The Video/PC Game Discussion Thread

Epic Store exclusive confirmed. Fucking arseholes. 

I won't be getting Borderlands 3 if it's only on Epic and I won't be getting it on Steam in six months/one year either. If they're going to make me wait any length of time I'm just going to wait the long haul for a complete edition. The base price for GotY BL2 is £34.99 now (currently with 78% off on Steam) and I expect base game alone for BL3 is going to be at least £49.99. 

Guess we'll know tomorrow. I'm prepped for bad news, even though I wouldn't actually have got it on launch since my last launch experience wasn't so great in the end. But a few months down the line, sure, I'd have got it then. But not on Epic. I would not buy it on Epic even if it never released on Steam. 

I've played the Pre-Sequel the least out of the three games, but that's not because it's especially lesser, though it does have some really horrible fights, especially the final boss of the DLC which seems like it ought to be a raid boss rather than something you're supposed to be able to do playing on your own - I've never beaten the fucking thing legitimately. Just impossible. I eventually hacked my characters stats to have insanely high health/shields and damage output just to be able to see the ending. I just don't see how that boss is beatable otherwise since you've thrown into after defeating previous bosses so your ammo is low or empty by the time it appears and just to rub salt in the wound, it gets unavoidable shield regeneration periods. 

Well, Borderlands 3 has been announced and it looks like.... more Borderlands, which is obviously not a bad thing at all. Let's just hope the PC version isn't an Epic exclusive, but there's been no announcement either way, yet.

Well I guess in a way it is publishers and developers who are the ones actually sticking the knife in, he's just handing it to them. Still, this back-stabbing of Steam sickens me. Many of these developers would not have such good PC fanbases if we still existed in the days of boxed copies that you had to stick the disc in the drive each time to play, like on a console, and most games were discovered by chance in brick and mortar stores, where you were lucky if they had a specific game you wanted in stock. I for one have discovered hell all games that I wouldn't have known about/given the time of day, just because they were on Steam. Likewise there's a lot of games that I probably wouldn't have bothered with, had Steam not made obtaining them so easy, as I didn't buy a fraction of the games I have since Steam before it took off, even though I had a reasonable PC for gaming back then. I have even re-brought games on Steam during sales just to have the convenience of not having to worry about physical discs. 

Well, one slight piece of good news for The Outer Worlds: It's apparently on the Windows 10 Store at launch as well, so my brother can get it without having to use Epic. That still sucks that he can't buy it from any of his favorite stores, though, which are Steam, GOG and Humble, I think.

Yeah, I think Epic is slowly killing PC gaming for my brother, because it's now at the point where every time a game looks interesting, he's afraid it'll become an Epic exclusive, and he wants nothing to do with them. I was never a big fan of exclusivity in general, but to now have different stores to pick from on one system, is outright ridiculous, imo, especially if one is so clearly better fit for players than anything else, which Steam obviously is. I can buy the games on PS4, obviously, but unless it's a case where I can't live without the game, I may try and avoid it until it goes on sale, just to strike back against the publisher in my own way. I haven't got Exodus yet, largely because of that, and will probably wait for it to drop until at least 40% off before getting it, even though I liked the Redux versions of the first two games a lot.

I was eyeing on The Outer Worlds as well.