Quoting: GuestThe comment section of this article is why the majority of game developers don't take linux gamers seriously and see them as whiny entitled losers.

If you think this attitude is Linux-specific, you live in a bubble.

Edit: To be clear on my point, any time I see Epic mentioned on bigger Windows focused websites the comments are hilarious at times.

I fully agree that everyone should take it as it comes. Funding for a FOSS game engine is great. Take it. Use it.

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Quoting: Liam DaweNext time, use the tips button - to ensure we pick up corrections

Where is this button?

"Send Correction Report", it's next the the Preview Comment button.

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Quoting: ageres

with the Basic model having an Intel i9-9500

i5-9500.

Next time, use the tips button - to ensure we pick up corrections - I don't always read comments ;)

That's Amazon's fault, they're listing the Basic model CPU incorrectly <_<

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Quoting: Geppeto35This game (and us) needs a gameplay video, even 10 minutes. Liam?

I'll have a full gameplay video up around the release.

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Quoting: Liam DaweI think it's more a case of the attitude. We're a niche, a tiny one and nothing has changed on that. Seeing people repeat the "there's no AAA games" thing over and over again just gets tiring. We are where we are, a lot of us enjoying what we have.

fair point. I'm just sitting here, eagerly, worked up by the massive whirl around the "Steam Machines" a while back. It was a glimpse of what COULD have happened, had that thing been handled with enough focus while it was hot. The response from various devs and distributors demonstrated to us with no doubt that it *is* possible - had just Valve made the Steam Machine and pushed it on market the year after.
If only they did things in a different order - earned some experience with making hardware first and then launched the Steam Machine, then we quite likely would have been in an entirely different situation now.

But point taken.

Totally get that. I know developers who banked on Steam Machines, I myself had a fair bit riding on its success as the owner of this site. Imagine where GOL would be... still, things continue to progress in lots of ways and I've found so many fucking awesome games in the last year it's crazy we even get what we do at a 0.90% market share.

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Quoting: Patola

Quoting: BeamboomI don't play for score anymore, I don't play to win at a strategy board. I play for immersion. For fantastic experiences, gorgeous landscapes, excellent acting, touching characters, and a freedom to be and do what I want in a universe like the ones I see in the movies I love.
I don't sit on a machine capable of delivering me a holodeck experience just to play pong again. That's where you have me. Is that really something to patronise?

That was some brilliant writing. I am also from this time, also played games since PONG in "telejogo" circa 1979. And I also avoid small games like the Plague. And I am also angry at the developers that try and use Pixel Graphics as pretending "being artsy" instead of plainly saying it's the small budget. And I look for the same kind of experience as you, but never had read it explained so concisely and perfectly.

I guess I'm the counter point. I'm also from that era - I'll be fifty soon, but still gaming anywhere between 10 and 40 or so hours a week, depending on my social life. But most AAA titles last decade have bored me. For example, I loved the first two Nathan Drake titles on the Playstation, but only managed about 3 hours of the fourth. And the third was a drag from the midpoint on, although I completed it.

Similarly, I loved the first reboot of Tomb Raider, then played only about 4 hours of the second. I haven't bought the third yet, but likely will just to support Feral. It's not so likely that I'll invest much time in it.

Look at the candidates this year! Sure, we only have maybe four titles in that AAA bucket, but then there is:
SteamWorld Quest (beautiful hand-drawn graphics with intense card-based mechanic)
Supraland (stunning UE4 FPS)
Iron Marines (IronHide's usual high quality cartoon graphics and voice-acting)
Slay the Spire (hand-drawn cards, insane replayability)
Indivisible (fantastic animation work)
Pine (could almost be a Nintendo title, it's so pretty)
X4 Foundations (Massive, brave open galaxy sim/fighter)

...and I haven't even mentioned Streets of Rogue! :D

So I just don't get the negativity. I really don't!

I'm not quite as... old ;) however I did grow up playing Amiga 600 and Sega Master System and the Mega Drive. Even games in the same genre, like pixel platformers and so on have come a very long way. Trying to play some of the classics... terrible controls for starters. My point, I also grew up with some ancient gaming and I also get highly bored of the majority of AAA games.

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Quoting: BeamboomI don't play for score anymore, I don't play to win at a strategy board. I play for immersion. For fantastic experiences, gorgeous landscapes, excellent acting, touching characters, and a freedom to be and do what I want in a universe like the ones I see in the movies I love.
I don't sit on a machine capable of delivering me a holodeck experience just to play pong again. That's where you have me. Is that really something to patronise?

I think it's more a case of the attitude. We're a niche, a tiny one and nothing has changed on that. Seeing people repeat the "there's no AAA games" thing over and over again just gets tiring. We are where we are, a lot of us enjoying what we have.

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Quoting: razing32Hmm
The Arch Linux package has not been updated since march last year :(
Wondering if i should build from source.

I just use the AppImage, works great.

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Quoting: BeamboomOh dear me, that was a load of obscurities as far as I'm concerned. So much so that I can't even vote - I've not even heard of the vast majority here.
Not the fault of anyone of us course, but a rather depressing picture of Linux gaming anno 2019.

I thank the gaming gods for Steam Play... When maybe I should curse it?

I disagree, there's plenty of seriously good stuff in there. Just because it's not all big AA/AAA doesn't mean it's bad. If you've truly not heard of the vast majority, you're living under a rock and missing out on some great stuff.

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Quoting: denyasisThank you for doing this. I know my backlog is bad when I only played 1 or 2 of the games on the lists....

Otherwise known as the "oh god look at everything now going in my backlog/checkout" awards.

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