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Silent Hill f, now on GOG (www.gog.com)
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[-] MudMan@fedia.io 3 points 7 months ago

Alright, this is great, but also people need to start confirming GOG drops before the Steam launch. I check for GOG launches whenever I buy a game, but just this month there's been a couple of big games that got stealth GOG launches just after their Steam release and it's been extremely frustrating. I don't know if it's a publisher thing to work around pirates waiting for DRM free versions or Steam being dicks about it, but it's infuriating.

[-] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Yeah, I've had this experience, too. Kingdom Come: Deliverance II communicated ahead of launch that the GOG release would come only a few months later (I did get the sense this was a publisher decision). Great! I can wait a few months. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 made no such mention, and despite waiting several months to see how it would shake out, I bought it in the summer, and the GOG version came out right after I finished it. The developer behind Knights in Tight Spaces, when asked directly, said they were only focusing on the Steam release. Likewise, the GOG version came out shortly after I finished the game. From here on out, of the games on my radar, I'm playing the ones on GOG first, and maybe the other ones will get GOG releases in the meantime.

[-] Katana314@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

My general guess: The delay is tied to Denuvo. Smart devs will launch with Denuvo so that pudding-headed pirates (my label for a certain small demographic among pirates) drooling over marketing will see the trailers, try to pirate, fail, be told by crackers to wait like 2-3 weeks for them to unlock it; but instead become impatient and buy the game full price.

But the time period to capture pudding heads is not constant, and is not perfectly predictable before release. So, the developer may not want to commit to a certain release schedule where they will release on GOG, dropping Denuvo at that same time. They might even want to reserve the possibility the game will go years without dropping DRM, if it’s somehow staying constantly popular, and constantly desired by pirates, and/or they can see that the hacking communities have failed to unlock it.

[-] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah, it's a pretty easy conclusion to come to from the outside looking in, but BG3 can launch on GOG day and date, and KC:D2 can communicate the GOG release ahead of time and still sell multiple millions of copies, so...it's a practice I'd like to see change regardless.

[-] Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Man, I appreciate this happened but seeing the price all I can do is chuckle and move on since this thing is almost 3x the reasonable price in my local currency. Never expected to get priced out of AAA gaming but here we are.

Still, nice catch for GOG. I hope this is a good sign for the future.

[-] Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 months ago

Welcome to the club. I was priced out of it a long time ago.

[-] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 0 points 7 months ago

Saw this too, I'll wait for a deep sale in a couple years.

[-] Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

Things like this make me feel less bad about my backlog - got plenty of things to play while waiting for a price drop!

[-] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah totally! Once in a while I find something good on there, but sometimes the games just didn't age well.

[-] NONE_dc@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Man, I freaking love GOG 💜

[-] village604@adultswim.fan 0 points 7 months ago

My wife is watching a streamer play it on easy mode, and even that seems ridiculously hard.

The biggest issue I've seen outside of the difficulty level is the Japanese characters in some puzzles aren't translated, and knowing what they mean is important to solving them.

The translations for documents and such are also pretty bad, often omitting words that are necessary for it to make sense.

[-] simple@piefed.social 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

My wife is watching a streamer play it on easy mode, and even that seems ridiculously hard.

I love the game but they screwed the difficulty settings. story mode is normal difficulty despite the game constantly telling you it's an easy mode for a story-focused experience, hard mode is hellishly difficult and tedious.

hard is basically playing dark souls but the weapons break every 10 hits. if anybody is planning on playing it, play on story even if you're great at survival horror games

[-] nupo@quokk.au 1 points 7 months ago

That wasn't my experience. Story mode for the puzzles is laughably easy. I don't recall any puzzle needing Japanese characters. I also don't recall any translation errors in any documents.

[-] Catpuccino@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

I just finished the game and I do not recall having issues with the puzzles due to any translation mishaps. If anything I would say the puzzles were relatively easy compared to sh2.

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