The Miscellaneous PC & vidya Games Thread

[crazy canuck]

As much as Sony was in the wrong/messed this up, I understand them being fired.

Yeah, he seems to have forgotten who he was actually representing.

[Solmyr]

Sony pulled the same thing with the upcoming Ghost of Tsushima for PC. People in regions where PSN is not available got their Steam purchases suddenly refunded, even though only the (very small) multiplayer part of the game requires PSN.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/ghost-of-tsushima-directors-cut-no-longer-available-on-steam-in-almost-180-countries-due-to-psn-requirement

[Josquius]

Seems terribly managed. Honestly not getting why it should be such a big deal. Plenty of games on steam need accounts with the developer to play. Paradox games for instance.
Something is blocking sony from opening up psn outside of a handful of countries? They just don't like money?

[The Brain]

New Diablo 4 season is basically a big loot rework and QOL stuff. As is the way of these things now you can just breeze through monsters dozens of levels above your own.

[Josquius]

Last night I decided to start Eiyuden Chronicle.
I've mentioned this game before. I supported it on kickstarter years ago. It's basically an unofficial suikoden sequel made by all the people behind the old suikoden games.

It's... Really got retro styling. The graphics are somewhere between suikoden 1 and 2 as is the gameplay. Delightfully old school.
The loading screen is particularly cute and nostalgic with the main character running.
But they've really overdone the retro styling - you see that loading screen A LOT.
Enter a building? Load. Leave the building? Lonnnng load. Random battle? Load.
I am sure even proper psx era Rpgs didn't have such terrible loading.
This renders the game very unfun.
I don't think I'll be playing it further until there's an optimisation patch. Fingers crossed.

[Syt]

Thanks for the info. I was eyeing it, but will hold back for now.