You have to admit, though, Rock Paper Shotgun has a pretty creative title for the news article:

Batman foils Penguin [External Link]

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Quoting: edoSo the best batman game ever (related to everything except performance) won't come to linux. Bad news definitely.

'The best' is *very* debatable. Certainly the largest, though.

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This would have been a nice 'high-profile' addition to the roster -- but that's about all it would've been.

I'm a filthy double-booter; so I've played it on windows. I luckily didn't run into too many technical problems, but I was extremely frustrated by the fact that before the :whistle: 'fix' :whistle: the visuals were demonstrably worse than the console versions at supposedly highest settings -- blurry textures, ugly post-processing that you couldn't turn off, missing effects, etc. etc.

... and the game itself was an outright mediocrity; save for a couple of interesting ideas here and there. (Which ideas, tellingly, were adopted from Arkham Origins. Actually I'd be happier if AO gets a Linux port sometime down the line.)

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The 'pearl' indicates that it's a text adventure written in perl.

I'd say it's either Zork, or The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, ported to Linux as perl scripts.

It could be something else, though.

The pearl might be a pointer to the creator of perl, Larry Wall.

So it might be a version of Leisure Suit Larry.

... or, Larry Wall's 'Wall' might be supposed to remind us of the 'all warnings' argument to gcc.

'All warnings' could refer to a game with a post-apocalyptic theme.

So it's THE LAST OF US, folks. And this will mark Naughty Dog's transition to Linux exclusivity. You heard it here.

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The only problem I have with wine is that I can't get games running under it to recognize my Logitech F310 controller.

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I read 'discounted' as 'discontinued' at first; which made me go ouch.......

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velocibox

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Quoting: PsynoKhi0Every review of a Steam Machine should be one line: "Get one, then send an e-mail to the devs of your favorite, currently unsupported gaming asking for a native port. Bonus points if you mention that performance should similar across hardware vendors."

That wouldn't be a 'review', it would be an 'ad'.

I don't see why reviewers are supposed to mobilize people for some corporation's backup plan -- because that's what SteamOS is. And while Valve's 'ecosystem' (when there's a healthy one in place) is not AS closed-off as that of, say, Sony, it IS its own kind of 'walled garden' nevertheless.

Pretty remarkable how a DRM-empire can 'market itself' as the bastion of software freedom.

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Quoting: MblackwellHonestly I'm less interested in reviews from PC enthusiasts and more interested in ones from console/couch gamers.

The picture is pretty clear from their viewpoint: Steam Machines, even those at lowest specs, are several times more expensive than the consoles; and the argument that 'games are cheaper on PC, thanks to steam sales', etc., isn't as strong as many would think. New games, especially those that are good sellers, don't really get any discounts; and as to the 'back catalogue', at least on the PlayStation you get frequent sales and price cuts that are not too shabby -- they've indeed picked up a few tricks from Valve's book. Besides, physical copies of console games can always be sold or traded in, or bought cheaper used, in the first place.

Neither is the sheer number of games on SteamOS an advantage -- as though an abundance of survival horror hack jobs and mobile ports have anything whatsoever on GTA Vs, and Witcher 3s.

For the life of me, I HONESTLY can't think why someone, especially if they're 'console/couch gamers' who wouldn't have an interest in PC exclusive strategies (not all of which are available on SteamOS, mind you), would prefer a Steam Machine over a PS4, at *this* point in time. And obviously I'm saying this as a dyed-in-the-wool Linux-head.

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Thief has a bunch of depots for Mac on steamdb -- nothing for Linux. I think it'll be Mac only.

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