"disdain found for Linux among the Japanese games industry"

Is that a thing? Mighty No. 9 is on Linux and the Japanese seem to always get wet over anything american - there's nothing more american than Steam Machines which were created in Central California, USA - Also - there are a lot of Japanese in California so I'm pulling my dafuq Jackie Chan face right now in true curiosity.

As for Republique not havnig a Linux version I'll say it again. Bad Programmers always will say something is "impossible" when it's simply too hard or inconvenient.

Good programmers would have employed Object Oriented Programming and abstracted dependencies on Middle-ware into a Interface Object - they do this with MySQL access in PHP all the time to add comparability with other databases.

But when your code is dank spaghetti that was fandangled by the free Intern and has no OOP yeah I could see how it would be hard. Of course management is always hounding "Get it done Faster" and sometimes making software decisions that they have no business making "Use ZYX Plugin because I read on a blog that it has X feature" and the seasoned coders are like "uhhh...... but....." then because the whole thing is rushed it never is baked right and at the end it's a heap of spaghetti because it was never done right to begin with.

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How to make a game trailer in 2015:
1 ) Insert 3d cinematic that looks nothing like gameplay
2 ) slow motion / fast motion
3 ) cut to silence
4 ) Loud BwwaaaaaaaHHHH Sound
5 ) Profit
6 ) ..... What did I just buy?

View video on youtube.com

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KOTR2 is 70% off @ $3 That'll be a nice Steam TV game for meh.

Anyone recommend any good Local Multiplayers with Full Controller support? I want to collect a couple more Steam Controllers and some Local games to play w/ friends.

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Depressing Music.
Depressing Visuals.
Depressing Story.
Snow
Cold
Sadness

If any of these interest you then this game is most certainly for you!
This is beginning to sound like the Grave of Fireflys of games so far.

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I vote Final Fantasy 6 & 8 there ya go jk.

BioShock Infinite seems pretty interesting so far, it's my first game of the franchise and I'm a couple hours in.

This is how I rate a game:
Good Story + Bad Graphics = Good Game
Good Story + Good Graphics = Good Game
Bad Story + Good Graphics = Bad Game
Bad Story + Bad Graphics = Bad Game

Gratuitous Blood = Developer Lazy implementing Particle & SFX
Gratuitous Violence = Developer Lazy writing a drawing story

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Anyone remember those games they used to put into Cereal Boxes and other places like Chex Quest



Those games had a strange charm to them.

And then there was G-Nome too


We've come a long way since then in PC gaming :)

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I have to admit I would have never bought this if it never came to SteamOS/Linux.

Maybe I always ignored it because it was Win only, hopefully I can have some fun crashing cars and civilians. This sale is gonna hurt :( lol.

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Now begin the age where SteamOS (with Linux piggybacked) is now the sensible choice to develop for.

Many thanks to Valve, may their Income be High and their Sales Low.

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Quoting: sarmadObviously the bottleneck is not the GPU.

saramad is likely correct as I have a 46 second boot time when I play StarCraft II straight from a SSD and with a GTX 970, The bottleneck in my case is my i7 940 CPU, I really need a 6th gen i7 or Xeon.

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