Looks really interesting. Reminiscent me of some levels in Kingdom Hearts, with a CupHead vibe... looks really cool.

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Quoting: CyrilWhat is "silly" is what they did to Overwatch (the first one). I think I will never understand that move.
And about Blizzard as a whole, where is Warcraft IV? WoW II? Starcraft III?

You won't be getting a Warcraft IV ever; that's what World of Warcraft was/is.

Nor a Starcraft III, the story arc of the characters is topped, but they could try and fit characters into other game genres based on characters orher than those featured in the first games and expansions, similar to what Nova tried to do (to end up using the character in the same genre, with a totally different story development).

From a stealth shooter (FP|TP) game akin to thief or Hitman, to a game similar to Spece Marine or Helldivers, An Alien Isolation-like MOB-survivor game featuring Terran on an invaded outpost escaping the Zerg, parallel to or just previous to the events in the main Story. There are many things that could be done under the SC IP. He'll even a souls-like action/adventure title having you be one of the different Proton classes (a la Zeratul and Tassadar venturing to know the full scope of the Kalah), or even a Terran scientist a la Tomb Raider/Uncharted... (but I digress)

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I guess I'll skip this until the performance and optimization patches kick in to lower resource waste, and maybe get it (if at all) at a Steam's sale for 80%+ off discount, regardless of how good the game is, or how popular it turns out to be.

And is not that my current system would struggle, these guys simply seem to market to a bubble and not to a big audience. It would seem as if the game is more a tech demo than a game, as such. Looks to be dev laziness not seeking optimization, throwing hardware at a performance issue with their code instead of fixing the code.

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Why?

Why everybody and their cat are redoing stuff on UE5 of all engines, ditching perfectly good in-house engines; when did UE become the Windows of game engines?

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Just installed them (Unreal Gold, UT99 & UT2K4) on my Steam Deck just for kicks. Man! The nostalgia as I saw Nali Castle and Liandri fly bys! Steam Input works wonders! Next goal: to attempt to run them natively, with the new OpenGL renderer (which, on the Deck, has text artifacts, like MSAA used to produce on bitmap text, in the menus).

I wonder if you could run an ad-hoc LAN hosted listening server with some other Deck users, a la Nintendo DS ad-hoc connections...

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Reminds me of games like Shivers and Phantasmagoria

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Quoting: slackSorry, I see it differently. It's one thing what you think you're buying and another thing what you're paying for. In my opinion, you can never buy a game because it will always be the property of its creator. In reality you are only paying for the legitimate right to use it, with permission of its creator. You cannot resell it, nor rent it, nor make any business with that right without the permission of the creator of the game. So the creator (let's assume that the creator is the owner of the rights), at any time he chooses, can stop supporting the game.

It seems to me that if you know what you are paying for, the disappointment is less.

While this holds true for electronic 'works' in general, what I really find irritating is that for all the media (written word, music, video, games, etc) the rights management and commertialization stems from the editorial tradition. In that (until very recently), creators have to put up with publishers to get their works known and distributed. For the longest time self publishing has been (and still is in most cases) simply way too expensive. And is in that paradigm that these mega corporations got to the position we currently are. I really, really despise the model and paradigm, alas I do reckon that it has been (and for many still is) the only way to distribute works.

(In the context of gaming...) Alas, in the face of the imminent extintion of physical forms (media) for games (consoles being the last bastion), all electronic 'gaming works' are subject to these practices. A paradigm shift must occur if there is any hope to stop this from happening, and most likely, it will only happen if the gaming community also changes consumption habits of games... Campaigns like this may render the situation a tad more visible, but most likely will do little for shifting consumption habits.

At this point seems very unlikely that the industry at large would do anything in favor of the gamers, and indeed it would seem like the only plausible cause of action would be via legislation, and that may even prove difficult.

So yes, the only way to avoid dissapoitment is to avoid buying.

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The message Valve sends with these actions, besides their commitment to the Deck as a platform, and Linux as the vehicle to consolidate it, is also their commitment to make any and every game as well supported as possible, which is much more than the likes of Epic or GoG are doing. So they are actually showing where that 30% revenue cut is going to.

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That's great! Alas on my system any version newer than alpha 0.18 won't run anything (regardless of Flatpak or AppImage). I dumped most of my games using a supported BD Drive (and even jailbroke my PS3 to re-dump to disk and transfer via sftp, with the same results and lots of invested time).

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Quoting: KlaasI wonder if I'm the only one that reads CDC as centers for desease control. An unfortunate name.

All in all this reminds me of https://xkcd.com/927/ [External Link]

Nailed it, on both accounts! LOL!

I thought of the same (both CDC and regarding yet another sync protocol)

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