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STEAM | April 2016 - HL3 releasing today. Left 4 Dead 3 and Persona 5 this summer
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Lone_Prodigy
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A port of a 3DS game? Huh.
11,50 :S
jaundicejuice
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I would re-buy every PS2-era Atlus rpg on Steam. Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne, Digital Devil Saga 1 & 2, both Devil Summoner games, even the Persona games. They could be pump and dump ports with locked framerates and resolutions going for 40-50$, I would buy Nocturne and the Digital Devil Saga no matter what.
Nocturne revitalised my flagging interest in Japanese rpgs. It was so dark, weird, challenging and it turned a lot of the tired tropes of the genre on their head. The world ends within the first few minutes of the game, humanity dies, the protagonist loses their humanity but gains power and a stake in shaping what the next world will be. Maybe the themes of Nocturne are old hat if you managed to play the older SMT's but it was a pretty novel experience back when it first came out, nearly a decade ago.
Well it's crashed three times in the five minutes I've tried to play it, and forced me to watch an unskippable intro movie each time. uPlay gonna uPlay.
I keep dying because I'm underlevelled on Skyrim so I thought I'd share the pain. The best I can offer is that it has cards....
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Yup, but this isn't really the first 3DS port though, as Azure Striker Gunvolt (and Mighty Gunvolt) got released a few months ago too.
Edit. And I mean kinda direct ports that didn't get an HD treatment or something like that first.
Kinda interested but one big question: is the coop random between all users or friends only?
I ask because I have like no friends ;_;
HP_Wuvcraft
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Game dev is definitely the home of the brave.
PetriP-TNT
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4 hours in, 3 of which actual game time and I am fairly certain that Dark Souls 3 is my GOTY.
Incredible!
Incredible!
Dental work prices are insane in the developed world.
hardcastlemccormick
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I have none of the Saints Row DLC, just the base games minus Gat Out Of Hell, and the package is $25. Amazing.
I wanna buy Code of Princess but alas, it'll have to wait too.
I'm also tempted to write poem like
I was lying on skyrim and dying
and skyrim was parking under me
while I Raged over Rogue Legacy
on more serious note Sega makes so little sense to me
like who wouldn't buy Bayonetta and Vanquish (good ports with stable 60 fps) on steam, raise your hand. Anybody? you there, in the back, are you raising your hand?
- No, I'm just scratching my head why those games aren't on PC yet.
Let's say some other games we want are harder localize, have more content and too much text and slight possibility of failing to sell, but these two seems like money just lying there, waiting to be picked, no?
I'm also tempted to write poem like
I was lying on skyrim and dying
and skyrim was parking under me
while I Raged over Rogue Legacy
sorry
on more serious note Sega makes so little sense to me
like who wouldn't buy Bayonetta and Vanquish (good ports with stable 60 fps) on steam, raise your hand. Anybody? you there, in the back, are you raising your hand?
- No, I'm just scratching my head why those games aren't on PC yet.
Let's say some other games we want are harder localize, have more content and too much text and slight possibility of failing to sell, but these two seems like money just lying there, waiting to be picked, no?
That's like the cost of one root canal and a crown. With dental insurance.
HP_Wuvcraft
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$243 for a dental check-up with X-Rays.
$265 for implant cleaning.
$135 for a fucking interview about my mouth.
So basically the cleaning was $400.
$643, but still. That's more than half of what I made via the bundle.
Oh well, whatever, I still made money. But garsh.
ramoisdead
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Just a couple of weeks ago I paid off a remaining $600 for a crown replacement and $200 for a broke wisdom tooth that was rotting. Bleh =[
AHA-Lambda
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Yeah, the next one is giving me a little bother, can get him past 50% so far but ain't killed it yet.
That was the first boss
Release Sonic Lost World a year later, mention it "is the latest in a string of high quality PC ports of past Sega titles that we will be building on in the coming months and years", and half a year later have no news to share.
Nemesis121
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I want to buy Blops 2 but at that price Fuck them.. game is heading towards 4 years old and still asking for that much..
Delicious Waffles
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Roughly €61 for Dark Souls III Deluxe Edition on Gamesplanet.uk (48 pounds). Sounds like an all-time low, right? At least thus far..
Tizoc
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Release Sonic Lost World a year later, mention it "is the latest in a string of high quality PC ports of past Sega titles that we will be building on in the coming months and years", and half a year later have no news to share.
I swear you kids sometimes....
They don't announce their next PC release until a few weeks before it actually releases
Same happened for
Typing of the Dead Overkill in 2013
V. Chronicles in 2014
Sonic LW in 2015
Sometimes you just gotta wait and let things take their course.
Tenacious-D
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If it's a decent port, it would rake it in. Games like that do well on PC. I'd personally love to play it.
I guess SEGA doesn't like money.
Just finished Dark Void.
In the not-so-distant past, this would have been the definition of a Blockbuster rental. Nothing amazing, but decent enough fun, and something that you can easily finish in a couple of days. The gameplay was solid (if not terribly inspired), and there were some interesting bits of lore in the collectible journal entries that suggested the writers put some time in on the backstory. The actual plot felt rushed and a bit disjointed, though. Makes me wonder how much was left on the cutting room floor.
Now I need to pick the next game to tackle. Might go with Enslaved, or I could keep the Capcom train rolling and play one of the Lost Planet games.
In the not-so-distant past, this would have been the definition of a Blockbuster rental. Nothing amazing, but decent enough fun, and something that you can easily finish in a couple of days. The gameplay was solid (if not terribly inspired), and there were some interesting bits of lore in the collectible journal entries that suggested the writers put some time in on the backstory. The actual plot felt rushed and a bit disjointed, though. Makes me wonder how much was left on the cutting room floor.
Now I need to pick the next game to tackle. Might go with Enslaved, or I could keep the Capcom train rolling and play one of the Lost Planet games.
pantsattack
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I heard such glowing words for War for Cybertron, but the port is so bad and bigger than that the game play just doesn't grab me. There's no tactics or depth to combat and there are few useful samey guns. I'm a few hours in so if there are Earthly vehicles later that would help a bit but I haven't seen them so far.
TheAutomator
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Lost World is great. Get it if you like platformers.
Tenacious-D
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One game a year is not really the way to do it. Compare SEGA's strategy (more like lack thereof) to Capcom's. In the past year or so, they've put out about 4-5 back catalogue titles. All of them have sold well on Steam too.
I think the sweet spot is 2-3 a year, but it's the communication that the biggest issue. SEGA doesn't talk. No one currently knows what's in the pipeline, if anything.
It's just their press release about Lost World made it sound like there would be more news in the "coming months" after Lost World's release.
Also this:
Chance Hale
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Wooot, a version of Everybody's Gone to the Rapture that doesn't run at 20 fps all of the time. Will actually try to finish it this weekend.
Right but now you're moving the goal posts. First you implied that Sega was finished, now it's one port per year. You have to choose one.
The fact of the matter is these Japanese publishers are becoming more and more risk adverse. Capcom is obviously investing more than Sega, but the problem comes down to internal support. These ports are unequivocally successful, but they are a drop in the bucket for the quarterly report.
Tizoc
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Yup I agree 2-3 a year is perfect and I agree with your points. SEGA is very hush hush about its releases lately, I mean are they ever gonna announce if Persona 5 is in production or such?
Thanks! I have Afterburner and I do recall getting Rivatuner with it, but I can't seem to open it. Trying to re-download it doesn't work, it says it's already in use and aborts installation. Likewise when I try to uninstall Rivatuner seperatly (which I'm sure is because of Afterburner?). But it's weird I can't open it (the 60 icon), any ideas how I can fix this?
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Tenacious-D
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Perhaps I should have wrote more, I think I also misread your comment. I never meant to imply that they weren't ever going to do more PC versions. That would be quite silly.
I was referring to the fact that we've gotten basically nothing else that we've asked for. It was the whole "get hype" thing, and then nothing really came out of it. We got Sonic later, which I'm pretty sure was going to release regardless. The only game that really came out of the PC Ports Request initiative was Valkyria. None of the others have happened.
Exactly.
They announce consoles games and their western PC games (Total War, Football manager and such) well in advance and communicate alot about those, but they're far too quiet about PC ports of consoles games (and lately about European releases of some consoles games too, and there's also PSO2).
Make sure Afterburner is up to date (version 4.2.0).
Launch Afterburner. Do icons for Afterburner and RivaTuner appear in the system tray (lower-right corner, near the clock)? You should just be able to click the RivaTuner icon (blue monitor with a purple 60) and it should appear.
Set the Global framerate limit to 60 and enjoy. Alternatively, create a separate profile for each game and add the framerate limit manually - but that takes too long imo and it's easier to blacklist games that misbehave.
jaundicejuice
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The Sega of today is pretty far removed from the Japanese game publisher it was went they first went third party. I mean their biggest upcoming game is Total War: Warhammer. Total War and Company of Heroes are some of their most successful franchises. Creative Assembly and Relic are their best internal dev houses. Even Sonic games get farmed out to western dev studios. They're as firmly planted in PC gaming as they are consoles.
I did the Endless Legend tutorial last night and started a campaign this morning. It's been a while since I played Civ or any other 4x game... and I have no idea what I'm doing. I love the look and lore of the game though, so I'm prepared to put in as much time as I need to to learn it.
I seem to be having version 4.1.1, and under Settings > General > Update checking properties, it says there's no new update for me to install. Should I just leave it at that or re-download it manually from their website?
Also, no, the RivaTurner icons don't appear in the system tray. I don't recall them ever being there. By the way, once a while, bi-weekly or something, I get an error that RivaTuner can't "connect to servers" or something along those lines. But I can't open it, re-install it or uninstall it.
Tizoc
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Actually that reminds me; when is their next financial report gonna be released/revealed?
If I'm not mistaken, at this time of the year they tend to release their financial report around early May or so?
EDIT: Took a quick look at the previous years, the full year presentation seems to usually be around May 12th~14th.
HP_Wuvcraft
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You're doing the lord's work, son.
It plays as well as it looks.
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