GOG previously said they planned to look closer at Linux, and that it was the next major frontier - and they're now working towards GOG Galaxy on Linux.
    • Flatfire@lemmy.caEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Heroic is singlehandedly the best tool I’ve had for getting seemingly any Windows game to work as needed. I don’t know what they do differently than Bottles or Lutris under the hood but good lord the “just works” aspects of it are glorious.

      Janky old DX8 title? Bam, now it runs in Vulkan with proper API extensions and directinlut wrappers. Got a weird, 16-bit Windows 3.1 title? Look at that, it works too. The only seeming exceptions are where there legitimately just isn’t support yet via Proton or DXVK and that’s an ever narrowing gap

      • Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        17 hours ago

        I have issues with old DOSBox games. Has anyone ever gotten Star Wars Rebel Assault 1 or 2 running?

        • Flatfire@lemmy.caEnglish
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          22 hours ago

          It very well might.

          Also TIL the original developer still sells boxed copies of this thing. That’s crazy. It also seems like they’ve updated fhe binaries for 32-bit systems so it should run under modern Windows.

          • Gremour@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            21 hours ago

            It was probably abandonware for some time. Hopefully will find an archive on some of hard drives

            • Flatfire@lemmy.caEnglish
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              18 hours ago

              Well, I’m sad to report it certainly isn’t a one-click launch for that game. I came across the original files, but it seems those 16-bit titles are still unevenly supported. It doesn’t help that i386 support was removed from the Linux kernel a while back.

  • the_weez@midwest.socialEnglish
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    1 day ago

    That’s exactly what I’ve been asking for. I like the gog model of no DRM, but being able to play on my OS of choice is more important to me, so I usually buy from steam. I know most gog games can run on Linux with manual setup, but most of the time I’m in the mood for gaming I don’t want to troubleshoot, I most likely did that all day at work already. The game is the unwind from all that. When this lands I will use it to buy a new game from them, if not just for testing purposes.

    • TallonMetroid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32·
      1 day ago

      In the interim, Heroic Launcher is a viable alternative on Linux, since it’s got integration with GOG and a wine/proton manager built in. So it’ll automatically download the game and set up the prefix. It also does the same for Epic, but who give a shit about them.

      • warmaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 day ago

        I haven’t found a GOG client for Linux that’s as easy as Steam. They all require some kind of fiddling. Some games that should work, just don’t. I don’t bother with those and I just pretend they don’t exist. I play those that just work out of the box. I’ve tried Lutris, Heroic and Faugus.

        • marxismtomorrow@lemmy.todayEnglish
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          1 day ago

          To be fair, that’s just GoG’s problem itself. GoG refuses, for some reason, to require developers to ship version-agnostic versions of their game so half the games are stuck in time with library requirements from a decade ago it expects your system to provide. Which it doesn’t. And because these are third-party installers and not from the package manager they can’t request the package manager to install the library versions they need. And even if they could most distros explicitly will not allow that given the security risk of using outdated libraries.

          This could be solved by breaking the linux philosophy and just require the older insecure libraries to be included with the games; which is the most accurate to their mission statement of preserving and archiving old games, but that requires people on their technical teams, their publisher liaison teams, and probably their legal teams all to understand linux well enough to have that as a hard requirement with minimal to no legal liabilities.

      • rollin@piefed.socialEnglish
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        1 day ago

        yeah Heroic is how I play my GOG games on Linux, and also the Epic freebies I’ve picked up.

        Actually as a game launcher, I prefer Heroic to Steam - if only because of the instant start-up.

        I’m kind of bored of Steam and its 60-second start-up time. Most of it is Steam waiting for network connectivity so it can confirm your account validity and connecting to Friends servers, which Heroic doesn’t have to worry about.

  • MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    17 hours ago

    The only thing I want from GoG for Linux is a game download in 1 file instead of many. I spent an hour today trying to install the DLC for Yakuza Like a Dragon and it just would not detect the game installation.

    Ended up downloading the whole thing from Fitgirl instead because it’s better service.

      • MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        3 hours ago

        Yeah, I tried all the stuff I could find online by changing the working directory and also repointing the target on Steam for the installer exe to the dlc exe to make sure they use the same prefix :(

        Was just easier to download from Fitgirl, add setup.exe to Steam and run it xD

  • marxismtomorrow@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Oh hey does that mean they’ll actually ship all the libraries needed to run the linux versions of games released on the platform?

  • mushroommunk@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Cool, I’ll look at it just as soon as the evidence they aren’t anti-trans Nazis comes in.

    • binux@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      1 day ago

      You’re getting downvoted but they still haven’t given a coherent response to that whole Nazi newsletter fiasco. It’s so dumb how people on Lemmy/Piefed will gladly shun any far-right bigotry until it regards their favourite video game platform.

      • magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        1 day ago

        Fuck I need more context don’t do this to me.

        I remember CDPR saying something like “the future includes trans people, fucking deal with it.” After getting shit on about art in cyberpunk.

        Wtf?

        • mushroommunk@lemmy.todayEnglish
          92·
          1 day ago

          So for the trans stuff there’s a decent summary and opinion here: https://www.resetera.com/threads/cdpr-is-a-transphobic-company-its-time-we-stop-making-excuses-for-them.307474/

          I personally (I know I’m the one who started this chain) didn’t have too much of an opinion on the trans stuff as I’m not in that space at all, so kind of defaulted to that community’s opinion. Not great, company had room to improve.

          They’re kind of full of the corporate non-apologies and didn’t handle it the greatest. Everything after was them trying to save face I think. To their credit they did ultimately fire the responsible party. And if it was just that I might have left it thinking they screwed up, hopefully they learn.

          But then GoG did their Nazi thing and I’m thinking if I keep smelling smoke there’s a fire ya know?

          • magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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            23 hours ago

            I hear about the email a while ago, didn’t hear the response, and wasn’t sure if there was more to it.

            “I also recognize that placing two such runes next to each other could create an unfortunate association with symbols used by the Nazi regime. This was noticed before distribution, and out of respect for local sensitivities, the material was not sent to the German community.”

            But, this is the bit that kills me, I could buy “Our internet didn’t realize how badly those rendered on certain mail clients.”

            But the fact that they noticed and sent it is insane.

            Kinda wish I didnt just re-buy FO3 and NV a bit ago.

            • binux@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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              22 hours ago

              Kinda wish I didnt just re-buy FO3 and NV a bit ago.

              Don’t feel too guilty, you’re already better off than most for caring about it.

              It’s just a shame how prevalent that kind of behaviour is. It’s to the point where you pretty much have to scour the backgrounds of all the businesses you buy from to see if they’re hateful/extremist. Like they always have something to hide.