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- Comment on Monster Hunter Wilds title update two aims to defeat the biggest beasts of all: shader compilation and VRAM issues 20 hours ago:
I’ve always wondered, and guessed it comes from consoles or maybe a Japanese thing, why is it called Title Update? What other kinds of updates do games get?
Although not in this case, often it would also be clarified that it was a free update. Do people pay for game updates? For me an update is the same as a patch, mainly fixes, sometimes new stuff. Then you have expansions/add-ons or DLC that are mostly paid.
- Comment on Overwatch 2 slaps 6 days ago:
Nope, the game is and will probably always be spammy. Everyone has unlimited ammo. I definitely prefer this btw.
There’s map control of course, just not like arena shooters. Most maps have changing objectives, around which the fights happen.
- Comment on Overwatch 2 slaps 6 days ago:
I’ve been playing for about two months now, after a multi-year break from the game. Just casual, not competitive (although Stadium is classified as competitive). It’s great.
Two bad things for me. Flex Queue means Tank, which sucks, because I’d like to play all roles, but now have to just queue DPS/Heal. Also, the matchmaker is shit, so most games are relatively one-sided (Quick Play and Stadium).
- Comment on Baldur’s Gate 4 may happen eventually, but not with Larian Studios 1 week ago:
to this day, I still have no idea how DOS and DOS2 are related plotwise
They’re in the same world, but a few thousand years apart or something, so there is no real connection.
- Comment on Did nightreign flop? 1 week ago:
It’s a hypothetical.
- Comment on Did nightreign flop? 1 week ago:
Depends on who you ask. Square might have projected 15m sales on the first day, in which case it did.
- Comment on What are your favorite metroidvanias? 1 week ago:
Dead Cells
Never really agreed with the Metroidvania label, same with Skul: The Hero Slayer. You unlock different biomes (and side rooms), but the items to do so are more like keys. Just my thoughts on that.
- Comment on What are your favorite metroidvanias? 1 week ago:
Hollow Knight
Tunic
Ori
Animal Well
Axiom Verge - Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of June 15th 2 weeks ago:
Finally beat Windblown on the hardest difficulty (one run). Now I’m back down one step to unlock the new items that were added in the last six months.
- Comment on Nexus Mods is under new ownership 2 weeks ago:
Most of this sites post are blogspam “articles”, where you might as well just link to the original. But I think the posts here are just automated, with no real filter for what’s useful and what isn’t.
- Comment on Dying Light is 80% off at 3.99€ 2 weeks ago:
BTW, the game can’t be bought in Germany for some reason, but you can activate third-party keys with no problem. No VPN needed.
I bought it on Nuuvem years ago and everything worked. Dunno if region-locked keys are sold, but the store should tell you if it’s only Russian, Japanese or whatever.
- Comment on Stellar Blade PC launch Hits 99K+ Concurrent players, surpassing every other PlayStation-published single-player game on Steam 2 weeks ago:
BG3 tried it with Bear sex. I guess we aren’t ready for that yet. But our kids are gonna love it.
- Comment on Stellar Blade PC launch Hits 99K+ Concurrent players, surpassing every other PlayStation-published single-player game on Steam 2 weeks ago:
BG3 and Cyberpunk have boobs and were a success, which would support that statement. But Wukong, Palword, and Monster Hunter Wilds were even more successful (according to concurrent Steam players), which means animals are the true secret to success.
- Comment on Stellar Blade PC launch Hits 99K+ Concurrent players, surpassing every other PlayStation-published single-player game on Steam 2 weeks ago:
The only thing I know is that access to the specific purchase might get blocked, if there’s a payment issue. Not Steam directly, but a friend of mine once bought Diablo 3 for WoW gold on Battle.net, something happened after a while, and he lost access to the game, dunno if the other side refunded the game or whatever. All the other games still worked, but he’d have to buy D3 again to play it. I would be surprised if Steam blocks the whole account.
If they mean you buy a game, then there’s a problem with payment, but they should still let you download and play, that’s dumb.
The part about Steam Support being extremely slow is also old news. I think that’s been a lot better for years now. I don’t know if it was around the time they were forced to implement refunds, but I think that’s all outsourced now, and you don’t have to hope a Valve dev checks the support mailbox anymore.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour || Review Thread 2 weeks ago:
You should do what you think is best, since you’re making these threads.
I remember back when OpenCritic launched, the dev made a Reddit post to gauge interest. MetaCritic used some weird formula to weight specific outlets of their choosing higher, and apparently people didn’t like that. OpenCritic was supposed to “fix” that. I never really followed that stuff, so I don’t know if that’s still the case, if MetaCritic changed or whatever.
I don’t care one way or another, and don’t really use these threads or even most of the reviews to decide if I buy a game or not. Looking them over, and maybe see some people freak out because of “too much water” is entertaining though.
- Comment on Mario Kart World | Review Thread 3 weeks ago:
I’m not a Nintendo gamer, but I’ve been watching a streamer play the game, and whenever I see the Knockout Tour it reminds me of the opening set pieces of the Forza Horizon games, where you’re going through all the different biomes, to introduce you to the game. And afterward you’re let loose on the Mario Horizon festival (aka the empty open world).
The game itself doesn’t look fun at all for me, but who cares, if people enjoy it.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of June 8th 3 weeks ago:
Trying to beat the highest difficulty in Windblown. It’s not going well. I’d basically need to be able to beat the game hitless, which I’m not good enough for.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 is already running custom graphics through exploit one day after launch 3 weeks ago:
I’m not really interested in the Switch 2, but things like that are why I thought about buying one for like a second, just to have a low firmware one.
- Comment on Epic Games Unreal Fest News 3 weeks ago:
Finally, some real examples, where EGS is better than Steam, that actually impact people and might make them use EGS. Price is probably the most important one. If someone from Argentina pays like half as much on EGS as they would on Steam (don’t know how much it actually is), because EGS actually accepts their local currency and they don’t have to pay in USD or something, then it makes sense to switch to EGS
Also, EGS is better for devs than Steam, with revenue share, now even more so, as mentioned in the post. I don’t think a lot of people will buy on EGS solely for that reason, but it is something.
The OP says global preloading and gifting are going live soon
That’s why I mentioned them. You basically said, people (maybe unjustly) talk shit about EGS because of missing features like that, when they also have some advantages over Steam, and then talk about the most mundane stuff. “I might not be able to pre-load this game, but at least I can cap my download at 13468kb/s.” Those two are not the same.
It was very convenient to have everything in one place
As I said, with the button to switch to the Chat inside the Steam app, it’s basically the same. What is the real difference of clicking that button and switching to a different app, compared to clicking that button and switching to a new screen inside the same app? I genuinely can’t think of one. You could argue a separate app is better, because now you can open both apps at the same time in split screen, so you can browse the store or community pages, while chatting (I wouldn’t do that, but it’s possible).
I’m not sure the discounts offered via bundles on Steam are an overall better deal compared to Epic offering cashback of 5% on everything, sometimes increased to 20% (like now)
Probably not, most of the time, and this post doesn’t detail what bundling for EGS means. Steam has normal game bundles and the Complete-your-Collection bundles, which is dynamic and can give some extra discounts.
However, with Steam keys from legit third-party sites, you might get an even better deal at times, maybe better than on EGS, so I don’t really know where it’s the cheapest.
- Comment on Epic Games Unreal Fest News 3 weeks ago:
Wishlisting specific Game Editions would be nice, but how are you comparing nice-to-have features like that or custom download limits to stuff like Pre-Loading, Gifting, Bundles, etc.
For me, a separate Chat app for Steam is also a complete non-issue. I can’t really think of anything, that would improve, if it was integrated in the normal Steam app. Separate download and one initial login less? You can launch the Chat app from the Steam app itself, so you don’t even save that single extra tap to launch it, and for the user it’s basically the same as an integrated chat.
- Comment on Elden Ring Nightreign’s Massive Steam Launch Tarnished by 'Mixed' User Reviews Over Lack of Duos Co-Op, Voice Chat 4 weeks ago:
Different looks good to me, some of the powers are neat. I’m not a FromSoft-gamer. Elden Ring is the only game of theirs I’ve finished, so I don’t really care it’s not the same game again.
Also, you’re right, what I’ve seen doesn’t look easy, and no real communication at all is a bummer (only set a marker or jump and crouch in front of something), but it still looks like fun.
- Comment on Elden Ring Nightreign’s Massive Steam Launch Tarnished by 'Mixed' User Reviews Over Lack of Duos Co-Op, Voice Chat 4 weeks ago:
I’m not a huge Elden Ring guy, haven’t even played the DLC yet, but watching a streamer play the game, I kinda wanna try the game myself, even with these problems.
My friends aren’t into these games anyway, so it always would’ve with randoms (solo supposedly isn’t that good).
- Comment on Let's discuss: Donkey Kong 4 weeks ago:
I played games on the PC before, but DKC was the first SNES game I played, maybe the first game with a controller. I still remember, after the console was set up, my sister played for a bit, then I wanted a turn, and just ran straight into the first enemy. Then I just watched my sister play for a bit, lol.
We didn’t have a lot of SNES games, but the game became probably my favorite on the console, along with the sequel. I played through both of them a bunch of times, and found every secret, without looking up guides.
A year or two ago, I casually played through it again, in like an hour, which was fun, I’ll have to do it again, along with the second game.
Hearing the music nowadays is also nostalgic, but it’s also just so good.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 25th 5 weeks ago:
Played some Overwatch 2 Stadium mode. It’s kinda underwhelming I guess?
Comments described the mode as super crazy, with all the powers you can get, but it doesn’t feel much different, since normal OW also added passives, that you unlock during a match. There are also not that many characters enabled for the mode, which doesn’t help, because there are just one or two characters per role I want to play. With superfast rounds, it does feel faster than normal OW, but the whole match takes 20-30 minutes, except giga stomps, that can only take like 10.
Since the matchmaker is also terrible as always, games just don’t go to 7 rounds, so you don’t get all of your upgrades. I played 11 matches, 9 of them were had a 4-1 scoreline or worse (3-0 or 4-0), wins or losses. Only two went to 4-2. Stadium is treated as a ranked mode and has no casual queue, so maybe once you’ve climbed some time, the matchmaking gets better, but each role has a separate rank, and I always flex, so that could take a while.
I think I’ll just go back to normal Quick Play.
- Comment on Blades of Fire | Review Thread 5 weeks ago:
Epic exclusive on PC, so probably DOA on there.
- Comment on AMD’s Radeon RX 9060 XT wants to be the cheapest 16GB GPU on the market 5 weeks ago:
I get what they mean, but the A770 is 300€ in Germany. I doubt this card will hit that anytime soon. Hopefully no rebate shenanigans this time and cards will actually sell at MSRP
- Comment on Anno 117: Pax Romana - Gameplay Showcase Trailer 1 month ago:
Looks exactly the same as all the other non-future Anno games, although I don’t remember if your citizens disliked living next to a pig farm in 1800.
I don’t remember if I ever played through a story mission or scenario in the previous games. I always just start an Endless Game, set the difficulty all the way down, with no other NPCs, and just build until I have enough. Looking forward to doing the same thing here.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 18th 1 month ago:
Played through DOOM: The Dark Ages. It’s good, and I already wrote a wall of text elsewhere in the comments. The second half of the story is pretty bad, even for Doom standards. I wanna do another playthrough, where I change some of the difficulty sliders.
- Comment on Doom the dark ages... 1 month ago:
Yes, but it would still be nice to have in the middle.
I went back to check in Eternal, and I was wrong about that game showing the progress on the icons in the middle of the screen. Just like Dark Ages it just shows charges that are ready to use, and the progress in the full HUD on the edges of the screen. Seems like I just need to get good and do the same thing I did in Eternal.
- Comment on Doom the dark ages... 1 month ago:
80% of the guns were just functionally worthless and parry spam + impaler would solve all, not some, all of my problems
That’s kinda all guns. Seems like ID wanted to please all those people who said they hate the “forced” weapon switching in Eternal and just made everything strong against anything.