I've said this before, but personally I don't care about performance on other platforms. If a game doesn't work well on my hardware on Linux, I don't buy it and I don't play it. Simple.

It is beyond cool that we get so many great games these days, but if it came down to it, I'd rather give up on games than on Linux. In fact I pretty much did just that for a few years. But now I can call myself a Linux gamer with a straight face and that tickles me pink.

I don't doubt many people who call themselves gamers are more willing to use whatever OS gives them (subjectively) the best game experience, and these differences will undoubtedly keep them from switching to Linux. They won't care about reasons or explanations though, valid or not.

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The artwork is beautiful. Too bad if that's all there is to it.

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Yeah, the video doesn't tell me much. I like the style though, and if the writing's any good, there's a decent chance I'll enjoy the game. Many of my favourite adventure games are a bit on the silly side of the spectrum.

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Quoting: dubigrasuThey do look the same if you do enough runs. The hair, the dog's fur, general color tones, lights etc, all get to look the same eventually, but is a bit time consuming to keep recording until you get both version to match.

OK, there's more randomization going on than I guessed then. I thought the hair and lighting differences were shader-related.

Quoting: dubigrasuEdit: Ah, the driver version makes little difference, at least for the ones I tried (367.57, 375.10 and 370.28)

Right, thanks for testing.

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Quoting: dubigrasuYou can make the game to look the same, but not from presets.

The videos do not look identical to me, but I don't know if the minor lighting or detail related differences affect performance. I don't mean the randomized stuff you mentioned. I guess some of it might be due to video compression.

Feral could probably give further details on what exactly is missing or different in the Linux implementation, if it even matters. No real effect on the quality of our game experience, I'm sure.

Do later driver versions affect performance at all? Might not be easy to test on SteamOS.

EDIT: One very visible difference is the protagonist's hair after 1:50. Also sunlight seems a bit warmer in tone in the Windows version at times. You wouldn't even notice things like these if they weren't running side-by-side.

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Quoting: Mountain ManSo what I'm seeing is that these aren't text adventures as much as they're fairly standard video games with an unconventional interface (at least by today's standards).

"Fairly standard video games"? Does that even mean anything?

Anyway, both games seem interesting and I'll most definitely be keeping my eye on them. Thanks for the heads up, Cheeseness.

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Quoting: JahimselfI wonder how the game perform on linux, because if there is a big gap like on alien isolation it may almost impossible to hit the 40fps average on normal settings, even with a GTX1080 on 1080p... It seeems it is one of the worst port of the century on pc, so unless feral find a way to get better perf on linux, it might be very hard to run the game outside the minimum settings.

Huh? Even on my 970 I haven't had any issues with Alien Isolation, don't remember seeing anyone complain about it either.

A:I Performs fine on my 960 as well. I believe there was a performance bug with Pascal chips and early drivers. You should try again. Sure there's a gap, but nothing that dramatic.

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Going for the Fran Bow vibe I see. Although this one seems to occupy a rung towards the creepy end of the ladder, and if the video is an indication, has slightly lower production values.

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Being Steam-only is most likely as much of a business decision as it is a technical one. The convenience and cost of maintaining a single release vs multiple etc. Can't say if it's good business, but it sure would be nice to have their games on GOG for the steam-intolerant among us. GOGgies need their Linux AAA fix as well.

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Quoting: operaThis game reminds me of "Jack Keane". An older pirate adventure with similar visuals.

Also, Telltale games back when they were traditional point-and-click adventures. Could be good, we'll see.

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