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- Comment on Cracked version of Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls on PC runs better than official release - Variable 16 hours ago:
I’m shocked, shocked!
Basically Dual Shocked.
- Comment on Before you buy a game on GoG, see this growing list of 1,140 titles missing updates, DLC, and more.... 1 day ago:
Ah, I have this SteamDB extension myself; very valuable for more than one reason (tracking how many players, last update, lowest known price on Steam). Highly recommended! Thought it might be a different extension with this thing like on GOG in mind (listing what’s wrong exactly).
- Comment on Before you buy a game on GoG, see this growing list of 1,140 titles missing updates, DLC, and more.... 1 day ago:
Which is the Steam one?
- Comment on Before you buy a game on GoG, see this growing list of 1,140 titles missing updates, DLC, and more.... 1 day ago:
What a shit article. Oh no, this minor issue impacting a finite and honestly small number of games is just a scare piece supporting the most profitable marketplaces.
What’s wrong informing any potential customer and player? Provided the data is correct, but that is the assumption for our discussion, as you made a general statement. Everyone should decide themselves.
- Comment on Before you buy a game on GoG, see this growing list of 1,140 titles missing updates, DLC, and more.... 1 day ago:
I think its good that anyone want to purchase can make an informed decision. So these affords are appreciated by me, even if I am not buying anything from GOG.
No idea why it gets downvoted like this at the moment. Is the provided data wrong? Only this custom headline for the post here on Lemmy might be not ideal, as it suggest that 1140 games missing updates, whereas only 308 games are known to have missing updates and 1140 titles have any sort of issue.
- Comment on What are some cool/decent PC games that are not on Steam? 3 days ago:
One of the reasons why you find so many interesting tools on Linux is, that you are new and need to setup your environment. Maybe even searching for alternatives. That will make you discover lot of stuff by nature.
- Comment on What are some cool/decent PC games that are not on Steam? 3 days ago:
I know this one! As I love Tetris Attack, its so nice to have this as an Open Source project. Never thought that anyone in the world would recommend this (not because its bad or so, but because usually nobody knows.) But I never played it much beyond testing, to be honest. It’s been a long time… 5 years or so. I guess its improved a lot since then. But weirdly, they have no link to the source code on their website: github.com/panel-attack/panel-game
- Comment on What are some cool/decent PC games that are not on Steam? 3 days ago:
Note for the below links: Flathub is a repository for Linux. If you are on Windows, go to their website and look for downloads.
- Luanti: Website | Flathub | PCGamingWiki | Video | Very close Minecraft like clone (note its old name was Minetest for the longest time). Each downloadable subgame requires extremely low space, in the MBytes range! No account or any online servers are needed. Open Source.
- osu!: Website | Flathub | PCGamingWiki | Video | Rhythm style game where you use the mouse. I think the code is Open Source, but not the assets? I’m not sure.
- Taisei Project: Website | Flathub | PCGamingWiki | Video | Fan project in the Touhou Project series. Old school bullet hell shmup from top down perspective. Open Source.
I was focusing on non commercial free games that are also (for the most part) Open Source too.
- Comment on Epic Games Store will get a Linux version sometime "soon" 4 days ago:
Alright so I’m stupid. I read it as “one more OS I can choose not to use the OS”, which is clearly not what he said. Man, I don’t know… Sorry for misunderstanding. Will leave my replies here for the lolz.
- Comment on Epic Games Store will get a Linux version sometime "soon" 4 days ago:
You mean the support for Linux is a bad thing and he chooses not to use Linux anymore? (whereas Linux isn’t even an operating system, but blabla) If that is the case, I don’t get the logic why.
- Comment on Epic Games Store will get a Linux version sometime "soon" 5 days ago:
You used Windows just to use Epic Games Store?
- Comment on Netflix to shut down two game studios: Night School and Moonloot 6 days ago:
That’s not true… me failing and finding examples and scrambling well … I gotta go now, bye.
- Comment on Netflix to shut down two game studios: Night School and Moonloot 6 days ago:
The 6 hour GTA 6 deal was expensive. They have to make cuts somewhere else. 1 trailer in exchange for 2 studio closures… Man these closures in general, if they at least could go independent or sold rather than closing. This industry is so eff-upped.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
I had the exact same comment (your second paragraph), which I deleted because my comment got too long. I think the original Super Mario Bros on NES is the way to play it and I disklike the All-Stars graphics. But I really like AllStars-SMB3, because the glitchy graphics on the side is resolved and most importantly the battery save. The upgraded graphics fit the game well too. I stand by this opinion since the early 1993!
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
There are remakes, remasters, and rereleases.
And Ports, Reimagining and Reboots. I count Ports extra, because Re-releases can be emulation being the exact same game (through a Rom in example), while Ports are native games and not 100% exact same game anymore.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
One of my favorite Remakes is Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete on the Playstation and Saturn from 1996. The original game is on Sega/Mega CD from 1992. I never played the original game on real hardware, only looked into it through emulation. In 2025 they remastered those games for multiple modern systems. Also I played the hell out of original Dune 2 on Genesis/Mega Drive in 1992. And later the Remake Dune 2000 on Playstation in 1998.
Also what constitutes to being a Remake was even harder to tell back then, because in some cases a port is a new implementation of the game that could be classified as such. BTW visit the page en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_video_game_remakes_and… and click following to have the list sorted by Remake/Remaster versions:
No need to read the following paragraph. I just yap about Remake and Remaster terminologies and why Castlevania 4 isn’t a Remake.
I never accepted Super Castlevania 4 as a Remake. To me “Remake” implies making the same game. Otherwise we have lot of candidates: castlevania.fandom.com/wiki/…/Reimaginings . This is more inline with a Reimagining like Final Fantasy 7 Remake or the recent Resident Evil Remakes. But not a Reboot that has nothing to do with prior games, like DOOM or Tomb Raider. I would rather count the Castlevania for Sharp X68000 as a proper Remake, which I only played the Remster of the Remake with Castlevania Chronicles on Playstation! And yes, I have some strong feelings about these categorizations. Just wanted share my opinion, no opinion is wrong or right.
- Comment on WWE wants to trademark the term 'Vice City'. 6 days ago:
I just described why they could get the term Vice City as a trademark. Off course companies will try to sue. And they might even win in court, due to some stupid bureaucracy or better lawyers, or they handle this out of court. There is an entire industry around the idea of trademark-trolling. Meaning some bad companies trademark or buy trademarks just to sue everyone in any shape or form. So yes, if Tiffanys doing that, then they are trolls, but it does not mean everyone else is doing it.
- Comment on Two years into the world's most complicated board game, masochist gamers "still don't understand what the camels do" 6 days ago:
#MildlyInteresting
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
The community called it Overwatch 1.5. Now they renamed the game back to Overwatch (1). You can’t make this up.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
No, it’s not. Fallout 76 is a spin off in the franchise, but not a direct sequel to the main series. Just like Super Mario 64 plays in the same universe like Mario Kart 64, but it’s a different series in the same franchise and world.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Overwatch 2
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I don’t think Fallout76 can be counted as a sequel. It’s a standalone game in a franchise, like Super Mario 64 is a different game then Mario Kart 64.
- Comment on More People Are Pre-ordering The $100 Edition Of GTA 6 1 week ago:
You assume that GTA Online will be part of the 100 Dollar purchase. Isn’t it going to be a separate game now?
- Comment on More People Are Pre-ordering The $100 Edition Of GTA 6 1 week ago:
The digital code in a box is just too good of a deal to let it slip through. I think anyone pre-ordered the game should at least get free access to the commercial trailer at the same time those paying for on Netflix. This would elevate the digital code in a box deal for 100 Dollar to an i-n-c-r-e-d-i-b-l-e value.
- Comment on Cancelled Quake 4 expansion gets surprise GitHub release after former XCOM 2 developer discovers it on an old hard drive: 'This essentially saved my life' 1 week ago:
How on earth did you miss that? It was in the news for years, the biggest buyout with 69 BILLION dollars. It’s actually Activision-Blizzard-King, King being the company responsible for mobile game hits like Candy Crush (that’s why its in your start menu).
- Comment on 'Locking a gameplay trailer behind a Netflix subscription is a new level of greed' — GTA 6 callout Rockstar for 'paywalling' the game's extended look 1 week ago:
- Comment on WWE wants to trademark the term 'Vice City'. 1 week ago:
WWE makes a wrestling game ever single year.
I already said they are doing videogames too “(although there are videogames of it)”. It does not mean they have to use the name “Vice City” in the game titles too. WWE itself is not videogames.
- Comment on WWE wants to trademark the term 'Vice City'. 1 week ago:
“Apple” (the company) has trademarks such as the word “Apple”. And it only works in context of computers. Competitors in example can’t name themselves “Apple”, but you can have in a different buisness than computers a name that contains “Apple”, such as “Apple Hill Cider” or “Apple Leisure Group”. That would not violate the trademark. Trademarks are only a problem if its in the same business.
Wrestling is not videogames (although there are videogames of it) and therefore cannot be confused with a videogame. So this could workout in theory.
- Comment on The perfect date 2 weeks ago:
In fact the Linux date command even has an iso flag:
date --iso-8601 - Comment on The perfect date 2 weeks ago:
There are also variants with single dots too. I sometimes do timestamps without any separator too, depending on the context (such as file backups):
YYYYMMDDin example 20260805.
