Quoting: CGullWhen it does release, I'll buy it.

I'm just glad nobody has yet yelled that I should just run it in Proton.

Up until January 2021, you could play it natively for free [External Link]. But they've been Windows-only since, presumably focussing on their Steam release and graphics upgrade. I'm amazed that they've landed $7M. Superb.

I mean, it's also Platinum in Proton, so I don't really get the reticence, but whatever - I used to be the same, but since the Steam Deck, I don't have the energy for "no tux" anymore.

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Quoting: rustybroomhandleA fun aside (Steam Deck at around 3:25):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxVekZRIWyg [External Link]

I thought he was going to sing about the Steam Deck and had to watch it about three times before I noticed that he was using a Steam Deck as a lyrical prompt! Or, in fact, simply playing Mass Effect while singing...

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Well, just tried this, and it's pretty damn excellent. Picked up Diablo for £6 on GOG, used Innoextract to grab the files (as per the installation instructions), shove the resulting 6 files into your .local/share/diasurgical/sevilution folder and away you go.

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Also, big shout out for Defender's Quest 2 [External Link]. Sadly, the demo is Windows only, but the developer did do native for the first, so I have high hopes.

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Great news. This is probably amongst the best Horde Survival games out there, but it's very grindy on the skills tree front, and the individual gems needed for some o fthe upgrades is a bit baffling.

Hopefully this opens things up a bit.

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Quoting: whatever

Quoting: pleasereadthemanualcan you fix it yourself?

My guess is no.
They can test all they want, but unless they're willing (and capable) to contribute to WINE/Proton I don't see how this can work.
The game is now officially unsupported in Linux. That's why they removed the native version.

I think Valves take on this is that it's actually supported, but by Valve, not overkill.

I'd like some clarity from Valve on that though. Devs can say they "commit to get it working on Proton", but as pleasereadthemanual asks above, what does that really mean? Who's on the line if you buy that game, play it for 10 hours, then the dev screws it up and it stops working?

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Quoting: CybolicAh, I was hoping they'd have fixed the Store/Web view going black when switching windows, before labelling it as stable. Maybe next update.

I used to get this all the time on Gnome, but now that you mention it, Ive not had it at all since jumping over to KDE, so maybe it a compositor bug.

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Quoting: scaine

Quoting: NezchanThe categorization in the GOG Pride selection is so messed up. Like Night In the Woods is a game that allows you to choose your character's gender and pronouns? No it isn't!

There also aren't trans characters in Stardew Valley or Fallout: New Vegas. I have no idea why those are in the category at all, someone was definitely asleep at the wheel.

This feels like a pretty weird response... are you suggesting that only games that do all the things you mention would qualify under a celebration of Pride?

Because Pride is a celebration of the entire range of LGBT+ communities. The point is that its inclusive, not exclusive.

Anyway... Night in the Woods features multiple LGBT+ characters [External Link]. The entire Fall Out series was reasonably famous for being amongst the first games to allow same-sex marriage in-game and features various LGBT+ characters [External Link] throughout. Similarly, Stardew Valley supports gay marriage [External Link] and includes various other LGBT+ features.

Hope that helps.

Did you look at the actual page? It has separate categories for "Masculine romance representation", "Female romance representation", "Choose your gender", and "Featuring transgender characters". Stardew is rightfully in the first three, but not the fourth, and I think if someone bought that, or Fallout: New Vegas, based on GOG saying they have trans characters they'd be disappointed.

It isn't inclusive to say something has trans characters when it doesn't, or has the ability to choose your gender and pronouns when it doesn't. That's got nothing to do with diversity. Rather, it makes whoever assembled the categories look like they don't care about what representation is in a given game, and just shoved them into the categories with little thought.

Hope that helps.

It does, thanks. Yep, I don't have too many issues with the first three categories, but now that you point it out, I don't see any mention of trans characters in a few of the fourth-category games. Even the first three, they're being very... liberal with the classification, aren't they?

I doubt it's malicious (even with GOG's history of being shit in this regard), but it's definitely misleading!

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Quoting: NezchanThe categorization in the GOG Pride selection is so messed up. Like Night In the Woods is a game that allows you to choose your character's gender and pronouns? No it isn't!

There also aren't trans characters in Stardew Valley or Fallout: New Vegas. I have no idea why those are in the category at all, someone was definitely asleep at the wheel.

This feels like a pretty weird response... are you suggesting that only games that do all the things you mention would qualify under a celebration of Pride?

Because Pride is a celebration of the entire range of LGBT+ communities. The point is that its inclusive, not exclusive.

Anyway... Night in the Woods features multiple LGBT+ characters [External Link]. The entire Fall Out series was reasonably famous for being amongst the first games to allow same-sex marriage in-game and features various LGBT+ characters [External Link] throughout. Similarly, Stardew Valley supports gay marriage [External Link] and includes various other LGBT+ features.

Hope that helps.

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Quoting: 14

Quoting: scaineI finished it twice and agree that there is some enjoyment in how differently the characters play. But I didn't feel like doing a third run, and I can't away from the fact that my 30 hours of playthrough for £50 just isn't great value, especially when I stack it next to something like Gunfire Reborn, Deep Rock Galactic, or Noita.

Wait, your combined playthroughs only amounted to 30 hours? Mine were 30 hours each! Did you have automatic world level-up turned on?

Yep! Well, not for the first couple of levels, then I realised you pretty much need it to keep the challenge up. Now you mention though, I don't think I finished the Worldslayer content on my second playthrough. There were also plenty of side missions I hadn't done - my style with these games is to stay-on-target with the main storyline as much as I can, unless the challenge is too much, then I go back and do side-missions until I'm sufficiently powerful to continue. I wouldn't describe as a boss rush, but I do tend to stay pretty focused. And of course, second time around I knew exactly what I was doing.

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