So, instead of paid mods, Steam sells now paid items. My feel is that this is even worse than the mods, as the items can much more easely rack up to big sums if you're not counting and taking care of what you buy.

Oh, and Unreal Mario Kart just proves to me that better graphics not always provide, well, better graphics. It looks gorgeous, but very bland at the same time.

Yep, that "Item Store" will cause problems again, specially if one bit I read on another article is true: apparently devs will be able to pick user generated mods/add-ons and sell them as officials or "dev. approved".

And like I said, that UE4 Mario Kart lacks the charm that Nintendo can bring to its titles, making it a bit dull.

I really hope people muster up the power/voices they had when Steam tried to enforce paid mods because paid items sounds ugly as sin to me.

There was another site as well that listed it for PS4, that and the game does appear to be simplified, suffering from memory leaks (which are a big indicator this gen of console porting and I;m aware games can have leaks in general but this gen it's unified memory that poses a problem towards PC ports or a port job) and multiplayer was also cut out from the game (something I can imagine current gen not being able to manage with all that goes on within the game).

I do miss the ANNO series but if I ever want to play 2070 it would mean using Uplay and I've sworn from using it until Ubi either kill it or take their games from Steam a la Origin and revamp their client.

Yeah there was like maybe an article or two months ago but now the site seems to be pouring plenty of news on only one VR system for one console as opposed to the 2 other VR systems, possibly 3 and AR technology in general. Then again a few days back if we recall one mod saying that the site is mostly about console enws, if that's true then I don't understand why they even bother posting one PC related enws article a week (with negative ones or Steam numbers being posted).

Ubisoft doesn't need many excuses to make shitty PC games/ports. And yes, 2205 seems to be very simplified, but I don't know if/how that affects the enjoyement of the game. I've played Anno 1404 and sometimes I got sick of so many production issues

To me UPlay is more of an annoyance than a problem, and while I would like to not having to use it, it's not a deal breaker for me. Btw, have you played Anno 1404? How does 2070 compare to it?

Judging by the look of the PC port of Darksiders II definitive edition does not look great so far.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/388410/

Apparently people are suffering crashes, lag and the game not looking that much different then the previous version. Sounds to me like a bad port job which is a bit depressing since I loved the first game and was hoping this version would tide me over.

You know Ubisoft, they always like to use "cinematic experience" as their go to excuse at times =P.

I normally don't mind some simplification in some games but the ANNO series isn'tr eally that type you need to simplify since the game is about managing resources, the different factions and different varieties of people to adhere to.

I didn't really get to play 1404 and 2070 was my first jump into the series, that still didn't stop me from looking back on the previous titles and looking at how they progressed. 2070 was a bit of a step up I'd say, currently it's a bit above 2205 since Ubisoft chucked out a few things from 2070 which make it suffer just a bit.

Uplay is a deal breaker for me since I just dislike their client in general, how it wants to update my games despite them already being updated or claiming my games aren't installed despite me downloading and installing them on Steam.  Then there is the whole launch the game and then get asked to install Uplay and boot it up at the same time to which their client checks for updates and the like when it's already been done, that to me creates a ton of hassle and waiting times from nowhere and it's a reason I just avoid it alltogether. At least with origin I can buy and download my games and they can be launched straight away without more DRM getting in my way. They also support launch commands like Steam and the ability to change the box art of the games themselves, something Ubisoft still hasn't caught onto yet.

Lucky me, I haven't had any problems with UPlay... but that may come from the fact that I only have three UPlay games (AC 2, Brotherhood and Revelations) and I bought them at retail, not digitally.

It's a pitty that you haven't played Anno 1404 as that's the only game in the series I've played (I got it during Steam's Summer Sale after the 2205 reveal at E3) and I wanted to know how the two compare :-/.

And with the Darksiders II "remaster", it looks like they picked the PC version of the game, touched a bit the textures and a couple more things and call it a day, and that's why the game doesn't look that much different than the old PC version.

An this would also explain why the game is already 6€ with an 80% off in this week's weekend publisher sale, which is Nordic games

http://store.steampowered.com/sale/nordic_weekend/

@Basil: I also want a lot of games, but I don't put them all on my wishlist.

Oh, and like you, I don't like sport games and I don't understand why they buy the same games year after year. Do they really have to get Fifa every year? Or NBA or Madden? C'mon! Get the game every 2 or 3 years or so to really see the changes and improvements.

/rant

I'm sure at some point I will try 1404 so I'll eventually be able to compare the two for ye =P.

It's a shame about DSII though, I was hoping Nordic would have done a better job but I guess they'll eventually learn one way or the other with time.