Quoting: ShmerlAccording to CDPR sources, Ciri went through trial of the grasses. I guess there will be a theme of restoring witcher schools in the game?

Interesting, especially concerning her time/space controlling abilities, prolly be fun to play. I've only read the books and played 1 and 2. I kinda assumed she was still at, what was it, King Arthur's universe?

It would be cool to see more witcher schools! Especially the Cats!

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Quoting: pilkA $250 GPU with that kinda stuff is compelling. If it's a meaningful upgrade from my 2080, I might make a bad financial decision.

This! I have an 1070 and while it's holding up, a cheap upgrade to keep playing for the need 5 years would be super nice!

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: fagnerlnTo be the best distro for gaming, it should have support to the major "gaming tools" available, I installed Kubuntu 24.04 on my laptop and had issues trying to compile gamescope, I gave up.

But it's a decent choice for everyday usage, I'm not fan of KDE but the implementation on Kubuntu is solid, Snaps works fine (I almost forgot that Firefox was as Snap, as it worked seemly), and you can install the "non-snap" Steam easily.

Again, normal users are not going to manually look to install and run gamescope. People that reply to these types of articles keep thinking like their power-user stuff applies to everyone. Most people wouldn't have even heard of gamescope.

I've been on Linux for almost 20 years now and I couldn't tell you what the *$&# gamescope is or why it's needed off the top of my head, lol.

If you can install the OS, install / open Steam, and play a game, that 99% of the users right there! Kubuntu is a solid distro that just works most of the time. It's great for new users to learn on, has documentation, and plenty of users.

Is it my personal preference? No, I wanted something I could tinker more with that was rolling. But I'm not a general user then, and if I was, I'd prolly look at Ubuntu, Mint, etc.

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It looks like the Steam Deck without the screen (and slightly rotated touch pads) 🤷‍♂️.

I do think the Deck Controls are better than the Controller. If only there was a way to disable the touch pad while using the sticks, kinda like the way laptops could disable the touchpad while typing to prevent accidental touches. That would be really cool.

I'd probably get one, more because it hopefully is the same as the deck controls, so switching from holding the Deck to the Controller would be effortless.

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Thanks for the review!! I loved the original trilogy, especially the first one! It gave me the same vibes as playing Morrowind when it first came out. Big world to explore with tons of things in it! This might be the first title that's too heavy for my PC, so I might have to wait a bit. Very excited for this!!

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This is totally on my buy list. Probably one of my favorite games!

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Man, I'm still laying through the Rimworld DLC.... I guess this is next on my list!!

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Hrmm.... I guess I'm a little confused.

I primarily used family sharing in the past between my spouse and I when we had to travel for work.

I guess it's more parent to child, but only if they are in the same physical location sharing?

I guess I'm failing to see relevant use cases. If one has enough money for everyone in the same house to have their own rig, surely they can afford an extra copy of a game for their kids? If it's a more "Shareware" type of idea where they can try the game to see if they like it, well they can just do that on a parent's account.

On top of that, the 1-year cool down seems oddly long. Just thinking of things like separations, children moving out and getting married (new family), co-parenting, studying abroad, etc.

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Quoting: Nexxtic

Quoting: ElectricPrismIf they play their cards right they could add a couple zeros to that 70k sales.

- Multiplayer

- I'm fine with a female protagonist but things felt a little to rated "PG". Games from that genre from Y2k 2000 were like Serious Sam -- where big ( )( ) harpies and kamakazi bomber men would attack you and ambush you like you were playing in a arcade and shoving quarters in the machine to keep playing.

Other games like System Shock were basically a warning as to the dangers of AI and Eugenics -- in an effort to craft the perfect lifeform, accidents happen and the space station and ship are lost. Ironically the flood from Halo 1 was very similar, and Half Life 1 had overlap as well too.

And then there's Duke Nukem -- quick quip badass. A modern day (at the time) Indiana Jones of what boys wanted to be -- successful, confident, irresistible to hot college girls.

Star Wars -- Han Solo -- same thing, Rouge, Badass, Confident, Smuggler -- and the kids wanted to be the fastest and play with light sabers because they were cool.

I need to play more, but living during a time of such a intense cancel culture with political correctness the main character feels bland and uninteresting -- even Samus Aran was a chick pretending to be a dude with big Sxy ( )( ) breka out of the suit when you die. Jack from Chronicles of riddick -- same -- a tomboy that showed that female protagonists can be awesome -- Christmas Jones in 007 World Is Not Enough -- same thing.

Game is missing the salt and pepper, but I do believe that if they played their cards right they could join the ranks of Stardew Valley and Terraria. They'll definitely need to add multiplayer to do that and be willing to take some risks.

And if they do take those risks, the kids of today will think what we thought yesterday -- that when their looser parents complain about something that must make it cool and so they will just play it or like the forbidden thing harder.

This may come as a complete shocker to you, but not every developer is desperate for money. We've already sold more units than expected just making the game that we want to make and sticking with our own vision.

If we were trying to make "the next big thing", we wouldn't have made a pixelated retro shooter with 'confusing' level design and enemy encounters that are extremely unforgiving. We also would have skipped early access entirely if money is all that were after. The game is certainly long enough where we could get away with that.

Multiplayer is not happening. Our audience isn't into that and every throwback shooter that tried multiplayer ended up being dead on arrival with a lot of wasted development time. And even when multiplayer does well, it doesn't take long until players move on.

Selaco is not meant to be for everyone and thats perfectly fine.

I wish there was a way to give you multiple likes!!!

As a kid from the 90's, I can say I'd rather have something more like this than some of the junk we got back then!

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If there was cultural references, they went right over my head, lol. I played all three (with a few community patch mods) 2-3 years ago. They were amazing! They were difficult (for me) and it felt like you were part of the world. It really reminded me of games like Morrowind where you had a bit of free reign trying to figure out what to do and how to accomplish your objectives.

Probably makes sense I didn't fully understand the story if it required or relied on some cultural references.

I thought the second was the weakest, as it felt more on rails. But it was still good.

These games made me play the Metro series (the first two games). Which I also enjoyed, Even if they felt more like Dishonored.

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