No multiplayer, and no regional pricing. Also… no games, which’s not their fault to be fair, but like 90% of my library is not on GOG.

I was curious what the actual percentage is after leaving this comment so I counted: 80% of my Steam library is not on GOG.

Only a browser extension, AFAIK. I mainly use it to see historical lows. It’s nice to open the game’s Steam page in the browser and see the current price vs. the historical low side by side; speeds up decision making.

I remember unlocking at least 2. Unlocking powers did not stop shooting from being part of the gameplay.

No, I know. Late game footage is why I picked it up. I just don’t wanna suffer for at least half the campaign to get to the Jean Grey stuff at the end.

I wish the game was comfortable letting shooting take a backseat like Vanquish, Gungrave, Evil West, or Wanted: Dead did.

I tried it and refunded because of the shooting. I hate aiming. I haven’t tried the aim assist though. Anyone knows if the aim assist is good? I just wanna play it like action game, not a 3rd person shooter.

I love that the sequel took aiming out altogether. Such an intrusive idea on an otherwise good action game with a lot of potential.

Wow, apparently aim assist and aim snap are broken in this game, nevermind then.

Do we know what the new Darksiders is gonna be yet? I hope it’s a “going back to the franchise roots” situation and not “a new direction” situation.

First Darksiders was peak but the franchise went on a puzzling and steady decline after.

Now that DMC5 sold +10M copies, I hope fun air combos are back on the menu.

Guilty Gear Strive.

Plus R is my favorite fighting game. Xrd I hated because they fucked with my character (Zato/Eddie) but I could tell it’s a fun game…

Strive just fucking sucks. The irony is I did vibe a little more with Zato in Strive than I did in Xrd, but WTF was everything else in this damn game… they just kinda ripped away anything that made characters unique in favor of standardized systemic depth and breadth.

Less unique moves, less unique combos, even animations feel too samey compared to Plus R or Xrd… I hate it. Everything just feels needlessly homogeneous.

Even the game’s ideas suck. Like, WTF is Zabubu…

Every time I give it a shot all I’m thinking is: why the fuck am I not playing Plus R instead?

Good gameplay

Massive understatement though. GoW3 is still the best western action game to this day.

I’ve never enjoyed any of these fuckers games… if they disappear tomorrow, my gaming habits won’t change one bit. Go make games worth playing first 😂

This could’ve been a tweet. Sad to see economy is so bad The Guardian has to post engagement bait.

Hmm… probably Vanquish because I don’t typically enjoy shooters and I typically play with controllers, not KB+M. I always assumed the shooting would ruin it for me.

Turns out it’s a shooter… but not really. It’s more of an action game where resource management and positioning are more critical factors than aiming, which’s mostly done in bullet time anyway.

I know people who are used to/are good at aiming probably enjoy it more, but I thoroughly enjoyed it as an action game and plan to go back eventually to get the 100%.

It also left me open to similar games like Evil West, if they exist.

No regional pricing, and Ultimate Edition is $100. See you in 4 years, if it works out for ASW.

I’m not sure why it needs to be so complicated to have specific return policies for every single region.

I am not advocating for this. I do not understand why you think I’m advocating for this when I never brought it up.

Please re-read my last comment.

you are misunderstanding.

I don’t think I am. The issue is not that your system won’t work with regional pricing, it’s that it will not work without it.

I’m saying pick a region for the guideline, if its $5 on that region the game has that refund period. Then apply regional pricing.

Yeah, that’s the issue. Some games do not opt into regional pricing, so the price never gets lowered, which means they will be paying $5 and have, for example, only 1 hour to refund the game, just like someone in the US. Their having to pay $5 is already an issue, and now they have even less time to refund it if it sucks.

There’s zero reason to apply a framework for every region that’s more work then needed.

I never adovacted for this. You can tie the refund period to money paid, no problem. You do not need a different refund period framework for every region, and I don’t understand why you think I’m pushing for this to begin with. It’s fine as long as you enforce regional pricing for everyone, which’s not something Steam will do.

you are forgetting though that a 5$ USD game isn’t going to magically becomes < 5$ USD though.

I am not, and that was not the point. The point is if you’re paying $5, and someone in a non-USD region is paying $5, they’re taking a bigger risk than you if the game ends up sucking because $5 is worth more in their region.

Lowering the refund period for everyone without regional pricing means people in underprivileged regions are taking on more risk than you are; ergo, you’re punishing them for being underprivileged, and making a bad situation worse.

I can’t see that comment. I can see it on my profile, but when I click on it, I can’t see anything, and I don’t see the comments people left on it/can’t reply to them.

Really odd design from Lemmy/Piefed, or maybe a bug, not sure.

To whoever replied to my original comment (I don’t understand how OC can call me a sociopath, block me, and make my comment disappear, but whatever) and likened playing a game and refunding it to refunding a meal you ate: you can’t re-eat a meal but you can replay a game.

Most shmups you can beat in less than 30 minutes with continues, but the fun is replayability. If it’s not replayable, it’s not worth the money, unless it’s appropriately priced.

I’m honestly tired of people who inhale 1-hour walking simulators on daily basis or have hundreds of games sitting in their library unplayed talking about game prices or value per dollar. Y’all suck at this. You better leave this discussion alone.

Y’all standards are in the gutter. Completing a game does not mean you’re obligated to keep it.

If you did not have fun, or if the game does not meet your expectations for replayability, the responsible financial decision is to refund it.

Whether it’s indie or not is irrelevant. The world economy is shit, and, consumers or indie developers, everyone is struggling alike.

I understand you’re going after people with money to spare who maliciously do this, but that sentence is not it.

I don’t see how this would be too much of an issue.

So not only are people paying more than you’re paying because the value of the dollar is higher in their country, the money they’re paying is now at a higher risk because they have a smaller refund window.

You would be essentially taking an existing issue and making it worse.

This would only work if the game participates in regional pricing, otherwise you’re fucking over most people who don’t deal in USD. $15 to you is not just $15 to everyone else.