The weird thing is how calm and chilled out Foster always seems

well this is in accordance with the original

but you'd think that relocating this feel into a 3d world would come with a few quirks. the total infatuation with strictly fully 3d fp richly-detailed world is not always good...

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Console and classic in one sentence? No way.
Shadowrun the only one that comes to mind. No need for a 3d-fier for that one tho.

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Quoting: mosa generic flashy shooter then. they've got it totally wrong judging by this vid.
nothing to see here...

Perhaps the trailer only showed action scenes and failed to capture suspense. But this is just a guess.

Possible. But the essence of the original (which I think genre-wise was "just" a shooter after all) was the uneasy and nerve-tingling feeling of fear/dread/vulnerability and the big dark unknown staring at you from the pixelated darkness. The gung ho action in the trailer kinda strikes off most of that. Not to mention horrible bloom/neon/etc FX.

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a generic flashy shooter then. they've got it totally wrong judging by this vid.
nothing to see here...

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Quoting: Lightkey

but what the practical purpose of absorbing a mature and expansive project like Exult into scummvm would be?

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Good news.
Personally tho I've never been an Ultima fan... Somehow every time I tried to get into it (mostly via the excellent Exult) it's mechanics just didn't work for me. Kept getting bored with aimlessly shuffling through every possible item in the very first town ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (I think the farthest I ever got was the second one, with a horse cart or something... never actually figured out if I did everything that was supposed in the first one - this game is... scant on feedback)

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Quoting: x_winglist a HD6870

yep, that's where I've got my assumption from.

as for the crash.. well anything can break anything in computing, especially in a highly-volatile world of complex programmable frame-buffer devices)

whether in this case the blame lies on mesa/Arch/penumbra/driver or spread across multiple parties is open for discussion I guess.

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The 1.1.1 ver is available at the storefront if you've previously got it there back in the day.

Gave it a quick go, and was greeted with a black screen, grabbed input, and a hung process to be kill 9'ed... A 20 yo port of UT99 behaves better for me right off the bat literally without any post-install intervention.
Providing an up to date sdl2 helped and the game seems to run fine after that, no crash on leaving the boat.. or after falling down the rabbit hole either.

Ubuntu 20.04, stock kernel/mesa, radeonsi (maybe the crash occurs with amdgpu?)

PS if Hamish's pc info is up to date he must be also using radeonsi, so it could be down to how Arch builds its mesa by default

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1) Vangers (https://github.com/KranX/Vangers)
2) Launch SoF with sound (https://www.gamingonlinux.com/forum/topic/2936/post_id=16032) - unsuccessful so far

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