Category Archives: Steam Stuff

Passing on Baldur’s Gate 3 EA

Posted on October 6, 2020 by SynCaine

Today Baldur’s Gate 3 is available for purchase on Steam, entering Early Access for $60. The poors are already crying about the price, but poors will poor, so not surprising. That’s not why I’m passing on it though. I’m passing … Continue reading →

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Moving from MMOs to Mobile

Posted on July 30, 2020 by SynCaine

It’s funny how my gaming has flipped. Back when I started this blog, my main games were always MMOs, and I’d play other games to fill the gaps. At some point a big gap filler became mobile games, but initially … Continue reading →

Posted in Clash of Clans, Clash Royale, EVE Online, iPhone, League of Legends, Mighty Party, Random, Steam Stuff, World of Warcraft | 4 Comments

Mount and Blade: Bannerlord – Early Access impressions

Posted on April 1, 2020 by SynCaine

The below is based on roughly 12 hours of Bannerlord Early Access, much of it prior to the patch yesterday. In short, Bannerlord is a sequel to Warband; better graphics, newer engine, larger scope, but ultimately the same core game. … Continue reading →

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Mount and Blade: Bannerlord is finally here!

Posted on March 30, 2020 by SynCaine

Exactly ten years after the release of Warband, the Bannerlord Early Access starts today. Expect some posts about it assuming I can stop playing it long enough to write something.

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Reason one million one why Steam gets my money

Posted on February 15, 2020 by SynCaine

Downloading Pathfinder:Kingmaker (29gig) off Steam : 5 minutes Downloading Kingdom Come: Deliverance (66gig) off Xbox Game Pass PC : I don’t know, will update this post in the morning when hopefully the download is done chugging along at the 2006 … Continue reading →

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Kenshi review – Quickly becoming one of my favorite games of all time

Posted on January 9, 2020 by SynCaine

Kenshi had been on my Steam wishlist for, literally, years. It was initially placed there because of the promise of a sandbox RPG, at a time when just those two terms got you on my wishlist. I never pulled the … Continue reading →

Posted in Combat Systems, EVE Online, Housing, Life is Feudal, Perma-death, Review, Steam Stuff | 2 Comments

Epic Game Store exclusives walkback

Posted on April 26, 2019 by SynCaine

Back in December I predicted that one of the differentiator points Epic was trying to have with its store, the 2 week long return policy, would end up being changed. It then got changed in Jan, to be exactly the … Continue reading →

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Enderal: Forgotten Stories is where I want Steam to go

Posted on April 8, 2019 by SynCaine

I downloaded the standalone Skyrim mod Enderal: Forgotten Stories this weekend. I’m not too far into it yet, but so far I like what I’ve seen, and reminds me what an enjoyable experience playing Skyrim is. What I’m most impressed … Continue reading →

Posted in Random, Steam Stuff, The Elder Scrolls Online | 5 Comments

Epic Game Store exclusives I actually care about

Posted on March 22, 2019 by SynCaine

In addition to more favorable rates for developers, a big differentiator from Steam for the Epic Games Store is exclusives. Exclusives overall annoy me because I don’t want more Steam-clones to browse, just like I don’t want more Netflix clones … Continue reading →

Posted in Mass Media, Random, Rant, Steam Stuff | 9 Comments

A game about watching paint dry would sell more copies

Posted on March 13, 2019 by SynCaine

I’m going to add another log to the fire that is “Polygon has an article about an indie dev talking about how hard it is to be an indie dev”. I wrote a post about this back in Oct of … Continue reading →

Posted in Mass Media, Random, Rant, Steam Stuff | 10 Comments