Fallout 76... the game failed so hard that they are now giving it away on Humble Bundle and PS4/5 at the same time.

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Quoting: HamishYou mean the DarkPlaces mod? I can quite confidently say that would bring Dianoga to its knees. I remember Nexuiz being quite heavy even with my Radeon 9200 card.

Ha, mention of the Radeon 9200 makes me think that I really do need to put my Amiga 4000 together again...

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Quoting: ShabbyXThis conversation is not going anywhere, stop wasting your lives and move on.

Pretty sure you don't understand what you are talking about. The entire Steam OS is open source, all the DE stuff, all the drivers, Proton, everything but the Steam Client/App itself. You could install the entire thing yourself on any device you wanted without any legal issues. Remember this is basically what ChimeraOS does but they do it for a living room console setup.
https://chimeraos.org/ [External Link]

Yeah that dude was way off base. SteamOS isn't like a PS5 or Xbox(whatever naming scheme MS has, I don't pay enough attention to care). You can install SteamOS (or derivatives) pretty much anywhere. Hell, you can basically take any Linux distro and set it up in a similar way at this point, now that the gamepadui has taken over the BPM.

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Quoting: HamishConsidering the vast majority of the games with Linux wrappers also have native Linux source ports available, I think one of the biggest values to storefronts like this is just supplying you with a legal means of acquiring the data for use with them. No emulation strictly necessary.

Pretty much.

It's not talked about here often, but Debian has game-data-packager package, which is a set of scripts to pull out and compile .deb packages from official release media. Like you can put in a CD of Quake Wars and it'll build you quakewars-game-data.deb package and install the runtime for it as well.

It's quite nice, and I don't think it's ever been mentioned here as a way to play native games.

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Quoting: whizse

Quoting: elmapuleven purchasing used games seems more usefull to me, at least you are giving money to an consumer that might use it to purchase another new game that is still being produced.

Too risky! They might use that money for drugs, or worse, mobile games with ads and micro-transactions!

i dont care if they use drugs, but please, dont spend on mobile games with ads/mtx! that is way to dangerous indeed, thanks for clarifing.

btw im not serious about the drug issue.

I'd say like 90% people on the planet use some drug or another at this point (sure I'm pulling that number out of thin air). Granted most are told to take the drugs by their doctors. But it's really crazy to think about how dependent we are on medications these days.

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Quoting: CanadianBlueBeerI put way too many hours into that thing way back when.

Great game.

Same here! Used to play the shit out of it. There are a bunch of Arcade games that it is based on that I've played at various times through MAME as well.

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It's a modern port of Space Taxi. "Pad 3 please"

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Quoting: GroganI only just recently got Far Cry 4 working after years of wanting to. I had pretty much given up on Ubisoft games (except for old bollocks free ones, from back when they were one of my favourite game companies)

A while back I bought Assassin's Creed Odyssey. I had been watching my nephew playing it and I was all psyched for it. It just kept asking me for a non existent license key. In a Ubisoft FAQ, they were basically saying it wasn't their problem and that there are no license keys for the Steam purchased copies. The Uplay client was opening, and I could even see other tied games I owned in there, but the new one would just not activate. That kind of put me off, so I didn't even try to solve it. I just sent it back for refund, disappointed.

They are so afraid that someone is going to play their game without paying for it, that they cause all that aggravation and get people to stop buying. Also, as said in this very discussion, the people that pirate it will have a better experience. As usual, the harder you squeeze, the more that will slip through your fingers :-)

It's not just Linux users that have trouble with their DRM mechanisms either, it has caused unnecessary problems for people on Windows too.

Their Ubi Connect thing is trash. It logs you out mid-game, and so at the end of your play session have to input your log in credentials again if you want it to cloud sync the save... and this is on Windows (I could never get it to perform well in Linux at my 3840x1200@144 resolution).

A side note, first awesome game I played that I remember being by Ubisoft was this. https://mobygames.com/game/fred_ [External Link] that I played on the Atari ST.

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Quoting: mphuZ

Quoting: Purple Library GuyI've never been able to take seriously the idea that we should retire a letter of the alphabet because, um, Russia is using it? Like, whatever.

Cancel culture has become today's Inquisition. :whistle:

That's about as ridiculous as the "Z" thing. Ah yes, all those masses of people burned at the stake and tortured to death by cancel culture!

Sadly it is closer to pre-war Germany for certain groups who would lose their jobs / livelihoods, because of their religion/ethnicity, etc. It at least hasn't become the 'during war' effect... yet.

The problem is the cultural divide that is happening. People can take only so much being ostracized (which is the correct word for this, but you know that requires schooling to not suck) before there is a stronger movement to fight back.

Doesn't help that we have crappy algorithms in place that help you go down rabbit holes of misinformation (both sides of the coin does this) and flipping back to any sort of sane middle ground is difficult.

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Quoting: PenglingOoh, I do love new games for old hardware - always nice to see! (Quick shout-out to Bomberland for the C64, here, because it's really good. )

Check this out!
https://forums.atariage.com/topic/345354-ultima-v-wip/ [External Link]

I hope they manage to finish it! (Note: Ultima V had a prototype for the Atari 8bit computers, but was never finished by Origin, as they had decided the computer was falling away in popularity. Granted somehow the C64 got Ultima 6, but the Apple II only got 1-5).

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