Quoting: bubexelwell, almost 60% games that appear on steam are windows exclusive

I've been noticing quite a few that have Linux support. But then again I'd also say 90% of the VR games use either Unity or Unreal Engine 4, both of which have a more or less 'click here to port to Linux' button.

So my hopes for that are pretty high. It has made me think though how niche I can go... I mean VR is rare enough, then to get VR and Linux support is like a double whammy!

It's like writing software for an old Atari 8-bit that was also upgraded to 1088kb of ram and a VBXE board, you're only going to get a tiny audience. But oh the fun and the high praise you'll get from that audience!

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Quoting: cxphergmailcomBut... does it work with the Note 7 and does it explode?

Ha, so Oculus gimped their software on Note 7s so it wouldn't work. I already watched a Bo Burnham special on Netflix through it. It did not burn my face off. But then again, I could see Oculus doing that because Facebook doesn't want to be forever known as Facefire.

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Sweet! Been meaning to finish that game off. Now I can, since I'm rarely in Windows these days, and I always bitch when I have to reboot to it.

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Quoting: tmtvlSeriously, Paypal has no competition when it comes to international payments.

I really wish there was proper international bank transfers. EU-wide, there's SEPA, including SEPA direct debit, but even that often isn't available in online stores. At least not internationally; it's relatively common within Germany, because we have a history of direct debit use.

North America really likes credit cards, but those are quite uncommon in many other countries. Including, again, Germany, because we have our own direct debit cards. Also, Germans still love cash for in-person transfers.

I mean, you can transfer money between banks internationally, if you want to. You just have to go to the physical bank location. And pay horrendous fees. Well, and you need to have the proper banking information of the recipient.

Really, it's all a mess and in my eyes, it's ludicrous that something like PayPal even has to exist in the first place. And then they're shady, too, freezing accounts willy-nilly, not allowing people to receive money for "adult" material, etc.

Or, hell, credit cards really shouldn't exist either. Especially not for general-purpose money transfers. That's pretty much an ugly hack, as far as I'm concerned. Bah.

</rant> :P

Ha, to add to your rant... There is a guy in the Atari community who makes newer power supplies and various other mods for the Atari ST line of computers. One day he woke up and PayPal had banned his account, so he can no longer take payments for his much needed products. He does it all as a hobby, and I'm sure he doesn't get that many people purchasing his stuff, but they just banned him and didn't give much of a reason. It's Crap is what it is. He's been having a hell of a time finding another method of payment that doesn't suck and isn't completely painful for both parties.

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A guy I work with said this game was amazing, then it was released for Linux and I told him I'd try to get around to playing it. Unfortunately I have a total lack of time, the graphics do look amazing, but from what I've seen isn't it mostly like an interactive movie? Not that there's anything wrong with that, Phantasmagoria was basically the same thing, and Dragon's Lair on a lesser extent (Inventor of the quick time events...)

I actually had to make some space on my drive recently because of too many games I've installed but haven't won.
I'll try to put this on a list somewhere though for sure.

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Quoting: HalifaxOh, you're a more sensitive man than I am. I shove my emotions as deep as they can go, so I can take care of the dirty work a woman will need me to in a relationship - taking care of the dog when it dies and telling her it was peaceful and calm so she doesn't have to know the details, etc.

The sound-track I could only take five seconds of before turning off. The only emotional response I have is the picture of the girl is hot -if she was of age, I'd like to date her and possibly get some loving from her. Then I'd have to periodically endure this emotional kind of stuff she'd inflict on me as a toll for partaking of her feminine charms.

Plus, country music. Good god, what is it with women and country music. Someone give me a shotgun so I can suck-start it the next time I hear a warbling momma's boy sing some stupid country music song my woman makes me listen to.

You sir are my new hero!

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Ha, so when I was much younger, I had gotten the Sorcery! books, also written by Steve Jackson. I ended up losing them all, but have re-bought them since, and then they have started releasing the games (1-3 so far, they haven't released 4 yet) but sadly they're not released for Linux yet :(

But I also discovered that the Sorcery! Steve Jackson is NOT the same as the Steve Jackson of Steve Jackson Games, which I've also always been fond of (GURPS, Car Wars, Ogre, Munchkin). Kind of funny that two dudes with the same name were so much into gaming, and creating games.

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I figure as long as they use it correctly. I've seen some that state rogue-like, and they're nothing like rogue.

I always thought the difference between random and procedural is that the random ones are just randomly generated at the beginning, and you're good to explore the whole thing. Procedural being that when you are close enough to encounter the next level, planet, etc then it it'll generate it. Gameplay wise it doesn't really matter much really. But I think from a technical perspective it does. Reading that definition though, it seems like (intelligently) not everything is randomly generated. Otherwise you could potentially start off at first level and be fighting Balrogs.

Anyhow, game looks good, I just felt like Ranting, I'll probably buy it because it supports Linux and I like games that have a lot of replayability, at least where they should. I will never understand people who can play Diablo over and over again just to get better gear. I can sort of understand playing through the different characters, but how often can you defeat the same bad guy, and hear the same story?

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Can I be the first to say that Rogue-like is SO overused these days to describe a game. It shouldn't even realistically be a proper description for most of these games.

Rogue is indeed a turned based, randomly generated (procedurally generated is also a horribly overused term) dungeon game that is turn based, and I believe the original one had no save states and you basically played until you died or you gave up and quit. Fortunately newer versions of the original + others in the rogue-like genre (ADOM, Nethack, Moria, etc) all have at least save states, though permadeath is still there.

One of my favorite versions of Rogue is the one by Epyx on the Atari ST.
http://www.mobygames.com/game/atari-st/rogue It's a nice graphical version.
ADOM (Ancient Domains of Mystery) is on Steam if you'd like the commercial one with updated graphics, etc.

Anyhow, if this actually were Rogue-like with the attributes of Randomly/Procedurally Generated maps, then I'd be all for playing a FPS that does that. I think there was some mod for one of the doom engine clones that was supposed to provide that, but I don't think it was ever finished. I know there was some game I backed which was supposed to be a randomly generated FPS RPG, but that guy gathered some money for help, then bailed on the project...Tombs of Something... can't recall the game now.

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Those rendering techniques are probably what the Steam Link sort of utilizes as well, you can see it if you're running around at full speed in Fallout 4, the textures on the ground sort of blur and become rather crappy looking, but the framerate stays solid. Funny that game streaming from Windows runs pretty smooth, yet Divinity: Original Sin's sound goes out of sync (hosted on Linux).

Man, I hate starting over, but this game really should have been local co-op from the beginning.

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