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It's been too long since I played the original release of Metro 2033 for me to remember how the shooting was but the Redux version feels fine to me. They also backported some of the new mechanics and QOL improvements from Last Light to 2033, so it might be worth checking out if you wanna give it another shot.

I've been playing through the Metro games lately and I'm enjoying them and the world they're set in so much that I ended up ordering these today. I think it's the first time I actually feel compelled to read novels that a game series is based on. Even with the Witcher series I didn't really feel the need to seek out the books. Hopefully they won't disappoint.

There is a revision in the works but they've been pretty vague as to when it's actually coming. Knowing Valve, I wouldn't be surprised if it takes a while. And that's assuming they don't lose interest and shelve the idea altogether. They seem to do that a lot lately... I'm also having a hard time getting into the Steam sale spirit. I had to go through my wishlist twice to find cheap stuff I actually wanted to get right away. After missing it in the Humble Monthly, I got sick of waiting for Abzu to get rebundled. It'll probably happen next week now. Beyond that, most games I might be tempted to get are still well outside of impulse buy price range. I mean, Fallout 4 is almost two years old at this point. You're gonna have to do better than 20 bucks, Bethesda. I'm tempted to get Dishonored 2 for 25 bucks, though... but I kinda want to stay away from pricier games. A little bird told me Cold Steel PC is very likely coming next month, so I'll just save my money for that.

Nah, if that's what you're after then Steam Controller is definitely the way to go. I love it as a general use controller but mouse-heavy games with shitty controller support are the use case where it shines the most. I loved it so much while I was playing Xanadu Next.

Steam now has support for PS4 controllers (I assume Xbox too). You should be able to set them up just like you would a Steam Controller, even if the game doesn't have native support.

Played this recently, it's pretty decent. Not quite on the level of Portal and Talos Principle but definitely better than crap like Q.U.B.E.

Lol I appreciate you keeping it vague but you're actually making it sound kind of interesting. I'm assuming this is way further than Season 2 could possibly reach? It's been so long that I think I'll rewatch it from the beginning once I get around to it. In other news, I just watched the first 3 episodes of My Hero Academia. It's pretty good so far, although it's about to start the typical "exam arc" any battle shonen series is seemingly required by law to have and I'm kinda dreading how the pacing is going to be. If it turns into a 3+ episodes thing, that's going to eat into a good chunk of the season. It might seem like an odd thing to complain about but it's kinda like when I was watching the first season of Attack on Titan and reached the Battle of Trost. It's a great arc but that's when I realized things were moving way too slowly for the show to reach any kind of satisfying resolution or reveal within the limited amount of episodes available. It's just something that bugs me a little with these shows sometimes.

Did it turn into complete shit or something? All I know is season 1 was damn good. I binged it in just a few days and it got me interested in anime again after years of not watching any.

Lol. So, at this point I guess mainline Halo is just a matter of time? Halo Wars 2 seems inevitable and considering how hard Age of Empire DE is guaranteed to bomb on the Win10 Store, it'll likely join the rest of the series on Steam before long. I just hope Ori 2 won't be the exception. Ori and the Blind Forest was great and I really don't wanna have to skip the sequel.

I was looking through the recent additions on Crunchyroll last night and noticed they added a few more Funimation shows I was hoping for, so I finally caved and resubbed. I really wish there was a better way to find out about these. Like a fucking newsletter or something. Their news feed section is cluttered with so much irrelevant bullshit that it's essentially useless to me. They really need a better way to see a list of all recently added shows and nothing else. Also, with surprisingly good timing, I guess the finale of Attack on Titan Season 2 just came out and they announced Season 3 for 2018 at the end. That's pretty cool because I remember hearing that S2 was gonna be the last one and would have its own anime-original conclusion, which is always such a terrible fucking idea as far as I'm concerned. Now I just need an announcement for Vento Aureo already. I need JoJo back in my life, damnit!

Development on Season 2 is well underway so I think we'll at least get some form of it. The assumption was that the ~40 millions loss Square-Enix mentioned was the budget invested into Season 2. Hopefully they have or can secure funding to fully develop what they intended. But seriously, they finally get a solid Hitman out the door with a solid engine and on a platform they could support with content for years and this fucking happens. Really glad they landed on their feet but fuck Square-Enix so hard for this one.

I'm too cynical not to take this kinda stuff with a grain of salt but they're really going all in on the size thing. Apparently the expansion is so massive they considered using it as the groundwork for XCOM 3. Also, this new system actually sounds pretty damn cool: I really need to do a new campaign before this drops. I only played through it once at launch, so I haven't touched any of the DLC yet despite owning the season pass. A friend of mine was telling me about the bosses from the Alien Hunters DLC last week-end and it sounds pretty sick.

I honestly don't think it is. They prioritize narrative but you're still spending most of your time walking around in an environment, interacting with things and solving puzzles (however downplayed they may be). It's still an adventure game, they just replaced pixel hunting with QTEs. Visual novels are, well, novels. You read them, that's what they are by definition. There are some VNs like Danganronpa, Zero Escape and Ace Attorney that overlap into adventure territory but you're still spending most of your time reading in those. The same is not true for Life is Strange and Telltale's games, their core DNA is fundamentally different.

SteamWorld Heist. Well, this was way better than you would expect "2D XCOM" to be. It seemed like a weird way to follow up SteamWorld Dig but it's a vastly superior game to it, so it ended up working out pretty nicely. It's also a way meatier game, it took me around 20 hours to beat according to Steam. Almost makes me regret waiting for it to be bundled, but then I remember that these guys always release their games as timed exclusives on Nintendo handhelds, so whatever. Hopefully they won't take as long to release SteamWorld Dig 2 on Steam. Lolwut? Life is Strange isn't a visual novel...? Actually, didn't you also refer to Telltale's games as VNs in another thread recently? That's not what they are. If anything, they're the modern version of a point-and-click adventure. Just look at Telltale's first few episodic series up to the first season of The Walking Dead and you can see the formula gradually evolve into what we have now.

I'm skeptical but I don't think it's completely hopeless. Anime games are fucking huge on Steam these days and Persona is pretty much guaranteed to sell very well. I imagine that has to carry some weight in any port discussion. It just needs to outweigh the (proven) stupidity of the people in charge in Japan.

I thought the same thing about Atlus ever since the acquisition, but I'm less optimistic now. It's true that SEGA have a strong presence on PC but it's mostly a SEGA Europe thing. Most of their PC-centric studios are based in Europe and we now know that the PC port effort is also mainly a SEGA Europe thing, with the Japanese branch being largely uninvolved and (seemingly) uninterested. There also seems to be some kind of disconnect between the two. You know that PS4 remaster of Valkyria Chronicles that everyone assumed was just a port of the PC version? Yeah, turns out that was actually a completely different port developed independently in Japan. I mean, that's just mindbogglingly inefficient and implies a pretty serious lack of communication between the branches of the company. At the very least, day and date PC releases of their Japanese-developed PS4 games seems incredibly unlikely if not impossible. All we can realistically hope for is that Japan doesn't block Europe from getting their hands on the games, I think.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!! I know better than to get my hopes up but after they finally delivered on Bayonetta and Vanquish... maybe there's actually a chance? Of course, this is a SEGA Europe dude. So who knows what he can realistically get done...

First english trailer for Zwei.

Oh yeah, I knew I was forgetting something when making my list. Wargroove looks fucking great! So that's another point for the PC Gaming Show.

Cool, thanks! edit: Nevermind, it was just French PR being dumbasses.

Yeah, I guess. I just think that having literally nothing to show is pretty much the one scenario where you're definitely announcing too early. I'm not gonna give them a pat on the back for showing a fucking logo and having entered pre-production on something people have been asking about for like a decade. Anyway, don't really feel like ranking the conferences because most of them fell into "good, not great" for me. Except for EA, they were trash as usual. A+ for consistency, guys! The highlights for me were: The Evil Within 2 XCOM 2 expansion Wolfenstein II Metro Exodus Griftlands (new Klei game) So, I guess Bethesda and PC Gaming Show technically win. Btw, I'm probably missing something obvious but how do you guys do line breaks without a full line skip? Since the forum update, whenever I hit enter it skips a line and goes to a new paragraph. I had to copy paste Ethan's post to not have my list take double the amount of vertical space.

Those "Now in development!!" announcements are exactly what I was talking about when I said don't go full retard. It just reeks of desperation. The Pokémon Switch announcement I can kinda get since people acted like complete nutjobs over the Ultra Sun/Moon thing. That was probably just to appease the crazies.

Why was this not shown during the stream?!? That certainly explains their treatment of AM2R.

Did they actually show that? I could've sworn it was literally just a logo.