Doublejack (06-30-2017)
Yeah, I run Final Fantasy VII off of Steam, because it's the only spot I can get it. GOG lets you download the game and the goodies if you want them, they're yours. They do specials too, I get emails from them but I really don't buy a lot of stuff.
Play the cheap, wait for the specials and download the games.
Download their downloader gizmo too, it's easier.
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Doublejack (06-30-2017)
I'm a big fan of both Steam and GOG myself. Of course, I'm also primarily into independently-developed games like (to highlight some of my faves from this year to date) Night in the Woods, What Remains of Edith Finch, Little Nightmares, She Remembered Caterpillars, Cosmic Star Heroine, and the adorable Snake Pass. But at this point in the life of our 8th generation consoles, almost every indie game of note also comes out for either PlayStation 4 or Xbox One, so I mostly just use my console services now actually, as of this year. Even Undertale is getting a PS4 release now and The Flame in the Flood got one as well earlier this year, and Gone Home (my favorite game of all time) got a PS4 and Xbox One release last year. But I guess what I'm saying is that, you know, the smaller developers who make these types of sincere and really creative games don't have the budgets to maximize the performance potential available on machines like the PS4 or Xbox One or many home gaming computers available today, and yet I tend to like material like this better than the AAA market that does anyway. I will concede though that there are some exceptions from time to time. For instance, I really enjoyed NieR: Automata and Persona 5 earlier this year, as well as Tales of Berseria (though the latter didn't exactly maximize the PS4's technological potential, or even come close; still qualifies as a AAA game though at the end of the day) and am looking forward to a rare independently-developed AAA game called Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice that's due out in August.
Some of the material I'm most looking forward to over the next few months includes:
June 30th (yep, today!): Crash N. Sane Trilogy
August 2nd: Tacoma
August 8th: Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
August 15th: Sonic Mania
August 31st: Life is Strange: Before the Storm (Episode 1)
September 15th: Metroid: Samus Returns
With the exception of the Metroid game though, they'll all be available on computer through Steam. However, all of those save for Tacoma and Metroid: Samus Returns will also be available for PS4, while Tacoma will be available for Xbox One, and of course the Metroid game will be on 3DS, so I actually don't have to use my computer at all, which is nice.
Last edited by IMPress Polly; 06-30-2017 at 05:59 AM.
Have you ever tried "fuse?" this is an emulator for old "spectrum" games. these games were to first real console and computer games - it came as a keyboard you plug into the television and then used tapes to store information. it also came with the first console programming system, where you could edit or make your own games. these games were just the right mix of 'big' and 'visuals' at the time, of course.
Anyway, my daughter's game, which she is developing for the p.c. is a woman's game. you travel from scene to scene and then choose your actions, like adventure games of the type where you use the 'questions and answers' sessions where you gain new adventures, like is still done today. then, it is accompanied with a cut scene for the actions and then you go to the next scene, of course.
She is developing it on a computer system i devised last year, where we run two buses and two mother boards, one board for regular binary, and another for a 'analogue device' system, where we over clock the binary no end.
~ Think of the difference between a normal glass lens for a camera and a digital one - this is the analogue picture quality.
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IMPress Polly (07-09-2017)