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chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

Is this the pornaissance or hentlightenment?

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cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

honk honk
College Slice
why do games ever describe themselves as "new" in their blurb it'll stop being true really fast

Phantasium
Dec 27, 2012

lmao

REDACTED, GOVERNMENT LEVEL CLEARANCE ORANGE DOWN

The 7th Guest
Dec 17, 2003

question: has there ever been a good Season Pass

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

you all do realize that is a fake image, yes

Phantasium
Dec 27, 2012

Endorph posted:

you all do realize that is a fake image, yes

now i do, i hereby retract my lmao

homeless snail
Mar 14, 2007

Endorph posted:

you all do realize that is a fake image, yes
that explains why i couldn't find the button to show me the hentai games section

FirstAidKite
Nov 8, 2009
I thought the steam page layout, the april first date, and the year being 2011 would hint that it was an old picture... :sweatdrop:

The 7th Guest posted:

question: has there ever been a good Season Pass

Hyrule Warriors

exquisite tea
Apr 21, 2007

Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."


The 7th Guest posted:

question: has there ever been a good Season Pass

In terms of quality or in terms of fairness, cause they’re pretty much all ripoffs. But some season pass DLC are consistently good.

Phantasium
Dec 27, 2012

FirstAidKite posted:

I thought the steam page layout, the april first date, and the year being 2011 would hint that it was an old picture... :sweatdrop:

in my defense i haven't had a reason to look at steam in a while

The 7th Guest
Dec 17, 2003

I mean, fairness is out the window because season pass prices are ridiculous, I'm just talking about quality

Andrast
Apr 21, 2010


The 7th Guest posted:

I mean, fairness is out the window because season pass prices are ridiculous, I'm just talking about quality

Witcher 3

homeless snail
Mar 14, 2007

The 7th Guest posted:

I mean, fairness is out the window because season pass prices are ridiculous, I'm just talking about quality
I felt good about buying the mario golf world tour season pass

Taintrunner
Apr 10, 2017

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
95% of DLC has been complete trash, as someone who has bought a lot of DLC.

Healbot
Jul 7, 2006

very very very fucjable
very vywr very


Zaphod42 posted:

That's just business sense, trying to make as many sales as possible. I mean you're right that makes them less a walled garden (good) but the "trying to make it so every game only plays on steam" is pretty wild extrapolation. They're pretty fine with gog and uplay and origin and others competing and coexisting.

Curating the store and keeping the riff-raff asset flips out wholesale would be better business sense longterm, but Valve are a bunch of idiot libertarians with a loose grip on how Steam got as big as it did.

Looper
Mar 1, 2012

Taintrunner posted:

95% of DLC has been complete trash, as someone who has bought a lot of DLC.

that 95% consists of all the costumes and skins, yeah

The 7th Guest
Dec 17, 2003

homeless snail posted:

I felt good about buying the mario golf world tour season pass
That one I did buy because it doubled the content, which was buckwild of Nintendo to do but really rad, and not that expensive

I never got the BOTW season pass though because when I watched my roommate play it, the content seemed like it just reused existing assets to create new content.. although the bike seems cool

Andrast
Apr 21, 2010


Taintrunner posted:

95% of DLC has been complete trash, as someone who has bought a lot of DLC.

95% of everything has been complete trash, as someone who has bought a lot of things

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
DLC obeys Sturgeon's Law, just like everything else.

The 7th Guest posted:

I mean, fairness is out the window because season pass prices are ridiculous, I'm just talking about quality

Aren't season passes usually cheaper than buying all they include piecemeal?

Whether that's a good deal or not depends on how much you like whatever game it is.

The 7th Guest
Dec 17, 2003

if there was a DLC for mario odyssey that added new kingdoms, i'd be all for it but it seems like they've already moved on to the next Mario project and it's probably a New Super Mario game i bet

homeless snail
Mar 14, 2007

The 7th Guest posted:

That one I did buy because it doubled the content, which was buckwild of Nintendo to do but really rad, and not that expensive

I never got the BOTW season pass though because when I watched my roommate play it, the content seemed like it just reused existing assets to create new content.. although the bike seems cool
that's mostly true, but trial of the sword is good, and the bike shrine is the best shrine in the game imo

big deal
Sep 10, 2017

homeless snail posted:

they held back on the hentai games so they could push them out all at once and have a big hentai game sale lol. hentai game edging

(ignoring the reveal that it’s fake) they really had a big load saved up, of games. jeeze louise...

Accordion Man
Nov 7, 2012


Buglord

The 7th Guest posted:

question: has there ever been a good Season Pass
Witcher 3, Dishonored 1, Fallout New Vegas.

Taintrunner
Apr 10, 2017

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Witcher 3 had less DLC and more full-blown Expansions that were really incredible to experience, at least so I'm told, I haven't finished my second playthrough to actually experience them but anyone who has can't shut up about them.

FirstAidKite
Nov 8, 2009

b_d posted:

(ignoring the reveal that it’s fake) they really had a big load saved up, of games. jeeze louise...

bloodychill
May 8, 2004

And if the world
should end tonight,
I had a crazy, classic life
Exciting Lemon
I got the season pass for Xenoblade 2. It was alright, lot of decent stuff. The Destiny 2 one was the last one I got before that and both DLC sets were extremely light compared to the Destiny 1 DLC so that was a waste.

McDragon
Sep 11, 2007

FirstAidKite posted:

I thought the steam page layout, the april first date, and the year being 2011 would hint that it was an old picture... :sweatdrop:

I think steam has lost the benefit of the doubt for things like this these days

chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

bloodychill posted:

I got the season pass for Xenoblade 2. It was alright, lot of decent stuff. The Destiny 2 one was the last one I got before that and both DLC sets were extremely light compared to the Destiny 1 DLC so that was a waste.

The Xenoblade 2 pass also gets you basically a full new game, too.

The 7th Guest
Dec 17, 2003

Accordion Man posted:

Witcher 3, Dishonored 1, Fallout New Vegas.
Oh yeah, Dishonored 1's xpacs were legit.. I still haven't gotten Death of the Outsider yet

i must confess I've never gotten/played any of the DLC for Fallout NV or Fallout 3 (well, also FO4 too but that seems even less important)

Help Im Alive
Nov 8, 2009

Resident Evil 7 has a v good season pass

The DLC characters are more interesting than the actual protagonist lol

DLC Inc
Jun 1, 2011

destiny might have the worst DLC/expansion offerings ever, considering the QoL changes/fuckups/game system completely being upended month to month

Accordion Man
Nov 7, 2012


Buglord

The 7th Guest posted:

i must confess I've never gotten/played any of the DLC for Fallout NV or Fallout 3 (well, also FO4 too but that seems even less important)
New Vegas' really elevate an already great game, I regret sitting on them for so long.

The 7th Guest
Dec 17, 2003

Accordion Man posted:

New Vegas' really elevate the game, I regret sitting on them for so long.
I hope they would, i have the hot take that NV's world is largely boring, although not as empty as 4's

I wonder if there's a mod at this point that makes 3/NV's gunplay more like 4's

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

honk honk
College Slice
I actually found that the fallout NV DLCs all kinda sucked. The Zion National Park one was okay but the robot one, while it had great atomosphere, was also full of insane bullet sponge enemies, and Dead Money was just absolutely miserable in every way

al-azad
May 28, 2009



Help Im Alive posted:

Resident Evil 7 has a v good season pass

The DLC characters are more interesting than the actual protagonist lol

It really is weird how the protag of RE7 is "just a guy" when his wife is a badass among normal RE protags.

CharlieFoxtrot
Mar 27, 2007

organize digital employees



al-azad posted:

It really is weird how the protag of RE7 is "just a guy" when his wife is a badass among normal RE protags.

This is one of my favorite things about the game

Raxivace
Sep 9, 2014

Yeah Ethan is a weird nothing of a character, though RE7 has plenty of better ones to make up for him.

Taintrunner
Apr 10, 2017

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
I still can't get over when the violin hits in Persona 4 Golden.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C76moI0IZCE

Verranicus
Aug 18, 2009

by VideoGames
Other really good DLC: Mass Effect 2

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Ceyton
Oct 9, 2004

YOU'RE DEAD ARMITAGE!
YOU'RE DEAD ARMITAGE!
YOU'RE DEAD ARMITAGE!

cheetah7071 posted:

The Zion National Park one was okay

Yep

cheetah7071 posted:

but the robot one, while it had great atomosphere, was also full of insane bullet sponge enemies,

Bingo

cheetah7071 posted:

and Dead Money was just absolutely miserable in every way

ffffffffuck you

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