Quoting: HoriThere's no argument to be made about which is better, linear or open. They are very different approaches that aim for very different things. It's like comparing apples to a dog.

Linear games very much have a place in modern gaming and the future. I recently played Hellblade and I had an absolute blast, and made my kinda miss linear games.
It's all up to personal preference, and even tho I prefer open games, a good linear game from time to time is very welcome.

I don't think that either of us are against open world games. It's just that the current expectation that every single game should be open world more or less forces game devs to implement open world into games where it does not fit or work so you get a lot of open world games that would probably have been much better if they would have stayed linear.

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Quoting: subI'm currently replaying the series for the first time in a very long time.

Black Mesa was great.
Now close to the end of HL2 (base game).

Imho, this game has aged particularly well.
Also, I don't mind the linearity that's very often criticised (by younger gamers?).
I love good handcrafted stories and this one is undoubtedly extremely well executed.

Maybe that's one reason I'm not that much into open-world/sandbox games, where content is
too a large extend very repetitive or procedurally generated.
(Exception: I LOVED 'Breath of the Wild'!)

Hope the Index is available again soon.

Linear games are severely underrated and it's shame that a new game that isn't open-world (or that isn't online multiplayer) gets so bashed by gamers. Most of the time the open-worldness as you say is just slapped on by repeating a few things over and over and over.

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Quoting: LinasIn Denmark I see people using Linux on their laptops from time to time. MacBooks are very popular. But I don't think I have ever seen a Chromebook, either in use, or in a shop. Not anywhere in Northern or Eastern Europe for that matter.

Here in Sweden they are quite popular in Schools.

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Quoting: seanbutnotheard

Quoting: slaapliedjeTime for a port to the Atari 8bits?

Well it's already been ported to C64...

(edit: removed the link because I realized after the fact that it's an unofficial "cracked" version, apologies for that. perhaps now that the source is released there will be an "official" port.)

I love that since I set it to 'get emails when there has been a post' that I still got the link.

Huh, wonder how someone would have cracked it then ported it though? Wouldn't they need the source? Not sure what language it's coded in.

It's recreated from scratch in 6502 assembler, so it's not really ported and it's not really a crack either (it is however copyright infringement on the original).

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Quoting: einherjar

Quoting: F.Ultra...
If they are that small I would highly recommend GCompris, which you will find for free in most if not all Linux distributions already. My kids loved it (especially they loved TuxPaint) when they where really small.

If they are small, I recommend to play with them in real life. Kids with about 6 years really do not need to play video games. My daughter is 7 and very happy without video games and so was my son.

That is not mutually exclusive, besides playing video games I taught my kids at that age to Squat, Bench Press and Deadlift (my girl that is now 18 is stronger than most boys her age).

I learnt to program basic by myself when I was 7 so I kind of have a different view of these things than you there ;)

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Quoting: denyasisNoooo! Why am I poor?!?

On a side note, how is slime rancher for young kids? In particular, ones that can't read yet. I'd like to introduce them to the world of Linux gaming, but finding games for kids that young (and not so stupidly annoying to an adult) is a lot harder than I thought.

Happy holidays.
D

If they are that small I would highly recommend GCompris, which you will find for free in most if not all Linux distributions already. My kids loved it (especially they loved TuxPaint) when they where really small.

There is always Minecraft!

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Quoting: pmatulkaMaybe aspyr will finally make Borderland 2 playable again?
How many months have passed since basic function of the game does not work?

Probably never, they fixed the macOS version a long time ago and the macOS and Linux versions should (at least in theory) have few or no differences so that tells me that they have no interest in releasing also for Linux. Could also be that Aspyr does this for payment (aka they don't get the revenue from sales like Feral) and 2K only paid to have the macOS version fixed.

But that is just unqualified guesses from my part.

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Quoting: NanobangUnfortunately, 4.11-10 messed up something with Borderlands 2 for me. Whilst Nvidia reported FPS around 120, it kinda looked as if every other frame was being displayed---jumpy, not smooth. Most disconcerting was the way a frame would flash on the screen from an entirely different sequence altogether, like a menu frame while running through Sanctuary or something.

Rolling back to 4.2-9 fixed it right up. Would this sort of regression be best reported to the Proton github page, or should I just assume it'll get fixed up on a later iteration? Or maybe I'll just lock Borderlands 2 to 4.2-9 and call it good.

Does it run better under Proton or something? Borderlands 2 is a native game.

If I have to guess (s)he runs it under Proton due to the HD-update of BL2 that we never got on Linux and which made the Linux-version no longer being able to connect to multiplayer servers.

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Quoting: Nezchan

Quoting: F.Ultra...a large AAA "Choose Your Own Adventure" game...

Detroit Become Human

+1, now imagine if they had choose to call it "Choose Your Own Adventure: Detroit". I think most people that are negative now would find Chooseco in the right if they had sued Sony over that?!

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Quoting: CFWhitmanI wanted to point out that trademark law is probably the most supportable form of so-called "intellectual property." Trademark law is a consumer protection law. The purpose of trademark is to prevent dishonesty in the marketplace. Trademark is a way of making sure that you are dealing with the company that you think you are. Without it, anyone could pretend to be representing a company that they have nothing to do with. With trademark you know that the mayonnaise that you bought is Hellman's or Cain's, the car you bought is a Toyota or a Chevrolet, etc. Without it you can't be sure of any of these things.

Does this mean that trademark is never abused? Of course not. I pointed out things that I thought were abuses in a previous post. That doesn't mean that trademark is a bad thing overall.

The best argument against this trademark is that protection for it wasn't pursued diligently enough in the years between when the books were popular and just recently. The phrase may seem generic now, but it was quite original back when the books were first introduced.

The problem is that the idea that you can trademark something generic such as "Choose Your Own Adventure" is not something that the public at large agrees with. Few people would argue against Hellman's, Chevrolet and so on, so the main problem is not trademark itself.

Another thing where there is a disconnect between the legal system and the general public is when you e.g cannot have non-profit Harry Potter gatherings. Also we are here talking about small indie developers, if EA would announce a large AAA "Choose Your Own Adventure" game tomorrow then I guess that people would be more inclined to agree that they had breached a true trademark.

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