GIR's Callum writes: In recent years, online gaming has become the biggest thing out there. I’ve already covered what I think the future of PSN and Xbox Live should look like, but now I have bigger ideas. People don’t just pick up games to play with, at most, one other person. Nowadays, on any system, we can play with dozens of people from almost anywhere in the world. But only being able to play with people using the same console or PC client seems fairly restrictive.
Blindfolding myself and clicking a Steam page at random would serve me better recommendations than Steam’s algorithm
Hmm, not sure I agree with that. The recommendations I get are usually pretty good, but then again I have pretty large library of games on Steam and hundreds of them in my wish list, along with lots of curators I follow for it to build recommendations off of. On occasion it will throw me a random FIFA game or something I've never bought or shown interest in, but mostly its decent IMO.
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Players can pay to edit their character, resurrect the dead and other actions.
Yet Helldivers 2 gets a pass? Y’know a GotY contender by the name of RE4 had them and so does Devil May Cry V. The funny thing is I enjoyed both of those games thoroughly without having to buy a single microtransaction.
What I do consider a valid complaint is not being able to start a new game or being able to edit your character. That’s kind of a seriously baffling decision, but then I think how I played Dragon’s Dogma 1 and I never edited my character and I just did a 100% playthrough on a single file and didn’t start a NG since. So, I don’t think these are really going to impact me, but I can see how it will others.
I was going to pay full price to support this game because I've been waiting for it for forever but I think I'll wait until I get it for free from Epic or a Humblebundle monthly.
I am not defending Capcom, as I am not a fan of MTX in single player games. I do however belive they were open to reviewers about having MTX in their game. The reviewers just decided to leave that part out. Which is very disingenuous. There are some companies that get away with these things. Image if this was done by EA, Ubisoft, or even Activision? I am positive those defending Capcom, would have had their pitchforks ready if the companies listed above did this
Its cool, but unnecessary because its not cloud based yet. Most people don't have pc's that can run the top notch games that are on the service. With that being said, its cause of those games that gaming pc's and consoles over heat and die more often then any gen before this one. Maxing out cpu's and gpu's is killing the lifespan of computers, of course that is if you don't have the proper cooling system, but its not like everyone knows how to maintain their rigs, and even the ones who do, have to pretty much do open heart surgery on their rigs to get things going. Its not hard, but not everyone knows how to swap out cpu's, changing heat sinks, adding the correct type of RAM, and adding a liquid cooled system. The higher the specs of games, the more you end up spending on consoles and pc's.
Thats why I'm all for cloud gaming, sure you apes don't know how to shop for a good internet service, but I live in the middle of nowhere and Onlive works perfectly on my 1.6 ghz laptop. I just dont have a controller or I would be playing on the pc more often than I do. I bought Empire: Total War on steam cause I used to have a good enough rig to handle it, but it has perished, along with the ability to play it on my crap laptop that cost me $300. Sure a couple of extra hundred and i could've gotten a better pc, but thats the point, I'd be spending more money just to play a game I already have. :(
@Pandamobile, just went to Origin.com last week, and the specs to battlefield 3 are a minimum quadcore processor. So ya, unless it went Onlive, which it obviously wont, you know I'm gonna just end up getting console version.
Why do we need a soluation to all platforms that takes away competitiveness also I am happier with psn then I am with steam. Its really good but i haven't really took the step and got any big games on it cause you don't really own them lol
Steam is damn near perfect.
I do get some games bug out on Steam same as non-Steam games do so can't fault Steam for that.
In all I think Steam is good and the deals are great! I picked up 2 Borderlands Game of The Year Edition for like £4.90 the other day, you cant say no at that price.
Steam type intergration in consoles I'm for to an extent but there's nothing like opening the wrapper on a brand new game and slipping the disc in your console imo!