"spark a debate" is not necessarily bad for Valve either, quite the contrary!

it doesn't even matter too much if the scrapped assets are horrible or better than the final ones, this can only increase interest in those aging games and increase their lifespan...

...unless they're Blizzard and the game assets somehow turn into extra proof of an office harassment culture, then it's a real problem for them, but so far this has never been the case with Valve AFAIK :huh:

my point is that this kind of feels like those certified 100% organic "leaks" of GPU and CPU specs one week before the official announcement

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Yeah, this is superbad for Valve... all those old and unused game resources for games that sold zillion copies or are F2P are sure to convince people to de-buy the game or play the resources without the games... lol

I just expect Valve will make fun of it and turn this into positive marketing for their games division, not that they need any help keeping people engaged

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will they enable this to work between desktop clients or just desktop >> deck ?

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gamescope is under Valve's direct control and is the piece of tech behind the Steam Deck's "Gaming Mode" (the one where Steam and every game you play run fullscreen)

It's not surprising that this was where they put the initial effort, but I expect GNOME's mutter and KDE's whatever-it's-called will move to support it soon too

A lot of work is in parts of Linux that are used by all DEs in all distros, so things should be much easier to close the gap once it's all upstreamed

ps: using HDR in monitors without good backlight intensity variation per screen region or pseudo-HDR where not even software-controlled backlighting exists is IMHO a trap... you end up with faded colors, almost totally blackened and whitened areas, or with ugly wide stripes of bright and dark across the monitor/tv...

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Quoting: BlackBloodRumOne of many reasons why you shouldn't use Epic Store, nor trust their EAC or EOS. :happy:

But people were told and warned many times in the past, but continue to do so thus at this point they cannot complain about it :grin:

I know what you mean, but really it's important to be clear: yes they can and should complain, even if previously aware of the issues, because...
1) Epic broke laws to do it
2) Epic lied about what was being done
3) It's not trivial to detect this sort of thing on your own
4) The crushing majority of people echoing complaints about Epic's disregard to privacy fail to link the complaint to a credible source, so it looks like the claim is crazy unreal when in fact Epic actually did something crazy horrible in real life
5) Most people don't delve into privacy issues enough to actually understand the extent nor the damage damage, even after "being told" it happens... It's not necessarily because they would be OK with it if they actually grasped the full scope of it, but often just because they have enough other serious things on their mind... IMHO this is especially true when talking about issues embeded in their leisure activities

That's why strong enforcement by a specialized taskforce is indispensible and can yield such surprising results when it finally materializes.

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Quoting: wvstolzingI just recorded this by OBS, running on dosbox-staging; sound/video loaded from directly mounted cdrom: !Civ II advisors (early game video) [External Link]

Only fools run an empire without luxury! \o/

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Quoting: wvstolzingMy solution was to run Windows 3.1 inside dosbox -- which works surprisingly well.

awesome! thanks for the hint, I actually forgot it could run on win 3.x and not just win95!

I've done win 3.x under dosbox before and it runs totally smooth (if that word can even be used for such a clunky OS)

maybe with that trick Civ2 will be one of those old windows games that run better under linux than on modern windows, LOL

the indeo5 video codec installer is a murderous disgrace, and the game is ruined by windows xp and later versions with their new window decoration methods

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Quoting: junibegoodI guess marketing is to blame : every game must have more features and fancier graphics than the previous one so they have something to show in trailers, even if these things don't actually make the game any better... At least, with the rise of indie games, we can now have games like The Battle for Polytopia, who do exactly the opposite and go for extreme minimalism. :)

Come on, it's not "marketing", it's games! They're supposed to be fun, not just functional.

That means different things for different people, but in general a game feels more fun when you think it looks more beautiful (which might mean minimalist looks for some, realism, neon glow, hand-drawn, abstract, etc.

It also helps when it sounds nice (literally), which again may mean different things for different people, like looping techno beats, the Berlim Philarmonic Orchestra, 8-bit midi chiptunes, ...

Some people love deep stories while some rather play something where you just log in and blow stuff up gratuitously.

Gameplay can be twitchy/relaxed, short loops/saga, all sorts of modes, etc.

And the boom in indie and minimalist graphics offerings is testimony that there is no "general trend" towards any specific preference like AAA superproduction graphics, just a huge blooming catalogue of new games of all sorts for all tastes, which is great!

The only thing that is indeed "marketing" is that some big titles get advertized more widely than others, but we also have much better tools at hand to find games that are pleasant to our specific tastes now than a couple decades ago... Shareware/Demo CDs anyone?! (showing my age now...)

PS: I think Unciv's official description is perfect for it.

PPS: How do you folks get Civ2 to play nice on Linux with the City Advisors? Anyone has a foolproof recipe? I dearly miss Elvis!!! (and can you honestly say the cosplay film bits weren't pure endearing eye candy pushing the boundaries of what the technology allowed back then?)

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It reminds me of Wild Arms!

Looks simple but cute (unlike many attemps which claim "retro" but are actually just rushed graphics) and fun (funny/catchy scenes including clever motion effects, couple hints of some story depth though I'm pretty hard to please on that front).

I'll definitely give it a better look (as well as the other games mentioned in previous comments) :grin:

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More on topic, I'm glad they finally took the time to make this change.

I'm certain they got aroud to it because of the Steam Deck (popping up windowed dialogs is a PITA in gaming mode and console mindset simply demands no pre-game dialogs) though Linux users have asked for this for ages.

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