when I finish a game, I like to watch the credits rolling

I don't. It's 2018. Scrollbars have been a thing since at least the mid-'80s. Why do we have to sit through twenty minutes of advertising executives and lawyers before we get to see who voiced the main character? And then blink and miss it?

Games aren't movies. Is it really beyond the wit of developers to put the credits into the main menu structure, and split up the various departments so we can go straight to the part we're interested in?

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Quoting: FeistHowever, if there´s even the *slightest* chanse that one or more of them will get a native port at some point, I´d naturally abstain from buying until I can buy native.

You can't go wrong with my five-year rule. Set a shorter “quarantine” period if you can't wait that long. :)

I have to admit though, I am tempted by a few titles that will almost certainly never have native ports. The fact that Proton counts as a Linux sale makes a difference, I think. It doesn't help the porters obviously, so like you I'll still give games that have any chance of being ported a wide berth (I'm a fan of driving games, and Codemasters have been a fairly safe bet in the past, for example), but I feel less bad about handing over money to the likes of Bethesda now that they'll know it's not just another Windows sale.

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Quoting: lucifertdark32bit Prefixes for those games that absolutely need it.
.NET working in 64bit prefixes if possible, we wouldn't need 32bit prefixes that way.

Definitely. .NET's a big sticking-point for a lot of games. And it really shouldn't be.

No more 0byte downloads every time I fire up Steam.

I was getting a lot of those for a couple of months before Proton dropped. Whether it's related or not, I don't know. But they do need to figure out a better way of updating Proton itself.

An easier way to configure prefixes than Winetricks, or a proper gui for it that makes sense.

I don't know if that'll happen, given that the whole point is to make it seamless so you don't have to configure anything.

Something in the Beta channel, to help users try out and suggest fixes, wouldn't be a bad idea though. But I expect Valve probably assume that anyone doing that kind of thing already knows how Winetricks works.

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Quoting: fabertaweit's a mere 59.5 GB download :dizzy:

Yikes. That puts me off recent AAA games almost as much as price or compatibility worries.

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Ziggurat's a bit of a hidden gem. Well worth that price, anyway.

Quoting: EhvisAnd it being a Steam bundle, you can use it to complete your BL2/BLTPS collection as well.

Heh. Apparently I'd “only” save 30 GBP. And actually, very nearly all of the content I don't have is stuff I don't really want (character and costume packs mainly). Tempting, even so. The completionist in me is like, “Yay!” (Spot the reference. :) )

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I've said it before, and I'll say it again: I have nearly 200 hours in Stellaris and almost as many in EUIV, and I don't have any of the DLC for either game apart from the stuff they've given away for free (Anniversary Portraits and Horizon Signal in Stellaris's case). I did buy some, but not all, of the CKII DLC in sales. I doubt I've sunk much more than 50GBP all told into it, including the base game, and one more session could take me over the 300 hour mark.

I think that's the important thing with Paradox DLC: you have to be very discriminating about what you buy. You don't need it all; buy what appeals to you, and what you can afford. For example, The Republic for CKII almost turns it into a whole different game, so I thought that was worth the money. Neither of the major expansions for Stellaris so far has struck me as particularly interesting. (YMMV, obviously.)

On the other hand, the changes they make to the base game over the course of its life are the sort of thing Firaxis would call a “sequel“ and charge sixty quid for. I prefer Paradox's approach.

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That's weird. I couldn't get it to work with native GZDoom using the official Doom 2 wad. I had to run the supplied Windows binary under Wine. Which worked perfectly, but... yeah, weird.

Quoting: GuestI have to test brutal doom first. :D

Oh, Brutal Doom's awesome. If you like Doom even just a little bit, you'll absolutely love it. I'm not a massive Doom-head myself; in fact I kind of suck at it, but BD leaves a huge grin on my face every time.

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If you like the look of Two Point Hospital but - like me - are a bit strapped for cash, you can pick up the original Theme Hospital assets to use with CorsixTH for practically nothing. (1GBP in the UK. If I dug around down the back of the sofa, even I could probably scrape that much together.)

I don't have any of the new GOG Connect games, but I'm hoping some will turn up over the course of the week. I really like that scheme.

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Yep. I'm sure it's all part of The Plan.

Quoting: SalvatosI don't have any hard expectations as to what's coming exactly, but I'm content and optimistic that they're still very much an ally to Linux gaming.

The one thing that's struck me all along is that, while they certainly still keep a lot of their code closed, Valve really do get the whole Linux/open-source thing, and the value of it.

It's easy to assume that because they haven't thrown open their repositories and ditched DRM in Steam that they don't understand, but I think that is to misunderstand open source in itself. It's a process, a method of dealing with the community, not just blindly releasing code (compare and contrast, for example, with Google or Apple). Valve seems to understand that, and I think they're in this for the long-haul.

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So... what I actually ended up playing was GTA: San Andreas. Works beautifully on Proton, as does the “Silent Patch”, which fixes a few of the main annoyances on modern hardware, including the hanging during scene changes reported by some Linux users. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to get any other mods to work; you really need the v1.0 binary for that, and although it's possible to downgrade the Steam version, the Windows program for doing it doesn't work under Wine.

Still, I've got the vanilla game; I'm happy. I mean, sure, GTAV's a technical marvel, but SA's always been my favourite.

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