Got this a while ago. While they did a good job emulating the controls of Mario Kart 64, I wasn't a fan of the design of obstacles in some tracks. The art of some items could use some work to make them less confusing too.

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L4D2 is overrated. There is nothing special in that game. And I did not played over 3000 hours of it. No sir.

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I personally have no horse in this race, since I prefer tradicional packaging over Snap/Flatpack.

Also, since I'm not a Canonical hater, I also do not see any problem with this. Other distros don't promote Snap, so why Canonical had any obligation to support a competitor option?

In the end, I will not be affected by this so, whatever.

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Just got Truxton and, I am pleasantly surprised. First good impression is the minuscule size of the download, just 4MB. So no extra junk in the emulator. The controller was recognized correctly, you can start playing right away. Another nice surprise is a great CRT filter, that not only looks perfect with a sharp image, but was enabled by default. Also, being a shmup, rotated screen (or "Tate" for the connoisseurs) is not only available, but is applied automatically if you initiate the game with the monitor already rotated. The only bug I found was the overlay options didn't work right in the "Tate" mode, but setting those to off let you play without distractions.

And for the casual (or "the ones that suck at it") gamers like me, there are several options to easy your way trough the game, like difficult options, extra lives, auto shootings, etc.

I have to say, this release positively impressed me. Those who did it clearly new what they were doing and the final product, with the exception of a minor bug, is very polished. Other companies launching old emulated arcade games (looking at you Capcom), could learn a thing or two from those guys at Bitware.

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Quoting: StalePopcornDoes the Linux version have the crap 2K launcher and pause trying to login to 2K servers before getting to the main screen like the Winduhz version?

Yes, but for those wondering, it pauses de main menu for a couple seconds then lets you play the game without doing the 2k account. And yes, you still have Steam Cloud saves.

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Recently a lot of people are experiencing controller problems with this game, in both Linux and MacOS. I tested it in Wayland and Xorg, with 4 different controllers, with and without Steam Input, and the problem remains. Lets hope the developer respond quickly to this problem.

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Those companies mastered the game of playing with the vanity of the typical PC gamer. "I must play with all the settings on the Max, at the highest resolution available".

If you manage to take your head out of manufacturer's distorted-reality bubble, you will realize you can play any modern AAA game, with a image quality superior to what the average PC gamer had a mere decade ago, using only the iGPU on a modern AMD processor.

Granted, is not the same experience as playing it on a 1000 dollar discrete card, but is the same game. It IS the same game. Vanity pushes us out of our senses, to make us spend a lot of money on a system just to play a game "better than in the peasant consoles".

Now, I can hear you say that I'm making excuses because I'm poor and cannot afford a 1000 dollar card. But that is a mistake. I'm a adult. I'm employed in the same place for a decade now. But as a full-grown adult, I don't have the luxury of making bad financial decisions anymore. My parents will not bail me out of financial trouble.

I also play games for 30 years. Started in the 8bit generation. I had some of the best gaming experiences of my life on a N64, playing games under 20fps (yeah, twenty!) at resolutions that look ridiculous by today's standards. So you tell me that I cannot have a great gaming experience at 60fps/1080p, just because 4k/120fps is the new hotness? Give me a break. The Steam Deck is out there proving that gaming is more than bragging rights on the internet.

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Doesn't look like something Valve will lose their sleep for, since those are all games released more than a decade ago and they were sharing the assets anyway.

Now, leak some prototype of HL3 and we will get some reactions.

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While it does offer Native Linux support, I use the word "support" quite loosely here. It has a Linux version, but the developers don't actually seem to test it. The current version still gives you a black screen instead of an actual intro and main menu. It's an easy fix, setting "-force-vulkan" as a launch option for the game, something I told the developer about quite a few times but they haven't bothered to fix it.

That is my fear with Steam Play. If a developer can strait ignore bug reports to the native Linux port, imagine how they will treat complains from people using SP.

Is not every one of them of course, I saw plenty of them caring about SP bugs, but still, don't give me confidence bugs will be fixed after I lost my refund period.

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Quoting: Lofty

Quoting: M@GOidI decided to jump out of this game of having a top PC, to play AAA games at max settings a while ago. Now what I want is a efficient machine that runs cool on stock coolers.

Things started to became too repetitive (again) a decade ago, with most big-name games recycling the same ideas with more beautiful graphics. For example, I didn't finished the last 2 Tomb Riders. Felt like I was playing a DLC of the first game. Call of Duty fell off my radar after the first Black Ops. I'm not a competitive player (hate cheaters and annoying looser kids), so their emphasis on multiplayer did nothing for me.

Indie games at last try something new, since in a ocean of them, is do something different or die. And when they commit the same sin of recycling old gameplay like big studios do, I didn't need a powerful PC to play them nor do I need to pay full price plus a kidney in cash-grab schemes.

If I feel the itch to play AAA games, I still had a couple dozen from few years ago, that play very nice in my current "poor gamer" PC.

Pretty much the same here.
I have my PC spec'd good enough to play older AAA titles like Batman Arkham city, LOTR @ full settings 1440p (60hz is fine for me for these titles). The only issue is that even my Ryzen CPU (65w TDP + max undervolt) + Nvidia GPU is not efficient enough (add in some fans and primitive RGB). PC's for everything outside of gaming just aren't efficient enough, were talking 80w + just to stream video content, browse the web, basic image editing etc.. when a sub 10w mini pc can do this just fine. I have seen 95w when watching video content on my dual monitor setup and that's all im doing at the time.

One good thing about the last gen Ryzen though, is that they are quiet efficient at the lower end if you just want indie gaming. Something like a 5600g running integrated vega graphics is good enough. You can build a good all rounder for not much money. I hope there are equally efficient RDNA2 / 3 APU's in future.

I was testing my other machine with the 5600g recently and playing Stardew valley the entire PC was using less than 30W (21w at one point) and completely silent. If i had used my main rig with a dedicated GPU + faster CPU it would of probably been quite a bit more for doing the exact same thing.

I almost got into the APU road on my last upgrade, a couple months ago. Had AMD released one with a RDNA2 iGPU last year, I probably would had got one.

But only in a traditional setup, no Mini-PC. I wanted the flexibility of adding a discrete GPU down the road.

I was certain to get the best motherboard powered (sub 75W) AMD card (because Linux opensource drivers), but that would meant I would be stuck at the same performance level since 2014, when I got a very power hungry, factory overclocked R9 290. Since I wanted a bit more performance to play American/Euro Truck Simulator at a locked 60fps, I caved and got a RX6600. It normally consumes up to 100W (~15W decoding videos) in games and was a nice jump from what I had before, and even had AV1 decoding support, which is nice for me since I watch a lot of long YT videos.

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