"with a Radeon R7 GPU so it's not exactly a powerhouse."great...
" It will come with 4GB DDR4 RAM"
half of what an ps4 have, and looks like sony is already planing for an ps5.
" 32GB eMMC"
and not enough space for more than 1 triple A game, great, just what we need another indie box...

" It will come with 100+ classic Atari games pre-loaded"
also know as Atari Vaul, 10 dollars on steam.

" They're saying by the launch in Spring 2019, that they're planning to have 'new and exclusive games'."
considering that they needed an crowdfunding to raise a few bucks for porting rollercoaster tycoon, i wonder what kind of exclusive they can pay for.

but at least they will do exclusive titles.

" I really do hate exclusives,"
i hate to say that, but there isnt a world without exclusives, there is either an world with thousands of windows exclusive titles and a few multiplatform titles, or a world where everything is multiplatform except for a few exclusives.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

tons of issues here...

the interface is too slow.
the game boot without any image
i cant assign my gamepad properly
and the full screen dont work either

View this comment - View article - View full comments

"Two-player online multiplayer "
finally, i wonder why it took so long.

"Additional graphics filters & border options"
the only filter that i would use is CRT filter.
everything else is for heretics

"ROMs from other regions for games with significant differences"
YEAH! fucking yeah!

View this comment - View article - View full comments

i'm interested due to the steam punk aspects, but i already have more games in my wish list than i think its humanly possible to play in a single life, so i might skip that.

also they are promissing too much, an game should have focus, making an story that you can influence, build your own story is hard enough.
if they focus on story teling, they may achieve something close to that, but instead they will have an combat system with many options, they will have to sacrifice one of those 2 things.
either they have no idea that they will need to do that, or the game will be limited in one of those 2 things
[edit]
" rather than Victorian-era androids that are far more high-tech than what we do have now, but still I like it. "

agree

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Higurashi is a classic, it made enough sucess to become an anime (and one of my favorites)

i dont know if any of those games have ecchi, but if valve keeps their policy on censorship, i highly recomend to purchase those games on gog

View this comment - View article - View full comments

f*** off valve, either apply the same rule to the big ones and small ones, or don't apply at all.
ooh, but they dont want to piss off the Rockstart ones and CDPR ones...

i will note all my games on the wishlist of another store before they remove or get censored

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: slaapliedjeI wonder if at some point Wine (or something similar) will be ported to Windows 10. With all the Linux subsystems being released, I kind of half expect them to ditch the NT kernel. Ha! Wouldn't that be the day?

there is demmand for that, just look at gog and how they use dosbox.

Quoting: MayeulCI guess they will slowly break Win32 compatibility to push people towards UWP apps. This might have the side effect of pushing them towards Linux/Wine

we cant count on MS shooting then selfs on their foot as our trump card.
sure they will break win32 bits compatibility in order to push UWP, but that will only make their apps run on arm devices as an result.
and someone will port wine to UWP format to keep seling old games.

there is no way arround it, either we make some killer exclusives or the market will not change .

View this comment - View article - View full comments

i hope to see big titles annoucing that they will adopt vulkan

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: elmapulthings will never end at this rate, its a "cat-and-mouse game"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_and_mouse [External Link]
just like wine will never be perfect for the same reason.

Welll . . . Wine will never be perfect for current Windows. But over time the proportion of software that was written for Windows-before-the-present gradually increases, and current Windows seems to be getting worse at backwards compatibility, probably deliberately for certain tactical reasons which I think may be mistaken.
So in theory Wine could become approximately perfect for pre-current Windows, and that becomes a more and more important role.

windows indeed cut the support for old softwares/games (that takes time because microsoft understand that killing the backward compatibility may harm then)
you cant play old dos games on windows anymore, indeed.
except that you can!

dosbox has an version for windows, gog even uses it to sell old games on windows.
so even if windows lose backward compatibility, gamers will be able to play their games anyway, some one will port something like wine to windows, or companies will port their old games and the worse part is, even games distributed with dosbox emulation may not officialy support linux (even if the game is still playable, people considering use it will stay away thinking that the game cant run, or new users will have trouble making it run)

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: elmapulthings will never end at this rate, its a "cat-and-mouse game"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_and_mouse [External Link]
just like wine will never be perfect for the same reason.

Welll . . . Wine will never be perfect for current Windows. But over time the proportion of software that was written for Windows-before-the-present gradually increases, and current Windows seems to be getting worse at backwards compatibility, probably deliberately for certain tactical reasons which I think may be mistaken.
So in theory Wine could become approximately perfect for pre-current Windows, and that becomes a more and more important role.

windows indeed cut the support for old softwares/games (that takes time because microsoft understand that killing the backward compatibility may harm then)
you cant play old dos games on windows anymore, indeed.
except that you can!

dosbox has an version for windows, gog even uses it to sell old games on windows.
so even if windows lose backward compatibility, gamers will be able to play their games anyway, some one will port something like wine to windows, or companies will port their old games and the worse part is, even games distributed with dosbox emulation may not officialy support linux (even if the game is still playable, people considering use it will stay away thinking that the game cant run, or new users will have trouble making it run)

View this comment - View article - View full comments