Quoting: kuhpunktI think it's actually kinda funny that they aren't even planning to release it on the Epic store.

It's not like there's any reason to. It's a terrible storefront with no customers that isn't available for all of the platforms the game has been developed for. Plus I'd imagine that Feral are privately quite salty about Troy.

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Quoting: Guestwhat do you liked most?

It's hard to say. The LucasArts adventures are, I think, the best games ever made. But I'd played them before. I hadn't played through the remasters, though, which is why they were in my backlog.

The ones I play with my little one are an amazing experience because I'm playing them with my little one. Solving puzzles and exploring game worlds is great, but watching a five year old solve puzzles and explore game worlds is a whole other level.

Either way, there's a ton of great gaming to be done on Linux, and that's the main thing.

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I've been trying to clear some of my backlog.

Monkey Island
Monkey Island 2
Monkey Island 3

About ten minutes of Monkey Island 4 before I gave up on it.

Full Throttle
Whispering Willows
Grim Fandango
Helium Rain
CAT Interstellar
Near Death
Sigma Theory
Jotun

My little one's been playing Minecraft, Qube 2, Contraption Maker, Slime Rancher, Pikuniku, and Area 86. He's also decided that he really wants to play Tacoma, which I'd lined up as my next one to play through, but I'm trying to gently discourage that, since I suspect it will get grim at some point.

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Quoting: ShabbyXFinally a native release that happened because of Stadia.

I'm not sure that this counts as that, tbh. Yes, it was released on Stadia before it was released for Linux, but the prior Metro games were also released for Linux. We do now know that a Stadia release doesn't prevent a Linux release, though.

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Quoting: sciroccoThere is no DLSS on linux sadly, ray tracing is possible tho.

The means to do DLSS has been included with the Nvidia driver for ages. There just hasn't been a native game that's used it, and Wine (or any other open source project) can't.

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Quoting: scratchiGOG is having a sale on it right now, 66% off for the standard edition and 70% off for the gold edition. Buy now, play later...if they don't change their mind before 14th :X

Aren't all GoG versions of Metro Windows only?

Yep.

Yea, but when they release the Linux version GOG will probably make the Linux installer available too, no? At least that's my assumption... or does GOG not work like this? I'm waiting to see what happens on the 14th, didn't buy it yet since have no time to play it anytime soon anyway :)

There's no real reason why they'd put the Linux version on GOG: they didn't put the others there, even though Linux versions are available on Steam. GOG makes it a pain for devs to manage multiple releases, so quite a lot just don't bother.

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Quoting: sonic

Quoting: scratchiGOG is having a sale on it right now, 66% off for the standard edition and 70% off for the gold edition. Buy now, play later...if they don't change their mind before 14th :X

Aren't all GoG versions of Metro Windows only?

Yep.

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If Wine meant "Windows emulator" (which is totally why it's called what it is) then there would be potential trademark heat from 90s Microsoft on top of potential heat from the merits of Wine's functionality. Using the fashionable-at-the-time recursive acronym and actuallying the name by the 90s terminology meant that they got to keep the project name and not use anyone else's trademark.

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Quoting: Liam DaweMost of what you're saying isn't different to what I am saying, other than splitting hairs over the exact way to word it.

Yes?

That the .0 stable releases get support and the dev releases don't is a distinction that I didn't think was conveyed by your wording which, to me, made the yearly releases seem like another point release. So I flagged it up, with caveats in case I was wrong, so that you could consider alternative wording, or so that it would at least be clarified in the comments. Both of which, I assume, have now been done.

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I'm posting it as a comment rather than a correction because I may well be completely wrong, so I'd welcome discussion, but

Once a year or so, all the development is bundled into a stable release.

By my understanding, this is actually backwards. My understanding of the Wine development process is that they produce a major version at the beginning of the year, which may get a handful of maintenance updates. Every two weeks Wine gets a point release that's moving towards the major release at the start of the next year. So it's not that the major version bundles up the changes, but rather that that release was the target for the previous year's development work. Much like the non-LTS releases of Ubuntu are test versions for the next LTS. release. But I could be wrong.

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