Quoting: hardpenguinBlendo Games is such nice company, supporting Linux with multiple titles. I still remember how big deal it was to me when Atom Zombie Smasher was first available on Linux in one of the Humble Indie Bundles :)

I really have to play Atom Zombie Smasher again.

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Quoting: KohlyKohl(…)Why would you want the same game again? Changing the formula is a great thing for gaming.

I haven't played the second game, but I've watched some videos of it. IMO the first game is different compared to all the other train games because it does not focus on distribution of goods. The second game seems like a run of the mill train game, only not as deep. I'd rather play the first game or OpenTTD/Industriegigant/etc.

Quoting: KohlyKohlImagine if they didn't add heroes to Warcraft III?

That's the game that stopped my interest in the genre. To me, the heroes are a distraction. They are great for the single player campaign (better than StarCraft's approach) or special maps that focus only on heroes.

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I still regret buying the game on Steam before any other purchase options turned up.

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I know. He was on a “?” node. Unfortunately I forgot that I had a 10% healing potion and died on the last turn before he would have died with -4 health with a bit of bad luck with card draw. As I had more than 130 hp, I could have survived if I had remembered that potion before I clicked “next”.

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Quoting: scaine

Quoting: KlaasFinally.

Worth the wait, I assure you!

I've died several times already. Have you encountered that weird tentacled enemy with 999 health on the third floor?

And they've manged to upload a version without the “BETA” label in the main menu.

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Finally.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyHuh. Somehow I was under the impression that video streams were compressed, and so just how detailed the actual picture was (as opposed to the number of pixels) might be relevant to how compressible it was. (…)

That's definitely the case if the frames contain lots of moving noise e.g. falling snow. An easy example to see the problem is a classic Doom stream on a map that contains the texture FIREBLU (e.g. E3M6 Mt. Erebus) and the image quality drops while the bitrate explodes.

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Quoting: Sir_DiealotSo you are not willing to download 50 GB for a weekend but to download 50 GB for two hours of streaming?

If we consider the 25 Mbit/s estimate from a few pages back and 8 hours playing time, you would require approximately 88 GB of traffic. That's insane.

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Quoting: elmapul

Quoting: KlaasAnd to add something new to the discussion: It's very energy inefficient. Streaming videos a already a huge waste of energy – and this has to be a lot worse.

not really, if you have an older computer, it may waste more energy doing less, the issue with newer and powerfull comptuters is that they tend to not do less.

Why? Let's assume as a simplification that the local computer that is able to run the game uses as much energy as the Stadia Server component and the local computer that is used as a thin client require the same amount of energy. Do you think the infrastructure necessary for the communication does not require energy at all? The infrastructure required for video streaming requires huge bandwidth and a lot of energy. The infrastructure needed for game streaming needs huge bandwidth and low latency – so it has to require more energy.

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I fail to how the hardest possible DRM can be a good thing. There also latency and privacy issues.

And to add something new to the discussion: It's very energy inefficient. Streaming videos a already a huge waste of energy – and this has to be a lot worse.

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