Enjoy your gaming. I picked up a couple of things already. And DMC1-4 are now in the Good Old Games program. Steam's sale is supposed to start this Friday, if I'm not mistaken.

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[–] [S] 56 points 1 year ago (25 children)

Friendly reminder for us Linux folks: you can send 10% of your purchase toward Heroic Games Launcher development by buying through their client.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I haven't used heroic, how good is the wine integration? Is it as seamless as proton? I want to know if I should wait for the steam sale or buy some games from gog instead.

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    You boot up Heroic, you point it at your GOG account, then you go to the clearly labeled Wine Manager in the left panel. Choose the latest Proton-GE (Glorious Eggroll fork) or a version of your choosing. Then go to library and download the game you want. It will prompt you to choose a Wine version that you've already got installed, and it seems to detect the ones you have installed via Steam and via their Wine Manager; I recommend sticking to Proton-GE. The installation process for each game works much the same as any other launcher you use.

    If you want to try the game on GOG first, they have a 30-day no questions asked refund policy, since they can't exactly track how many hours you've played. It's just kind of on the honors system that we're not abusing it as customers, or maybe if you do it too much. Most games just work, but I have found the odd exception. For some games, like The Thaumaturge, I had to run Winetricks to download some VC++ runtimes to get it working (which I was only able to deduce based on the depots visible on steamdb.info). I nearly bought a copy of The Alters today, but early reports on ProtonDB are that it's got some crashing issues, so between Valve and GloriousEggroll, I figure that problem will be solved in the next couple of months.

    The refund policy on GOG is so good that you can just try it first and buy the Steam version instead if it doesn't work out. The 10% referral code that benefits Heroic shows GOG how much of their customer base are on Linux, and it should enhance the Linux experience via funding at the same time.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    since they can't exactly track how many hours you've played

    They can and do if you use the client

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    But since you have the option to play without the client, they can't and don't use it to restrict refunds.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    They do if you use the client and we have testimonials of people claiming this. Playing online multiplayer also requires using the client.

    Your comment was about using Heroic launcher. I don't know why you want to misinform.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (11 children)

    Is that GOGs own launcher? Why specifically for Linux users?

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    It's a 3rd party launcher that can do GoG and Epic games. 10/10 for GoG, but I wouldn't touch Epic with someone else's computer

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    How is it different than Lutris?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It actually works? I've always had issues with getting anything to work in Lutris.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    As a recent refugee from W10, I agree. Not shitting on Lutris since it did kind of worked, so it might have been a matter of playing with some settings, but heroic just worked.

    Lutris on a fresh bazzite install: install GOG launcher and sign in. Crappy launcher to install the game (same as windows). Install Witcher 3, start playing. Find out the installer never reported success. Next time it launches it throws an error because the game was not installed. Default is to not cache the installer files. Multi-GB download starts again.

    Heroic on the same setup (after the above): sign in to GOG. Get black and white icons for all games in the platform you own. Double click or right click (can’t remember which) to install. Game installs and the icon is in color now. Double click, it starts and works.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 1 year ago

    It's got a controller semi-friendly interface, so it's better for the Steam Deck, and it isn't so much running compatibility scripts but just leveraging APIs inherent to each storefront to download and install the same way that GOG Galaxy does, more or less. It's got achievement compatibility and beta cloud save support.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    If only the store UI wasn't buggy lol

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Trying to buy gog through heroic, I have no issues with using gog in a browser

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    What bugs do you run into? I just click on the store button, and it basically is just a browser.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Daaaamn, DMC on GOG? Let's go Capcom!!! Love seeing more action games on there.

    i already own Bayonetta and The Wonderful 101 on Steam, but I wouldn't mind double dipping if Platinum/SEGA follow suit.

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    [–] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Dishonored: Complete Collection at 80% off, amazing deal if you haven't already played these games.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I’m currently replaying the first Dishonored (switching beteeen Dishonored and Hitman at the moment), that’s gotta be one of my favourite games I’ve ever played. The whole series is great but that first one especially is truly special.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Terraria is there for a few bucks and might be my most played game of all time.

    Heroes of Might and Magic 2, 3, 5. These have have given me so much good time since I was a kid gamer.

    Some of that good 2010s stuff is on heavy discount. Tomb Raider, Arkham City, Mad Max, Deus Ex HR, Alan Wake.

    A bunch of classics are a couple dollars each. like Rollercoaster Tycoon, Blood, Fallout, Indiana Jones Fate of Atlantis, Crusader No Regret, Anachronox, Jedi Knight DF2 (comes with mysteries of the sith), Classic X com series.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago*

    All of my favorite Star Wars games are on sale. When star wars games were good; "before the dark times, before EA."

    Knights of the Old Republic I & II
    Dark forces
    Empire at War
    Jedi Academy
    Jedi Outcast
    Republic Commando
    Battlefront I & II (Lucasarts ones not EA)
    Shadows of the Empire
    Bounty Hunter

    All great games worth playing imo

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Oh yeah, loved the game poor bunny . I think I got a platinum for it. Haven’t played the remake yet though, but it’s in my backlog. Without saying too much, play deathloop

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