Quoting: michaVery much looking forward to Rocket League and Street Fighter V, besides my top wishes are:
* The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
* Dishonored - Game of the Year Edition
* The Wolf Among Us
* Life Is Strange
* Alien Swarm
* Samurai Gunn

Agree with this whole list. And until our replies (mine a few minutes after yours because my left arm was trapped under a cat...), no-one had mentioned Dishonoured! Insane! :-)

EDIT: [Just in case [External Link] you thought "trapped under a cat" was a euphemism or something...]

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I'd really like to play Dishonoured again. And ideally its sequel. And the Thief series. Can you spot a theme?

Outside of stealing stuff, a quick look at my subscribed threads on Steam reveals that I'm mostly looking forward to:
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
Tomb Raider
Life is Strange

And given my 250-odd hours in the first game, I should probably mention that I'm still vaguely excited for Killing Floor 2. But Tripwire do make being a fan hard when they stir up launch-level hype (and announce in-house Linux development!) in mid-2014 and then embark on a two year Early Access hell ride, during which Linux is mentioned precisely zero times... until just recently when they let slip that they lost their "Linux guy" months back and still haven't found a replacement. So yeah, I honestly believe that Early Access is a fool's game. I will always stay clear of it.

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Like a 2D "Flower". In fact, if it's half the game Flower was, it's still a must-buy. I miss ThatGameCompany [External Link]. I miss Journey. There's not much I miss from my PS3 days, but I miss that.

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Quoting: GuestAny chance of getting a video of the talk?

Not sure if it was recorded, but there's a decent amount of detail in the slide notes, which I missed first time around, since I just downloaded it and hit F5.

The video link regarding QT Creator being used as a debugger is also really excellent.

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Quoting: poiuz

Quoting: TheBossSkins, skins people. It doesn't affect gameplay in ANY way. How can people even remotely get annoyed by that?

It's not just skins. Hunters and monsters are available as DLC, too and they definitely impact the gameplay.

And it's no wonder that people get upset about DLC if you're looking at the prices [30 €/$ for the base game -> 80 €/$ including the important DLCs…]

Yeah, it's the price that's pretty contentious. £4 for a skin is a rip off. And wow, that's a lot of content you can't take advantage of unless you're willing to pay £180. And that's DLC for a £25 game! Yikes!

Sure TF2's taunts are also a rip-off, but at least they're a little more involved than a skin. I can't generally bring myself to pay any real-life money for in-game treats. I've spent around a tenner on TF2 over the years, but usually only when there's a sale and I'm picking up a £3 item for 70p.

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Quoting: TheBoss

Quoting: Guest

It's a shame the community is very small now, so maybe a Linux/SteamOS & Mac port will help revive it.

It has a reason and I just can hope, that everyone is avoiding this game. They added so much DLC. It was worse than Assassins Creed and Call of Battlefield: Modern Payment combined! Avoid this at any costs.

People are throwing a hissy fit over nothing for this game.

Most DLC for online games split the community, Evolve does not. Evolve doesn't do map packs which splits everyone up, it's characters and skins so you can play with anyone.

It has one of the least evil DLC stances around, yet people shunned it.

Yeah, I wondered about this. But the problem is the scale of the DLC, and I think that's why it's getting grief. I mean, look at this:



That's £185 of DLC!! And £4 a pop for character skins? Insane. I don't even pay half that for a TF2 taunt and these are mostly skins!!

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Quoting: sunbeam4@eike steamdb add-on.

Huh, you're right. I'm on Chrome and must have added the SteamDB extension years ago, cos I don't remember doing it! When I browse the Steam store, I get those stats embedded on the page. Sure enough, that's how I also get the Sales tracker embedded on there too (when there's a sale on)!

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Yeah, Evolve might be beyond saving, sadly.



Looks like it was popular at one point though. Still £25 to buy too!

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Looks like Red Hook at aiming at having Linux support out for their March update [External Link]. Great news!

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Quoting: HadBabits

Quoting: Games Republic RepHello @scaine.
1) 45 games available today on sale on Linux are available as a Steam keys,
2) 8 games that are available as a DRM-free download. We always inform about type of DRM - take a look on product page:

1) I believe he means does the sale count as a 'Linux sale' in Steam's statistics. Some 3rd party key vendors buy the keys en masse as a Windows sale, even if you only play it on Linux.

2) So does that mean you download directly from the site?

Sorry for the confused comment - you're exactly correct, that's exactly what I was getting at, HadBabits. Do these sales count as "Linux" and where is the DRM-free download from. Thanks!

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