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i know there are online Starship Trooper games. But i do think a local split screen option would be great.

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Death Stranding 2! \o/

Although the deluxe edition looks entirely pointless. Not even an early access incentive, just some pointless in-game collectibles.

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It's going to be janky, and certainly most youtubes won't like it. But I will enjoy it simply because I was a big Gothic fan back in the day, both gothic 1 and 2 were great. (Gothic-3 was a stretch)

Then we got Risen 1 & 2 which were quite good as well, but again Risen-3 was a bit of a flop!

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I found AMD hardware to be quite competent at hybrid Ray-Tracing games like Metro Exodus/ KCD2 probably.

But as soon as you turn on FULL RT and ESPECIALLY Path Tracing, they buckle massively at the knees. Sadly more and more games are coming out that rely HEAVILY on RT, really hope the GAMES industry adopts some RT optimization down the road. (there are a tonne of videos on youtube showing creative ways of improving RT performance in games, but few games afaik deploy them)

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Yeah well the memory is like %200-300 more costly now. And likely other components are affected like storage and even some other microchips (trickle on effect). So its likely costing them TWICE as much to build these now... kind of destroys their value.

This whole destruction of PC part pricing is likely not to rectify itself until sometime after 2027, maybe not until late 2028!
Fortunately, I don't need any new PC parts as I've stopped playing stupid unoptimized junk that can barely run on a 5090 at 1080p. And also taken up a lot more older and basic graphic titles, even visual novel games (some excellent stories out there) which don't require top end hardware.

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The new ut2004 patch is also available with luxtorpeda now

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I'll just stick with the Dreamcast version of the 1st one and the PSX version of the 2nd. It's a damn shame that we didn't ever get that rumored enhanced PS2 version of 2 back in the day, cause going from the Dreamcast back down to the PSX is a pretty big downgrade (even with the smoothing and faster loading on the PS2).

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AFAIK the registry edits are related to the DRM. I have the games on GOG (sans-DRM) and don't get that error.

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My partner and I are SOOO excited for this. Voyager is our favorite of the Star Treks. I super cannot wait.

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Quoting: EikeAll those games and systems are not your own good olde times? What made you investigate them so deeply?

Well, it both is and it isn't. I did not switch over to Linux full time until 2007 largely due to the software I needed for home schooling, but I dabbled a lot with it before then, with my father having a history with Linux going right back to Linus Torvald's original Usenet post. I also grew up flipping through his stacks of old Linux Journal magazines and was fortunate enough to still experience the golden age of Linux book publishing, largely through the robust public library system Alberta had at the time. Many of those books even followed me home through later library book sales.

All of my brother's were also technically precocious again largely due to my father, but we also rarely if ever had the top of the line in terms of hardware, so I certainly still cut my teeth with computers of this vintage. In many ways this project is me paying my respects to the era of Linux when my fondness for the system first arose, while also allowing me to experience a world I was still just a little too young to truly engage with at the time.

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Just install Duckstation, problem solved.

I agree that DRM in such old games should be not recieved well after Resident Evil 4 had it replaced and now runs worse, but Duckstation might as well be dead, because the developer has become unstable and actively seems to be hindering it, after making it not FOSS anymore.

I'd probably look at a different PS1 emulator or look at an in-development fork of DuckStation pre closing source.

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Adding Enigma DRM when the game is already DRM-free on gog is really incredibly dumb from Capcom. What are they trying to protect/prevent? The business suits over there really have no idea what they are doing.

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Will definitely buy/play DS2, but not for 80€.

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Quoting: EWG

Quoting: amataiShouldn't we call it WFCE then ?

I know it's not correct but, I now pronounce Xfce (in my head) as "X Face". Later, I'll be pronoucing it "X Fowl".

The owl eats the mouse.

Xfce isn't changing its name. Only the current window manager component xfwm4 (and some session management bits) will be replaced by xfwl4.

Mice rule, owls drool! (Not really, owls are weird but cool.)

Also, to further annoy you:

Quoting: Xfce FAQ*It's not pronounced “X-Face”. There is no “a” in it.

* https://docs.xfce.org/faq

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This is brilliant! This sort of compatibility/performance feedback will go long way.

IMHO would be great to also add option to enable sending hardware/software information more or less "permanently" and not only when prompted to submit it… would give better overview of the echosystem.

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Really want to give this a go, but I haven't yet because it's got that cursed word in the tags "rogue" ... but then when reading about nothing mentioned is roguelike or roguelite or whatever. Strange? I suppose I'll have to just try the demo and find out for myself!

Edit: well I never found out if/what the rogue-xyz elements are, because I must be the stupidest human being alive. I got to the tutorial part of the solar system view where I'm suppose to scan some planets / objects, and nothing worked. Or I couldn't figure out how to make it work. It says to left click and right click to do stuff, but it does nothing. So I'm either REALLY dumb, or the demo isn't working?

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Very weird with the DRM... the store page even lists GOG as developer, so I was hoping they would be completely DRM-Free (there are already a few DRM-free games on Steam)

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DRM in fn Dino Crisis? Just install Duckstation, problem solved.

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Wait, they put DRM into a two thousand year old game that was already released on GOG? That's really sad.

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The first one seems feasible for a Proton-GE protonfixes quick automation... The second one will need investigating unfortunately.

The Enigma Protector DRM though... That's the one with really bad performance hit vs Denuvo on RE4 remake right? That is worrying for RE9 and Onimusha...

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Quoting: pb

Quoting: soulsourceTell that to my boss... We have to usesuffer Discord at work...

Just out of curiosity, how old is your boss?

I don't know exactly (and if I knew, I wouldn't share, since it's personal info). All I can say is that he is slightly younger than I am, and that we both are somewhere between 35 and 45.

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haha it's so funny how our inside voices are so different. I pronounce it exffice!

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wow ... this is VERY much appreciated and welcome. The whole steam deck verified is a disaster at present, bordering on completely worthless. Soooo many games get verified that can't run at all then so many others not verified which work totally fine. It's so bad I just completely ignore it and immediately go to the steam discussions and search "deck" to see what people are saying. Crosscode is a perfect example. Runs like a dream on the deck. But not verified.

So this is making good steps to remedy that! I like it.

This also seems like they're inching toward what protondb does. Which I also like!

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Someone told me it's "impossible", because of reasons I forgot.
But oh do I wish the Total War Warhammer series would come to GOG...

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Quoting: Philadelphus

Quoting: Linuxer

Quoting: pbyay -S prefixer *is* a couple of clicks ;p

Huhh dat a termnial command so no its not jus clicks

Why, 'tis a mere nineteen clicks to enter it with a virtual keyboard! Not a single key-stroke necessary! 😉

(Unless, does yay require sudo? Then it'd be more… 🤔)

LOL.

I use middle click copy to the already open terminal, so it's one click to copy, then press return. Does that count as one click or do I get marks off for using one keyboard key?

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Great compilation of announcements, thanks!

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£70/€80 is way too much for the base game of Death Stranding 2. That's $95; although European customers are subsidising US customers because they're only charging $70 in the US. £50/€60 would still be an expensive game, but not insane.

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Oh hey, Calico, I've been meaning to check that out.

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Quoting: Platanito@ID:3486;Arehandoro actually they were responsible of the last two Metroid games for Nintendo, which are quite good IMO, specially Metroid Dread.
Regarding the EGS exclusivity, I agree it was not a good commercial decision, but I guess it was 505 games rather than MercurySteam the ones who made that call. Anyway, the game seems like a spiritual successor of their classic Blade of Darkness, so I'm really interested on this one.

Actually, you're right, I forgot about Metroid Dread and really loved that one! Oh, Blade of Darkness, that was a real gem and so advanced for its time too.

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Meh, wake me when it comes to GOG.

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