That looks absolutely insane! I bought the first one about a week back for 89p and haven't tried it yet. I'll give it a go, then probably migrate into this one. So many games. Goddam. I need more time to play them!!

Edit:
I've just played Tallowmere 1 - it's brilliant and very similar. Not quite as hectic as your video shows, but still a lot of fun, loads of customisation and a really satisfying game to "get right". It also has that one-more-shot allure. Great stuff!

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I had a lot of fun with Path of Exile and Grim Dawn... looks like I'm gonna be doing it all over again with Last Epoch too. Looks great. I'll probably wait until it's out of EA for this one though.

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Quoting: KuJoThe setting reminds me of a movie:
"In Time"
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5K0s6eveTsI [External Link]

The, uh, movie that's mentioned in the article, you mean?? :huh:

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I can't play the video right now... but did you use your G29 wheel, Liam? I can't wait to play this, and I'm curious if it's good enough that I splash the cash on a G29 myself... I'm not a HUGE racing fan, but honestly... this game. Just wow.

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This looks superb, but I do wish they hadn't called it "Boyfriend Dungeon", which conjures up a pretty dark, unwholesome image (for me)! :grin:

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I'm so excited for this title. It might have been funded in 2018, but you first reported on this, Liam, FOUR years ago: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2016/12/off-grid-is-an-adventure-satire-and-stealth-game-and-its-coming-to-linux

Can't wait to throw some money at it. Wishlisted and instabuy when it's available.

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Considering it's £9/month, I decided to give it another chance, despite my general loathing of the cloud-based model. I enjoyed a couple of hours of Destiny 2 for free, and I figured that this might be my only route to trying PUBG longer term.

But when I went to try Destiny 2 for "one last shot" before my two month free trial was up, I couldn't play it. My input was completely buggered. My mouse was "trapped" in the lower-right hand corner of the screen, and wouldn't move out of it.

There were hundreds of suggestions online - chrome flags, resolution changes, DPI adjustments, mouse accelerations changes. But isn't kind of the whole point of Stadia that it's cloud-based and so largely bug free and platform independent? But I can't even play their games from one month to the next without hitting those bugs? On the same PC?

I cancelled last Sunday - the payment was due today.

Ironically, I have a brand new all-AMD PC now and I'm curious if it's fixed. But too late now.

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Quoting: GuestThe graphics are fantastic but there isn’t even one second of gameplay in this trailer :( No idea what the game is like…

I'm a bit confused. Nearly the whole trailer is gameplay, albeit it a lot of that gameplay is then shown from cinematic effects (there's a few seconds of actual gameplay shown intermittently).

Am I missing something? Maybe the trailer was updated after this comment?

Regardless - worth trying the demo, as TobyHaynes points out! The Itch link for that is in the article.

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Interesting deal, but honestly, I'd prefer to keep the option to pause.

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Quoting: ageres

Quoting: scaineDenuvo is a kernel driver for DRM, as well as anti-cheat.

Denuvo anti-cheat is, but Denuvo anti-tamper is just an obfuscator. It hurts performance on weak CPUs but doesn't mess with an OS afaik.
Steam DRM, on the other hand, prevent Linux gamers from playing a bunch of PS360 era games: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/753 [External Link]. Those games run fine with cracked exes though.

"Just" an obfuscator? Weirdly, that sounds like you're defending it. Maybe you are. I suppose some people might prefer Denuvo to CEG because at least some Denuvo games run in Proton, but given that those games run with higher CPU, and lower framerates, at that point, I don't really care if it's a rootkit or not, I want nothing to do with it.

Can you imagine if this was applied to cars, clothes, or hell, burgers?

Cars: worse performance, you can't lend to a (insured) friend. Maybe you can only fill it from certain stations, or drive it on certain roads. Probably costs more as a result.
Clothes: Harder to put on, doesn't last as long, can't dye it, can't hand-me-down to others. Probably costs more as a result.
Burger: tastes longer to cook, can't share it with your son/daughter. Probably costs more as a result.

It's just weird. My entire steam library is mine and mine alone. When I die, even if I give the steam login to my children, they can't transfer the games to their account, it's completely locked. They're scaine, or nothing.

Defending DRM is such a strange position. And I know I've done it in the past, but the more I think about it, the more annoying and invasive I realise it is. Maybe one day I'll give up on Steam, but that would require a linux-friendly competitor to offer DRM-free gaming on a platform with vaguely similar features... and I doubt that will happen in my lifetime.

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