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domi, 13 dni temu

Great to see that Epic didn’t snatch that one up.

I love Remedy and their games but their publisher choice is always atrocious.

domi, 13 dni temu

They should have spent those millions to fund development of a store that can actually compete with the competition and studios that produce games, which they then can sell on their own platform.

Instead they snatched up every new release on the way to Steam while still not being able to provide the basic necessities of a modern PC store front.

So why should I bother purchasing something from them? They have nothing to offer and actively make it harder for me to play games through their store with their anti-Steam Deck stance.

domi, 13 dni temu

I’m not saying you should, I’m saying it doesn’t make them villains or a bad company.

But it does, paying third parties to not publish on your competitors platform is the oldest anti-competitive behaviour in the book.

It would have been completely fine if they started out with actually funding development of new games and only releasing them on their store.

I would have even given them some slack for their bad launcher since they were new to this.

Instead we are here, almost 6 years later. Their launcher is still trash, their exclusive deals were a complete money sink, EGS is still not profitable, they burned all bridges to Valve and are not one step closer to their claim that 30% is too much and they can do it with 8% 12%.

domi, 13 dni temu

I would argue that even restricting sales to your own store is anti-competitive tying. You’re avoiding competing on the merits of a store using exclusive licensing of a creative work.

A creative work which you made yourself, which you can sell wherever you want.

Should you sell it everywhere so as many people can play it as possible? Sure. Do you have to? No.

Again, not a fan of the tactic, but they are trying to break an entrenched monopoly with a ton of network effects which is near impossible.

Let’s reverse the roles for a second: EGS is the big player and Steam is just getting started. EGS suddenly starts paying all publishers to only publish on their platform. Does that sound like competition to you? You don’t break a monopoly by using tools used by monopolies.

Their launcher is perfectly fine.

Fine? Yes. It does the bare minimum of being able to buy a game and start it. Does it do everything I expect a modern game launcher to do after existing for almost 6 years? Nope.

But they are. They’re not losing that much money, even with a tiny portion of market share. Valve having far more market share means they should be able to do it for an even smaller percentage than what epic is using, especially since Valve has 21 years of infrastructure to lean on.

They are “not losing much money” while providing a fraction of the services Steam does. They say 30% is too much, we can do it in 12% and yet they severely lack in social features, have no modding support, no VR support, no in-home streaming, no Remote Play Together, no Big Picture, no Family Sharing, a barely functioning Steamworks alternative, no Steam Deck support, no Linux support and absolutely zero open source contributions. That’s just the obvious stuff I can think of right now, every single menu you open in Steam you find a barebones menu in the EGS.

They don’t even need 21 years of infrastructure for most of these, they just need to fund development of it. Which they seem to be unwilling to do so.

domi, 18 dni temu

Monday Night Combat

Well, that’s a name I haven’t heard in a while.

domi, 22 dni temu

It’s a hard game to get into. Played for 2 hours on my first run and didn’t know where to go.

After 2 weeks or so I tried again because everyone was recommending it to me. Now it’s one of my favorites, even though it took another 2 hours before I had any idea what I was doing.

domi, 22 dni temu

I still remember how confused I was when story DLC was announced for a game which I considered to be complete story wise.

Turns out the story was not complete.

domi, miesiąc temu

I bought the game on release purely to support the studio and I would definitely recommend waiting.

It’s an excellent game being made but you can really tell that they didn’t quite know where to go with this game. They pulled together mechanics from various genres that don’t fit together that well.

The waiting mechanics are a non-issue since you are usually playing “the real game” while side stuff is happening in your town.

Graphics, art and music are all fantastic, as expected from a game by Moon studios, but performance is an issue. Greatly improved since launch but still not where it should be.

They are listening to feedback though and I’m sure they can get everything in proper order in a year or so.

domi, miesiąc temu

Damn, it’s 20 bucks now? You have to play a lot of different games to make that worth it.

domi, 2 miesiące temu

Yeah, I’m also on my third controller RMA. First the stick on the left controller started drifting, then the right controller’s plastic started peeling off and finally the right controller stopped working altogether.

At least they did the third RMA for free way out of warranty.

Had to buy a new headset cable on my own though when the display started flickering after 2 years. They also sent me a new plastic clip for the cable on the back when the old one broke and a new left speaker when it started crackling instead of requiring me to send in the full headset so that’s pretty cool.

domi, 2 miesiące temu

What for? It’s not like any more updates are planned.

domi, 3 miesiące temu

Definitely will wait for the full soundtrack to release before checking out the game. That trailer music sounded pretty weak.

domi, 3 miesiące temu

You can also give Kannagi Usagi a try to see if you like the formula.

It’s free and pretty much a 1:1 copy of Sekiro bosses.

store.steampowered.com/app/…/__KANNAGI_USAGI/

domi, 3 miesiące temu

If you want to play the main series as well, they regularily go on sale for 35 bucks for all 7 games.

Yakuza 0 goes on sale for 5 bucks pretty much all the time as well. I’m on Yakuza 2 right now and so far they all work fine on Steam Deck.

domi, 4 miesiące temu

It’s twice as funny in this game because they added Denuvo a year after release. Meaning all pirates got the game DRM free on day one while paying customers got Denuvo patched in.

Absolute waste of money.

domi, 4 miesiące temu

It does, but Sony didn’t go through the crash and burn phase on PC yet so they need to add their own fancy overlay before killing it in a few years.

domi, 5 miesięcy temu

Isn’t anyone excited?

The excited people are playing the game right now instead of shit posting on Lemmy. :D

domi, 5 miesięcy temu

I also got the Yakuza Collection just now after finshing Yakuza 0 a few weeks ago. 35 bucks for Yakuza 1 - 6 seems like a steal.

domi, 5 miesięcy temu

Played most of it on my Deck and it ran well, enjoy. :)

domi, 6 miesięcy temu

The chargers work pretty well with a shot from the recoilless rifle in one of the front legs followed by a magazine of the primary gun in the now exposed leg.

HMG + recoilless also works pretty well, rocket in leg and 1-2 seconds with the HMG and he’s gone.

Only downside is the reload time so if you have 2 or more chargers somebody has to kite them while you reload.

domi, 6 miesięcy temu

But the HMG is not a support weapon and the railgun is? I don’t quite get the point.

We can take down 4 chargers at the same time with this strategy with 2 people with recoilless. More than that and the orbital laser or railcannon have to come out.

domi, 6 miesięcy temu

This game is ported by Nixxes so I’m cautiously optimistic that it will be a good port.

They fixed up Zero Dawn after release and aced pretty much every port since then.

domi, 6 miesięcy temu

I used those other means but would like to give them money for a fantastic game.

domi, 7 miesięcy temu

Guerrilla doesn’t do their own PC ports, they are handed to a company called Nixxes and I assume they only start working after everything including DLCs is out of the door and they are free.

domi, 7 miesięcy temu

In case anyone needs it, you can actually downgrade Steam games. It just doesn’t have an UI unfortunately.

There’s a tool for it here: github.com/SteamRE/DepotDownloader

SteamDB can be used to find the game ID and depot ID: steamdb.info

Steam itself will not care if the game files are not up to date, individual games might.

domi, 7 miesięcy temu

Yep, that works as well.

I use depotdownloader because I automated my downgrade script for Beat Saber, makes things faster.

domi, 7 miesięcy temu

Yes, I keep several Beat Saber versions for different mods and replace the files in the main directory when Beat Saber updates.

domi, 7 miesięcy temu

At least that’s how it has worked for me. I just thought that was easier than having to replace files every time.

It is, I just can’t do it because I have all the custom songs and plugins in my main folder and copying/linking all of that is a lot more work than just overwriting the game files each time.

domi, 8 miesięcy temu

Not “bad” but disappointing: No Man’s Sky. There’s a lot to be liked here but as someone who has played Elite Dangerous everything is just so incredibly dumbed down.

Fighting is trivially easy, just hold S, shoot and grab a snack while doing it.

There’s absolutely no consequences for anything. It doesn’t matter how much fuel I have because I can just find new fuel anywhere or teleport somewhere completely different. Doesn’t matter where I log out because the game will just throw me to the same system as my coop partner anyway.

Doesn’t matter if the authorities want me, just fly into a station and all is forgotten. Got contraband? Just tell them to get lost and fly away casually. No bounty on my head, no nothing.

Don’t get me wrong, Elite is definitely way too hardcore for casual play but at the same time the only thing No Man’s Sky has done is make me want to play Elite again.

domi, 9 miesięcy temu

GDQuest always does nice videos for every major release: youtu.be/wHXJPaj6988

domi, 9 miesięcy temu

Good to hear, got a Fairpone 5 recently and I’m very happy with it so far.

Although breaking it probably won’t take more than a year for clumsy me.

domi, 10 miesięcy temu

I refunded it after an hour.

Besides the glaring bugs that shouldn’t have been there at release, I was disappointed that barely anything changed from the first game. Unfortunately the gameplay loop is not engaging enough to warrant releasing the same game twice.

domi, 11 miesięcy temu

There’s a mod for that but I can already tell you that it’s not a very fun game without VR.

domi, 11 miesięcy temu

I never played the original but I really enjoyed the remake. The art style is beautiful and the gameplay holds up well. The only thing I didn’t like were the hacking sequences, they look nice but are overall pretty boring.

As a fan of Prey and immersive sims you can really see the inspiration Prey took from System Shock at every corner. I still prefer Prey but System Shock is a lot of fun as well and it’s cool to see where many of the ideas came from.

domi, rok temu

There’s also !outerwilds

domi, rok temu

Why not use the best of both worlds? jellyfin.org/docs/general/clients/kodi/

I use Kodi on my HTPC and the Jellyfin client on my phone and PC.

domi, rok temu

It’s nitpicking, whether it runs at 3840x2160 or 4096x2160 does not matter. Same goes for calling it 4K or UHD, even when one is technically incorrect.

If even Sony calls their 3840x2160 blu-rays “4K UHD” I’m fine with the average person using them interchangeable.

domi, rok temu

The logic of some people goes that anything under 4000 horizontal pixels is not “real” 4k. But as mentioned, I don’t care and also call 3840x2160 “4k” simply because it’s shorter than “2160p”.

domi, rok temu

Correct, but both can be called 2160p just because of their vertical resolution. Overall both terms don’t matter in gaming because aspect ratio can be changed on the fly (on PC) depending on the output device. Haven’t touched a console in years but I assume they are stuck with a 16:9 aspect ratio no matter what they are playing on?

domi, rok temu

Can you play the first two chapters without ending at a cliffhanger? Have been thinking if I should wait for all of it to release or play the free chapters now.