I'm kind of torn on situations like this. Maybe it's just different Linux users with different perspectives, but it seems like I see some Linux users complain about not getting certain titles at all, and will happily argue in a thread in a way that gives the impression they don't even care what state a Linux build would be, as long as they get one. Then they turn right around and say that if a developer is gonna bother making a Linux port then they dang well better support it even if official support is something prohibitively costly. I am not speaking of anyone in particular here, and maybe such folks aren't acting like that on purpose, but that's the somewhat contradictory vibe I get from a lot of Linux gamers.

Part of me just wants to celebrate that this or any unsupported game works on Linux at all, whether that be ports or a WINE game. One of the difficult aspects of using Linux is frequently leaving the land of "official support" behind, especially if you use a more niche distro like Arch or Gentoo, and making things work anyway.

To be fair I feel the pain quite personally for both scenarios, whether it be getting a bad port, or no port. But honestly I think if I had to choose between the two, I think I would take the former, because the Linux gaming library is still so far from parity with Windows.

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Backed, looks pretty cool. Never played Myst, but apparently it will be quite different from that franchise if we are to take Chuck at his word.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: mulletdeathDoes "fixes for right to left languages" mean I'll be able to play visual novels in Japanese without switching the entire system language to Japanese? As it is with WINE games if you don't change your system language and the game's text is in Japanese, it will display as a bunch of squares.

Have you tried launching the games with something like:
LANG=ja_JP wine /path/to/game.exe
instead of changing the whole system’s language?

This was a good idea, but I just tried it on Steam and then opened Nekopara Vol. 0, and both in-game and in the Steam interface there were squares everywhere in place of kanji/kana. I blame Steam. In any case, sorry for the off-topic comments Liam.

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This game looks so great. Watching the trailer made me want to fire up an emulator and play some Crash Bandicoot or Spyro or something. I've been starved for this type of platformer for years.

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I'm curious about what goes on in the heads of devs who do this stuff. What do you have to gain? It just makes absolutely sure any observant or informed gamer will never touch any of your products with a ten foot pole. Maybe I'm giving gamers in general too much credit, and they're not observant or informed at all. But for the most part people do seem to give a glance at the reviews.

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Wishlisted on GOG; I'm not big on full price for In-Dev titles. Though it does look interesting, I see a lot of user reviews saying it's an overall shallow experience, with one person calling it "a shallow but wide ocean" or something like that. I do wonder how true that is and how true that will be for the full game.

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Does "fixes for right to left languages" mean I'll be able to play visual novels in Japanese without switching the entire system language to Japanese? As it is with WINE games if you don't change your system language and the game's text is in Japanese, it will display as a bunch of squares.

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I've never played a mech game before, so this might be something worth looking into when the Linux builds are fully tested.

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Not even half of what Steam has to offer is available on SteamOS. That's absolutely bloody unacceptable, is it not? If Steam Machines are supposed to expand PC gaming, then it seems like it's doing a shitty job of it since you can't play so many great games that STEAM has on a STEAM MACHINE. So I feel like if that's never remedied, Steam Machines will never have much success and they certainly won't seem like an early success to people who don't have Valve's vision.

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I'm getting so tired of getting games years after everyone else stopped caring. "Valve time" is not adequate for games releasing on Linux after they've already been released on everything else in existence.

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