[TyrianMollusk]

Modest buying for the Winter sale, but probably due to more excessive buying during Autumn sale times.

• Quantum Protocol
• Madshot
• Summum Aeterna
• Puyo Puyo Tetris (via Fanatical)
• I See Red (via Fanatical)
• Atomicrops DLC for partner
• The Forest for partner

The Forest won't get played for quite a while, but it seemed plenty cheap enough to knock off the wishlist, and partner has been happily banking hours in Atomicrops again with new things to see, next to PlateUp from the JingleJam for a whole farm to table experience   They're also working on Nioh 2, which they scored in a giveaway, so they are full up on things to do.

 

I'm most curious about Quantum Protocol of my recent buys.  It's a quite different kind of game than I've been playing lately (I like physical card games but never liked deckbuilders, so that coming into video gaming hasn't been much of a draw), and something I've been circling around wondering about picking up for a couple years now, until a specific Steam review basically pushed me over the edge.  It also requires actually dedicated play instead of just dipping in and out randomly like I do on most of my games.  As I understand, the whole normal game is basically tutorial and mechanics training before you get to play it as a more open roguelite after it "ends".  So I'll need to keep at it and learn how to play and hopefully get through the various challenges to unlock the real game before I accidentally take too long of a break and find I forgot too much to play properly...  Then to see if it sticks long-term, how much enjoyment I get playing, and whether it leads to any reevaluation of these strange card-based video games or is just a minor novelty.  I've enjoyed the first couple hours, but either way I'll shake my $10 out of it

[Kyle1022]

Imagine putting Denuvo on a four dollar game that originally came out over 12 years ago. Only Ubisoft

[MysterD]

Imagine putting Denuvo on a four dollar game that originally came out over 12 years ago. Only Ubisoft

Ridiculous.

 

Updated my post.

Looks like it's the same price on UbiSoft Connect too, for those who want less client-app crap involved.

[JohnnyCage]

Playstation Store: 

Anthem

 

Steam: 

Outlaws

Stray (won via giveaway on the Alienware site)

The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC

 

 

Ended up passing on Red Dead Redemption 2, put it on the Wishlist though.

RDR2 on PC is a work of art if you've got good specs. It's the closest thing to photo realism I've seen in a video game. Pair that with a good set of headphones and it's the most immersive piece of entertainment I've experienced.

[Tibor]

I really need to play thru RDR2 storyline. I've got maybe 200 hours in the online game. Fun as hell game most of the time.

[Epic_Bean]

Steam Winter haul:

 

FFVII Remake - Picked up Crisis core and beat it, almost 100% achievements figured I should follow it up with this

Grandia II (Used Steambucks from bi yearly card farm, made about 15 steam dollars total)

 

Epic:
Kingdom Hearts 1.5 & 2.5
Kingdom Hearts 3

I regret this purchase I thought they would play on my Steamdeck but after trying it seems there's a ton of hoops/issues. I dont think these will ever come to Steam so I caved and got them here. I also want Strangers in Paradise Final Fantasy Origin. I am disappoint

[Miketheking]

Yeah went overboard like always, feels nice not buying anything doing the holiday sales. Nevermind I did bought a $2 game but took 2hr to beat so it doesn't count to y'all not gonna play those games.

[spoderman]

Steam Winter haul:

FFVII Remake - Picked up Crisis core and beat it, almost 100% achievements figured I should follow it up with this
Grandia II (Used Steambucks from bi yearly card farm, made about 15 steam dollars total)

Epic:
Kingdom Hearts 1.5 & 2.5
Kingdom Hearts 3

I regret this purchase I thought they would play on my Steamdeck but after trying it seems there's a ton of hoops/issues. I dont think these will ever come to Steam so I caved and got them here. I also want Strangers in Paradise Final Fantasy Origin. I am disappoint

Kingdom Hearts will come to steam, there's too much money to be made. No way would Square Enix make KH a permanent epic exclusive, it's too popular of a series. I can see the contract lasting maybe 2 years though

[BMXJouster]

Kingdom Hearts will come to steam, there's too much money to be made. No way would Square Enix make KH a permanent epic exclusive, it's too popular of a series. I can see the contract lasting maybe 2 years though

And then Square-Enix will put them on sale for 25-30% off at launch and act like they're giving Steam users an incredible deal.

[elessar123]

And then Square-Enix will put them on sale for 25-30% off at launch and act like they're giving Steam users an incredible deal.

It's S-E. It'll launch at full price.

[Epic_Bean]

Kingdom Hearts will come to steam, there's too much money to be made. No way would Square Enix make KH a permanent epic exclusive, it's too popular of a series. I can see the contract lasting maybe 2 years though

You gave me hope, since Ive been trying to play them using Steam Deck (Heroic Launcher) it said I have 0 playtime played, so I refunded them. The collection released on EGS on March 30th 21 so Ill wait out 3 months and hope for a Steam release. (And hope SE doesnt release them at Full Price).

Main reason I caved was EGS Winter Sale  +25% off coupon so it came to $50 for both games

[Kyle1022]

Yeah Kingdom Hearts will come eventually. Same with Stranger of Paradise, it's just a matter of when. If they were permanent exclusives, you better believe Epic would be advertising that to persuade people who are otherwise just waiting for the Steam release. They already came crawling back to Steam very shortly after their handful of exclusives totally bombed on Epic, so they know where their bread is buttered

Also, Square Enix really machine-gunned out a ton of games on Steam in late 2022. So even if the exclusivity was only for a year, I'm sure they're just waiting to release them during a quieter time so they can get the spotlight, like FF7R did

[MysterD]

Epic:

Kingdom Hearts 1.5 & 2.5
Kingdom Hearts 3

I regret this purchase I thought they would play on my Steamdeck but after trying it seems there's a ton of hoops/issues. I dont think these will ever come to Steam so I caved and got them here. I also want Strangers in Paradise Final Fantasy Origin. I am disappoint

Curious: Hmmm, did you try this w/ Heroic over on the Steam Deck?

[MysterD]

Yeah Kingdom Hearts will come eventually. Same with Stranger of Paradise, it's just a matter of when. If they were permanent exclusives, you better believe Epic would be advertising that to persuade people who are otherwise just waiting for the Steam release. They already came crawling back to Steam very shortly after their handful of exclusives totally bombed on Epic, so they know where their bread is buttered

Also, Square Enix really machine-gunned out a ton of games on Steam in late 2022. So even if the exclusivity was only for a year, I'm sure they're just waiting to release them during a quieter time so they can get the spotlight, like FF7R did

I think what Square and others are doing is taking the Epic money for it exclusive to there for a bit and release it there as Early Access on Epic. Just basically...get the PC version out in the wild.

 

Release in whatever state there, b/c they can elect if they want user-reviews or not on Epic Store. Don't opt in to user-reviews on Epic, until it's in a good state on Epic.

 

This way, it don't trip-up users and user-reviews on Epic - or especially Steam if it's a "bad port" at launch - as Steam allows for user-reviews for any game launched there. Fix the game up on Epic, as they (dev's and pub's) go along - bam, release it 6 months to a year later or more on Steam (whenever exclusive-ness is up) and it'll have "Positive" to great reviews from users from the jump.

[psunami]

Curious: Hmmm, did you try this w/ Heroic over on the Steam Deck?

Yeah, good question.  I haven't had any issues with games via Heroic.  

Just started playing Horizon Chase Turbo via Heroic and it worked perfectly.  

 

One thing that was funny though.  If I launched it via Heroic, I couldn't get all of the buttons to work, but when I had Heroic create a link to be able to launch it directly from the Steam Deck interface, all of the buttons worked.  Very odd, but I'm glad it works better when launching via Steam Deck.  

[MysterD]

Yeah, good question.  I haven't had any issues with games via Heroic.  

Just started playing Horizon Chase Turbo via Heroic and it worked perfectly.  

 

One thing that was funny though.  If I launched it via Heroic, I couldn't get all of the buttons to work, but when I had Heroic create a link to be able to launch it directly from the Steam Deck interface, all of the buttons worked.  Very odd, but I'm glad it works better when launching via Steam Deck.  

Granted, this is from 9 months ago or so - might be worth looking at this:

[Souffrir]

And then Square-Enix will put them on sale for 25-30% off at launch and act like they're giving Steam users an incredible deal.

Still about 175% more than they’re worth.

[moonknight80]

So my Steam sale/related sales holiday haul...

 

Steam:

• Ruined King: A League of Legends Story
• Witcher 3: Complete Edition

 

Fanatical:

• Persona 4 Golden
• Persona 5 Royal
• Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade (my XP discount made it worth getting for a couple dollars more here rather than Epic)

 

Ubisoft

• Immortals Fenyx Rising Gold Edition
• Starlink Battle for Atlas Deluxe

Epic

• All the freebies

[Epic_Bean]

Curious: Hmmm, did you try this w/ Heroic over on the Steam Deck?

Yeah the issue with KH1/2 is A) the launcher will just loop unless you direct it to the games EXE, so to switch games you would need to point Heroic to the correct Exe each time. And B)  issue is the FMV's are coded in DX11 and the actual game in DX12 (from what i gather), Proton/Wine/Lutris cant handle Engine changes mid game I guess,  so the work around is to rename the EPIC folder in file system which forces the games to not play the FMV/Prerendered Cutscenes, the game will just skip them automatically.

I believe KH3 is easier to get running but still has issues.

I looked up a few videos and guides:
https://github.com/F.../main/how_to.md
https://www.reddit.c..._through_steam/


But at the end of the day its just a headache I didnt feel like dealing with lol.

Ive gotten a few items installed/working from Heroic launcher on the Steam Deck, KH just seems to be a special case.

[psunami]

I already have the Epic freebie version, but Borderlands 3 is $8.99 on Steam for the weekend.  All time low price.  

 

First season pass is $14.99 also.

[walletandgromice]

Yeah the issue with KH1/2 is A) the launcher will just loop unless you direct it to the games EXE, so to switch games you would need to point Heroic to the correct Exe each time. And B) issue is the FMV's are coded in DX11 and the actual game in DX12 (from what i gather), Proton/Wine/Lutris cant handle Engine changes mid game I guess, so the work around is to rename the EPIC folder in file system which forces the games to not play the FMV/Prerendered Cutscenes, the game will just skip them automatically.

Not a big heroic user but you can make game entries for all those exe's within steam; just make sure to give them all the same STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH (command customization) so they all share the same install location.

This is how you can set up most 3rd party launcher games to work on their own steam icon entries without installing the launcher again and again for each individual game from that launcher.

[Neuro5i5]

I've decided to start another Skyrim playthrough for 2023.

 

Mod decisions and installation I hope to have completed by 2024. 

[MysterD]

I've decided to start another Skyrim playthrough for 2023.

 

Mod decisions and installation I hope to have completed by 2024. 

Which version - Legendary? Special? or Anniversary?

[MysterD]

I already have the Epic freebie version, but Borderlands 3 is $8.99 on Steam for the weekend.  All time low price.  

 

First season pass is $14.99 also.

Borderlands 3: Ultimate for $17 was a better deal on Humble, way back (Feb. 2021).

[Neuro5i5]

Which version - Legendary? Special? or Anniversary?

Yes

[INMATEofARKHAM]

I guess i should post my full haul

 

Contra Anniversary Collection (Green Man Gaming)

Castlevania Anniversary Collection (Green Man Gaming)

Guardians of the Galaxy (Green Man Gaming)

Horizon (Newegg)

Super Lucky Tales + New Super Lucky Tales (Steam)

[IkedaTeramusa]

Haul: 

Steam Deck

The Angler

Elden Rings

Unexplored 2 (came as a freebie key)

Skyrim Anniversary (because I need to make sure every device I own has an up to date copy of Skyrim... which I've still never beaten)

[DesertLeo]

Grabbed for my new steam deck:

Dragon Star Varnir
The Vagrant
Valfaris/Slain combo
Darkwood
And yesterday I grabbed Demon Gaze Extra which just popped up on sale

[TheKbob]

Grabbed for my new steam deck:

Dragon Star Varnir
The Vagrant
Valfaris/Slain combo
Darkwood
And yesterday I grabbed Demon Gaze Extra which just popped up on sale

I'm super tempted on DGE; got any feedback or any of the rest of you rabble rousers have some input?

[gospelman]

I'm super tempted on DGE; got any feedback or any of the rest of you rabble rousers have some input?

Extra also is getting a NA physical release - I'm going that route.  You may be aware, but dungeon crawlers are a very niche and grindy subgenre.  I like them from time to time but for some reason tend to stall out and not finish them.  Handheld is definitely the best way to play them though.