General Discussion Thread of DOOM

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Gizmojunk said:
When New Vegas came out, I bought the collectors edition; it had the game on DVD inside.
I was not amused when the installer turned out to be a Steam stub, and one that refused to install if Steam was unavailable—as it was when I tried to install it.

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This was an endless loop.

I was (and still am) quite ticked off with Obsidian. I bought the disc version to be able to install from it, and they didn't even put the game on the disc. Very deceptive and disingenuous; I won't be trusting them again.
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I don't really mind steam, as it is quite a confortable launcher with some very good features like achievements and workshop integration in some games. But I have to admit something, I fucking pirate games that I own just for the sake of "owning" them and to play a DRM free version of it. This is especially true for games with Denuvo or on Epic Games, matter of fact, I don't even have my epic launcher installed anymore, I preffer to play the pirated version of all the games I own there.
 
Gizmojunk said:
When Witcher 2 released, the non-gog versions had choppy framerates, and it turned out to BE the DRM, as the problem was solved when they removed it.

https://www.destructoid.com/the-witcher-2-gets-patched-removes-drm/
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Most of the standard steam DRM isn't that bad, the performance usually don't get hit as badly. The big problem is with Denuvo, even if it doesn't affect your performance it is an extremelly invasive piece of software, to make matters even worse, it assures you that you don't own the game as it constantly has to check if you own the game or not, meaning that not only you can't play offline but if denuvo servers go down you can't play either, Denuvo is by far the worst thing to happen to pc gaming.
 
Why is D such a depressive letter.. It ends with death and that doesn't get better. Despair, demoralised, downtrodden, destroyed. Deluded, dickheads ,dangerously devoid. Demagogues , demi-gods , demented dukes. Dishevelled down and outs dwelling in ditches. Dark , dank, dungeons, deepening DOOM y'all sons a beaches i'm goin to my room. Amen.
 
william dempsey said:
Why is D such a depressive letter.. It ends with death and that doesn't get better. Despair, demoralised, downtrodden, destroyed. Deluded, dickheads ,dangerously devoid. Demagogues , demi-gods , demented dukes. Dishevelled down and outs dwelling in ditches. Dark , dank, dungeons, deepening DOOM y'all sons a beaches i'm goin to my room. Amen.
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Due to how the letter resonates.

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Decay and disorder are good ones.
 
Morgan_ said:
Why gog instead of steam? Just curious. lso, I only have steam. No epic or gog.
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This is a late reply because I didn't noticed your post until now.
Others already mentioned the advantages of GOG over Steam so I won't repeat them. But I'll also mention that over the time I have had Steam, I almost lost my account twice (which would mean losing all my Steam games).

These two times I had to deal with Steam customer support and it was a nightmare. It was only pure chance I managed to recover my account since I actually own 1 steam "physical game" I had bought more than a decade ago. If I hadn't owned that game I wouldn't have gotten my account back both times.

The latest time I almost lost my account was when it was almost taken over by a Russian hacker. I wrote about it here on the forums:
I reported a Russian hacker that tried to gain control of my account. I provided the Russian steam emails with the IP and previous email address, so they could ban whoever that guy was. Instead, they blocked my account after telling me that since I had managed to get my account back by myself (I was lucky that I was online and saw the Steam email saying that my account password had been changed, and managed to immediately change the new password and also changed my email password right away too, just in case, that made the "hacker" not have control anymore).

Before they blocked my account they sent me an email saying that there was no proof any attempt of stealing my account had been made (this was after I contacted them providing copies of the Russian Steam email with all the info, with the precise date and time some Russian changed my account password and tried to change my Steam email and other stuff). In the end of that email they sent me, there said that they hoped I was pleased with their response... I wasn't pleased and replied saying just that, how I provided all the proof and that it was very irresponsible of them to ignore all of it and just wish me a good day.
I got a reply apologizing and blaming the previous Steam email as a mistake, apparently, I got sent the wrong response email :whatever:. This new reply said that it was obvious that there have been an attempt to hijack my account, but since I managed to stop it myself, they couldn't do anything else anymore, since my account was now safe and no other attempt to steal it have happened in the meanwhile.
While I was reading this new email, I received another saying my account has been blocked :roffle:. I tried to login into Steam and indeed, my account was blocked. I contacted them and asked why my account had been blocked after they told me that it was safe and they dodge that question and started asking me for proof I was the owner (I had already provided plenty of proof in my previous email) :facepalm:. They wouldn't unblock me unless I remembered really stupid info, like the precise day I made my Steam account for example :rofl:as if I could remember that. Then they asked me for a hardcopy cdkey, I couldn't just type the key, I had to take a picture of the game box with the manual that showed the key on it.
Took them 3 or 4 days to unblock my account, always dodging the question of why I got blocked in the first place :lol: .

For those 3 - 4 days I couldn't play my games. If I didn't have that stupid Front Mission Evolved hardcopy game still with the manual where the key is, I would have lost all of my Steam games. That is why I don't own my games, I can lose access to them anytime someone on Steam presses the wrong button and blocks my account.

From now on, I am avoiding Steam customer support as much as possible, no way will I be reporting hacking attempts, since they are useless and will block me, after telling me that my account was safe and I didn't have to worry about hackers anymore :P .
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After that I decided to avoid Steam as much as I can. I only buy games there when they don't exist on GOG or when people give me Steam gift vouchers, since those can't be refunded, I might as well use them to get games, otherwise, the money is just wasted and wouldn't be much of a present.
 
"How many fights have you been in?"
I am 31 and work 8 to 6, do you think I am like fucking running the streets finding people to fight like in an arcade game?
Why do so many oinline weirdoes seem to think they are like characters on a delinquent manga or some shit? Is it some manosphere thing?
 
Doesn't Epic offer the source code for Unreal, and thus the option for a major developer to change the engine to suit their own use?
 
I have no qualms with their modified Gamebryo engine; I just don't like the way they choose to use it with the Fallout IP.
 
Sure and I liked Morrowind better than Fallout 2 I think so I dislike what they did to Elder Scrolls in general which was make it more accessible for 8 year old kids to play due to them whining about swinging and missing because you are standing right there and abstractions make their head hurt. I dislike Bethesda because they made FPS RPG's more popular than any other kind. Now when people come here they think they are big RPG fans due to playing New Vegas. You are not really you are just another kind of retard.
 
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