Quoting: EzequielThe amount of people that don't understand the difference between native gaming and Proton is simply astonishing. Proton is not a replacement and if you value yourself as a consumer you should never be complacent with a proton version.

Can I play the games I want? Can I play them on the platform that I want? The answers to those two questions are literally the only things that matter to most consumers, myself included. You might look down on us. You might consider us foolish. But our money spends just as well as yours and so our opinion means just as much as yours. As for the "vote with your wallets" idea - we did. All of us have been voting with our wallets for decades. That's how we wound up with Proton in the first place: having enough voting power to get Valve's attention but not enough voting power to get the attention of thousands of individual developers/publishers.

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There's a lot about this game that appeals to me, but it really seems to me like it needs a massive graphical overhaul. Every time they showed in-game footage of the combat, I had trouble differentiating the characters from the background (the graboids notwithstanding).

Edit: Just saw that the developer referred to representation in games as "crap." That's all I need to know to lose all interest in this.

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I loved games like this back in the day. However, if Atom RPG has taught me anything, it's that I cannot go back. I don't know if I've gotten spoiled by modern quality-of-life improvements, if my attention span is shorter, or if my tastes have just changed but I just don't enjoy games that stick too slavishly to the "old school" anymore.

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Call me spoiled, but I've come to expect demos when Steam runs a "fest." This is just a sale. Which would be fine, but I've come to expect free trading cards from their sales. I guess I've just hit a point where I have enough crap in my unplayed list that I can't justify buying anything else until I can get some free bonus swag thrown in.

And yeah, the cards aren't anything exciting, but if you play the market right you can easily walk away with a few extra bucks in your wallet (more if you luck into a foil). It ain't much, but it's better than nothing.

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True but sometimes you get foil cards that sell for a buck or two. Plus 'not much' savings is better than none and this method keeps my List of Shame pretty small.

I didn't know that this sale was doing that though. I didn't see it anywhere. Thanks for letting me know.

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Steam frequently does those sales where you get something for every $X that you spend. Usually, it's a trading card, which I immediately sell for a few cents, which translates to less money spent. I've reached the point where I only buy new games during those promotions in order to achieve maximum savings. In the interim, I'll just play some of the games that I bought last time and haven't gotten around to yet.

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I played Zoria during the last festival and it was enough to sell me on it. I avoided it this festival because I just want to wait for full release without seeing anything more than I already have.

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Not many of these looked that appealing to me this year. Tried running The Wickie, a Lovecraftian horror, through Proton but it wouldn't even launch. Also tried WarTales. It ran fine and the combat was solid but the game itself was rather dull.

EDIT: Went back and tried some more games. Deepest Chamber ran very well once I got past the starting menu (which was incredibly slow to load). Would only recommend it for people who found Slay the Spire to be 'too much.' It's a very watered-down version of Slay the Spire. Which is to say that it was fun, but not very challenging and it just made me want to play StS again instead of doing another run of Deepest Chamber.

Void Tyrant is also a watered-down Slay the Spire except it's charming enough and seems to be aimed at kids so I dig it. In fact, last night, I plunked my 8yo down on my lap and let her play while I gave advice. She adored it.

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Color me intrigued. Hopefully they capture the humor and campiness of those settings too instead of trying to go too serious with it. I notice there are a lot of us Gen Xers who get nostalgic for things without understanding the originals well enough to properly capture the feeling of them. (Halloween remake, last few Terminator sequels, TMNT reboots, the first GI Joe movie, etc.)

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Tales of Vesperia because I was nutty about Tales of Symphonia on Wii when it came out. Vesperia is a far weaker game. The combat is alright but the storyline is completely nonsensical and I don't think that the people they hired to do localization actually speak English. It's like it was run through Google Translate. It's full of random crap like people being shocked to hear information that they had already heard three times in the last few minutes or, in my favorite case so far, a side character telling her boss to say hello to the prince for her even though she was the one going to see the prince and he was the one not going.

Also Rocket League because it's the only game we have found that I can play with my friends, one of whom is on PS5, one on PS4, and one on Switch so I will likely never stop playing that.

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