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STEAM | January 2016 - Out of cash, out of cache
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It ain't Paradox tho!
Cities XXL, of the Cities XL series, is a Focus developed and published game. (even tho, Cities XL was developed by Monte Cristo IIRC)
Cities: Skylines, a follow-up to the Cities in Motion series, is a Colossal Order developed and Paradox published game.
They don't share anything, except the misleading titles.
Even more, Colossal Order (and Paradox) is currently leading an extremely consumer-friendly approach, releasing big patches of amazing free content along with paid DLCs of almost aesthetic additions, basically making you pay for it only if you actually want to support them for their job, and not because you'd miss some important new content.
Im not sure why, but I have gotten very "picky" when buying games the last few months. It's months since Ive bought a bundle, can't even remember when and I have also completely stopped buying games just because they are cheap.
This has been going on for a few months. Kinda feels good too.
This has been going on for a few months. Kinda feels good too.
MMBosstones86
Member
I'm actually having pretty solid performance with Tom Braider. Set to Very High, toned down AA and turned off sexy hair.
Holds mostly to 55-60 sans some cut scenes that don't do so well.
And no, I don't have 64GB of RAM.
Holds mostly to 55-60 sans some cut scenes that don't do so well.
And no, I don't have 64GB of RAM.
shortsFortallPeople
Banned
i need a demo!
then buy it on steam. You can play it for two hours and request a refund if it's not to your liking. There are also a ton of videos out there, you can see what the game is and decide if its for you or not
but i dont want to be seen as an abuser of refunds!
then dont abuse it. done.
people need to gtfo with their bullshit. Just come out and say youre a pirate, id at least respect the honesty
Nyteshade517
Member
63GB?
Phawx
Member
freshVeggie
Member
Over 30mins since I redeemed Beta code for Division and still no confirmation email.
Somebody correct me, but I believe Cities XXL is published by Focus not Paradox.
e:whoops. Beaten.
Leafhopper
Banned
Tizoc
Member
Speaking of which as the iOS ver. of FF Tactics is the best ver. of the game atm, S-E need to move their asses to get that game onto Steam.
Jawmuncher
Member
Tecmo/Square-Enix knows what they're doing with Ramza. Cute androgynous guys (with the scale more towards feminine) is totally in right now in Japan. There seems to be a ton of anime at the moment with male characters you would think are female due to how they were drawn.
Im salty that I bought the iPhone version and they never updated the game for cross buy (iPad) while the others were.
Im salty that I bought the iPhone version and they never updated the game for cross buy (iPad) while the others were.
Leafhopper
Banned
He isn't really drawn that way though except in Dissidia and since Dissidia is more or less a fanservice game like Smash, people who know who the character is will know they are a guy.
This isn't like Bridget from Guilty Gear or Leo from Tekken. You know he is a guy from the beginning.
Jawmuncher
Member
Considering most in this thread didn't know for real, I think that speaks for itself.
Trying to appeal to the otome/fujoshi crowd.
Didn't know there was a name for it.
Seems like the Dissidia one is a good rendition of the character in a more "realistic", detailed style to me.
It would be if the animations didn't play out at mach speed. PSP verision with slowdown patched out is best imo.
TheAutomator
Banned
Wait, Bridget is a boy???
I...umm..I thought...
Nevermind.
I...umm..I thought...
Nevermind.
*hides tissues*
AHA-Lambda
Member
Same actually, much more conscious of price and buying "big" games relative to what I've got in my backlog already. Is why I've not gotten witness or dragon's dogma yet
Leafhopper
Banned
Considering the simplistic artstyle of the tactics game that he came from they didn't have much to work with. Going from that to a new model in Dissidia they tried their best, to me I still see a guy easily but eh.
Lmao pretty much.
They did but something is still off.
Hero Prinny
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he looks like a girl. in fact i thought it was a girl till i clicked the link
Jawmuncher
Member
I think it's more that you already know. The Ramza thread on gaming side is filled with the same comments "that's a guy?".
AHA-Lambda
Member
Ah yeah... I remember this gif :-s
Leafhopper
Banned
Fair enough.
VikasNarula
Member
Witness me John <3
Leafhopper
Banned
That file size can't be right.
ToS even on Gamecube was 2 discs and one of those discs is 1.5gigs.
It's 7GB. At least that's what it says when you hit install.
Edit: Oh wow that game's community hub is a shitshow.
Leafhopper
Banned
That's more believable.
shortsFortallPeople
Banned
wondering what's going to be wrong with symphonia. likely 30 fps battles i imagine
Leafhopper
Banned
It is a port of the HD version so yeah it probably will be but, that will be unlocked within a week probably. Especially since people know a 60FPS version of the game does exist and it won't break easily.
The OT you're talking about? I thought they would be talking about puzzle solutions or discussing about the game's story?
I'll just keep this in my subscriptions.
ussjtrunks
Member
Any news on how it runs?
I'm guessing it's the piracy one, where many said Blow shouldn't have released it on PC.
The Dear Leader
Banned
Wow you must be total human scum for even assuming it would take PS4 6 months to do all that.
That thread is fucked on multiple levels.
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
Okay, my freebie game on Steam, Close Your Eyes, has been out for 5 months now! Released it on August 31st, so going to do one of the final analysis of how it's performed unless anything notable happens. This game was born as an experiment, so here's the numbers I have.
Close Your Eyes
-Downloads, Sales, & Player Numbers-
Max Concurrent Players: 92 (unsurprisingly on release date)
Simultaneous Players 5 Months Later: Even five months later, the game keeps a small, but solid number of people playing. Averages 2-13 people playing at any time, with an average of 3-8. Number usually rises on weekend. For being a sort of underlooked niche game, it's good, even if it is a freebie.
Total Owners: Around 75,000 people have added the game to their account.
Total Number of People Who've Downloaded it and launched it at least once: 38,942 at the time of writing, so about half, a little more than half, of people who added the game to their account have at least launched the game once.
DLC Sales: The game has a $1.99 piece of DLC containing the soundtrack, artwork collection, and a bonus 1-2 hour long campaign. The DLC has 6 reviews, all positive, but has sold 389 copies on Steam at the time of writing. It's been selling between 0-2 copies per day, with the average of about 5 copies per week. Total number of people who own the DLC is 962, as I did give keys out before launch and continue to do so. Not really profitable, but I didn't go into this game for profit.
-Reception, Reviews, & YouTubers-
Steam General Reception: The game as of the time of writing has received 331 Steam Reviews. 291 of these are positive, 40 of these are negative. It retains a 88% positive rating, or Very Positive reviews on Steam. Notably, the response has gotten more positive over time; there were about 20 troll reviews that came in the first couple weeks of the game being out (one worded reviews like, "No," reviews of people who played 0.1 hours, and the like), and since then there's about 30-40 positive reviews per every single negative review that has come.
Current Highest Rated Steam Reviews:
59 of 68 people (87%) found this review helpful; 44 people found this review funny
39 of 39 people (100%) found this review helpful; 1 person found this review funny
83 of 116 people (72%) found this review helpful; 113 people found this review funny
30 of 34 people (88%) found this review helpful; 16 people found this review funny
22 of 22 people (100%) found this review helpful; 2 people found this review funny
Most Recent Steam Reviews (English)
Countries Best and Worst Received In: Most positive reviews came out of the United States, Russia, and Germany. The most negative reviews came from Japan, Brazil, and Mexico. Of notice, most foreign reviews would mention that requiring to know English was a must for the game to get by some of the puzzles.
Best and Worst Received Elements of the Game: The best received elements of the game was its audio (with particular praise going to the voice acting of the game and some of the music), the story (some were confused, but most enjoyed it and complimented it), and the creepiness & being unnerving while mostly lacking jump scares. Worst received elements were this one section about collecting keys (a fair complaint, most certainly), the first train puzzle (many get a bit stumped here), and some parts being dragged out.
Outside Reception to the Game: The game did not get any attention from any big publications, but did gain the attention of several smaller sites.
Nerds Raging is a small game site that writes reviews for games. Every Friday they do a review of a freeware game, and gave Close Your Eyes 4.5/5 stars. More-so, they released a list of top 5 freeware games of 2015, and named Close Your Eyes as their #2 best freeware game of 2015, citing;
IndieGames.com did a positive opinion piece of the game, saying they didn't expect much because of the visuals but the game surprised them:
Spanish Blog Update or Die gave an opinion piece on the game, and were positive on it;
Maxgamesalot, a blog where a guy named Max reviews games he plays, received the game less favorably, saying CYE is a good example of how it might not be a good the game's market is open to everyone right now, but says there are things to like about it;
YouTubers: The game has had at least 400 different YouTube channels start let's plays on the game. About 250 of those have received at least one ending in the game. 150 or so got more than two endings. About 46 of them got all endings. The most watched LPs of the game are the following:
-TheRPGMinx playing the game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1HPiIHtkjo
-ManlyBadassHero playing an older version of the game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACSYAIKaM9A
-Nicht Corrupted (German) playing the game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EgJHFki2tY
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-Overall-
Game was received much better than anticipated. It was played a bit more than I expected as well, though didn't get any huge media attention and is still a more niche thing. Have received some very kind words and messages on the game, via emails, on social feeds, on other freeware sites the game is available on. I have two other freebie experiment games coming to Steam soon, so see how those fair in comparison to CYE.
Close Your Eyes
-Downloads, Sales, & Player Numbers-
Max Concurrent Players: 92 (unsurprisingly on release date)
Simultaneous Players 5 Months Later: Even five months later, the game keeps a small, but solid number of people playing. Averages 2-13 people playing at any time, with an average of 3-8. Number usually rises on weekend. For being a sort of underlooked niche game, it's good, even if it is a freebie.
Total Owners: Around 75,000 people have added the game to their account.
Total Number of People Who've Downloaded it and launched it at least once: 38,942 at the time of writing, so about half, a little more than half, of people who added the game to their account have at least launched the game once.
DLC Sales: The game has a $1.99 piece of DLC containing the soundtrack, artwork collection, and a bonus 1-2 hour long campaign. The DLC has 6 reviews, all positive, but has sold 389 copies on Steam at the time of writing. It's been selling between 0-2 copies per day, with the average of about 5 copies per week. Total number of people who own the DLC is 962, as I did give keys out before launch and continue to do so. Not really profitable, but I didn't go into this game for profit.
-Reception, Reviews, & YouTubers-
Steam General Reception: The game as of the time of writing has received 331 Steam Reviews. 291 of these are positive, 40 of these are negative. It retains a 88% positive rating, or Very Positive reviews on Steam. Notably, the response has gotten more positive over time; there were about 20 troll reviews that came in the first couple weeks of the game being out (one worded reviews like, "No," reviews of people who played 0.1 hours, and the like), and since then there's about 30-40 positive reviews per every single negative review that has come.
Current Highest Rated Steam Reviews:
Review was a Thumbs Up
59 of 68 people (87%) found this review helpful; 44 people found this review funny
Review was a Thumbs Up
39 of 39 people (100%) found this review helpful; 1 person found this review funny
Review was a Thumbs Up
83 of 116 people (72%) found this review helpful; 113 people found this review funny
Review was a Thumbs Up
30 of 34 people (88%) found this review helpful; 16 people found this review funny
Review was a Thumbs Up
22 of 22 people (100%) found this review helpful; 2 people found this review funny
Most Recent Steam Reviews (English)
Countries Best and Worst Received In: Most positive reviews came out of the United States, Russia, and Germany. The most negative reviews came from Japan, Brazil, and Mexico. Of notice, most foreign reviews would mention that requiring to know English was a must for the game to get by some of the puzzles.
Best and Worst Received Elements of the Game: The best received elements of the game was its audio (with particular praise going to the voice acting of the game and some of the music), the story (some were confused, but most enjoyed it and complimented it), and the creepiness & being unnerving while mostly lacking jump scares. Worst received elements were this one section about collecting keys (a fair complaint, most certainly), the first train puzzle (many get a bit stumped here), and some parts being dragged out.
Outside Reception to the Game: The game did not get any attention from any big publications, but did gain the attention of several smaller sites.
Nerds Raging is a small game site that writes reviews for games. Every Friday they do a review of a freeware game, and gave Close Your Eyes 4.5/5 stars. More-so, they released a list of top 5 freeware games of 2015, and named Close Your Eyes as their #2 best freeware game of 2015, citing;
IndieGames.com did a positive opinion piece of the game, saying they didn't expect much because of the visuals but the game surprised them:
Spanish Blog Update or Die gave an opinion piece on the game, and were positive on it;
Maxgamesalot, a blog where a guy named Max reviews games he plays, received the game less favorably, saying CYE is a good example of how it might not be a good the game's market is open to everyone right now, but says there are things to like about it;
YouTubers: The game has had at least 400 different YouTube channels start let's plays on the game. About 250 of those have received at least one ending in the game. 150 or so got more than two endings. About 46 of them got all endings. The most watched LPs of the game are the following:
-TheRPGMinx playing the game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1HPiIHtkjo
-ManlyBadassHero playing an older version of the game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACSYAIKaM9A
-Nicht Corrupted (German) playing the game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EgJHFki2tY
---
-Overall-
Game was received much better than anticipated. It was played a bit more than I expected as well, though didn't get any huge media attention and is still a more niche thing. Have received some very kind words and messages on the game, via emails, on social feeds, on other freeware sites the game is available on. I have two other freebie experiment games coming to Steam soon, so see how those fair in comparison to CYE.
But then the GOP would Obama for not curing cancer faster than the Japanese people.
Atraveller
Banned
I've basically given up on clearing backlog at this point, only trying to finish games I've bought during sales recently.
So...is that a dude?
The Dear Leader
Banned
I think that's the skrillex I heard about once.
Leafhopper
Banned
That's pretty silly.
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