toxicitizen Posted May 27, 2016 Report Share Posted May 27, 2016 Dragon Quest Builders coming west this October on PS4/Vita! Really glad this one is finally confirmed, was a little worried we might not get it since the announcement was taking so long. I'll be there day one... in December for the late Steam release. At least, I hope that's what they'll do like they did with Dragon Quest Heroes. I'd rather avoid getting it on Vita if possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCP Posted May 27, 2016 Report Share Posted May 27, 2016 What! The first Square Enix game to look promising in years. Excellent. I wish it was crossbuy. I'd want to play it mostly on the PS4 but it would be cool to take it on the go with the Vita. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted May 27, 2016 Report Share Posted May 27, 2016 So... is it basically Minecraft but with a real story mode, or what? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxicitizen Posted May 27, 2016 Report Share Posted May 27, 2016 (edited) Kind of but from what I understand it's more of an RPG than just a sandbox block-building game. IIRC, it's set in the same world as the original Dragon Quest and the premise is that the bad guy won and you have to rebuild the kingdom. Edited May 27, 2016 by FLD 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted May 27, 2016 Report Share Posted May 27, 2016 I shall have to keep an eye on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxicitizen Posted June 2, 2016 Report Share Posted June 2, 2016 Zero Time Dilemma's store page is up on Steam! Coming out June 29th. If they do like they did with the Danganronpa games, it'll probably be prepurchasable a couple weeks before launch. Really glad the Steam release ended up being essentially day and date with the handheld one. Now I don't have to double dip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxicitizen Posted June 7, 2016 Report Share Posted June 7, 2016 Gematsu is reporting on a rumor that Wolfenstein: The New Order 2, Prey 2 and The Evil Within 2 could all be announced at E3 by Bethesda. TNO2 is cool and Prey 2 is pretty much guaranteed to no longer be the game we know of so I'll wait until I see it but man, if Evil Within 2 is announced I will lose my shit. The game wasn't perfect but I loved it so much. It's probably my most hoped for title this year, similar to how Dishonored 2 was last year. Really hope there's truth to this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielpholt Posted June 8, 2016 Report Share Posted June 8, 2016 I wasn't playing games at the time so can someone tell me why Prey is held in such high regard. Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted June 8, 2016 Report Share Posted June 8, 2016 I was and I can't. I remember it mostly for being a very early digital purchase because about six months after I finished it, the digital store I got it from folded and sent me a physical copy so I wouldn't lose access. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted June 8, 2016 Report Share Posted June 8, 2016 Well that was nice of them. Yeah, I never really saw much appeal either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted June 8, 2016 Report Share Posted June 8, 2016 Nifty chart of all the conferences. The Deus Ex one starts in about an hour and 15 minutes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eleven Posted June 8, 2016 Report Share Posted June 8, 2016 (edited) Where do you guys watch these things (if not live)? On YouTube on their own channels? Used to watch these on Gametrailers but that closed down. Edited June 8, 2016 by Eleven Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted June 8, 2016 Report Share Posted June 8, 2016 Yeah, I always watched them on Gametrailers. I imagine they'll go up on Youtube. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxicitizen Posted June 8, 2016 Report Share Posted June 8, 2016 (edited) I wasn't playing games at the time so can someone tell me why Prey is held in such high regard. Well, first off I think the hype for Prey 2 is less about the original and more about what they showed a few years ago looking genuinely cool and unique. Then all that shit between Bethesda and Human Head went down and the game was taken away, so obviously now all the little boys and girls want it more than anything else simply because they can't have it. The original Prey wasn't particularly amazing but at the time it was a noteworthy PC game tech-wise. Think Half-Life 2, Doom 3, etc. It looked really good, had some impressive tech for the time and was admittedly a pretty novel concept (indians in space, and Prey 2 was going to be cowboys in space). But beyond that it was your typical early 2000s sci-fi shooter. I only played through it once and thought it was alright but it didn't leave a lasting impression or anything like that. The opening scene is still cool as hell, though. But yeah, if Arkane are indeed still working on whatever became of Prey 2, I honestly hope they're not going to call it Prey 2. When it changed hands, they most certainly rebooted it completely and it might as well just be its own new IP. It's not like the Prey name in and of itself is a major selling point, anyway. If anything, calling it Prey 2 would probably work against it if it ends up being a completely different thing. It's just asking to dig up a controversy from a few years back that mostly died down at this point. Edited June 8, 2016 by FLD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxicitizen Posted June 9, 2016 Report Share Posted June 9, 2016 (edited) So, the article itself is about Fable Legends and the closure of Lionhead but there's some pretty goddamn interesting quotes in there. Sounds like the Win 10 store is a complete fucking disaster sales-wise. “Without Steam, without other platforms, it was just painful,” says another. “The Windows Store is a giant disaster. It’s on fire. 98% of PC copies of Rise of theTomb Raider, a flagship Windows 10 game, were bought on Steam. The same is true for Minecraft. That hurt us, too. The store’s a mess; the number of people who couldn’t even install the game from the Microsoft store was… significant.” Music to my fucking ears. Going by the numbers on SteamSpy, 98% on Steam would put WinStore sales of RotTR at about 15K, which is abysmal. Hopefully it'll get to the point where they can't justify releasing exclusively on it anymore. Or that devs actively fight against it. I want Quantum Break on Steam, damn it! At this point, if a game is exclusive to the Win store it might as well not be on PC, as far as I'm concerned. More realistically, if it keeps going like this I expect MS to shut down their PC gaming endeavors entirely claiming that "the audience isn't there" or some other complete bullshit. But honestly, even that is better than that fucking UWP/UWA bullshit they're trying so hard to push. Really glad to see them falling flat on their face with that one. It's good to see that after GFWL people no longer trust them, deservedly so. Edited June 9, 2016 by FLD 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted June 9, 2016 Report Share Posted June 9, 2016 Why would we, the PC market, trust Microsoft? Microsoft's failed forays into the PC market has a history spanning over a decade. I think at this point it is closer to two decades. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted June 9, 2016 Report Share Posted June 9, 2016 Prey was a mid-to-late 00's game, not an early 00's game, FLD. It dropped in 2006. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxicitizen Posted June 9, 2016 Report Share Posted June 9, 2016 I know, I said 2000s, not 00s. Maybe it was ambiguous but I didn't mean that particular decade specifically. IIRC, Prey had a fairly long development cycle. It came out in 2006 but it had more in common with the late 90s 3D Realms/id kinda shooters than it did with the modern military stuff that was starting to take off around that time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted June 9, 2016 Report Share Posted June 9, 2016 But honestly, even that is better than that fucking UWP/UWA bullshit they're trying so hard to push. UWP is a good idea for pretty much everything besides games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxicitizen Posted June 9, 2016 Report Share Posted June 9, 2016 (edited) I can see why some people might find it useful to have one app that runs on multiple platforms, but the end goal for MS is clearly some kind of walled garden app store. That shit might make sense for phones and tablets but it has no business being on an open platform like PC, especially considering how closed the format is. If this were to really take off, there would be nothing stopping them from not supporting regular Win32 executables in future versions of Windows. I mean, they referred to them as "legacy apps" at one point. It's pretty obvious where they want this to go. Edited June 9, 2016 by FLD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted June 10, 2016 Report Share Posted June 10, 2016 Well given Microsoft's apparent inability to make any headway with their mobile devices I don't think we really need to worry about it taking off too much, since without other devices to use the UWP apps on there's really not much benefit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxicitizen Posted June 10, 2016 Report Share Posted June 10, 2016 (edited) Yeah, the one thing PC gamers can truly be thankful to MS for is their complete ineptitude at replicating Apple's success. Edited June 10, 2016 by FLD 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxicitizen Posted June 10, 2016 Report Share Posted June 10, 2016 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors, aka Zero Escape Vol. 1, was just teased for a Steam release! Seems pretty definitive at this point, I'd expect an official announcement in the coming days. They teased Danganronpa's Steam release similarly and announced it just a few days later. It was likely to happen but I'm surprised to see it so soon considering how non-committal they were when asked about the possibility of 999 and VLR also coming to Steam. I figured they were going to wait and see how Zero Time Dilemma performed on Steam before making any decision. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted June 10, 2016 Report Share Posted June 10, 2016 FLD, one day I'll try one of these games just because of your enthusiasm. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted June 10, 2016 Report Share Posted June 10, 2016 I tried it on the DS. Way too much VN for my taste. I just got so bored sitting there clicking through 30 minutes of cutscene. Not even well-produced cutscenes, but the kind where it just shows a 2D picture of the character with a text box at the bottom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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