Quoting: damarrinThat's excellent news!

Interestingly, the Feral radar is showing the "Depth Charge" game coming sooner than Mad Max...

Unfortunately the Feral radar is less like tracking a bunch of slow moving ships, and more like tracking a swarm of angry bees.

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Quoting: Guestdoesn't look like I'd pay $20 for this

You're right, $30 would be more fair. ;)

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Quoting: wolfyrionSOLUTION

For those who have problem with the Dawn of War II not running you need to install from AUR

librtmp0 and lib32-librtmp0

Have fun ^_^

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Quoting: rustybroomhandleYaaaah, Manjaro user here - not working at all for me - NVIDIA driver 370.28 - debugging now

Try removing libasound.so(.2) from the 64 bit libraries in your steamruntime. I got it down to libasound on arch.

look in ~/.steam/steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/amd64/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/

thanks both! all good now

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Yaaaah, Manjaro user here - not working at all for me - NVIDIA driver 370.28 - debugging now

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Quoting: KeyrockDid this update fix the game's thoroughly disappointing ending?

Spoiler, click me

SPOILERY POST:

I hope not. The ending was exactly the point of the story. Both people escaping their real life circumstances by getting themselves worked up in all manner of paranoia, only to be brought back to reality.

EDIT: Oh yeah, spoilers. :P

Editor note: We have a spoiler tag, use it.

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Quoting: tuubiModern pixel games aren't automatically "retro",

Bingo. Modern pixel art games often have an aesthetic that does not really resemble anything from ye good olde days. Games in the 8 and 16 bit era did not aspire to be "pixel art" - it was just graphics and they worked to make em look as good as they could within the limitations. Modern pixel art tends to rub the pixelness in quite a bit.

Flink (1995):


On a CRT screen the individual pixels would have been barely discernible.

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: nllaIt's just that pixels were always meant to be accompanied by scanlines. They were designed with CRTs in mind, which are a perfect complement to them. Scanlines were the things that turned ugly, low-res blocks into beautiful works of art. (As well as chiptunes, off course.)

Pixels weren't designed with anything in mind. The hardware had low resolution, which meant visible pixels. Same goes with scanlines. They're an ugly (IMHO) artifact of an inferior display technology, and I don't get the nostalgia. I love me some pretty pixel art, but I don't see what blurring and distortion adds to the experience.

EDIT: These are my purely subjective opinions, not trying to put down anyone's personal feelings on the subject.

You are both correct. And both wrong too. :)

On CRT monitors, the pixels were not "square" as with crisper monitors, mainly due to the dots on screen consisting of seperate RGB guns, arranged a certain way. On most, these were in a triangle shape, and on Trinitron screens, these were arranged next to each other. The result is that even on these two types of CRT screens, a pixel would look subtly different to the another, and a LOT different to how it looks on a crisp screen.

So designers definitely designed for graphics to look good on these screens specifically (usually televisions). Colours also came out differently: A precise mix of R, G and B would look different based on screen type.

Older games were specifically designed for thee screens, but emulating the effect on modern screens is also not as simple as adding scanlines.

See this comparison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3SZkjF1RDI

Also, read this detailed description by Kyle Pittman http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/KylePittman/20150420/241442/CRT_Simulation_in_Super_Win_the_Game.php

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One thing concerns me somewhat. Linux support from/at Unity is largely due to Na'Tosha and Levi championing for it and taking development/support into their own hands. I'm worried about what might happen if they leave the company, since they more or less seem to come as a pair (being life-mates and all).

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Quoting: mcphailHa! Reminds me of one of my favourite games.

Yes!

Also, Ballblazer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tkwWD_BWWQ

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Quoting: paasisti

Quoting: rustybroomhandleNone of these are unanswered questions, but they are answered in games that are specifically designed to accommodate multiplayer. Morrowind is not one of these. It would need specific multiplayer content created for it.

I think the easiest way to implement a multiplayer element into a single player experience would be the way that the Fable games (at least Fable 2) handled it. In it, the other player(s) are just "henchmen" that are there just to help the "main" player and explore the world with them, rather than complete the quests for themselves. I could see this model working well with TES games: you would just invite a friend to play - with their character about the same level as you - and then you could go on playing as normal, with the exception that you have a friend there to help you.

Yus, that can work. Would work best with content like the Siege at Firemoth expansion.

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