Bloodborne & The Order 1886.. Completed Bloodborne, now have to go through my steam library and polish off those!
How is Pillars of Eternity? It has gotten great reviews (IGN 9, Gamespot 8, Metacritic 91%), and people say it's a lot like Baldur's Gate, which I missed back in the day.
So far it's good. I bought the enhanced version of Baldur's Gate a while back hoping to relive the experience but in truth it wasn't very enhanced and I just couldn't handle the old game. Pillars of Eternity both recreates it and modernizes it. It's fast and has good graphics for a 2.5D perspective game. Combat is tricky. In most RPGs a player can go on auto-pilot and win 90% of the battles. In PoE you can die in an easy fight if you're not micromanaging the group. I'm playing on normal level and die a lot. I'll get better once I learn how to play all the classes which are fairly complex. Character creation and skill tress seem a lot more complicated than in modern RPGs like Dragon Age. The game is D&D in spirit but not licenses. It has it's own rules. The game isn't a huge budget blockbuster and it shows with it's simple text and illustration cut scenes. If you like Baldurs gate and don't mind old school 2.5D perspective and a steep learning curve give it a go. I got my game at cdkeys.com for $18. They are very non- conventional and if you want an easier purchasing experience you can probably get a key for $30 somewhere else.
The PC version graphics looked pretty crazy in the trailer. I'm wondering how hard it is to run at max detail.
Rockstar demos it at 4K 60fps with an i7 5930k@3.50GHz, SLI GTX 980, 32GB of RAM. Of course there is no way of know if that's overkill.
gmg tells you on the product page if they're giving you a steam key or not. gta5's product page says specifically Rockstar games social club. This game will be delivered as a Rockstar Games Social Club redemption code. Customers will require a free Rockstar Games Social Club account to play.
I don't think I've ever bought a game from GMG that didn't come with a Steam key, so I didn't even think to look at that.
I think it has become more common since the last 1.5yrs when all of these publishers started their own distribution services. my only advice is to always triple check nowadays when you buy a digital game not from steam (gmg, amazon).
Yeah I really wish publishers wouldn't do that. A big part of what makes steam so great is that it keeps everything in one place and updated.
It seems like it might actually be a blessing in disguise. Seems the Steam servers are getting absolutely trashed by everyone preloading GTA V. People are saying their downloads are really slow. The Rockstar servers are running at full speed. I'm getting 7 MB/s, and already have 58GB of 60GB downloaded. Edit: finished. unlocks in 55 min.
No Steam key surprised me as well. I have 15 other games from GMG. 13 have Steam keys, 2 have Origins keys.
It seems a lot of people are complaining. It's the first thing that comes up under support in GMG. It would not suprise me if they cave at some point and give everyone Steam keys.
Are you downloading it yet? My download link goes to a customer support page about pre-loads. AH never mind just figured it out. Had to go to the Rockstar social club. Looks like I'm getting about 7MB /sec.
I'm not sure if it'll work like that. They purchase the keys from the distributor, I believe, so if they did that, they would have to repurchase all of the keys from steam and redistribute them to people. That's pretty much operating at a 100% loss from all of those purchases. Just to give you a heads up though, that even if its a Steam code, you still have to use RSC. Only thing you benefit from will be having it in your steam library and achievement tracking via steam. Otherwise it'll just launch through the RSC platform. Think Uplay.