RANDOM VIDEO GAME NEWS - BATTLE ROYALE

[SonicMage117]

Steam is my favorite and primary format. I tend to avoid the $0.49-$4.99 so I stay free of the shovelware/viruses. Very rare to see anything like that in games that cost $9.99 and up. The cryptomining game for example, was a $0.49 cent game.

 

However I do enjoy Origin, GoG and Battle.Net as well.

[Mamoulian War]

Let's give Sonic a break here: I recently installed GOG Galaxy and the interface looks like ass.

It's matter of perception. I kinda not offended nor triggered by it's looks. But as others said, the primary benefit is that with the offline installers you do not any client at all.

[Katphood]

True. That was/is the selling point for GOG but I do like me a software that records my playtime, records videos and takes screenshots in a way I can share them with others. Steam does those well...actually, scratch that, the Steam overlay is a pain for older games and I still don't know how to capture a video with Steam.

[Mamoulian War]

Galaxy offers it as well, but afaik not for older titles too. But even if I play through Galaxy, I have all overlays turned off. Even on Playstation's I have disabled all notification with the exception of trophies.

[Katphood]

with the exception of trophies.

Oh yes,

https://youtu.be/7sFJ3nazUkw

...and it has one of the sweetest tunes I've heard in the past 10 years of my life.

Edited July 31, 2018 by Katphood

[wolfrider100]

I'm hoping Sword Legacy Omen, releases on August 13.

 

(I been looking forward to this pc game for a while.)

 

Game's a whole new take on the King Arthur mythos. 

 

https://www.swordlegacy.com/?lang=en

 

https://store.steampowered.com/app/690140/Sword_Legacy_Omen/

Edited July 31, 2018 by wolfrider100

[Oner]

So I see Yakuza 0 is coming to PC and I vaguely recall someone here playing it? It was one of the really good ones, right?

[Mamoulian War]

I can only recommend it. It's one of the best games released last few years imo. If you are into that kind of games. Lot of mature content, ****loads of hilarious content and good playability. I enjoyed all Yakuza games which I've played, and can't wait for Kiwami 2, which releases in few days.

[Katphood]

 

 

Edited August 1, 2018 by Katphood

[kastle]

I did not like any BR ... Apart this one.

Edited August 1, 2018 by kastle

[Gfted1]

Free PS4 PS Plus Games For August 2018 Announced.

[Gfted1]

Valve’s first new game in 5 years, Artifact, coming in November, starting at $20.

[injurai]

Valve’s first new game in 5 years, Artifact, coming in November, starting at $20.

 

I almost want this to drastically underperform their expectations, because be being the last mover on digital card games while you let your games division sputter out of relevance for so long screams the need for a wake up slap.

 

We better be getting a VR L4D game or something at Gamescon this year if nothing else.

Edited August 1, 2018 by injurai

[Lexx]

What's up with all these stupid card games lately.

[Tale]

Chasing after fads. This one happens to be a very lucrative fad.

[Mamoulian War]

Square Enyx definatelly decided to butcher Final Fantasy franchise, and finally announced on their joblistings, that FFVII will be an action game.

 

http://www.siliconera.com/2018/08/02/final-fantasy-vii-remake-is-being-made-as-an-action-game-according-to-new-job-listing/

 

Square Enyx will not get any of my money anymore :-/

Edited August 2, 2018 by Mamoulian War

[Keyrock]

Square Enyx definatelly decided to butcher Final Fantasy franchise, and finally announced on their joblistings, that FFVII will be an action game.

 

http://www.siliconera.com/2018/08/02/final-fantasy-vii-remake-is-being-made-as-an-action-game-according-to-new-job-listing/

 

Square Enyx will not get any of my money anymore :-/

What do you mean "finally"? In my mind Squeenix murdered the franchise a long time ago. FFXIII obliterated any shred of interest I still had in the franchise at that point. The fact that they did not one but two sequels to that abortion was basically beating a dead horse. Edited August 2, 2018 by Keyrock

[Mamoulian War]

Well, I am one of the few strange creatures, who do not loathe FFXIII. The story was not what took me in, but the mix of ATB and action was for me very good mix. Of course, the first thing I did, was to disable Auto Attack. This one killed the game for many people. FFXIII-2 was for me even better game, because I liked the Pokemon addition to the game, but the story was even bigger mind****... But FFXIII-3 was just atrocious trash, and first sign of SE going to "conquer" western audiences, with just another bland game, which plays the same as every other western focus tested checkbox simulator FFXV nailed it and made me abandon the franchise with very bad taste in my mouth...

[Keyrock]

For me, Final Fantasy died with X-2. I feel the series (and Square) peaked during the SNES era, those games were amazing. I liked VII (not nearly as much as VI, mind you), I'm one of the weirdos that liked VIII, I really liked IX (everybody did), and, while I definitely saw a dip in quality, I still thought X was a good game. X-2, though, while not flat out bad, just felt so uninspired. XII did nothing to revive my interest, we've already covered the XIII trilogy (aka the director's hard on for Lightning, possibly the most boring protagonist in the series). XV is just a mess. It has some charm to it (the boy band vibe is terrific), but the story is just such a colossal failure on almost every level and the fun mini-games are buried among the standard generic open world collectathon garbage.

[ShadySands]

Supposedly the first story DLC is out for Yoga Fire

 

No way to confirm though

[Mamoulian War]

Supposedly the first story DLC is out for Yoga Fire

 

No way to confirm though

 

It is, already redeemed my Fig Season Pass *cheers*

[Mamoulian War]

For me, Final Fantasy died with X-2. I feel the series (and Square) peaked during the SNES era, those games were amazing. I liked VII (not nearly as much as VI, mind you), I'm one of the weirdos that liked VIII, I really liked IX (everybody did), and, while I definitely saw a dip in quality, I still thought X was a good game. X-2, though, while not flat out bad, just felt so uninspired. XII did nothing to revive my interest, we've already covered the XIII trilogy (aka the director's hard on for Lightning, possibly the most boring protagonist in the series). XV is just a mess. It has some charm to it (the boy band vibe is terrific), but the story is just such a colossal failure on almost every level and the fun mini-games are buried among the standard generic open world collectathon garbage.

 

Oh yeah, I agree, Lightning was not very inspiring protagonist. My favourite was IX, and I had the same issues like you in XV. So thinking than VIIR would take any inspiration out of that game makes me sad :/

 

Thankfully I still have all of their older games, to play once in a while, when feeling I need to play some good old school JRPG.

[HoonDing]

Best Final fantasy was 7

 

Tifa had yuge b00bies

[injurai]

Final Fantasy XIII was an astoundingly trash fire game given the prestige of the franchise. You'd think they'd "nail" a fun verticle slice before making a whole game out of it, it was clear the were trying to push this massive world building effort with Fabula Nova Crystallis, but in hind-sight it was more of a investment seeking ploy than anything. Multiple of the other FNC entries fizzled away. Agito almost vanished, and they turned it into a mobile game... until... they decided to salvage Agito under a different name! 'Cause you apparently can't just trash all you investments. Then off course Versus became XV because they realized they don't know how to invest in their primary franchise and the only thing they had going for them was this fascinating premise of a game which was meant as a counter-point to the game they were originally more confident about. Apparently Versus was supposed to be a non-FF game to start a new tentpole IP based on the cambat of KH but marketting didn't have enough confidence in it, but realized the design bible of Versus was so good that they need FF to immediately adopt it.

 

In total, everything that was part of FNC was a failure and Versus is the only thing that really climbed out of all that mess. As far as I know the FFXV engine is basically being abandoned as well in favor of Unreal 4 going forward.

 

The odd thing is FF7 Remake is apparently mostly being farmed out last I heard, I think KH3 and the MMO are the only major (AAA) projects that are entirely in-house at the moment. Unless 7R is moved back in once the framework as been set or something.

 

Personally I like 1, 3, 10 and 12. Never got into the ATB entries, maybe I should give them another chance but they are pretty low on my totem pole.

[HoonDing]

Now that #metoo has arrived at JAPAN's shores I guess Tifa's b00bies will shrink.