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repiv
Aug 13, 2009

Triarii posted:

For me it wasn't an issue with it being on Epic so much as the fact that my computer can't physically run it, and it's a sequel to a game that I never played and have basically only ever heard complaints about.

yeah the alan wake name was probably more of a liability than anything, whatever potential the first game had didn't make it through the development hell it went through

it was only ever hyped in the first place due to copium from xbox fans since it was one of their few exclusives of the era

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Mr.Acula
May 10, 2009

Billions and billions of fat clouds

GhostDog posted:

We have no numbers from Epic, but player numbers where very low on PS5 and XBox in November.

e: If the Epic numbers where good, they'd probably already crowed about it.

PSN boy here, personally waiting on a sale of any % and then im slam purchasing AW2

ImpAtom
May 24, 2007

Orv posted:

Are you posting from the past because even if it didn’t sell Call of Duty numbers AW2 is basically beloved by (almost) everyone that’s touched it.

AW2 is good but it has a bucketload of issues and you really need to be in for what it is offering. People on this forum are probably predisposed to be the kind of people who'd like exactly that kind of game but it's something harder to market to someone who isn't down with their game suddenly becoming a musical.

A Cup of Ramen
Oct 16, 2012

Sudden musical sounds good but I don't wanna play through the first game since I'm easily spooked and it feels wrong to jump in on a sequel.

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."


There does seem to be a sizable number of people who buy every Remedy game on release without really enjoying anything about their visual aesthetic, narrative style or sense of humor. Which would be understandable if they were just playing the AAA shooter du jour but it's a Remedy game, you should know what you're getting into.

Infinity Gaia
Feb 27, 2011

a storm is coming...

exquisite tea posted:

There does seem to be a sizable number of people who buy every Remedy game on release without really enjoying anything about their visual aesthetic, narrative style or sense of humor. Which would be understandable if they were just playing the AAA shooter du jour but it's a Remedy game, you should know what you're getting into.

Clearly they just keep hoping their next game is going to be Max Payne 2-2 despite all evidence to the contrary.

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

Put Alan Wake 2 on Steam at a reasonable price and I'll buy it :shrug:

NoEyedSquareGuy
Mar 16, 2009

Just because Liquor's dead, doesn't mean you can just roll this bitch all over town with "The Freedoms."

A Cup of Ramen posted:

Sudden musical sounds good but I don't wanna play through the first game since I'm easily spooked and it feels wrong to jump in on a sequel.

The musical section is incredible but it's very tonally different from the rest of the game which falls pretty consistently in the psychological horror genre. The first game is fine, I enjoyed it enough back in the day but you could certainly get away with watching a Youtube synopsis instead of playing it.

Ghostlight
Sep 25, 2009

maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me



Jerusalem posted:

Put Alan Wake 2 on Steam at a reasonable price and I'll buy it :shrug:
i won't even wait until it's at a reasonable price.

repiv
Aug 13, 2009

steam now allows you to hide your shameful purchases

https://twitter.com/SteamDB/status/1737582613395599592

GhostDog
Jul 30, 2003

Always see everything.

ImpAtom posted:

AW2 is good but it has a bucketload of issues and you really need to be in for what it is offering.

Agreed.

One thing everybody can agree on I hope is that every videogame would be improved with an appearance of Ahti.

kazil
Jul 24, 2005

Derpmph trial star reporter!

repiv posted:

steam now allows you to hide your shameful purchases

https://twitter.com/SteamDB/status/1737582613395599592

Private games for coward gamers

big cummers ONLY
Jul 17, 2005

I made a series of bad investments. Tarantula farm. The bottom fell out of the market.

While I'm not actually ashamed by my love of dumb idle games, I have definitely wanted to exclude their playtime from sight. Being left running 24/7 for weeks while I jerk off in another room is skewing my precious data

explosivo
May 23, 2004

Fueled by Satan

Thankfully I already know which of my friends are the perverts buying every one of the big titty sorority babe games that comes out on steam.

big cummers ONLY posted:

While I'm not actually ashamed by my love of dumb idle games, I have definitely wanted to exclude their playtime from sight. Being left running 24/7 for weeks while I jerk off in another room is skewing my precious data

This is legitimately a reason why I don't really touch idlers on Steam that much. It's just dumb to have steam reporting 24/7 that I'm playing NGU or whatever when it's just sorta running in the background.

FishMcCool
Apr 9, 2021

lolcats are still funny
Fallen Rib

repiv posted:

steam now allows you to hide your shameful purchases

https://twitter.com/SteamDB/status/1737582613395599592

Time to hide everything apart from Sex with Hitler.

Harminoff
Oct 24, 2005

👽

big cummers ONLY posted:

While I'm not actually ashamed by my love of dumb idle games, I have definitely wanted to exclude their playtime from sight. Being left running 24/7 for weeks while I jerk off in another room is skewing my precious data

Yeah they hosed up my year end review pretty bad. Not that it really matters, but would be neat to see actual games I played, and not just ones I left idle for days while I work.

Volte
Oct 4, 2004

woosh woosh
Alan Wake 2's rather extreme system requirements probably didn't do it any favours. A huge number of people simply can't run it acceptably and even on my 3070 I had to play it at 1080p with most of the settings turned down (although to its credit, full-on path tracing was still on the table for the less active sections though). I think the accolades it received will give it a longer tail too. It might be one of those games that sees a bit of renewed interest every spooky season, in a way that the first Alan Wake never managed.

StrixNebulosa
Feb 14, 2012

You cheated not only the game, but yourself.
But most of all, you cheated BABA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d08wUJyLtyw

This is a really interesting breakdown of "i'm making this hard version of this hard game because of these mechanics and changes" that I'm fascinated by while also being unsure if I ever want to play it.

fez_machine
Nov 27, 2004

repiv posted:

steam now allows you to hide your shameful purchases

https://twitter.com/SteamDB/status/1737582613395599592

Porn's about to get a lot more popular.

ImpAtom
May 24, 2007

StrixNebulosa posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d08wUJyLtyw

This is a really interesting breakdown of "i'm making this hard version of this hard game because of these mechanics and changes" that I'm fascinated by while also being unsure if I ever want to play it.

Just looking over the list of changes, it's hard to imagine how it will be genuinely harder unless they just make the numbers unfun-stupid.

Tamba
Apr 5, 2010

repiv posted:

steam now allows you to hide your shameful purchases

https://twitter.com/SteamDB/status/1737582613395599592

quote:

If a Steam Friend attempts to buy a game as a gift that you have marked private, you will not show as already owning the game.

Huh, so does Steam just take the money in that case?

ImpAtom
May 24, 2007

Tamba posted:

Huh, so does Steam just take the money in that case?

I assume it will basically pop up the gift notification and then you can return/reject it

Black Griffon
Mar 12, 2005

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time.

I know who you are. You are destiny.


Tamba posted:

Huh, so does Steam just take the money in that case?

I reckon it'll just appear as if the game is unclaimed until it times out, or you get a message that the friend denied the gift?

ImpAtom
May 24, 2007

Admittedly that sets up the awkward conversation with your friend as to why you rejected their kind offer of Giant Anime Bazamahamas 6: Demon Boob Adventure.

Velocity Raptor
Jul 27, 2007

I MADE A PROMISE
I'LL DO ANYTHING

ImpAtom posted:

Admittedly that sets up the awkward conversation with your friend as to why you rejected their kind offer of Giant Anime Bazamahamas 6: Demon Boob Adventure.

Too much plot.

Phlegmish
Jul 2, 2011



The franchise peaked with Giant Anime Bazamahamas 3 and never really recovered

StrixNebulosa
Feb 14, 2012

You cheated not only the game, but yourself.
But most of all, you cheated BABA

ImpAtom posted:

Admittedly that sets up the awkward conversation with your friend as to why you rejected their kind offer of Giant Anime Bazamahamas 6: Demon Boob Adventure.

it's okay you can say funbag fantasy sideboob story 2 here, no need to censor

kazil
Jul 24, 2005

Derpmph trial star reporter!

ImpAtom posted:

Admittedly that sets up the awkward conversation with your friend as to why you rejected their kind offer of Giant Anime Bazamahamas 6: Demon Boob Adventure.

Already have it, buy me 7

Kibayasu
Mar 28, 2010

repiv posted:

steam now allows you to hide your shameful purchases

https://twitter.com/SteamDB/status/1737582613395599592

Good. I don’t need anyone to know I’m still playing 7 Days to Die.

ImpAtom
May 24, 2007

StrixNebulosa posted:

it's okay you can say funbag fantasy sideboob story 2 here, no need to censor

Oh my god that is a real game name

John Murdoch
May 19, 2009

I can tune a fish.

Kennel posted:

Oh, that's the game with talking robot vagina or something.

e.
https://twitter.com/CookieCutterDev/status/1631764424288550918

The cherry on top of the Windows watermark.

Detective No. 27
Jun 7, 2006

Logging onto my parachute account to ask the Steam thread what good porn games to get.

Detective No. 27
Jun 7, 2006

Hey what are the good porn games?

CV 64 Fan
Oct 13, 2012

It's pretty dope.
How is the pc port of Nocturne. Also remaster the 1999 Nocturne you loving cowards. Whoever has the rights?

Leal
Oct 2, 2009

Detective No. 27 posted:

Hey what are the good porn games?

Furry Hitler. 4.

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

Detective No. 27 posted:

Hey what are the good porn games?

The Witcher

StrixNebulosa
Feb 14, 2012

You cheated not only the game, but yourself.
But most of all, you cheated BABA

Detective No. 27 posted:

Hey what are the good porn games?

Ladykiller in a bind

e; it has an ugly christmas sweater toggle if you need it to be SFW suddenly

FutureCop
Jun 7, 2011

Have you heard of Fermat's principle?

Detective No. 27 posted:

Hey what are the good porn games?

Surprisingly, Haydee is a pretty good old school Prince of Persia like (though a bit too hardcore and cheap trap deaths at times). Though, I guess it isn't porn, just cheesecake.

woke kaczynski
Jan 23, 2015

How do you do, fellow antifa?



Fun Shoe

Detective No. 27 posted:

Hey what are the good porn games?

Cloud Meadow promised pornography and yet when I played it it seemed to be about 10% farming sim and 90% dungeon crawler/turn based RPG, so probably not that one.

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deep dish peat moss
Jul 27, 2006

Detective No. 27 posted:

Hey what are the good porn games?

Baldur's Gate 3 is the game that legitimized mainstream hentai games so maybe start there

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