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So true. In almost every part of the video, I preferred the RTX off. It is nice to see a classic get any kind of graphical update, though.

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@hardpenguin That "mystery" is called Micro$oft...

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Epic _BIG_ MAD

Some people just REALLY love the state and kissing boots.

Vote with your dollar.

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Just went through my wishlist with an AI and deleted everything that contained Denuvo and Easy Anti-Cheat.

Not gonna buy headaches & spyware. One good thing about the future.

This may sound silly, but what I really would like to play is the old school DOS Snake game where you eat apples to get longer. I think I saw it in the Arch repos as `snake`, add cool-retro-term for SFX.

If anyone hasn't played Cyberpunk 2077 and likes dark dystopians like Akira, it's a masterpiece and 60% off

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@CatKiller -- Perfectly Put.

1. Conflict of Vision
2. The Subject or Art has been overworked muddying the vision from better to worse.

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@Laim -- Perfect title "looking way too bright"

Colors are at least 15% over-saturated, maybe up to 30%

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Video 2 Time Index 0:47 - 0:50 -- Notice the "Light Saber" treatment -- where the Health Recharge Stations for Nostalgia "Memberberries" have been retroactively reworked to be "Overly Glowie" departing from their original design -- similar to how Star Wars Light Sabers were a PITA to SFX in Ep4, 5 and 6 and then in 1-3 and 7-9 were overused when previously other weapons in the SW universe were a bigger deal like the bounty hunter gun, jetpack and other tech due to real world fanfare effecting the fantasy world.

In any case the new video looks like a 15% reduction in grit which is not a good thing. Ravenholm needs to be more filthy and dirty, not shiny.

@:27 the Red Laser glows so ___king bright it feels like an insult to my intelligence, and to be quite frank like a shift to a overly tistic future where everything needs to look like a CASINO with bright flashing lights to feed the dopamine hits of a cellphone generation with the 2-second attention span of a goldfish.

Honestly it comes off as denigrating and undignifying.

In any case I'll check it out and I do support these kinds of efforts to old beloved projects, but I am not particularly hype 9k since I am on a XTX and the last RTX Remix I played had terrible performance -- I agree with previous sentiments that any lag or artifacts could really kill the experience and immersion.

I am half grump because I remember how during the PlayStation 2 there was this obsession with Revolutionary "Graphics" and the Gameplay, Story and Mechanics at the time were often the cost -- I would never make that trade or sidegrade.

Lets see what happens in 4 days -- I hope they dial down the obnoxious over-saturation some.

Sound Design undestands the principle of Negative Space, and I think that the lighting and reflections are in service to an Ego to sell a product, and not so much to the original work and are over-used at levels which cause the inverse desired effect when attempting to dignify and service the universe

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@Pyrate good observation.
They can't rule Linux gaming.
Valve is already on that path.
They can't rule x86 gaming Valve already does.
They can't rule Mac gaming, Apple does(they're a bad king, but still a king).
Releasing your own console is a risky business.
ARM Windows provides yet untried ground.

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The "horribly bright" criticism was also thrown at Quake 2 RTX initially. Then they had to tone it down so it didn't look ridiculous. This is all essentially marketing to showcase their mostly unusable RayTracing.

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While WINE is certainly the basis without we wouldn't have Proton, remember that WINE absolutely stunk at running games before Valve chimed in.

Gallium Nine existed long before DXVK & showed what was possible. I'm certain something like DXVK would've been developed anyway. Maybe a lot slower, but I'd would've been done (maybe the route Zink took - Gallium Nine/Ten/Eleven via Vulkan).

The statement is still true - without Valve we wouldn't be able to run the vast majority of Windows games as flawlessly as we can do today.

The only fact we know: Without Wine there is no Proton. What would've been developed we can only assume.

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I'm getting too old to play these kind of games.

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That's not true. Wine is the main reason we can actually play Windows games on our system. That's really disrespectful to ignore the almost 32 years of development history. Without Wine, DXVK & Proton are nothing.

While WINE is certainly the basis without we wouldn't have Proton, remember that WINE absolutely stunk at running games before Valve chimed in. The statement is still true - without Valve we wouldn't be able to run the vast majority of Windows games as flawlessly as we can do today.

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Because the other 99% still have an existing library on Steam and probably don't want to buy games again just to play them on a 3rd party handheld that's hard-locked to a proprietary store. Their target audience is pretty much existing Xbox owners that don't use Steam at all. In other words, a niche.

It's Windows, that's still the main platform of Steam. You'll be able to install it.

Even if not: The Xbox owner niche is still a lot larger than the Linux gamer or Steam Deck owner niche.

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Manmade509: With Epic Games, I don't have that problem at all. I can simply download and play via Minigalaxy, legendary or HGL for example.

Indeed. Remind me: which major company sponsors wine/Proton and makes it possible for you to play your Epic Games on Linux? I've noticed a couple of users of this site who seem to have a problem with Valve/Steam but are happy to use their product to make gaming possible.

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I remember back when I worked at GOG.com (CD Projekt group) they announced internally they might release a version of Gwent card game for Windows Phone but not for Linux 😛

The industry works in mysterious and quite silly ways.

Except, Windows Phone sold a lot of devices (Lumia alone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Lumia#Sales ).

Granted, not all of them were "gamers" but there were a lot devices by other manufacturers, too. In comparison, Steam Deck sales seem to be abysmal.

What puts the cherry on the cake is of course that Valve is the main reason why you can actually play your Epic-obtained Windows games on your open source OS.

That's not true. Wine is the main reason we can actually play Windows games on our system. That's really disrespectful to ignore the almost 32 years of development history. Without Wine, DXVK & Proton are nothing.

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Nice to see Valve sponsoring KDE development. Hopefully they plan it long term.

I would like to see KDE 6 on the Steam Deck.

What version does it use now? Plasma 5 is EOL for a while already.

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"Everything must change, so that everything can stay the same."

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CD project Red and Epic can both go and hand handle themselves.

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Picked this up yesterday, just got past the tutorial. Seems more comfortable with a keyboard despite the recommendation to use a controller, although the controller layout is still very enjoyable (more than I can say for any other ARPG I've played, where a controller severely hinders the experience). Nice to see this improvement as I might give it a go on my Deck that I've recently dusted off for the first time in months for some emulated gaming.

The game definitely has optimisation issues, and doesn't let you disable upscaling from the menus. So at Best Quality FSR 2 running at 4k on my 7900XTX, it still chews up 80% GPU. However it does this regardless of scene, even on boot splashes, and GPU usage never changes. It is consistently 80% usage.

Any performance improvements are only a good thing from any side, so let's hope once the game gets more optimisation that these SteamOS-specific ones (Mesa-specific?) only add to that.

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I would like to see KDE 6 on the Steam Deck.

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I don't do business with a company which is actively blocking Linux.

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I absolutely adore my steam deck, and I think Valve is one of the best companies we have for us gamers. One bit of constructive criticism I would say is that Valve REALLY needs to work on this rating system. It's totally broken right now. So much so I can't even really trust it. There are games that 100% should not have verified ratings, but do. And it just keeps happening over and over again.

For instance there's a game which I think would be perfect for the Deck, title is "Skald". It's a retro party based rpg. It's verified for the deck, but the controller support is so terrible you can't even play it. the dpad buttons pull up the text based console for instance. Sometimes right trigger confirms and action, sometimes a button confirms an action. Add on top of that the developer has responded that they don't care and won't update it. It should have status "playable" but not verified.

Then there are all the various aaa games that keep getting verified status but crash constantly and get like 20fps. That should NOT be listed even as playable, let alone verified.

I really hope this year they spend some time on this labeling system.

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Seriously, I don't feel like I'm missing much. Meaning... Missing anything.

Same here. I don't think I will ever play any game made by Epic, as I am just not into shooters. Problem is that Fortnite IS a very popular game, and having it run in Linux would remove one obstacle for people to switch. Keep in mind we're living in a time and age when people largely ignore new games and play popular existing ones for years instead. Fortnite is one of these.

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Arm? Best I can do is flip them a finger.

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Manmade509... New User... Are you even a Linux user or just a Troll?

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To be honest, I prefer buying games on Epic Games now. Steam is the only proprietary user space application I use and I'd definitely like to get rid of it. With Epic Games, I don't have that problem at all. I can simply download and play via Minigalaxy, legendary or HGL for example.

Interesting. And the games you bought on Epic and which are running on your machine are not proprietary user space applications?

Seriously, this must be the most awkward "justification" I've heard in a long time. To sum it up: You are running Linux because you are oh so deeply into this open source philosophy and therefore despise the company which frequently and substantially fosters your open source ecosystem BUT shop instead on a company's store who openly fights your open source operating system. What puts the cherry on the cake is of course that Valve is the main reason why you can actually play your Epic-obtained Windows games on your open source OS.

Did I get that right?

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Of course it looks "way better" - but not necessarily because of RT but because of the completely redone assets. The old version had some "leaves on a wall" texture, the RT version has complete 3D models of vines growing up a wall with 3D bricks...

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the name here dont make any sense

on japan there is
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni (When the Cicadas Cry)
Umineko no Naku Koro ni (When the Seagulls Cry)
Ciconia no Naku Koro ni (When the Storks Cry)

when they relased Higurashi here, the distributor tried to change the name to "when they cry" wich messed the name, i couldnt confirm an name change, but i think they added the "higurashi", "umineko" and "circonia" terms later on on the western version, because it wouldnt make sense to pretend that umineko was an sequel to higurashi (especially because if the author relased an new higurashi it would be impossible to name it ,in fact i remember that this issue occured but couldnt confirm searching for the old names , so maybe my memory is playing tricks on me )

naku also have a double meaning.


anyway, higurashi is an great anime (at least the old seassons, looks like the new ones are trash, at least that is what my friend who recomended the original told me, despite that it was quite popular among people who never saw the original)

i still have to play the games, but for umineko, er... the anime is really crazy, it feels like they skiped the explanation of a lot of things and skiped a lot of things from the games only to end up without an conclusion, its good for those who want to be confused, but playing the game probably is a better option.

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Would NOT use Epic even if they offered me a million quid.

Even if Epic games decided to fully support linux and offer 100's of free games I would still NOT use their service. Would never want to support such a toxic company and this article just proves my point. They would rather support a non existent platform out of spite just to stick it to Linux users.

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Epic does the same as Steam and Google (with Android). They try to create market instead conquer another. Nintendo does the same with Wii. Why Epic should compete with Valve on Linux? They decided to build one's position on Windows ARM. I think it is some sort of risk, because I think Windows is rather tied to Intel/AMD and Windows users would not change anything. But maybe it is good step, as Google, Valve and Nintendo shown?

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I'd might be alone with this perception. But I never found that Half-Life 2 looked particularly good. Not even back then. More like they just made photos of real-world object, smashed it on some polygons in the hopes it will look realistic. While in turn it was very flat and boring to me.

I mean I played HL2, Lost Coast, Ep One and Ep Two and I enjoyed them. But not because they looked ... good or stylish or it had a special art direction.

Imho the RTX version looks way better. Even though I will never be bale to play it on my hardware. I find the original is often times way too dark and uncanny.

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Ridiculous Novideo shenanigans, part ∞

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