If this is even vaguely "Reassembly in 3D" then not only am I buying it, I'm buying it for my whole family and we're playing it to death.

I'm not saying I have high hopes. But I'm stupidly optimistic...

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: dannielloNetflix in browser means that quality of picture will not be good - 720p max. Officially only Microsoft browsers are allowed to play in 1080p/4K quality. There is external addon to enable 1080p in Firefox, but from legal point of view it is "hack" so definitely it cannot be integrated in commercial product like Atari VCS.

Really?! Son of a bitch. And our legal system just lets that be the case.

Kind of weird, because I have 4k monitors and I am pretty sure I would notice the difference with 1080p vs 720p on them an Netflix looks fine in firefox on Linux. Granted there is the occasional crap look because my ISP isn't the best.
I have also been able to play Disney+ in Linux with Firefox, so do not have to use the shitpile that is Chrome for that. So I am happy.

I'm in the same boat - I sit about a foot and a half away from my Predator 4K and I use it to watch Netflix on Firefox without a hint that there's anything wrong with the picture. I'd love to see a blind test against a sizable sampling of people to see if they could actually tell the difference between 720p and 1080p, even on hidef screens that should make that "difference" even clearer.

Conversely, my Amazon Fire TV keeps offering to play the UHD versions of Bosch, even though my living room has an aging Panasonic 1080p plasma panel! What a waste of bandwidth that would be! Two or three of the season 5 episodes didn't even offer HD - I was forced to use the 4K stream!

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Quoting: tuubiLooks really cool. Too bad it's a roguelike.

I know it's tagged as, and described as a roguelike, but maybe this line gives you some hope?

This isn't a standard roguelike

Maybe?

I love a good roguelike though. Dead Cells is immense. Noita is amazing. Rogue Legacy was/is genius (been a long time since I played that last one).

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It's beginning to look like a real product - that's pretty exciting! Can anyone remember what this is supposed to cost?

And yeah, the "password" screen is murder. Hopefully they come up with a proper button/trigger-based password system instead. And hopefully it's optional anyway, or does something similar to PS4 where the password is only necessary for purchases.

Showing potential though. Great stuff!

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPSo I would still say its graphics are well done - if I (or anyone else) personally enjoy them or not doesn't matter in judging their quality.

The graphical effects were well done. But it's a great example of where pixel graphics appear to be more reflection of lack of resources than "artistic style". Because if it were latter, then I don't understand why the game would bother with the distinction between, say, a zombie, and a mutant human.

It did make that distinction, but god knows why. You couldn't actually distinguish between them because the graphics were a pixelly, muddy mess.

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I can see both sides of the discussion here. But honestly, you're both arguing from extremes. There's no way that TheSheeeep could defend the appalling, muddy, messy graphics of something like Teleglitch (despite its fun gameplay), and meanwhile Beamboom has already admitted that there are plenty of indies that have coherent, absorbing worlds.

And reading a book on how the brain works isn't going to change that. Teleglitch could have been amazing. Instead it was headache inducing (when you die, it tells you what enemies you killed and I was surprised to discover that I'd killed four different types of zombie... they were all indinstinguisable blobs). Drake 4 could have been a stunning, memorable, interactive movie, and instead it was simply dull and reinforced the limits of its gameplay over and over (you can climb up THIS WALL, but definitely not THIS WALL).

Counterpoint to Teleglitch? Noita (windows-only). Or Chasm (linux native).
Counterpoint to Drake 4? The Last of Us (PS4), Witcher 3 (windows-only), or for linux-native, look no further than the Life is Strange series, or the latest Tomb Raider.

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Great news! I've been following this for a while. Gonna be a long wait to mid-April!

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Quoting: ZlopezI usually have the opposite problem. I open up my library on Steam and I think "I don't know what to play first!" :-D

Yes, indeed.

Speaking of which - has anyone played OneShot on Linux? I bought it and then found that it required jumping through a whole bunch of extra hoops. Having had to fix too many broken games lately, I just left it alone for now. There are so many other games I have that work perfectly.

I think there should be some kind of "report game" button on Steam so that games that don't actually work out of the box on linux get a red linux icon or something, to warn buyers.

I know Linux users have a reputation for "fixing" stuff, but honestly, if I get a game that doesn't run when I hit the "play" button, I give it a forum topic on steam and if the dev doesn't respond, it's a refund and move on. It's happened... twice? But there's no excuse. Either you're selling to this market, or you're not.

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This is fantastic. Along with Godot 4.0's eventual release with its full move to Vulkan, and the recently announced Epic megagrant, it looks like Godot is going from strength to strength. Very exciting!

I only hope Steam isn't soon flooded with asset flips based on this demo, like we saw with Unity! :)

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Funnily enough, I get Beamboom's point about AAA not just being graphics. That's spot on. For me though, what make's a game "AAA" is many things, but often (for me, as I say), hinges upon good acting. Voice acting, or movements in game. Not many indies get this right.

Some do though. Games like Mark of the Ninja, or An Elysian Tale have this in spades, but are from small outfits. Similarly, the Windows-only games from Spearhead Studios are indie but have IMMENSE story telling, voice acting, movement and polish - both Stories: Path of Destiny and the "sequel" (it's not really) Omensight are just amazing because of this, but of course, they'll never get true "AAA" categorisation. Both play near-perfectly in SteamPlay btw - the former is platinum, the latter should be platinum, but needs the media foundations installed to play the tutorial thumbnail videos sadly. It's a 20 second fix to install it, but pretty infuriating that Spearhead adopted such a shitty technology... for a sequel!! Both are still well worth playing though.

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