Quoting: MrNilssonI haven't played a point-and-click adventure for ages.

Just by reading the article, I'd wager there are better candidates worthy of your attention :-). P&C Adventures had a pretty fruitful phase over the past couple years, and more hot stuff in the pipeline.

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Quoting: NeverthelessLike I said before, because you're feeding proprietary AIs, training them manipulating people.

Not too unlikely. A lot more is to be gained from harvesting lengthy game play sessions than from occasionally being forced to solve one of Google's stupid captchas.

Quoting: elmapulwhat scary me the most is that Stadia is powered by Linux, and if we ever enter an world where the standartd is gaming without preservation of old games, gaming without the freedom of mods to makew your own maps, characters etc. it will be google and linux fault that we were able to reach that world.

That came up in my mind as well, but I quickly decided to not pursue that train of thought. As with a lot of technologies, there's the potential for abuse, but that's not to say that the technology in question isn't doing more good than evil overall. And with Linux, there's no doubt about that.

But perhaps that's pointing to the issue with the (current) GPL losing its edge in a world of cloud-computing. It's not unheard of developers to move to more restrictive licenses because of cloud companies reaping the benefits of some open source product or other without giving anything back in return.

TBH, right now I'm fairly skeptical whether anything Google does to enable Stadia will make its way back to improve gaming on the Linux desktop. But hey, I don't mind being proven wrong :-).

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Quoting: GustyGhostThis will be great for anyone who wants a 3rd party to have complete control over their access to games. At that point, you're not even renting.

And that's one reason I will stay wide away from this. The others being privacy concerns and Chrome.

I mean I see the appeal of playing hardware-hungry games on cheap client systems or for playing games that are not compatible on the OS level, but personally I'd rather not play these than giving up possession of the game binaries and assets (I've already given up on getting a box, disc and printed manual).

One question that also comes to mind is how game streaming might change games as a whole, if it ever catches on. I'm pretty sure it's not good for business if people keep streaming the same game (they paid once) again and again. So it's either in-game advertising, micro transactions, shorter or generally less re-playable games (or a mix of those), neither of which I find potentially appealing.

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Quoting: GrabbyI've just finished Firewatch. I quite liked it, the writing and voice acting are excellent (even if the ending is a bit anticlimatic...), so it's definitely a recommendation if you like story-focused games in the same vein as Tacoma or Life is Strange.

I loved Firewatch, as I could absolutely relate to the main character. I only ever watched a bit of gameplay footage of Life is Strange, and all it did for me was make me feel old and shake my head about those silly teens with their funny language and odd problems.

Firewatch on the other hand felt like it has been made for my age group :-). So I am very much looking forward to In the Valley of Gods. Given that Campo Santo have been absorbed by Valve, I'd hope that this will also be a native Linux title.

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Quoting: subBG is fantastic!
I hope I can finish it this time.
After all these years.

BG I and II are probably the best games I never finished :-). I still have my saves from back then, and if I could use them with the Enhanced Edition, I likely would grab that and play some more. Until I get to a point where the combat starts feeling tedious and I'll stop again.

All the more reason to be hyped for (and terrified of) Baldur's Gate III.

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Quoting: EikeI played through Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love. Still not totally sure what to think of it. It is a good point and click adventure, but it's strange to have a funny adventure about "real socialism"...

I have not finished it yet, but I actually find it pretty depressing (likely the reason I set it aside for now). Not that it isn't humorous in an absurd kind of way, it's just that it has the ugly face of existing socialism lurking right beneath a very, very shallow surface.

Quoting: EikeBTW, anybody had crashes on saving with this adventure as well?

Not me. The only bug I remember was audio not working 50% of the time. Restarting once or twice and it would be fine for the remainder of the session. But when it came up silent on the intro screen, silent it remained.

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Civilization VI. With all the add-ons. I like the series ever since I played the first installment on the Amiga. I've bought (almost) all releases since. Civilization: Call To Power, then ported by Loki, had been my first commercial Linux game.

Technically, Civ VI is running great, including a multiplayer match with my Cousin, who's on the Windows version. Gameplay-wise, it's ... Civilization. The details vary from release to release, but at its core it's still the same as its 1991 grandfather (which isn't bad, actually). Currently working my way towards a science victory, and losing a bit of sleep over it. "Just one more turn" and all of a sudden it's 1 am :-).

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As I understand, they were aiming for GOG and itch.io as well

As a backer, I had access to DRM-free builds on itch.io since their first alpha (which was available for Linux too and worked like a charm). Subsequent betas were Win/Mac only, so I didn't follow along, but now itch.io has the Linux version again, released 9 days ago. (I think we backers got an earlier go at the game, because they did not want to release to general audiences amidst the Steam summer sale.)

Gameplay wise, I only briefly tried the alpha (until Ophelia's untimely demise at the hand of an assassin). But I think that's the core concept of the game, reliving the "same" series of events time and time again, using your newfound knowledge to change them to your (and everyone else's) favor.

I've made the mistake of buying Civilization VI in the summer sale, so likely will not be able to play Elsinore for a while to come (and I need to complete Kingdom Come: Deliverance, too).

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Not in my price range (anything above €200 seems excessive to me, given my gaming habits). Also, my next GPU (and CPU) will be AMD, come what may.

But I assume my 2015 GTX 950 will last me another year or two. By the time I'll finally replace it, any €180-200 card will blow it out of the water :-).

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Quoting: cprnI didn't try that for a while but does any of you have issue of Kingdom Come not starting at all? I last played it 8 months ago, worked flawlessly. And yeah, I did link all the DLLs from Win64Shared to Win64 so it's not that. I don't even remember how to debug this (it's the only game I ever run with Steam Play)! Help?

I'm currently playing the GOG version with wine 4.11 and (as of yesterday) DXVK 1.2.3. That one did not even require copying any of the DLLs. It just worked. So I would assume the game runs with current Proton as well. Have you tried verifying the installation?

Otherwise, you could look at the DXVK logs in the game directory or enable proton logging [External Link] if those are inconclusive.

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