Great write-up, thanks! Wishlisted.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

I would love to see Danger Zone return but I don't think it will. Danger Zone was a unique take on the Battle Royal formula and unappreciated. The ExoJump Boots added a Tribes like third dimension which was really fun.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Creating a Self-Aware Lara Croft that Plays Tomb Raider [External Link] is great, I recommend a watch, make sure you watch the result section. My kids and I are up to level 5 [External Link]. BTW, the AI might not be legit but its still fun to watch.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: CatKillerPitch up and pitch down are up and down. Yaw is side to side. Nodding and shaking your head, as another way to think of it.

To take the analogy further, roll is the South Asian head wobble [External Link]. Which loosely means I can hear you / meh / maybe.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Super pleased that Pierre-Loup calls out worldwide distribution and retail as immediate goals. Would love to order a steam deck from valve this Xmas in NZ.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: Purple Library GuyOh, cool. I should give that a whirl.

Likewise, never knew this existed. I'll have to search for those disks now to give it a try.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Tomb Raider The Dagger Of Xian was a super promising TR2 fan remake but unfortunately never got beyond a demo of the first level. Its a pity as they really nailed the feel/style/atmosphere of the original.

* http://tombraider-dox.com/ [External Link]
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-pPOEAXFO4 [External Link]

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: TheRiddickYAY, oh wait, still not available to Australians.. we don't deserve them it seems.

Yea I'm getting sick of waiting (in NZ). Sales like these really rub your nose in it.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Fun fact. This game was ported to Linux by Loki in 2000. I am a proud owner of the box set and played it at the time.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: Pyretic

Quoting: CGullWhen it does release, I'll buy it.

I'm just glad nobody has yet yelled that I should just run it in Proton.

Out of curiosity, why is Proton a bad thing? I recently got my Steam Deck and haven't noticed any major performance dip using it compared to native??? It's a genuine question, I'm new to Linux and I'm trying to learn the basics.

There are three common schools of thought:

The first school thinks Proton is bad because it discourages developers from making native Linux ports. Implicit in this argument is that native ports are superior to running windows native games using translation layers like wine and dxvk. Adherents of this school tend to also skew towards being anti DRM and being free software (as espoused by the GNU project / Free software foundation) advocates. When pushed some of them will admit they would prefer the platform remain "pure" even if it means Linux will not be seen as a viable platform by the mainstream.

School two maintains that Proton is good as it establishes Linux as a viable target platform for games. Adherents of this school sometimes argue that as Linux (via the Steam Deck) becomes more popular as a target platform developers will start to produce native ports in order to get better performance. They claim that Proton solves the chicken and egg problem of bootstrapping Linux as a viable gaming platform.

School three doesn't really understand half of these acronyms and religious arguments, they just want to play some games and think that the Steam Deck is great as its focused on producing a platform designed from the ground up to support PC gaming.

These are Gaming variants of religions wars that have very long histories in the UNIX world, for example Linus the pragmatist (school 2) vs Richard Stallman the purist (school 1) vs big business (school 3) that adopted open source and Linux on the server because it just works better than anything else.

View this comment - View article - View full comments