I remember paying $100 for a 4MB stick in 1995.

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Looking forward to the impact these releases are going to have on the software side of things.

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Nice; Minecraft itself started as a mod on top of Zachtronics's Infiniminer.

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Hopefully the new fork will have a sane build script now; because currently the thing that builds GZDoom is an odd concoction of shell scripts & CMake recipes.

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I wonder why there's no Arnold face on the T800 -- did they have to license it separately from the former governor, maybe?

But yeah as a kid who loved the movie and the boring-ass C64 licensed game, this looks amazing to me.

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Hardly a Linux gaming favorite, but I saw Far Cry Primal at $2.79, and jumped on it immediately. I'd heard that they hired some linguists to invent some sort of imitation of the reconstructed proto-IndoEuropean language for the stone age people to speak in this game, so I'm curious to hear that at least.

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During development, the team even had to build basic features like text rendering,

I'm curious to know more about that, actually. I wonder if they're using a replacement for FreeType, together with the new Rust port of HarfBuzz? FreeType especially is long in the tooth, so projects like Pathfinder (the 2d rendering backend of the Servo browser engine) are developing alternatives; but it's such a labor intensive process.

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I can't use environments which don't allow that.

That's a pet peeve of mine as well; as I like having the abbreviated name of day / day # in month / abbr. name of month / week # in year / hour:minute on the taskbar. ('%a %d %b %V %H %m')

Though I think all except GNOME allow setting the date format.

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proper remaster like what we have seen recently with System Shock etc

Are you sure you're not talking about the re*make*? Because there's a full on remake of SS, and *also* a remaster, both by Nightdive. The remaster mainly updates the UI scheme of the original SS, because that original was flight simulator levels of complicated.

The remake of SS is, well, a complete Unreal 4 remake from scratch; because the original SS is a sprite based game that ran on the Ultima Underworld engine -- which came out before Doom, by the way.

This DX *remaster* doesn't claim to be anything other than a *remaster*; so it makes no sense to compare to the SS *remake*. The $35 price point might be a little steep, but that's another story.

I'm now beginning to suspect that people lamenting the fact that Nightdive isn't doing this don't know the difference between the SS remake & the remaster.

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why all the love for Nightdive

I find this a bit odd as well, not just here but on reddit too (yeah I hate myself); partly because around the time of the System Shock remake's delay, and engine change, they were dragged through the ground in online spaces with all sort of allegations of fraud, incompetence, etc. Since then, of course, the SS remake redeemed itself, and they've recovered their reputation, and I'm seriously glad that they did -- but have their remasters been SO well received, that by now no one else is deemed worthy for a DX remaster?

And the System Shock 2 remaster isn't even out yet, is it?

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