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Kin posted:So what's the Epic launcher like? Is it buggy or a pain in the arse to use, etc? It works. And there's only a chance your personal info will end up in the hands of Tencent (that chance is 100%).
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# ? Oct 26, 2023 21:44 |
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# ? May 24, 2024 20:58 |
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you have to physically fight Tim Sweeney before you can buy a game
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# ? Oct 26, 2023 21:44 |
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It’s functional? Like it doesn’t eat too many resources and it’s not overtly buggy but the UI is terrible because of course it is. It’s a storefront that isn’t Steam, if you’ve used Origin or Uplay or whatever you won’t be surprised.
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# ? Oct 26, 2023 21:44 |
Wintermutant posted:Oh nice, that's now two bands that the Max Payne series has turned me onto I was going to say that I hope it's Old Gods of Asgard, because they're the same band , but that was Alan Wake
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# ? Oct 26, 2023 21:45 |
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After many years I can confirm EGS exists and is fine, I guess
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# ? Oct 26, 2023 21:49 |
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Hmm. Not overly glowing feedback. I guess I don't actually need to play Alan Wake 2 just now and can wait a year or so.
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# ? Oct 26, 2023 21:51 |
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Kin posted:Hmm. Not overly glowing feedback. I guess I don't actually need to play Alan Wake 2 just now and can wait a year or so. Epic Games itself published Alan Wake 2. You may be waiting a very long time.
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# ? Oct 26, 2023 21:51 |
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Yeah it's not a timed exclusivity thing, Tim Sweeney gave Sam Lake enough money to buy a Sam Lakehouse.
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# ? Oct 26, 2023 21:52 |
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if tim sweeney is sitting around relaunching beloved franchises when the gently caress is ZZT 2 coming
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# ? Oct 26, 2023 21:53 |
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Can't wait for the Jill of the Jungle reboot to be decried as woke
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# ? Oct 26, 2023 21:56 |
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Kibayasu posted:Epic Games itself published Alan Wake 2. You may be waiting a very long time. Well, that's annoying. I could get it on PS5, but it sounds like the kind of game that my newly upgraded rig could sink its teeth into.
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# ? Oct 26, 2023 21:58 |
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teethgrinder posted:#2 ... HEALTH? Absolutely
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# ? Oct 26, 2023 22:04 |
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Impermanent posted:if tim sweeney is sitting around relaunching beloved franchises when the gently caress is ZZT 2 coming Good news! Super ZZT was released in 1991.
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# ? Oct 26, 2023 22:05 |
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Oxxidation posted:paraphrasing one of my older posts about it: the first max payne game was unabashed noir schlock where a smirking hardboiled fella with a pistol gunned his way through a small army of interchangeable palookas, and where his own tragic backstory was more perfunctory than anything. the ragnarok references were primarily set dressing for what was otherwise a straightforward third-person shooter with a then-innovative bullet time mechanic; besides that, all the characters were basically archetypes and max's inner monologue was mostly played for laughs
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# ? Oct 26, 2023 22:05 |
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pseudorandom name posted:Good news! Super ZZT was released in 1991. And you can find a pretty good adaptation of Hitchhiker's Guide for it.
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# ? Oct 26, 2023 22:10 |
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Kin posted:Well, that's annoying. EGS is a minor inconvenience but not worth actively avoiding. It would be easier if everything was on Steam just so you can have your whole library in one place but EGS functions much the same when you're occasionally forced into using it for an exclusive. Even if you don't buy anything it's worth having an account so you can get the games in the free rotation and then never install or play them.
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# ? Oct 26, 2023 22:14 |
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NoEyedSquareGuy posted:EGS is a minor inconvenience but not worth actively avoiding. It would be easier if everything was on Steam just so you can have your whole library in one place but EGS functions much the same when you're occasionally forced into using it for an exclusive. Even if you don't buy anything it's worth having an account so you can get the games in the free rotation and then never install or play them. I just looked up a list of the historic free games and don't think I've missed anything worthwhile, to be honest. Solid B-tier games at best which I'll never get around to playing given my backlog of the A-tier "overwhelmingly positive" stuff from Steam.
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# ? Oct 26, 2023 22:32 |
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The Finals is doing an open beta now through 11/5 and it's pretty fun! I had no idea what the gently caress it was so I was not expecting a 3v3v3 fps objective capture kinda thing but with classes and abilities blah blah. After playing the playtest for the now dead and buried 'Hyenas' earlier this year though I can't say my hopes are very high for new free to play competitive shooters, although that game was a bit of a mess and this seems easier to pick up and play.
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# ? Oct 26, 2023 22:40 |
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Monster Hunters and their expansions are on sale now. $20 for Iceborne, $24 for Sunbreak
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# ? Oct 26, 2023 22:46 |
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Kin posted:I just looked up a list of the historic free games and don't think I've missed anything worthwhile, to be honest. Solid B-tier games at best which I'll never get around to playing given my backlog of the A-tier "overwhelmingly positive" stuff from Steam. Generally they're filler games I've never heard of but every now and then they'll have something great. Saw Outer Wilds going for free a while back and I'd still consider that the best game ever made, most of the good stuff isn't going to be AAA level production but they'll have excellent indie titles showing up on the rotation periodically. Heard good things about Evil Within 2 and that's coming up in the next cycle, probably never would have given it a chance without EGS.
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# ? Oct 26, 2023 23:04 |
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SOMA is on discount for like $6. Glad I waited.
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# ? Oct 26, 2023 23:17 |
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Kibayasu posted:Epic Games itself published Alan Wake 2. You may be waiting a very long time. plus having to upgrade your PC in most cases unless the game looks great on medium I don't see an entire generation of 3-series users just upgrading to 4070s for this game.
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# ? Oct 26, 2023 23:18 |
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SOMA is seriously amazing.
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# ? Oct 26, 2023 23:18 |
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SOMA is a really good spooky game. Like, even playing it with the enemies not hunting you, it's really scary and well done. It's also on gamepass if you have it.
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# ? Oct 26, 2023 23:20 |
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Impermanent posted:if tim sweeney is sitting around relaunching beloved franchises when the gently caress is ZZT 2 coming it gives me no joy to say this but I think "ZZT 2" is just roblox
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# ? Oct 26, 2023 23:25 |
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Schwarzwald posted:it gives me no joy to say this but I think "ZZT 2" is just roblox oh, well, if you're going to go that route then ZZT 2 is Fortnite Creator or whatever they call it.
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# ? Oct 26, 2023 23:33 |
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Deals are kinda uninspiring this time around. Unless a last minute eye-catcher shows up, I'm gonna pronounce the Spirit of Halloween ultradead. (EDIT: Apparently this isn't the actual Autumn Sale, not sure where I got the idea that it was from. Oh well, even more of a snoozefest then.) Jossar fucked around with this message at 23:51 on Oct 26, 2023 |
# ? Oct 26, 2023 23:47 |
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Steam recommended something odious to me for no forseeable reason, so I clicked on the tag to see if that's how I ban it and I got this lovely chuckle.
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# ? Oct 26, 2023 23:53 |
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At least there are stickers. I got one of a little haunted Deck. Pondering Dread Delusion, Strangeland, Days Gone, and the Odyssey expansion for Elite: Dangerous because who knows, maybe I will finally play that game.
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# ? Oct 26, 2023 23:54 |
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Like, I've always chuckled at those who complain about weird stuff trickling through as they loudly argue that they don't own/play/browse that type of content and I roll my eyes and mentally think "suuuuure, buddy" but Steam just unabashedly tried to sell me a foreign language live-action.... thing with the rational that "this is on your front page since it's newly released" and I am offended.
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# ? Oct 26, 2023 23:58 |
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Did it involve martial artists in animal themed vehicles?
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# ? Oct 27, 2023 00:04 |
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I'm no fan of weirdo sex games but I was recommended something called "Carnal Instinct" on the front page while recording footage for a YouTube video. Since nothing about the promo slide was explicit and it was being recommended with the tags "Souls-like" "Dark Fantasy" "Action RPG" I thought nothing of it and included that footage in my video. A comment laughed about it's inclusion so I googled it, and surprise, it's some weird furry rape game set in ancient Egypt. Thanks Steam.
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# ? Oct 27, 2023 00:29 |
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Big Bizness posted:I'm no fan of weirdo sex games but I was recommended something called "Carnal Instinct" on the front page while recording footage for a YouTube video. Since nothing about the promo slide was explicit and it was being recommended with the tags "Souls-like" "Dark Fantasy" "Action RPG" I thought nothing of it and included that footage in my video. A comment laughed about it's inclusion so I googled it, and surprise, it's some weird furry rape game set in ancient Egypt. Thanks Steam. and what did we learn today
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# ? Oct 27, 2023 00:35 |
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Hwurmp posted:and what did we learn today That I'm really fuckin' sick of steam not letting me block publishers or devs, and I don't want to see graphic sex in the steam queue despite blocking sexual content as a tag. I'm not even against porn games on steam, I just don't want to see "sex with hitler" on the front loving page
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# ? Oct 27, 2023 00:38 |
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It's marked "adults only" and it's described as "an Adult RPG with an emphasis on AAA quality visuals and compelling erotic interaction" Just disable showing "adults only" stuff in steam (it's literally all porn)
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# ? Oct 27, 2023 00:38 |
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Hwurmp posted:and what did we learn today I learned that by going into Settings - Account - Account Details - Store Preferences you can block this crap.
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# ? Oct 27, 2023 00:38 |
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Try going a few screenshots further.
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# ? Oct 27, 2023 00:39 |
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lmao/yikes but anyway my point is I don't think you can say that it's not clearly marked
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# ? Oct 27, 2023 00:41 |
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My steam must be broken because I never get recommended Sex With Hitler-likes
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# ? Oct 27, 2023 00:41 |
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# ? May 24, 2024 20:58 |
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Yeah, I thought I'd fixed it so I stopped seeing porn games in my recs, but I've been dumping a lot of time into Cyberpunk, which has the Nudity tag, which I don't want to block due to games like Cyberpunk having it, so now I'm seeing a bunch of hentai crap again. Like someone said above, I've no problem with this stuff existing, I'd just like it to be more compartmentalized. I want to be able to browse the steam store during down time at work without fear.
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# ? Oct 27, 2023 00:43 |