Kinda exciting. Is it voiced (a la Divinity Original Sin (Yay)? Or is it walls of text like Shadow Run games(which just exausts me)? Or something else? I like the art and cinematics and I can overlook grid or hex movement systems.

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So perhaps some older readers might want to keep an eye on Zoom Platform.

"Older readers". This hurt.

To be fair; at our age, what doesn't hurt? :wink:

Napping.:happy:

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As a Genexer, I'm just not nostalgic for mid-90's PC games. But, if I'm honest, I'm not nostalgic about old computer games in general, not before Saint's Row 1 at any rate.

Still, best of luck to the Zoom people. Their prices look reasonably fair, and there are clearly plenty of people into old games. But the total backlog of my Steam, GoG, and Itch.io accounts has plenty to keep me busy for the foreseeable future and beyond.

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First off, I dumped NVIDIA just in time, didn't I? Hooray for my new AMD GPU!

Ok, anyway. Yeah! I love it. This feels like the experience that I always wanted from BPM (Big Picture Mode). It feels and sounds snappier, far easier to move around in than the old BPM's, blue-narcotic-dream-whale interface ever did. Even the sound pallet is snappier. The new movement sound is more like two red bricks being lightly tapped together in a large water-filled cavern..."plink". The old movement sound was all a hooted vowel, a single syllable in the mushy "Wah" language of Charlie Brown adults.

I adore the "Verified" rating on every game's store page and---even better---the "Great on Deck" tab at the top of the Store page! It's a lot like having ProtonDB ratings built into the Steam client.

Only one bug I may have encountered so far, more of a nuisance really. Pressing the center/on-off button on my Steam Controller doesn't open the menu (and is an Xbox logo?). I can only open the menu by repeatedly hitting ESCAPE or the red "B" button. [Addendum---It corrected itself when I plugged my Steam Controller in using a USB cord. Fixed!]

For the first time ever I've checked the box that says, "Start Steam in Big Picture Mode." :neutral:
[Addendum the Second---I unchecked that box again. The BPM makes my system's audio crackle with everything not in-game. In game I saw a few video problems: occasional stuttering and occasional seams in the scenery showing as white lines where areas of scenery aren't matching up. Mind you, this was with Saints Row 3, a notoriously persnickety game on Linux.]

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"Bugs! Kill 'em all! Would you like to know more?"

Classic. Oh, and "I'm doing my part!" [External Link] too.

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I'm excited that this is being built and advertised as being Proton compatible, something I expect we'll only see more of moving forward---especially as the Steam Deck grows ever more popular.

I'm also pretty keen on good sandbox-survival-crafting-open-world-exploration-base building game (a sub-genre without a good name, it seems). Also a sub-genre with a LOT of bad, buggy, incomplete titles (especially of the "horror" variety) such that when a Valheim, Unturned, or a 7D2D comes along, it really is a treat. Only time will tell whether Surroundead will become something special or forgettable, but choosing to build for Proton? I'm routing for it.

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My take away from this is that DXVK 2.1 will (hope hope hopefully) be the magic item needed to remove the stuttering in SR3 that occurs near water. I suppose now it's just a matter of waiting for it to wash downstream and into Proton, or Steam Runtime or whatever's being used to magic my SR3 game. So, Yay! And a big thank you to Plagman! :smile:

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I remember the name, but I don't think I ever played it. Cool it's on Steam, though!

I like seeing when an old (F)OSS game is made available or---at the very least---put in front of Steam's millions of eyes, worldwide. Pre-Steam, my Linux games of choice---nobody's asking, I know---was Blob Wars: Metal Blob Solid [External Link], a solid little game with tremendous charm and wit. Well, and ABUSE [External Link] of course. ;)

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I don't think I've had to use one of Glorious Eggroll's Proton versions, but I love that they're putting them out there.

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Iron Gate AB keeps outdoing themselves. Like a young viking, Valheim just keeps getting bigger and better.

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