Quoting: LeopardThing is; businesses are targeting immediate/relevant markets as they are all there to make money. So going native is just not possible at any rate as of now.

Yet there are thousands of native games on the market. Seems to blatantly contradict your assertion.

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Quoting: itscalledrealityMy snipe at Unix to Linux is to point out that the Playstations are traditionally Unix platforms. An OS that has traditionally not been used heavily for visual applications and is the cousin of Linux. So why did it take until almost 2022 to give us Linux gaming if we were playing on Unix the whole time?

Unix and Linux are cousins in a sense, but Linux is not Unix. And the game was ported to Windows, which is definitely not a close relative. Still, it's nice that they made sure (or let Valve make sure) that it works on Proton.

The Uncharted series looks fun enough, but I'll stick to games with official Linux support. I don't care if they're wrapped, as long as they do some QA on (desktop) Linux as well.

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Quoting: Avehicle7887Looks nice, would play if it didn't require you to install Steam to download it.

It doesn't. You can get it on itch.io [External Link] as well.

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Unless the trailer is intentionally misleading, this one promises to dial up Failbetter's normally judicious use of dark humour a whole lot. And I like it.

Dating sims and visual novels aren't exactly my cup of beverage -- I'm more of a non-visual novel kind of guy -- but I might just have to wishlist this regardless.

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Quoting: hardpenguin

Quoting: Craggles086Trying to remember the name of the Dos game made before Heroes of Might and Magic. When they were developing some of the ideas that went into Heroes.

Can not seem to remember, but would love an open source version of it.

King's Bounty?

Could have been. Was the first one a Dos game?

It was released in 1990, so obviously DOS and C64. Then a graphically enhanced port to Amiga with more comfortable mouse controls.

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Quoting: uglyOne major issue for me is that I'm not getting 165Hz on my monitor. I have a dual screen setup with one monitor 1080@60Hz and another monitor 1440@165Hz. I can tell the animations in Cinnamon are not smooth on my 165Hz screen.

Must be due to the big window manager rebase in Mint 21 Cinnamon.

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Quoting: tuubiIs your F310 in X (XInput) or D (DirectInput) mode? Try flipping the input mode switch on the bottom.

thanks, it was X and i try both without success :unsure: I might be unlucky

D might work better in a few old games, but X is almost always the right mode to be in.

Maybe check your Steam Input settings? I haven't used Logitech gamepads in a couple of years, but I think I sometimes had to disable Steam Input completely for a title if it was interfering with the game somehow.

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Quoting: haiku

Quoting: robvv

Quoting: haikustill unable to play with a controller :angry:

There's been an update recently. My Logitech F310 was picked up straight away, so maybe your controller will be, too?

Thanks but sadly i also own a F310 but it does not work. Which update are you talking about ? I use Manjaro/latest proton experimental

Is your F310 in X (XInput) or D (DirectInput) mode? Try flipping the input mode switch on the bottom.

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Quoting: const

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Quoting: const

Quoting: StoneColdSpiderIm so glad seeing Boomer Clickers making a comeback :wink:

Just came to say the same. Hard to believe this genre was very very much dead until Deadalic reactivated it and now new titles come up all the time.

It wasn't quite dead. I think it just got drowned out by the explosion of other types of games for a while. I mean there were never that many adventure game releases per year even in the good old days.

In addition to Daedalic, developers (and publishers) like Telltale, Revolution Software, Wadjet Eye, KING Art and others kept traditional adventure gaming alive through the dry spell for fans of the genre.

The classical (2D) point and click adventures (especiall those with monkey island like humor) absolutely looked dead between 1998 and 2008, when Edna and Harvey released.
TellTales Sam and Max Season One might shorten that to 2006 but I wouldn't call that a classical point and click. I wouldn't even get myself to replay these games, though I celebrated their release (Just to find they ran horribly on wine back then). TellTale games aged horribly.

Well, setting aside your preferences and focusing on the whole genre, here's some traditional and non-traditional adventure game releases from the "dead" period, in case you missed them:

• 1999: Discworld Noir, Gabriel Knight III


• 2000: The Longest Journey, Escape from Monkey Island, Dracula: The Resurrection


• 2001: Runaway: The Road Adventure, Gilbert Goodmate and the Mushroom of Phungoria


• 2002: Syberia, Tony Tough and the Night of Roasted Moths, Simon the Sorcerer 3D


• 2003: The Black Mirror, Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon, Samorost


• 2004: Syberia II, Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Silver Earring, Return to Mysterious Island


• 2005: Nibiru: Age Of Secrets, Still Life, Ankh: The Tales of Mystery, Samorost 2


• 2006: Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, Secret Files: Tunguska, Broken Sword: The Angel of Death, Al Emmo and the Lost Dutchman's Mine

I see some proper classics on that list, but you seem to be talking about a narrow subset of the traditional adventure genre and only a couple of these would fit your definition. I guess adventure games were properly dead for you personally.

Oh and of course there was also the active hobbyist community at adventuregamestudio.co.uk [External Link], and you can still download tons of free and fun games to play, all 2D and most with silly comedy. Old versions of the engine were janky at best, but they should still run with Wine.

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Quoting: const

Quoting: StoneColdSpiderIm so glad seeing Boomer Clickers making a comeback :wink:

Just came to say the same. Hard to believe this genre was very very much dead until Deadalic reactivated it and now new titles come up all the time.

It wasn't quite dead. I think it just got drowned out by the explosion of other types of games for a while. I mean there were never that many adventure game releases per year even in the good old days.

In addition to Daedalic, developers (and publishers) like Telltale, Revolution Software, Wadjet Eye, KING Art and others kept traditional adventure gaming alive through the dry spell for fans of the genre.

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