I happened to replay a bit of Epistory this week, saw this and signed up for the beta. Good to know I probably won’t get picked since Linux is coming later ^_^

View this comment - View article - View full comments

That would make a kickass animated wallpaper.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

QuoteProton will no longer emulate them all as if they were Xbox controllers, instead games will access them directly. So DualShock 4 (PS4) gamepads, fighting pads and more should behave more like they do on Windows.

Oh, I thought it was doing that on purpose for games that weren’t designed with non-xbox controllers in mind. I sure look forward to seeing the right key prompts!

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: scaineWhat's the weird bar in the middle of the screen? I couldn't focus on the dude running - too busy wondering what it did, how it was going to change, why it was there...? :)

The blue one seems to deplete when he dashes forward, so probably stamina. I imagine the fuchsia one is HP. There’s also an icon that appears in between them when he does the fire dash.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

I don’t know if I should laugh or be angry at the fact that Hades, which was promoted as one of the first exclusives on EGS, was in beta all along, and that the exclusivity is ending while it is still in beta. What a ridiculous industry.

I would have been a lot less disappointed in Supergiant if I had known this all along.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

QuoteIt's worth noting though, that with little over nine thousand games currently reported, Steam does host well over thirty thousand so there's a huge amount that hasn't yet been tested.

Incidentally, that ratio probably hints at the amount of junk on Steam (but also probably a lot of less-known and older titles that people aren’t interested in testing and replaying at this point).

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: AnanaceMy personal opinion is that both Stadia and Proton are promoting Linux, just in different ways. Stadia is encouraging developers to write Linux versions of their games, while not necessarily releasing said Linux versions except to Google - who are curating the platform and ensuring the stability of said releases.
So Stadia will most certainly create more native Linux versions of games, but Linux as a desktop/gaming OS might not see much improvement from that.

I do like the idea that Google is driving AAA’s to hire Linux professionals and increase their in-house expertise on the platform. That creates more employment opportunity for existing developers, and in the long term we get more developers who are "tuned into" Linux as a potential release target. Even if the big studios won’t do it, those developers might be interested in Linux when they move out.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

I’m disappointed that Nowhere Prophet didn’t get more attention. Still only 200 reviews on Steam. Good to see it made it into their top 20 releases anyway. Slow month I guess?

View this comment - View article - View full comments

I remember being very impressed with the graphics back when you first covered it, and it still looks fantastic. Wishlisted since I hadn’t thought about it in a while.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: KohlyKohl

Quoting: Salvatos

QuoteNot to downplay the progress of Steam Play but officially supported ports, “native” or not, will remain vitally important. They shouldn’t just break, but when they do, you’ve paid for official support and you would expect the developer to somewhat promptly fix it.

*Looks at Aspyr.* It’s been what, 5 months now since the Borderlands update? Not even an ETA still.

Quoting: subWhat I don't get is how many people that celebrate Proton, categorically reject Stadia.
Imho in the end it's a similar thing; you're able to play games that are not natively available.
For Stadia it's even the case that it might help the Linux infrastructure and raise acceptance among developers.

Well, Stadia has a number of issues besides whether or not it’s "Linux gaming." Latency, subscription model, Google’s data-grabbing... There’s kind of a lot that you have to overlook to embrace Stadia compared to Proton.

Yeah since proton was announced, Feral have started porting to Switch, iOS, and Android.

There are only two games on their radar and both are far off.

I fear our days of awesome Feral ports are coming to an end.

Yeah, 2017-2018 was a pretty fun year with all the Feral ports and radar riddles, but that has dried up rather abruptly. I hope they have something up their sleeve

View this comment - View article - View full comments