Steam Megathread: Stop being boomers! *adds 10 boomer shooters to cart*

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Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

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# ¿ Jan 2, 2020 10:03

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 20:06

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

Givin posted:

Wasn't there supposed to be a bunch of DLC for Bloodstained? Did Iga disappear for another 100 years?

The Iga's Back Pack DLC is out (on at least some consoles), but it seems that fixing the Switch version took priority and a lot of staff from the DLC packs. Presumably now that the Switch patch is out, they're back to working on DLC.

# ¿ Jan 3, 2020 02:52

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

Amazing, Capcom. Simply amazing.

# ¿ Jan 10, 2020 18:49

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

Steam recognizes DS4 and Switch Pro Controllers by itself, and you can add other programs/games to your Steam Library and run them through Steam to skip having to run third-party software to get the controller to work, AFAIK.

A lot of PC games are going to assume the X360 controller, especially ones from between like 2008-2015 or so IIRC, and will have button prompts match the 360 controller. As someone who has never owned an XBox or XBox controller (although I have a couple of Logitech XInput gamepads I use occasionally) and grew up playing console games on the NES and SNES, this has a tendency to trip me up, due to my muscle memory tending to assume all the buttons are in the wrong places. I would especially advise against using a Switch controller for Steam stuff, because the face buttons are just similar enough to trip you up. Using DualShocks on Steam caused me less trouble, due to having a completely different set of face buttons and the default Sony control scheme being similar to what PC games expect from a 360 controller (bottom button = confirm, right button = cancel, etc).

# ¿ Jan 14, 2020 15:15

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

Boba Pearl posted:

Is there a competitive game that doesn't have a large community of grown men throwing tantrums? I've played Dota, HotS, League, Siege, Overwatch, and Apex, and the one thing all of these games have in common is that when things are going poorly, the overwhelmingly male population acts like the most entitled children. Is there not a chill competitive shooter?

IME, that's part and parcel of the whole "competitive" aspect. It absolutely sucks and is a large part of why I've largely abandoned online gaming aside from occasionally and only with RL friends.

# ¿ Mar 13, 2020 04:57

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

Rookersh posted:

Man, Shovel Knight is making me get real existential.

I'm finding it super hard, as a person who played zero platformers as a kid. Every level beaten is a triumph. Honestly when I played it back at launch, I had to shelve it in the second zone, cause I couldn't even reach Mole Knight, Plague Knight, or Treasure Knight TO beat them.

But I'm getting better! I cleared Polar and Tinker Knight with very few deaths, and am heading into the last bits of the game. I'm enjoying it a hell of a lot.

It's getting me thinking about all the skills we have. Something like XCOM, or Fire Emblem is easy for me. No problems. A "hard" CRPG is a fun puzzle for me. But a platformer like this is brutally hard. Yet I'll read the reviews and it's full of people saying "easy return to childhood!" "wish it was harder!".

I wonder if it's just because I didn't gain these skills as a kid, or if it's a patience thing. If I had played Mario as a kid, rather then wandering around in Morrowind/learning THACO in Baldur's Gate, would I be better at these puzzles now? Or would I have just gotten frustrated and angry at this as a kid.

I mean, that heavily depends upon you; I did play games like Mario and Mega Man and Sonic and Ninja Gaiden 2 as a kid, and I was always terrible at them; games like Final Fantasy and Fire Emblem were always much easier. I guess I just have terrible twitch reflexes, while my logical reasoning ability is much better. Also, I tend to get frustrated upon repeated deaths, which generally affects my performance negatively.

# ¿ Apr 28, 2020 02:32

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

Blattdorf posted:

^ Tales of Berseria is good, but it can take longer than that. Rushing through the game means avoiding all those little character-building moments, and that's where it's at.

As much as I like Trails in the Sky and would recommend that, maybe save yourself for FFXIV. That's where it's at these days, but it'll take a bit still before they revamp the early game.

Somebody intimidated by the length of JRPGs should definitely not start playing an MMO as their re-introduction to the genre. I play JRPGs regularly and I'm not bothering with FF14 because I don't have the time for an MMO.

# ¿ May 4, 2020 11:57

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

I have 33 games on Steam, and my first three were Portal (I got it for free; it was why I signed up for Steam like a decade ago, it was also my only Steam game for a while), Dungeons of Dredmor, and Borderlands.

# ¿ May 23, 2020 00:26

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

I'd recommend both Bloodstained games, both are good and short.

# ¿ Jun 24, 2020 07:47

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

srulz posted:

Are you typoing something, or did you just use "or" to describe 2 exactly same situation? I've just lost multiple minutes of my life trying to find the differences.

I assume "hang out with friends" and "dungeon diving" should be reversed in the second one.

# ¿ Jul 10, 2020 10:22

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

Bloodstained was great and it really scratched that Metroidvania itch. It was good enough that I beat it despite early Switch release jank.

And for reference, I have never played and barely know anything about Hollow Knight.

# ¿ Jul 11, 2020 02:15

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

Good, hopefully this leads to more Steam ports of Atlus games. Give us SMT too, not just Persona.

# ¿ Jul 11, 2020 08:57

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

Secret of Mana :v:

# ¿ Jul 12, 2020 13:16

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

ShootaBoy posted:

lmao, just loving lmao at the idea that not having a cart function is epic being humanitarian and sparing people from spending too much. lmao forever

like seriously, how broke is your brain???

I think they're saying the exact opposite. A shopping cart shows you how much you're spending in one go, so you can decide that you don't actually want to spend $100 today, even if the games are 70% off. Without one, you end up getting the death of a thousand cuts because you don't get that visual feedback that you're spending $100 today.

# ¿ Jul 14, 2020 09:29

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

I'm kinda tempted to pick up a Ys game or two considering that most of the older titles are like $5 right now.

# ¿ Nov 26, 2020 02:45

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

Pleads posted:

At least once a page someone asks about buying a game on Steam that's included in Game Pass. It's truly heartbreaking.

I could see using Gamepass to "try before I buy" but I'd rather own my games.

Hwurmp posted:

Why on earth would PHOGS! stop recognizing my controller out of nowhere, when it worked just fine up until yesterday and the controller still works with everything else. Fuckin' computers

The general troubleshooting answer for this seems to be "check Steam Big Picture controller settings". BP seems to mess with controller settings a LOT and is seemingly responsible for like 90% of "my controller doesn't work/stopped working suddenly".

# ¿ Dec 12, 2020 17:22

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

Roluth posted:

Got Dragon Quest XI for the Switch. Any trap/outright bad builds I should stay away from?

I don't really think there are, and respecs are fairly cheap and readily available, so go nuts with your character builds, even if you end up not liking it you can switch things up easily.

# ¿ Dec 25, 2020 21:55

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

BigRed0427 posted:

I decided to check out the LGBT tab on the steam store and...yep...there's a game about futa girls in the featured games. I'm just more shocked that the previews can be THAT explicit on the store page itself.

Anyway. You know what I wanna play? A JRPG, but something thats more of a throwback to like...SNES-PSX era of games. Good story and turn base is a must.

If you haven't played DQ11, you could try that. DQ is about as "throwback" as they come, and there's even a 2D mode in Definitive (and IIRC they've delisted the original version on Steam so that's the only one you can buy right now). It is a very long game though, even not counting what could be considered "postgame". or not, depending upon your opinion on the finality of the ending.

Octopath Traveler is a 2D turn-based JRPG, though it plays kinda like the Bravely Default games (themselves kinda spiritual sequels to FF5) in that you can "stock" turns by defending and use them to super-nova later. It also apparently has a FF5-esque job system, but I haven't gotten far enough in the game to unlock that yet.

If you're looking for actually retro, a bunch of the old-school Final Fantasy games are on Steam. At the very least 4-at least 9 or 10 are on Steam (technically 3 is on there too but it's a port of the DS remake so don't play it). 4-6 seem to be ports of the mobile versions of the games, though, which a lot of people hate for the art style. Chrono Trigger is also on Steam, and after a rocky start they've patched it enough that it's finally good again.

# ¿ Jan 3, 2021 15:03

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

I mean, there are cheevos the are basically "boot up the game", or "watch the first cutscene", so...

# ¿ Jan 4, 2021 00:19

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

Mescal posted:

Is steam gonna let me install and run games on a second PC? It's a virtual PC, and I already tried this through Nvidia Geforce but I'm going another route. It will look like account sharing to their servers, I think... will I have a hard time?

I have both my desktop and laptop signed into my Steam account and I haven't had any problems.

# ¿ Jan 5, 2021 00:05

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

Xarbala posted:

They absolutely mean Yoku's Island Express, Yooka Laylee is more of an attempt at a Banjo-Kazooie-esque collectathon 3d platformer than a metroidvania, much less one that was also pinball.

The sequel is a Donkey Kong Country-esque 2D platformer.

# ¿ Jan 12, 2021 01:51

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

I'm gonna start Yakuza with the new JRPG one because I'm a JRPG nerd and nobody can stop me :colbert:

# ¿ Jan 31, 2021 03:39

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

I've heard Rimworld is in that vein.

E:f,b

# ¿ Jan 31, 2021 10:40

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

I'm interested in the ME trilogy, because I missed the games the first time around (I was flat broke up until like 2012 and any PCs I had at the time were potatoes). Also I wasn't very interested in FPS games at the time, but I've since gotten into the Borderlands games due to my brother, so I'd be interested in playing ME.

# ¿ Feb 3, 2021 03:54

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

Cardiovorax posted:

If you're willing to emulate, the Rune Factory series is a great RPG-influenced take on the Harvest Moon formula. Rune Factory 3 introduces "seasonal dungeons" with fields on which you can grow seasonal crops at any time. It's very nice.

I'm pretty sure I remember Rune Factory 1 having locked-season dungeons. Not all of them were, but there was at least one for each season, IIRC.

# ¿ Feb 11, 2021 05:47

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

zoux posted:

In Oregon and New Jersey ONLY full service gas stations exist. It's actually against the law to pump your own gas in NJ.

Yeah, it was interesting the last time my family went on a trip to Washington and we had to get gas in the middle of the mountains and none of us knew how to pump gas.

homeless posted:

If it makes you feel any better, my gaming blunder was finishing the entirety of Arkham Asylum and never understanding that the combat had rhythm to it.

I finished basically the entire game of the Final Fantasy 7 Remake before figuring out that you could change the party leader in the menus.

kirbysuperstar posted:

It's part of a "volume 1" thing so I imagine volume 2 will be Makai Kingdom and La Pucelle, hopefully with the PSP extra campaigns that never came to the west.

# ¿ Mar 6, 2021 07:12

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

Scalding Coffee posted:

I play the Steam version, so the blood stays for a while and there are always several painters to explode and cover their landscape canvas

Game idea: Splatoon, but you just have normal guns and there are enemies you can kill to paint the stage.

# ¿ Mar 13, 2021 23:09

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

Ugly In The Morning posted:

It’s teeny for me but I’m using the mobile app, dunno if that did anything to it. It usually doesn’t.

I saw it earlier on my laptop and it was full size though, so maybe it is something to do with mobile?

# ¿ Mar 17, 2021 07:39

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

Begemot posted:

Hell yes, so excited to finally play this. I absolutely loved 4/Apocalypse, and everyone talks about this one having a really cool plot.

It's more the setting/atmosphere than the plot itself IMO. The game really sells the Vortex World as a completely hostile alien place that humans have no place in. The actual plot is kinda barebones.

Delsaber posted:

Even considering Sega's renewed interest in porting stuff to the PC, getting the Nocturne remaster on Steam is really unexpected. I wonder if this helps the chances of SMTV on PC as well or if that's always been destined to begin its life as a Switch exclusive.

A Steam release of 5 is certainly within the realm of possibility. I suppose it depends upon how far they are into development right now, how easy the port would be, and whether or not Nintendo's either A) bankrolling the game or B) paying for timed exclusivity.

Begemot posted:

It's funny because both Sega and Atlus USA were really early adopters of steam as a platform. Sega put a bunch of old Genesis and Dreamcast stuff on there really early on, and Atlus USA was publishing stuff like Zeno Clash and Rock of Ages. It's only the Japanese branch of Atlus that has been dragging their heels.

Really cements the theory that Atlus Japan is run by a bunch of extremely conservative types who were apparently terrified that PC is a wasteland of piracy.

# ¿ Mar 20, 2021 00:26

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

Zereth posted:

Clearly the "Mortal" in the UI is a display bug and it should read "Immortal"

No, no, you're misreading it. It's saying it's currently "Mortal Monday", the release of Mortal Kombat for home consoles. Clearly the game takes place on Sept. 13, 1993.

# ¿ Mar 20, 2021 13:06

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

Hub Cat posted:

The controls are contextual so using the touch commands(like pet and play) can be iffy but all the do this or that commands work fine. It does only track blood trails but that is exactly what it says on the tin so The only real annoyance I ran into was that sometimes it will push you around or get in your shot if you don't tell it to sit or lie down.

Short version not super useful if you've played enough to not need to track wounded animals often but it's only 3-4 dollars and having a dog is just nice.

Edit: Also there is some kind of dog-related intermittent crash bug but that will probably be fixed.

Steam Thread: some kind of dog-related intermittent crash bug

# ¿ Mar 31, 2021 10:09

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

Yeah, there are so many good games I can play without needing an Internet connection that I don't need to deal with always-online BS for a single-player game.

# ¿ Apr 3, 2021 11:07

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

Fruits of the sea posted:

Very cool, I've had this in my backlog for quite a while. I appreciate that it allows for multiple short playthroughs, more classic rpgs should do this.

Also it's nice to see something good came out of NMA. Not that I don't have my own issues with FO3, but holy crap that place was full of angry reactionaries. It was not a happy place to be in the dark times.

Not having played a Fallout game before, I didn't know what "No Mutants Allowed" even was. Naturally when I Googled it, the first search suggestion that came up is "NMA is toxic".

# ¿ Apr 9, 2021 12:13

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

That's Time Killers.

It's a Metroidvania with time-stopping mechanics and a time travel plot.

# ¿ Apr 10, 2021 00:22

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

Cream-of-Plenty posted:

Somebody admitting that not only have they never seen Fargo, but also that they are entirely unaware of its events through even cultural osmosis is like...it's like somebody admitting they've never heard of air! Never tasted water. Never felt their own skin!

It's ridiculous. Preposterous. I'm dizzy from it.

I am one of those people. Never seen Fargo, never heard much of anything about it.

# ¿ Apr 12, 2021 02:55

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

Hey guys, I know people were down on the Secret of Mana remake when it came out

but I think it might actually be a Good Game

# ¿ Apr 22, 2021 01:25

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

Im_Special posted:

Windows store games literally install themselves as partitions on your drive, God help you if something goes wrong during the uninstall process. Cool DRM huh.

Neat. I'm never using the Windows store again. Game pass or whatever isn't worth this poo poo.

# ¿ Apr 30, 2021 13:42

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

So does FF6.

# ¿ May 5, 2021 07:51

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

pentyne posted:

There's multiple gambling locations in this tiny village. Why? For what purpose? Why is Yu Suzuki so obsessed with having all these random low level gambling games all over the maps? What's with the insanely low % gatcha mechanics? Has anyone ever audited where the money for Shenmue really went?

I mean, supposedly the reason there's casinos in every Dragon Quest game is because IIRC Yuji Horii is a low-key gambling addict or something like that. Might just be as simple as that.

# ¿ May 15, 2021 23:52

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 20:06

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

Funnily enough, the version of D&D most heavily inspired by video games got only one game over the course of its active lifespan. An MMO. 2e and 3e got tons of games, and 5e is still active, so there's plenty of time for more games to come out. But 4e got one half-hearted attempt at a game and I have no clue how active it actually is nowadays (or really ever).

# ¿ May 17, 2021 09:32

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