Mamoulian War

I wish they would rather implement some sort of ATB. If I want some action, I play Dark Souls or Doom. I always bought FF games for the story and JRPG stuff. FFXV is now everything but JRPG Thankfully, theres is still Atelier, Tales of, Trails of and Neptunia, so I can still unleash some waifus to stomp enemies!

Got all of them already. Thinking to buy the Deluxe Upgrade for HongKong, even though I do not need it, just to support the dev. I love the Shadowrun games.

And that's what is killing indies on Steam. No ones bothered to go through all the garbage to search for amazing unknown games anymore. So the word of mouth does not have much chance to get generated...

But Alien: Colonial Marines was Steam only release by Gearbox. How does it connects to GOG refund policy?

Nintendo Switch

Indie developers are leaving Steam in droves, because Steam with Steam Direct put the term Shovelware to the whole new level. It is even worse than Greenlight. In 11 months, they approved more than 6000 asset flips to their catalogues (that's more than 2005-2015 combined). According to some indie developers, the store is so much saturated, that even the more successful of them in past, are currently struggling to keep afloat and are pursuing other distribution means, most notably Switch. More info (NSFW)

Maybe we should start a therapy group for people with huge backlog? Where can I sign up?

Started StarCrawlers today. Courtesy of Mr. Sands :-P Spent almost two hours on it, and I am enjoying it more than I thought when putting it on my GOG wishlist. Picked up Hacker, and background, Rich Kid who became Freelance Hacker and got Burnt Out. I have pick up the stuff based on how I want to roleplay the guy and not based on stats. So Mamoulian the Ethical Hacker was born, and already stick it to the first corporation by helping the common people stuck by plague, get some vaccines

There is a thread in PoE part of the forums, where people are talking about ideal playthrough and when to tune up the difficulty, when you don't want to end up with easy mode.

Expecting from compabies like EA to self-regulate themselves because of customer backlash due to loot-boxes is as stupid as expecting big oil companies to regulate themselves because of backlash due to global warming. Sometimes government just has to step up and cut of the most greedy parts of corporations by law...

@Hurlshot. There is big difference. Makers of TCGs have to disclose the odds of getting cards. In Magic, you always get 6 common, 3 uncommon and 1 rare card. And also the thing, you can hold your cards for few years and sell it later for nice money. So people are looking at them more like an investment than gambling. Loot boxes on other hand, no one will ever tell you what kind of stuff it contains, and also you are not able to resell. Therefore you do not get any value out of digital merchandise, if you can't resell it later. That's what makes them more of a gamble than any TCG ever released.

I would not object.

Children have more money than you can imagine.

PS4 Pro without 4K TV is imo not worth, unless you are playing fast paced action or racing games, where it is very crucial to have best FPS possible. In these games you will feel performance boost even without 4K TV.

I know a guy who already has the game since he was a KS backer and now has an extra key Hmm, I have to check what is on sale on GOG. Very busy at work currently. If I find some wishlisted games on sales, I rather buy them. I do not want to waste another key, if there is a chance to spent 15EUR on sale. But if you can please, hold me the key for few more days, I would love to have it one way or another ) Thank you.

Black Friday sale on GOG started. MDK for free, and Starcrawlers game for free if you spend 15USD plus. I hope I can find some deals. Starcrawlers is on my wishlist for some time \o/

@marelooke. Well I know that from one of my friends who is colorblind, and was not able to play Crysis jungle levels because of this. I really do not remember which Crysis game it was specifically, but he did complained about it a lot.

Well I am harsh againt NWN1. I really can't imagine any way, how this game could look good even on 24K resolution. It's just ugly at any resolution. Unless they remake whole stuff into Witcher 1 or NWN2 engine. Which I somehow doubt.

Maybe one of the regional “features” of Steam.

Well, the leaving house to meet your friends at their place was the biggest draw in of multiplayer. Taking Hot Seat and Local LAN multiplayer away from games, turned me into single player gamer, and coop tabletop player.

Points 3 and 4 are IMO contributing to each other. I am 39, and because of the toxic onlone community, toxic abuse of "games as a service" (season passes, microtransactions, lootboxes, locked content behind paywalls) in "AAA" world, I started to prefer smaller budget games, made by real gamers over big budget games made by focus groups. And I really fell in love with a lot of these games (I count into smaller budget games not only indies, but also "true" Japanese games). FFXV was for me kick in the nuts but Tales of Berseria and Zestiria, Yakuza 0 and Kiwami, have taken care of my injuries.

Tales of Berseria is the only game released in 2017, which I have played this year (not counting FFXI-ZA). So it wins easily this trophy :D I have very big backlog, so I always pick whatever hits my face first, when I open my Game Chest. But I think if I would be playing Yakuza 0 it would win me over. But I do not think, I will get to play Y0 before second half of 2018.

Alternating between Mortal Kombat XL, Project CARS and Final Fantasy Type-0. MK XL is just a grind for last trophy and for last two Combat Modifiers for Two Player matches. In Project CARS, I have joined with McLaren GT3 car the World Endurance Championship, and now I have 2 hours long LeMans race in front of me. I will need to find some more time and mood for this race. To much traveling at work lately to enjoy racing at the moment. And FF Type-0. Wow, I think this game is the most bloodiest game, I have ever played. You are a "special commando" in middle of a bloody war, and it feels like you are really in middle of a conflict, unlike some casual CoD or BF games I do not like the feel of combat, in the game, but well, the backstory is good enough to overcome it's issues. And today, I have bought .hack//G.U. - Last Recode on my PS4. A bundle of 3 PS2 games and 1 new game to finish the story. Pretty good deal for 40 EUR. I should also finally finish Pillars of Eternity and Dead State in my GOG backlog, but I am using my PC lately, just for watching some sci-fi series, which I have missed before. ST: Enterprise and The Expanse Seasons 1 and 2 finished, and now closing to the end of Season 1 of ST: The Next Generation.

Noooo! You gave money to EA. Blasphemy!!!

Word of saying is, that EA has disabled Lootboxes in Europe. This might be response to some countries starting investigating the game as a gambling. Belgium (goes for Overwatch too): https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=https%3A%2F%2Fnieuws.vtm.be%2Fbinnenland%2Fonderzoek-naar-nieuw-star-wars-spel&edit-text=&act=url Netherlands: http://www.clockworkstorybook.net/games/dutch-authorities-investigating-loot-boxes/