Quoting: finaldestI am done with this crap.

I am fed up of this complete utter greed. First we lost physical releases along with publishers destroying games preservation. Now they want even more money by charging £100+ for a broken PC game and now I am required to give yet more money to play the game on release day (AKA On time)

I am done. After 20 years I am now going back to the high seas.

i mean, yes and no. You don't have to play these overpriced "AAA" garbage titles, with terrible pricing, optimization, forced agenda's, Scam DLC, Malware DRM. There are hundreds of smaller dev's who would want your support, and of course a long back catalogue of existing games that can be modded. Then there are Retro games of which are still highly enjoyable and again can be emulated to look great.

But i do agree with the sentiment that until people change their buying practices non of this is going to change. And that applies to everything not just video games.

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Quoting: wytrabbitIt's essentially become an addiction for some gamers. 🤷‍♂️

This is going to become really confusing for others when they turn upto their local AA meeting.

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First time no fonts rendering, second launch after a reboot i get a hard system crash on my system trying to run this (vanilla arch all updated with AMD GPU) nothing esoteric or out of the norm. I don't know why i expected a valve game update to work out of the box on Linux.

slightly off topic, but i seem to remember it being very rare for an application to totally wipe out my system so much so that it needs a hard power down on x11. However on Wayland (Xwayland) it almost never works once the display/fullscreen application has frozen to get to a terminal and try get system back up and running. It seems way less flexible than X11 in this regard, or shall i say way more fragile when an error occurs. Wayland really feels jank at times in crucial areas, i guess it could be even worse if your not local to your machine and you need to fix it remotely.

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VoxeLibre ? Are there voxeL's in this game :unsure:

correct me if im wrong (and i know you will) but i though the game was polygons ?

Might aswell have called it PolyLibre ..

or better yet Polycraft

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Quoting: PenglingDid someone say Bomberman? :grin: I'm there!

The various Bomberman games are some of my favorite retro games. If your ever feeling you need some simple gaming comfort food it usually does the trick.

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Quoting: EhvisClearly I'm too old for this sort of graphics to trigger nostalgia. This is probably more referencing times from my gaming deadzone where I had no time to play or in the early years after switching to Linux.

i never thought id hear someone say they were too old for PS1 era graphics. i thought it would be the other way round if anything else.

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Quoting: dubigrasuThose touchpads seem to me ridiculously low for actual gaming.

ikr , there are several handhelds like this now and im thinking they only see the track pad as usage for controlling a mouse in desktop mode. When in reality if you want to do some serious desktop tinkering you just connect a bluetooth or usb mouse for a few minuets, either that or use the touch screen on these devices or even the analogue stick as a slower but functional mouse.

I imagine one of the reasons the steam deck is so wide because they had to find a way to make the track pads as usable as the analogue sticks. If i had the resources i think i could make my own handheld and solve some of these really glaring issues.

You should be able to play a mouse driven PC game on a handheld just the same as you can play any other game, its not a switch or some 16bit retro gaming handheld it's literally a full PC with RAM/CPU combo better than most desktops PC's of a few years ago.

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Quoting: Doktor-MandrakeHell, my main interest in things like yuzu is being able to play the Virtua Racing re-release that for some stupid reason is switch exclusive, and it forces me to use sideway joycon when playing splitscreen, I much rather get a bunch of xbox controllers out

speaking of emulation, if your talking about the OG Sega Virtua Racing then the best version is on the PS2.

upscaled to 4k ofc ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy6hK4AbYw0 [External Link]

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy[
And there is an answer to the question. The answer is "No, businesses should not have that right. If I buy something, I should be able to do anything I want with it that isn't illegal for real reasons unconnected with that business' ability to exploit me." In fact, the whole thing where when you buy software you are claimed to have "licensed" it and have to click on a EULA is bullshit from start to finish. I don't sign a EULA when I buy a TV, even though it probably has software in it.

Hypothetically speaking what do you think about a creator, indie developer etc.. that wants to place their game on a Switch, NDS, 3DS or Wii-U because they want for it to be played in a specific way (locked to that hardware) because its part of the experience and creative vision they wanted to share because all of the unique hardware mentioned (mostly.. excluding the switch) compared with other generic platforms like PC.

Forgetting the hardware vendor for a moment (sony, microsoft, nintendo, valve etc..) Do you think the seller has a right to keep their creative vision locked into a specific platform because that is both

a.) where they expected to sell it

and

b.) how they wished it to be played ?

Or does the creator, artist developer have no right to expect this ?

Although companies are chasing their bottom line, is there a possibility they are protecting their platform retailers by making it legally difficult to copy/pirate emulate their games because the developer themselves actively wanted to only sell on one platform ? (yes we can be cynical here but even so)

of course they could release on PC, they could also spend more limited development money porting to other consoles.. everything that's available in fact including android. But that's not always possible.

Devils advocate here ofc. im a Linux user after all and don't support DRM.
That said i don't support total software / hardware anarchy either i do think there is a right of the seller to choose how their content is delivered even if just for the simple facts of cross platform development costs. I may not like it though but i do support their freedom to choose.

i know this isn't strictly on topic. but i value your input

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Quoting: brokeassbenHonestly just want to play the Switch games I legit purchased on my Steam Deck and desktop computer. I paid for all of the hardware and games and don't think Nintendo should have any right to say where I can and can't play them just because they have billions of dollars more than me. I'm sure it's not going to hurt them one bit, but I am done giving them business.

Nintendo make money off of selling hardware and of course a few of their exclusive IP's. You being able to emulate switch on PC won't hurt them one bit, but everyone else doing it with consummate ease en-mass & on a steam deck in higher quality which is just a much better switch like platform would and eventually probably will destroy Nintendo.

They are panicking, you can really tell by these DMCA's / lawsuits. The line between what Nintendo offers and what everyone else does is very thin now that powerful handheld PC's with perfect emulation are a thing.

Not that i care too much, it's Nintendo.

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