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Quoting: vic-bayi can't agree with arc raiders victory in the innovations category, because there were zero innovations in the game. to be honest i doubt there can be significant innovations in video games in general. in the last 30-40 years almost every possible idea has been already tried. not every possible combination of ideas, but combining existing ideas is not innovation. everything else looks okay, at least people voted for it.

But there is. The innovation is the NPC AI. They adapt and learn how to get to you. They adapt if they have broken propellers etc. Now i'm sure there have been games trying to do that before, but in a multiplayer setting i think its the first in this area.

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I've been idly thinking of buying a used Lenovo Legion Go as well as I really admire the removable joycons. I would also load Bazzite onto it. What's your impression Liam? I'd like to hear about it, but it might also make a compelling YouTube video!

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i can't agree with arc raiders victory in the innovations category, because there were zero innovations in the game. to be honest i doubt there can be significant innovations in video games in general. in the last 30-40 years almost every possible idea has been already tried. not every possible combination of ideas, but combining existing ideas is not innovation. everything else looks okay, at least people voted for it.

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I've always had this vague memory of playing a game with a lady dragonrider on my uncle's PC when I was a kid, but could never find the name of the game. I got so excited when I saw this article because of that screenshot.

Quoting: CaldathrasDrakan: Order of the Flame is my favorite dx6 game.

Thank you very much, I was beginning to think I had imagined this thing 😅.

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Quoting: TevurYeah, you will get ignorant and stupid af, but at least you're happy

"If you don't read the papers, you're uninformed. If you do read the papers, you're misinformed." -Mark Twain

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Quoting: TevurYeah, you will get ignorant and stupid af, but at least you're happy

Nah. Most of it is just propaganda and fear-porn anyway. Just find a less manipulative, unbiased source for your news instead, and accept that a lot of the so-called "news" is not actually stuff you need to know -- especially opinion pieces. And, yes, you will be much happier less stressed. (Being ignorant does not make you stupid, btw.)

And now, back to the topic of this thread ...

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Quoting: EikeThe best game of the year(*) is available natively for Linux!

(*) according to some voting

To be fair, Silksong was in "platinum" for revenue while the other game of the year (E33) was gold. With a 20 euro / 50 euro price for those two, that also means Silksong wildly outsold E33. And that is a pretty relevant kind of voting, so deserved among Steam users.

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Yeah, you will get ignorant and stupid af, but at least you're happy

Back to topic: SILKSONG! YEAH!

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This is for those looking for a solution that doesn't involve Flatpak. It is primarily intended for desktop Linux users. Although, I imagine with a little tweaking, It might work for Steam Deck as well.

Spoiler, click me

There are many ways to install OpenMW. There is even an unofficial AppImage available. The distro repositories almost always offer an out-of-date version. In the past, I used to install via the LaunchPad PPA (only works for Ubuntu derivatives). The problem with PPAs is that they have to be reinstalled with every major version upgrade of your distro. If you are slow to upgrade, the PPA will eventually update to a version of OpenMW that will not run on your outdated distro. Updating uninstalls the version that currently works and then fails on installing the new version.

Option 3) Direct Download

https://openmw.readthedocs.io/en/stable/manuals/installation/install-openmw.html#direct-download

Recently, I discovered that OpenMW offers a Direct Download "installer" on their GitHub site. This archive acts just like the Windows installer, allowing you to keep multiple versions of OpenMW installed in Linux.

Spoiler, click me

NOTE: By default, all installations share the same saves and configuration. There is a feature that was introduced with version 0.48 that allows you to set up a "portable install", which allows you to isolate a particular version with its own configuration and save files.

https://modding-openmw.com/tips/portable-install/

The problem is that the installation instructions from the online guide are written very poorly. All they say is "run the install package once downloaded. It’s now installed!". It is not that easy. For one, the "installer" is an archive, not an executable. For two, they assume that you know what file to run once the archive is extracted. Here are my expanded instructions:

1) Download the latest Direct Download archive from the GitHub Releases page.

2) Extract the archive to the folder/location of your choice.

Spoiler, click me

NOTE: If you want to maintain multiple versions, keep in mind that only one of them can be in your default PATH. In fact, it would probably be better to keep the lot of them out of your PATH altogether. Instead of treating the executable/script like a system command, you will just have to provide the entire folder address to launch the game.

This, however, also makes the installation somewhat portable since you can place folder wherever you want. Combined with the "portable install" feature described above, this means you won't even have to have the game installed in your File System partition at all.

3) Launch the "openmw-launcher" script from within the folder.
.... a) If you are simply upgrading, it will use your existing configuration. You are good to go.
.... b) If this is a fresh installation, the launcher will offer to run the OpenMW Wizard to help you set everything up (see Option 1 of Liam's guide above for the rest of the steps).

4) If the launcher script will not start, then you have very likely encountered the rather infamous glibc issue (you can verify this by trying to launching the script in a terminal).

Spoiler, click me

GLIBC Compatibility Issues

One of the big concerns that I have with the OpenMW project is that they don't clearly notify Linux users of a change in system requirements (which they could include with the text for each release on GitHub). The OpenMW Team occasionally increases the version of the glibc library required without clearly advising their Linux users of this change.

For example, the latest version of OpenMW (0.50.0) requires glibc 2.38. This is only available on Ubuntu 24.04 (Mint 22) or higher. (Still running an earlier distro version? Surprise!)

The solution is quite simple. You need to integrate the game into the Steam Client and set the compatibility to Steam Linux Runtime 4, which is based on Debian 13.2 Trixie (and supports glibc 2.38).

5) Make sure to download the latest version of the Steam Linux Runtime (currently Steam Linux Runtime 4).

6) To add OpenMW to the Steam client, choose the option "Add a Non-Steam Game ...". You may have to manually point Steam at the location of the openmw-launcher script (I did).

7) Go to the Properties menu for openmw-launcher and select "Install Compatibility Tool". Choose the latest Steam Linux Runtime, which you downloaded in Step 5.

8) Update and customize the Steam Library entry to your preferences. You should now be good to go.

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The thing I don't get is why does it have to be a 100% switchover? Such binary thinking -- either all-in or all-out. Why not set up a dual-boot first? Then the new Linux user could gradually shift over as they learn to work with Linux and/or find alternatives that do work for them in Linux. All they have to do is persevere.

There are always going to be one or two pieces of Windows software that won't work solidly in Linux. That is what dual-boots or virtual machines are for...

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Drakan: Order of the Flame is my favorite dx6 game. Has anyone tested this with D7VK yet?

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Quoting: Tethys84I'm done with these conversations. I have better things to do, like trying to find reasons to keep living in a world that's completely falling apart more and more every day when I turn on the news.

The first step to recovery would be to stop watching the news (especially mainstream media). If you're still doing television, cancel that too. Removing the news and advertising from your daily life will help immensely. You'd be surprised by how much it reduces your stress levels.
😊

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Larian is deserved regardless. They really do seem to want to do good, they listen, and just overall they're largely customer-facing. As long as they're profitable and Swen is calling the shots we're probably safe to assume that won't be changing.

Hello Games sort of got pushed into... needing to be that if they were to continue as a studio, the studio head's reputation and literal face was riding on this mess of a launch, and then they established a successful business model based on all this, i.e. full price game discounted on content updates, but never past roughly half off, and we did get a regional price bump to Valve suggested pricing - which is not the Good Guy thing to do. That loyal fanbase surely won't mind, though. Eh, Sean?

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Quoting: Tethys84Sorry, but COMPLETELY disagree with you. That argument is BS and EXTREMELY TIRED at this point. Move on already. You people are so f***ing ridiculous. I'm done with these conversations. I have better things to do, like trying to find reasons to keep living in a world that's completely falling apart more and more every day when I turn on the news.

I do get that (later) mood.

But it's not the right mood to post in a gaming forum.

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Can't really connect the first part of last response to the last part. But as for the last part, we are all in the same leaky boat.

So keep paddling.

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Quoting: Tethys84I think BG3 winning Labor of Love is absolute BS. No Man's Sky has been releasing FREE expansions every year, sometimes multiple. I can't see BG3 having done anything deserving that award. 100% feel like people just vote for what's trending.

Literally lying the people about the features of the game before the release, then subsequently adding them years later is not labor of love. It is called BS. No Man's Sky was released such a bare bones state that they had to use stickers on physical copies to cover non-existed features. I would call those free expansions lawsuit evasion at best.

BG3 devs kept listening its community, improving the game by the feedback and even offered a native Steam Deck port. Here is gamingonLINUX, ofc will care the game and its dev who cared them in the first place. Not to mention, almost all previous games in the series were updated for modern OS and received Linux native port. Now, THAT'S dedication.

Sorry, but COMPLETELY disagree with you. That argument is BS and EXTREMELY TIRED at this point. Move on already. You people are so f***ing ridiculous. I'm done with these conversations. I have better things to do, like trying to find reasons to keep living in a world that's completely falling apart more and more every day when I turn on the news.

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Quoting: Tethys84I think BG3 winning Labor of Love is absolute BS. No Man's Sky has been releasing FREE expansions every year, sometimes multiple. I can't see BG3 having done anything deserving that award. 100% feel like people just vote for what's trending.

Literally lying the people about the features of the game before the release, then subsequently adding them years later is not labor of love. It is called BS. No Man's Sky was released such a bare bones state that they had to use stickers on physical copies to cover non-existed features. I would call those free expansions lawsuit evasion at best.

BG3 devs kept listening its community, improving the game by the feedback and even offered a native Steam Deck port. Here is gamingonLINUX, ofc will care the game and its dev who cared them in the first place. Not to mention, almost all previous games in the series were updated for modern OS and received Linux native port. Now, THAT'S dedication.

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Quoting: Tethys84I can't see BG3 having done anything deserving that award. 100% feel like people just vote for what's trending.

Well, they did release a native version for Steam Deck. And I guess it won't make them lots of money... (I'm not saying this is the reason for the people to vote for it though.)

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I haven't played a single one of the winners and am only really interested in Silent Hill F which I'll play at some point. My GOTY is by FAR Where Winds Meet and It's so depressing that it didn't at least get nominated for that award.

I think BG3 winning Labor of Love is absolute BS. No Man's Sky has been releasing FREE expansions every year, sometimes multiple. I can't see BG3 having done anything deserving that award. 100% feel like people just vote for what's trending.

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Quoting: JuliusCompared to previous awards it is interesting that there is no classic AAA title among it this year, except for maybe Silent Hill f.

Not sure how surprising that even is, given that the overwhelming majority (tempted to say 'all', but I don't want to overgeneralize) of AAA titles in recent history are uninspired corporate slop, without any soul or substance. I wonder for how long the big game studios are going to sell people the same game every year before someone notices. Personally, I am not sure what makes people still buy Assassin's Creed, Battlefield, Call of Duty & Co. If they start AI-generating these games one day, nobody could tell the difference.

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Seems like there’s a lot of multiplayer titles on the main list, while the Steam Deck top played are mostly single-player experiences - and even then, a heavy lean on indies and/or less graphically intensive.

I don’t play any of the games in the main list, but I play/have played many on the Steam Deck’s list. I guess my tastes are somewhat mainstream, but focused on deep single-player games, especially anything with a story to tell.

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Quoting: JuliusCompared to previous awards it is interesting that there is no classic AAA title among it this year, except for maybe Silent Hill f.

Folks are definitely fed up with the status quo. Indies (and pseudo-indies) are where both innovation and quality seem to be thriving right now.

(Also, a lot of us are broke, so indies are all we can afford most of the time, especially outside of sales.)

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Compared to previous awards it is interesting that there is no classic AAA title among it this year, except for maybe Silent Hill f.

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The best game of the year(*) is available natively for Linux!

(*) according to some voting

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One thing I've noticed lately is that everyone and their kid brother (for some reason it's all guys) seems to be doing videos about how they switched to Linux because Windows 11 sucks so hard. Or tried to . . . many were fine, but some found that in the end, some key piece of software stopped them from going full Linux.

But what I've found interesting is that everyone in these videos seems to agree that, as an OS, Linux is better than Windows now--more user friendly, not getting in your way, no ads, more privacy, customizable and so on . . . absolutely nobody said anything about Windows having any actual features they missed in Linux. When there was a caveat it was always "So it was great, but I need to use Adobe stuff" or "It was great, but the anti-cheat situation". Which means basically for any use-case that doesn't specifically require particular Windows software that won't work in Wine or Proton, everyone agrees Linux is not just ready, but superior.

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I find the inclusion of R.E.P.O on both lists rather surprising.

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Quoting: mattaraxiaThe trend is insane.

10% by 2030 or so seems inevitable now. I think at that level, it's the point where people can largely stop caring.

I mean, if you just want to see Microsoft lose OK that won't be done.

But at 10%, you'll be able to buy a mouse or a monitor or whatever, and assume its firmware is on LVFS. Any game publisher not bothering to at least test with Proton, will be truly an outlier.

From the consumer's point of view, pragmatically, it'll be about the same as 50%.

ASSUMING the bestfit is correct... yes 2030 for 10% is possible

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I don't have many dx6 games, but it appears to work fine in TR: Chronicles so far🥰 I just love this project sooooooooooo much

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Generally, these "most played" reports continue to prove to me that I am old and don't like what everyone else likes 😭 Don't get me wrong, I play BF6 and I have played Arc Raiders, and they are great games, but a lot of games on these reports boggle my mind.

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Also interesting to see SteamOS Holo being dethroned by Other and Arch-Based(if you sum them up like here.
Also if you just look at Linux English got a 100% share, I assume if multiple languages are installed Steam counts English as well xD

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