The fact that the s2games homepage is not responding nor found via google has me much more worrying.
Always found their games very hard to get into, because of the steep learning curve and a culture of pros having fun to crash newbies instead of helping them. It was plain frustrating. Anyway, they were among the first studios to jump on the linux train and with passion. :/

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Interestingly, it's really using libh264-bitstream and sdl internally. If we only had the protocol for communicating with the host... :|

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Quoting: GuestIs this free or not? Will it be included in the normal debian repos or just in raspbian? It would be great for those of us using non-raspberry armhf devices.

free of charge... It's probably up to the community to wrap it to other distributions. A lot of them already started.
Sure, an open source client would really increase the value of it a lot. Direct integration in Kodi and EmulationStation might be feasible.

I'll give it another try. When I last tried it on my retropie, it wouldn't really work. Was abled to start and connect, but then I just saw a terribly distorted image of my desktop popping up occasionaly and my projector got into a source-selection loop, like it was constantly changing resolution. Had to restart the Pi :(
And I'll have to use a wifi connection in some form. If I could just put a cable to my couch, it would be HDMI.

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Quoting: Dribbleondo

Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: DribbleondoPlay it! (fair warning, the difficulty curve is...annoying)

Did you play the original or the remaster/re-release? They actually made some of the more frustrating parts easier IIRC.

Rerelease. Still annoying.

When did this remaster happen? I played the first linux port from humble, iirc

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Well, the fact that I don't think Psychonauts is a bad game probably makes the difference.

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Quoting: Beamboom

Quoting: const

Quoting: BeamboomPsychonauts have not aged well. I'd advice you to wait for the sequel, Liam.

I think you really need to enjoy it in context. Playing it just after replaying some earlier 3rd person platformers will instantly make you appreciate what they accomplished with it. It's an important piece of gaming history and still enjoyable as such.

A good game - as in a game worth playing - needs no context/excuse. I've always been of the opinion that if one have to make excuses to defend* playing it, then it's not worth playing. And Psychonauts really have not aged well. Very low polygon graphics, loads of visual and mechanical glitches, horrible camera, horrible controls, bad scripting, it is a game that deserves to remembered through rose tinted glasses.

* excuses like "it's good for;
- being so old..."
- so few developers..."
- having no funds..."
- being their first game..."
- being free..."

Why should a game have no context? For me, computer games can be art. Psychonauts is art. You can't completely appreciate art without context.
Damn, 90 % of the jokes I remember won't work without the target knowing a little context.

You are pretty much alone with your opinion and from my point of view, you are damn wrong.

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Quoting: BeamboomPsychonauts have not aged well. I'd advice you to wait for the sequel, Liam.

I think you really need to enjoy it in context. Playing it just after replaying some earlier 3rd person platformers will instantly make you appreciate what they accomplished with it. It's an important piece of gaming history and still enjoyable as such.

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Psychonauts wasn't just some game from the early times. It was a seriously groundbreaking and revitalizing game in a 9 year old, thought to be totally explored genre (Mario 64 was 1996, Banjo Kazooie 1998, Psychonauts 2005). Basically every good 3rd person game from after it has some roots in it.

And it had it's flaws. There were numerous times I didn't know what to do (Had to use a walkthrough, as I really wanted to finish it). There were sadistic jump sequences and the camera could really get into the way. No doubt about it.
I totally agree the chances are amazing but there's risk it will be like yooka laylee :(
In a perfect world, they acquired some human resources from sucker punch to show them how to get the mechanics feel natural and the camera behave. For story telling, I can put some trust in double fine :)

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Quoting: AzPI'm surprised by how low-fidelity it looks. I've been watching their youtube videos and followed the development and thought it looked better in those. At least when it comes to the videos, perhaps not actual game play. It's like they took the old models and just put them in the new game engine. The lighting is beautiful, but the meshes/models are a bit 'meh'.

I actually thought this was great, as it got me instantly hooked into the feeling I want to recelebrate with the sequel. But then again, I only played psychonauts after the linux release, so it always was retro to me. :D
After watching the video again, I really think some characters would actually lose character with higher resolution.
I just hope they don't mess up the camera with this one. :D

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Quoting: Ardje

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Quoting: Stupendous ManDoes that mean the Steam platform has or will be ported to ARM? Would be cool to run it my Linux-running ARM Chromebook!

No, it will be pretty useless too since every game would need to then support ARM.

Well, just as proton, it's not hard to emulate x86 in jit.
I assume that games like Divine Divinity should probably run full speed on an odroid with exagear.
The issues is gles (nobody uses it on a pc). I can of course buy a Hikey970 which has full vulkan support. But that would set me back $300.

I remember there was a gles->gl wrapper done by some dedicated dev for the openpandora.
All the pieces are there, but they were not put together, yet and every piece adds some weight.

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