Not something I would get myself since I'm not big on portable gaming, but it's always nice to see more options enter the Linux gaming space. It would be nice, though, if they maintained their own catalog of games the device will actually be able to run.

Quoting: GuestI'd be interested in the possibility to use Steam in-home streaming with this. Is that working on Linux yet (as a host)? That would be pretty cool.

Yes, sometimes I lie on the couch and stream games from my Linux desktop on my Linux laptop.

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Quoting: GuestExpansions are capable of being sequels, they have that much content, they are like the original game times two.

All I'm saying is that DLC has that same potential since everything that isn't the core game is marketed as DLC nowadays. Even the new Baldur's Gate title could have been sold as DLC for either BG1 or BG2 since it uses the same engine and game saves and expands on their storyline. Calling it that and linking its purchase to either game (who would play episode 1.5 of anything without playing the first anyway?) wouldn't have changed its nature and made it terrible business practice, would it?

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Quoting: SalvatosI have yet to even start Pillars of Eternity, so on the wishlist it goes for now. I do like the "evil has already won" approach, it's a theme I've been curious about for a while. I just hope the overlord isn't a two-dimensional "conquer the world because I can" villain.

It's not like those are so unrealistic. Up until recently "conquer everyone I can" was more or less an accepted principle of statecraft--not the only possible approach, but a common and perfectly respectable one. When we look at historical kings, Roman emperors and so on are we very often measure them by the "Did he expand the country/empire's territory? Yes? Then he was good!" yardstick.
And to this day it has its adherents--Dick Cheney, for instance.

You know, I actually considered that as I was typing that comment. The problem is that it's kind of an easy default that gets boring quickly. More importantly, I had more in mind than just expansionism. If the guy's leading a nation to world domination, that's fair game. But would you call that "evil has won"? At a glance, it sounds more like your stereotypical "evil overlord raises an army of nobodies/monsters/undead and goes on a power trip for the sake of his own ego" and that's what I'm wary of. Not making assumptions, but it's something I'll want to look into when reviews come out.

The experience ought to be quite different based on whether we're part of some nation who has conquered another and is reinstating order, or some bad evil dude working for a badder evil dude with the sole purpose of making people miserable. I expect the game falls somewhere between the two.

Quoting: GuestI want the complete game up front, otherwise it should be in early access or release an expansion later on. I'm talking an actual "expansion", too. I like my games DLC-free like in the good ol' days, otherwise I'm waiting! :D

There's DLC that's pretty useless and/or crappy, but I feel that no one uses the term "expansion" anymore, because expansions are now sold as downloadable content... just like the base games, really. In this context, hating on DLC but welcoming expansions seems contradictory to me. All DLC expands a game in some way, and the *expansions* we grew up with are now marketed as DLC. It's a rather poor choice of words for today's market, but it's easy to forget and warp the meaning behind an acronym. You could call them add-ons, expansions, extras, kits... they're all downloadable anyway.

That said, I certainly agree that cutting a game down into DLCs to inflate the price of the complete, base experience is crap. But waiting for consolidated editions as you propose solves that problem nicely, especially if you also wait for a sale. At the end of the day (or year :)) you get more content for whatever price you're looking to pay.

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I have yet to even start Pillars of Eternity, so on the wishlist it goes for now. I do like the "evil has already won" approach, it's a theme I've been curious about for a while. I just hope the overlord isn't a two-dimensional "conquer the world because I can" villain.

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Quoting: Salvatos

$2,750M

They're asking for two point seven thousand million dollars!?

Nah, that's the "M" of "mille," thousand. Think of mille-feuille, "thousand layers."

Acceptable answer, but then it should be the same for $487K.

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$2,750M

They're asking for two point seven thousand million dollars!?

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Doesn't look like my PC will be able to run it if those are the minimum reqs, but happy nonetheless to see such a franchise being ported to Linux :)

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The Steam Hardware Weekend sale is now live and it seems Valve now sells accessories for the Steam Controller.

Typo fix, feel free to delete this comment.

I think it's more common in the UK to consider collective entities as a plural subject rather than a singular one. e.g. "The team are here; Valve are making progress" (UK) vs "The team is here; Valve is making progress" (US).

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Quoting: EhvisApart from the fact that +1's are complete useless (if a dev would listen to the number of +1's, then a port would never come), you can be a bit more verbose. After all, you expert a dev to put effort into making a port, the least you can do is express you interest in a proper sentence.

I wonder what this says about democratic elections ✓ :)

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Nice, I'll probably give this a try!

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