I dunno I'd happily give money to companies that aren't Valve because I'm really goddamn sick of Steam being a dumping ground of bad porn and asset flips.
It's also a dumping ground for good porn games, though.
If I have to play a game to even see the porn then it's bad!
I dunno I'd happily give money to companies that aren't Valve because I'm really goddamn sick of Steam being a dumping ground of bad porn and asset flips.
It's also a dumping ground for good porn games, though.
If I have to play a game to even see the porn then it's bad!
I dunno I'd happily give money to companies that aren't Valve because I'm really goddamn sick of Steam being a dumping ground of bad porn and asset flips.
It's also a dumping ground for good porn games, though.
If I have to play a game to even see the porn then it's bad!
I play it for the articles.
A real man plays Witcher 3 for the articles mystery solving.
I dunno I'd happily give money to companies that aren't Valve because I'm really goddamn sick of Steam being a dumping ground of bad porn and asset flips.
It's also a dumping ground for good porn games, though.
If I have to play a game to even see the porn then it's bad!
I dunno I'd happily give money to companies that aren't Valve because I'm really goddamn sick of Steam being a dumping ground of bad porn and asset flips.
It's also a dumping ground for good porn games, though.
If I have to play a game to even see the porn then it's bad!
Let me tell you about the old days of cable and the adult channels...
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Epics ‘highly curated’ idea sounds to me that they’re going for AAA titles and potentially very popular indie titles. Which is fine, but there’s a lot of games between those two.
Things like Paradox and Kalypso games which aren’t AAA but aren’t indie, and are perfectly good, fun games.
There’s going to be a lot more on Steam that Epic likely won’t go for if their highly curated thing isn’t just marketing hype that’s not just bad porn VNs.
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Epics ‘highly curated’ idea sounds to me that they’re going for AAA titles and potentially very popular indie titles. Which is fine, but there’s a lot of games between those two.
Things like Paradox and Kalypso games which aren’t AAA but aren’t indie, and are perfectly good, fun games.
There’s going to be a lot more on Steam that Epic likely won’t go for if their highly curated thing isn’t just marketing hype that’s not just bad porn VNs.
Highly curated bad porn VNs? I don't want to imagine who's doing the curating, and how in-depth their curating process is. It probably involves many tears and tissues... and highly curated reference screenshots
Epics ‘highly curated’ idea sounds to me that they’re going for AAA titles and potentially very popular indie titles. Which is fine, but there’s a lot of games between those two.
Things like Paradox and Kalypso games which aren’t AAA but aren’t indie, and are perfectly good, fun games.
There’s going to be a lot more on Steam that Epic likely won’t go for if their highly curated thing isn’t just marketing hype that’s not just bad porn VNs.
Highly curated bad porn VNs? I don't want to imagine who's doing the curating, and how in-depth their curating process is. It probably involves many tears and tissues... and highly curated reference screenshots
I'll have you know I only gift Pixie porny VNs that come recommended by game journalists that have a discerning eye for quality virtual dongs and vaginas. Some may be a bit uneven but are lovingly handled with enough attention from the designer that the results are still satisfying.
I dunno I'd happily give money to companies that aren't Valve because I'm really goddamn sick of Steam being a dumping ground of bad porn and asset flips.
Yes, this is the problem that you get when you create a clearinghouse for everything. Sort of like Amazon. I can see the 5 things that are really popular, or I can sort through a pile of shit. There's no middle ground.
Chipmunks are like nature's nipple clamps, I guess?
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Elephant in the room first : as of writing, Danganronpa V3 is still full price on Steam - one cent away from 80 canadian dollars. For an anime visual novel slash detective story, albeit one with a ton of content and a surprising amount of replay value, that price ranges from "a lot" to "way too much" depending on the person. I won't judge you if you wait for a good sale or even watch the game on Youtube or Twitch.
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I finished playing Danganronpa V3 five months ago.
Back then, as the credits rolled in, as the post-credit scene played, I didn't know what to think of this entry in the franchise. I'm still not exactly sure today. But even at the time I realised my fresh-from-the-oven thoughts would differ too much from those on the counter for a week, a month, half a year to put them on paper. I had a feeling those thoughts would miss the point. That I would just write down an opinion I'd regret down the line.
It's that kind of game - NieR Automata was similar in that it took some "outside influences" for my thoughts on it to come together. But even in its most divisive elements, I consider Danganronpa V3 to be the best game in the series, and one of the best game of 2017 - high praise, considering just how many excellent games came out that year.
Anyway, Danganronpa V3 is a game in the Danganronpa series. It means the usual : a bunch of students are trapped and given one way to escape, which is to kill another student and get away with it in a class trial. There's a bear, Monokuma, who acts as a nuisance and antagonist - and in V3, he's got children too. The word "despair" is said a lot, as is the word "hope". Everyone bleeds purple. Even with the game advertising itself as a pseudo-reboot of the series, I expected it to not stray too much from its working formula. Maybe its version of Hangman will not be a nightmare this time, but other than that...
Then I finished the first case.
To keep it spoiler free, that case affected me harder than all the other cases in the previous two games. What happens isn't that original, but it still blindsided me while giving a sliver of hope to hang on - hope that was mercilessly snuffed by the end. The formula was still there but the Danganronpa Team had gotten especially adept at using it. And while the following cases couldn't reach this first case in impact, they had this same confidence from the writers over them that made them great. Even the weakest case of the game (the third one) is stronger than a good chunk of the first two games, even if for a reason other than the case itself.
On a gameplay end, this is the strongest in the series too. For one, the Hangman minigame is actually good, and the rest is better, ranging from the staples arguments where you have to shoot liars with the truth - and in V3, you get to sometimes shoot truthful people with lies to advance the story or even find alternate case routes - to the climactic team debates to a bloody Outrun driving segment. Funnily enough, my favourite happens to be "three arguments happening at the same time", just for how simple it is. Outside of cases, there is the soothing activity of wrecking the environment for coins to use in the gachapon, to get gifts for your classmates.
Next thing, the game looks cool as hell. It's vibrant and colorful, and screenshots does not do it justice - you have to see how it transition from exploration to simply talking, how the text transforms itself in the argument segments, to simply seeing Monokuma appear by dancing around like a deflating balloon. In a way, V3 is a budget Persona 5 when it comes to menus and overall aesthetics.
All of this made me hopelessly hooked on this iteration, and after five chapters, I was more than ready to say Danganronpa V3 was exceptional, no strings attached.
Until the ending.
While it does play a good part of why I like this game today, at first I loathed it and to say it is divisive would be a massive understatement. It is Kazutaka Kodaka dropping everything to make a powerful point about fiction and also one about the more consumerist part of modern culture, and it is more abrupt than anything. All I'll say is playing all the games back to back to back in a month did not help.
But even then, I got to reiterate: This is the best of the series, and with Kodaka forming a new studio, a fitting end for it.
It's not competition, though. Like, it's barely a storefront, much less a competing service. The only reason anyone would buy something there is because of anti-competitive, anti-consumer practices such as buying exclusives.
This is exactly what i mean. What Epic are doing is creating an alternative market to vie for a monopoly on it. That isn't competition, it's a big "fuck you!" To Valve and, as a collateral, we suffer.
Origin had the markings of being actual competition but fell far short. Epic has the money to pull it off but right now, looks to be turning into Origin. I'm hoping they can pull it off, maybe have the exclusives be timed or something, if they feel they need to go that route.
It's not competition, though. Like, it's barely a storefront, much less a competing service. The only reason anyone would buy something there is because of anti-competitive, anti-consumer practices such as buying exclusives.
This is exactly what i mean. What Epic are doing is creating an alternative market to vie for a monopoly on it. That isn't competition, it's a big "fuck you!" To Valve and, as a collateral, we suffer.
Origin had the markings of being actual competition but fell far short. Epic has the money to pull it off but right now, looks to be turning into Origin. I'm hoping they can pull it off, maybe have the exclusives be timed or something, if they feel they need to go that route.
Epic's already doing better than Origin because it includes games not published by Epic.
It's not competition, though. Like, it's barely a storefront, much less a competing service. The only reason anyone would buy something there is because of anti-competitive, anti-consumer practices such as buying exclusives.
This is exactly what i mean. What Epic are doing is creating an alternative market to vie for a monopoly on it. That isn't competition, it's a big "fuck you!" To Valve and, as a collateral, we suffer.
Origin had the markings of being actual competition but fell far short. Epic has the money to pull it off but right now, looks to be turning into Origin. I'm hoping they can pull it off, maybe have the exclusives be timed or something, if they feel they need to go that route.
Epic's already doing better than Origin because it includes games not published by Epic.
Origin has non EA published games.
CorriganX on Steam and just about everywhere else.
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The thing with uPlay, Origin, Blizzard and Bethesda is their stores deal with first party stuff. It’s all from the publisher that runs the storefront. They’re like Sony published games only being on PlayStation’s. It’s annoying but makes sense.
Epic are giving exclusivity deals to companies who they didn’t publish. They’re bringing the messy world of third party console exclusivity to PC storefronts.
That alone should piss off PC gamers who for a long time laughed at console exclusivity and complained when exclusivity deals meant they missed out or got very late.
It’s not as bad as console exclusivity, we don’t need to go buy a whole other PC to make use of the storefront. But it’s not a good thing to encourage.
The thing with uPlay, Origin, Blizzard and Bethesda is their stores deal with first party stuff. It’s all from the publisher that runs the storefront. They’re like Sony published games only being on PlayStation’s. It’s annoying but makes sense.
Epic are giving exclusivity deals to companies who they didn’t publish. They’re bringing the messy world of third party console exclusivity to PC storefronts.
That alone should piss off PC gamers who for a long time laughed at console exclusivity and complained when exclusivity deals meant they missed out or got very late.
It’s not as bad as console exclusivity, we don’t need to go buy a whole other PC to make use of the storefront. But it’s not a good thing to encourage.
The same PC gamers who, when a game is announced for PC, go "if it's not on Steam I don't care?"
The thing with uPlay, Origin, Blizzard and Bethesda is their stores deal with first party stuff. It’s all from the publisher that runs the storefront. They’re like Sony published games only being on PlayStation’s. It’s annoying but makes sense.
Epic are giving exclusivity deals to companies who they didn’t publish. They’re bringing the messy world of third party console exclusivity to PC storefronts.
That alone should piss off PC gamers who for a long time laughed at console exclusivity and complained when exclusivity deals meant they missed out or got very late.
It’s not as bad as console exclusivity, we don’t need to go buy a whole other PC to make use of the storefront. But it’s not a good thing to encourage.
The same PC gamers who, when a game is announced for PC, go "if it's not on Steam I don't care?"
Yeah, hardware exclusivity sucks because it comes with a several hundred dollar pricetag if you don't own that hardware.
It's a lot cheaper to deal with multiple stores than it is to deal with multiple pieces of hardware.
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The thing with uPlay, Origin, Blizzard and Bethesda is their stores deal with first party stuff. It’s all from the publisher that runs the storefront. They’re like Sony published games only being on PlayStation’s. It’s annoying but makes sense.
Epic are giving exclusivity deals to companies who they didn’t publish. They’re bringing the messy world of third party console exclusivity to PC storefronts.
That alone should piss off PC gamers who for a long time laughed at console exclusivity and complained when exclusivity deals meant they missed out or got very late.
It’s not as bad as console exclusivity, we don’t need to go buy a whole other PC to make use of the storefront. But it’s not a good thing to encourage.
The same PC gamers who, when a game is announced for PC, go "if it's not on Steam I don't care?"
Which isn’t ‘if it’s not exclusive to Steam I don’t care’. There’s people that say the same about GoG availability.
A game can be on multiple digital PC platforms very easily when it’s just a digital storefront.
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"Exclusive VN porn" is now a defining trait of digital storefronts. The future is scary and filled with lewd anime
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Progress!
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On one hand I'm all for competition in the marketplace. On the other hand was steam really so bad for the consumer?
I don't recall having any serious issue with it but I'm also pretty oblivious to 99% of the world/humans. I mean i would love to pay less for games but I haven't paid over $30 for a PC game in something near a decade.
The only way I can think of that Steam is bad for the consumer is their insistence that a curated storefront is somehow a bad thing. Yes, lots of games that I don't care to play deserve a store spot. Yes, lots of games that I don't care to play deserve a front page spot. The bargain bin at any Best Buy or Wal-Mart should be more than enough to convince Steam that not all games are created equal. Just because you are willing to sell everything doesn't mean that there shouldn't be somebody out there facing shelves and trying their best to show customer well-made stuff that makes your store look and feel like a great place to be.
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Yeah if there’s one criticism I could level at Steam it’s that if I don’t know the name of the game, and it’s not on some top 10 list that is presented to me, it’s a right pain in the ass shovelling through the garbage.
That Gamasutra article was interesting--and I appreciate the dude who wrote it, as I bought Cook Serve Delicious no less than three times--but I found his argument that the epic store was a bad deal for consumers pretty unconvincing. Like, most of those additional Steam features he listed in the article I consider either useless or actively toxic. The community features like forums and groups, for example, have been long documented as a total shitshow and a straight-up recruitment tool for white nationalists and other hateful assholes. So honestly, if Epic wants to create a platform that will just sell me games and have none of the cruft that Steam has accumulated over a decade of implementing half-baked ideas, that actually sounds okay to me.
On the other hand, if I'm having a difficult time getting a game running there's almost always a Steam forum thread where somebody else has run into and gotten help solving the same issue. Also (not forums, granted) having a centralized place for image-enabled FAQs is pretty great.
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-Loki-Don't pee in my mouth and tell me it's raining.Registered Userregular
That Gamasutra article was interesting--and I appreciate the dude who wrote it, as I bought Cook Serve Delicious no less than three times--but I found his argument that the epic store was a bad deal for consumers pretty unconvincing. Like, most of those additional Steam features he listed in the article I consider either useless or actively toxic. The community features like forums and groups, for example, have been long documented as a total shitshow and a straight-up recruitment tool for white nationalists and other hateful assholes. So honestly, if Epic wants to create a platform that will just sell me games and have none of the cruft that Steam has accumulated over a decade of implementing half-baked ideas, that actually sounds okay to me.
On the other hand, if I'm having a difficult time getting a game running there's almost always a Steam forum thread where somebody else has run into and gotten help solving the same issue. Also (not forums, granted) having a centralized place for image-enabled FAQs is pretty great.
Yeah. I was having no luck finding a way to make Shadow Tactics boot. Someone on the Steam board said you need to swap the language to Japanese, then start the game, exit and swap to English and start again. Something about an update defaulting to Japanese and having a character in no other font set crashing on startup.
I found that advice in exactly 0 other places.
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Much the same way, I've found out that I've stumbled on a bug in Secrets of Raetikon that, when stumbled upon, means you literally can't finish the game. Which is information I only found on the Steam Forums.
Also the reason I'm retiring it. Supposedly there's a secret entrance to the rest of the game in the tutorial area, but I just can't find it, so fuck it. It's done, and so am I. I'm really annoyed too, because up until then I was having fun.
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If anyones been curious about Total War Warhammer, Fanatical have an absurd bundle at the moment. The first game and all DLC for 65% off.
Yeah if there’s one criticism I could level at Steam it’s that if I don’t know the name of the game, and it’s not on some top 10 list that is presented to me, it’s a right pain in the ass shovelling through the garbage.
and now if you don't know the name of the game you also have to remember which of a dozen walled gardens it is exclusive to before you can even start to wade through libraries.
I don't think we are advancing so much as taking steps to the side here.
I mean, I subscribe to humble monthly so I'm all about mystery prizes, but I really should resist.
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Timespinner is pissing me off. I need an objective marker because I forgot where the first macguffin is.
I just got to the final boss this weekend (or what I assume is at least A final boss). Where are you stuck?
I think the feather marker system is useless because you can't put notes to what the feather means and also the feather is so big it covers the entire room on the map.
I discovered the feather system too late. I know how to make do with my own little arbitrary color code.
But I forgot where the actual Timespinner room is. The heroine found the first piece and wants to return to it. Her only clue was "where was it again? Oh, at the top of that one building," which doesn't tell me anything.
Timespinner is pissing me off. I need an objective marker because I forgot where the first macguffin is.
I just got to the final boss this weekend (or what I assume is at least A final boss). Where are you stuck?
I think the feather marker system is useless because you can't put notes to what the feather means and also the feather is so big it covers the entire room on the map.
I discovered the feather system too late. I know how to make do with my own little arbitrary color code.
But I forgot where the actual Timespinner room is. The heroine found the first piece and wants to return to it. Her only clue was "where was it again? Oh, at the top of that one building," which doesn't tell me anything.
Top of the library where those two talky scientists come out? Behind a B door I think. It might have a white dot on it on the map?
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I play it for the articles.
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C'mon, man. Foreplay is good...
Let me tell you about the old days of cable and the adult channels...
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Things like Paradox and Kalypso games which aren’t AAA but aren’t indie, and are perfectly good, fun games.
There’s going to be a lot more on Steam that Epic likely won’t go for if their highly curated thing isn’t just marketing hype that’s not just bad porn VNs.
Highly curated bad porn VNs? I don't want to imagine who's doing the curating, and how in-depth their curating process is. It probably involves many tears and tissues... and highly curated reference screenshots
I'll have you know I only gift Pixie porny VNs that come recommended by game journalists that have a discerning eye for quality virtual dongs and vaginas. Some may be a bit uneven but are lovingly handled with enough attention from the designer that the results are still satisfying.
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Yes, this is the problem that you get when you create a clearinghouse for everything. Sort of like Amazon. I can see the 5 things that are really popular, or I can sort through a pile of shit. There's no middle ground.
...you'll have to excuse Bob. It's his first day, and I think he's taking things a little too literally...
I can has cheezburger, yes?
An arm is much tamer than what else could have been twisted to recruit for that role.
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Elephant in the room first : as of writing, Danganronpa V3 is still full price on Steam - one cent away from 80 canadian dollars. For an anime visual novel slash detective story, albeit one with a ton of content and a surprising amount of replay value, that price ranges from "a lot" to "way too much" depending on the person. I won't judge you if you wait for a good sale or even watch the game on Youtube or Twitch.
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Back then, as the credits rolled in, as the post-credit scene played, I didn't know what to think of this entry in the franchise. I'm still not exactly sure today. But even at the time I realised my fresh-from-the-oven thoughts would differ too much from those on the counter for a week, a month, half a year to put them on paper. I had a feeling those thoughts would miss the point. That I would just write down an opinion I'd regret down the line.
It's that kind of game - NieR Automata was similar in that it took some "outside influences" for my thoughts on it to come together. But even in its most divisive elements, I consider Danganronpa V3 to be the best game in the series, and one of the best game of 2017 - high praise, considering just how many excellent games came out that year.
Anyway, Danganronpa V3 is a game in the Danganronpa series. It means the usual : a bunch of students are trapped and given one way to escape, which is to kill another student and get away with it in a class trial. There's a bear, Monokuma, who acts as a nuisance and antagonist - and in V3, he's got children too. The word "despair" is said a lot, as is the word "hope". Everyone bleeds purple. Even with the game advertising itself as a pseudo-reboot of the series, I expected it to not stray too much from its working formula. Maybe its version of Hangman will not be a nightmare this time, but other than that...
Then I finished the first case.
To keep it spoiler free, that case affected me harder than all the other cases in the previous two games. What happens isn't that original, but it still blindsided me while giving a sliver of hope to hang on - hope that was mercilessly snuffed by the end. The formula was still there but the Danganronpa Team had gotten especially adept at using it. And while the following cases couldn't reach this first case in impact, they had this same confidence from the writers over them that made them great. Even the weakest case of the game (the third one) is stronger than a good chunk of the first two games, even if for a reason other than the case itself.
On a gameplay end, this is the strongest in the series too. For one, the Hangman minigame is actually good, and the rest is better, ranging from the staples arguments where you have to shoot liars with the truth - and in V3, you get to sometimes shoot truthful people with lies to advance the story or even find alternate case routes - to the climactic team debates to a bloody Outrun driving segment. Funnily enough, my favourite happens to be "three arguments happening at the same time", just for how simple it is. Outside of cases, there is the soothing activity of wrecking the environment for coins to use in the gachapon, to get gifts for your classmates.
Next thing, the game looks cool as hell. It's vibrant and colorful, and screenshots does not do it justice - you have to see how it transition from exploration to simply talking, how the text transforms itself in the argument segments, to simply seeing Monokuma appear by dancing around like a deflating balloon. In a way, V3 is a budget Persona 5 when it comes to menus and overall aesthetics.
All of this made me hopelessly hooked on this iteration, and after five chapters, I was more than ready to say Danganronpa V3 was exceptional, no strings attached.
Until the ending.
While it does play a good part of why I like this game today, at first I loathed it and to say it is divisive would be a massive understatement. It is Kazutaka Kodaka dropping everything to make a powerful point about fiction and also one about the more consumerist part of modern culture, and it is more abrupt than anything. All I'll say is playing all the games back to back to back in a month did not help.
But even then, I got to reiterate: This is the best of the series, and with Kodaka forming a new studio, a fitting end for it.
PS: Angie is the best Danganronpa don't @ me.
This is exactly what i mean. What Epic are doing is creating an alternative market to vie for a monopoly on it. That isn't competition, it's a big "fuck you!" To Valve and, as a collateral, we suffer.
Origin had the markings of being actual competition but fell far short. Epic has the money to pull it off but right now, looks to be turning into Origin. I'm hoping they can pull it off, maybe have the exclusives be timed or something, if they feel they need to go that route.
One Client to rule them all,
One Client to find them,
One Client to bring them all,
And in the darkness bind them.
There's no way this could go wrong.
Epic's already doing better than Origin because it includes games not published by Epic.
Origin has non EA published games.
CorriganX on Steam and just about everywhere else.
Epic are giving exclusivity deals to companies who they didn’t publish. They’re bringing the messy world of third party console exclusivity to PC storefronts.
That alone should piss off PC gamers who for a long time laughed at console exclusivity and complained when exclusivity deals meant they missed out or got very late.
It’s not as bad as console exclusivity, we don’t need to go buy a whole other PC to make use of the storefront. But it’s not a good thing to encourage.
The same PC gamers who, when a game is announced for PC, go "if it's not on Steam I don't care?"
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Yeah, hardware exclusivity sucks because it comes with a several hundred dollar pricetag if you don't own that hardware.
It's a lot cheaper to deal with multiple stores than it is to deal with multiple pieces of hardware.
Which isn’t ‘if it’s not exclusive to Steam I don’t care’. There’s people that say the same about GoG availability.
A game can be on multiple digital PC platforms very easily when it’s just a digital storefront.
Progress!
The only way I can think of that Steam is bad for the consumer is their insistence that a curated storefront is somehow a bad thing. Yes, lots of games that I don't care to play deserve a store spot. Yes, lots of games that I don't care to play deserve a front page spot. The bargain bin at any Best Buy or Wal-Mart should be more than enough to convince Steam that not all games are created equal. Just because you are willing to sell everything doesn't mean that there shouldn't be somebody out there facing shelves and trying their best to show customer well-made stuff that makes your store look and feel like a great place to be.
On the other hand, if I'm having a difficult time getting a game running there's almost always a Steam forum thread where somebody else has run into and gotten help solving the same issue. Also (not forums, granted) having a centralized place for image-enabled FAQs is pretty great.
Yeah. I was having no luck finding a way to make Shadow Tactics boot. Someone on the Steam board said you need to swap the language to Japanese, then start the game, exit and swap to English and start again. Something about an update defaulting to Japanese and having a character in no other font set crashing on startup.
I found that advice in exactly 0 other places.
Also the reason I'm retiring it. Supposedly there's a secret entrance to the rest of the game in the tutorial area, but I just can't find it, so fuck it. It's done, and so am I. I'm really annoyed too, because up until then I was having fun.
and now if you don't know the name of the game you also have to remember which of a dozen walled gardens it is exclusive to before you can even start to wade through libraries.
I don't think we are advancing so much as taking steps to the side here.
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I turned it down becomes I'm a heartless shrew who knows there is a Gale right there so BEHAVE YOURSELF!
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Buying mystery lootboxes full of games?
What...no?
Well Fanatical is doing a Mystery Bundle. Starts at $7 for 10 mystery games down to $1 for 1 mystery game.
I mean, I subscribe to humble monthly so I'm all about mystery prizes, but I really should resist.
Edit: Yup couldn't resist, which I probably should have.
Games I got:
Dead Effect
Songbringer
Mr Dubstep
Wurm Unlimited
A Normal Lost Phone
PixelJunk Monsters Ultimate
Next Up Hero
FIVE Guardians of David
Alwas Awakening
Super Cloudbuilt
Decent, but a number of these you can get from the Mix and Match bundle at Green Man Gaming.
I discovered the feather system too late. I know how to make do with my own little arbitrary color code.
But I forgot where the actual Timespinner room is. The heroine found the first piece and wants to return to it. Her only clue was "where was it again? Oh, at the top of that one building," which doesn't tell me anything.
Top of the library where those two talky scientists come out? Behind a B door I think. It might have a white dot on it on the map?
3DS Friend Code: 2165-6448-8348 www.Twitch.TV/cooljammer00
Battle.Net: JohnDarc#1203 Origin/UPlay: CoolJammer00
We (might) be gettin' info farmed.
Also refunds sound like a nightmare though it appears to be getting more streamlined. Still more complex than Steam's.