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What an absolute bunch of boneheads adding drm to this lol.

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Page mentions a shareware arcade game called Last Defender by Wouter Scholten, but this old SunSITE listing says it was first listed in November 1996 so close but no cigar.

https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/docs/LSM/LSM.1999-08-30#:~:text=Last%20Defender%20demo%20Version:%201.0.5%20Entered%2Ddate:%2019NOV96%20Description

Unfortunately ibiblio does not seem to still preserve the demo, so hopefully its on an old CD somewhere.

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Buy it on GOG instead, that's a clearer message than being on of the 8 billion who also won't give Capcom any money.

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I find the framerate data interesting! Soon Valve will know more about how good games are running on many different PCs than anybody else.

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I do like the function discord offers (not nitro), but that function could most likely be found elsewhere.
so the question is where to migrate? a open source alternative would be very welcomed.
Because i refuse to scan my face to be able to use it..

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I'm hopeful the new Silent Hill game is good, but honestly I've got more anticipation for the rumored remake of the original, after Bloober did such a great job on SH2. Meanwhile, I really should get around to playing some of their other games I already own, like Observer and The Medium.

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It seems to have problems with Ubuntu before 25.04 :
https://github.com/OldUnreal/FullGameInstallers/issues/27

SDL3...

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Did they overhaul the combat by now?

The rest of the game seemed interesting, but holy crap was that combat awful.

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Quoting: gbudnyDid you find any commercial games for Linux published in 1997?

It's the only year when I didn't find any commercial games released for Linux. I hope it's not true because it would be depressing to wait for over a year for Quake 2 and Ultima Online:

1994 Doom, Doom 2
1995 Abuse, SimCity
1996 Inner Worlds, Quake
1997 Nothing?
1998 Quake 2, Ultima Online

Maybe someone remembers it.

This officially bothers me. Can't really say for commercial, but I did dig up the original 1997 incarnation of the Game Tome: https://web.archive.org/web/19970806044626/http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/tlau/tome/byname.html

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Quoting: gbudnyI think it would be better if Macmillan Digital Publishing were also a publisher for Quake 3 for Linux in 1999. We probably get a set of rpms packages on the CD, which is weird and problematic on many Linux distributions. On the other hand, Loki could survive as a company if it didn't publish this game.

It is true that we would have gotten Quake 3 eventually anyway, even if it took half a decade before the source code was released.

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I played UT99, UT2003 and UT2004 religiously. It's so strange seeing oldunreal support the latter but then when you think about it being over 20 years old. It makes sense. These games are so nostalgic for me.

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Ah, DRM. When paying customers get a (much) worse experience compared to the pirates because publishers treat those customers like criminals.

Capcom won't see a penny of my money.

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Games like this makes me smile out of pure joy = )

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John Wick 🥳

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I am super hyped. Not because of the Remake of Gothic 1 but because I hope it will be successful enough that they create a remake of Gothic II which is my favourite.

But yeah, I will ask my boss for vacation ^^

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Quoting: cameronbosch

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.

Swanstation through RetroArch, then. It's a shame, because Duckstation really is that good, but it is what it is.

Wouldn't be the same without the drama.

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Quoting: StalePopcornEGS Exclusive = doesn't exist [to me]

In a literal sense. I don't have a problem with EGS one way or the other, yet I haven't heard about this game even once until just now.

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The Enigma DRM has been cracked several times recently. Hopefully it will be cracked again, and even legitimate users may be able to play the game!

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We won't need to check protondb with this.

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Castlevania, Darwin's Paradox and Yakoh Shinobi Ops look fantastic!

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Thank you for the update, Liam! I previously used the GOG version to run Unreal via Proton but this finally pushed me to give this Linux installer a try and it worked marvelously. Takes maybe 30 seconds and then Unreal is installed and ready to go in 4K at god knows what framerate, amazing! Just used it to show my kids how awesome shooters were back in the day. 😊

Big thanks to the devs for making this so simple and keeping the legacy alive even after almost 30 years.

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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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So I gave it another go: completely broken it appears for me. Oh well, uninstalled, will try it again some other time. I'm having this same bug here which renders it unplayable as you can't even past the tutorial.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/2643390/discussions/0/694250999466995939/#c725776831304760120

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Death Stranding 2! \o/

Although the deluxe edition looks entirely pointless. Not even an early access incentive, just some 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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Just tried the demo, no issues at al on, wasn't expecting any either, and yeah it's probably up my alley, awesome to see more and more demos now days

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