[Steam] Nier Automata and Final Fantasy XV New HL (60% off) Square Enix Winter Sale

Ooh thanks for pointing that out, it brings the discount to 68%, which is not insignificant!

Nier: Replicant is also showing as 68% off on GMG with bronze tier XP.

What does FFXV cost there with the XP program and bonus discount?

Seems GMG won't let me buy stuff when I'm in the USA anymore (using store wi-fi, heh), it keeps emptying my cart when I'm on mobile, so I can't check.

sold ut at the moment ;\

I wonder if that will ever happen tho. But this happned, so why not.

im here with you, waiting for final fantasies 75 off since ages

Playable, but there are still laggy moments for no reason. At least when I played ~1 year ago.

There was a patch before Replicant, but you should probably still use community patches as well.

To be honest I think everybody's answer to that question will be insanely biased towards whichever they played when they were young and fresh...
For me the FF gold standard is 7-8-9-10, but it probably just mostly says that I'm 30-something!

All the final fantasy game's stories are weird and none of the them are not grindy. I'm assuming if you didn't like FF X, you won't like any of the other ones either. But it depends what parts did you find annoying?

Played FF13 this year and it still holds up. You do have to muck around a bit to play it fullscreen but its an easy fix that you only need to do once. Grinding wise, I would say not needed but recommended and not till late in the game. There is a really good spot in Chapter 11 that I used that made end game fights more manageable and I didn't feel the need to grind before this point.

Played FF15 awhile back. Didn't grind and the story is solid. Had a lot of fun playing it and definitely worth picking up.

FF7 Remake is awesome and a must play. Didn't feel the need to grind unless you want to do extra stuff.

For non-mainline games, Crisis Core holds up but shows its age and you can tell that it was a PSP game first. Worth playing if you get around to playing FF7R since it is a prequel to FF7. Stranger of Paradise does not play like most FF games, but I really liked it and it has a unique charm to it (cue Frank Sinatra).

If you can wait till after Christmas, I'll give you my opinion on another FF game then :p. I'm about to start FF12 in a bit, so I'll let you know how it holds up.

Judging by SteamDB, NIER Automata does not often receive a discount, on average about three times a year

This is par for the course when it comes to SE JP games. Back when they still owned Eidos, every SE sale you would find ended up just being Eidos games on perpetual discounts. They really hate discounting their JP games for whatever reason.

A kinda similar thing happened to Dark Souls 3. For some reason, Bandai didn't give a discount for like 3 years I think. Only started again this year, and it was like a 50% discount. Very weird stuff.

Hmmm, doubt. I think they use Denuvo on all their games. They just don't strike me as a company that cares about their users really.

They probably launched sales before the big Xmas sale to gain more attention. Once everything on steam goes on sale, SE titles are kinda lost in the mix

Yeah, for everything EGS does wrong, their coupon game is much, much better than whatever Steam is doing. I wasn't around when Steam had big flash sales, but nowadays, sales are kinda meh, especially since other online stores do often offer better sale prices.