I disagree with "What a messy situation this emulator has been.", while it has been a source of strong opinions in the past, I can't get behind that view this time.

I've seen variations of this exact problem kill projects in the past, and unfortunately the loudest people rarely side with the project/often-single-person otherwise trying to mind their own business. Either they just one day suddenly close a project, or sometimes they'll lash out first with the predictable retribution (since lashing out is RARELY well thought out, and you can never "undo" what you say on the internet, no matter how fair it is).

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Agreed with the other comments.

This reminds me of the evolution of the Amazon website over the years, where modern UX tends to eventually turn sites unusable for browsing.

Now the Steam store is just a bunch of wasted space with things stuffed together in an inconvenient way. I don't see myself ever browsing the store like it is in the Beta, I would search for what I want specifically, go to it, and that's it.

At least they still use actual words in their interface, and the new one -- despite not caring for it at all -- is at least consistent in placement. Small victories I guess.

If they keep up with modern UX trends soon enough it'll be icons-only that don't mean anything, aren't obvious, be over-simplified in a frustrating manner, and be all over the place because some UX designer thought their unique take on things is more intuitive then familiar flows that people would just understand immediately versus having to learn their #901358 interface of the week.

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Good detail on how to proton things directly in Steam; I follow the exact same procedure for regular windows games too and just skip Heroic/Lutris/Similar entirely.

Personally I can't stand the UIs of either Heroic or Lutris, and the vast majority of the time it's simple enough to just add them to Steam with most of my other games anyway.

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Legacy of the Wizard. I have sucked at it since I was a child and will likely continue to suck at it for the rest of my life, but I still like dusting it off once in a while.

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As someone that plays this occasionally over the years, and checking out this remaster (although not comparing, its been a while since booting up the old version), I honestly couldn't tell the difference whatsoever.

Still a good game that I'll continue to play occasionally in any event.

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Quoting: 278822I still don't understand why investing so much money into invasive DRM like Denuvo + things that people hate (launchers, online only games etc.) instead of lowering price so people don't have reason to pirate it.

At least in terms of Denuvo, I believe publishers usually do it up to and then during the launch window for games, to protect initial sales and to try and prevent early leaks. It's why you often seen a later patch remove Denuvo, sometimes as early as a few weeks later -- after the majority of sales typically happen for a new game. Obviously it's not a hard rule and some of them just leave Denuvo on their games forever.

I'm not sure how effective that logic is in practice, which I think most of us would find very dubious in modern times, but at least publishers seem to think so.

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I wouldn't call this a new spin, it sounds exactly like the long running game series Itadaki Street, although I believe only the Wii game had a US release as Fortune Street.

More of a love letter to that, considering the name, I think.

Also, Fortune Street is probably my all-time favorite Wii game and if anyone reading this hasn't given it a shot yet, I highly recommend doing so. It's an amazing combination of Mario and Dragon Quest characters, in... A monopoly-like game that features stocks and minigames.

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Agreed, I will probably buy this just because I really like Wadjet Eye games and would prefer to support them.

But honestly I don't love the high res graphics/style, and the voice acting is.. okay, at least in the trailers.

Kind of like going from Space Quest 4 to Space Quest 6.

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I'd put money on Wayland maturing over time, the PCSX2 devs weren't wrong about it being a mess in a lot of ways.

I saw similar news in another popular linux site/forum, which... frankly is known for rather toxic forums, rag on the PCSX2 devs like how dare they have a reasoned opinion and then do the ridiculous thing like update their opinions as time passes and issues resolve.

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I'll cross my fingers, but won't get my hopes up. Projects like these that are deep in the MS ecosystem rarely end up working well on Linux, with the vast majority ending up janky at best. There are exceptions, but that's what they are -- exceptions.

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