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You just want them to make a Whale Hug Pillow don't you?
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You just want them to make a Whale Hug Pillow don't you?
Ah that's alright then. Is it just a case of the game not telling what the button prompts are in a 'hey you'll figure it out as you play' kind of way?
Ooooohh nice. What with Anno coming back all I need from my old wishlisted games to return are Second Sight and Neverwinter Nights II (yep fat bloody chance on the latter).
Tizoc
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heh Ys: Oath in Felghana is a remake of 3, and is the best ver. of the game. Get that game along with Origin at least.
You're right, Binary Domain had much greater chance of selling on PCs (especially true since we didn't get GoW2/3 and Vanquish). And it still tanked.
Why on earth would Sega pump tens/hundreds of thousands of dollars (anyone knows actual porting/localization costs?) into something that has a snowball in hell chance of being in the black?
I e-mailed Wizards several months ago (either late last year or early into this year) about its D&D catalogue hitting Steam but just received the usual "No plans to announce" spiel. I'm sure it'll happen eventually.
Atari was poised to release the games itself a few years ago (Valve employees own/ed them), however for some reason this plan was abandoned and they were never released publicly.
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One day.
Tizoc
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I do. Totally bought it off my own back too
Disclaimer: I own lots of stuff...lol.
Then there's hope for a Yakuza release on Steam to do well
Then there's hope for a Yakuza release on Steam to do well
I have to admit I haven't played it much. But I paid the cash that's what matters right?
I e-mailed Wizards several months ago (either late last year or early into this year) about its D&D catalogue hitting Steam but just received the usual "No plans to announce" spiel. I'm sure it'll happen eventually.
Atari was poised to release the games itself a few years ago (Valve employees own/ed them), however for some reason this plan was abandoned and they were never released publicly.
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Aren't those games on GOG? I thought I saw them but I could be wrong.
NingenJanai
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I e-mailed Wizards several months ago (either late last year or early into this year) about its D&D catalogue hitting Steam but just received the usual "No plans to announce" spiel. I'm sure it'll happen eventually.
Atari was poised to release the games itself a few years ago (Valve employees own/ed them), however for some reason this plan was abandoned and they were never released publicly.
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At this point I no longer care, I've given up and joined the DRM free Utopia that is GOG. Only way I would get them on Steam is if they were on a humble bundle for cheap or something.
Only if it came with a complementary bowl of petunias too.
Indeed. I own them myself.
Of course they are
Is it more about Steam than the games themselves? I'm sorry if I'm being ignorant here.
Now I'm really confused.
I don't believe this for a second. How can any publisher expect new IP sell more than well known franchise? You can't be serious...
It doesn't matter it being more appealing to west one bit! when we are talking about new IPs. Anyways, trying to appeal to west almost always does more harm than good too (><)
I just prefer to have all my games in the one place where possible. At this point I can't think of a single reason why Wizards is being tardy about bringing the games to Steam -- in addition to GOG they're also on GamersGate, Amazon and presumably other DD stores, too.
I feel like I'm preaching to the choir but you totally got a point. Yakuza is an established brand. As someone who never really owned Playstation at the right time I never played any of them, though I was always aware of their existence and always wanted to try the games. I'm a prime candidate for this shit.
Oh no, they show the buttons very clearly. I just didn't expect that kind of gameplay at all and was focusing on a different part of the screen for too long...I'm pretty sure no one but me had that problem
Even so, they're published by Wizards (and DRM-free to boot).
That's all well and good but I'd like Steam versions of the originals, too.
Nope. Acti owns the game and I don't see the company pursuing the Star Trek licence again.
Admittedly it is convenient. I have too many old disc based games from before I got into Steam though. I'm also not big on reacquisition though. I don't like paying for something that I already have.
Steam probably wants a larger cut than the other guys. Wizards is all about dat paper.
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derExperte
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No. Never was, probably never will be.
I would be game with something like this if it weren't for the fear that publishers would really take advantage of a donation lead preorder or port campaign. While putting your own money upfront speaks a lot more than a signature on a petition I can see it being applied to games from publishers with plenty of capital looking to increase their margins by cutting out as many middlemen as possible.
I e-mailed Wizards several months ago (either late last year or early into this year) about its D&D catalogue hitting Steam but just received the usual "No plans to announce" spiel. I'm sure it'll happen eventually.
Atari was poised to release the games itself a few years ago (Valve employees own/ed them), however for some reason this plan was abandoned and they were never released publicly.
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I own them all on GOG and some on disc but it's not the same *sob*
What I find really bonkers is the publisher now listed on GOG is Hasbro (I swear it was Atari way back when I picked them up) so surely they are signing off on the discounts for GOG's sales. It's not like has been any official updates in years so management of said titles on Steam or any other platform would probably be minimal at best. I guess they don't know about crazy Steam collectors who double and triple dip. Maybe we should ask Polygon do show them a pie chart.
Sub Zero offered to sell keys for $2.00 each. Dunder usually has a small selection of games for sale, usually for PayPal but sometimes keys.
obviously, I wasn't talking about games that have marketing budget equal in size to yearly income of a small country and ubi magic behind them.
or you are just teasing, probably latter.
otoh, I still can't believe that AssCreed (first one) sold this much as it did. I just don't understand why, hype or not.
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Thank you! I'll check each one of them!
Regarding Ittle dew, i'm waiting for the european Wii U version... I know, I know, the price will be higher, but I want to support indie on Wii U
Thank you, i'll add them to my watch list!
...just be prepared for the fact that it's more of a puzzle adventure than a combat adventure and every single puzzle is Sokoban.
Hugely disappointing for me.
I've heard about that... it's the only thing that holds me back from buying ittle dew on wii u
Fantastic visuals and environments. Also, you can kill people like an assassin and look cool and stuff.
Thanks, too bad.
As Tizoc stated, Watch_Dogs didn't have any problems selling more than (probably) all Sega's yearly output combined.
Let's put it this way - there is a better chance of Shenmue 3 being Ouya exclusive, than that of Sega releasing their PS2/XBOX/PS3 back catalogue on Steam.
(And yes, I'd very much like to eat crow here. Won't happen though).
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The gigolo missions in Killer is Dead is so absurdly over-the-top. They're really dumb, not even fun to play, but I hardly see why they caused so much commotion?
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I'm out of this thread for 18 hours due to a migraine and come back to 30 more pages. Damn.
7 days after finding nothing wrong with my Graphics card, Gigabyte finally decides to ship it back to me. Perfect timing considering we're moving in a few weeks. This is going to be a very hard stretch SteamBros.
Glad Alien : Isolation is finally up for pre-order. Happy about the price as well, but I'll have to wait for a sale (and impressions) to pick it up
7 days after finding nothing wrong with my Graphics card, Gigabyte finally decides to ship it back to me. Perfect timing considering we're moving in a few weeks. This is going to be a very hard stretch SteamBros.
Glad Alien : Isolation is finally up for pre-order. Happy about the price as well, but I'll have to wait for a sale (and impressions) to pick it up
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Tizoc
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Im a blind optimist, so I'll always BELIEVE there's a 1% chance such game's will get made/released/re-released.
Another thing to note. All the big publishers new IPs are seemingly taking less and less risks due to what I assume are higher budgets. Destiny is probably going to be the next new IP sales darling but I've seen nothing, even after the public alpha that doesn't scream Borderlands (but dead serious without the awful humor, don't know what's worse to be honest) with MMO components to stretch out how thin the concept is.
I like Watch_Dogs but it didn't innovate really at all. Hacking was a focus during the marketing push that boils down to a button press and one tedious mini game (and supposedly Kaspersky helped them with that hahahahahaha).
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All this AC talk! I started to play Brotherhood again recently. I played until the end of sequence 1 and then a little bit of the present timeline.
I have mixed feelings about the series. I believe it was originally supposed to be a trilogy and they had a story planned out but Ubi fired the guy in charge of that so now it seems the story is less meaningful and they are just milking it for everything it's worth.
On the other hand, people seem to love the ship based stuff so I may press on with the series anyway.
Over the Fourth of July weekend I visited my cousin and he has a PS4 with Black Flag. It looked pretty good but I think PC has spoiled me because something seemed off about the performance of the game. I don't know if it was the frame rate or what. I just thought it would be smoother. I'm not really skilled at identifying what specifically was going on graphically, but there was definitely something amiss. I'd like to see if Black Flag runs smoother on my PC to be honest.
I have mixed feelings about the series. I believe it was originally supposed to be a trilogy and they had a story planned out but Ubi fired the guy in charge of that so now it seems the story is less meaningful and they are just milking it for everything it's worth.
On the other hand, people seem to love the ship based stuff so I may press on with the series anyway.
Over the Fourth of July weekend I visited my cousin and he has a PS4 with Black Flag. It looked pretty good but I think PC has spoiled me because something seemed off about the performance of the game. I don't know if it was the frame rate or what. I just thought it would be smoother. I'm not really skilled at identifying what specifically was going on graphically, but there was definitely something amiss. I'd like to see if Black Flag runs smoother on my PC to be honest.
What the? I wonder why I never heard of this *goes off to Google*. Ok even with thin details this sounds awesome. I mean a Valve game set in space? That's the stuff dreams are made of!
It's still a bit of a mystery exactly what their involvement was other than looking over the script (though some sites went a little too overboard) but here's the press release from Kaspersky's side.
http://www.kaspersky.com/about/news...spersky-Lab-to-Authenticate-Watch-Dogs-Script
Make of that what you will.
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