Maybe this is too late to be helpful and no one seems to mention it anyway, but I bought BlazeRush based on this recommendation and I've decided to refund it. To each their own fun, but I'm nonetheless surprised it made the list to be honest.

The controls are slippery. It doesn't feel like you're controlling cars but rather sticks of butter and the primary concern isn't racing per se but simply not wobbling the hell out of control and sliding off the track. The camera that always tracks everyone rather than just you is pretty crazy in practice and not in a good way, no matter how interesting and novel that idea might sound on paper. That combined with the lack of customization of your car caused me to wonder which vehicle was actually mine more times than ever before in a racing game. Honestly, while not unplayably terrible or anything, it's probably the least solid game featuring vehicular combat that I have played to date. I just don't feel like ever playing it again and I think I'd feel embarrassed if I invited my friends to play it with me, and downright guilty if I made them buy it.

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Quoting: vlademir1That was one that came into effect as part of the DMCA. It's relevant here because Atlus/Sega will at least try to argue (in court should it reach that point) that the primary purpose of this particular emulator is as a means of circumvention, that it has no other commercially significant purpose and that the use of whatever mentions of their game existed on the developers' pages effectively act as marketing for the emulator as a means of DRM circumvention. That last is probably the hardest to argue against in any sort of effective manner, and hence is likely why the solution is what it is.

Considering emulators actually aren't made primarily as means of DRM circumvention wouldn't it be easy to argue against that? Or at the very least wouldn't you have a very fair shot at that? All the counterexamples would be plain truth.

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Their previous game seemed rather boring to me, but hey, don't look a gift seahorse in the mouth, eh?

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Quoting: ScooptaWhile you're not wrong you're not right either. Under normal circumstances reverse engineering and emulation is legal. The problem is that under the DMCA circumventing DRM for any reason is illegal even if it's for a normally legal reason such as reverse engineering and emulation.

Wouldn't that only apply to people who actually use the emulator and the game together or try to distribute them together though? The emulator alone doesn't circumvent the DRM of Persona 5 if there is any, the developers of the emulator don't distribute Persona 5 with or without the emulator. There is no connection between the two products aside from potential interoperability. Unless potential interoperability between two programs becomes grounds for IP infringement, there is no case to make. If I screengrab Atlus's assets and start making illegal derivative works in Krita, it doesn't mean they can go after Krita developers now.

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Quoting: ajgpAs for a 'pay what you want model' its unfeasible

Citation needed, as they say.

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Ewwwww.

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Quoting: zekesonxx

Quoting: EhvisMaybe they silently removed it due to it being hacked. I don't see it mentioned on the steam age anymore either. But from the Wine support request it was pretty clear that they had no idea how to make that work in wine because Denuvo thinks it's been tampered with when running on wine.

Nier: Autotomato still has Denuvo on it, and it still works in Wine. Denuvo works in Wine now:

• Denuvo v1: Mad Max


• Denuvo v2: ABZU, Just Cause 3


• Denuvo v2: ABZU, Just Cause 3

That is very interesting and significant news.

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Quoting: GuestComically I'm sitting here thinking about how I appreciate the work the WINE devs do...which means soon for seemingly no reason after WINE has been a thing for so long MSFT will sue the project citing it as a way to circumvent needing a Windows license because it's become too functional as a Windows "clone."

There are several problems with that scenario.

First of all, winning that lawsuit. Wine isn't a Windows clone. It's not an operating system, in fact it can't do anything by itself that Windows can. It wouldn't be a straightforward case to win especially with good lawyers on the side of Wine. Not to mention the whole anticompetitive baggage MS already has, at least in Europe.

Next, the entirety of Wine is under GPL. That means that even if MS bully the main developers into stopping, anyone in the entire world can pick up the work and continue. Even if they manage to make Wine super illegal in America they would have to continue suing in every imaginable jurisdiction of the world AND winning. (see also: from what i understand ffmpeg is technically already illegal in a lot of contexts)

Finally, the attention this case would bring could be the most fatal mistake of all. MS can't afford to lose the "who cares about Linux lol" cultural status quo. If they themselves show that they care about Linux, let alone are this threatened by it, it would make a lot of people's heads turn and actually reconsider the situation. There is no more damning evidence of viability of Linux vs Windows than MS themselves testifying to that fact by moving into the offensive.

Add to that the fact that MS winning that original lawsuit would set some really terrible precedent on matters of interoperability so everyone who is not a complete idiot asshole would stand with Wine on this, some proactively. So bonus bad PR and dissent and having to face the entire open source community and its sympathizers at once. Oh yeah speaking of which, their entire credibility of embracing open source will die on that hill there and then.

Speaking of which, for what it's worth, if they wanted to go down this road they definitely wouldn't have open sourced .net and made it available for Linux (at least indirectly through open sourcing, I don't remember if they put any effort into compatibility themselves).

So, all in all, while unpleasant and threatening for us, it would also be really stupid and reckless for MS themselves. But hey, wouldn't be the first time they do something that lays the foundation for their own undoing. Still I don't think this is something one should lose sleep over.

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Coolness!

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Watched Cry [External Link] play a couple of hours of this. Looks really really nice, as a Blade Runner-esque cyberpunk game, as a horror title. The narrative bits are compelling. And the graphics are great. Aside from perhaps a bit too passive gameplay for some people's tastes this might be a new classic. So really glad this is coming to Linux.

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