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STEAM | July 2016 - Post Sale Hauls, Post Sale Blues

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Tellaerin

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Just finished Lightning Returns. It took some trial and error and a good half hour of tinkering with schema for me to beat the boss' final form, but the payoff... That ending made it all worthwhile. A satisfying conclusion to not just LR, but the XIII trilogy as a whole.

I enjoyed the game enough that I'll definitely do an NG+ run at some point, though I think I'm going to move on to something else for now. Looking back on it now, I think these games got far too much hate. (It's kind of a shame that XV isn't connected with the Fabula Nova Crystallis mythos anymore, since I thought that was an interesting concept.)

Now I'm in that post-RPG state where I'm happy but bummed that it's over, and not sure what to play next, lol.
 
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Anyone else preordered the Phantom Brave PC: Digital Chroma Edition from humble, and had the key provided not unlock the artbook?
 
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KingKong

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EDF 4.1 is so good. It just keeps getting better and crazier too. Every mission I think 'how will they top this' and they answer
 
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Speevy

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This one comes with a condition that you must review this game if you win it.

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yeah both headlander and quadilateral cowboy look pretty dope, but i wasn't really expecting them to just drop like that

might grab em next month
 
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Speevy

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Lain said:
Level 5 is one of the few who can give a fuck about Steam and PC given their level of sales.
They already see the money roll in from their handhelds releases.
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Level 5 needs to co-develop an RPG. They have the most accessible RPG systems in all of gaming.
 
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TheSeks

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The dance .gif is (un)intentionally funny in context. But yeah, the writing is a bit all over the place in Life is Strange if the first episode is anything to go by. It's still enjoyable, but there's some things that just throw it off.
 
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Chapter 2 was the longest with a ton of side quests. Best to stay in the swamp as long as you can and kill everything.

I would also say get a weightless mod. It doesn't break the game and it saves you so much time and grief.
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I don't mind the item limit, but I'm swimming in thousands of herbs but no means of cooking them since the bases are being used for quests and stuff. I have gotten a bit more knowledge from books, but they cost so much that I don't know what the best method of getting credits is beyond "STEAL. ALL THE THINGS! SELL! THEM ALL! TO THE SHOPS FOR ONE CREDIT EACH!"

Seems like you want to buy those books since there is no "intelligence"/skill up option to get all the recipes unless you Morrowind it up and somehow luck into making the potion you wanted. But you need bases for that. Bleh.

Vazra said:
House of The Dead 2,3 and Typing of The Dead too while we are at it. Those should be easy since PC versions exists.
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Typing of the Dead is just HotD2 with Sega Dreamcasts and Keyboards instead of the guns. They could just port that, do the HotD mode like Overkill's did and have both of them in one game. But that requires them reworking/doing more work than a straight-up port of TotD to Steam.

3 never had a PC port, AFAIK. Same with 4 and the first HotD.
 
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Lain said:
Level 5 is one of the few who can not give a fuck about Steam and PC given their level of sales.
They already see the money roll in from their handhelds releases.
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Only in Japan, what was the last Western release of their handheld that did well?
Besides stfu, you know your punk ass wants their games on Steam.
 
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So, i won "one of the best strategy games" earlier, and apparently i already own that one. Also, i wish i didn't own it :p

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Tizoc said:
Only in Japan, what was the last Western release of their handheld that did well?
Besides stfu, you know your punk ass wants their games on Steam.
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Well, since you asked, Yokai Watch did sell 400k copies, which is quite impressive (even though L5 said they weren't thrilled by the numbers, which were probably caused due to the game being the first iteration of the franchise in the west), but I don't want to pour cold water on your expectations since I agree, they should bring their franchises to PC, especially considering how expensive Layton copies are nowadays lol.
 
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mp1990 said:
Well, since you asked, Yokai Watch did sell 400k copies, which is quite impressive (even though L5 said they weren't thrilled by the numbers, which were probably caused due to the game being the first iteration of the franchise in the west), but I don't want to pour cold water on your expectations since I agree, they should bring their franchises to PC, especially considering how expensive Layton copies are nowadays lol.
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On the one hand, that's a decent figure for Worldwide release, but when you realize that in Japan ALONE it sold more than 400K...well at least we're getting Yokai Watch 2 in coming months.
...and hey Europe likes their Pokemon-like games so kudos to them.
 
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Tellaerin

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Atraveller said:
Tim Sweeney: MS plans to make Steam 'progressively worse' & buggy via Win10 updates LOL
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Considering some of MS' past practices, I wouldn't put it past them to do just that. :p Nothing so bad that the Steam client straight out refuses to run, but something causing just enough crashes and other headaches that (they might hope) people would get sick of it and buy games through the Win10 store instead. I can easily imagine them claiming that "essential security features may have broken compatibility, and we can't roll back these changes for safety reasons, but we're working hard to identify the source of the problem and address it", while nothing at all is done. :p
 
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Atraveller said:
Tim Sweeney: MS plans to make Steam 'progressively worse' & buggy via Win10 updates LOL
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This thread is going places. First page is entirely dismissal, second page is the "but they've done it before!" group. Either way five years is a hilariously tiny time for this to happen.

Tellaerin said:
Considering some of MS' past practices, I wouldn't put it past them to do just that. :p Nothing so bad that the Steam client straight out refuses to run, but something causing just enough crashes and other headaches that (they might hope) people would get sick of it and buy games through the Win10 store instead. I can easily imagine them claiming that "essential security features may have broken compatibility, and we can't roll back these changes for safety reasons, but we're working hard to identify the source of the problem and address it", while nothing at all is done. :p
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Unless something drastic changes with the Windows 10 Store, I think people would rather install Linux than try to play UWP games.

Platy said:
But can't just .... Steam creates workarounds ?
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If I'm reading the theory right, Tim believes that they'll force Steam into such a buggy corner that there won't be anything done about it. If this was happening, of course Valve would throw everything they had against it.
 
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Ah crap, I did not read the minimum requirements for Ghost of a Tale: a video card with 2 GB VRAM. It is the trend these days: Abzu, Obduction and now this. I wonder if my Radeon 7770 would be sufficient.
 
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Heh Ozium won, congrats.

Apparently the game will have combat added in later updates and atm there is only the stealth stuff right?
 
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UWP would need to be dominant for Microsoft to phase out Win32 for it. Good luck with that. I would not be surprised if they drop it for something else like they do with most of their projects.

Windows got where it is due to being an open platform. But Microsoft are more than welcome to play with fire if they want to.
 
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