This one have a heavy NES vibe in its art, with modest color pallet and simple backgrounds. With the CRT filter it can almost fool someone that it is a 8bit game, if it wasn't for the 16:9 aspect ratio.

It also works fine with the Steam Controller. The game controls are very responsive, feels really nice.

For now, my only complain is that you cannot duck, like in Ninja Gaiden. So some deaths will taste like cheap shots at you.

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Quoting: M@GOidThe way I see it, this whole thing will led to increase in prices on poorer countries in the EU. Simple as that. Some commenters, however, talk about companies should obey laws without seeing the big picture. And I bet those are not the ones that will pay more for their games.

One is not seeing the big picture if one thinks companies should obey the law? I believe You are not seeing the big picture if You complain about price increases in poor countries from a unified European market while failing to consider the wealth increase this market and the measures taken towards it have brought to the country. There is more to this EU deal than just billions of free subsidies paid by northern europeans.

Also, aybe the ones complaining are not the ones that will pay more, but that means they are the ones that are already paying more. This mentality of entitlement is baffling. If income levels in a country are not high enough to pay enough for a game to fund its development, these people have zero right to demand their prices being subsidized by other people in higher GDP countries.

You talk like someone with money in your pocket. Good for you.

To hell with the poor and their problems. Let them go back to piracy, were they belong.

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Nice. I had this one in my wish list, will pick it up.

Off Topic.
Hey Liam, another interesting Linux supported indie game was launched these days, I hope you can cover it up:

Skul: The Hero Slayer.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI gotta say I'm confused. I've read the article, I've read the whole thread, and I'm still not sure what the relationship is, or is likely to become, between the "regional locking" that is being banned and the "regional pricing" that is apparently not being banned.
And I still don't understand exactly what Valve was doing--according to their statement it seems to have been a quite limited practice in the first place which doesn't seem to really map to either the regional pricing or any kind of enforcement of same, but I don't really get just what it actually was.

The way I see it, this whole thing will led to increase in prices on poorer countries in the EU. Simple as that. Some commenters, however, talk about companies should obey laws without seeing the big picture. And I bet those are not the ones that will pay more for their games.

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I really hope they implement it without letting Nvidia put their fingers in it, otherwise it will end up like other titles sponsored by them, especially "optmised" to make AMD GPUs look bad.

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Quoting: GuestLooks great! I wonder if cesspool Nintendo will sue them just like they did Great Giana Sisters creators? (rhetorical question)

I doubt it. While this is obviously very inspired by SMB 3, is not a blatantly rip-off like Giana Sisters was.

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Epic was once a friendly company towards Linux. They even had UT2004 for Linux, but look at them now. First, started promising releases for Linux of newer titles that never came, the Phoronix guy kept sending e-mails asking for some news, they answered a couple, to ultimately ignoring him completely.

Now not only they have a poor support of Linux on their Unreal engine, but even on Windows they adopt scum, monopolistic tactics.

I choose to support those who support me. I choose not to be like a beaten wife of a abusive husband, begging for scraps.

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Quoting: BumadarThe ... for lack of a better word ... diffrent resistance on the R2 and L2 of the ps5 controller is amazing, been ages something actually new came to controllers. Now waiting for games to start using it except the demo game 😀

Not clear that is supported yet here

I saw a disassembly of that mechanism. It didn't look strong at all. Hopefully it is reliable enough for people that didn't have a history of destroying gamepads, under normal use.

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Generally you know when something is not using SDL, when there are problems with controls or resolution/full screen stuff.

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I wonder if Rust led to some performance advantages or disadvantages, in comparison to C. I saw some people hell bent in making everything in Rust, regardless if it is the best tool for the job or not.

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