Quoting: jens

Quoting: burningserenityWhat is HITMAN considered now that I/O is sans publisher? If they release chapter 2 for Linux this year, I'll be happy with whatever else does or doesn't happen.

Yes, sure, this would make my year too (together with Rise of the Tomb Raider, if it really comes to Linux). I didn't wanted to paint a black and white picture with my statements. Certainly there are very cool titles from independent developers and a lot of titles with a big budget are rather crap (Loot boxes indeed). I'm also not worried that I will get out of games either (also due to limited time).

It is just the feeling that the trend with regular big names from Aspyr and Feral from the past years is slightly turning and nothing has come up to compensate for that. Next to that I guess also the realization on my side that the Linux community is a rather difficult diva to deal with for companies like these both.

Anyway, lets see what happens this year :)

Some good points there for sure. I guess I'm mostly taking an optimistic view of the indie market continuing to expand now that development tools are more accessible. I totally see your point about Aspyr, et. al; it seems like even last year had a better selection of AAA ports.

I hope that Vulkan continues to grow and makes it easier to develop cross platform from the get go.

You mention the Linux community as a diva, and from a certain point of view it almost seems absurd to expect outside companies to port games for us. I wish more companies would take the old Id Software approach and release the source code while keeping assets proprietary, so we could just do it ourselves.

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Quoting: jens

Quoting: tuubiWhere you see a dramatic fall, I see a slow climb. Maybe we're looking at different timescales? Or maybe you're just a glass-half-empty kind of guy.

Different timescale and different kinds of titles... Sure, including indie and smaller titles it seems that the number of new titles is rising. Which is very cool! What I fear though, is that the number of big titles is declining to really just very very few per year.

Well yes, I would say that I'm a cautions kind of person, first see and then believe ;)

Linux is for hipsters, or at least that's what Windows users tell me ;)

Also, I would say indies keep getting better where so many Triple A games keeps getting worse.

What is HITMAN considered now that I/O is sans publisher? If they release chapter 2 for Linux this year, I'll be happy with whatever else does or doesn't happen.

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Quoting: Perkeleen_Vittupää

Quoting: burningserenityFavorite FOSS project is a tough one to vote on! That's the kind of problem I like to have.

My vote went for Linux Badass' creation :whistle:

I was skeptical of Solus at first, but that was one of the things that brought me around to it. OTOH, I forgot to nominate Lutris, that project deserves some love.

I was between Dolphin-emu, OpenMW, and WINE, but ultimately I have to go with WINE. I don't use it as much as I used to since there are so many great native ports now, but I've been following it since 2009, and its really come a long way.

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Quoting: KelsThat's the thing, West of Loathing and Pyre both have outstanding music in their own ways, but the sound design of The Long Dark is critical to establishing the atmosphere and succeeds to a huge degree. So how do you make that choice between effective environmental work and good music? Sure they're both audio, but otherwise they're entirely different concepts.

Yep, I think music definitely should be a separate category. Even integrating music into the ambience well (to provide mood context) isn't the same as good music itself.

In the past, prominent music was ubiquitous in games, and it was much harder to do atmospheric sound design. I feel that the old approach, which is present in Owlboy, lends to the atmosphere and world building with the same purpose as the ambience of The Long Dark, even if the former is a more abstract method.

I make this argument because it is still rare or impossible (someone go ahead and prove me wrong) to find a game with both excellent, prominent music and rich, atmospheric sound design. Most games these days go for sparse music in favor of more realistic, less abstract immersion, but the old way still works for me.

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Favorite FOSS project is a tough one to vote on! That's the kind of problem I like to have.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyThe lurking downer here is just that clearly Linux numbers in China are really amazingly low. China is huge, and probably will continue to gain influence over time; there being zip-all Linux there is a Bad Thing. We know some of the reasons behind it, I knew there wasn't a lot of Linux use in China, but I never realized we were wiped out this completely there.

As to the survey results themselves, I really have no more faith in this uptick than in previous more gloomy results.

Yeah, it's a shame more Chinese people don't realize that a company in their home country develops one of the best OSs, Linux or not. I use Solus now, but I'll always have a soft spot for Deepin and its charming Engrish.

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So weird that so many have never gotten the survey. I distro hopped and reinstalled 4 times last year and got the survey each time I ran Steam for the first time post install. Perhaps I inflated the statistics :P

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Quoting: g000h

Quoting: burningserenity

Quoting: g000hTempting for me (i.e. I don't own it yet) is Salt and Sanctuary, which is at 60% discount.

IMO well worth it at that price. It's like Hollow Knight with Dark Souls style levelling and stats. The platforming is just as intense as the boss fights.

Well, I've just bought Salt and Sanctuary (60% off) and Pharaonic (66% off). Rubbing hands together and cackling.

Addict!!!! - No. You're just a cool person supporting Linux gaming.

A look at my backlog might support your jovial accusation :D

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Quoting: g000hTempting for me (i.e. I don't own it yet) is Salt and Sanctuary, which is at 60% discount.

IMO well worth it at that price. It's like Hollow Knight with Dark Souls style levelling and stats. The platforming is just as intense as the boss fights.

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I appreciate the fact that they still work on Windows games with native ports. Sometimes WINE works better, especially on more obscure distros.

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