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to late!well ok then ... i just hope no one will ever complain about it againhaha
don't get me wrong. I don't have anything against a (one. 1.) happy birthday post. but the reality is after that happy birthday post follows a flood of happy birthday wishes from other users followed by a multiquote from the birthday celebrant with a "Thank you!" post, followed by a few late ones that want to wish happy birthday as well, followed by a "Thank you!" multiquote and then, if the gods hate me particularly fierce on that day another person has his birthday on the very same day and here comes the post "hey, what coincidence! we have the same birthday" and opens the flood gates.
There where times it was very very (very) bad on gaf. But that's just me and you can ignore me.
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i guess we'll see how it goes ... because it's either this ... or everyone just completely ignores the dedicated thread
apparently there is no middle-groundI dropped the game once because the combat didn’t gel with me. It did after I unlocked some of the other stances, but you do have to be patient and get used to it.
Maybe a middle ground is having one weekly or monthly post in this main thread to cover the birthdays of that week/month? That way they’re not exiled to some forgotten thread, but they’re also not necessarily getting spammed every day in a row?i guess we'll see how it goes ... because it's either this ... or everyone just completely ignores the dedicated thread
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there is really no way to check the birthday dates in advance (other than checking each profile manually, lol)
Maybe it works if you just drop a link here to the birthday post in the birthday thread and people will go over there for the actual congratulations. Best of both worlds.i guess we'll see how it goes ... because it's either this ... or everyone just completely ignores the dedicated thread
I finished:
-Unbox
And... that was a really nice 3d platformer? Sure, it's weird and quirky, you play as a sentient box, so you bounce around depending on the angle, gain speed rolling down... but it's pretty unique and quite responsive, at least. Also, very fast movement speed, always welcome when levels are that large.
It's pretty short but it has big, interesting levels with very nice design (even if it smells a bit like the Unreal store), it's not hard at all but the little challenges and the racing (why can you drive a car as a carboard box though?) give it some variety... and it's just a nice platformer to explore and muck around with.
A very good surprise, I like those very 90' platformers, but this one has a cool atmosphere, with lots of funny dialogue (that you are not forced to listen to letter by letter like some old games...) and a gameplay quite distinct from the others.
-Axiom Verge
Slightly meh.
Looks cool, amazing sound design... but offering tons of different weapons and classic Metroid-style upgrades is not really enough when the levels are pretty bland and linear with wayyy too many enemies to fight. In the late game, it's just painful.
And as much as backtracking is a classic in the genre, you don't reeeally know why and where you're supposed to go back, the "corruption" aspect of the gameplay is a cute throwback, but ultimately it's just pixels to destroy/change into a platform. A bit basic, especially for something like that. Anodyne was immensely more imaginative with allowing the player to modify its tile set.
It's a good Metroidvania, but it also has a lot of easily avoidable issues... and I saw many reviews putting it as something special and one of the best games in years... quite stumped about that. It's very by-the-book and never surprising.
-Unbox
And... that was a really nice 3d platformer? Sure, it's weird and quirky, you play as a sentient box, so you bounce around depending on the angle, gain speed rolling down... but it's pretty unique and quite responsive, at least. Also, very fast movement speed, always welcome when levels are that large.
It's pretty short but it has big, interesting levels with very nice design (even if it smells a bit like the Unreal store), it's not hard at all but the little challenges and the racing (why can you drive a car as a carboard box though?) give it some variety... and it's just a nice platformer to explore and muck around with.
A very good surprise, I like those very 90' platformers, but this one has a cool atmosphere, with lots of funny dialogue (that you are not forced to listen to letter by letter like some old games...) and a gameplay quite distinct from the others.
-Axiom Verge
Slightly meh.
Looks cool, amazing sound design... but offering tons of different weapons and classic Metroid-style upgrades is not really enough when the levels are pretty bland and linear with wayyy too many enemies to fight. In the late game, it's just painful.
And as much as backtracking is a classic in the genre, you don't reeeally know why and where you're supposed to go back, the "corruption" aspect of the gameplay is a cute throwback, but ultimately it's just pixels to destroy/change into a platform. A bit basic, especially for something like that. Anodyne was immensely more imaginative with allowing the player to modify its tile set.
It's a good Metroidvania, but it also has a lot of easily avoidable issues... and I saw many reviews putting it as something special and one of the best games in years... quite stumped about that. It's very by-the-book and never surprising.
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I was under the impression that was just the "We're only threatened by Steam" clause.
You did? I must be blind, I've just looked through the last 2,5 pages and found nothing, lol.i did ... today ... everyone ignored it ...
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huh?
hmm ... guess i didn't ... well, not here ... only in discord
i'm old ... get off my lawn!
Oh damn, so much for my idea lmao.there is really no way to check the birthday dates in advance (other than checking each profile manually, lol)
I have no idea why or how I own Crosscode (was it in a bundle?) but I played today for a couple of hours and I enjoyed my time with it. I only just completed the tutorials and reached the first hub but I liked the combat system and the puzzles a lot. If there's enough variety I can see myself having a very good time with the game.
I think it was in Bundle Stars in like 2015.
Like... it doesn't matter where else they put it, as long as it's not on Steam.
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unfortunately
ahh ... well ubi is doing that ... but i imagine they just went "either you're gonna let us sell udontplay keys everywhere else or gtfo"
Er, I really don't see what's the problem with ignoring people's birthdays. It's not like they don't happen every day, plus getting old sucks.i guess we'll see how it goes ... because it's either this ... or everyone just completely ignores the dedicated thread
Also, speaking of things that suck, I bought Dark Souls 2 and 3 today, despite hating the first game. I suck too, as does my impulse control.
Pc Gamer editor who claims to like EGS starts a thread on Era to ask how to copy save files to another pc. Hilarious.
Fucking christ, an editor for a PC dedicated outlet can't figure out how to locate and copy save files
I wish I could say I'm not shocked but I am frankly astounded
I wish I could say I'm not shocked but I am frankly astounded
I can't blame him for not being able to locate save files. There is no standard on where to store the save files. I always use Google to find the locations
It's not like editors are hackers or something, they are still human like you and me.
And also not even pcgamingwiki has all the answers
I also use google to find save locations and it usually leads me to a post in the Steam Community board. I never really use pcgamingwiki.
Maybe, but it's certainly not a great look, and the answer in this case is already on PCGamingWiki, so again not a great look
EDIT: sorry, dp
"Senior Writer for PCGamer doesn't know about PCGamingWiki".... sigh.... real life continues to make sites like The Onion have to work real hard to keep it up. And I'm torn between "hilarious" or "infuriating" to see one of the EGS defenders finding out that Steam has useful features after all.
On another subject: kind of impressed with the options for PC on Far Cry New Dawn. Benchmark, options for frame limiting, mouse acceleration and even an image of a keyboard with the used keys. But they *still* have the problem that if you change a keybind for the walking controls and it conflicts with something in the driving ones, that one gets erased too. Editing the file manually resolve the issue.
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they really don't ... automerge, motherfucker!Mind blown
Seems like games journalism in a nutshell tbh. These people are clueless far too often for someone whose job it is to do gaming things right....
These days I just get all my gaming news filtered through Era/MC. It's probably like that for a lot of people.
My Steam account turns 11 years next month. oof
Since Kiwami is coming next week I've ended up playing Oxenfree (a game which I ... own ... for some reason).
The game was quite something.
The game was quite something.
Oxenfree was great! Can't wait for Night School Studio's next game!
I liked AV well enough but I think the praise that it got was because it was right as the metroidvania renaissance was starting on PC, it was very competent, and it was the most Metroid-like of all of them. It's definitely not one I would rush to replay compared to Hollow Knight, or Timespinners, or Symphony of the Night, or Dead Cells, or... a whole bunch, but it's good at what it is. I agree that the adherence to nostalgia hurts it in the long run.
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Congrats on the warning for calling him out. A warning for calling people out is like getting a bronze medal because you know you struck a nerve somewhere.
Even if hardware reviews are their main forte, I find it hard to believe that a writer for PC Gamer is so utterly uninitiated that they never heard of PCGamingWiki. It's not like the wiki has just started publishing yesterday. Alternatively, googling for "Metro Exodus save file location" yielded at least two results originating from Steam Community forums. A set of results which I presume could possibly be found in Epic Support Forums, if only those forums actually exists.
He has a cool hacker kid avatar though. Using search engines shouldn't be too hard for senior writer for blabla.
I am not defending the editor, but sometimes it's easier to ask than google
Even I ask other people when I know that I can use Google to find answer
That EGS save game question would have been completely innocuous, had the dude not added in "Much as I like EGS..." part. It just came across as very goofy with that part.
Yep. It was worth it ^^
Just read the part from Fraser Brown here:
This week's highs and lows in PC gaming: Page 2 | PC Gamer
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"as much as I like egs" sounds more like "I can't go back on my cheerleading but I am realizing it's quite bad after all". XD
It is not easier, although it might seem easier. It is like making a new post on a forum instead of using the search bar and finding the answer in an older post. It takes more time to write the post (and then wait for an answer) than to look for the answer and read it.I am not defending the editor, but sometimes it's easier to ask than google
Even I ask other people when I know that I can use Google to find answer
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