955b02 No.15396731
The last Remnant is being removed from Steam tomorrow. Buy it now, or torrent it for a reminder of it sitting on your Backlog if anyone is interested.
https://archive.fo/jphSh
>Square Enix has announced that The Last Remnant Steam edition will get delisted from the platform very soon, and will no longer be available for sale. Anyone who buys the game now will continue to own it and have The Last Remnant in their Steam library to download and play at any time. This is much like with the recent delisting of the Marvel Ultimate Alliance games from online marketplaces by publisher Activision.
>Japan region: Wednesday 5th September, approximately 2:00 (JST)
>NA region: Tuesday 4th September, approximately 10:00(PDT)
>EU region: Tuesday 4th September, approximately 17:00(GMT)
The only other game I know about getting pulled was Cryostasis which was a pretty good game and also that shitty minecraft looking FPS which got pulled because the developer made some sort of threat on Gabe Newells life. Any other titles anons would have liked that were removed from the common market? I know buying is usually frowned upon when it comes to big developers like Squeenix, and I'm inclined to agree, but I don't know how I feel about titles getting removed from what is the most common way for people to acquire new games for a PC.
4a562b No.15396736
>buy it
>give Tencent-Enix money for removing a game
>give Valve money
how's about pirating it instead of being a gigantic faggot?
955b02 No.15396761
>>15396736
>>15396742
>Can't read to the second paragraph
>Can't even finish reading the second sentence
This was more a thread to discuss the shitty practice of games being removed from the Steam store which pretty much forces people to torrent if they ever wanted to play it.
4a562b No.15396786
>>15396761
>torrent
>implying mirrored piracy sites don't exist aplenty
>supporting (((Steam))) to continue further as being the "most common way for people to acquire new games for a PC"
What the hell is wrong with you?
If you wanted to discuss the practice, you shouldn't have had "buy it now" on the first line of your post; the only thing that could've made this worse was a direct link to the steam store page
Steam being one of the only digital distributors/storefronts to sell games is a huge fucking cancer and problem for the industry too, and suggesting buying it and helping them to increase their wealth and power does nothing; retards who use (((Steam)) are fucking cancer as well
c043f5 No.15396792
cc55c0 No.15396808
>>15396786
The absolute faggot OP even realizes how much power steam holds and his first fucking thought is to buy from them and further their influence.
cc55c0 No.15396967
>>15396874
Except his suggestion directly fucking contradicts the point he's trying to make and the point of his thread. Fuck off faggot, this isn't a small autistic nit pick, it's a gigantic fucking flaw that is rightfully being torn apart.
df6e5b No.15397354
>>15396736
Bought it on launch for the 360. Maybe if /v/ could stop being miserable poorfags we could have better games instead of Spiderman.
4a562b No.15397396
>>15397354
Buying physical copies of games is fine, supporting Steam's near monopoly isn't
I have plenty of shit i bought, for me its not about poorfaggotry but not being a retard with my money and also caring where it goes
013203 No.15397427
>>15397396
>Buying physical copies is fine.
You still have to always be online, you still have to download the disc onto your hd, you are buying physical DRM. Fuck Steam, but your are delusional if you think buying physical is a better idea. Pirate everything, fuck the industry, if you want to "support your local dev" give it directly to them.
4a562b No.15397440
>>15397427
>have to always be online
The fuck are you talking about?
>download the disc to your hd
You mean installing the game?
You dont even know what DRM is do you?
2bb3eb No.15397693
Why buy it…?
I mean, it's a really forgettable JRPG with one of the worst-conveyed combat systems in the history of JRPGs, which isn't an easy feat. It also has a difficulty resembling a retarded brick wall, where the game will suddenly go from easy as fuck to dante must die mode, before swinging back down to baby mode.
I couldn't tell you a word about the story.
d3c40b No.15397820
>>15397440
>download the disc to the harddrive
He could be talking about installing games on modern consoles which still require you to insert the disc to play the game.
4a562b No.15397848
>>15397820
…what?
That's how you install a game from physical media.
874b70 No.15397880
>>15397848
>Consoles
>Installing games
I'll never not get pissed off when I hear that shit.
d3c40b No.15397890
>>15397848
The problem is in having to insert the disc to play the game despite installing it to the hard-drive. That is a form of DRM.
4a562b No.15398055
>>15397890
It doesnt install everything to the HDD. It only installs whatever needed files are to run it, the rest are on the disc. Its not a download that has every single thing on it, that's why it should take little space in your HDD.
The contents of the media are still on the media. It has nothing to do with DRM and has to do with saving space.
Look at Starcraft 1's required disc space as an example. 128 MB, yet when you look at the file size on-disc its much greater than that.
Do you retards not know this shit? Do you think installing a game means the transfer of every asset and file on-disc to your hard drive?
d70e4f No.15398064
>>15398055
It has for a long time now. Optical media are SHIT for data speeds, not to mention data integrity.
874b70 No.15398083
>>15398055
>Its not a download that has every single thing on it
These delusions, holy shit
The 360 had such a feature and was promptly removed out of concerns for people selling/sharing the install files
>Starcraft
You mean the game that functions with a small filesize crack?
Nigger how high are you?
21f598 No.15398084
While pirate everything is going to be the expected response. The flaw and concern with that is seeders dwindling over time.
ba4beb No.15398145
>>15397880
Blame companies for not seeing a reason to optimize games to run properly straight off the disc (or even cart, in some cases) anymore. Effectively passes the problem onto the user, in that if there's not enough room, it's either you delete shit or buy a bigger HDD. And it only gets worse as games continue to become more bloated. Ridiculous seeing 8th gen games ranging from 10gb (essentially high end PS3 tier) to 40+ for a single game, and that's before patches. Of course, PC can get it even worse too, if a company opts for the "uncompressed route" and leaves the entire game bloated to hell and back.
I was honestly surprised when Odin Sphere Leifthrasir, at least the PS3 version, played right off the disc.
5fa8a0 No.15398161
The PC version has a physical version that doesn't involve giving Valve your money. You just have to redeem the code on Steam.
2ab29c No.15398196
>>15397693
I've been playing it in recent days and I don't see where the difficulty complaints come from. It reminds me of xenoblade where stuff way over your level is present in early zones and will undoubtedly fuck you up if you mess with them. The only actual difficulty I had was trying to do some quests early when I could have put them off for later when I was stronger and The Fallen. I feel he's intended for people that really understand the game (or NG+) especially since beating him likely means you'll fight the strongest version of the final boss and you're gonna need the materials in the area The Fallen unlocks. The class system is pretty retarded though.
4a562b No.15398204
>>15398083
>the 360 had such a feature and was promptly removed out of concerns for people selling/sharing the install files
sauces/proof?
also
>install files
kek, even in the 360 era install filesizes were very small
>You mean the game that functions with a small filesize crack?
What are you even talking about?
The iso for Starcraft is 626 MB (the max for a CD-ROM at the time and also would've been a painful filesize to take on the HDD at the time as well), the filesize of the install on your computer is 128 MB.
Older consoles had even less shit on there, all they needed was a memory card since saving was the only thing that the console really had to do involving memory, everything was on-disc but now that there's more shit on the consoles such as internal storage and external HDDs and other shit that make them similar to computers such as profiles and other shit, the filesizes of the installs increased.
Its still overall very small relative to the games which is why you can install hundreds of physical games no problem on most consoles from disc, and very few digital games by comparison since the digital games come with all the assets and everything and whatnot
ba6d32 No.15398261
>>15398204
Starcraft 64 had a 16 mb cart
2b30b8 No.15398271
4a562b No.15398284
>>15398261
Starcraft 64 was the shit. Never thought splitscreen in an rts could be so fun
d3c40b No.15398291
>>15398204
>Install game to computer
>Apply no-cd crack
>game runs perfectly fine
How do you explain this phenomenon?
7b210e No.15398296
>>15396731
They are just updating it with denuvo.
8d3abc No.15398304
Dark Souls got delisted and replaced with the shitty remaster.
Doesn't get much more anti consumer than that.
4a562b No.15398357
>>15398291
You would need the necessary files from the iso if not the iso somewhere on your computer wouldn't you?
The install.exe file from the disc image would be 545 MB would it not?
Otherwise I honestly can't explain it. I assume something is missing or can't be done in it, or its on the computer somewhere.
ba6d32 No.15398377
6eb875 No.15398438
>>15396731
> the most common way for people to acquire new games for a PC.
ALL steam titles should be removed and steam should cease to exist.
000000 No.15398443
>>15397354
Customers are Gods. We can do whatever we want. All companies are our slaves.
e8eb23 No.15398492
>>15398204
Original requirements (minus cutscenes) were actually 80MB, though that was a step up from earlier titles like WC2, which allowed installs as small as a couple megs by omitting cutscenes, (Red Book) music, and even in-game assets.
387dc6 No.15398503
>>15397354
t. kike
whether we buy games or not they will keep churning out crap because they know they can get away with it, NPCs will buy whatever's dangled in front of their face if the advertising is right
eda38e No.15398600
Deadpool and a whole Transformers franchise was pooled too.
edd6eb No.15399438
>>15398196
My example is I was doing one of the first of the three dungeons they let you choose from. I went through it, not really having any issues mobs were easy. That was, until I got to the final 'boss' room. I got flattened pretty much instantly . At first I figured it was a fight you weren't supposed to win, since the enemy seemed so overwhelmingly more powerful. Nope. You are intended to beat them.
2c034d No.15399452
>>15398204
It's not difficult it's just poorly made, it's the only RPG ever made were levelling up hurts you and you have to actively avoid as many battles as possible to avoid it.
Level scaling ruined last remnant.
f4a101 No.15399478
>>15396761
Same thing happened to Dirt 3 and Grid because of licenced music
cd1007 No.15399567
>>15399452
>actively avoid
The Last Remnant is one of the best tests to see which people are shitters who just grind and overlevel in JRPGs. You don't need to "actively avoid" enemies, if you just go through the game normally and can plan more than a step ahead the game works perfectly fine.
9b2f8a No.15399965
>>15396731
Scratches (an old-school still image horror adventure) was also listed from Steam after some bitching between the devs and the publishers, IIRC.
1420d6 No.15400181
>>15396731
Today is the last day to get The Last Remnant so if you want to get in the cool kids club then you better hurry.
acf54a No.15400281
>>15399567
Why are people "shitters" if they grind? Grinding is a big part of JRPGs and that includes if you over-level yourself. It's kind of the core mechanic. Rushing through the game under-leveled doesn't make you a hard ass (nothing in a JRPG will make you hard ass, they're easy as piss games) it just makes you an impatient faggot.
a8e9cf No.15400348
>>15400281
The enemies scale with your levels.
598c26 No.15400861
>>15400348
and then I remembered why I stopped bothering with the fucking game.
a8e9cf No.15400874
>>15400861
You are supposed to grind mostly for gear and skills but not to level up.
c37cbe No.15400880
>>15400861
The scaling is just fine. And you can grind a few spots. The trick to grinding is to get into large fights with many monsters. Thus, fight quality matters more than fight quantity. Small constant fights is what fucks you.
tfw fucked my 100% file after 16h because i didnt talk to duke of ghor at the right time
50bef4 No.15400992
>>15398084
True. I'm a member of a private anime tracker because I want to watch 15+ year old shows. Good luck finding seeds for those elsewhere.
50bef4 No.15401001
>>15400181
Actually I'm seeding the RG release of Last remnant. Will keep it up for a while.
cd7871 No.15401197
The Last Remnant was shit anyways.
e95e4a No.15401222
>>15396731
>the last remnant
Shouldn't have pandered to western trash with the Conqueror.
4f618b No.15401243
>>15398204
Have you considered that Games have dependencies on other Software and that those back then got put on the disc too?