The Miscellaneous PC & vidya Games Thread

[Valmy]

Do you think the paper was yellow-brown like that at the time? I just figured it was like that because I was reading it 150 years later but it was white at the time.

Or was 19th century paper just like that?

[Berkut]

New tactical civil war game in the works, dev diaries/blog here: http://www.grandtactician.com/thecivilwar/blog/

It has dispatches

Younger wargamers may struggle with the font.

Damn right.  Half the game would be spent squinting at these messages.

THat looks cool.

Hopefully they will be smart enough to combine historic period art with the ability to turn that off/on when it comes to actual important content where clarity matters.

[Valmy]

If they are smart, when you pass your cursor over the dispatch it will display the gist of what it says.

[Grey Fox]

The Forza Horizon 4 demo is good fun, and it looks very pretty (I run it on beyond Ultra settings at 1080p on my GTX1080 and don't dip below 60 FPS) if you like driving around the British countryside. The last Forza game I played was on the 360, but unless there's any microtransaction nonsense coming, I will probably pick this up. I like arcadish, pretty, free roaming driving games.

FH4 won't have microtransactions

If this is crossplay we could share avatars. I have a Xbox to play Forza games, so I am of course getting this one.

[Maladict]

Do you think the paper was yellow-brown like that at the time? I just figured it was like that because I was reading it 150 years later but it was white at the time.

Or was 19th century paper just like that?

I could have been that colour originally. Cheaper kinds of paper, like the paper you'd use for notes, contained more lignin which makes it darker.

If there are different shades of yellow or brown it's more likely because of age.

[Syt]

Well, Meridian 59 is finally on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/893390/Meridian_59/

[FunkMonk]

Picked up Rising Storm 2: Vietnam on sale for $8 on Steam. The meatgrinder is real and it's spectacular. Most fun I've had in a Battlefield-type game in a long time.

[Syt]

Gaming controversies in 2018.

[Syt]

Full story: https://www.pcgamer.com/total-war-rome-2-is-getting-review-bombed-on-steam-because-of-women-generals/?utm_content=buffer070d2&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=buffer-pcgamertw

[Valmy]

Wait 50% of Nubian generals were women? Or 50% of the 15% so 7.5% of their generals. Interesting...

Anyway how typical. You wonder when people will tire of it all.

[Solmyr]

Does anyone actually read Steam reviews?

[Valmy]

Does anyone actually read Steam reviews?

People who just look around to find games to play might. I don't have time for just randomly playing games anymore.

But I cannot imagine many people look at Steam reviews for a well known game like Total War: Rome 2.

[Syt]

Does anyone actually read Steam reviews?

People who just look around to find games to play might. I don't have time for just randomly playing games anymore.

But I cannot imagine many people look at Steam reviews for a well known game like Total War: Rome 2.

They might in a "the media say this is great, but what do players say?" kind of way.

[Tamas]

I guess it's less a problem in the case of this particular game, but Steam reviews, the overall review score I mean, can totally destroy a game. Mob rule absolutely works with it.

[Razgovory]

Does anyone actually read Steam reviews?

Occasionally, but they aren't very useful.  Half of them are like "Yeah, I played this game like 600 hours and I loved it but they nerfed wigwams so I'm giving it one star".