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Quoting: scaineThat and I think I was bit fatigued by having just finished the awesome Shadowrun Returns, and subsequently the equally awesome Shadowrun Dragonfall.

You did play Hong Kong as well?

Yep. It's a simpler RPG mechanic, if I remember correctly. I played around 9 hours of it, but again I think I'd just kind of had enough of this genre when I sat down to play, so I didn't finish that one either! And when it comes to RPGs, I'm a bit of a completionist normally!

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I enjoyed Wasteland 2, but failed to finish it - first run, I found that my main character build was ineffective. Second run was a bit stale because it's story driven and I was sitting through so much of what I'd already covered. I just ran out of steam. That and I think I was bit fatigued by having just finished the awesome Shadowrun Returns, and subsequently the equally awesome Shadowrun Dragonfall.

Looking forward to this though. Looks incredibly slick.

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Quoting: ScattershotI almost bought a Galago Pro, but initially they refused to ship with a UK keyboard and after a bit of complaining they said they could do it at a $80 surcharge.

I bought a Dell XPS13.

That's incredible. I had the exact same experience in 2016. They didn't have a UK keyboard on the top end notebook model, and I ended up buying a Dell XPS13 Dev Edition instead. So expensive, but an incredible laptop. I'd still like to support System76 at some point though. UK shipping and localisation is an issue though.

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I recently replayed the whole of Might and Magic Dark Messiah as I'd just used the initial Proton to play Dishonored and I just love Arkane Studios and everything they do. Dark Messiah shows its age a little now, but honest only a little and you could see some of the Dishonored promise even back then. Incredible experience.

As for the rating being only 'less bad', it looks like the 'recent' rating on Steam includes reviews from before Hotfix 3 which was where the game turned something of a corner.

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Quoting: toorThis game has one of the worst rating I have ever seen. Everybody spit on it, critics, players.

Its launch problems crippled its rating, bit it's had nothing positive reviews since hotfix 3 came out. I'm looking forward to trying it.

Shame that the tutorial is apparently still very buggy and prone to crashing though.

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Quoting: scaineI honestly thought Stadia was just a glorified Steam Link that worked over the internet? So while the box you buy might be Linux-based, I always assumed there would simply be a farm of PCs running Windows in a datacentre somewhere and you tapped into that resource to place your game.

You don't buy a box. About the only real plus for this over just buying games normally is, you can play it on pretty much anything with a screen (well, if your internet connection is fast enough). So the mention of Linux was always about the servers.

Cool ta. This is what threw me, from the article:

QuoteStadia is going to launch in November, with access being granted to around 14 countries. Currently, the only way to actually get in is to purchase the Founder's Edition with everyone else getting access next year. The Founder's Edition comes with a Chromecast Ultra, three months Stadia Plus, an exclusive Night Blue Stadia Controller and more. It's not cheap though, at around $129/£119.

I'm a bit clearer on this now. I wonder what excuses developers/publishers will dream up to release on Stadia, but not release on Linux directly...? Pfff. They'll think of something, no doubt.

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I honestly thought Stadia was just a glorified Steam Link that worked over the internet? So while the box you buy might be Linux-based, I always assumed there would simply be a farm of PCs running Windows in a datacentre somewhere and you tapped into that resource to place your game.

It feels like an ecological nightmare to be honest. And the implications for bandwidth are horrific.

No support for this from me. I realise that I'm not their target demographic, but... nope. No interest.

Edit: Ecological piece seems pretty legit actually: [https://www.reddit.com/r/Stadia/comments/cjivzb/for_those_wondering_if_googles_stadia_will_impact]

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You're conflating "incentives" with "paying". And while acknowledging that all incentives are inherently "discrimination" to a degree, we should be realistic: incentives are everywhere.

I quite like sub's idea that a developer who is committed to all three platforms earns a bigger cut from all three as a result. Positive reinforcement like this could be really beneficial, provided that devs aren't hurt by it. I wouldn't like to see a dev commit to Linux in order to score a 5% reduction across all three platforms, only to publicly deride "low Linux sales" in the face of increased "support costs", which we've already heard some patently false testimony on.

I doubt it'll happen though. Valve already feel pretty focused on Steam Play for this kind of engagement, which has its own set of positives and negatives.

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I just checked - I got this in the "Best of 2016" Humble Bundle, in January 2017. I bought that bundle mainly for Victor Vran and Shadowrun, and I have only 2-3 hours in Rust in total. No interest in refunding the game at this late stage, for me.

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I think I've owned this for over a year since the Itch.io release - this was the game that got me interested in playing Slay the Spire actually, and I even replayed a little CardHunter via Steam Play (since it's free anyway).

Great game, easily understood mechanics, perfectly pitched difficulty and now it even has a little bit of story to keep you playing. Love it, absolutely wonderful.

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