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Probably just a port of the Switch version. Expect very blurry backgrounds with extremely sharp 3D assets. Hopefully, no new models similar to FF8R, because that'd be more work.

Fun fact: the Switch version is a port of the notorious 1997 PC version, so expect no analog movement and 15fps menu framerate unless this isn't just a sloppy port of an existing sloppy port of a botched ancient Eidos port. Yum.

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At least 90% of the games on my Steam wishlist and in my library are recommendations from GOL 😀

My backlog is rather daunting though.. 😅

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FFVI HD-2D would totally sell like pixel hotcakes. Same goes for Chrono Trigger. In the case of FFVI they had the Pixel Remasters in the pipeline, so I get it, but Chrono Trigger had the still-despicable android port and, apparently, the somewhat less despicable after years of fixing PC version that still isn't great unless modded. Perhaps also the throughly abominable Chrono Cross re-release saturated the Chrono market in Square's view, so they're holding off for the time being.

As stupid as this sounds it does track for "game made less than theoretical ROI we would've maybe got if we just invested the money instead of making something, therefore we consider this venture a complete failure regardless of the market realities or indeed any kind of reality" Square.

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Quoting: apocalyptech

Quoting: suchI disagree in that not paying for a few pieces of art isn't a proper saving, just one you report to particularly... challenged management to get them off your back. That goes triple if you're generating this much negative sentiment. That can have more of a sales impact than your sales banner.

Oh sure, I was honestly more referring to the other indications that they're going all-in on AI (such as that quote from the job posting that I'd pasted above). Having generative images as banners on the site is, I'm guessing, just the tip of the iceberg.

I'm trying not to think about GOG using genAI to fiddle with the games. It does sound like an idea they'd be entertaining. Then again, it wouldn't make for great marketing material a la their recent yt videos. "Oh, ya, we just prompted Copilot and then our lone programmer who works part time twice a year looked at the code for 5s, plz tip, the end."

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Quoting: MinoscerebI like the look of Heroic, it's a lot better designed visually than Lutris and feels more user friendly, but since Lutris can run all the stores Heroic can, and at least for GoG has access to lots of useful scripts for things like mods or just actual playability, I don't see a use case for Heroic for myself. I'm curious where other people fall on this though. Have I missed something about Heroic?

I generally default to Heroic. Even outside of EGS and GOG where I like how much more seamless it feels as well as liking the UX more than Lutris, I also like how much simpler it is to add my games that I... Got from elsewhere.

It is also easier to backup the settings files, which is mainly useful for syncing and manually correcting my play time. I usually report such things in my reviews so Heroic is quite useful for that.

Also, I like their Wine/Proton manager. Having the option for just "proton-ge-latest" that can be installed and upgraded in compatibilitytools.d is nice.

Honestly though? I like their UX. I'd rather use them with Lutris only as backup and either Faugus or Bottles for quick run via file manager (still trying to decide which one I want of the two).

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Quoting: lucinos

Quoting: Liam DaweTheir script just sets up their Flatpak and their repository for it. You don't have to be given a flatpak file for it to be installed via a Flatpak.

It is an executable that installs a flatpak. I totally do not get why they do not just upload it on flathub as the main method. Since they did made it a flatpak it does not make any sense to me to not use flathub.

Flathub isn't the be-all and end-all of the Flatpak world, part of the point of Flatpak is you don't have to use one central repository. I do wish they would though, but they clearly want to control every single part of it and so they host it direct.

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Quoting: Liam DaweAll players who already own the 2013 Edition are eligible to access the new version at no additional cost.
Both versions will remain accessible in the owner’s Steam Library once the new version is released.

Combined with:

Quoting: Liam DaweFINAL FANTASY VII currently has a 60% discount on Steam

Means I have to give props to Squeenix. This is the way to do it, and companies like Rockstar should take notes (remember the GTA 3D trilogy remaster fiasco?).

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Quoting: Liam DaweTheir script just sets up their Flatpak and their repository for it. You don't have to be given a flatpak file for it to be installed via a Flatpak.

It is an executable that installs a flatpak. I totally do not get why they do not just upload it on flathub as the main method. Since they did made it a flatpak it does not make any sense to me to not use flathub.

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Quoting: BumadarAlthough this is very cool, I am a bit worried about their own kernel, more in the sense of anti cheat kernel drivers appearing in their kernel. But maybe I am to negative.

Well, Bazzite's dev at least has stated that he believe that anti-cheat should be done server-side (paraphrasing).

For trustability on BOTH side (no potential malware for users, no need to trust that the client hasn't been tampered anyways) it does make much more sense to do it that way.

I'm a bit surprised that Nvidia or Denuvo hasn't made moves towards that. I feel like they could more easily get the data, hardware, and capital to create a moat of server-side anti-cheat of sort. They could have easily just invoked "AI" and get it moving.

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Although this is very cool, I am a bit worried about their own kernel, more in the sense of anti cheat kernel drivers appearing in their kernel. But maybe I am to negative.

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I love this tech but yeah some games that I am interested in are not available (PUBG).

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Only available on steam?

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Let us hope they will keep the native Linux version support and the boss fairness adjusted. I played the original with my casual gamer partner in coop mode, had to cheat in the halfway just to pass end of chapter bosses.

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I am not in a hurry to see this game happening because I trust ConcernedApe.

But I always find it funny how he's like "yeah guys, don't worry, I'm working a lot on Haunted Chocolatier" and then proceeds to release a huge Stardew Valley content update and goes "I know the game is finished... I just can't leave it like this!". Mate, Stardew Valley is already perfect, has tons of content and so many mods that it can live forever; YOU CAN TAKE A BREAK FROM IT! 😂

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Fine. I bought it while I still could. 60k IDR (less than 4 USD) is a good deal to get both new and old version (which I want for collection-ist reasons).

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I personally liked the model with Bazzite and bootable containers. Having Github build me a reliable image (and not send out failed updates) with my own extras on top Bazzite's default had been an enjoyable experience that was nice to maintain and manage.

It's just that I can't be bothered to make an entire new image file to build Bazzite from scratch, and maintain it, after the Ally image was discontinued, while the Deck image was too big for my free Github Actions, and also while there has been changes that I don't agree with.

I enjoyed being able to focus to managing my own house, while benefitting from yet without having to care about dealing with the rest of city-state. That's the ideal that bootable containers as a model represented to me.

I still recommend Bazzite to other people, but CachyOS seems like my home now. I tried making NixOS work, but there's just... Too much to get working, beyond the standard package installs and stuff. So a return to Arch-based with Nix Home-Manager (which thankfully has much better gpu integration now) for anything that don't need to be on the host system it is.

...

Also, everyone having an opinion on pineapple on pizza, and I never had it in my life. Can't be helped that they're only available on more expensive pizza joint here in Indonesia, and if I'm buying something at those expensive places it's going to be something that the whole group enjoys...

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Quoting: The_Real_BittermanMy experience seems to differ a lot. But first of I am a Tumbleweed user since forever. Hardware support on rolling release is usually not a big deal. It's all those pesky point-releases drawing the "Linux does not support new hardware"-image. While I say, a point release has nothing to do on a Desktop system.

As of CachyOS being so much faster I can not confirm. Everything I benchmark myself (with Tumbleweed vs Cachy) was roughly on par. Sometimes Cachy delivered a few more frames sometimes Tumbleweed. Most of the time neither did.

Tbh I don't know what TW does with their -default Kernel as there's also a -vanilla Linux kernel in the repos. Maybe they do some optimisations themselves which is why it doesn't get outperformed by Cachy.

As of unsupported Hardware I didn't ran into any systems not supported by Tumbleweed. Sure they do not have dedicated images for certain hardware as like Bazzite does. There's just one version (not counting Tumbleweed based distros like Kalpa or Aeon here). Also I do only own regular PCs, Laptop and a SteamDeck. Neither of which required extra tweaks or drivers (besides NVIDIA) to run properly.

Using stuff like OpenRGB made all the RGB stuff work as well.

No need for extra input drivers for the SteamDecks trackpads or extra buttons. They just worked (assuming Steam is running otherwise they where mapped to Keyboard and Mouse)

And so one. Zero issue since years. No need for a dedicated distro either. But I might as well not run the problematic systems, maybe, which is why I didn't ran into issues.

I am not sure if I understood the first thing you said right. What can't be controlled by flatpak Lutris? Inhibit screensaver? Sure this works. That's what portals and DBUS is made for.

Game launched by Flatpak Lutris can't be controlled by Steam. Added a game from Lutris as non-Steam games, it does launch correctly, but Steam then just thinks it's no longer running/playing. Or at least that was my experience last I used it - might have been fixed now, but I still just default to native Lutris where possible. I just don't want to deal with Flatpak limitations where I can avoid it.

I never used OpenSUSE, beyond maybe a single day of trying it or something. I recall installing virt-manager on its package manager, but I think I was missing another package I wanted. It does seem like a neat Fedora alternative, but I can't really say much beyond that.

For me, foremost, I can't really be bothered with setting up InputPlumber and all the kernel patches for ROG Ally (but god did I try). I just want the best defaults that lines up with what I want, so that I don't need to manage all the complicated stuff, and I can focus on managing the stuff I want on Flatpak, Nix HM, Distrobox, and the rest.

That's the value of these type of distro for me. Obviously, for people who prefers to start more vanilla, you can use something else. Especially when using older, more well-tested hardware where everything from upstream is all you need.

And I think the new status quo is a great middle-ground. People can work on UMU and OGC for what they agree they want to maintain together, and then add their own stuff that caters to specific audiences... That might not be you, me, or even anyone beyond a handful thousands or hundreds of people... But are still people they can cater to.

Personally, I don't think it make sense to fully pool everything into one project. I think that would just incite devs to fight each others on opinion and ego basis. That's what happens on Wayland Protocols that are stalled for years, basically. Just let everyone make their own project, cooperate where it make sense, and focus on their goals.

Quoting: The_Real_BittermanUhm, no. Gamescope works fine here. I mean there's literally an up-to-date Gamescope runtime which just maps into every flatpaks supporting it. But also why then not shipping just Gamescope outside of flatpak? Gamemode works the same way. Installed on the host and everything flatpak can use gamemoderun just fine.

What NVIDIA flatpak driver issue? Do I live in a parallel universe? Zero issue with flatpaks and NVIDIA drivers here. They just work. (Well despite the usual NVIDIA stuff you have regardless)

I feel like this is a "works on my system" issue. You don't live in a parallel universe, you just live in a universe where there are billions of hardware and software combinations.

So you got something working for you. That's great, I'm happy for you. I'd also be very happy if there are other projects that can cater to other people's systems, needs, and preferences. And that's the universe we live in, fortunately.

Sidenote - I really don't want to deal with gamescope on Flatpak. Sometimes they work, most of the time they just crash. Idk where it went wrong, but native gamescope with native launchers just works better for me.

And both Bazzite and CachyOS already includes gamescope anyways - they had to, as apparently it doesn't work with Steam Game Mode (gamescope-session) anyways so I might as well use what's there. I'll use stuff in Flatpak when it make sense to me (like WPS Office to disable its internet access and Masterpdf so I can also have Masterpdf 4 which has less stuff paywalled on the same system).

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Quoting: GerarderloperEA just going to keep breaking this shit. Their like Bethesda, every update MUST break compatibility! Like its the whole goal of the updates to begin with!

It certainly feels like it, does it? There surely is a consistency of these updates breaking compatibility.

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Quoting: GerarderloperEA just going to keep breaking this shit. Their like Bethesda, every update MUST break compatibility! Like its the whole goal of the updates to begin with!

Expect it to get worse with time, with vibe coding and all...

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They’ve already won the phone market, the server market, and the professional workstation market. We’re just bringing them to the Linux desktop which has traditionally refused to adopt new technologies in a timely manner.

Thanks, but no, thanks. I don't need my desktop to be a container. And that's not a new technology by any means either. Immutable distros exist for years, for example OpenWRT. They have their uses like embedded scenarios indeed, but it's counter productive on a general purpose computer. Turning it into appliance and then looking for loopholes out of it when you realize you need a general purpose computer and not an appliance is a somewhat strange idea.

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Quoting: Jarmerthe wayland future is really coming along nicely. Cinnamon is getting there, xfce will be there soon, cosmic/gome/kde are already there. Yes!

FWIW, Budgie as well...

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VI is definitely the best Final Fantasy to me. Though I prefer Phantasy Star (and Dragon Quest) over Final Fantasy. Sakaguchi-san once mentioned wondering what pixel art versions of VII-IX would've looked like. It made me think of some alternate reality where Sega somehow successfully courted Squaresoft and the Saturn was the home to them in that form instead. lol

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People forget that Steam does have a OFFLINE mode that can be activated anytime and you CAN even force it to be permanent.

Gabe has said that if there was ever a situation where Valve went under (end of world as we know it, lol), then they can toggle a offline switch at their end to make it persist.

Of cause at that point will everyone have internet to receive it? fortunately there are apps to do this already that 'mostly' work.

The issue is that games with multiplayer stuff are often running on Valve servers so that 'app' 'code' would also need to be open-sourced in such a event to people can host and play their select games still at least in LAN.

LOTS OF THINGS to consider.

BUT GUESS WHAT! Only Valve has put in effort to actually consider these situations, every other retailer except maybe GOG has told customers to go eat a bag of dicks... and yet, all these activists ignore them and only go after Valve.
Bad actors perhaps...

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bloody expensive service I tell ya. At least IMO and in Australia ($20mth with lots of limits)

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EA just going to keep breaking this shit. Their like Bethesda, every update MUST break compatibility! Like its the whole goal of the updates to begin with!

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Pineapple is good on pizza. I like it with ham and bacon or on BBQ chicken pizza with bacon and onions.

I like anchovies on pizza too, but I gotta be in the mood for them. Pepperoni, mushrooms, sausage, black olives, banana peppers, and anchovies is good.

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Can they fix the installer regression? I still have to drop down to 8.0-5 to install the thing for Mirror's Edge Catalyst, then put it back up to play the actual game.

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If you don't find it worth spending the effort on, why even bother with an image?

It's not as if the site isn't already plastered with images. Imo, it could do with a good makeover that removes the vast majority of them. Bonus points for a cli-retro-style with all of them removed.

#stoptheslop

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Oh yesssssssssssssssssssssss!!!!!111!!!

I put over 130 hours on this game, and it is just a run and gun, but man do they got that one right. I even got the soundtrack. A must have for anyone who likes the 80's stile.

Unfortunately looks like they will put some modern gameplay shenanigans on this one, but I'm just happy they are making a sequel. And it will have a Linux port too!

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Do you know if these are workarounds for bugs in games or in the wine implementation of the windows APIs?

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