I wonder if they left the VR support enabled in the Linux build.

They didn't, which is disappointing but quickly solved by just running this game in proton which I do anyway because of a multi monitor refresh rate bug with the linux version that doesn't exist in the proton version, as well as easier management of SpinShare via protontricks.

But what they did do was somehow make a multi touch touchscreen control scheme for Steam Deck which is something that, until this game got this linux port, I had no idea was even possible on Deck. I just assumed it emulated your single point of interaction mouse. I've owned my steam deck for 2 years at this point, I've tinkered with it to bottom of the iceberg levels of knowledge, yet I had no idea it had multi touch support until the spin rhythm devs added it to this game.

In any case, Spin Rhythm XD is one of the best rhythm games on steam and I can't recommend it enough to anyone reading this article if you like rhythm games, I've been playing it long before it got a linux port.

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This would have flown into my GOG library even at $30 but I hear it's missing some music.

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If nothing else this should be good news for the NVK driver, right?

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This is genuinely cool and all and it's nice that people who have never heard of minecraft shader packs are going to get an official taste of one, but unless Mojang also officially implements a thing like Optifine or Sodium to fix the optimization as well I'm gonna stick to my usual shader packs I was already using.

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All of these fixes are stuff I've wanted for a while, kudos to the HGL team, there's a reason I go out of my way to buy GOG stuff using the affiliate link inside the launcher.

itch.io has a native client like Steam, use this for gog.

Would still be nice to eventually get itch.io implemented in HGL so I only need 3 launchers to play games on linux, not 4.

Would only be 2 launchers after this addition, Steam and HGL, if HGL also gets a "full backup" option like Bottles has where it zips up a WINE prefix and all the changes I made to it into one file that can be transferred and deployed across different systems and distros, since that's the main reason I can't do without Bottles.

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I thought Counter Strike: Source was dead already. Why are people still playing that when CS2 exists? And why are the servers still up anyway?

It has the best version of the community Zombie Escape gamemode as far as I'm concerned. Best map rotation, best controls, most fun.

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Super cool to see a fix for Studio System: Guardian Angel, that game is a hidden gem.

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I think even if Amazon made a service that had every last feature of Steam I still wouldn't use their service. This has nothing to do with established libraries for me, I regularly use itch io, gamejolt, and GOG, it has to do with trust. I would not trust my game library in the hands of Amazon for the same reasons I would not trust my game library in the hands of Epic. They will not put me first when it comes to whatever they wanna do. They are the types that think that "publishers decide the store wars, not consumers" (actual quote from Tim Sweeney).

I'm not saying Valve doesn't also see me as a wallet, I'm very much in the camp of "Corporations are not your friends", but like, if Valve ever decides to fuck me, I have 100% confidence based on their previous actions that have ALMOST

Spoiler, click me

(haven't forgotten about paid mods, abandoning artifact, waiting 12 years for a new half life game only to still be left on a cliffhanger, the long term neglect of Team Fortress 2 that is thankfully now over with the SDK release, or loot crate controversies)

always centered around making the user experience better, they will at least use lube before doing so. Everyone else except for maybe the people running GOG seem like they'd violently shove a cactus up there instead if it amuses their shareholders or a publisher.

Trust is something you can't buy, it has to be earned over time. Amazon does not have the good will necessary for me to use them as anything but a prime gaming GOG key generator because of how much I use "free" prime shipping to get physical goods to the point that it pays for itself.

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Nice, BallisticNG and Descenders especially are great fun.

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The thing about this GOG Dreamlist is that it comes off as like, a carrot on a stick with no actual carrot.

All the games I actually want to be on GOG, like the 2000s need for speed games, Silent Hill 2 and 3, and the ORIGINAL (I.E. Non MCC Version of Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo 2) halo games for the purposes of reviving the custom edition/project cartographer modding scenes, etc. are probably never gonna end up actually on GOG, especially since they aren't at the top of the votes list.

It'll be like how we all wanted a linux launcher and it sat at the top of requests for a long time, yet it took so long people just made Heroic Games Launcher which is better in many ways anyway just like going and "finding" these old games is better anyway.

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