That’s pretty much what remaster is.
It comes from music industry where remastering is just mixing audio channels with different settings.
Besides, Lara’s boobs are round now, that’s probably the main thing they wanted to update, lol.
“Linux + SteamOS” compatibility is a bit legacy. It mostly refers to games that have a native linux client (I believe some of the early Proton Validated games are included as well.
The Steamdeck (and generally speaking, any linux system) uses Proton as a compatibility layer with windows, and the “Steamdeck Verified” system is more relevant today. That said, even the Steamdeck verified system isn’t perfect. There are a number of titles that, while verified, have some problems with the deck, typically later in the game or after running for some number of hours. There’s also a vast number of games that while not “Steamdeck Verified” work perfectly on the deck and linux via proton (though you do have to enable it in the settings).
Protondb is your best bet if you wanna know which games run on the Deck and Linux as a whole. Really only some multiplayer games have an issue because of their invasive anti cheat software
Yes, of course. It uses Fedora’s default repositories but adds it own repository with the customisations on top. So the update cycle is pretty much the same as Fedora.
Nobara is made by the same guy who makes Proton-GE, ie, GloriousEggroll, so you know that this is a legit distro.
Games that have native Linux versions are uncommon, but Steam on Linux includes a program called Proton, which provides a Windows-compatible environment so that games made for Windows can run without being manually ported. It isn’t exactly the same, so some games don’t work quite right, which is why not every game is compatible with Steam on Linux.
Any game that’s compatible with the Steam Deck should run fine on any other Linux system, as long as the underlying hardware is powerful enough.
Games that work are generally exactly the same. If you sit down in front of a Pc already running the game you cant tell the difference.
Sometimes you need to fiddle a bit to get a game working. Sometimes you click play and you play. Some developers dont want you to play their games so they dont work (anti cheat).
Most things work very well. Some games are more fun to get working than playing the game in my experience.
If the game is reasonably well-coded, there’s not going to be any obvious difference between a game running on Windows, a game running native on Linux, and a game running using Proton.
I mean yeah, you could have some performance impact (usually light, occasionaly not so), maybe video not playing (some games use video formats for cutscenes which can’t be distributed on Linux installs), or maybe issues with windowing (Tropico 6 has an weird bug where the game mouse pointer has a bit of offset compared to the real one, until you change screen size).
But in most cases, if it works, it works the same.
Doesn’t look like there will be any QOL updates - curious what, if any, could have been done? I remember trying to play the demo as a kid, and had a tough time with the arrow keys mimicing movement made for analog.
The original Tomb Raider was a relatively early 3D game, created in an era before analogue sticks, and it’s a little awkward to control in modern hands. The remasters include the ability to switch back and forth between “classic and modern joystick control schemes”, as well as camera lock-on
I feel like that’s not how you measure a game engine usage, the large majority probably don’t install Godot via Steam, just looking at the numbers it’s a very small sample which might not represent game devs in general
It might mean something though, FFXIV is a classic example of a game that almost nobody plays on Steam, but its Steam charts line up somewhat well with the game's increasing popularity especially with Shadowbringers and Endwalker. Of course you have to look at actual data to back that up, but soemtimes it can show trends.
Eh, I feel like the sampling is clearly biased toward those who would install a game engine through a service that auto-updates it. (Novices and hobbyists.)
I’ve been waiting for defenders quest 2 for the better part of 7 years now! Very excited it’s getting closer.
Monaco 2 is looking much more large scale of a game than the first one, but the first one was such stupid fun multiple, I feel like it’ll be gta2 to gta2 upgrade in gameplay and graphics.
Streets of rogue 2 is coming, that was a fun one.
I’m also excited for book of aliens, book of demons was in no way original but a great parody game with original styling and good humor. I’m curious to see how the developers do an rts/StarCraft style genre, their diablo was on point.
Split signal is hopefully anothe very simple to play puzzle games from one of my favorite 2 minute play time window games lyne.
But far and away the one I’m most looking forward to is defenders quest 2.
While the numbers themselves are just a small fraction of actual usage (as I guess most people using it don’t do it thru steam), it doubled in about a week.
What would be an “educated” guess of steam/non-steam users ratio? 1:50? 1:100?
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