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 No.31845[Reply]

What do you use to run Windows games on Linux? Vanilla Wine, Bottles, Steam?
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 No.31886

>>31869
Afaik you can run wine on flatpak without having to install a front-end like Bottles.

 No.31887

just play tuxmath

 No.31890

>>31887
Oh, there is much more. Just off the top of my head:
Xonotic
0 A.D.
Warzone 2100
Minetest
Battle For Wesnoth
OpenClonk
FreeDoom
Urban Terror
Cortex Command Community Project
Veloren
OpenRA
OpenTTD
Cube series and AssaultCube

 No.32892

Lutris
Game library manager with community scripts for running stuff on Wine if need be
Connects to your Steam and GOG libraries

 No.32910

Proton. There's only like 2 games that I have that needed more than 1 minute of setup with it, gaben did a good job


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 No.31488[Reply]

- level shrink again back to 60, I know they did this with shadowlands but raising it again in dragon flight goes against what they were trying o do to avoid pissing off fans
- making gold useful again. Seriously retail wow has a fuck load of materials and random currencies I can’t be bothered to look into the lore for or care about. Please blizzard if any employee is reading this, simplify the fucking economy, only hardcore players are gonna be able to understand what the fuck is going in progression considering the amount of shit your casually expected to pick up on mid game.
- keep dragonflights talent tree system, I get not everyone liked it but I appreciate the fact that isn’t was readable for the average new player even if the skills had borderline cryptic levels of complexity behind their function.
- simplify the UI again, add a mouse lock button and an interact button. Simplifying the UI once was an amazing decision that did alot for new and casual players like me, the addition of a mouse lock button built in game and not in an add-on would make moving around way easier, coupled with an actual dialogue/interact key would make the game easy to handle enough for controller/console players.

I don’t care that much about the content at this point, there’s well more than enough of it, I just want the game to feel a lot smoother to play like what you’d find in a single player title.
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 No.31517

There was a big thing a month or two ago where a lot of people were calling for the game to be massively simplified across the board, especially in the realm of abilities and spells. Brewmasters were awful to play at the beginning of the expansion, you pretty much needed a gaming mouse with 10+ extra buttons to use their toolkit properly. Dunno if it's any better now. The game's also hard to commentate/watch at events because no one can follow wtf is happening on the screen. I'm really interested in seeing how the new seasonal server goes (even if it's directly ripping off the Ascension private server) but at the same time I'm worried the new talents will end up bloating the game and watering down the classes in the same way as retail.
>>31510
They're revisiting Northrend in the last third of the upcoming three-part expansion so they might end up reworking Azjol-Nerub, but that's at least a few years away.

 No.31518

>>31516
Burning Crusade introduced silliness from the books, namely time travel, which is a death sentence for any story. But at least it was confined to basically one location, as an excuse to revisit iconic Warcraft moments.
WotLK completely fucked Arthases character, making him actually sacred good guy by holding back the Scourge, having repressed "innocent" side represented by child version of himself, and the whole "redemption" after he is defeated. "There always must be a Lich King", Im sorry what? That is so fucking stupid, Wacraft Arthas wasnt some reluctant servant enslaved by Lich King, he was cartoonishly evil, delighting causing death and destruction.

 No.32866

Sorry, didn't feel like starting a new WoW thread.
Anyone playing Season of Discovery? I'm interested in checking it out and was wanting to know the leftypol opinion.
>>31517
One reason I gravitated towards FFXIV was because the combo system made it easier to really know where you are at in your rotations, the GCD is much slower and more reasonable, and you can actually see what is happening when you turn down all the graphics. TBH I haven't played WoW religiously since maybe Pandaria or Draenor, but my memories of how fast and chaotic the game became over the years kept me away.

 No.32868

My retail WoW wish list:
>shaman tanks

>>32866
I played it for a couple weeks after it came out and had fun. Not sure where things are now but the servers were absolutely packed when I was playing and everyone seemed to be having fun still. I've wanted shaman tanks for over a decade now so maybe I'm a little biased.

 No.32894

>>31516
>WotLK was fine story-wise
Sorry, but no. Arthas's soul was supposed to have been stolen by Frostmorne. Arthas still having his soul makes the entire Undead campaign of WC3 not make sense. It means he effectively destroyed his homeland and everything he loved for shits and giggles.

What's more, Arthas has absolutely no reason to want to be the Lich King. Ner'zhul, on the other hand, does actually have motivations and reasons to want to be Lich King. Deciding that Arthas is the Lich King now meant that the Lich King we got was completely directionless. What's worse, they changed his personality so that he was a Doctor Claw knockoff instead of the king of banter from WC3. So we ended up getting the worst of both worlds.


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 No.18613[Reply]

A general permanent thread for the ICUP and /pol/eague meme tournaments.
Previous thread: >>10211
Note that during a cup, a thread will be made on /leftypol/, then merged into here after the end.

>ICUP: Infinity Cup, a competition between a wide range of small imageboards.
info - https://anon.cafe/icup/
vids - https://archive.org/details/@icuparchive
>/pol/eague: A 4chan Cup invitational league for /pol/ generals.
info - https://implyingrigged.info/wiki//pol/eague
vids - https://implying.fun

Aesthetics files: https://git.leftypol.org/comrade/divegrass_aesthetics/
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 No.28418

There might potentially be an icup 8 in 2 months.

 No.28419

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 No.28425

>>28419
Grace gives me Mario Strikers vibes.

 No.31472

Depending on the personal situation of the host, there may be an upcoming /pol/eague 8 in March/April.

 No.32821

Potential theme song candidate, although I don't think it will replace The Internationale.


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 No.32542[Reply]

Undertale is primarily a commentary on the ways people approach media. Genocide route, in that context, is a response to playing through games in the increasingly prevalent mechanical and consumptive way. While there's enough in there to support Toby exalting authorial intent, I think he's noticing trends in the ways people approach games (consumptive and completionist), but hasn't really diagnosed the cause, which is why he condemns the player for playing through genocide (or choosing to see it without playing themselves) as a personal failing rather than getting at things like the culture industry or trends in game design and marketing that encourage that kind of approach. As not a great fan of authorial intent I still see a lot of value in a game (or anything really) having the guts to resist people who only want to engage with it in a boring or distanced way.
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 No.32772

>>32768
Its no more complicated than million other things already present in a game. Its not like games are being stripped to their core basic, the trend in the industry is exact opposite, lack of focus, with every AAA title being bloated with different (usually unconnected) mechanics. More options on how to deal with enemies isnt an issue of budget, but of conventions.

 No.32778

>>32772
And a lot of these mechanics are arcane rather than apparent, like Skyrim's stagger being fully reliant on RNG rather than what you would expect either mechanically (stagger/poise stat) or realistically (based on weight and attack impulse). Like a lot of AAA titles have the right ingredients for the game soup, but cannot quite prepare them properly, which ruins the flavour.

 No.32792

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>>32772
>Its no more complicated than million other things already present in a game.
That's true in a vacuum, but we're talking about the core mechanics here. Those have to interact with more moving parts in the game than any of the subsystems tied to more specific and contextual things. The more complex you make something, the more it will be subject to change when you iterate on it. If you have some more complicated social mechanics, if you change how those pieces fit together, you are then going to have to make sure none of the related systems break with the new changes. If the social mechanics are one of the minor subsystems (like dialogue trees in a typical ARPG), there are fewer things connected that you have to review and possibly change whenever you iterate on that system. On the other hand, if you change the XP, skills, or combat systems a lot of other things are going to have to change, because those are the central mechanics and connect to a lot more things.

 No.32793

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>>32772
>>32792
>every AAA title being bloated with different (usually unconnected) mechanics.
And to put a finer point on this, it's precisely the lack of connection between mechanics that makes things cheaper. Making the pieces interact is where the most complexity comes from since the pieces become interdependent and iteration on one entails iteration on another. You need to have the different departments at the dev studio coordinating with each other to update the connected mechanics or else you will break things. It's much easier to have the fewest related pieces and let the team split up to make largely unconnected parts that still tie into the bare minimum core systems.

 No.32804

>>32792
you don't need "complicated social mechanics" to sell a concept of an enemy fleeing. like look at fucking metal gear revengeance, if you tear enough limbs, your enemies will just say fuck it and "activate their cloaking" (they just despawn). it isn't a technical feat, and though they were obviously going for it being goofy, it's enough to sell an enemy retreating.


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 No.32665[Reply]

Mass Effect 1 having Shepard being an antivaxxer as a paragon option was so funny, same with Liara bringing up she's considered a child in her society right before having sex with Shepard. The most neocon game of all time. The whole Paragon/Renegade thing in Mass Effect 1 boils down to 'America gets UN approval before Iraq' vs 'America goes it alone (still morally correct)'.
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 No.32777

This thread made me download Legendary edition to start another playthought. Uninstalled after finishing tutorial because I was reminded how bad the gameplay part of this game was. Some of the worst gunplay ever put in a videogame, combined with even the wizard class having like 4 abilities total, each with a minute long cooldown.

 No.32780

>>32777
IMO there's no real reason to play the game now that we know the 'your decisions matter' stuff was a giant lie

 No.32783

>>32777
The first one is the one I return to the most even with all the jank and its combat being the worst of the series. It's comfy being not-space-Jesus and going around reading all the planet descriptions.

 No.32788

>>32775
he was 100% right thoughever and was mega based in ME 2 for killing all the lumpen drug dealers in Omega who were making life miserable for the proles of the galaxy

 No.32789

>>32788
>he was 100% right
only for plot reasons. the whole reasoning was based on vibes. bioware writing at its finest


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 No.32691[Reply]

Another instance where the security system is a tool for those in power to opress those below. dude shouldnt earn a life sentence over fucking leaking a video game, rockstar lost 0 money on this shit (if you count youtube views ofc, but even then 99% of people use adblockers, so no ad money) why should someone who leaked a video game trailer (not the game itself) recieve such a harsh punishment while there are people out there with money and status committing crimes way more deserving of such punishment?


https://www.gamesradar.com/hacker-behind-gta-6-leak-will-be-confined-to-a-secure-hospital-for-life-due-to-his-intent-to-return-to-cybercrime-as-soon-as-possible/
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 No.32709

>>32702
But he did. That's why he's being thrown in jail.

 No.32714

It's more of an indefinite sentence, and it's cuz he said he'll go back to doing it like a dumbass

 No.32721

>>32714
>and it's cuz he said he'll go back to doing it like a dumbass
yeah it seems based but he could do much more if he tried to lay low at first just to get a better sentence

 No.32743

Did the same guy leak the GTA V source code?

 No.32762

>>32695
Yeah the thing about becoming a notorious hacker is that it breaks the anonymity and you can add it to your Resumé/CV which is the strange paradox.


 No.29356[Reply]

I have looked all over the catalog both on /games/ and /music/ and have not found the VG OST thread so I guess it got wiped by the bumplimit, so here we go again.
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 No.31875

The most gangster video game soundtrack ever created.

 No.31897

Particularly love the first three tracks, Celtic ones.

 No.32738


 No.32753

>>29356

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 No.32216[Reply]

I play Swat 4 and Ready or not religiously not because I like them, but to train myself on how to prepare if a police team raided my apartment

 No.32217

>>32216
Based. Continue.

 No.32219

>>32216
dude, i loved that game but I got chain banned on all the good servers because I asked how to download hacks as a dumb kid.

 No.32220

oh nvm i meant swat 4

 No.32242

So what's the meta then?

 No.32749

>>32216
>>32217
Very Based indeed.


 No.32068[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

GTA VI trailer just dropped
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 No.32693

>>32641
In the first seasons of L&O: SVU they just openly talk about using commitment to keep offenders locked up indefinitely after doing their time or putting people without evidence. In 1995 people already understood it to be a subversion of due process. No liberalist pretext of compassion either, just abject contempt for the concepts of rehabilitation and burden of proof. American fascism manifest championing its favorite tools.

 No.32696

>>32693
>American fascism
He was trialed by a british court dawg

 No.32697

>>32696
all anglo countries are the same tbh

 No.32731

>>32696
Most of Yuroop is an American colony. Cultural at least, if not fully. The UK most of all.

 No.32739

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>>32076
chihuahua = epic


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 No.32667[Reply]

looking at those insomniac leaks, its hilarious. over half a billion dollars to make a game because of capeshit licensing and they wanted to do another one for 2030, "Console Gaming" is donezo
https://www.polygon.com/24007591/insomniac-games-hack-wolverine-spider-man-3-data
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 No.32673

There wasn't and won't be any better Wolverine game than X-Men Origins: Wolverine, change my mind.

 No.32692

they were about to have a recognizable identity like nintendo and sega do but decided to shove all those series aside in favor of AAA slop that costs insane amounts of money and time to make

 No.32703

>>32667
>"Console Gaming" is donezo
Nintendo keeps going strong tho

 No.32724

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theyll make their money back by patenting basic game mechanics

 No.32725

>>32724
Fucking bastards lmfao.


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