Banned
i wonder if the guy who has the keys to the kingdom has even used Jasec's account enough to have noticed
Hmm.
Uh oh. Wonder if they're starting to crack down on certain things.
MakeshiftChef
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The wife has really been enjoying her time with the newest Don't Starve expansion, Shipwrecked. There's a lot of new content there with more coming. Here's a nifty write up about the expansion someone over at pcgamer did: http://www.pcgamer.com/dont-starve-...utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=buffer_pcgfb
CheesecakeRecipe
Stormy Grey
Hmm.
Depending on what activity they're tagging you for, this could have some awful implications for the future of the top game collectors.
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Waitasec... why did they add a hockey mask to the chainsaw?
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ramoisdead
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Guess AMD won't let me redeem my DIRT Rally code so now gotta ask Newegg for a refund. While I understand what they have to do, I'm so glad I don't own anything AMD anymore.
FiveElementNinja
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I was wondering that myself.
shortsFortallPeople
Banned
well, it doesn't help that the remakes have been shunned by most FF fans on the platform.
If they rereleased either the original SNES versions of IV-VI or had done the V-VI remakes more along the lines of the PSP remake of FFIV i would've snapped those games up, no questions asked.
They went cheap on those ports when they already had a good version. I'd argue that with 4-6, they ported the wrong versions. they made their bed, now they lie in it.
If they ever did port the PSP FFIV remake over, man, i would be there day one.
i took that from the steam community screenshots so maybe that's a mod? I cant say, i dont own the steam version of FFVI
The only recent thing that would look out of place is that I had a bunch of failed transactions when I was doing my Winter Sale splurge because my card was blocked but I initially chalked it up to server issues.
Jawmuncher
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That probably is the issue then. At least that should get sorted out. Still sucks though.
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
Maybe "lazy" was a bit too harsh, since like you said they're running on their own framework and it's not like we got the GBA ROM packaged with a straight up emulator although I know some people would have preferred just that.
I agree with this completely. I think Square Enix's goal with V and VI was to "modernize it for the next generation of gamers" so they decided to increase the pixel density for things like character models (which ended up looking terrible) and enemies (which ended up looking amazing) so overall I think they were headed in the right direction. Where the wheels fell off, as Grief has pointed out several times, is that the art direction in these games was incredibly inconsistent. IMHO, if the people responsible for remaking the enemy graphics were also responsible for making the character models, we would probably have a much better looking game.
Another thing that would have helped would have been to make the character portraits dynamic rather than static - or even to have left them out all together. For example:
Seems pretty good. But the game uses that portrait now whenever that character is speaking and the emotional range the characters are trying to convey isn't really representative of their static portraits. In addition to being static for each character, they are also a third competing art style on the screen that helps to throw off the whole experience.
By contrast, even though the PSP version of IV only has one portrait per character, the art style is consistent with the rest of the game and it comes across looking very nice.
The other point to be made is something that can be similarly drawn from parallels to the Star Wars movies being "remastered". Their original goal was to modernize these games and I don't think anyone is arguing that it's important to not only preserve these games on PC but also to introduce them to a new generation. However, in doing so they've isolated the game's original fans and polarized them. My son played the remake as his "first experience" of playing Final Fantasy VI, and he really liked the game. I was happy that he was able to enjoy it, but also kind of sad that the changes SE made to the game gave it a fundamentally different artistic tone than the original I grew up with.
Fans are still crying out for Square to make a "PSP-like" version of 5 and 6, and since their cries aren't being heard they're turning to the PC modding scene to make it happen. Which is kinda great because it's produced some work like this:
which, in my opinion, looks pretty good and does a pretty good job of matching the overall artistic tone of the rest of the game.
Ultimately I think the "middle ground" your after would have been letting players choose whether or not they wanted the "original graphics" or the "enhanced graphics" when playing the game. Obviously since we've found a byte-for-byte copy of the GBA game in the data, all of the original sprites and graphics are already present but without modding we have no way of playing the game using them. Adding an option to toggle between the two styles at-will would have gone a long way to alleviating people's complaints.
Finally, I feel like these games are near and dear to most of us older Final Fantasy fans, and the general consensus is that Square Enix did as little work as possible on them in order to release them on iOS/Android (and eventually PC) rather than give them the attention to detail that fans of the game would have liked. There are similar fears that pop up in the FF7R threads here on GAF, and I think a lot of that fear stems from how badly fans felt like they were treated with these mobile releases - as a cash grab rather than a labor of love.
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freshVeggie
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Yep, I was just excited seeing the setup was similar to opposing Force. And thanks for the two links. Doperino!
Oh man, so sorry buddy. Hope it's not gonna lead to a falsely banning/no further purchasing on your account and gets cleared quickly.
Hmm.
7000+ games are cool but I know how much you like getting high
PandaPedinte
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I'm speechless
TheAutomator
Banned
Hmm.
Have you been drinking that russian juice?
Hmm.
playing every Assassin's Creed game is pretty fraudulent to be fair. You were fine up to Black Flag, but then you went and played Unity...like come on, no legit person plays Unity.
that's a cool looking true detective banner
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
JaseC, I hope you can get those account issues sorted out. I think your picture plays into most of our fears here when it comes to digital purchases - we're really at the mercy of the content provider. With any luck Steam support will eventually set you straight, sorry you've gotta put up with that.
freshVeggie
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Hm, just started wondering how much time it would take Jase to download and make an offline backup copy of his entire 7000 games...
Wok
Member
Hmm.
Maybe Saoirse noticed the picture and claimed this was her account.
TheAutomator
Banned
To be fair, at least Valve doesn't ban anymore. They just restrict some features but you get to keep your library, and the standing is temporary. Any other platform and he would be shit out of luck.
I don't. I don't care for straight puzzle games.
Jawmuncher
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Banned for 999 years like on PSN and XBL
Endruen
Member
Hmm.
That sucks, I hope you can solve it.
Mikurden
Member
As I recall, there was always a random (fairly small, I think) chance that the animation would be with the chainsaw and mask rather than the more common sawblade-type attack. I don't think it did any more damage or anything different but was just a little Easter egg joke.
Uh oh.
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
This is exactly what happened to my Xbox Live account in 2008, on an account that had about $2,000 worth of purchased digital content. Support was a complete waste of time and after a few weeks I ended up just giving up and vowing to never purchase another Microsoft console again, which I haven't.
A couple of weeks ago I inquired to see if the ruling could be overturned, but nobody in Xbox support even knew how.
If you think about it, feasibly rewriting any of the 2D FF's to modern architectures and API's wouldn't really be that much of a stumbling block. There's fantastic documentation on how both the NES and SNES work and hopefully Squenix aren't as careless as some others with their sourcecode that getting a compilable version up on PC or whatever could be achievable relatively economically. If you were a porting house that should be your dream, to be tasked with bringing much loved classic games to new platforms and given the sourcecode and any supporting documentation to work with so you can give it the best possible treatment. Problem is though your are guaranteed to run into a fucking load of bugs in the process that you're going to have to account for and when we're talking about 20-30 hour games too that's when it crosses over into the realms of time more than effort. So maybe emulation is the safe option? You bundle up a version already been through QA and the only bug testing you need to handle is your wrapper rather than the game itself.
Though looking at III, IV, IV TAF & V versus VI I'm starting to get the feeling that while previously the PC version where kind of as an afterthought and just emulated android versions straight up (which I guess might make them emulation-inception) VI seems to be their framework ported over directly to work natively with Windows. I guess when IX is out there might be even more clues since that was announced for iOS, Android and Windows all at the same time and on the Sys Reqs on Steam it is listed as a DX title rather than OGL like al of them before. I wouldn't be surprised if that ends up being a packaged PS One emulator of somesorts.
Jawmuncher
Member
It's was always there. It has a low chance of happening and has an instant death effect instead of doing damage. It's awful when it happens during boss battles because it misses.
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
No, although I did send Microsoft a dispute with request for legal arbitration which they have not yet responded to. Legally speaking, they have 90 days. If I'm still not satisfied with their response I can request arbitration be done at my local courthouse, all at their expense. I'm not sure I'll even bother, as I've more or less accepted the injustice years ago.
oipic
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Man, that's cruddy news - I hope everything's okay, Jase, and that this is a mere formality to have resolved (as much of a formality as anything can be in Valve's world, anyway).
LurkerPrime
Member
Deliver us from this dark digital future, GOG.
Jawmuncher
Member
You should bother. You already sent the paper work.
Maybe they'll settle out of court and give you your account back AND a free Xbox ONE with games. I mean if it'll be on their dime, what do you have to lose?
Plus it would make for a cool GAF thread.
Jawmuncher
Member
For the budget and price of a dollar it's not too bad. But yeah some things can end up kind of grating with it.
Still down.
uncredited male
Member
This is either the worst Dissidia plug ever or Lightning is a reincarnation of Cloud.
You mean Cloud is a hugely inferior reincarnation of Lightning.
Hopefully Squeenix do the right thing and replace Cloud with Lightning in the remake. It's what the fans want.
ussjtrunks
Member
Hmm.
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