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It's giving me Another World/Dragon's Lair vibes. I can get with that.

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Man! this hit me just in the face...

Has been years since I use exclusively this pay method... it was so so convenient to me aaaah!

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immediately became one of my most anticipated games, looks incredible. it's a bit shocking that this sort of small scale coop isn't more common!

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For those who want testing, I played Chapters 1 to 4 on my Bazzite machine. No issues whatsoever.

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Fantastic, glad to hear that the team is dedicated to fixing Linux-specific issues!

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Quoting: adolson

Quoting: apotatoThe price seems suspiciously low for what I was expecting to be a "real" game. Not that I'm complaining exactly but what is up with that?

Early Access. The way it should be. Pay less the earlier you get in. If they make an amazing game, you got a great deal by being an early supporter. If you wait and see, you end up paying more.

Yeah exactly, this really is how it should be. Far too many games enter Early Access that are nearly finished.

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Oh come ON. The last option to bypass fuckers like Master and Visa policing content on Steam, and OF COURSE they do away with it.

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Quoting: apotatoThe price seems suspiciously low for what I was expecting to be a "real" game. Not that I'm complaining exactly but what is up with that?

Early Access. The way it should be. Pay less the earlier you get in. If they make an amazing game, you got a great deal by being an early supporter. If you wait and see, you end up paying more.

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Quoting: rea987How about digital Steam Wallet codes distributed to 3rd party sites?

The article does note that digital wallet codes will continue to work and will remain available.

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How good works SteamOS on Intel Handhelds for now?

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How about digital Steam Wallet codes distributed to 3rd party sites?

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It does look quite interesting and exciting, although I don't know if it will run on Linux, will it have some DRM or anticheat. For me I know it won't run on my laptop's iGPU for sure, on my PC maybe, but barely. Maybe in 10 years when the game is old and if I'm still into gaming I will give it a shot. I remember playing through all 3 Mass Effect games in 2017 in the span of one week and it felt like I was playing one massive game not 3 separate ones and it was a very exciting adventure, hopefully this one will be as good, and since it's based on a novel, it might have a pretty intricate story to carry it.

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I remember trying ESO on Linux before and it worked except I used to have an issue where I couldn't focus on the password text field so I had to ALT-TAB and back into the game to make it work, but now for some reason the problem is gone. I don't use Steam OS, but Tuxedo OS and I run most of my games through PortProton and ESO is one of them as I have it purchased outside of Steam.

For a long time I had no interest in playing the game due to the easy overland difficulty where you can defeat enemies without breaking a sweat. I describe it as having a God Mode cheat enabled. For years I wished the game had the same difficulty it did before 2016 when they made it easy and when I learned that on June 8 they will release an update that allows players to adjust their personal difficulty for overland content I was excited to try it and after playing for 2 days on from a new character (I had deleted all my old ones before) it feels a lot like how it was in 2015 when I first played the game - you attack 2-3 regular mobs and you're unsure if you will survive or not, it feels as exciting and thrilling as it was back then. It reminded me of playing Vanilla WoW too where you have to think about how you're pulling mobs and avoid them when you don't want to deal with them, how ESO was before June 8 you saw mobs like mere midge flies and a minor annoyance, now it changes the game drastically and I have regained some of my drive to play the game.

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Quoting: Linux_RocksI hate to say it, but the whole CBS thing really makes me so disinterested in this. I've already been critical of Star Trek for years, but I think that it might be at a breaking point when it comes to anything new with Star Trek for me. Fuck Bari Weiss, fuck David Ellison, fuck CBS (News), and fuck Paramount too.

Wow, I wasn't aware...

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Quoting: scaine

Quoting: ArehandoroI'm afraid the game looks too similar to Mass Effect, and that could work against it.

Quoting: SupayYou may want to add that it is also a book series by Peter Hamilton. It's called EXODUS as well, with the first book being named The Archimedes Engine.

Are they good?

Hamilton's books are generally excellent, although this one felt slightly slower than I'd like. As usual, Hamilton has gone full epic-space-opera, with a wide cast of characters across a seriously extended timeline. So extended, in fact, that any "aliens" you see in this game are likely just evolved humans. Thanks, time-dilation!

The idea is that humanity spread from a dying earth, looking for new planets to settle in hundreds of arkships. Some settled early, but by the time they'd settled sufficiently to send the "found a good spot over here" signal, that signal then has to catchup to the other ships, and THEN, they have to turn around and start flying at near-lightspeed to the signal source. So when they arrive, civilisation has been going on for hundreds of thousands of years (time-dilation, remember?), and humans are now "celestials" and are extremely prejudiced to all these "normal" humans showing up in ancient arkships over thousands of years. So it's a feudal system where humans are serfs to their celestial masters.

Second book comes out next week, I believe - June 18th.

Edit to add: holy shitballs, don't look at the Steam forums for this game. Basically a bunch of incels demanding better looking men/women to shag in-game, or complaining about "woke" choices, like being to choose to be male or female in the opening screen. JFC. Where do these clowns come from??

Thanks, that looks good! I might give a go!

To the book, I mean, not to the incels/forum xD

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I hate to say it, but the whole CBS thing really makes me so disinterested in this. I've already been critical of Star Trek for years, but I think that it might be at a breaking point when it comes to anything new with Star Trek for me. Fuck Bari Weiss, fuck David Ellison, fuck CBS (News), and fuck Paramount too.

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I had minor issues in the past with things requiring other input than controller. I am sure it's all better now with the Verified status!

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Free Final Fantasy Dimensions from mobile! Port that to consoles and PC Square-Enix! The first Final Fantasy Dimensions is a great fully featured 2D Final Fantasy game and is worth playing (even on mobile).

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Quoting: suchI'll just highlight this: Square's HD-2D Final Fantasy debut is a partial recycling of their (outsourced) POS fan service F2P mobile game.

I don't know what Square's been huffing for the past quarter of a century, but it's no longer funny.

Yeah, I also immediately lost interest after that part.

Give me something original, not some best-of glued together nonsense...

JRPG mobile games aren't necessarily bad. Since the 2D ones would run on a toaster, one can make good JRPGs for mobile.
Just this one is rather awful.

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Quoting: VerglasI had to google what HD-2D is, but I guess I like it.

Looks like Square Enix just wanted their own, trademarked term for 2.5D.

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I have about 1500 hours in CoH 1, a tad above 2000 hours in CoH 2, and currently I'm at about 500 hours in CoH 3. I'll keep playing the games as they release them.

But I do agree, they have beaten this horse for far to long. Something new has to happen in this series of games.

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I'll just highlight this: Square's HD-2D Final Fantasy debut is a partial recycling of their (outsourced) POS fan service F2P mobile game.

I don't know what Square's been huffing for the past quarter of a century, but it's no longer funny.

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Behold.

One could, perhaps, say.

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what

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Quoting: sarmadI don't know how old you are, but it's very possible that your children will see that day, maybe even you if you are young enough. Valve alone was able to raise the market share from 1% to 4% and still rising. We just need another one or two companies to be successful in the laptop/desktop side and things will start picking up. And now with the EU pushing for digital sovereignty we will start seeing more companies interested in Linux in order to serve the EU public sector.

I'm very optimistic about seeing this happen in my lifetime. I'm a child of the 90s. I'm definitely not young, but I'm not that old either.

Valve's contributions have been outstanding, and I give them a lot of props, but it's a lot of other things too. Hardware and driver support is lightyears apart from where Linux used to be in the 2000s. It's more than good now. I really do think that the only thing that needs to happen before Linux rolls down a hill and snowballs into mainstream desktop adoption is to have an equivalent to Adobe products. Personally, I think Gimp is pretty good, but it still needs to improve a bit more before being compared to Photoshop. On the other hand, Blender is already amazing. As someone that grew up learning 3D art on Maya when it was still owned by Alias|Lightwave, I think Blender is now actually better than the general 3D packages from Autodesk. The only reason why Blender isn't the standard in the VFX industry yet is because of politics, but it's only a matter of time.

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Oof ok, that's a lot of responses so I will try to address the main points from my perspective without creating another wall of text, and whilst conceding fully that the consensus is definitely not with me on this topic (understatement awards 2026 here I come)

First off, I seem to have monumentally missed the mark both in explaining where my friend is at regarding writing his story (and I do mean he is writing it, the use of AI is my musing not his), and in terms of how people would view the use of AI in this scenario
My friend has not merely come up with the idea, but has fully written (as in actual pages from the book) maybe 10 of the pivotal scenes, including explanations of the characters' backstories and the critical plot points and twists and turns. And yes, in doing so he has refined, added, removed and fundamentally changed the story and characters, exactly as everyone describes you do in the process of writing. He is struggling to write the bits between, and whilst I appreciate "that's part of being an author" I'm wondering if it need not be. For me personally, it doesn't de-value the story if another human or machine helps him to glue it all together (again, minority of 1 I know 😄)

Regarding my misunderstanding of both creative work and crafts vs trades, I'm actually reasonably familiar with both, seeing as I do a fair amount of creative work both at my job and in making the card game and comic I am making and writing as a hobby. The card game (intended to be physical) is actually where most of my experience regarding generating AI art comes from and where I have seen how much you maintain the role of creative director.

The trades/craftsmen analogy actually came from the fact that my dad trained as a cabinet maker. And during his apprenticeship, it was a mark of honour to be able to cut perfect dovetail joints quickly. But when the dovetail machine came along, my dad switched immediately and I would argue that whilst it removed some of the skill, it removed none of the creativity of designing a piece of furniture

With respect to artists not wanting to lose any drudgery, I would argue that the reuse of base models and skeletons in 3D art would evidence that there is drudgery to be avoided, but I also see how time and financial pressures from above might speed up the enjoyable part of the job (rough mockups, concepts etc) whilst keeping the human refining bit that might actually be far less interesting to the creative

With that all said, thanks for everyone's insights and I definitely do see more clearly that the strength of an author (and therefore artist, sculptor etc etc) is partly the skill in the task, as well as the creative vision. I just think the skill matters less to me personally.

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Quoting: CaldathrasSo yes, power tools can be seen in the same negative light as LLMs.

This analogy only works if your power tools could magically come to life like they were characters in a Pixar movie and do the work you've commanded them to do. LLMs are exceptional - and in my opinion - incomparable to anything in human history. Besides this, I pretty much agree with everything else you've said, especially the part about workers and craftsmen.

Quoting: CaldathrasIt is the very act of creation that drives them, not the final result.

I think it's both. It's motivating to see a design that previously only existed as a daydream, slowly be brought into reality. I'll add to your food analogy though. Starbucks baristas basically have an automated machine that make the coffee that they serve - which is why their coffee tastes like overpriced shit. If you want really good coffee, your barista and their roaster is gonna need to have passion - the kind that a machine will never be capable of having.

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Quoting: spymastermatt

Quoting: Purple Library Guyif someone tells a large language model "Write me a book about this" and thinks it's theirs because they had an idea (which apparently does happen) . . . that's incredibly stupid.

Absolutely agree, 100%!

But if someone develops an entire story, with a good plot and character development and twists and turns and they get the AI to actually put it into words because they just can't, and then they enrich it by reading it back and tweaking and adding and refining to make it the story they had in their head but could never express because of their ADHD, is their story less good because they couldn't write each individual word?

Yes. I just explained why. Without the process of writing it, all that stuff will be thin.

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Quoting: SlaxerI want my children's children to see Linux with a 25% desktop user share.

I don't know how old you are, but it's very possible that your children will see that day, maybe even you if you are young enough. Valve alone was able to raise the market share from 1% to 4% and still rising. We just need another one or two companies to be successful in the laptop/desktop side and things will start picking up. And now with the EU pushing for digital sovereignty we will start seeing more companies interested in Linux in order to serve the EU public sector.

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