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Cris16228, do games w Steam Deck Gaming News #2

Epic has a sordid reputation.

I wonder why… Personally, I’d rather pirate than have to deal with them. “Free games” is not enough to forgive what they have done to the PC gaming community. They’re not that epic.

MrScottyTay,

What did they do to the gaming community? Make you not use just one platform, giving that platform a de-facto monopoly?

Cris16228,

Buying exclusives on a pretty obvious inferior launcher because they couldn’t compete with steam so they had to gather some users with exclusivity

This is a starting point. They can’t compete with GOG or Steam, they’re even worse that EA play or whatever is called right now

MrScottyTay,

We would have never gotten the likes of Alan wake 2 if not for epics money though, which also paved the way for remedy to become more independent for future releases. I’d rather have an exclusive then nothing at all.

It’s also arguable whether or not square would’ve ported kingdom hearts to pc if not for epic paying for it as well. Which in turn allowed them to put it on steam later because the game had already been made to work for pc.

Other than how they’ve handled rocket league and harmonix, epic have done nothing but good for the pc space in my opinion. Even if a launcher is shitty, a launcher is just a launcher and at least their store runs better than gog or steams.

Cris16228,

We would have never gotten the likes of Alan wake 2 if not for epics money though

And it was a total flop lmao

Other than how they’ve handled rocket league and harmonix

U sure bud?

Even if a launcher is shitty, a launcher is just a launcher and at least their store runs better than gog or steams

Gimme some examples and I’ll share something with ya

MrScottyTay, (edited )

Alan wake 2 had massive critical acclaim what you on about and they’re now in a financial situation to publish they’re own games because of it.

And their store definitely runs better than steam and gog. Gog is the worst hanging most of the time with it often losing its penis place when going back to the previous page, and the latter is often the same on steam. Even big picture mode struggles with the steam store some times.

Correction: previous place, not penis place

RudestBuddhist,

I don’t know what you’re going on about, but I hope you’re a bot with this absolutely delusional post.

Cris16228,

Even big picture mode struggles with the steam store some times.

At least we have honest reviews!

While epig:

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/1cc3836a-ed42-4f95-aa99-bfd2c54f77b1.jpeg

EGS reviews on games are FAKE

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/903b1e48-6f55-4272-8e52-ac449cba8724.png

All of this, by the Epic Games words “Based on players reviews in Epic Games ecosystem”. From where? I can’t leave any review on any game, that I own, hillarious.

Releasing your game on EGS besides Steam is NOT straightforward and is costly for small devs

I am fed up of Epic shills spreading the narrative that EGS tools for piblishing games are better than Steam and devs are just lazy if they do not release their games on EGS. I have always debated that opinion defending that is not just a matter of just uploading the same files. It is a costly process that is commonly not worth it for small devs for just a handful of sales on EGS.

I found this comment from a dev detailing his “wonderful” experience uploading their game on EGS. Enjoy.

www.reddit.com/r/unrealengine/s/E13WpTSOlD

“Oh the store release, a million little bullshit things.

Actually I released the game on Steam on 24/04. I released multiple games on Steam before, without any issues. Steam is a breeze. I love it.

Epic? Pain.

Non-sense rules. They delayed my release by more than 10 days.

On steam you can post anything in screens and trailers. Not on Epic. Even on PEGI 18 game you have to censor blood, or not include it at all. I could not believe this. But then I watched Dead Island 2 trailer on EPic - there really is no blood even in that game video. I had a trailer with blood up for 6 months. But a week before release some reviewer noticed I have 2 seconds of blood in the trailer. They made me take it down, up the PEGI from 12 to 18 so now there is a 18+ date picker warning, and had to reupload the trailer with black blood, not red.

Million confusing settings in 3 different stages. Dev, stage, live. If you get one setting wrong, your build will not pass review. Its like doing taxes - they know what you did wrong, but they don’t tell you exactly. If they tell you, and you disagree, you have no way to opose the decision with a ticket like on Steam. You have to create unrelated support ticket that NOBODY READS FOR DAYS. Response happens after a WEEK. Which is really fucked when your release date is 3 days away and they block your review package.

If one stage review fails, THEY WILL BLOCK THE WHOLE PACKAGE. So before release I wanted to update screens, trailer, release date and add some sweet gifs into description. But I uploaded ONE SCREENSHOT with dead scientist on the ground, in pool of blood. THey rejected the whole package - that means my release date did not update, my texts didnt either. BEcause of one screenshot. They bundle these changes together and it is not possible to change it specifically.

When I created the store page, I checked a checkbox that I will do achievements and will include Epic overlay. This option is NOT REVERTIBLE. YOu cannot revert it once you do this and they do not tell you. So a year or so later I had to deal with fucking achievements that I did not even want to include anymore, because of the extra work it required compared to STeam. Same with EOS overlay. THe overlay is NOT MANDATORY, yet they blocked my build for 2 days because it did not work in Live bundle. It did in Dev and Stage. They did not tell me how to fix this.

Later I found in ONE obscure forum post that Epic named one variable in config wrong, that caused this. They named “Artifact ID” with “Artifact Name”, but it is in fact ID. My game worked with overlay when run in standalone, but not via their store. Due to one checkbox. They knew what is wrong and did not bother responding. You have no way to communicate with them. Steam responds immediately. I was so annoyed with the achievements that when I had to include them, I included only a few that I had on Steam. Also you have to ensure that your achievements all add up to 1000 EXP. If it is not exactly 1000 EXP, review fails. ON FUCKING ACHIEVEMENTS. Then they forced me to add all Steam achievements, to “keep continuity among different store fronts”. On Steam, once they approve your game build, it is approved forever. Not on Epic. They have to review every build. You can get stuck on it right before release.

They wishlist rate on Epic is roughly 10% of what I get on Steam. But because they delayed my release by 10 days. I will get minimal conversion even from that, because they release week hype is over. So what they have “only” 12% comission. 88% of nothing is nothing. Epic fucked me. Never working with them again.”

Don’t get me started on their “wonderful” support if you lose your account :D

Rekorse,

I just want to say penis place made me laugh out loud!

MrScottyTay,

That’s hilarious haha, that has to be the best autocorrect from my swipe typing I’ve seen yet. I’ll have to figure out what was meant to actually go there now (I’ll stick it in an edit at the end though cause that is too funny to remove)

Katana314,

I don’t know if this is the priority for many other users, but Epic Games is 40% owned by Tencent, a Chinese corporation. That in itself is an inappropriate level of CCP influence to me - sadly, Chinese companies don’t really get to divest themselves of government influence the way American corps do.

(That said, with Google changing the Gulf of Mexico’s name, I feel less sure of that last claim)

MrScottyTay,

That’s understandable, i wouldn’t knock anyone from boycotting for tencent reasons

ObsidianZed, do games w Avowed made me scream to my doctor: “I am a wizard!”

To be honest, Wizard is the best way to play Avowed.

zipzoopaboop,

The book was the only mechanic I found interesting

ZombiFrancis, do games w Are modern Final Fantasy games bad?

“Modern”? I don’t know.

Final Fantasy 10 was the last game that fit the ‘traditional’ turn based (active or not) gameplay. Since then there’s been less consistency between iterations.

Final Fantasy 11 and 14 are MMORPGs and are just fundamentally different games as a result. The latest is essentially Devil May Cry gameplay.

A lot of people enjoyed DMC and DMC is not inherently bad, but it may not be what people expect.

But the spinoffs using the Final Fantasy name have always been pretty damn hit or miss. (Compare Mystic Quest to Tactics.) This just now applies to the whole series.

ArgentRaven, do games w Are modern Final Fantasy games bad?

I play FFXIV. I’ll break it down by expansions, but it’s the one that didn’t follow the general downwards trend so much.

1.0 - trash. They couldn’t figure out how to work together. One guy spends forever making the best looking water wheel ever, in the background, that you never interact with. It’s too graphically intensive, and flows the wrong way from the water. It doesn’t match the building it’s attached to. Meanwhile, they forget to add roads towards main cities. It’s an unplayable mess. It’s literally unplayable, as they killed it off to replace it with:

2.0, A Realm Reborn - they really fixed it under one guy’s leadership. It’s playable, and works. It’s outdated somewhat today, but has a lot of moral grey areas and twists. There’s a lot of running around and time wasting, which was common back then.

Heavenward - they made a great story. It’s one of the best expansions. Streamlined and faster. No needless “talk to 5 villagers” quests like previously.

Stormblood - not as great. There’s a lot of setup they use later. The world building is really great, though. Some of the best looking areas.

Shadowbringers - the best expansion they’ve ever made. Perfectly balanced world building and characters, and story. This is peak FF, with the best music as well. Probably because they can ditch much of the old A Realm Reborn story.

Endwalker - ties it all together. The story leads up to “death is inevitable for everything that has ever lived, so just die now” kind of depression hopelessness that you wonder how they’ll get out of it. Well, because it’s Japanese and FF, it’s the power of friendship that saves the day. But, this really feels like the culmination of everything they’ve learned in the previous expansions.

Dawntrail - this is the downward slide. They force you into a role to support someone for ruler that is almost slapstick bad. Characters don’t make logical choices. The theme is all over the place and can’t decide what it wants to be. Many people say to stop at endwalker, but we’ll see how the next expansion goes, which is years away.

There’s plenty to say about the game otherwise, but the general thought is that they’re gradually cutting corners, taking longer, and under delivering as they’re stretched too thin. They’re feeling the same pressure everyone else in the world is - not enough money. Which is crazy, because FFXIV is THE game keeping Square Enix alive.

pfm, do wolnyinternet w Alternatywy dla Substacka (idiot-friendly)?

Pytania pomocnicze:

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  2. Jakiego systemu operacyjnego używasz?
obywatelle,
@obywatelle@szmer.info avatar

Myślę, że skoro zaznaczyłam na wstępie swój level kompetencji technicznych i ogarnięcia w technologi…

  1. Możesz się domyślić.
  2. Możesz się domyślić.

xD

pfm,

Pomaganie moim zdaniem nie polega na domyślaniu się, tylko na rozwiązywaniu rzeczywistych problemów, dlatego zwykle pytam żeby mieć pewność. 🤷

Sam preferuję najprostsze możliwe narzędzia, więc polecam po prostu wiki, którą można zorganizować dowolnie: jak bloga, jak bazę wiedzy, albo jak hybrydę ich obu. Sam używam DokuWiki, z dość prostym interfejsem, ale też z dostępnym interfejsem WYSIWYG, czyli bez potrzeby ręcznej edycji kodu strony. Jeśli chcesz spróbować czy przypadnie Ci do gustu, to daj znać i założę Ci konto na próbę.

Innych rozwiązań nie próbowałem, ale sądzę że Wordpress wspomniany przez Petrosa da Ci więcej możliwości integracji z innymi narzędziami, np. z fedi.

obywatelle,
@obywatelle@szmer.info avatar

Dzięki za sugestie.

navi, do gaming w need retro game recommendations
@navi@lemmy.tespia.org avatar

Excite Bike

toxicbubble420, do gaming w need retro game recommendations

mega man battle network

PieMePlenty, do games w Steam Deck Gaming News #2

Shoutout to a great top down racing game on deck: Circuit Superstars. Simple, cute, clean presentation. All racing, no fluff. Also, 4 player split screen! I will have to give art of rally a try too.

ZephyrXero, do games w Are modern Final Fantasy games bad?

I feel similarly. I made a whole video about it. youtu.be/_C0CdAgLdbY

kolektyw_szmer, do zapytajszmer w Kiedy przeglądam "komentarze" na stronie głównej Szmeru, dlaczego nie mogę już kliknąć na przycisk "Dalej"?
@kolektyw_szmer@szmer.info avatar

To kwestia zmian wprowadzonych przez developerów, ale będziemy musieli się przyjrzeć, żeby mieć pewność czy to celowa zmiana czy niezauważony regres.

dreiwert,
@dreiwert@szmer.info avatar

Niestety, celowa zmiana też wydaje się wiarygodna, bo ranking całości komentarzy chyba jest znacznie kosztowniejszy obliczeniowo niż ranking całości postów.

drmoose, do games w Avowed made me scream to my doctor: “I am a wizard!”

Ah man now I really want to play the game

endeavor, do gaming w need retro game recommendations

I think homm 2 or 3 falls there.

wizardbeard, do gaming w need retro game recommendations

The “/v/s recommended games” wiki is mostly maintained by 4chan users (yuck), but it’s been a good source for both mainstream and hidden gems.

SNES, Sega Genesis, GBA

If I have time later I’ll edit this with some personal recomendations.

tal, do gaming w need retro game recommendations
@tal@lemmy.today avatar

Those are all mature systems, and I’d say that rankings for games on old systems are reasonably consensus at this point. You can just search for “best system whatever games” and get lists, look for games in genres you like; I’ve had luck doing that in the past, as that avoids a lot of the chaff.

I personally probably have gone back and played Super Metroid the most on the SNES, but depends on what one likes. If you like RPGs from that era, different set of games.

For this ranking of SNES games, as an example:

www.ign.com/lists/top-100-snes-games/92

  1. The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
  2. Chrono Trigger
  3. Super Metroid
  4. Final Fantasy VI
  5. Super Mario World

I’d say that probably those games are going to cluster near the top of any list of SNES games.

sleepybisexual,

Thanks

DoucheBagMcSwag, do games w Is Croc coming this month? They said Q1 2025 but no new info. What are the chances it'll be delayed again?

Apparently influencers may have playable copies of it already

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