Why did it flop so hard?

People dont buy good games.

>>376623681
memes

>>376623681
its out?

I haven't played it, how does it compare to the first game?

>>376623776
Elaborate pls

there wasn't any marketing I guess. I didn't even know it was out

>>376623765
this
If it's not AAA with marketing out the ass or indie with pixel graphics, it's not going to sell much.

It didn't get shilled enough

>>376623765
pretty much this

Styx and Expeditions: Vikings are the best games of the year so far

>>376623681
No marketing and advertisement. Other new games (see Dawn of War 3, Nier etc) got at least 2-3 shill threads at any given time. This one had neither.

>>376623849
i only knew about it because ACG reviewed it

>>376623859
Previous game sold 500k while this sold 20k
It's like gaben got steam irrepairably, profoundly broken in the meantime

Shitty release time. There's too many (good) games coming out at once.

The gaming media barely covered it. The media is NOT your friend.

>>376623945
steam is exactly the same as it was 4 years ago, stop pretending otherwise

>>376623681
I didn't even know this existed.

>>376623681
Too hard for your average AAA casual.
I watched some youtubers play it and they failed so hard that i closed my browser.

Casuals were a mistake.

>>376623903
>Expeditions: Vikings
Not until they fix it.
Couple months from now? Definitely.

>>376623975
>tfw MSM hates everything you love, even good video games

a bunch of people waiting for sales as always

>>376623903
I liked conqistador, but haven't picked up vikings yet. It's it good?
My backlog is way too big atm

>>376623839
Remember that part of Styx: Master of Shadows where Styx said memes, pop culture references and broke the 4th wall? Me neither

Personally i thought the other one's been on sale too many times, making people inevitably skip it when it shows up in the popup. They mistake the announcement of the new game for the announcement of yet another sale of the first game.

>>376624079
like another anon said wait for patches. it was the same deal with Cossacks III last september

>>376624059
What's wrong with it?

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>>376623681
>25k owners

Holy shit this makes me sad, it's a pretty good game and fantastic sequel.
They built ontop of the first game and improved pretty much everything, like a sequel should be.

>>376624074
Casuals don't play good stealth games.
It is probably only Thief fans that bought this game and there are so few of us.

Couldn't stand the protagonist or the voice acting, gameplay was full of scripted shit

>>376623681
People can't be bothered with a quality game if it doesn't look like TLOU

>>376623903
>Expeditions: Vikings
>50% are cunts
>good
no

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>>376623681
>substituted memes for meaningful character development

>>376624224
yeah i pre ordered both games.

maybe a lot of people were turned off by the protagonist as well

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>>376623681
>Play Styx
>nice
>excited for the sequel
>see trailers
>no longer excited
>cancelled preorder

>>376623903
Mod to remove timer when?

>>376623903
>stealth game with shit level design and a broken turn based strategy that bombards you with meaningless perks

okay bub

>>376624357
The protagonist is fine.
Only weebs who play only as little animu girls hate Styx.

>>376624468
>sequel adds timer
Why does this keep happening? X-COM 2... f*ck!!

I loved Thief games, but i found this game extremely boring, but that might be just me...

>>376624079
Currently I think conquisitor is better really only for the fact that it's a finished game and doesn't have a timer at all times so you can go your own pace

>>376624483
you just agreed with me though
some people don't want to play a game with that kind of protag

>>376624535
thats alright you still have plenty of custom maps to play in thief

>>376623681
People in general don't get real stealth.
>What does it mean I cannot just kill them all?
Look at Gaintbomb pathetic Quick Look for example.

>>376623945
>A game that has been out for much longer and been on far more sales has more copies owned
Huh.

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>>376623681
Fuck it really flop ? It was better than the first with a lot of verticality.

>>376624569
>some people
Subhumans aka weebs.

>>376624483
I'm a huge weeb and I love Styx

The marketing was non existent.

How the fuck would anyone buy something they don't know?

>>376624715
I'm happy for you and your opinion

>>376624684
>that smirk
I came buckets.

Kinda related but are there any other games like thief? Where it's basically just get in steal and get out nothing extremely magical or some big plot

>Die
>Get a snarky remark
>Every time
Dropped

>>376624684
http://steamspy.com/app/355790

>>376624684
It sold like utter shit

>>376624808
Yeah, Styx is a cutie

>>376623903
>Expeditions: Vikings

i'll have to start another game i sided with the picts but my peoples still convert to chrisitianity in my ending and apparently killing your cunt of borther isn't a smart move

>>376624175
Bugs.

>>376623945
The 1st one probably sold 500k so far because it came out in 2014, and it was on sale several times.

>>376624830
pretty sure theres a menu option now to disable it

>>376624815
i fucking wish there was a hitman like Thief game where you go in steal the big prize and fuck off like a ghost

Marketing was bad.
Some ugly goblin doesnt inspire further inquiring. "styx shards of darkness" tells me nothing.

>>376624919
Some other anon said the picts were basically the Christian path but still with vikings if that makes any sense

>>376624830
>Die
You deserve everything you get.
Some of the remarks are pretty funny.I'll admit, i die too while trying for ghost play

>>376624483
He was annoying. Full of himself and never shuts the fuck up, either narrating the completely mundane, painfully obvious shit I need too or spouting quips and pop culture references.

>>376625121
You need to check yourself into a clinic.You are not ok in the head.

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>>376624874
>>376624902
Well, I'm sad. They improved a lot of things from the first, what a shame to see it flop.

How different is it compared to the first? I know there multi-player apperently and its more focused on the clone ability?

>>376623681
I know but there is no point in fighting the herd anymore.

Fuck man, love it. God damnit I love it when developers listen to the fans.

>ugly main character
>boring videos and images on the steam page
I love coop games but this game just didn't look that exciting honestly.

>>376624483
I didn't buy it cause of the protagonist honestly.

When I buy a game I either want to look like a badass or look at some sexy female booty.

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>>376625327
>>ugly main character

>>376625223
this is what normalfags really believe
>millions of people go on reddit and like reddit so this must be good... anybody who doesn't like this kind of stuff must be actually insane

>>376625327
>ugly main character
Are you a faggot?The game is the best stealth game for the past few years.

>>376625327
>ugly main character
That hasn't stopped eastern games from selling well before

I get Styx games are pretty well recieved

but is Of Orcs and Men a decent game?

>>376625327
>>376625452
Weebs were a mistake

>>376624224
But Styx is casual as fuck with the bullshit op powers.

>>376625472
>>376625475
>>376625493
To be fair to him, he is a goblin. Is Styx even attractive by goblin standards?

>>376625327
It's a stealth masturbatory fest. I really like this genre, and this is in the category of few modern titles that actually do as advertised. If I'm shilling, fuck it. I want more of it in [insert your favorite]. This game name is irrelevant in the face of the gameplay it provides, if that makes any sense.

>>376625223
Sorry bub, he's just annoying and made playing the game not enjoyable. Didn't help that the game also highlights everything like you've got BamHam vision, either.

>Flop

It didn't.

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>>376625726
Looks better than most goblins out there these days

>>376625108
i suppose the only way to remain pagan is to submit picts and anglos

Nobody wants to play as a Turk.

>Wanting to play a disgusting goblin who unhonorably murders members of your race

I bet you like cuck porn too

>>376625648
You should see some people play the game.
also killing your way trough a level is not playing the game.

Ghosting is not that easy if you are going for time/no allarms/no kills on max difficulty even with the powers.

>>376625976
>He doesn't know

>>376625935
How about you don't insult Styx?

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>>376623681
>Why did it flop so hard?
What do you mean, people don't like bazzinga Styx?!?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm44_MhJpg0

DUDE REFERENCES
DUDE BREAKING THE 4TH WALL
DUDE S E X

>>376625223
he's right though, the current trend of quips in media, especially movies, is overplayed, boring and irritating. I don't need the shit that made me hate pretty much all capeshit bleeding into video games.

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>>376625935
You have no idea what being Turk actually means

Picked up Master of Shadows a few weeks back in a sale, gotta admit I'm loving it so far. Feels like equal parts Hitman and Riddick, plus I get to play as based Gob

>>376626019
The problem lies in having to handicap yourself to get even a hint of challenge.
I got bored of the first game when I realized I had to stop putting points in the talents (or whatever the fuck special snowflake name they had) or the game would become trivial.

>time/no allarms/no kills on max difficulty
That's how I played it, sans caring about time; stealth games aren't about speed running.

The clone shit was also quite a boring mechanic, much rather have gadgets and stuff that aren't hideously overpowered (looking at you, MGS V).

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>>376626325
>more players than owners in Russia

If it so great then post Webm of it

>>376626325
how can players be higher than owners? is piracy really that rampant outside of the US?

I haven't finished the first one yet, but it's in my Steam library.

I'm hearing mixed reviews.

>>376626482
>THE GROUND IS TOO SOFT

>>376626120

After watching this I can see >>376626247 has a very valid point. He'd be much better off as a silent protagonist.

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>>376626651
>FUCKING CASUALS

>>376626508
It means current players

>>376626508
well they dont send you to the chair for pirating a game

>>376626801
right. so how can there be more current players than owners? how can they track they play stats of people playing the game who don't own it?

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>>376626714
>I WISH I HAD MORE BROKEN BONES

>>376626878
20k bought game and 15k dropped it, another group of 10k bought game and they all still play it
Share of second group players is 50% but share of owners only 33%

>>376627102
This doesn't make things any clearer. I think you are full of shit.

>>376627102
> 50%
fuck I mean 66%

>>376627181
Please tell me you are not white

>>376623681

It was a shit game with terrible animations. Looked and played like green light indy shit.

>>376627102
right, so if 20k bought the game at first with a 5k playerbase and then 10k bought it and 10k played it, then there would be 30k owners and 15k players you dumbass

>>376625475
That's not too hard to top when it's the only real stealth game in recent years.

>>376627284
sorry anon but one plus one does not equal three.

>>376626508
>>376626801
>>376626878
>>376627102
>>376627181
>>376626802
>>376626487
>>376626325
> Geography tab displays share of users from different countries amongst owners of the game (blue bars) and people that have played the game in the last two weeks (red bars).

> Please note that those are different scales. For example here we can see that the game has 17% of owners from Russia, but 21% of players from Russia. That might seem counter-intuitive, but a number of owners is almost always higher than a number of players that launched the game in the last two weeks.

> Unlike everything else, geo data uses 7 days sampling, because many users do not specify their countries.

https://galyonk.in/steam-spy-the-missing-manual-cc22ef6eebe1

>>376624128
This plus lack of "2" after the title.

One of the best parts in the game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft14UHQXfIQ

>>376628192
oh, the bars are a percentage. I guess I'm a retard

Because they only have two good songs
>come sail away
>renegade

>>376623681
Did it? I'm personally waiting for the summer sale to pick it up, and I'm still playing Shadow Tactics

>>376629031
Can you only die by falling?

>it came out

Don't blame me I didn't see shit on steam about it.

>>376629602
no

>>376629602
No, enemies can kill you if they discover you and you don't parry.

first game was shit. didn't enjoy it for a second. shit gameplay, terrible animations and oh boy the challenge.; lets just say i enjoy games, not a walk in the park.