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Latest Comments by rustybroomhandle
NVIDIA 430.14 driver released, DiRT 4 and Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (Steam Play) get improvements
14 May 2019 at 7:49 pm UTC

But does it fix the No Man's Sky Vulkan experimental version? That was working great on AMD, but reeeeally bad on NV cards. Word on the street is that the issue is driver related.

You might need to bring a shovel for Stellaris: Ancient Relics, the newly announced story expansion
14 May 2019 at 3:12 pm UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: Maath$173 for a video game is hard pill for me to swallow.
Choose an alternative:

a) The first version of the game released is declared "the video game" and they never add any new content to it.

b) They continue to add content to the game, but do it entirely at their own expense, never charging you extra.

c) They develop all this extra content at their own expense over the course of many years, and then release it all as "the video game".

d) They release the first version as "the game", and then future expansions are sold as standalone sequels.

Steam Play just got two updates with 4.2-3 and 3.16-9, some great stuff included
19 Apr 2019 at 2:02 pm UTC

Tried the FNA stuff with Cthulhu Saves the World, but alas it doth fail.

Caves of Qud, the crazy-deep roguelike is having a price increase this week so act fast
17 Apr 2019 at 8:48 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: KlaasI still regret buying the game on Steam before any other purchase options turned up.
Well, the game does not use Steam DRM, so once you have it downloaded you can just copy the files, back it up, do whatever you want with it. It does not require Steam to run.

Renaine, a gorgeous pixel-art platformer about overcoming failure is coming to Linux
4 Apr 2019 at 5:37 am UTC Likes: 2

Lovely art style. I wonder if the pallette is based on a specific system.

Civilization VI’s “Antarctic Late Summer Update” is now out
3 Apr 2019 at 7:38 am UTC Likes: 1

Loosely related - who's on Aspyr cookie detail for Borderlands 3?

Looks like Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 may be coming to Linux
28 Mar 2019 at 10:36 am UTC Likes: 2

Been tempted to grab the original to play under Proton as I have never played it. Apparently works well, and by "well" I mean it's just as buggy as running it natively, and some Win10 users have actually had trouble running it.

A Linux beta of X4: Foundations is due in 'the next few days' (update: it's up)
26 Feb 2019 at 7:41 pm UTC Likes: 2

For a company that's proven to be committed to supporting Linux, I say full price is the best price.

The open source Morrowind game engine 'OpenMW' is going to officially bring in multiplayer
11 Feb 2019 at 3:43 pm UTC

Subjective means it differs from person to person. I don't want other players to play immersive RPGs with me, because it would ruin the experience for me. You seem to be ok with it, so fine - you do you.

The open source Morrowind game engine 'OpenMW' is going to officially bring in multiplayer
11 Feb 2019 at 1:49 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: SamsaiA singleplayer game that can optionally also be played in multiplayer is objectively a better game than one that cannot
Wrong. A game designed as a single player experience doesn't automatically become better when you cram multiplayer in. Sometimes it also just doesn't work. Narratives flow with one person, but soon as a second is added you have to do weird things like partial instancing. In the case of Morrowind, I'd say the only way to make this not terrible is if one player still remains the primary one, with any additional ones being only hired help that are not allowed to talk to NPCs. Morrowind also has a finite amount of bad guys - it's not a dungeon crawler.

There's the matter of immersion too. The quickest way to destroy one's immersion in an RPG world is to add other players.

Also, don't say "objectively" - it's very much subjective.