Sturgeon's Law [External Link] 90% of everything is crap. All we can do is try to find the 10% that isn't.

On the topic of VR: it only works for a subset of people(A), so it'll never get really big. Although it will probably go into a bubble like the web did back in the '90s before crashing like all bubbles do.

A: I have a lazy eye and VR doesn't do much for me but give me a splitting headache. Other people have reported getting violently ill, headaches,... and that's ignoring the proven detrimental effect of monitors on visual acuity.

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Quoting: Mountain ManNah... you just pick your platform and then play the games that are available for it. There's no reason to feel like you're "missing out" just because every single game is not available on your platform of choice.

But Metroid Prime looks sooo good...

I'm actually considering looking around for a Wii/WiiU just so I can play Metroid Prime and a couple nice Zelda games.

There's just some games that are so good at what they do there's just no replacement.

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Well, the gaming community in general has been considered toxic for the longest time. Remember when a COD dev announced some changes in a patch, which included some nerfing, and the fans went berserk and even threatened to kill his family?

If I was a conspiratorial man, I'd suspect that those things were actually done by people with an agenda who want to the community to seem toxic, but there's no evidence for any of that, so let's not.

Anyway, as I'm an old fogey, who greatly prefers the best of the SNES and PSX over modern PC gaming, I'm not really interested in most announced games and whether or not they're coming to Linux.

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Hey, it's a teeny, tiny me in the upper right, neat!

Anyway, changes seem fine, although the username in the pop-up is, like God-Emperor Trump said, kinda hard to read.

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I have a feeling that the "get port -> complain" cycle will result in "don't get port -> complain".

Both achieve the same result, but the second one takes less time and effort.

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Take a shot every time someone lists more than one game, you'll die instantly.

Also, so many people choosing Fallout 4, that is why LGBTQ people don't feel welcome in video gaming. I'm am disappointed and ashamed that such a homophobic game gets such a warm reception.

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NWN for Linux? Could be good... especially if we get NWN2.

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Quoting: BeamboomDeus Ex?

Both the original and HR were better than MD. And HR wasn't exactly an impressive game either.

Quoting: BeamboomX-com 2?

Okay, that so 2 good games, although the randomness of everything doesn't do it any favours.

Quoting: BeamboomRocket League?

Combining the worst aspects of driving games and football games doesn't make for a game that's interesting, appealing, or fun.

Quoting: BeamboomLife Is Strange?

Rocks fall, everyone dies: the game? I can't imagine anyone being much of a fan of any game that just invalidates all your choices like that (even The Walking Dead didn't go that far).

Quoting: BeamboomGranted 2015 were great, but come on man...!

Exactly my point. Granted, 2016 isn't over yet, but so far it's not really living up to its predecessor.

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Apart from Tyranny I can't think of a single outstanding Linux game being released in 2016, but that's probably only because 2015 was such a good year.

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Salt mining: replace the SteamOS icon by the Ubuntu icon. They're recommending Ubuntu on the Steam download page anyway.

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