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Quoting: ShmerlFeel free to comment in that thread. It's surprising how many DRM proponents are commenting there. I suspect most of them aren't sincere users, but represent the pro-DRM side of publishers.

Probably, because I can't understand why any gamer wants to promote DRM gaming.

A false sense that they are protecting an industry they care about, probably.

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Quoting: SalvatosBut can you copy the installed files and move them to other systems and across OS upgrades or would you need to use the installer every time?

Of course you can. OS upgrades only affect openmw, which you can reinstall/recompile. All it needs from the original game is the data, which should be safe as long as you don't wipe your partitions or make a backup of it.

Cool, I wasn't sure whether the Bethesda launcher controlled game launch or was just a frontend for game downloads. Gonna try it out.

Edit: Ugh, need to install DXVK to get the launcher to work. Can't be bothered right now.

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Quoting: legluondunet

right now it's also free to grab from Bethesda using the code "TES25TH-MORROWIND" until March 31st.

And you have to install the "Betheeda Launcher"...no thanks, I prefer to use the Gog version, without installer.
Uplay, Origin, Epic...to much games clients that are not Linux compatible.

Sure, but if you don't have it on GOG (or Steam, or CD), it's still a free copy. You need to use the Bethesda launcher with Wine to download the game but when it's done, you can just grab the files and use them with OpenMW.

But can you copy the installed files and move them to other systems and across OS upgrades or would you need to use the installer every time?

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Quoting: Salvatos

Quoting: TheSHEEEPNot only does that constantly rip you out of the game world by force, it makes you feel like you're sitting in front of the most cheeky DM possible. Imagine a DM who has nothing but a snarky remark for anything you do. ugh.
The game would have been MUCH better if the humor (at least the 4th wall breaking parts, which is the majority of it) would have been left out of the game.

Would you compare it to Quest for Infamy, if you happen to have played that?

I did play it, but I didn't find that it had so many 4th wall breaking jokes, but it's been a while. Besides, the whole game is much more of a comedy adventure to begin with.
In Aeon Of Sands, there is a stark contrast between normal and humorous writing. When it isn't the "DM" speaking to you as the player, the writing is relatively serious most of the time.

I hear you. Your comment just reminded me of the joke that sold me on the game originally :)

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPNot only does that constantly rip you out of the game world by force, it makes you feel like you're sitting in front of the most cheeky DM possible. Imagine a DM who has nothing but a snarky remark for anything you do. ugh.
The game would have been MUCH better if the humor (at least the 4th wall breaking parts, which is the majority of it) would have been left out of the game.

Would you compare it to Quest for Infamy, if you happen to have played that?

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I like the new look, the addition of tags to the library, and the fact that they didn't make everything mobile-big and lose the compact list on the left. Looks like a soft but effective change.

Quoting: Comandante Ñoñardoand the fat guy doesn't even react

Classy.

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The Little Acre was cute and fun, but very short. So, a good buy for any PnC enthusiast at $1! ^_^

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I think the worst case (while still likely) scenario for us would be that Vulkan adoption increases and that rubs off on Linux, but Stadia itself doesn't do much for us. I don't really see it signifying the end of actual game clients. That could happen sometime in the future, but the market and infrastructure aren't there yet. Too many people don't have the bandwidth this requires or don't want to use cloud services, and too many large developers are trying to do their own thing to hand over exclusive licenses to Google (see Epic opening their own store or GOG trying to make Thronebreaker a GOG exclusive, for instance). If it's a subscription service, you also lose a big chunk of consumers that can afford to buy a game on sale once in a blue moon but can't afford another monthly bill. So I don't foresee anything so drastic coming from Stadia alone.

On the other hand, I don't really expect much else to actually benefit Linux in this endeavor. We've already seen what good the porting of Assassin's Creed Odyssey did for us, and I wouldn't be surprised if Stadia ended up being an altogether different beast than a Linux desktop (like Android, as others have pointed out). For those who don't care about privacy and the other downsides of streaming games, this could be a boon as far as playing "non-Linux" games on a Linux machine goes, but for the rest of us I doubt the AAA's attitudes will change much.

Either way, I don't intend to use this for a few practical reasons and a general distrust of Google, but it's certainly interesting in its own right and if nothing else, I think it will do more good for Linux gaming than if it had not been based on open source.

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Quoting: ShabbyXRegarding Google and data, believe me, Google is the farthest from evil.

You mean among its likes? Or in absolute terms?

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Quoting: NanobangIt looks like a dungeon-crawler for movement (in the Steam video, the linked YouTube video, not so much) that then shifts to a third-person/isometric view for combat? Is that what we're looking at?

Unless they've made a dramatic shift from the board game, I expect those views were only for the trailer and maybe a cinematic component. The dungeon-crawling part of gameplay in the original game has your party explore a series of room without exiting combat mode (i.e. your spells don't refresh after each room and you never just 'move on' to the next fight; the action economy is always on until the dungeon is completed). I would expect the hex board and isometric view to remain on at all times during dungeons.

What you do between dungeons is a mix of overland travel and choose-your-own-adventure choices, so I don't know how they will deliver that in the video game but comparisons might be drawn to games like Battlechasers: Nightwar, Ash of Gods: Redemption or even Thronebreaker. You pick a destination to go on your next quest (non-linear), resolve any random events along the way, then complete a dungeon. When you're back in town you can buy and trade, you get a city event and you head back out into the world. (That's my limited overview of it from playing once, anyway.)

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