Community MetaSteam | December 2020 - Empire of Doom
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If Remedy doesn't take the Epic partnership opportunity to make Alan Wake 2 it would be the biggest gaming blunder of the decade for me.
I don't care if AW 2 is exclusive to EGS. I need it. Alan Wake is one of my favorite games of all time.
I don't care if AW 2 is exclusive to EGS. I need it. Alan Wake is one of my favorite games of all time.
As an Alan Wake and Remedy fan, I'm expecting the next project of Remedy to be entirely unrelated to it, using a completely new IP, serving as the first game to a sequel that never appears.
We already know Epic are funding Remedy's next game. If they're working on AW2 there's a good chance it's a perma EGS exclusive.
Doesn't the ending from Alyx imply they want to make more Half LIfe VR games with Gordon in it, which would basically be Half LIfe 3, however you call it?
90% sure it is AW2
That is correct and still some people didn't understand entirely what Alyx was about xD
You are killing me with these alyx spoiler, I want to play it so badly..
Does Steam automatically unpack preloaded games when it's available?
I'm thinking about leaving my PC on as it'll take 30 minutes at least.
I'm thinking about leaving my PC on as it'll take 30 minutes at least.
The last few posts remind me i have Alan Wake and Alyx in my Library unplayed 
This christmas, this christmas will be the one i get Alan Wake done. I still have my GOG backup on an external drive somewhere... oh, no i don't, that drive died earlier this year. Dammit.
This christmas, this christmas will be the one i get Alan Wake done. I still have my GOG backup on an external drive somewhere... oh, no i don't, that drive died earlier this year. Dammit.
I started warching a playthrough of Alyx back when it launched but honestly got bored and never went back to it. I shoud watch the rest at some point but watching other people play bores me out of my mind and the first few hours aren't very exciting in terms of plot.
Looks amazing but damn that pop in is noticeable.
You probably already know, but it is a better experience playing it.
Nothing (so far) was able to showcase the VR experience of games correctly or in a meaningful way. It only works first hands.
Yeah, i hate to say it but VR is definitely a technology that you need to experience for yourself to know what other people are raving about... and that's the problem with it unfortunately. I still love VR tho and i'm glad i was able to get onboard even if i do spend most of my VR time playing Audioshield and stuff like that.
Don't CDPR games usually do better on GOG than Steam? I'd be amazed if it hit numbers that high
I think every VR playthrough I have watched when I was stuck in a game and needed help, have made the VR game look terrible.
I'll be honest, when I see something that has both this scale and level of detail I'm amazed that it doesn't take at least 10 years to make, even with a team of several hundred. When you start to think about the amount of work involved in everything from creating the assets for buildings, vehicles, objects, etc to the handling of each vehicle, all the possible character interactions, physics, NPC behaviour, planning the layout of the city and the architecture of every building, all the different weapons, etc, it's just insane, the scope of a project like this is mind-boggling.
If they would work normal 40 hours weeks, and have a decent work life balance, it would probably take them 10 years.
So at least you get some decent results in terms of productivity by forcing people to work like slaves.
Yeah, I forgot but I was going to mention that. With the amount of crunch involved it's probably the equivalent to 10 years in 40 hour weeks.
On a different note, Geoff assembled quite a line-up to present the VGAs, I hope it's not all style and no substance.
Having Lyn (Persona 5) do a live peformance is awesome.
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I feel for them. They gotta deal with the boring middle of the map for a long time.
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Yep, pretty much. I mentioned in my review of HL Alyx on Steam that it sets them up perfectly to make two games if they wish to. A proper Half Life sequel and another VR game.
You can have one follow the story of Alyx now in the employ of the G-Man or whoever he works for and then have a separate game that follows Gordon's quest to find Alyx.
Almost 1 million people watching Cyberpunk on Twitch.
Not bad for a singleplayer game lacking polish.
I still haven't decided what character background to play. Still don't know about male or female. Who to create. Or what difficulty to play on
Gonna spend hours just probably do it all again soon after it gets more patches
Not bad for a singleplayer game lacking polish.
I still haven't decided what character background to play. Still don't know about male or female. Who to create. Or what difficulty to play on
Gonna spend hours just probably do it all again soon after it gets more patches
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Sharing a project made by a fellow I chat with on discord, give its demo a try :3
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With every copy being a GOG one except when buying directly from Steam? If it does it will mean truly monstrous sales.
EGS isn't GOG copy. (Means you'll have neither gog and steam exclusive goodies).
The thing with HL: Alyx is that it is very much the next chapter of the Half-Life series. Any future game is building off how it has pushed the narrative forward. It's just as valuable as every mainline HL game, because it is a mainline HL game rather than a spin off.
Alan Wake could do something similar in terms of having ways to ensure players out of the loop of other games can at least have some context, but very much is still for players who know the whole series. Alan Wake has an easier road, where they could just put out a cheap remaster so people can easily jump into it / bundle with a sequel if it is critical.
So many people on Twitter talking about the CP2077 timer on the Steam front page. Valve sure knows how to create engagement.
Nice, now Steam has a tab where you can check the games you've 100%.
Not entirely sure about this fact, probably but one thing is for sure, I made sure I contemplated most of the possible scenarios here, so yeah, maybe, maybe not, influencers got their keys for GOG, media was a mixed bag mostly for GOG but some for Steam IIRC, and and keeping into consideration the fact that C2077 has been top seller for 3 weeks on a row and has been in the top 10 for 9 weeks (no joke) I think those numbers are not crazy to consider.Don't CDPR games usually do better on GOG than Steam? I'd be amazed if it hit numbers that high
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too bad the regional pricing is shiiiiiiiit
no surprises on my end:
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guess they'll be streaming Tim's announcements again
Absolutely 0 spoiler, bro, seriously and even if you read it, you won't fully understand why it happens, so please, IF YOU CAN, play it.
Listen. I'm not trying to be a jerk about it, but lets just say it got it right.
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