Yeah, a bigger major version number means practically nothing. It gets superseded by a minor release right away and is no longer the one to use.

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It's nothing like Full Throttle, scaine.

In fact, it's a blatant rip-off of Gabriel Knight. Ill adjusted protagonist? Check. Rides motorcycle? Check. Foreign name in the family changed to English? Check. Parent mystery? Check. Grandma? Check. Grandma's attic? Check. Police station right at the start? Check. Divided into days? Check. I could go on.

I'm enjoying it, mind, but the similarities are mind-boggling. It starts off very linear, with a very limited number of locations that expands slowly as you do stuff, so that's different from GK. That one was quite overwhelming from the off.

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That's quite awesome, though really not sustainable. We need that market share people!

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Quoting: ShabbyX

Quoting: SalvatosDue to "appropriate controller input icons" alone, I feel like a lot of games will fall short of Verified. I rarely see the right icons for my DualShock.

Same with me, but note that they need the game to show the Deck's icons correctly (i.e. xbox icons), not all controllers!

The SD has ABXY buttons, but not RB/LT etc. For some reason, Valve decided to take these from Playstation and they’re L1,R2 and so on. Plus, the shape of the d-pad is very different to the one from Xbox 360, which still seems to me as the most popular controller, so the icons will still be wrong if a dev does nothing.

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Great article as always.

Anyone know how LGP’s DRMed games fare now? I have a few of those, including X3, but haven’t tried installing any recently.

The DRM itself was pretty permissive and innovative, but of course it needs a server to be running.

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You can take apart the joycon and replace or fix the thumb stick.

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That puts .kkrieger to shame!

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It certainly needs work. The little steam window says "Play Primordia" and "Play Windowed". If I choose the former, there's no sound and the game crashes to the desktop when I click start game. The latter option works ok, but the game runs in a window. Alt-Enter fixes that.

I'm still not sure if I'm running the native version or not.

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I don't think the native version is up on Steam yet, as I launch it always says it's going to run through Steam Play, even though I have Steam Linux Runtime selected in compatibility.

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How Linus knows us, the users. I just slipped out from a ball to do a quick compile. I'd do another, but the guests are starting to ask about me, so have to go back in.

The next toast will be to another fantastic 30 years!

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