dark_stang

dark_stang, 11 miesięcy temu

Games like Baldur’s Gate assume you have at least some DnD experience. I remember playing Neverwinter Nights for the first time long ago and being really glad I played one session of DnD before it.

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Yeah they burned me a few times in the past by acquiring games/studios and breaking their Linux compatibility immediately after getting them. I’ll hold this grudge for decades.

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Apple doesn’t ship consumer systems with dedicated GPUs in them and they’re on their own custom silicon now. Developing cross platform games for them must be a major PITA.

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Loading Ready Run streams a lot of stuff. And you might like the dessert bus for hope fundraiser happening in November.

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They burned a lot of good will. With these changes, existing games won’t switch engines. But everybody doing new development will be looking at other options. Not sure if retroactive fees would have ever survived a court case, but smaller devs won’t have the energy to fight it out.

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The Stanley Parable, the whole game.

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You should return the PS5 and just do PC gaming. Maybe get a steam deck or another portable.

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The only question I have is: how well will it work on linux?

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Sony changed their CPU architecture every time until PS4/5. The only reason some PS3s could play PS2 games is because they had also had PS2 hardware in them. Xbox has been x86 the whole time.

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Oh I forgot about the xenon chips. Those are still much easier to emulate I think, at least compare to the cell and emotion chips Sony used early on.

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Nice. Mine were all bright red or pink (depending on which TV I was playing on).