Nice, upcycled π
bekopharm
joined 1 year ago
This. They are also known as "arcade buttons". Everything you want to really smash :D
Huh? Rebirth and X4 do run natively, yes.
Minus some details like head tracking but I am needling em about this again and again so there is hope and the workaround is okay-ish π
I even fired up Beyond The Frontier (for the lolz) via Wine and even that worked π€ͺ
No idea about $$$ and if they even ship to your location but I got my hands on a Backforce One Plus for 500⬠and that thing is day and night compared to my last. Arm rests are a little bit wobbly but the rest⦠dead gods I hope it lasts for the rest of my life.
That's from someone with a lot of back pain for⦠reasons.
Stadia
Haha, this also came to my mind :D
In all fairness: A lot of physical releases from back in the days can be redeemed on Steam nowadays. It's not often obvious but it works for a lot. e.g. for Prey (the 2006 one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prey_(2006_video_game) ) - which saves me the trouble to look for a CD drive I no longer have xD
Yes, I understand that archiving is more tricky nowadays and even Valve may defunct one day. Alas in reality is a > 15 yrs old CD also prone to errors and may no longer work already.
Ah that's where I did see it in DRM free. Yes you're correct. It refuses to launch without Steam running.
At least Steam lets you still download it when you purchased it before. I checked today just to make sure it really does still download. Granted, this is as long as Valve may exist but I don't think there is anything DRM related here that would stop anyone from making a copy of the downloaded game π€ May try that later.
Mebbe I should have phrased it more as "underrated in the beginning when it went on sale and was considered a sales fail" π€
Well, I can confirm that it can still be downloaded. It's notable that this is one of the few that even got a native Linux PC version as well and yes I agree on the narrative that this game is very very underrated. Not your average military shooter.
The idea of random bloggers having any impact in 2024 made me laugh. Thanks for that :D
-- a random blogger
FYI: Video is up by now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWW1vUW-KiM