Hihihihihahahhohoho.

Sorry. No.

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Quoting: kanigglWell, i play pine. And what should i say, it is fine :) Of course, it is not Zelda BOTW, but i like it pretty much.

I asked that before but now that more of you played it a bit:

Does it contain a story that has some kind of goal (by means of playing through the game) or is it more like an open-world sandbox game with some missions?

BotW had a nice story and delivered that play-through story.
Pine is quite cheap, so I guess it's lacking the story content? :)

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Quoting: eldakingJust today I finally reached Big Boss 1 on Dota Underlords, which is nice.

I have recently decided to give Pillars of Eternity a try and its really good, but I am not really into RPGs. I'll try to finish this one though.

And I have recently gone back to Crusader Kings 2. I think I'll do a super-religious France roleplay run and maybe get a few achievements.

Pillars of Eternity is a fantastic game very close to the classic Baldur's Gate games.
Yet, way(!) too much text for me, much more than BG1+2 had.

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Quoting: GustyGhost

Quoting: razing32A bit of context please ?

You cannot use your current GPU without loading a proprietary blob firmware which uses encryption to make sure that the GPU ultimately obeys somebody else that isn't you. Part of this (mis)functionality is required for other "protection" schemes such as HDCP. Who would pressure for such (mis)functionality to be integrated into hardware and firmware?

Plus, aren't those companies trying to hard-locked diversify their platforms?
Providing some features only on one (premium) product and not on others, allowing them to use (almost) the same silicon for a wide range of product which can significantly lower the cost.

I guess this is also one argument against a fully open stack for at least some companies - looking in particular at you Nvidia.

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Apart from using OpenGL, this game looks great!

Does it feature a real story that you have to pursue?
Like the awesome game Zelda:BotW has?
(Seriously, one of the very best games I played in years).

I'm not much into sanbox open worlds. :/

Edit:

Let me precise "story".
Does it have a "goal"?
From all descriptions I read so far this is not clear to me.
Sounds more like a sandbox.

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That one looks soooo promising. :)

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Quoting: Klaas

Quoting: subEdit: Liam, if you find the time maybe can ask them what went wrong?

Maybe they didn't realize that there is no native DirectX on Linux?

;)

But there is a MacOS version existing.
Whatever it's using, OpenGL or Metal it's definitely not Direct3D.

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Quoting: KlaasIt seems that the Linux version of Machinarium disappeared when they switched to the new engine – at least the Steam version is Windows/Mac only and according to GOGdb the Linux version hasn't been updated in ages. I can't check directly, because I only have the Humble version.

But it was planned:

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/machinarium-updated-to-remove-flash-new-linux-build-is-planned-too.9884

We know this all too well. :)
This makes me even more confident that I read they wanted to bring more older titles to Linux with the new engine but seem to have scraped that.

Edit: Liam, if you find the time maybe can ask them what went wrong?

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Quoting: Cyril

Quoting: subThey once said on Twitter that they port older games to the new engine.
I guess that'll happen. :/

Have you the source of this?

I was searching for it and couldn't find it.

Hmm, maybe I was wrongly confusing that with the statement about future games using Unity ...

If I'll find it, I'll post it here.
Otherwise, I stand corrected. :)

I remember a tweet by them as a reaction to a question concerning the engine swap for a
new Machinarium build and if this work couldn't be leveraged for other older titles.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/06/22/machinarium-rebuild/ [External Link]

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: subSorry, but if we have any self respect, a game that only works on GPUs by one company should be boycotted these days. (In this case after years!)

On Windows nobody would give the developer a pass on that, right?

Nobody? 75% of the steam userbase use nvidia [External Link] - and you might know that there are a lot of people in the windows and console communities who like to brag about exclusive content.
Alien: Isolation, Dying Light, ARK and many others didn't work with mesa+amd for years because the amd support was relatively new and devs didn't bother because of the small marketshare. This is just a small RTS and I think the same thing happened with it.

Sorry, but that sounds like it was written in the 200Xies.

Let's be honest - for the last years there is absolutely no valid reason anymore to blame AMD for bad driver support. Please don't come up with anecdotal evidence that only refer to very special case - that are actually present for *all* manufacturers.

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