Quoting: Geppeto35

Quoting: Aryvandaar[...] And there are many other games where I can have a lot more fun with the combat. [...]

We want a list ^^ ... to discover hidden gem(s) and test!

None of the games I'm thinking about are hidden gems. The games where I enjoy the combat most are Baldur's Gate II, Pillars of Eternity, Mass Effect 2, Dragon Age: Origins, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Guild Wars 2, The Witcher 2 and The Witcher 3.

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Quoting: buenaventura

Quoting: AryvandaarI'm all for demos, but aren't there specs on the steam page?

Yes, but I have a weird laptop no name card (AMD Radeon R5 m240 AKA Mullins AKA GCN 1.0/1.1, has 1gb RAM) and I have no clue how it compares to those system reqs, especially since they dont even mention AMD.

Edit. Even if I knew that my specs where far above reqs, I always love being able to try games out before buying them - perhaps I just bounce off for some other reason. Or I become very hooked and buy a game I would not have dared to buy without trying it first.

Now that you mention it, there do seem to be a lack of AMD info for games. Specially Linux games. :/

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I'm all for demos, but aren't there specs on the steam page?

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I was actually considering to get this, but for some reason I forgot about it (thanks life!).

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Quoting: badberOnly problem was Pulseaudio deciding to stutter like crazy but switching to plain ALSA seemed to help.

ALSA without pulseaudio seems to work better for most games in my experience.

If pulseaudio is stuttering I think you can change some settings in the configs to fix it. Just don't remember exactly what.

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I didn't really like the first game. I hated the cut scenes with the bosses speaking that halted the combat. And there are many other games where I can have a lot more fun with the combat.

I do hope that the game comes to Linux though, for those who want to play it and to better the Linux gaming platform.

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Quoting: DrMcCoyAryvandaar, you fundamentally miss the point, but fine, keeping being wrong. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It's just my opinion. I'm not saying that Cook is wrong in writing the setting like this with the scope of years, only that I don't like it. And it doesn't mean that I think that the entire setting is bad.

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Quoting: Stupendous Man

Quoting: Aryvandaar"ONE BILLION YEARS INTO THE FUTURE...", come on, really? ...

How is that any different from "A long time ago in a galaxy far far away"? I agree, it's ludicrous, but come on, it's fantasy! ;-)

Fantasy/=/ridiculous. Just because something is fantasy it doesn't mean that you should throw everything that makese sense out the window.

"A long time ago in a galaxy far far away". I agree that this thing is silly, but it's not half as silly as saying "ONE BILLION YEARS INTO THE FUTURE...". "A long time" ago isn't specified to be something ridiculous. Our sun is going to die out in a few billion years. Even with millions of years, humans have problems dealing with the scope of it, or even 10s of thousands.

If they had just taken it as few 10s of thousands years ago it would have achieved the same effect, just wouldn't be as retarded.

Quoting: badberThe point of the crazy scope is that Numenera is a world where so much time has passed that for example ancient technology is indistinguishable from magic. Here's Monte's explanation: http://www.numenera.com/a-billion-years/ [External Link]

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But even 10s of thousands of "years" is crazy scope. A lot can happen in that time. I don't accept that explanation. Monte just lost respect. The best settings are the ones who stays away from dealing with crazy amount of years, and the worst ones are the ones who treat years as a shock effect to make their setting "awesome".

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"ONE BILLION YEARS INTO THE FUTURE...", come on, really? The scope if a billion years is just crazy. Give us something more believable, like a few thousand years or a few 10 of thousand of years. It's obvious they want for shock factor and, "look how awesome this is!". Which really worries me, cause old infinity RPG and similar isometric RPG, even though they had fantastical stories, they still were rather down to earth, and somewhat believable.

That aside, I don't think it will be a bad game, it just worries me a bit when developers say things like this. Like David Gaider's "When you press a button something awesome have to happen. Button, awesome. Button! Awesome!" - the fall of Bioware.

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I read that Microsoft is going to take measures to warn users about win32 apps that are being installed if it's not from the Windows store.

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Quoting: BoldosAaaand......

...here it comes:

Ooops just saw your post after my post.

Article:
https://www.pcgamesn.com/microsoft/microsoft-windows-10-bloatware-win32-apps [External Link]

Shiny blue button for "See more in store" and gray "Install anyway". That is exactly the kind of tactic PUP and other malware use when you uninstall it.

I think that it's pretty obvious by now that Microsoft seeks to lock in their OS.

Quoting: DuckeenieSteam machines are dead in the water simply because most people didn't care enough when Steam created their wall

What wall? Valve aren't hindering competition on SteamOS. Despite Microsoft open source support they still have draconian measures so that they can keep their power. For example locking games out of W8 and W7, lack of sli / crossfire support in WStore games and not to mention splitting player bases in online games.

And you know what the difference between Steam and Windows store is? People want Steam, most people hate Windows store, and with good reason.

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