Quoting: iiariGame devs. Must. Sim. All. The. Things.

What hasn't been simmed yet that any of you would want?

I want a proper, modern remake of Sim Farm. I don't want to walk around individually watering every single one of my plants, or driving farm equipment in first-person view—there are plenty of games already that will let me do that (and I don't want to do it anyway). I want a bird's eye, manager's view, where I'm not worried about hiring individual staff, I just say "I want that field harvested" and someone makes it happen as long as I've got the basic necessary equipment. Bring it from 2D into 3D so I can have idyllic rolling hills, and flesh out interactions with the world more (like, maybe competing farms? More interactions with nearby towns/cities?). Oh, and give it a similar relaxed, pastoral soundtrack to listen to as I count down the days for my crop of "red gold" strawberries to ripen (though do keep the animals and the ability to go all-crops, all-animals, or a mixture of both, that was fun). Add some long-term goals to build towards, and I'll be happy. :D

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Quoting: DuncI had to resort to the magic SysReq key to reboot.

The what now? :O

Quoting: Purple Library GuyThey should hire a couple of library people. We know how to do searches. And subject headings.

Do we need a standardized Library of Congress/Dewey Decimal System for games, and how hard would it be to create one? :)

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Could this be the modern Sim Tower remake we've been waiting for? :D

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The genre-blending reminds me of two favorite games from my childhood, Battlezone and its sequel Battlezone II: Combat Commander, though those were real-time strategy mixed with first-person shooter gameplay. It's an interesting idea, though I'm not sure I enjoy top-down shooters as much.

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Nice, I'll have to play through this with a friend when we get time. We've quite enjoyed our time with Golf with your Friends so far. :)

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Quoting: BrisseNot really. Not once have I used the launcher for anything else than clicking "Play" :)

Heh, that's kinda what I figured. At least it's good to know those Platinum ratings for it on ProtonDB are probably correct now! :)

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Quoting: BielFPsI wish Valve could force developers to put at least one actual image/video of the gameplay in the store page.
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XCOM 2 [External Link] it's a good example.

I have to quibble on a technicality: of the sixteen pictures there, if we discount the ones without any HUD, there's still eight showing gameplay. The other eight still look like they're from the game—they look like the enemy reveal animations or action cam shots when your soldier goes to shoot—though it's possible they might have the HUD turned off, I'm not sure. So technically at least half the pictures show actual gameplay situations, if not all of them. :)

Quoting: BielFPsBy just looking at the pictures, I could think that's a third person shooter game (Like Mass Effect for example) but watching a gameplay it shows that's a top view turn-based game.

That said, you do have a point: the actual selection is pretty atrocious. Only two shots show the strategic view, and barely anything (three shots) is shown of the base-building and management portion of the game (which altogether make up at least a third of the game). There are two shots of the HUD from when about to shoot an enemy (a big part of the game, as any player can attest!), but—and I agree this is a problem—there's no shot of the standard view of a random turn with soldiers and aliens scattered about the map.

My guess is Firaxis picked the shots for players of the first XCOM who were following the pre-release news, already knew what the game would be like generally, and wanted to see the cool new looks…which, of course, leaves it pretty poor at intimating the actual nature of the game for someone who isn't familiar with it.

On another note, that new search looks great—finally I can simply sort by "games which have on-line co-op on Linux" when looking for a new game for me and a friend to play. :D

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Quoting: BrisseI'm playing the 2013 HD Remaster through Proton without any problems. Before Proton, when I used Wine, I had to bypass the launcher to get it to work, but in recent versions of Proton even the launcher works.

Oh, the launcher works now? I had to bypass it when I first tried getting the game to run back when Proton first came out. Am I missing out on anything by continuing to bypass it?

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Quoting: Brisse

Quoting: PhiladelphusI'm really confused seeing Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition on there

It's the predecessor, not the sequel. The first one already has a Definitive Edition. The second one has an 'HD Remaster', but is getting a Definitive Edition as well in the future. Yes, it's a bit confusing :)

Quoting: Liam DaweThis, the key is the "(2013)" in the name.

Whoops! Reading comprehension failure there. :D Yeah, I have the AoE II HD Remaster, and am looking forward to the Definitive Edition for it—at least now I can go back to hoping that that will work with Proton! :)

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Quoting: TyronYes, its a separate server and client thing like Minecraft. Yes it requires port forwarding, it does however attempt to do that automatically using NAT-PMP and Upnp which works on about half of router setups. For the other ones port fowarding or upnp has to be set up manually.

Thanks a lot, that answers my questions. I'm no stranger to port forwarding, but unfortunately the cheap consumer-grade hunk-a-junk router I'm stuck with in my current living situation just refuses to do it* so I'm afraid this is a no-go for me. :| Oh well.

*Some Googling suggests this is a widespread experience for this model.

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