Quoting: EikeHopefully it'll be the Linux (SteamOS) icon, otherwise I think they'll have disappointed me.

I would think there are some arguments for separating it and against just using the Linux Icon, although I feel your pain.

Namely, it's being sold as a "console" - like. This brings in some inherent assumptions. Particularly with compatibility.

When we by a pc, we generally purchase off the specs. You know the machine might not be able to play every game for it's OS at purchase and certainly will come a time when it can't play new releases. We accept that and everyone knows it, even non computer people.

When we buy a console, the assumption is that console will play every game released for it now and in the future on that platform.

I think that was a problem for steam machines and will be a problem for the Steam Deck.

I think a different "Deck" icon/category could help. Alternatively, it could throw a warning if your trying to buy a game it can't run. I think there's more advantages to the Deck category (searching, storefront customization, etc).

What do you think?

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Quoting: MohandevirFor this part, I'm quite sure Valve is having something up it's sleeve that we haven't yet seen anywhere, just like AC support and their internal Proton build that seems to support more games than what is available, atm.

I think the simplest and easiest thing to do is for valve to treatt it like another platform on Steam. Have a "Deck" icon for Linux+whitelisted+supported games.

Other wise I think you'll have disappointed people.

On a different note. I wonder how many reservations stream has gotten? Obviously it's not indicative of sales, but can at least show how much interest is there.

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I think this product will struggle. They've never solved the problem that stream machines failed on:

You can't play all your steam games on it and that will never be the case.

It's too underpowered to run lastest/future releases and the fact that we rely on something like ProtonDB means that new users are going have to dive into settings on an OS they don't understand and hopefully not mess it up.

I'm not trying to say news users are dumb or anything. Messing with wine/proton prefixes isn't exactly an easy part of our OS. As much as Valve tries to solve it, that burden is still there for a lot of games.

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I see what you mean. I was thinking "old school" more in the textures and color palette. I feel it matches SS1 well (when you can see it).

I replayed SS1 several years ago. It's not that saturated, nor that dark (at least not on that level - engineering is pretty dark). I agree probably due to engine limitations at that time. That or I had the gamma up way too high in dosbox.

I feel the saturation is more a modern artistic direction, no?. Looking at the video reminded me of videos I've seen of games like CP2077. In the SSR video, I could barley make out the enemies.

Maybe I'm too picky. I'll admit I'm excited for the remake. I really like the whole Shock series, especially 1 and 2.

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I must admit I like the old school look, but the...contrast? Saturation? I'm not sure on the right word. The brights are too bright and the darks are too dark. I'm not not sure what the right word is. Either way, I feel like it needs to be more in the middle in terms of some ambient lighting.

I liked the puzzle part. That felt a lot like the original. I can't wait to see how they handle the rocket skates!!

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Easily one of my favorite games.

I wonder how the ideology system would work mechanically. Hopefully it's just enough to be interesting, bit not so much to force or prefer certian playstyles.

This and the royalty expansion will be my first purchases next year. No doubts about it

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Quoting: CatKillerNot just plants. It's an organism that contains more than one distinct genotype (the set of genetic material). Most marmosets are chimeras.

Very cool. I didn't know it existed in the animal kingdom.

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Quoting: 14It's like I'm at capacity for this kind of stuff: Steam native, Proton, Lutris, Battle.net, Origin, minigalaxy, itch.io...

Exactly, someone should make one launcher to unify them all!

(Yes, I'm joking... kinda)

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Quoting: dubigrasuChimeraOS" might puzzle some, but is less likely to trigger such strong negative reactions overall as "GamerOS" did.

Probably less limiting for the developers, too, as adding a non gaming feature would seem much less taboo.

There are real Chimeras. Not fantastical at all. It's just... They're plants. There might be others but that's all I can remember from school 20 years ago.

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I'm not against the idea. Especially for project that can't be incorporated into Debian due to licensing, etc.

Given the number of 3rd part debian repos already out there, I'm not sure how well it'll be adopted, but I really like the idea of a unified 3rd party repo

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