This was one of the first few games that made me "wow" at the potential future of PC games. Free-roaming, first person, RPG progression with quests, guilds and more. Amazing freedom. Obviously, the game kind of suffered as a result - I remember often wondering what the hell I was meant to do next! In fact, I got that feeling quite a lot in Morrowind too, I think. It wasn't until Oblivion that they made the primary quest more prominent.

Great to see this get the same kind of love that Morrowind has enjoyed with OpenMR [External Link] though.

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Quoting: ModanungBlasphemy!

There's something about that klu klux knight which tells me to stay away from this title. :S:

Yeah, that hat... holy cow. The imagery is really hard to see past, eh?

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Ah, dammit! Look at how beautiful the animations are, but it's all just a pixely blur! No!

I can't play games like. Not since Teleglitch put me off them forever.

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I actually skipped last December's Humble Choice [External Link] because I didn't want this game getting my money (and I was buying Tomb Raider separately anyway)... and now here they doing a Linux version? Great news!

I love this style of game (mad Salt 'n' Sanctuary fan, remember? ), so pretty much an insta-buy when they get the Linux version out of the door.

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Quoting: austin1985

Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: Kimyrielle

Quoting: Liam DaweSo people having another way/option to play games, while on Linux, is now not good news? Madness. I get not wanting to use it but it's an option and for many, a good one to play games that were previously impossible.

If you don't like it, don't read it or just filter it out in your profile settings. It's as if people just want to moan at this point and it's not productive for anyone.

It's not that I couldn't get behind the reasoning "If it can be played on Linux we'll cover it." I don't think that's the issue why some people find covering Stadia here a bit odd. It's more because covering Stadia but not other streaming services avaialble for Linux and not great new Windows games that have, say, at least a Gold rating on ProtonDB seems to be a very arbitrary decision. If playing on Stadia is gaming on Linux, so is playing Windows games on Linux with Proton. I don't get why one is covered and the other is not.

I get the idea that GoL is your blog and you can write about whatever you and whenever you want, including writing about the weather if you so chose. But you can't really be surprised that if your selection criteria are that arbitrary, people might wonder why?

I'm repeating myself now: Stadia is supported, games are specifically ported and supported onto Stadia by both the developer and Google - and that's an important point. You can't even remotely say the same about Proton (yet? we don't know what the end goal is for Proton). That said, I do cover every single Proton update without fail and only just recently talked directly about Streets of Rage 4 and Street Fighter V got a dedicated video.

As I also stated earlier, I have previously covered other streaming services and I will continue to do so as and when they come up. Currently though, there is no other major streaming service that's supported on Linux.

And yes, some of it is an arbitrary decision. I cover things based a lot on personal interest, hence very little visual novel coverage here for example.

I would like to add that Google is the only one currently that can pull it off. Yes Nvidia is trying and Sony and all of them, but honestly Google is the only one who has the infrastructure and the finance to back up such a project at this current time. That is my humble opinion of course, yours may differ.

I'm pretty sure that Valve will have a crack at this too. Less pressing for them though, so maybe they can afford to wait and see how much traction Stadia gets before committing serious resources to it.

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I think there's a bit of selective memory going on here too. GOL has covered numerous Windows-only titles that work well in Proton. Deep Rock Galactic, No Man's Sky, Halo: Combat Evolved, Risk of Rain2, Pandemic Express, Elite: Dangerous to name a few.

Plus all the emulation news, distro news and occasional review, VR chat, hardware announcements, proton/wine version updates. I stay here because of that diversity. I can put up with the odd Stadia announcement that I don't care about!

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Quoting: SchattenspiegelIs that shelf optional or do I have to remove it by editing the files like for the news section? BTW: anyone else noticed constant shader cache downloads reappearing for proton games after the last update

From the article:

Also, since it's using the Shelf system it can be moved around or removed entirely if you don't find it useful.

Yep, I got a few shader cache downloads recently, but only about two or three for the 50+ games I have installed. It's not like the original bug that was constantly downloading cache's (often zero bytes) for every game.

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Thanks to this month's Humble Choice, I topped the big "thou" this week. 1002 games and counting! According to SteamDB's Calculator, I've only played just over 50% of them... but never mind that! 1000!!! Wooo!

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Quoting: gabber

Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: velemas@Liam please do not associate Stadia with Linux gaming, there are a lot more of Linux fans outside of 14 lucky countries where Stadia is available. Currently Stadia means nothing to me and likely in foreseeable future if at all.

In any case i wonder how Logitech g29 will be managed in Stadia.

It's playing games, on Linux. I will cover it and I shall continue to do so. Don't like it? Don't read it. Filter it out if you must in your profile settings.

As a reminder to all: This website is Gaming On Linux, don't put us in a box of your own making. We cover everything.

The issue is not the covering, but the wording "good news for Linux fans". I am a Linux fan, but I don't consider games going on stadia as good news. Quite the opposite for many reasons, and it seems I am not alone. Let's say there is a diversity of opinions on the topic.
So, sure, cover it. But please don't call it "good news for Linux fans".

PS: auto-correct options for stadia : sadist and diastase

Sure, you (and I) are individuals who are Linux fans, but not impressed by Stadia. But plenty of other Linux users are delighted by Stadia. So "Linux fans" is perfectly applicable. Let's not get all "not all men" on this subject: if you don't fit the "Linux fans" group in this case... who cares? If you're not interested in Stadia, don't read the article, don't interact on it.

Easier just to ignore it and move on to something that interests you. Define yourself by things you love, not the things you hate.

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Stadia means nothing to me either, but I love that GOL is always clear in its article titles - there's never clickbait (why would there be, as there are no adverts), so I have no problem with the site covering such things. I suppose the tag filtering is there too, but I haven't felt the need to filter anything.

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