Quoting: StalePopcornI think you hit the nail on the head in explaining why I ignore that approach to marketing and wait for (non-IGN) reviews.

I may sound jaded as hell, but until specific reviewers (ie Sseth / Mandalore) give me a good idea of what a game is about, I tend to actively take those awards and all that as reasons to _not_ pick the game.

The note on movie posters is very on the nose with the "By the producer of X", well fuck me sideway if it means quality, producers could throw money at a steaming pile of shit if it was printing greenbacks with enough marketing, and a good enough RoI. In a way, it's pretty much the same thing here. And before we have people going around BAFTA (for example), we got to keep in mind how many AAA games get those rewards, and such.

They aren't bad because of it, but it used to actually point out to something, but when there is so many awards and shit, it doesn't mean anything anymore...

And for movies, I'll even point out an example I love to use for this:

Spoiler, click me

Man Bites Dog is a 1992 belgian movie following a killer named Ben. Awards wise? It flex on lots of movie [External Link], but this isn't why one should see it. The themes, the shots, the buildup to the climax. It's extremely well made, but the awards don't explain that, they may support someone claiming they are good, but they aren't anything but that. (nor that it's a student movie). Beware, it's a brutal movie.

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Quoting: AvikarrI immidiately wanted to write about MBR :D The game is not in my taste, but their music is... you know how good it is :) I rarely play point and click adventure games, but I love cyberpunk setting, and MBR, so... maybe it will be a good opportunity to shake hands with this genre?

It may be, it kind of lack a bit of what made for example Full Throttle such an easy to get into point and click (except that wall puzzle, fuck that wall puzzle), which include it's not overstaying it's welcome. Now I think VirtuaVerse does work just well enough to feel too long, but at the same time it has puzzles that may come off hard for newcomers (IMO, we more experienced players simply have accepted to get pointers at specific times, or have know far worst suffering and we don't care anymore...). Now there is a story mode, and it should help alleviate some issues.

Quoting: HythlodaeusYou can also tell it was made by Scandinavians, because the characters won't shut up about the demoscene and how influential it was for computing in their own view.

Which is funny because MBR is Italian. But, it is what it is : what can you do about being Scandinavian?

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Totally missed it was released actually.

I was been looking at whatever the dev would show a while back.

Guess it's time to buy it.

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Being the work of Master Boot Record [External Link], it's far more on point with several aspects (digital versus physical support theme for example is brushed on, with the Magnetic Police), and overall a love letter to the cyberpunk genre without just going chrome: graffiti became virtual, a band actually playing on set is something, a secret message on a floppy and so on.

It's still a pretty nice cyberpunk game tho it doesn't try to dig very deep in the themes, I liked the way it did it.

MBR did the soundtrack too, you can enjoy it on the side.

A great point and click, tho it has the point and click issue of puzzles being a bit hard sometimes (ok, nothing weird logic like Sam and Max), tons of bits for nerds. A good game.

Even hints at the demoscene, but for the record MBR did get produced by Data Airline, especially he remixed Dubmood's The Scene is Dead track. Dubmood started off on trackers for Razor 1911 and, well, he did a lot of cracktro tracks and akin. MBR seems to like the scene a lot.

A good, like prety damn good game, that expend the aesthetic of cyberpunk, fit with a great soundtrack. (MBR does stream on youtube IIRC his music creation process).

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Quoting: GeamanduraThe name is just so idiotic. Imagine if Blender was called Open 3D Editor. Or Audacity was called Open Audio Player. No imagination, no energy to live, ...

More like the very _in_ thing to name your file explorer Files, so you can eclipse the sun of possibilities...

Note this is a stab at the way Google and Apple do things, GNOME seems more to have hopped on that train as it was going (which create it's own issues, with documentation mentioning Nautilus, etc ... Most obvious being Evince, because there is basically at least 2 "GNOME Document Viewer", one being a rotten thing, and Evince.)

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Quoting: MiZoGCouldn't stand any Toy Story film it didn't prevent me from installing Debian.

I don't see the connection, did I miss something?

Because all Debian releases are named after Toy Story characters.

It's good to see another open source game engine, but the fact it took a while to get it on Linux may hint at something. Let's keep a positive mindset and hope for the best, but as it is, I think I'll keep on holding on Godot.

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Quoting: GessikaI am not very tech savvy but this sounds great! Will this fix the compiling shaders before launch issue? (I find if you don't do that it stutters, a lot).

No, you'll have to compile the shaders no matter what.

The compilation before games sometimes create new issues (never ending, but also can't be skipped for a while then), which made me turn it off. Something you can do is run a few bot games using various heroes, it's a way to fix it, but it's bad and I don't like that.

Quoting: jasondaigoi wonder if it can capture the mouse cursor nowadays.

I only had that issue when I was using borderless windows and even then I found a fix for it. On the other hand, I didn't had the problem. Not that fullscreen capture mouse during matching but not outside of it, which was one of the quirks I didn't found out. It never broke for me tho, so I don't know.

On the other hand, if anybody get microstutter in game, it's a very recurring thing right now, patch seems to have broke something... Valve did gather quite a few reports about it, so they may fix it quickly.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: MichaelDNThere exists a word for this SHAREWARE

Those of us older folks know the shareware CDs included with PC magazines.

Yes, and nowadays they are called demo versions, isn't it?

Strictly speaking, those are different things.

Funny enough, the warez world used to have another meaning for demos, involving pirating and flexing on other people.

Tho on the Shareware part, IIRC some games didn't had most of the game (because it helped to get a lighter game.

McPixel's dev went the way of putting a message into the torrents shared illegally.

While this isn't a black and white picture, it's also perfectly off to say piracy is only the death of the games or such. I like the way they do it here, just being forward and putting up a version just for that.

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you get a 5% discount if you order now.

I tend to more and more dislike that move, as those can suffer delays and all it does it make the company look bad.

Don't get me wrong, I'll soon look into getting a new rig (this one is getting pretty old, will turn it into a server I guess), and looking up Star Labs website, I'm actually interested in this [External Link].

I do sadly forget about Star Labs, despite their X Factor for me being the Coreboot / AMI options (I've yet to find some thunderbolt hardward to use one anyway).

Does anybody got experience with them, either on laptop or NUC, and if you did, how was it?

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Quoting: GuestNow that is a Steam color scheme that takes me back.. :grin:

That what brought me here.

And I sit wondering if I enjoy truly the palette or my nostalgia is...

On the other hand, after getting into gruvbox and tons of themes, left and right, I do truly believe this is a great base and going for more pastel colors could simply result in one of my favorite theme ever.

Theme nerding aside: Does the keyboard support orthogonal layouts? such as this bépo layout [External Link]? I guess it doesn't (yet?), but it'd be awesome (yet very niche): a great way to workaround the issue of the price (orthogonal bépo layout is at least 250€+ from the top of my head). Speaking of this, fdroid most likely have AnySoftKeyboard which should support that, got to check that out.

Out of curiosity (and laziness, let's be honest), is there a way to get an ETA of Steam Deck shipment?

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Worms 2 is obviously better and only got better with this patch.

I'm biased by childhood nostalgia, and I don't care.

it's obviously quite dated now.

While it may show a bit of its age, the graphics didn't aged that badly, the performances are top (sure, it requires far less than later games, but as long as you fit the minimum, it is running very well.) and the gameplay is only topped by Armageddon (sorry WarMux, but you just don't make the cut here).

Worms 2 even had some perks Armageddon didn't had (massive settings for custom games, real map editor, no puny 4 teams of 6 worms or something, more like 6 or 8 teams of 8 worms, screw balancing etc...).

This patch is some godsend thing, guess my brothers and I are going to play some.

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