Quoting: PlutonMasterWhat if Valve does the "Linux only" exclusive game?
I think that would be a good treat for Linux gamers.
Or is it a bad idea?

They won't, Gabe has said time and again that doing exlusives is bad for the industry. On the other hand, their games are exclusive to Steam, so there is that. Even just a few initial months on Linux first would/could be a boost. Especially if they did something like what Liam was suggesting, selling a branded Valve USB stick (they already have a mold for the Steam controller dongles) with a LiveCD Linux distro and the game on it! Get bew customers using Steam, Linux and their new game all at once.
Surprised more companies don't do this simple thing, they could package their all popular method of 'exclusive skins and blah' on the USB drive.

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For the naysayers about VR, check out some of the stuff that is simply sit and play type games.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1XSPGs3uW6E [External Link]
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cAUkmUk5fgs [External Link]
Just two great examples where you get beatiful perfect 3d, yet still just play with a controller.

But if you all may recall, Valve had stated a few years ago that they are working on THREE fully VR games. They have only released Half-Life:Alyx. So, sorry gor those that think it is a gimmick, can't/ don't want to afford it, or simply have better things to spebd your money on, Valve really does think that the next level of gaming is VR. They have actually probably spent close to more R&D on it than anyone else, so why wouldn't they try to sell it?

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Quoting: Whitewolfe80Single player games yes please i would prefer non vr games as i think its a gimmick but as long as linux is support natively sure why not some vr games for people that into that.

Not sure how you think it is a gimmick. It is truly the next step in gaming. It certainly isn't 8k resolutions. The higher frame rate and resolutions and even DLSS is all about VR. That is why VR failed in the 90s, it just wasn't 'reality' enough and it would make people sick at 60fps. 90+ is the sweet spot and higher resolutions need to be there so you don't see the pixels when they are an inch from your face. Once they get haptic feedback gloves, full body tracking and maybe eye tracking into one sweet package, gaming will go to the next level.

Granted social distancing will bwcome the new normal for sure. Ha!

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Quoting: Hamish

Quoting: aokamiValve always came up with innovative gameplay, hl introduced story in fps and interaction mechanics, hl2 defined physics, portal was about bending space (and really neat rendering tricks)

Since someone has to be the pedant, they were not the first to introduce any of those things. They popularized them, sure, and could even be said to have pushed the envelope with regards to what could be done with them. But Valve has a nasty habit of getting exclusive credit for things that others were experimenting with at the time too.

Valve should get credit for using physics WELL within a cool story sort of way. Sure there were games that used some physics and feel of gravity, etc. But none that really utilized it in such a brilliant way. Nor in a way that actually makes us remember them.
HL2 came out in what, 2004? I still can't name a game where physics played such a large part in the gameplay outside a few puzzles here and there.

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Quoting: ironheadI'd defintely hope they come up with more high quality VR games like Alyx. Don't care if it will be Half-Life-something or not, just something serious.

Could be a puke machine if they released a Portal 3 in VR.
I still need to set aside the time to play Alyx!

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I need to try again and see if I can get Launchbox to work in Wine. Really don't want to install Windows on my living room box.

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Quoting: gustavoyaraujoA lot of new Sega Mega Drive games and stuff are coming up. That's pretty cool. This console was present in almost all Brazilian's childhood.

The SMS really took off there. Nintendo cheated and had a stranglehold on retail fir the NES days. Should have been surled into oblivion for it.

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Quoting: Eike"Denuvo Anti-Cheat will not prohibit Linux users from accessing single-player and non-competitive multiplayer features of their games"

Ain't it great? It's anti-cheat - not anti-DRM! - and will not prohibit single player stuff!?!

Incredible, It's almost as if they understand Anti-Cheat should not necessarily be ANTI-CONSUMER too. Mind = Blown

I much prefer games that do it like Halo MCC where you literally are given the choice as consumer if you want to launch with anticheat disabled ( which I do so I can play on custom servers )

It's funny looking back, back in the 90s "cheats" used to be a "feature" you literally paid extra money for a players guide or game shark or whatever to get special new capabilities.

Conan Exiles does the same thing and asks if you want to launch with Battleeye.

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Quoting: ZlopezIt will be better if the Gaming world would be DRM free (at least there are legal options for games, not like for movies or music). Without the Open Source engines reimplementations some games wouldn't even be playable today. And the DRM is not a cheap thing to use, so if the publishers would rather use these money for polishing the game they could probably have better profits. At least I like to hope that the publishers are the ones that want the DRM not the developers.

In case of anti-cheat, I'm not against using anti-cheat software server-side, but having it on client is actually not a good solution, especially if it prevents you to run the game in a few years or start it if you are not connected to some 3rd party server.

Saying all this, I'm still buying most of my games on Steam, because I want to support Valve on what it does for Linux. Keep it up, Gabe!

I laughed when I found out that Windows 10 won't support any games that use SafeDisc DRM. That was one of the most popular ones back in the day. So there are large amounts of older Windows games that will simply not work on Windows 10 unless you use a crack.

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Never heard of the BlastEm emulator, but I do love me some new games for the Genesis.

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