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Yikes, Anno 1404's steam page is afire with people commenting about Uplay launcher shenanigans. poo poo like that is real insidious.
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Jul 6, 2021 03:29
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Serephina posted:Yikes, Anno 1404's steam page is afire with people commenting about Uplay launcher shenanigans. poo poo like that is real insidious. They re-released bunch of their older games lady year just to add Uplay, fix one or two bugs they didn't bother to fix before and probably a bit higher price. Ubisoft sucks. Sininu fucked around with this message at 03:35 on Jul 6, 2021 |
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Jul 6, 2021 03:33
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Gamerofthegame posted:pretty much all ubi games actually launch uplay to do it and they have for what, 5 years now at least
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Jul 6, 2021 03:34
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Anno 1404 is a special case, because it was a pre-Uplay game but then got replaced by an updated re-release. They've been real grimy about some of this poo poo. See also: AC3.
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Jul 6, 2021 03:38
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Sininu posted:They re-released bunch of their older games lady year with Uplay tacked on and probably a bit higher price. Ubisoft sucks. I'm not a fan of their dumb Uplay garbage, but even when you don't mind it, some games just won't work anymore like Might & Magic X, which stopped working last month and they have removed it from sale with no explanation yesterday. Because of their obsession into putting DRM into everything and then not even keeping those servers up. No refunds for anyone. Ubisoft loving sucks. I seriously doubt any other company treats their PC customers like this. On console everything works. On PC, it's DRM everywhere and forced online modes that only work sometimes, because even though we pay for the things they are still wary that we may be pirates. The only thing these sort of actions do is remind us on every turn that it's best to pirate Ubisoft games, because paying for them is pointless since they will simply stop working one day.
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Jul 6, 2021 03:39
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Wiltsghost posted:and they have for what, 5 years now at least Oh, they've been doing this garbage since rear end Creed 2 in 2010. I remember how it used to regularly eat people's saves until they fixed it in like 2015 or 2016. The only games they've launched since without it that I can think of are Grow Home and it's sequel.
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Jul 6, 2021 03:40
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Machine for Pigs is one of the few games I own that made me upset how lovely and pretentious it is. The others were Brink and Shenmue
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uplay is okay now, but it's annoying.
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Jul 6, 2021 03:41
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Sininu posted:Oh, they've been doing this garbage since rear end Creed 2 in 2010. I remember how it used to regularly eat people's saves until they fixed it in like 2015 or 2016. AC4 was the one with borked cloud support. Saoshyant posted:I'm not a fan of their dumb Uplay garbage, but even when you don't mind it, some games just won't work anymore like Might & Magic X, which stopped working last month and they have removed it from sale with no explanation yesterday. Because of their obsession into putting DRM into everything and then not even keeping those servers up. No refunds for anyone. Ubisoft loving sucks. The idiotic thing there is that it's a one-time call home check and I think there's even a trick to get around it. But you're SOL when it comes to the DLC either way. John Murdoch fucked around with this message at 03:44 on Jul 6, 2021 |
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Jul 6, 2021 03:42
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John Murdoch posted:Anno 1404 is a special case, because it was a pre-Uplay game but then got replaced by an updated re-release. They've been real grimy about some of this poo poo. See also: AC3.
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Jul 6, 2021 03:55
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"A Machine For Pigs" is still one my favourite titles in any medium. (And the game itself wasn't as bad as screeching nerds led me to believe)
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Jul 6, 2021 04:13
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It was all downhill after reading that awesome title
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Jul 6, 2021 04:21
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I bought the GOG version of Anno 1404 yesterday and it came with zero uplay shenannigans 
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Jul 6, 2021 04:31
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Huh so I'm unclear... does steam's 1404 work at all now? I can't tell whether these reviews are "This sucks because uplay sucks" (true, but no big deal), or "This sucks because it doesn't loving work" (Decently big deal).
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Jul 6, 2021 04:59
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Omi no Kami posted:Huh so I'm unclear... does steam's 1404 work at all now? I can't tell whether these reviews are "This sucks because uplay sucks" (true, but no big deal), or "This sucks because it doesn't loving work" (Decently big deal). The non-uplay version still works fine if you have it from before they re-released it.
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Jul 6, 2021 05:18
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Time for another game awareness post: Kite is a synthwave android twin stick shooter created mostly by 1 person which is solid, stylish, and sadly failed to get any notice whatsoever. I have no idea how I heard about it, but it was on my wishlist for a couple years before I finally tried it and I'm glad I did. the steam page trailer gives a pretty good impression of what it's about.  
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Jul 6, 2021 05:47
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I asked in the games chat thread but I might have better luck here -- anyone tried wildermyth yet? Is it as good as the reviews claim? Because it's rocking the charts.
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Going to post here so I can check my post history and link a post where I talked about it. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3908833&pagenumber=3&perpage=40&userid=226897#post515582506 The combat is cute for a lark, but the real meat of the game is the ttrpg like emergent character development that plays out through many quick vignettes. If you are looking for deep combat, you may be better served elsewhere. If you are looking for a tale that you feel instrumental in helping weave, its a solid pick up. I beat the first campaign after 8 hours and that was enough for me because I value the combat more. Something like Xcom Chimera Squad or Into the Breach served me better on those fronts nordichammer fucked around with this message at 07:21 on Jul 6, 2021 |
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Jul 6, 2021 07:17
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Wildermyth is fine, if its on sale grab it for sure
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Jul 6, 2021 07:20
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Sjs00 posted:Wildermyth is fine, if its on sale grab it for sure Your avatar rules OP
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Pablo Nergigante posted:So I finally decided to actually give Amnesia: The Dark Descent a go and I ended up beating it lol. It was great, I dunno why I slept on it for so long since I loved Penumbra and SOMA. I thought Machine for Pigs was decent enough. It's much less of a game, like from what I remember you don't have an inventory for items or anything, and "puzzles" are largely just "Carry this thing into the next room over and slot it into another thing." But that aside, I thought it was a good spooky train ride. The grimy industrial nightmare aesthetics are sufficiently disturbing. It's 90% off right now and only takes a few hours to beat, I'd say it's worth giving a whirl as long as you go in knowing it's just a linear little horror snack. But of course, you also won't be missing out on anything critical if you feel like skipping it. Rebirth is loving fantastic.
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Jul 6, 2021 08:12
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Just started Yakuza: Like A Dragon. These guys still know how to bounce between extremely sobering content and wacky shenanigans. Jeez louise.
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Jul 6, 2021 08:26
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Eason the Fifth posted:I asked in the games chat thread but I might have better luck here -- anyone tried wildermyth yet? Is it as good as the reviews claim? Because it's rocking the charts. It's mostly built around entirely separate 5-8 hour campaigns instead of one long story, but you can import particularly memorable characters into other campaigns if you really want to. I'm having fun with it.
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Jul 6, 2021 08:58
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Trickyblackjack posted:"A Machine For Pigs" is still one my favourite titles in any medium. (And the game itself wasn't as bad as screeching nerds led me to believe) Pigs doesn't start strong, but the midgame is interesting enough and the ending is excellent.
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Jul 6, 2021 09:36
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Jamfrost posted:Just started Yakuza: Like A Dragon. These guys still know how to bounce between extremely sobering content and wacky shenanigans. Jeez louise. I''ve always seen drama in Yakuza more laughable than touching, with Kiryu shouting at the sky under the rain a couple of times in every game. Like a Dragon is loving heartbreaking. Ichiban VA is incredible.
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Fat Samurai posted:I''ve always seen drama in Yakuza more laughable than touching, with Kiryu shouting at the sky under the rain a couple of times in every game. Like a Dragon is loving heartbreaking. Ichiban VA is incredible. The ending's incredibly raw and both Ichiban's JP and EN voice actors knocked it out of the loving park
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Fat Samurai posted:I''ve always seen drama in Yakuza more laughable than touching, with Kiryu shouting at the sky under the rain a couple of times in every game. Like a Dragon is loving heartbreaking. Ichiban VA is incredible. Xarbala posted:The ending's incredibly raw and both Ichiban's JP and EN voice actors knocked it out of the loving park I just finished Yakuza: Like A Dragon the other day and thought it was an absolutely incredible game. Also following that ending with that end credits song was a loving masterstroke Kiryu owns hard and I love him, but Ichiban just felt so much more human in almost every way imaginable. I'm not sure I'm quite ready to call him a better character than Kiryu just yet but give him a couple more games and we'll see
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Jul 6, 2021 10:06
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i dunno about better character, but ichiban is definitely a better person.
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Jul 6, 2021 10:23
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Does Steam have a specific page listing all the available DLC for my games? The main page shows 4 DLC kinda randomly, but I would like to see more.
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Jul 6, 2021 10:38
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The main page for the game should have a “content for this game” bar if you scroll down a bit, that will show several dlcs. It should have two buttons: See All shows a list of all dlc and their names, nothing else Browse All throws all the DLC up as tiles kinda randomly. If you scroll down there are descriptions.
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Fruits of the sea posted:The main page for the game should have a “content for this game” bar if you scroll down a bit, that will show several dlcs. I know well about that. I mean page that shows DLC that I do not have for all my games. Checking games one by one would be tedious.
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Jul 6, 2021 11:17
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I agree that a page similar to wishlist that showed 'DLC for games you own ' would be nice. Would also be nice if soundtracks and art books were separate from DLC.
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Sininu posted:I know well about that. I mean page that shows DLC that I do not have for all my games. Checking games one by one would be tedious. Ahh, yeah. That would be nice, especially during sales.
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John Murdoch posted:Anno 1404 is a special case, because it was a pre-Uplay game but then got replaced by an updated re-release. They've been real grimy about some of this poo poo. See also: AC3. FYI, the original gold edition can still be found on GOG. It still looks great and works fine, the only downsides are no multiplayer and no borderless window mode. Think it might have issues with ultra widescreen resolutions as well. Whichever version you get, google the unofficial patch. It’s been updated and fixes a poo poo-ton of stuff that was never touched by Ubi.
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Omi no Kami posted:Huh so I'm unclear... does steam's 1404 work at all now? I can't tell whether these reviews are "This sucks because uplay sucks" (true, but no big deal), or "This sucks because it doesn't loving work" (Decently big deal). i bought it and refunded it bcos it was a buggy mess that barely functioned
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Last time I tried to play Anno 2070 (which was a few years back, to be fair) I had to install uPlay from outside Steam and run the game from there because the uPlay version bundled with the game simply didn't work.
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Gay Rat Wedding posted:Time for another game awareness post: Kite is a synthwave android twin stick shooter created mostly by 1 person which is solid, stylish, and sadly failed to get any notice whatsoever. I have no idea how I heard about it, but it was on my wishlist for a couple years before I finally tried it and I'm glad I did. the steam page trailer gives a pretty good impression of what it's about. Hey neat! Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I picked it up.
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Jul 6, 2021 13:24
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Why does Steam constantly reset my “allow downloads during gameplay” setting? It’s so annoying during the sales when I’m downloading a few new games and want to try one, only to find that oh, hey, it hasn’t downloaded anything for the last 90 minutes because Steam changed a setting without asking again.
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