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STEAM | March 2017 - IT'S MAHVEL BAYBEE!!!
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darkwing-buck
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That game is fucking hardcore. Probably the most ambitious single player game Ubisoft has made in the last 10 years. Did you get attached to any characters? I remember feeling like shit cause one of my buddies perma-died lol
Yeah, I had one of my buddies die in the first half, can't remember who it was. Andre became my best man in the second half, though.
Kinda distraught when all your buddies turn on you if you go after the diamonds at the end. Andre sounded like he didn't want to fight, yet he pulled a gun out after the shooting began. I had to take him out. 
The stat scaling in Xanadu Next is kinda crazy. Everything is insanely painful for a few minutes, then you level up at it hits you for 1, and so far that cycle is repeating. The game itself is kinda fun but feels like there's not a whole lot of time spent in the "balanced" part of the stat-cycle
someguyinahat
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The stat scaling in Xanadu Next is kinda crazy. Everything is insanely painful for a few minutes, then you level up at it hits you for 1, and so far that cycle is repeating. The game itself is kinda fun but feels like there's not a whole lot of time spent in the "balanced" part of the stat-cycle
Sounds similar to Ys Origin. The level ups are apparently secrets, but they feel necessary. I was hitting a boss for 20 damage per hit, lost several times, left and found a power up, then I'm hitting him for 200. A hard challenge suddenly became an easy one.
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Via Purifico
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Pretty generous of you GoldandBlue, thanks.
How's everyone doing?
How's everyone doing?
GoldandBlue
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Always had mixed feelings about Greenlight, I never cared for all the bad games getting in since they were easy enough to ignore and fine the good stuff. With some of the shit people got in recently though, it can't end soon enough.
someguyinahat
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From what I've seen of it, it looks like a shitty game. The developers probably knew they wouldn't get by on their skills, so they went with the attention-grabbing route. And it worked.
Nomadic Sparks
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From what I gather from youtube comments SJW are responsible for EA being shitty?
and I just roll my eyes at their stupidity,
EA was always shitty before that GG buzzword became a thing lol
and I just roll my eyes at their stupidity,
EA was always shitty before that GG buzzword became a thing lol
i've actually always liked greenlight as an idea, allowing players to choose which games they want on the store is imo a sound idea and a good way to filter out games that don't look ready for sell based on players' interest and nothing more. the $100 price was too high imo considering that's a serious amount of money for people in lots of countries, but i still think the idea is solid, people do most of the policing and valve doesn't have to weight in at all, no weird cases where some game gets kicked for questionable reasons and if it leans a little on the open side that's not too bad
the problem is when valve doesn't do the minimum curation necessary for something to be sold in their store (like checking if the game actually works), and also the extreme neglect they've given to players' ability to curate through greenlight, as well as the store in general being kind of a mess to browse. valve should've worked on giving tools to players to do the curation, that would encourage legitimate greenlight users to review more games and get more involved, which would also take away some power from the people trying to abuse it
i like the idea of democratizing what's sold on steam, greenlight as a whole has been a big plus compared to what was there before, $100 might be high but it's probably affordable by most serious developers. having to fly to gdc to talk to some valve rep to lobby your game in is very prohibitive, and i bet lots of games we think as essential to the indie world would probably never have made it in under the old system. the whole reason why steam is awesome is because it made both selling and buying games more accessible and both parties benefited from it, and greenlight could've been part of that if valve had given it a bit more attention. i don't know why they did, maybe they have the numbers that say it's not worth it, but valve is often pretty hard to understand so we'll probably never know
about this game in particular, i've not played it but i'm willing to bet it's probably a parody of the meme kind, and i don't think those kinds of parodies do the world any good (i'd say it's pretty close to being like a hate speech loop hole), so i personally find it pretty irresponsible from valve to sell it
haven't played it so maybe it's not like that, idk
feels so spineless to make a game like this and then pretend you're not attacking anyone
the problem is when valve doesn't do the minimum curation necessary for something to be sold in their store (like checking if the game actually works), and also the extreme neglect they've given to players' ability to curate through greenlight, as well as the store in general being kind of a mess to browse. valve should've worked on giving tools to players to do the curation, that would encourage legitimate greenlight users to review more games and get more involved, which would also take away some power from the people trying to abuse it
i like the idea of democratizing what's sold on steam, greenlight as a whole has been a big plus compared to what was there before, $100 might be high but it's probably affordable by most serious developers. having to fly to gdc to talk to some valve rep to lobby your game in is very prohibitive, and i bet lots of games we think as essential to the indie world would probably never have made it in under the old system. the whole reason why steam is awesome is because it made both selling and buying games more accessible and both parties benefited from it, and greenlight could've been part of that if valve had given it a bit more attention. i don't know why they did, maybe they have the numbers that say it's not worth it, but valve is often pretty hard to understand so we'll probably never know
about this game in particular, i've not played it but i'm willing to bet it's probably a parody of the meme kind, and i don't think those kinds of parodies do the world any good (i'd say it's pretty close to being like a hate speech loop hole), so i personally find it pretty irresponsible from valve to sell it
haven't played it so maybe it's not like that, idk
i just dislike opening it up and seeing it's like "we don't mean to offend anyone" or whatever
feels so spineless to make a game like this and then pretend you're not attacking anyone
At least we got a LGBT flag emoticon +background out of it so at least those edgelords are good for something.
AcademicSaucer
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Saw this in other thread
What happened to Civilization VI ?
What happened to Civilization VI ?
VI has problems that need to be addressed.
The two biggest problems are the AI and the optimization. Even on a good system the AI can take a really long time to process their moves, and late game + 12 other civs? Forget about it. Like 15 minutes waiting.
The AI itself is insanely aggressive and it also feels like they economically cheat.
V has the advantage of 2 expansions worth of balancing and patching, plus, a buttload of mods.
I think VI will get there eventually, but right now, it's just hard to recommend, and it's why it fell off. People assumed it would have been fixed by now I guess.
The two biggest problems are the AI and the optimization. Even on a good system the AI can take a really long time to process their moves, and late game + 12 other civs? Forget about it. Like 15 minutes waiting.
The AI itself is insanely aggressive and it also feels like they economically cheat.
V has the advantage of 2 expansions worth of balancing and patching, plus, a buttload of mods.
I think VI will get there eventually, but right now, it's just hard to recommend, and it's why it fell off. People assumed it would have been fixed by now I guess.
SunDimension24
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Just started playing through route B and was not liking 9S at all either until the enemies started becoming really hard all of a sudden and wondered "is it possible to defeat these enemies...their health is barely going dow....oh wait doesn't he have a hacking ability....oh.....ohh....OHHHH....I see now." Then I discovered fist weapons and mixed those in with spears and now he has become more fun than I originally thought. Still not sure about route B though
I know they are filling in information that you didn't get with 2B and making certain themes more prevalent in the game but in the back of my mind I can't fight the fact that I have done most of this not to long ago. I hope it changes up a bit more as I play further in the Route.
GoldandBlue
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Man it's been like 2 or 3 weeks since the last major Japanese pc port announcement. I need more! Gotta have my fix!
Some dates for any of the Falcom games coming to Steam wouldn't be bad either.
Jawmuncher
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I hate 9s. Had no emotional attachment to him whatsoever.
His hacking skill is nice though.
His hacking skill is nice though.
Via Purifico
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9S is fun to me, the hacking is worth it just for the 8bit versions of the music.
AcademicSaucer
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Man, what a bummer, hopefully they can fix the problems before they want to sell a expansion
SunDimension24
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It's ok, Sega will announce their pc ports .......anyday now....anyday now.......... right..........right?
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Ah figures it's a regional thing.
yeah, the gameplay changes aren't strong enough but the additional sidequests are nice in route B actually, I'm trying to finish them before the forest area and they aren't as annoying as the first playthrough
I like 9s but he's no Kaine
yeah the hacking is good for the higher level enemies you just can't do much damage to
true lol
yea he's ok
honestly i think playing as either of them (or a2) is very fun or deep. it's mindlessly entertaining enough that you don't mind doing it for like 40 hours, but in the same way nier 1's combat was, just with a little bit more nuance and a lot more polish
it's just serviceable enough to get you through the story and world, which is what actually matters
the exploration is at least more fun thanks to the dash and air dash being really satisfying, as well as some other stuff like the boar riding or the journey sand skating. the gliding is kind of a let down since it feels more like it's meant to break your fall rather than actually glide. i really wish that would let u get farther
yeah, it's kind of like nier 1, except in nier 1 the added context kind of changes everything, while here it's like flavor more than anything
route c actually gets into meaningful new stuff so let that be what you're looking forward to, cos nier 2 route b is no nier 1 route b
i feel like that to every character except for pascal and
emil, but i loved him already
again nothing to do with nier 1, characters here are very hard to relate to since they're really one dimensional and kind of boring
i do like 9s the best out of the three protagonists, at least he wasn't like fucking DON'T QUESTION THE MISSION like 2b
fuck i kind of hate 2b
LurkerPrime
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I want to say "Greenlight sucks," but it brought us stuff like Stardew Valley or Deadly Premonition that absolutely wouldn't have ended up on Steam otherwise. So it has been an acceptable compromise.
GoldandBlue
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I'm actually not holding out on Sega announcements anymore, especially when if they do it'll be something like Sonic Boom PC port.
jaundicejuice
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Firaxis have got to stop shipping games with huge problems, be they technical or design, that they later address with paid expansions or hope the community sorts out for them through mods. Civ VI kinda feels like Beyond Earth Round 2 in that there's a lot of good ideas in the game but there's also a lot of problems that make it hard to recommend. BE will probably always be a mess but Civ VI will probably eventually be as good as Civ V Brave New World, eventually. Hopefully.
i do like nier 2, even if i think it's kind of a bad game, at least in its individual parts, specially those that are supposed to be strong like combat and story and characters, and coming from nier 1 which at least absolutely nailed the last two. like not bad in the nier 1 this game is clunky and underbudgeted way, but bad in the "this game had a lot more budget and time to learn from its mistakes but it lots a lost of its essence in the process"
there's a combination of aesthetic and tone and good music and the occasional strange/bizarre clever thing and nier 1/drakengard reference i pick up (there's probably a gazillion that fly right by me) that i do appreciate and that resonate fairly well with me and keep me going, but yeah, this is not another classic
at least not so far, if i understand it correctly i still have some ways to go
there's a combination of aesthetic and tone and good music and the occasional strange/bizarre clever thing and nier 1/drakengard reference i pick up (there's probably a gazillion that fly right by me) that i do appreciate and that resonate fairly well with me and keep me going, but yeah, this is not another classic
at least not so far, if i understand it correctly i still have some ways to go
Jawmuncher
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I agree with that. It does seem they improved one area drastically while regressing on the other.
Via Purifico
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Not sure if you're interested in leveling a good deal or not but if you head to the amusement park as 9S you can hack the robots and attack the statue. It's lvl 80 though.
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Saw this in other thread
That H1Z1 drop.
Makes me wonder if a big publisher is cooking up a Battle Royale-like for consoles.
Edit: Just checked and H1Z1 is back at #3.
man Nier 1 route b was like god tier right from the beginning with the Kaine back story, Nier 2 route B is pretty subtle with the changes
hmm interesting, i never ran into that when i was at the amusement park
Via Purifico
Banned
It's the rabbit statue right at the entrance. If you attack it enough times with a robot it comes to life, obviously hacking it is best.
Via Purifico
Banned
Keiichi Okabe is a good as far as I am concerned.
He has created various works that I enjoyed in each game he worked on, especially Tekken.
Tekken 6 OST - Mystical Forest
He has created various works that I enjoyed in each game he worked on, especially Tekken.
Tekken 6 OST - Mystical Forest
texhnolyze
Banned
Ni No Kuni 2 is releasing in 2017, we'll see the release date soon maybe at E3.
Final Fantasy XII HD announcement is also on the horizon.
but will PC get a sweet steelbook?
texhnolyze
Banned
All they did was put it in Photoshop and smooth-filtered it. What happened with Kaneko anyway?
GoldandBlue
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I expect FFXII PC news after the console release.
Via Purifico
Banned
I expect the same thing, especially with how they handled Nier coming to Steam.
paperspace
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Is there a quick way to remove saves from Steam Cloud?
I'm about to give Fallout 4 another shot, but it keeps insisting on downloading 1GB of saves before starting. I know I can turn off Steam Cloud, but I'd like to have my saves synced since I'm planning on playing on 2 PC's ...
I'm about to give Fallout 4 another shot, but it keeps insisting on downloading 1GB of saves before starting. I know I can turn off Steam Cloud, but I'd like to have my saves synced since I'm planning on playing on 2 PC's ...
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