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If you take any advice from this, please go back to your doctor and be completely honest with them, and your fears of them giving you further anti-depressants.

They are there to help. Form a plan together, and keep in regular contact so they can make adjustments as needed.

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Gamespot has been aimed at the wider market for ages.

You also seem to have been on 'popular', so it is odd to blame Gamespot for what gets the most clicks.

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I got past the graphics pretty quickly, but the issues for me lie in the framerate and settings reseting.

Firstly, the framerate. I'm on an X and can usually get 30fps when nothing is happening, but this nosedives as soon as you get into close combat. I believe this could also be contributing towards a poor hit detection, as I have frequently unloaded a shotgun or bullet into an enemy without it registering at all. Very frustrating.

Secondly, and least importantly, you have the fact that the settings seem to reset at random. It took me a while to find settings that felt just right, and then they got wiped. Been hard to find the balance again, and again it just goes on to get wiped.

It is a lazy port of a fun game. It is hard to recommend, but I got about 15 hours of fun out of it. I just can't see myself going back beyond the odd game here and there until it has improved though. They dropped the ball massively.

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Hey,

So I just hit the first boss, and after an initial amazement at the game, things have turned sour. I have purposefully avoided talk about it, so this may be a common complaint, but I am getting the feeling that the game just isn't for me.

It basically feels like a puzzle game rather than a tactical one. Each level so far has been a pre-made one with a turn limit for 3 stars on a small battlefield. Little develops mid game.

Of course I am early, but with the heavy leaning towards puzzle elements rather than a tactical one it is making me think I should just turn it in and write it off as not being for me.

Should I carry on, or call it a day?

Thanks.

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@vamino said:
@muftyriots said:

I find it perverse that the biggest seller of games in the world isn't open to the same checks and balances as their brick and mortar counterparts when it comes to certification of their content. It's impossible for Valve to employ parental controls on the games they sell when the content isn't rated by the ESRB or PEGI. Making this mandatory for publishing games on Steam would solve most of the issues in one swoop as Valve wouldn't be the ones making the judgement call whether or not something is too porny to be sold on their store, the cost of rating a game would cut out the trading card scam jobs, parental controls can be properly implemented and it will naturally self curate the content.

The complaint that Valve have changed their rules is also difficult to buy into when the rules haven't been followed from the start. It's pretty clear over what type of content is allowed and what isn't, but the vast majority of these games have the developer patches that unlock the hard-core content. Notice how they will never openly talk about these patches on the forums because they know exactly what they are doing. Valve are clamping down on them taking the piss for far too long and and now they're all feigning victimisation.

Requiring ESRB/PEGI ratings would be massively against indie devs though, with the costs to get the games judged by them. There's also (in my opinion) a massive issue with how puritanical systems like the ESRB can be (I'm Australian, look at our ratings board, that place has historically been hot bullshit).

As for the patches on the forums, what I've read has said this was actually 100% fine to for the devs to link to patches on their game forums until roughly six months ago when they instated a rule that said something along the lines of "developers can't promote these patches on the steam service", which honestly is fair enough, anyone who really wants it will be able to google anyway, and it's such an obvious "covering out asses" clause.

Edit: I'd also like to add that it's FAR from impossible for Valve to implement parental controls. These developers aren't trying to hide that their games have sexual content, at most they're just adding an extra hoop to jump through to get the very sexual content. They would happily tell Valve (and have) "Yo, this game had sexual content" so it wouldn't even take someone at Valve looking through the game (God forbid they look at the shit going on their store).

I mean, if you enjoy wanking over your hentai visual porn that's your business, but you seem to be fighting a losing battle with the maturity you'd expect from someone defending such pathetic games.

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@vamino said:
@supersambo said:

Good

Why are people in here acting as if they are removing visual novels, instead of just ones that violate the cartoon porn one.

In a lot of cases these developers have been in contact with people at Valve to make sure their game content is okay prior to releasing. Lots of the translated from Japanese games are already self-censored so they CAN appear on Steam, and until now the word from Valve has been that what they have is fine. In some cases these games have meant developers can make more/other games. HuniePop is a great example of that, with the studio working on two other games at the moment. And as much as I hate to say it, this probably wouldn't have been possible without Steam because realistically you NEED your game to be on Steam to make money.

Edit: And I think to a lot of us it seems like crap that they haven't told people what they need to change to make their games alright again. It also seems like kind of the wrong target to clamp (pun intended) down on when their store is littered with garbage asset flips and achievement/card spam games.

So they are changing their rules after looking at them and realising they are flawed? Sounds a good thing to me.

Yeah, the achivement spam games etc aren't great. But they are better than hentai games.

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Why are people in here acting as if they are removing visual novels, instead of just ones that violate the cartoon porn one.

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I'll get there when I can. If they still serve me, great.

The work day ends when employees are no longer serving you.

If that happens to be before the advertised time, then that's a good indication of the shop.

If you're pissed at people who come in close to closing time, then either lock the doors or sort yourself out. Seems immature.

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I have fond memories of Breakdown.

It isn't great to play, but it felt so unique at the time that I didn't mind that is wasn't well made.