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girsaysdoom, w Weekly what have you been playing discussion - week of September, 25, 2023

For me the past few days:

  • MO: Astray - fun & difficult puzzle platformer with an interesting story
  • Deep rock Galactic - fun, short, & mostly friendly public multiplayer
  • Factorio - good for turning my brain into a smoothie
  • Pilgrims - comical bartering puzzle game
oxideseven, w Weekly what have you been playing discussion - week of September, 25, 2023

2nd playthrough of BG3 with friends.

Starfield.

Cyberpunk.

Conan exiles.

CorrodedCranium,
@CorrodedCranium@leminal.space avatar

Did you play Cyberpunk because of the new update/DLC?

oxideseven,

I spend like 150 hours on it when it came out and finished. Came back for the update and dlc yeah.

I haven’t done much in the game just yet

countstex, w Weekly what have you been playing discussion - week of September, 25, 2023
@countstex@feddit.dk avatar

Just started a run through of The Isle Tide Hotel on Steam, enjoyed the demo a while back and I’m a sucker for a bit of FMV.

JowlesMcGee, w Final Fantasy VII: Ever Crisis coming to Steam
@JowlesMcGee@kbin.social avatar

I'm not sure what this is, is this a new game or a remake of one? Also, I don't speak Japanese, but it looks like you're playing a young Sephiroth?

newthrowaway20,

It’s a gatcha game that goes through the main stories of the previous FF7 games, while also including new stories from The First Soldier, And other stories planned from other games like Before Crisis. It’s not full games, you essentially play little missions where you go through the key story point in those games.

I tried it out for a little bit, but the story pieces were a little too bite size for my liking, and I absolutely hate gatcha mechanics, so it’s really not for me personally. I’m not interested in dressing up my character in outfits or leveling up my gear.

JowlesMcGee,
@JowlesMcGee@kbin.social avatar

Oh, that's incredibly disappointing. I was worried it was something like that. I also hate gacha mechanics, so I guess I'll give this one a pass. Maybe they'll release this as a standalone title without the gacha mechanics.

Lucidlethargy, w Blizzard bans 250,000 Overwatch 2 cheaters, says its AI that analyses voice chat is warning naughty players and can often 'correct negative behaviour immediately'

By naughty they mean people who talk about how Taiwan is a country.

AFreeLarryHoover, w Capcom Targets Smartphone Gamers
@AFreeLarryHoover@lemmy.world avatar

They need to target a Mega Man Legends 3 release.

simple, w Skill Up: I was not ready for how impressive Alan Wake II is (Hands-On Impressions)

Very excited for this one. Alan Wake 1 wasn’t a masterpiece or anything but I’m very interested to see how they do with a much bigger budget and more experience making games.

MurrayL,

More experience? Remedy have been making games since the 90s

simple,

I feel like Control is where they really hit their stride though.

BlinkerFluid,
@BlinkerFluid@lemmy.one avatar

I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole game has a clear, crisp gameplay, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the style a big boost. It’s been compared to Valve, but I think Riot has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor.

A_Toasty_Strudel, w Baldur’s Gate 3 – Devs share most popular, powerful, and unconventional multiclass builds
@A_Toasty_Strudel@lemmy.world avatar

Sneaky archer is back babyyy. Lmao

simple, w Lies of P - Update Notes Version 1.2.0.0

Good changes all around, but it’s frustrating that the update isn’t out of Game Pass PC even though it’s been out on Steam since the start of the day.

abracaDavid, w Baldur’s Gate 3 – Devs share most popular, powerful, and unconventional multiclass builds

If you play DnD these are all pretty well known combos. Still really fun though.

Barbarian druid works surprisingly well.

rikudou, w Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition coming to Steam and EGS
@rikudou@lemmings.world avatar

No GOG? That’s sad.

Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow,

It’s not an old game?

emogu,

? GOG is a drm free storefront. Doesn’t have anything to do with the age of the game. Plenty of new releases launch on gog alongside steam/egs/Ms

Kaldo,
@Kaldo@kbin.social avatar

Doesn’t have anything to do with the age of the game.

In that user's defense, GOG does stand for "good old games" and repackaging/fixing those has been one of their biggest accomplishments.

emogu,

Lol fair point. And its old game library is 2nd to none. But its homepage is also covered in Cyberpunk DLC and BG3

PM_ME_FEET_PICS,

CDProjectRed and GOG are the same company…

smikwily,

GOG hasn’t been Good Old Games since 2012. Yeah, they aren’t really screaming it from the mountains, but they rebranded to just GOG.com then: web.archive.org/…/bigger_fresher_newer_see_whats_…

Kaldo,
@Kaldo@kbin.social avatar

Huh, TIL.

Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow,

GOG stands for “Good Old Games” bro, TYL

PM_ME_FEET_PICS,

No it doesn’t. It used to. They dropped the old GOG branding back in 2012.

Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow,

So what does it stand for now champ

PM_ME_FEET_PICS,

Nothing

“On 27 March 2012, Good Old Games announced that it was branching out to feature “AAA” and independent titles in addition to older games. The site was rebranded to GOG.com.”

rikudou,
@rikudou@lemmings.world avatar

What @emogu said. Also, Horizon: Zero Dawn is there.

forgotaboutlaye,

Probably once they get the initial sales from Steam and Epic.

PM_ME_FEET_PICS,

You’re getting down voted but it’s what happens to most titles.

Coelacanth, w Baldur’s Gate 3 – Devs share most popular, powerful, and unconventional multiclass builds
@Coelacanth@feddit.nu avatar

If this was written by the Devs it would seem to confirm that Deepened Pact stacking with Extra Attack is intended. Seems absolutely insane to me but what do I know.

Kbin_space_program, (edited )

Why is it insane though?

In 5e I can take a level of warlock and at character level 5 the cantrip outdamages a heavy crossbow.

I can make a warlock 2 / bard 3 and both of their selected cantrips scale based on Character level.

You should absolutely be able to mix and match extra attack features. There isn't a reason, other than 3+ attacks is a primary fighter feature, that extra attacks shouldn't stack.

rikudou, w Valve fails to get out of paying its EU geo-blocking fine
@rikudou@lemmings.world avatar

Nice. As much as I love Valve, region-blocking sucks and the EU enforcing it is great.

Deceptichum,
@Deceptichum@kbin.social avatar

Yeah, it’s really going to help the citizens of the poorer EU countries when they have to pay the same high prices as their higher earning neighbours.

Truly a win for the EU and it’s citizens.

woelkchen,
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah, it’s really going to help the citizens of the poorer EU countries when they have to pay the same high prices as their higher earning neighbours.

Had you cared to even read the one-line summary, you’d know it’s not about different prices within Steam but about activation keys.

aBundleOfFerrets, (edited )

Which will unavoidably inflate the prices of said keys in said poorer countries. The article mentions this explicitly.

FluffyPotato,

Steam prices are already the same. Steam games aren’t cheaper in Estonia at least.

Deceptichum,
@Deceptichum@kbin.social avatar

Because they stopped doing it years ago to avoid the EU going after them.

WormFood,

The geoblocking is in place to prevent people from buying keys in one (cheap) region and activating them in another (more expensive) one. It’s about both, you dolt.

Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow,

The EU has very clear law on digital ownership. It’s the same reason if you buy a PC with Windows installed in the EU, you have the right to take that Windows install and put it on another PC, regardless of if it’s OEM or not. This hasn’t prevented Microsoft from doing regional pricing for Windows and if this affects Steam’s pricing that’s on Valve.

Deceptichum,
@Deceptichum@kbin.social avatar

Had you cared to read the fucking article.

The original charges centered around activation keys. The commission said Valve and five publishers (Bandai Namco, Capcom, Focus Home, Koch Media and ZeniMax) agreed to use geo-blocking so that activation keys sold in some countries — like Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary and Latvia — would not work in other member states. That would prevent someone in, say, Germany buying a cheaper key in Latvia, where prices are lower.

woelkchen,
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

Had you cared to read the fucking article.

I did and unlike you I even understood it.

That would prevent someone in, say, Germany buying a cheaper key in Latvia, where prices are lower.

ACTIVATION KEYS from key retailers. It’s not about prices within the Steam storefront.

Deceptichum,
@Deceptichum@kbin.social avatar

Valve said that the charges didn't pertain to PC games sold on Steam, but that it was accused of locking keys to particular territories at the request of publishers

It’s not like Valve played no role in this.

Games can be sold on other places besides the Steam store. This still negatively impacts consumers.

woelkchen,
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

It’s not like Valve played no role in this.

I never claimed otherwise.

This still negatively impacts consumers.

Some consumers maybe. It will benefit others.

sugar_in_your_tea,

Temporarily. But then Valve might just set prices the same everywhere in the EU and also restrict keys sold by other retailers.

woelkchen,
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

I can order any goods via mail from across the border, like a BluRay of a PS5 game.

sugar_in_your_tea,

I don’t see what that has to do with Steam, digital goods are regulated differently than physical goods.

woelkchen,
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

digital goods are regulated differently than physical goods.

But this is still about activation keys which are frequently printed out, put in a plastic case, and then sent to retail markets.

sugar_in_your_tea,

That sounds like a separate thing entirely. I could be wrong, but I don’t think Valve has any say in how keys not sold through the Steam storefront are resold, so supposedly the lawsuit should target whoever is distributing keys in that way. AFAIK, Steam only offers two ways to buy a game–buy the game for yourself and buy as a gift–and in neither case does Steam offer the keys directly to users.

And then there’s this from the article:

In a statement back in 2021, Valve said that the charges didn’t pertain to PC games sold on Steam, but that it was accused of locking keys to particular territories at the request of publishers. It added that it turned off region locks for most cases (other than local laws) in 2015 because of the EU’s concerns.

So AFAIK Valve isn’t distributing resellable keys that are region locked, it’s region-locking at the point of purchase and allowing developers to request region-locked keys. So it would be on publishers to abide by EU laws, no?

The again, I don’t live in the EU, nor have I ever bought a physical Steam key (not sure if Valve directly offers that in any way).

woelkchen,
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

So it would be on publishers to abide by EU laws, no?

Yes. Bandai Namco, Capcom, Focus Home, Koch Media, and ZeniMax are named by the ruling. Never heard of Focus Home before, though.

grue,

That’s on Valve, not the regulators. Valve is perfectly free to lower the prices EU-wide to what the citizens of the poorer EU countries can afford.

Deceptichum,
@Deceptichum@kbin.social avatar

?

Are you deliberately being thick?

Valve doesn’t set the prices.

And more importantly no business is going to charge everyone the low price instead of charging everyone the high price if forced to pick one or the other.

grue,

🤷 Still not the regulator’s fault.

Deceptichum,
@Deceptichum@kbin.social avatar

It is their fault for removing that option however.

grue,

Sure, in the same way it’s the government’s “fault” for removing your option to, say, run a protection racket, or agree to a contract of indentured servitude, or sell baby formula with melamine in it. There are lots of abusive or exploitative business models that the government removes your option to engage in! And the government is right to do it.

Deceptichum,
@Deceptichum@kbin.social avatar

Not at all.

Offering those less capable of paying, a reduced price isn’t abusive or exploitative.

There is a huge difference between the things you’ve mentioned and this. You’re being intentionally dishonest at this point and there’s no further point in this discussion.

grue,

The cost of producing something doesn’t change depending on who you sell it to. Charging anything beyond cost + some reasonable profit margin is unethical profiteering.

oo1,

go price discrimination!

we should give more companies more market power so they can do it more.

fucking competetive markets suck - i cant believe all these fucking laws trying to limit monopoly power.

/s

anonymoose, w Far Cry 7 Reportedly Due Fall 2025 And Will Use The Snowdrop Engine
@anonymoose@lemmy.ca avatar

Hoping that they bring back some of the Far Cry magic instead of just making another copy-paste sequel 🤞

manapropos,

Lmao, you’re probably better off playing FC2 with mods

anonymoose,
@anonymoose@lemmy.ca avatar

MFW

Edit: wow, didn’t expect that image embed to be so huge lol

Daefsdeda,

Honestly, fc4 was the last one I enjoyed. Maps got bigger but content stayed the same afterward, so you just fly to places.

When they introduced flesh and armour bullet in 6 I was ultimately done.

anonymoose,
@anonymoose@lemmy.ca avatar

Yeah, the games have been stale for a while. I really enjoy the gameplay, especially the liberation mechanics so I got elthe new games even though they just seem like copies.

On the other hand, each new game does look gorgeous, so there’s that.

billygoat, w The best bit about SteamVR 2.0 is no longer having to take your headset off every 5 minutes

Really wish they would update it to allow you to define the space boundaries with the headset on. With the Vive if you don’t start it a certain way then you have to redo the boundary setup.

InEnduringGrowStrong,
@InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works avatar

Yikes that sounds annoying and yea they should definitely make it possible, this really shouldn’t be much of a challenge to code on their end.
I’ve only had to do this a handful of times because I moved the base stations or reinstalled. (Index)

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