I think I'm more interested in Battletech than this, but we'll see what reviews say.

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I only played one of the Commandos games way back in the Windows 95/98 days. I'd be very interested to get a new one!

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Uh, gross.

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My guess is [play time]:[spend amount] ratio is not a constant amongst various people. In my own narrow sampling of friends, I have seen both sides. I've seen people that have just a couple games that they play the hell out of and I've seen people often buy games but only play a little. When I get into an EVE Online kick, I will play that game like an addict for months. It's like no other games exist. I play a lot, but I don't buy anything from Steam during that time (I subscribe outside of Steam even though the game is in my Steam library).

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This is also why Macs are poor gaming machines. They look cool but they can't keep a good GPU cool.

Sounds to me like:
Want a small box for your SteamOS machine? Put an APU in it and live with its performance.
Want faster hardware? Make a mid tower and live with the size.

Other options are simply not worth the cost IMO.

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The Debian mailing list announced [External Link] that Jessie is end of life and will no longer receive even security updates as of June. If I was maintaining a fork that still relied fairly heavily on Jessie, I would work to get it converted to Stretch ASAP.

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I'm going to unpause this month for Escapists 2... wonder what the throwaway games will be.

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Quoting: ShmerlIt's good to see an RPG project crowdfunding succeeding, unlike one for Project Resurgence [External Link] which was promising too, but failed financially.

Yes. Divinity: Original Sin 2 (and I think 1 as well?) were successful. Hopefully this game and Black Geyser: Couriers of Darkness and Last Epoch turn out well also.

Quoting: Mountain ManYou know, studios could be a lot more creative with their advertising art for fantasy RPGs since every one seems to use a variation of the exact same image. It gets to the point where I will often overlook a new game simply because the "box art" looks so familiar that I assume I've already seen it before.

For that matter, the in-game art isn't much more distinctive.

I agree with you. I had to keep looking at this one and ask myself, "Is that really not Pillars of Eternity?"

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Quoting: skinnyraf

Quoting: 14I am not going to check my bank account, read/write emails, apply to jobs, VPN to work, write scripts, manage family photo library, etc. on a gaming console. In short, I don't use gaming consoles to work with my more intimate data, thus complete control over the platform is not as important to me.

That's why I separated my dual-boot Linux and Windows installations quite extremely: one is on GPT and the other uses MBR and I'm using BIOS-level selection of a boot device to boot into Windows rather than GRUB :) My Windows install is basically a Windows gaming console - no other software installed apart from games, Steam, Battle.net and Origin (The Sims 4 and Plants vs Zombies 2...).

On the other hand, my Linux installation is pure workstation. My Linux gaming happens on a Steam Machine.

Ha. My dual-boot setup is similar. I have Steam and Origin installed in Windows and nothing else. I only boot to it about once a month or longer. Windows and Linux have their own drives and the only way I can boot to Windows is pressing a key during boot to get to BIOS boot selection menu. :)

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: 14By the way, what is the cross-platform multiplayer problem? I know I can play Rocket League and FF between PS4 and PC clients, which makes me think any other blocking would be a publisher decision. What's making the publisher choose that would be the important question.

Sony have blocked anyone doing cross-platform play with other consoles, while Microsoft and Nintendo allow it. To the point that Nintendo recently put out an official trailer showing off Switch and Xbox One playing together. Sony are basically abusing their position.

Oh. Did they break Rocket League and FFIV cross-platform play?!

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