Quoting: ShmerlWhat exactly is late?

The market for small dedicated handheld gaming devices. That market died right after the PSP.

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No way on earth this will ever succeed in any form. Five - possibly ten - years too late.

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Quoting: BeamboomBut we've been dreaming of the year of the Linux Desktop since the nineties, and that will likely happen after Half-Life 3 is released

Going a bit off topic, but I'm playing through HL2 for the first time (!!) and I'm not sure I want a HL3...

To be fair - you should have played it back when it was released, in the light of the competition back then. That said, I did play it back then and never became that bedazzled by it. It was a solid game with impressive visuals and mechanics, but not that insanely amazing as others claimed it to be.
Part of my problem was that I didn't really find the story to be intriguing at all, so I just tagged along until I got stuck on a level with a lot of roofs/buildings in it and an enemy I found to be too hard - can't remember more than that.

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You know, I'm starting to like Steam Play.

I've been, and still to a certain degree are, a sceptic to the long term consequence of it. And while I still do believe this will have a negative effect on the number of actual ports being made, I've slowly started to realise that maybe that was too much to hope for anyway and that as a "second rate citizen" what we can realistically dream of is a well functioning Steam Play machinery.

At least for now, until we reach a significant share of desktop users. But we've been dreaming of the year of the Linux Desktop since the nineties, and that will likely happen after Half-Life 3 is released. Ergo... Don't hold our breaths.

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Quoting: ziabiceI started playing Fallout 4, but Dogmeat remembered me too much my beloved dog who passed away that I had to stop: seeing someone harming him makes me mad. It's very strange, never felt this feeling because of a videogame.

Yeah they made the dog really well. And I agree, I too find it strangely uncomfortable to see him getting attacked. But you can choose other companions too, including that bot early on, and leave the dog safe back home and cuddle him while you fix the house. :)

Quoting: ziabicePlease Note:
Fallout 4 works well out of the box using Proton only if you use a gamepad, otherwise you'll have problems with mouse spinning or jumping

That particular problem is fixed with one line in the config file of fallout: "bBackgroundMouse=1"

But there is another mouse issue that only happens now and then that I've not found a solution to (probably doesn't affect all, but I have to run a custom resolution due to my ultrawide screen).
So yeah, I'm playing it on a controller as well. Really great performance on the game too!

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For me it's ALL about...



And it'll remain that way for a very, very, VERY long time. Exploring every nook and cranny, enjoying every minute of it.

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Except for the rather sloppy claim about us wanting everything for free (who is obviously total crap) his arguments are rock solid, and in essence is nothing new. What he present is *the* major arguments against Steam Play - the amount of "ports" will suffer.

But then again, especially his arguments about also "ports" using middle layer translation libraries is particularly important. There's a reason why Feral can spit out "ports" of massive games as fast as they can, and with as few bugs as there are.

So in essence, as long as the performance is good and we're one click away of getting them installed and working, why should we complain, really.

I don't think that we in reality have any alternative if we want a good chunk of the AAA titles playable. And at least for this gamer, it's the big titles that is the reason I'm still a gamer. Not the small "indie" games.

/me returns to playing Fallout 4 on his Linux workstation.

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I've given up on the Unreal editor, so next project will be to take a deep look on the unity framework. It would have been real fun to be able to materialise if only a couple of the conceptual ideas I got spinning in my head...!

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I wonder if this also might fix the mouse issue in Fallout 4?

Speaking of that - I am amazed, no less, of the performance in Fallout 4! It really is a joy to finally be able to play that game. It's not flawless, an annoying mouse issue requiring me to alt-tab out of the game and click other windows and then return to have it fix the issue is particularly annoying, but with a controller it really runs totally without hickups (the game is built for controllers anyway so it it totally cool).

After this game (that'll take some months...) I'll do GTA5 next!

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Fantastic voice acting! That's money well spend indeed.

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