Square Enix Joins Steam

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Dark Pulse

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Square Enix, maker of many fine RPGs over the last 25 years or so, have co-announced with Valve that the company's games shall begin appearing on Steam, beginning April 9th.

Coming April 9, the PC version of The Last Remnant will be Square's first Steam release, and will also integrate Steamworks for as-yet-unspecified functionality. The action-RPG arrived on Xbox 360 last fall, with a PlayStation 3 release due later on.

The announcement added that Square will "continue to add to its roster of games on Steam" in North America and Europe, but did not specify any other titles or pricing.
 

shoptroll

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I expect FFXI will arrive next, followed by FFVII and FFVIII if the Eidos takeover succeeds.

Good news, but is there any word on whether or not this will still use GFWL like Fallout 3?
 

Alhanalem

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Most titles released on Xbox are released on PC under Games For Windows. (UT3 as a notable exception)
 

DazJW

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Has anyone seen this played?
My mate invited me to his the other day purely to see how bad the performance was in it. There's no detail in anything other than the characters and it stutters like crazy.
 

shoptroll

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Benchmark utility worked ok on my rig. Sounds more like they pushed the 360 too hard, which isn't totally surprising given it was their first outing with the engine.
 

DazJW

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I couldn't for the life of me work out what was causing it though, the characters don't look any better than Gears and everything else is shockingly low detail for a modern 360 game.
 

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The demo ran pretty well with all details maxed on my 8800GT. There was noticable slowdown when you had 15-20 characters on screen along with smoke and dust, but nothing bad enough to make me want to turn down the details.

Pretty interesting game, but I'll probably not pick it up at full price. I really liked how the characters take care of themselves, and only occasionally ask you for general pointers in how they should level. In the loot screen they even call dibs on items which they use to craft and upgrade their gear.