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I'll just stick with the Dreamcast version of the 1st one and the PSX version of the 2nd. It's a damn shame that we didn't ever get that rumored enhanced PS2 version of 2 back in the day, cause going from the Dreamcast back down to the PSX is a pretty big downgrade (even with the smoothing and faster loading on the PS2).

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AFAIK the registry edits are related to the DRM. I have the games on GOG (sans-DRM) and don't get that error.

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My partner and I are SOOO excited for this. Voyager is our favorite of the Star Treks. I super cannot wait.

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Quoting: EikeAll those games and systems are not your own good olde times? What made you investigate them so deeply?

Well, it both is and it isn't. I did not switch over to Linux full time until 2007 largely due to the software I needed for home schooling, but I dabbled a lot with it before then, with my father having a history with Linux going right back to Linus Torvald's original Usenet post. I also grew up flipping through his stacks of old Linux Journal magazines and was fortunate enough to still experience the golden age of Linux book publishing, largely through the robust public library system Alberta had at the time. Many of those books even followed me home through later library book sales.

All of my brother's were also technically precocious again largely due to my father, but we also rarely if ever had the top of the line in terms of hardware, so I certainly still cut my teeth with computers of this vintage. In many ways this project is me paying my respects to the era of Linux when my fondness for the system first arose, while also allowing me to experience a world I was still just a little too young to truly engage with at the time.

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Just install Duckstation, problem solved.

I agree that DRM in such old games should be not recieved well after Resident Evil 4 had it replaced and now runs worse, but Duckstation might as well be dead, because the developer has become unstable and actively seems to be hindering it, after making it not FOSS anymore.

I'd probably look at a different PS1 emulator or look at an in-development fork of DuckStation pre closing source.

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Adding Enigma DRM when the game is already DRM-free on gog is really incredibly dumb from Capcom. What are they trying to protect/prevent? The business suits over there really have no idea what they are doing.

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Will definitely buy/play DS2, but not for 80€.

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Quoting: EWG

Quoting: amataiShouldn't we call it WFCE then ?

I know it's not correct but, I now pronounce Xfce (in my head) as "X Face". Later, I'll be pronoucing it "X Fowl".

The owl eats the mouse.

Xfce isn't changing its name. Only the current window manager component xfwm4 (and some session management bits) will be replaced by xfwl4.

Mice rule, owls drool! (Not really, owls are weird but cool.)

Also, to further annoy you:

Quoting: Xfce FAQ*It's not pronounced “X-Face”. There is no “a” in it.

* https://docs.xfce.org/faq

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This is brilliant! This sort of compatibility/performance feedback will go long way.

IMHO would be great to also add option to enable sending hardware/software information more or less "permanently" and not only when prompted to submit it… would give better overview of the echosystem.

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Really want to give this a go, but I haven't yet because it's got that cursed word in the tags "rogue" ... but then when reading about nothing mentioned is roguelike or roguelite or whatever. Strange? I suppose I'll have to just try the demo and find out for myself!

Edit: well I never found out if/what the rogue-xyz elements are, because I must be the stupidest human being alive. I got to the tutorial part of the solar system view where I'm suppose to scan some planets / objects, and nothing worked. Or I couldn't figure out how to make it work. It says to left click and right click to do stuff, but it does nothing. So I'm either REALLY dumb, or the demo isn't working?

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Very weird with the DRM... the store page even lists GOG as developer, so I was hoping they would be completely DRM-Free (there are already a few DRM-free games on Steam)

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DRM in fn Dino Crisis? Just install Duckstation, problem solved.

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Wait, they put DRM into a two thousand year old game that was already released on GOG? That's really sad.

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The first one seems feasible for a Proton-GE protonfixes quick automation... The second one will need investigating unfortunately.

The Enigma Protector DRM though... That's the one with really bad performance hit vs Denuvo on RE4 remake right? That is worrying for RE9 and Onimusha...

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Quoting: pb

Quoting: soulsourceTell that to my boss... We have to usesuffer Discord at work...

Just out of curiosity, how old is your boss?

I don't know exactly (and if I knew, I wouldn't share, since it's personal info). All I can say is that he is slightly younger than I am, and that we both are somewhere between 35 and 45.

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haha it's so funny how our inside voices are so different. I pronounce it exffice!

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wow ... this is VERY much appreciated and welcome. The whole steam deck verified is a disaster at present, bordering on completely worthless. Soooo many games get verified that can't run at all then so many others not verified which work totally fine. It's so bad I just completely ignore it and immediately go to the steam discussions and search "deck" to see what people are saying. Crosscode is a perfect example. Runs like a dream on the deck. But not verified.

So this is making good steps to remedy that! I like it.

This also seems like they're inching toward what protondb does. Which I also like!

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Someone told me it's "impossible", because of reasons I forgot.
But oh do I wish the Total War Warhammer series would come to GOG...

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Quoting: Philadelphus

Quoting: Linuxer

Quoting: pbyay -S prefixer *is* a couple of clicks ;p

Huhh dat a termnial command so no its not jus clicks

Why, 'tis a mere nineteen clicks to enter it with a virtual keyboard! Not a single key-stroke necessary! 😉

(Unless, does yay require sudo? Then it'd be more… 🤔)

LOL.

I use middle click copy to the already open terminal, so it's one click to copy, then press return. Does that count as one click or do I get marks off for using one keyboard key?

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Great compilation of announcements, thanks!

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£70/€80 is way too much for the base game of Death Stranding 2. That's $95; although European customers are subsidising US customers because they're only charging $70 in the US. £50/€60 would still be an expensive game, but not insane.

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Oh hey, Calico, I've been meaning to check that out.

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Quoting: Platanito@ID:3486;Arehandoro actually they were responsible of the last two Metroid games for Nintendo, which are quite good IMO, specially Metroid Dread.
Regarding the EGS exclusivity, I agree it was not a good commercial decision, but I guess it was 505 games rather than MercurySteam the ones who made that call. Anyway, the game seems like a spiritual successor of their classic Blade of Darkness, so I'm really interested on this one.

Actually, you're right, I forgot about Metroid Dread and really loved that one! Oh, Blade of Darkness, that was a real gem and so advanced for its time too.

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Meh, wake me when it comes to GOG.

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Quoting: axredneck

Quoting: Stella...the currently most widely known screensaver program, XScreensaver, works only in x11

Afaik most recent version works on Wayland.

oh that's really cool! I gotta check it out again

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Gothic 1 is very dear to me - the fact that one part of my nick is named after a NPC in this game I think speaks for itself. I was young, a few years into my primary school and although I was already quite good with English, I still struggled to play RPG games. I found their systems difficult to understand and kept getting my ass handed to me. So, the classics I played like the first two Fallouts or Might and Magic games were all games I *played* but never *finished*. Gothic was the first one that I actually completed. Thanks to easy systems - just two attributes! - and no shenanigans like "first-person view but you're actually 4 people" and thanks to the overall very immersive design I was finally able to just play and enjoy.

Which is funny because nowadays, the Gothic games have somewhat of a reputation for being difficult, partly due to weird controls and partly due to mercilessly difficult fights when you have a character with no learned skills and no equipment. I don't really remember having too much problems in the beginning. When I got told to watch out for the wolves in the forest, and when I immediately died to them, I simply learned to avoid the forests and to heed any further warnings :)

Gothic also killed Morrowind for me. When I finally got my hands on it later (Bethesda would never strike a deal with the gaming magazines over here, so it took years for me to get) and saw how the combat actually looked and worked, I bounced off immediately.

But to get back on the topic of the remake - I'm personally skeptical. It became more and more apparent as time went on that the first two Gothic games captured lightning in a bottle. To this day, it's still immersive in ways that most modern games do not understand. Piranha Bytes themselves struggled to capture the magic of the first two games while also utilizing modern mechanics that they thought gamers wanted for the rest of their career. They never did. So the odds are quite stacked against the remake. Thankfully, even if the remake turns out to be bad, I can look forward to the update on Archolos instead.

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@ID:3486;Arehandoro actually they were responsible of the last two Metroid games for Nintendo, which are quite good IMO, specially Metroid Dread.
Regarding the EGS exclusivity, I agree it was not a good commercial decision, but I guess it was 505 games rather than MercurySteam the ones who made that call. Anyway, the game seems like a spiritual successor of their classic Blade of Darkness, so I'm really interested on this one.

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MercurySteam hasn't been able to ace a game since the first Castlevania 3D they did. The game didn't great the best reviews on Spanish websites, so not sure if I'll give it a go.

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I don't need 1431 games on Itch.io, so I might just donate directly instead 😊

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I am beginning to worry about how many charity bundles there have been lately.

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