Quoting: basedOh, another Microsoft studio

I thought studios bought by Microsoft were more about seeing their creators depart willingly, cf. Rare, Lionhead, Bungie...

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I'm a fan of Introversion Software, bought their full shareware catalogue back in the day (way before Steam on Linux.) Uplink more particularly holds a special place in my heart, and IMHO has never been dethroned as the best hacking videogame ever.

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Quoting: LoftyHonestly AAA gaming is pretty much dead to me right now, it's not the Size of the games, the lacklustre optimisation, the exorbitant pricing models on unfinished releases with DLC being used as a patch, or the not actually owning it, or even the DRM anti-cheat spyware.. let alone the way these companies treat their staff. It's actually because most (not all) of these games frankly suck.

I agree. I'm looking into building a new rig soon and I was looking for a recent game to benchmark the whole stuff. Turns out there's no interesting title for me that's less than 2-3 years old. I'd want to try Cyberpunk 2077 now that it's less bug-heavy but turns out it's still 60 bucks and with the upcoming extension being quite pricey as well, I guess it's a no-go for me.

I slapped a 7900XT in my system after pulling out my 3080 RTX. Instantly enjoyed having just normal desktop stuff run smoother. Randomly(not really) Wayland started working in Debian as well. So, if you're currently running an nvidia card, upgrading just for some bug fixes in software and smoother desktop usage, the upgrade is worth it! One problem I had with the upgrade though; the 7900XT was vastly larger than the 3080 RTX. Funny enough, the PCB was the same size, but the heat sink just hung off of it about 4 inches further. It came with a bracket to stabilize it better... GPUs are just getting silly in size.

I am planning on building a full AMD setup indeed. Nvidia is such a frustration for me... Being more into low-consumption setups I will go for a Ryzen 7 7700 and Radeon RX 6600 that will be upgraded if 8000 series is worth the investment.

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Quoting: LoftyHonestly AAA gaming is pretty much dead to me right now, it's not the Size of the games, the lacklustre optimisation, the exorbitant pricing models on unfinished releases with DLC being used as a patch, or the not actually owning it, or even the DRM anti-cheat spyware.. let alone the way these companies treat their staff. It's actually because most (not all) of these games frankly suck.

I agree. I'm looking into building a new rig soon and I was looking for a recent game to benchmark the whole stuff. Turns out there's no interesting title for me that's less than 2-3 years old. I'd want to try Cyberpunk 2077 now that it's less bug-heavy but turns out it's still 60 bucks and with the upcoming extension being quite pricey as well, I guess it's a no-go for me.

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Quoting: rustybroomhandleHumble Bundle, remember they used to have keys for Steam, their own store and.... Desura. Remember Desura?

Humble ports weren't exactly great, and many left broken.

...and yet we were quite happy with them. That's saying how far we've gone since then.

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Quoting: Liam DaweDon’t even get me started on the people trying to claim things were good pre-Steam 🤣

The best pre-Steam thing that I can point to was the massive progress made on emulation, driven by stuff like the GP2X (an obscure Linux-based Korean handheld with awful controls because the company didn't know the gaming space very well) and similar machines, which ultimately came into its own later when those same emulators got ported to the Raspberry Pi and making emulation-boxes became a hugely popular first project.

Prior to that, people would insist that you needed to install Windows XP for a good emulation experience, whereas today Linux is considered the go-to by just about everybody. But emulation is understandably niche, so it was never going to drive Linux gaming adoption alone. :tongue:

To be fair, the Humble Bundle in its early days also made great steps toward Linux gaming by requiring each game in the bundle to be ported to Mac and Linux. Granted it was indie games at the time, but there were also up-and-coming devs like Frozenbyte and Runic games. Another great contribution to Linux gaming was that they published figures on what each platform paid on average for the games, revealing Linux gamers were eager to pay more to support the effort.

Obviously that was nowhere near Valve's contribution, but I have fond memories of those days.

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I am actually quite impressed looking at how far Nixxes have gone since Project Snowblind. Their first PC ports were not that popular and honestly were kind of buggy, but they improved a lot with Deus Ex and now they have a great reputation. Them fixing things up for Linux gamers is all the more impressive!

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So many great security issues mascots, maybe we could add them to Tux Kart?!

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I played the hell out of the PS2 episode (don't remember which one it was) on a friend's console back in the day.
If Armored Core VI is anywhere near as good as the series used to be, prepare for spending hundreds of hours of refined gameplay and mech customization. This is Otaku dreamland.

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I wish to win a copy because I'm pretty sure my 12-year-old girl is going to love both the atmosphere and gameplay.

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