I’m so confused by the mix of gameplay styles and graphics, the visual quality of the 3D cutscenes vs the retro look of the interface, the old-school Fallout meets Final Fantasy (?) combat interface versus the Icewind Dale-esque exploration and dialogues, and the fact that it’s being advertized as a point-and-click and puzzle game on top of all that. Some parts look like they might have been made by an indie studio, but the trailer conveys a sense of the game being massive, deep and having high production values, and they have a big name like Mick Gordon on soundtrack duty. I’m utterly confused, but intrigued.

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Quoting: SonataAlso I think the "beginner distros" (if you wanna call them that) have come far enough you could easily give them to your grandmother or someone who only needs a laptop/computer for light office work and browsing the web.

Can confirm that my mother has been using Mint for a few years now and there’s no functional difference for her except not having to deal with Microsoft’s egregious bullshit :) I just run software updates for her once in a while (not that she wouldn’t be able to do it herself if she bothered) and whenever she needs tech support it’s usually for software-specific bugs, nothing too specific to using Linux rather than Windows.

Heck, even when her system had issues returning from screensaver mode (not sure if it was lmdm, lightdm or something else) and I gave her a command line fix to restart her session, she said she didn’t mind having to type a few words in a console every so often compared to using Windows. That was a shock.

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Quoting: SonataI've been hating on Windows for years (privacy, safety concerns and its general instability) but gaming always tied me to it.

This is always nice to hear. I’ve seen people say that Windows users don’t see what’s wrong with Windows and Linux will never grow because those people are "blind." But I know almost no one that actually likes Windows. A lot of people hate it and love to complain about it, but just believe that they’re stuck with it, the only alternative being overpriced Macs that aren’t compatible with anything.

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Looking forward to that review. I already have a point-and-click backlog, but I’m pretty confident that this will make it onto the list!

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Does anyone know how to get the flac files? Ash of Gods has mp3 and flac but Steam only seems to download the mp3s and I don’t see any option related to this.

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Quoting: GuestSomeone mentioned in that reddit thread that the "timer" should count down upon first launching the game. Sounds pretty good to me at first glance, not sure of any unintended side-effects of it though.

Valve have to pay publishers/developers their share at some point. With third-party porting, a different platform means a different company to pay those shares to, so they can’t really keep sales in limbo until you run the games. I think that’s where the two-week period comes from.

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Bots? Holidays in an emerging large market?

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Quoting: GuestI abstained from voting in several categories because i play too few games to have a good overall idea of what games are better than others.

At the end of the day, these types of awards are just popularity contests anyway. I didn’t know anything about most of the games listed, nor why they were suggested for any particular category. I assume the same is true to some degree for most people.

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Quoting: Alm888

Quoting: SalvatosIt’s also on itch [External Link] by the way.

Sadly, as for now, the page is just a placeholder. No information as for whether there will be a full release, or the page is just for promotional/demo purposes.

Their website says "The game will be available in these platforms" followed by links to Steam and Itch :)

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That does sound like a pretty intriguing setting. Would need to learn more about the combat side of things, but they don’t seem to be showing much of that yet.

This novel does not contain any (...) implicit violence or gore content, but it does contain battles, blood, suffering, narrated violence

So it only has explicit violence? :P

It’s also on itch [External Link] by the way.

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