Wait. It's a party-based game with semi-real time with pause?
This changes everything.
And at the top of my backlog it goes.
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Wait. It's a party-based game with semi-real time with pause?
This changes everything.
And at the top of my backlog it goes.
Some oldies.
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The lost Mythologies already greenlit, that was fast!
Also greenlit:
SnarfQuest Tales
Tree of Saviour (already mentioned yesterday)
New York Mysteries: Secrets of the Mafia
Power Drive 2000 (everyone's favourite)
Hatashiai (realistic Samurai sword fighting)
Winterflame: The Other Side
Monsters' Den: Godfall
and some others
Still not greenlit:
Picross Pirates
Super Star Path
Prismatica
The Lord
Fantasy Mosaics series (Nonograms)
As you can see, Puzzle games never get enough votes, unless they end in the bundle, not fair. Well, The Lord is not a puzzle game, but that's besides the point.
Also greenlit:
SnarfQuest Tales
Tree of Saviour (already mentioned yesterday)
New York Mysteries: Secrets of the Mafia
Power Drive 2000 (everyone's favourite)
Hatashiai (realistic Samurai sword fighting)
Winterflame: The Other Side
Monsters' Den: Godfall
and some others
Still not greenlit:
Picross Pirates
Super Star Path
Prismatica
The Lord
Fantasy Mosaics series (Nonograms)
As you can see, Puzzle games never get enough votes, unless they end in the bundle, not fair. Well, The Lord is not a puzzle game, but that's besides the point.
In a perfect world, it'd be SMAA.
NingenJanai
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No different than Witcher 2, so not really surprised.
Like the look of Lost Ark.
The character creator for black desert - WOW
To everyone else who got shot out of a vagina today.
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I don't see the problem. Reviews are a subjective matter.
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Atraveller
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I remembered a gaffer outraged by the lack of presence of black people in LotR.
And they can be shit.
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ok everyone - here's a little game ... try to guess who wrote that review WITHOUT clicking the link
Witcher Saga is based on books and author used Middle Age Eastern Europe as location. That location even in fantasy world was made authentic for that period as much as author could. So criticism of that kind in my opinion can't be applied in this case. But Polygon is know for that kind of criticism (see Bayoneta 2 Review).
Sure, if you dislike an opinion it's shit to you, just like any opinion.
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In a perfect world we would have much better AA options than a sort of decent post-process AA solution like SMAA.
I think that's a fair observation. Whether it should be as an aside in a review and not something explored a little and looking at context, the world of The Witcher, whether having token characters of differing ethnicities just there is a good thing and other such possible conversations is debatable.
Well last time I did this I was completely wrong but I'd imagine the bulk of the PC playerbase is going to be on GOG so I'll play it safe and say 60-80,000 tops. And then you can all laugh at me next week when I'm waaay out.
Well last time I did this I was completely wrong but I'd imagine the bulk of the PC playerbase is going to be on GOG so I'll play it safe and say 60-80,000 tops. And then you can all laugh at me next week when I'm waaay out.
"It" being "The post-process AA option of choice". But, yeah, it would be nice if more developers offered a variety of AA methods instead of just the one.
toddhunter
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Yeah seems reasonable to me. Even if you disagree, getting angry at it is pretty much the equivalent of booing a heel wrestler.
It is just their job.
Stallion Free
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The world of Witcher reminds me a lot of Game of Thrones which seems to have no struggle filling it's world with people of varying color so maybe there is room for debate.
Dammit! Japanese words and not the English one!?
I can see it now: "CDPR announces Game of Thrones RPG; there's just one problem..."
Hahaha I had to look up what a heel wrestle is.
Oh dude there's masses and masses of scope to debate this, not just in gaming but all forms of entertainment, though personality I don't feel a good way to start the conversation is a small aside in a review. Though as a mid thirties, white bloke, from Europe it's something I feel better severed observing the arguments from various positions first that dive in tooting my horn from the get go.
You could buy the GOG version on the cheap with the help of a VPN.
I don't know, there used to be a time when I didn't care if my games were on steam - but now, if my game isn't on steam, I don't play it.
Steam has ruined gaming for me like that.
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Hi, I'm back, bitches. (nobody cares, I know)
But I was wondering if the level of 'scam behavior' with Steam had been discussed or whether it be worth making a new thread about.
(The F2P games are obvious - my funny bone snapped when I discovered AdVenture Capitalist actually gained a spaaaaace expansion, and it even had a catchy tune.. for a game made as a parody... - , as are people trying to get stuff from your inventory, but that's not what I'm referring to.)
What I'm referring to is scam behavior by developers using Steam Trading Cards.
Basically, one or two games can get the 95% off from Steam, resulting in one or two games that cost 19 cents (euro) to buy, meaning that with sets of 5 or 6 cards, the games nearly "pay for themselves" when you sell the cards at 3x7= 21 cents, except you only get 15 cents out of it. 3 cents go to Valve, 3 cents go to the dev, as a minimum.
But here's the thing: none of that money is actually free. All of it comes from our pockets, and delusional as we all are, we fall willingly for this trap where it's 'almost free', which it isn't. Yet evidently, this is totally worth it for developers, because it has become a thing in recent weeks.
For every card sold, there is obviously a buyer, so every sale generates 19+3 =21 cents per unit sold. Now obviously, this IS a ridiculously low number. Until you start looking at card sales, which will suddenly be in the thousands per day. 0,21 x 1000 = 210 bucks, after all. Do that over the course of at least a week, and you get a relative nice big number.
It's still nothing compared to most games, obviously, but the thing here is that these games have basically either stopped selling altogether, or they are just that fucking terrible, meaning they shouldn't sell any at all.
And that worries me, because it's easy to slap something together, and then use the illusion of 'free money' to get real 'free money' (on the dev end), because they basically had to give zero effort to get it. Or could, is what the point is. Aside from one, the games so far at that price have been decent enough. But we all know that Bad Rats is going to show up at some point, and those devs will basically be instantly extra rewarded for making the worst game of all fucking time.
Do I worry too much, or am I not the only one who sees a kind of problem with this?
But I was wondering if the level of 'scam behavior' with Steam had been discussed or whether it be worth making a new thread about.
(The F2P games are obvious - my funny bone snapped when I discovered AdVenture Capitalist actually gained a spaaaaace expansion, and it even had a catchy tune.. for a game made as a parody... - , as are people trying to get stuff from your inventory, but that's not what I'm referring to.)
What I'm referring to is scam behavior by developers using Steam Trading Cards.
Basically, one or two games can get the 95% off from Steam, resulting in one or two games that cost 19 cents (euro) to buy, meaning that with sets of 5 or 6 cards, the games nearly "pay for themselves" when you sell the cards at 3x7= 21 cents, except you only get 15 cents out of it. 3 cents go to Valve, 3 cents go to the dev, as a minimum.
But here's the thing: none of that money is actually free. All of it comes from our pockets, and delusional as we all are, we fall willingly for this trap where it's 'almost free', which it isn't. Yet evidently, this is totally worth it for developers, because it has become a thing in recent weeks.
For every card sold, there is obviously a buyer, so every sale generates 19+3 =21 cents per unit sold. Now obviously, this IS a ridiculously low number. Until you start looking at card sales, which will suddenly be in the thousands per day. 0,21 x 1000 = 210 bucks, after all. Do that over the course of at least a week, and you get a relative nice big number.
It's still nothing compared to most games, obviously, but the thing here is that these games have basically either stopped selling altogether, or they are just that fucking terrible, meaning they shouldn't sell any at all.
And that worries me, because it's easy to slap something together, and then use the illusion of 'free money' to get real 'free money' (on the dev end), because they basically had to give zero effort to get it. Or could, is what the point is. Aside from one, the games so far at that price have been decent enough. But we all know that Bad Rats is going to show up at some point, and those devs will basically be instantly extra rewarded for making the worst game of all fucking time.
Do I worry too much, or am I not the only one who sees a kind of problem with this?
Spring-Loaded
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There's definitely plenty room for debate. Hopefully that debate isn't about the worthiness of having diversity in the first place though.
4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 are drawing blanks.
Ban Puncher
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I got everything except 8 and 15.
Same, I had the GoG code as I bought a 980 3 weeks ago. I sold it, then bought the steam version. Weird.
15 is hilarious.
Ban Puncher
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Number 8 to go.
toddhunter
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I don't see what your problem actually is? If people are dumb enough to spend money buying cards, why wouldn't you take it?
They'll just buy magic beans or something anyway.
I would say you could buy a gift copy of the GOG version on the cheap and then sell it for a profit on, say, eBay (assuming GOG's gift system is similar to that of Steam), but that's no longer possible.
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WinterDemons
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Dang, you're fast. I had a hard time with 15 and 16, lol.
thereisnoif
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I applaud your waifu knowledge.
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What about the frame rate? Does 15 FPS during battles bother you at all?
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lolOh, I guess I was totally off-base, then.
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