Very nice to see this, as this is one of my favourite games of all time, and it doesn't look like they've meddled with things unnecessarily, going by the trailer.

And this is very interesting indeed: Jez San went to great efforts to retain the Argonaut IPs after the company went bust 20 years ago, and shifted them around various companies he owned - I had thought that they'd ended up owned by Microsoft, since, if memory serves, he sold one of his companies to them. Evidently not!

Quoteand Alien Resurrection.

Alien Resurrection was the originator of the now-commonplace twin-stick control-method for first-person games. And the game, and especially its controls, were panned at the time, hilariously enough.

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QuoteWhat have you been enjoying the most on Steam Deck recently?

I've been chipping away at PathBlasters (Native Linux), but since there's nothing else out there for me at the moment (PathBlasters is the only 2024 release I've bought) it's mostly been emulated goodness via RetroDECK, with Saturn Bomberman (Saturn, duh ) being a recurring favourite.

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The only thought I'm left with is "What are they about to do that this would be intended to deflect?".

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QuotePerhaps no surprise then when we see developers getting their games Steam Deck Verified well ahead of release

I love how, backing this up, there are multiple news-stories to this effect on the front page right now.

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That is super-useful - glad that they added it!

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Quoting: PyrateI'm gonna say this as someone who actually ran Proton Experimental for months (and still do for certain games since they only work with them), it mostly won't matter, either Experimental will run that one game that Stable can't, or it'll be the same. But to make it clear: I play a wide range of games, old and recent, and I never had an issue due to a "regression" in Experimental.

I know this is all taboo talk, but this was just to honestly answer your question, based on actual real life experience.

I've been observing this conversation across a few recent news-threads now, and just had to speak up. I've generally stuck with Proton Experimental ever since I was a newbie to it - reason being, I didn't fully understand the purpose of having so many different versions at the time, and also didn't really have a reason to stick with any stable version because everything that I wanted to use either worked perfectly with Experimental or was visibly improving with it. I've only ever encountered one regression that stopped one game from booting, and that was about a year-and-a-half ago, and by that time I understood to set it to the right stable version for it. The rest of the time, it's been smooth sailing for me.

Having just done some testing with Proton Experimental with a game that was given a supposedly-stable-for-it version over a year ago, but still had consistent crashing issues relating to calling FMVs and then corrupting them and requiring an integrity-check to redownload the broken ones (just far less of them than had been the case prior), I can say that I can't personally always trust it when a previously-problematic game gets a particular Proton version to point at.

It won't surprise anyone that the game I was testing was Super Bomberman R; I've just done my first-ever Linux playthrough completely uninterrupted by crashes, which seems so novel to me at this point after how badly-behaved it's been with Proton over the years. And just in case this is helpful to anyone in the future, you should actually use whatever the next stable Proton version is after the one that this article is about, not the one that Valve assigned to it (which was 8.0-5). Still, if not for this news-thread, I wouldn't have thought to double-check it with the current Experimental, and would've just accepted its state, because the Bomberman series' PC fanbase is tiny (it does millions on consoles, but hundreds to a few thousand at most on Steam - lucky me that they basically get the PC port for "free" due to the engine they use, or I'd be outta luck!) and I wouldn't expect fixing it to be anyone's priority. So, thanks for that guys.

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I've always been a handheld gamer, and that continues with the Steam Deck, so this will be really useful for me. It's already helpful when people include a note in their review about how a game works on Deck, and this will add to that.

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Proton is the entire reason that I was able to ditch the consoles and move all of my gaming over to the OS that I've been on since 2007 - many thanks to all who make it what it is.

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Quoting: ToddLPersonally, I prefer the PS1 version because it's the one that I played originally and didn't have any interest in the Nintendo N64 to play the game again when it was rereleased, despite the additions on that version.

Same here, funnily enough, but that doesn't detract from the Nintendo 64 port's achievements, for me. I do intend to try out the N64 version relatively soon, though - it's already earmarked as my gaming pick for Halloween.

Quoting: ToddLAs a side note, some purist will never like the remake version of RE2 because of the changes they made to it, but I like it just as much as the original

I don't like remakes in general, so chances are that I would be among that number. It's not aimed at me, though, so I haven't played it and won't.

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Resident Evil 2 has always been my favourite of the bunch. It's just a pity that re-releases are inevitably missing the content that was added to the Nintendo 64 version*!

*That port was an incredible technical feat in and of itself, crunching down two CD-ROMs into one 64MB cartridge, and then it managed to have more to it than the other versions!

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