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Quoting: lvlarkHmm, might have to get this one. My attempts at a Japan playthrough have always stopped soon due to it feeling... lackluster? But not until summer - must not get distracted from work for the coming 2-3 months.

Student doing finals ? :)

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What an excellent interview. The quality of articles on this site and the regularity of posts never cease to impress me. A donation will be going this way as soon as I'm not skint.

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Quoting: dubigrasuAlas, for all the good words about SteamOS the Beamdog client doesn't work on it. (older libstdc++.so.6).

You’re making me eat my words :-/. Although maybe they did that consciously and they assumed people wouldn’t use it on SteamOS, like Liam says.

Yeah, not much point in testing your client on SteamOS proper, but the moment you switch to desktop mode is basically Debian Jessie, and Debian Jessie is a pretty big distro to be left behind.

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Great interview!

QuoteOur in game movies are encoded as webm files, and audio is encoded with ogg.

Webm usage is nice. I wonder what codec they use in Ogg. Modern Opus, or older Vorbis?

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Well, that just earned them a preorder! I normally don't preorder, but with the involvement of Chris Avellone and the lovely interview here, I'll trust them and make sure they get their cut :)

EDIT: I'm talking about Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition, in case that wasn't clear.

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I'm picking this one up. Never heard of it but it looks like it's right up my alley. Can't wait to put it on the HTPC big screen and hear my kids make fun of it while I do my best to master each character!

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@DamonLinuxPL
Yes, is one of the downsides of using Debian stable.

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Quoting: dubigrasu

Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: dubigrasuAlas, for all the good words about SteamOS the Beamdog client doesn't work on it. (older libstdc++.so.6).

Their games are built to work on SteamOS of course, but their client is not. SteamOS isn't a place where you're meant to go around installing other clients ;)

In the BPM mode indeed, but in desktop mode is basically Debian stable, where I do have some other clients installed (basically itchio and Gamejolt).
Or leaving aside SteamOS, the client doesn't work on Debian stable.

Is simply reason. They use electon and build binary as appimage. Appimage is building on upstream. So if they build it from .deb pack for Ubuntu 16.04 - so app can work only on the same version or new build of needed library. If you try launch it for e.g on 14.04 app simply won't work, because some of needed libs is older than use in currecnt build of appimage.

Appimages is great things (I think is better than snap and flatpack) and I use few app as appimage and not have any issues with it, but some people can make big miaste with it. If they use update Arch, or fresh build on Mandriva or newly Ubuntu to make own app in Appimage, they can broke compatibility with other little older distro. Solution is - always build appimage on oldest disto u have, like oldest supporting ubuntu, never in new releases.

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: dubigrasuAlas, for all the good words about SteamOS the Beamdog client doesn't work on it. (older libstdc++.so.6).

Their games are built to work on SteamOS of course, but their client is not. SteamOS isn't a place where you're meant to go around installing other clients ;)

In the BPM mode indeed, but in desktop mode is basically Debian stable, where I do have some other clients installed (basically itchio and Gamejolt).
Or leaving aside SteamOS, the client doesn't work on Debian stable.

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Quoting: dubigrasuAlas, for all the good words about SteamOS the Beamdog client doesn't work on it. (older libstdc++.so.6).

Their games are built to work on SteamOS of course, but their client is not. SteamOS isn't a place where you're meant to go around installing other clients ;)

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the only fighting game i got really into was 'One must Fall' that game really got me hooked back when i was a wee lad in DOS.

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Why cant it be Witcher 3 :'(

Well, Rise of the Tomb Raider is also okay-ish ^_^

EDIT: Anyone else noticed that there is only one Linux title on their radar and only 3 in total? Everything alright @feral?

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Alas, for all the good words about SteamOS the Beamdog client doesn't work on it. (older libstdc++.so.6).

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Thanks, a great interview! I had been wondering myself what the specific purpose of the beamdog client really was. I bought "Torment" a few days ago, just on regular steam, though I´m considering buying the soundtrack extra (since there is no ultra-special-humongous-edition available for purchase) because I really do want to show my appreciation for Beamdog, bringing so many of my all time favorite crpgs to Linux.

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Good reading, thanks.

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Quoting: KelsI will always guess Skyrim. No matter what the hint, it means Skyrim.

Love this philosophical line, no matter what it's Sryrim.

The first thins that popped in my memory was Daikatana, but after refreshing my memory i realized that i was totally insane, nothing of it.

So I will say ... Skyrim

I think Daikatana has a source port out there somewhere.

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QuoteScott Brooks: Vim, gcc, and make?

I like this guy.

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QuoteWe’ve found that porting to Linux makes the game more stable and perform better on Windows too.

Very true. I found that it works the other way around as well.

Looking forward to Planescape.

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Quoting: razing32

Quoting: NakorOnFlipFlopsHave you played HOI 4 ?
Or do you want something even more micro managed than that?

You obviously haven't played Dominions 4, the king of micromanagement. Holy cow...

I heard of it and I think I even saw it on steam at some point.
Not for me.
Was just asking OP how deep tactics they wanted , is all.

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I got keys from G2A in the past before I learned of the sketchier aspects of their business practices. Stopped doing it and decided to just keep an eye on Steam sales. I'd rather just wait for a game to go on sale than get into risky business these days. To me, it doesn't seem worth it, especially considering games go on sale pretty often on Steam. It also helps me have a little more patience/discipline so I'm not buying everything that looks shiny and new immediately upon release lol.

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This whole post is anti keyseller/pro game distributor. That's fine, it is an editorial and that's liam's position.

By the way, propaganda doesn't mean lies. It means biased or unbalanced view point to promote a particular agenda. It can be facts and still be propaganda, by omitting other important facts. I didn't bring up fake news, you did.

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Quoting: AlveKattSo, maybe it's this?

http://store.steampowered.com/app/363620

You know it's already available on Linux?

At the end of the day whatever it is most of us on here are going to happily buy it.

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Quoting: snizzo

Quoting: Hamish

Quoting: snizzoYes please. Just don't be like phoronix and turn this website into a kde, mesa, manjaro, amd etc. zealots center. It's so annoying just reading over 9000 news about the latest commit on amd mesa and all of the hate towards nvidia in general (given that's still the best vendor hardware/software for gaming on linux).

So basically you are complaining that Phoronix covers topics that you hate? And then you turn around and complain about other people being haters?

I think you need to do a little introspection here.

Oh gosh. My message is so difficult to understand? I'm not complaining that phoronix covers some topics (that I don't hate). I'd prefer it to be a news site that gives the same space to everything and treat it objectively, like a journalist do and unlike a blogger do. I'm more and more thrilled to see how many people just don't get what's written in a small comment.

You are annoyed by Michael Larabel's coverage of AMD and Mesa because you prefer Nvidia, and you are complaining about zealotry. I am not misreading your words here. Larabel for all his sins (and he has a few) does give fairly broad coverage of all kinds of topics in the Linux community, including Nvidia.

You just need to do a quick search to see that I am right:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_topic&q=NVIDIA

AMD and Mesa are going through a huge amount of change right now and have been doing so for the past ten years. I think that is worthy of the amount of news coverage it has been getting. Nvidia is not getting forgotten. You just seem to be irked by the fact that your preferred option does not completely dominate the conversation.

EDIT: Case in point, here are some statistics:
794 AMD news articles published on Phoronix.
612 NVIDIA news articles published on Phoronix.

Now that is a 9000/1 ratio if ever I saw one...

EDIT 2: And just so I can not be accused of selective quoting, in reference to your original post:

Quoting: snizzoSo yes, I'd like you to post news about linux in general, just don't be too obsessive writing at topics that generate traffic through hate and religion like phoronix do.

You mention KDE, Mesa, Manjaro, and AMD in the same breath as "topics that generate traffic through hate and religion" and yet you still maintain that you do not hate the subject matter. Again, some introspection here would be nice. You do seem to take considerable umbridge with them being discussed.

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↑ April 17th may be the day

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: SkarjakComplaining about fragmentation is completely ridiculous.

To you maybe, but some of us know what fragmentation causes.

Quoting: SkarjakA lot of people seem to think they can tell others what to do with their time.

No one is telling anyone what to do lol, cool down.

I hope you realize this in no way addresses my point.

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What I want:
- Fallout 4
- Skyrim
- Rise of the Tomb Raider
- Elder Scrolls Online

What I will get:
...probably something else. :D

But no matter what, it will probably be a major title. And we need more of these, regardless of whether or not it's one that personally interests me.

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It somehow has to be rise of the tomb raider

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Quoting: meggermanThat might explain it thanks

i will give it a go and see what happens, to be fair the Pro driver hasnt been too bad, but im more excited about the FOSS driver and any chance to use it is welcome. My main rig is Nvidia of course ^_^


( perhaps Vega will change that ?)

I hope Vega will achieve that.

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