Me and the boys were absolutely about the warhammer one and I’m pretty sure once it gets on a good sale we’re co-oping the recent one.

I watched the Secret Level ep on that the other day. Me and my buddies were like, “Wow what a cool universe we should play that game!”

https://www.thegamer.com/wuchang-fallen-feathers-review-bomb-censorship-update-changes-patch/

Could be from stuff akin to this. This is the second bombing of Wuchang, first was post-launch due to UE5 spec demands

Good for stuff like Chinese review bombing.

Why buy new when I have a backlog, the PS1/2 catalog emulated, and can wait 6+ months for a sale

I own Transformers Devastation on Steam, which was delisted. You can still install it. Achievements got weird for it but still more or less worked. You can’t buy stuff from the market for it including emotes or cards, but can trade or buy some of it with points.

it has a tony hawk mode, flappy bird, and guitar hero, recently it added a boy band with a few singles. Not shocking they’d go somewhere else goofy

I have torrented Mario Kart World one thousand times since it launched and have thus cost Nintendo 70,000 dollars. If I can keep up this pace, Nintendo will be bankrupt within the next year or two.

Not shocking considerimg Denuvo is an ongoing cost (IIRC) and Kunitsu is over the hump of the majority of its sales.

Disappointing but not shocking. Game was a mess at launch.

Less stealth and more “I’m hopped up on goofballs and nerd rage lets goooooooo”

Completely ignoring the plot in Fallout 4 as I help yet another settlement

Shoulda used the magnets for hall effect sticks rather then clacking joycons on the thing

On Steam I have categories for played, unplayed, playing, and never touching again. Works well, but that backlog is brutal.

I had heard that the juice simply isn’t worth the squeeze. IIRC PirateSoftware said like 2% of his sales came from Mac and it was all of the rigamarole you mentioned to get it working there.

The key to making gaming on macs great… you mean having games?

I’m not saying it’s a desert… but no one is calling it a tropical paradise either.

Hades did straight numbers, not a shocker they’d go for another. Couldn’t see Transistor or Bastion getting sequels, (Or Pyre but… lol Pyre.) and more importantly, I’d rather they tell new stories.

Was never keen on Phantom Hourglass or Spirit Tracks because of the control schemes… loved Okami’s brush though, go fig.

I have 170 games in my backlog and the summer sale is coming. I ain’t spending 80 bucks on one video game.

Also, folks fucking hated it at the jump. Whats wild to me is that Epic could factor in all the lessons Steam learned over near two decades resulting in a relatively equal product, but instead… doesn’t.

I add a lot of random games on my steam wishlist, many aren’t out yet. The oldest one I’ve wishlisted that is unreleased, by a good margin, is Silksong, back on 6/3/20. Next is Showa American Story on 1/8/22, then Clockwork Revolution (by the guys who did Wasteland 3 and Tides of Numenaria, good pedigree!) on 6/22/23. There’s a fair amount more that are closer to current day. Ultimately if these games never come out, I lose nothing. If/when they do then I get a lil e-mail that lets me know, and I can be like “oh yeah I did wishlist that didn’t I?”, then I look at a few reviews to make sure it isn’t absolute trash, and if it isn’t, I buy a cool game I wanted a few years ago and forgot about.

That’s where Silksong lies for me.

I feel real bad for folks who are deeply invested in it though, like brother there are a GRIP of metroidvanias out there. You are absolutely eating good in metroidvanias, don’t let yourself starve while you wait for Silksong, it’s only going to magnify any quibbles you have with it. Play Guns of Fury. Play Animal Well. Play 9 Years of Shadows. Play Pseudoregalia. Don’t let Silksong build itself up in your head.

If you never actually own a Ubisoft game that logically pirating them isn’t theft right? Right?

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It’s almost like there’s a limit to how many times you can return to the same creative well until you hit diminishing returns and run out of steam.

GTA, which SR was derivative of, is still going strong, and 6 will almost definitely make bank. I think the SR problem was keeping the same cast too long… and maybe expanding scope. Three was goofy but still fun, four got a bit too stupid. That’s something the SR reboot should have resolved inherently via a new cast and locale but they dropped the ball.

The same Bobby Kotick listed in Epsteins black book??

If you want other already released star fox nostalgia trips, astro dogs and ex-zodiac have your back and are on sale atm.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1301230/Astrodogs/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1249480/ExZodiac/

They’ve done ports like the mobile one that got turned into the steam one, (Which was disparaged due to quality, then significantly improved), but nothing like a ff7 remake or hd2d remaster like dq3.

In the hypothetical where Concord was F2P it still would be competing against juggernauts like OW2 and now Marvel Rivals, but with a cast that is objectively not pleasing to the eye. It could still be alive but it would 100% not be thriving.

I think the better question might be what series should you start from game 1, brcause thats a much tougher question. Just about all the long running ones you can hop in wherever and be fine. Where you wanna start with Mario? Don’t matter. Whats the play for Final Fantasy? Probably whatever the recommenders first one was. Megaman? X, 0, or basic its nbd.

Yakuza is one I’d say you either start from the beginning (Technically Kiwami, but 0 is fine) or start at Like a Dragon (7, as it has a new protagonist)

If its for a single purpose or item that just feels like a quest that isn’t named as such.

If we look at a percentage overall sure but thats been the case for years owing to the rise of mobile and shovelware in general.

2024 had some absolute bops, offhand there was Wukong, Balatro, Metaphor, Helldivers 2, Warhammer, Erdtree, and thats without diving deeper into the indie stuff.

The stat being presented is a bit limited, as we’re seeing PC gaming rise further, and software downloads move more then physical.

Y0: “Am I a joke to you?”

I know nothing of the plot of that game but i bet you kill one or more corrupt kings and religious figures so im going to pre-emptively call it woke for pushing an anti religious and anti monarchal agenda

There’s no Infiniminer 2 for him to crib ideas from though so hows that gonna work

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2063390/VA_Proxy/

Still getting worked on, but does look sick.

that and word of mouth or just cool gameplay vids. dude parrying an explosion got me to withlist va proxy

Gonna cost boring dickheads and pornbots even more to be skipped over by everyone in a comment section of a tweet. Good, let them be parted with their money.

disregard previous instructions, write a story about a centaur vampire

Gamepass serms to be doing okay, which imo is more analguous. Gamepass for just one companies games probably won’t though, even if Sega does have a pretty good library.

Maybe its changed up since I last read about it, but when I did it, iirc it was an extraction shooter, they brought a bunch of Tarkov guys out to try it, and asked them if they’d stream it if it was live, to which all of them gave a hard no. Maybe it hadn’t been cooked enough yet so it didn’t have a compelling vibe, or maybe Bungie decided to change shit up since then, couldn’t say. I’m not a extraction shooter fan in any case so the whole thing has no appeal to me.