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smeg, do games w 100% free - The Leviathan's Fantasy (on Steam)

I’m seeing this slightly unusual arrangement:

https://feddit.uk/pictrs/image/169b481a-c9ed-4eb8-93d9-5b115bd338ea.webp

but pressing Add to Library seemed to work with no further hoops to jump through!

PerfectDark,
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They made an announcement on their Steam event page, which goes into more detail as to why they did it this way.

Which you can find here

Previously, we offered free Key applications to replace game versions for existing players. However, as of this month, the number of supplementary Keys distributed has exceeded 30% of the total sales volume prior to this initiative—and we still receive numerous feedbacks from players stating they haven’t received their Keys, along with complaints about slow email response times.​

Ledivin, do games w Hades II v1.0 Is Now Available!

Ooooo, good to hear! I played something like 15 hours when EA first released before deciding to put it away until full release. It was definitely good then, so I’m excited to see what it has turned into now.

popcar2,

I played something like 15 hours when EA first released before deciding to put it away

Same here, you’re in for a treat. There’s a lot that’s been improved.

GriffinClaw, do games w Hades II v1.0 Is Now Available!

Been waiting for this all day. Didn’t know release time was 9:00am PT (which is 9:00pm here)

Only its not running on Bazzite. At all. Currently verifying files. Let’s see if that works

GriffinClaw,

I’m in! Some files were corrupt.

FartMaster69, do games w PlayStation State of Play (Sept. 24, 2025) | MEGATHREAD

Goddamn that Deus Ex remaster is ugly as fuck.

simple,
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It looks more like an upscale than a full remaster, but it can definitely look better yea

Die4Ever, (edited )
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it’s SO bad, I don’t see any reason for it to exist when the game already plays great on PC (with the Vanilla Fixer), and it also runs on PS5 with the PS2 version

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a remaster that looks this much worse than the original

ampersandrew,
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The PS2 version is surely severely compromised compared to the PC version. Even the sequel designed with the Xbox in mind had to cut back on a lot of things to make it fit on a more powerful console.

Die4Ever,
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yea the PS2 version is bad, but this kinda looks worse lol

Coelacanth,
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A remaster like this is pointless in the first place, it’s not meaningfully doing anything to make people play it who wouldn’t otherwise. A proper Nightdive-style remake is what the game deserves.

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

Controls improvements alone are low-hanging fruit for Deus Ex.

Coelacanth,
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I guess that’s probably fair. I never had huge issues with them but it’s been a hot minute since I last played through.

Zoomboingding,
@Zoomboingding@lemmy.world avatar

The remaster should do more than a fan mod though

ampersandrew,
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The fan mods aren’t exactly accessible to PlayStation players. What would you want to see in a Deus Ex remaster that a mod couldn’t do? Mods are capable of a great deal, but there’s a lot of value to having things preconfigured to modern standards out of the box.

Zoomboingding,
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I mean, some production value beyond upscaling would be a start. Deus Ex isn’t some forgotten brand, it definitely warrants something like the System Shock remakes. High poly models, remastered animations, and modern lighting effects would be a reason to actually purchase this over the original.

ampersandrew,
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They did redo the models and lighting effects; I can’t speak to the animations.

Omegamanthethird,
@Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world avatar

I’ve never played the original. But the remaster has me tempted. Idk, it looks good to me.

mnemonicmonkeys, do games w Both Sega and PocketPair are taking jabs at Nintendo and I'm loving it

PocketPair announced Palfarm^[Which I hope is a real game and not just an out of season April 1st like More than Just Pals],

Except More Than Just Pals is actually being developed

ICastFist,
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Except More Than Just Pals is actually being developed

Really? The community hub on steam has nothing ever since the announcement. I don’t follow pocketpair on any social media, so there’s that

toynbee, do games w Lara Croft is a Sociopath

Are you NerdCubed?

Agent_Karyo, do games w Day 435 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing
@Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world avatar

Top screenshot looks really picturesque.

sigmaklimgrindset,

The first screenshot for me is Rude pulling a wrestling move on Cloud, so I’m really wondering if I’m missing a joke…

Agent_Karyo,
@Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world avatar

This is on voyager/mobile, so on desktop I guess it would be the attach image, not the first body image.

I wasn’t refering to the fighting screenshot. :)

sigmaklimgrindset,

OH I see it now. Yeah, the area with Aerith’s house is gorgeous, and I was already enamoured with it in the OG with PS1 graphics. Remake really is great with the environments.

SteakSneak, do games w Day 429 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing

Aww man I used to have so much fun playing split screen on this. Simple chaotic fun with your friends

MyNameIsAtticus,
@MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world avatar

All my friends are big MK8 fans so when I try to get them to play this with me while split screen they all look at me like I handed them a dead rat.

Still enjoy playing with them though lol

SteakSneak,

Each of these entries has a reason to play them. Sure mk8 might look better but there’s still lots of fun to be had in the older titles. I’ll always have a soft spot for double dash and mkds

MyNameIsAtticus,
@MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world avatar

I always love revisiting the other entries. It’s nice to mix things up everyonce and while. I don’t think i’ve done a screenshot for it but i mess around with friends a lot in MK7 too

SteakSneak,

The online on mk7 was so broken at launch, everyone used that glitch to skip half the map on that Wii sports resort map😭

MyNameIsAtticus,
@MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world avatar

Damn. I wasn’t there for launch but that about sounds like a Mario Kart glitch. I remember when I first found out about Wii’s super shortcuts. That shits crazy

SteakSneak,

Yeah you ever watched summoning salt? Mk Wii speed runs look insane!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmJ_LT8bUj0

MyNameIsAtticus,
@MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world avatar

I have actually! His 0 Star Super Mario 64 video is one of my favorites. It motivated me to try and speedrun the game for like a week before throwing in the towel lol

SteakSneak,

Aww man at least you gave it a go 😆 I don’t know how people can get that good at games, it’s insane to a filthy casual such as myself

MyNameIsAtticus,
@MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world avatar

It’s crazy. I got as far as clipping into the pillars in Peach’s Lobby and then got stuck on the BLJ (and that’s the easiest part). Having the skills to do that is some insane human level shit. I’ve always had huge respect for speedrunners.

SteakSneak,

Yeah same, what are some good games to watch speed runs of?

MyNameIsAtticus,
@MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world avatar

I don’t watch many anymore admittedly, but outside of Super Mario 64 i’ve always found Minecraft and Portal Speedruns to be interesting. The OG Mario Bros. ones are too just because of how the scene is now

ChaoticNeutralCzech, (edited ) do games w Lara Croft is a Sociopath
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There is a shitty 2007 TV movie by ČT Studio Brno (at this point, “shitty” is redundant) Kája a Zabi, where the protagonist, little boy Kája, mashes his keyboard in frustration, causing an off-brand Lara Croft to appear IRL. I haven’t seen the movie but she allegedly speaks broken Czech in a weirdly modulated voice, and keeps asking who Kája wants her to kill (“zabít”, hence the nickname she gets). I assume she is just about as psychopathic as Lara.

https://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w936/files/images/film/photos/000/143/143399_303ca4.jpg

TubularTittyFrog, do games w Does it feel like the PS5's library is *severely* lacking compared to the PS4's around the same time in its lifecycle?

Not really.

You have realize COVID basically screwed ps5 for 2-3 years. The system is 5 years old, but effectively was only available since '23.

luipaard0011,

And a PS6 is around the corner, isn’t it?

Baggie,

I would be surprised honestly. Technology has stalled pretty hard, tariffs and hardware is not in a great spot, PS5 still looks great and honestly there’s not going to be much to sell a customer base. I could see them doing it, but it might be wiser to kick it down the road for a few years until things get a bit better, like they did with the PS3 and 360.

DamienGramatacus, do games w Does it feel like the PS5's library is *severely* lacking compared to the PS4's around the same time in its lifecycle?

Factoring in PS4 backwards compatibility, no not really… I got an external HDD this year and with all the PS4 games I bought but never got around to, my backlog is huge. I’m set for years without buying another game (though I still keep buying them).

vrighter,

whether you factor backwards compatibility or not is irrelevant. Those are still ps4 games. There are comparatively quite few ps5 games

DamienGramatacus,

At this point in the PS4 life cycle, I didn’t have access to as many games as I do at this point for the PS5 so I don’t think it is irrelevant. Platform exclusives at this point seem a bit silly anyway.

wesker, do gaming w The true Baldurs Gate storyline
@wesker@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Do we hate bangs now? Because I still like bangs.

Stamets,
@Stamets@lemmy.world avatar

I hate them on her

Atomic,

Well, it doesn’t matter if she follows selune or Shar, she will get rid of the bangs regardless.

If she becomes a dark justicer, she still changes her hair and says it’s to look more like Shar.

I think the only difference is the colour of her hair.

Korhaka,

The word bangs just seems so unusual to me, we call it a fringe here. Not sure why people wouldn’t like it or what it has to do with an emo phase though.

Ephera,

I feel like videogame technology isn’t there yet. It looks like individual strands of hair…

Nalivai,

Worst haircut a being can have, fight me. Slav gopnic aesthetic bullshit. https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/83196398-2299-48e0-9b42-430241598411.jpeg

SirDankbud, do gaming w The true Baldurs Gate storyline

She can be fixed? I’ve never let her live very long. I’m always so annoyed by her bigotry by the time the choice comes up that I happily let her die and have Withers make me a better cleric if I need it. I guess next playthrough I’ll leave Lae’zel in her cage so I can give Shadowheart a fair chance.

Atomic,

Hold on… You think shadowhearts bigotry is too much but you can tolerate Lae’zel? The girl who take every oppertunity possible to let everyone know how primitive, uneducated, and stupid they are compared to gith.

Anyhow, Shadowheart can go either way in terms of dark vs light. It’s up to you. I think she has the most character development of any origin character, if you let her.

Don’t quote me. But I think shadowheart will, on her own, make a pivitol choice regarding nightsong, depending on your choices leading up to it. If you try to do good. She will choose light on her own. If you do evil things, she will choose dark. You can manually steer her towards that decision. But if you leave it up to her. It will be a reflection of your choices so far.

SirDankbud,

Yeah Lae’zel doesn’t attack or kill solely based on race. Every character in the game is racist to some extent, I have always drawn the line at violence. Lae’zel also grows a lot and tones down the rhetoric depending on how you play. If you have sex with her and expose the evils of the Gith queen, she clearly sees the error of her ways. Now I admit I haven’t tried this so maybe someone here can enlighten me, but it feels like the same wouldn’t be true if I started as a gith and tried to fuck Shadowheart.

I guess it just boils down to the fact that I strongly believe rascists who only talk hate can be redeemed and talked out of it, while violent ones usually can’t.

You have convinced me to give her a chance next time so thank you for that. Lae’zel will stay in her cage on my fifth playthrough this winter.

swab148,

You can also defuse their situation and have them both coexist, if that be your fancy

Ashtear, do games w Hades II | Review Thread (93/100 OpenCritic)

Some of these scores haven’t been updated from early access yet, so this number’s probably going to go higher. Might be the top-rated game of the year. I’m sure it’s well-deserved, too. I played the crap out of the EA version when it first dropped.

What a year for smaller game projects.

brucethemoose, (edited )

Heh, Hades II isn’t small at all. The bar for a “big” project has just risen to a kind of ridiculous, mostly unsustainable level.

IMO it’s a sweet spot size. Small enough to survive in a niche genre, small enough for development to not run off the rails, yet big, big enough to have a big budget and feel like a huge game.

Ashtear,

In a world where game budgets balloon to over $300m, Hades 2 fits comfortably into the “smaller game” category. As do Blue Prince, Expedition 33, Silksong, and Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter, among other top-rated games this year.

dukemirage,

Expedition 33 had ten times more personnel than Silksong, that’s gotta be another category.

AwesomeLowlander,

Most games have 10x more personnel than Silksong, including most indie games that aren’t solo efforts

Ashtear,

I mean, if y’all really insist, I can specify “not AAA games.” That’s the point I was making; this year’s game of the year nominee lists are going to look quite different than usual.

brucethemoose, (edited )

but it has to involve some scaling down of both the size and cost of these projects and also player expectations, who are always demanding more, more, more, and anything less, from visual fidelity to playtime to map size, is viewed as an inexcusable downgrade, especially for something like a sequel, which is most of what the industry produces now. Something has to give, and after a lot of bending, we are on the verge of this whole thing breaking.

I kind of hate that line.

It might be true with how ridiculous some gamers’ expectation seem to be, but I have to wonder if its like a ‘Twitter mirage’.

Are people looking at, like, KCD II and BG3 or even older stuff like GTA V and thinking ‘man, if the graphics aren’t better and the world isn’t even bigger, the next game is going to suck!’


I’m not… I mean, even if I adored a particular title, I’d be happy to buy expansions instead of $300m+ gigagame, and perfectly happy with cheaper graphics as long as it looks cool.

And that’s different than jank. As a good example, Starfield technically looked high fidelity and expensive, yet felt clunky and ugly.

73CC, do games w Day 434 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing
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@MyNameIsAtticus Cactor! One of my favorite's.

MyNameIsAtticus,
@MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world avatar

I have a cactus I named that lol. I got the name from somewhere but couldn’t remember where. Now I know

73CC, (edited )
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@MyNameIsAtticus I was wrong: https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Cactuar_(creature)

Cactuar is the name in english, Kaktor in German 🙃

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