Quoting: liamdaweThe Bard's Tale and The Bard's Tale Trilogy are two different things.

So this is about the original 80s stuff? I didn't even know those existed. :D Then it's even weirder because that should all be dosbox/emulator stuff.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Colour me extremely confused.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: MohandevirIt depends on the pricing of each games and the conditions, imo. Will they be ours forever, like Steam, even if it's not sold anymore, or are these games exposed to disapearing from the store like the Netflix model?

Kind of irrelevant in this. If Stadia stops supporting it, it becomes useless since you can't run it anywhere else. Which is the major problem with purchases for a service like this. Unless the price of games is so low that you would accept a throw-away purchase, this is a real deal breaker.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: GoboBefore you spend big coin on Stadia, take a step back and browse the Google graveyard [External Link].

The second that I read you actually have to buy games, that exact thing came to mind. So unless there is a link to play games you own in other stores (highly doubt it), it would basically be the worst of all worlds.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: x_wing

Quoting: scaine[Off topic, but how the hell did you manage to get a accent on your lower-case L character in "player"?? I thought it was a dead pixel on my monitor and only realised it was a unicode character when I scrolled up and noticed it was moving! :D

Thé ḿáǵíç óf ĺíńúx XD

The how isn't so difficult. I'm more wondering about the why. :S:

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: PatolaThat's weird, almost no Linux natives. Are all these games streaming from and running on Linux?

I suppose the correct answer would be that they're running on the "Stadia platform". Which may be Linux/Vulkan based. But it is not your desktop.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Everything maxed out @ 3440x1440 gave me 35-40 fps. Which with gsync would normally be reasonable to play something, but I couldn't aim with it to save my life. Lowering the rendering resolution to 80% upped it to 60 fps and got me a long much much better.

Even though it may not seem like much, I'm still quite impressed with it as a tech demo. Doing diffuse path tracing for lighting in insanely computationally expensive. My own little renders in Blender's Cycles renderer took 10 hours to do. Doing anything in realtime at all is pretty amazing.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: Projectile VomitAs a struggling, professional musician looking to shop his music to video game and movie producers in the very near future, I've gotta say, this really sucks.

Do you think it'll make any difference? I have a friend who is a composer. The only paid work he gets it through people he knows. It seems that in the TV/Movie business it doesn't matter if you are good, but if you know the right people. The game industry in only slightly better.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

I'll do some Total War Three Kingdoms as well. First time playing any TW game for any amount of time, so I'm still a bit lost with it. I'll also continue my way through Irony Curtain. And there may be more Borderlands 2 at some point. Also need to try the new X4 update. So much to do and heat is expected for the weekend.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

The dev misses two points. One, leaving it to steamplay means the game will not be in the store for Linux. Two, there will be a substantial number of people that will rank it as a lower importance purchase because of it. And if I look at my own purchasing behaviour, it has a good chance of never making up on the list to a place where a purchase might actually happen. Since TW3 hasn't even managed to get there yet, a game like this would have no chance with me.

And that whole bullshit about native not being native is just weak. That goes exactly the same for any other platform and has nothing to do with Linux.

View this comment - View article - View full comments