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Small-Scale Question Sunday for July 5, 2026

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What are you buying during the Steam summer sale? I picked up Persona 4, Noita, Witcher 3, Halo 3 collection, and the Prey Mooncrash DLC.

It's ending in a couple days so I'm considering picking up another couple games on sale like God of War, Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon, or Into the Breach.

Tell me what you're buying, or try to convince me to buy one of the games on my list!

If you grabbed P4, I would strongly recommend Metaphor ReFantazio, if you don't already have it.

I finally got Valheim and enjoyed it for a while but lately have been drowning in so many bears that it's not fun any more. Literally about half my time is spent fighting bears, and as soon as one's gone another seems to take its place almost immediately. Can't go anywhere or do anything. Also, the bears don't drop anything I want, so it's pretty much purely a pain in the ass.

Let's be clear that it's not a skill issue; I can fight them just fine. It just takes too long and their spawn rate is insane.

My more experienced friends tell me I should probably just build a new house somewhere else. Apparently the problem I'm having may be a quirk of two small black forest biomes near my house. The game seems to want a bear in each of them at all times, whereas when I go and explore larger black forest biomes bears don't seem very common at all.

For several reasons I'm thinking I may just want to start fresh with a new character and world.

I admit it's been a long time since I cracked open Valheim, but can't you just make a new world and move your existing character over to it? I seem to recall doing that a number of times to help friends take down some of the bosses.

Definitely could, but I'd like the experience of starting from scratch again, this time knowing how things work.

I bought P5R (been feeling the itch for another playthrough and I don't really feel like using my PS4) and Shadow of the Tomb Raider. Not much that piqued my interest, in all honesty.

With P4, just making sure you know there's a remake coming out in Feb. Jury is out on whether it'll be good, but it is probably worth holding off playing P4G until there is some consensus on how the remake compares.

I've always been a P fan but I don't like the look of the new screenshots from the P4 remake. They've messed up the art style.

Personally I'm holding out to see if they mess up the music (I saw a video with a version of Your Affection which was absolutely atrocious, they turned the breezy J-pop song into a techno track, and I'm hoping that is not going to be the summer town music cause I can't stand it). The P4 soundtrack is really good (the singer's ability to pronounce English aside), and if they screw that up it's probably gonna be a no from me. The other major concern I have is whether they rewrite story beats for culture war reasons (Kanji and Naoto are likely victims there), which I doubt they will do but is always a possibility in this day and age.

I think there is some rewriting for modern western cw reasons going on. That's the rumor. It's gonna suck.

The soundtracks have always been great. But I happen to think that turning the engrish into correct english would actually worsen the whole thing and homogenize it while taking some of the focus away from pure melody/vibe (which they (used to) excel at) and onto words. They made some completely new tracks for the P3 remake. They weren't bad at all, but they clearly broke with the old style.

When P5 came out, some American players were complaining about a lack of "localization". I think that if Atlus keeps adapting the series to the Western market, they'll ruin it. My suspicion is that we've already seen the best of the creative genius behind the series and it's downhill from here even though P6 (coming in a year or so) will probably make a lot of money for them.

With the new "darker theme" they supposedly have gone for with P6, and given how almost the same ground has been covered 3 times now, this would have been a good time to create a university age game.

Huh. I should purchase something. God knows I don't play any of the games I buy, but I can pass it on to the grandkids. A slight pain is the fact that I've still got an account based in India, because it occasionally pays off in terms of geographical arbitrage. But at other times, it makes a quick spur of the moment purchase difficult.

Right now, I'd recommend anyone into tactics give Menace a whirl. It's still a while away from feature-complete, but the recent updates and a few mods make me quite close to booting it back up again. Got my money's worth with about 20 hours of playtime already, and it has the potential to provide hundreds.

+1 for Menace rec. Very fun. Very unfinished too though, back when I played it, but the potential is there.

I'll wait for 1.0 before I go back to it.

God knows I don't play any of the games I buy, but I can pass it on to the grandkids

Well....

"Unfortunately, Steam accounts and games are non-transferable," the support rep explained. "Steam Support can't provide someone else with access to the account or merge its access to another account.

"I regret to inform you that your Steam account cannot be transferred via a will."

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/you-cant-take-it-with-you-but-you-cant-leave-it-behind-either-valve-says-you-arent-allowed-to-bequeath-a-steam-account-in-a-will/

There's the official EULA and there's handing the password away with a wink and a nod. I'll make sure to delete all the hentai games I do (not) own.

I'm considering getting the Skitarii DLC for Darktide, but I think I'll be able to restrain myself by focusing on completing some challenges with the vanilla characters instead.

My brother strongly recommended Elden Ring, but it's damn expensive. Doesn't look like it'll be any cheaper anytime soon, but here my strategy will be to instead focus on completing Dark Souls 1 instead. I have the Prepare To Die Edition, which I need to mod with DSFix to make it playable with KBM, and even then it'll be a rough ride, but the easier-to-play Remastered edition is, again, damn expensive.

And then I got Lords of the Fallen (2023), which only cost around 9€. I don't get to play much, so I suppose it'll last me long enough for me to not need to torture myself with Dark Souls after all.

ER is good, but it's functionally DS4. If you haven't played DS2-3, you can get those first instead.

I got Empire of the Fading Suns. I played the demo in the 90s and couldn't find it until recently.

Keeps crashing for me.

If it's on launch, the Dev suggests:

1 - Go to the game folder, then in there go inside the "DAT" folder.

2 - Once inside open the EFS.ini file as a text.

3 - Change the line "video_on=1" to "video_on=0" and save.

There's probably some codec issue loading a 30 year old video file.

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