LinuxGameCast Weekly EP79 — There Is No Mexi-try

Ceiling Steam watches you masturbate? Humble goes to eleven, FTL goes full-metal time vampire, and something about Strife. Then we throw the chairs at Guacamelee. All this, plus your hate mail.

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Steam News:

Steam’s VAC protection now scans and transfers your DNS cache

http://www.ghacks.net/2014/02/16/steams-vac-protection-now-scans-ans-transfers-dns-cache/

  • Now /w damage control goodness

  • http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1y70ej/valve_vac_and_trust/

  • At the end of the day Valve is doing sneaky shite because there is a kernel level market for hacks.

  • It’s Valve, they’re a big corporation. Of course they do sneaky things.

  • As long as they keep providing a decent service I’ll keep using their things, just like Google.

 

In Home Streaming to support hardware encoding

http://steamcommunity.com/gid/103582791434796278#announcements/detail/1388536798011573997

  • Whar linux to linux streaming!

 

Paranautical Activity devs say it is Steam’s fault

http://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1y0k0u/paranautical_activity_devs_say_it_is_steams_fault/

  • Goddamn communists!   If it weren’t for them, I’d get my game published on steam!!!11

 

WazHack

http://store.steampowered.com/app/264160/

  • Oh look another android game.

 

99 Levels To Hell

http://store.steampowered.com/app/264280/


News:

HIB 11

https://www.humblebundle.com

  • “Please note: Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams is currently available for Windows. Mac and Linux versions will be available later this year.”

  • ^ slipped that in

  • Having fun /w Guacamelee! Gold Edition

  • Holy crap!   Only one game I already own!

    • ^ same

 

Strife Closed beta

http://strife.com/

  • 64-bit only

  • I have to note that their website design is much better than your typical linux game fodder

  • Waiting on Feb 28 to try this sucker out

  • Never did get an invite, but if it’s 64bit only then I suppose I don’t mind.

 

FTL updates

http://www.ftlgame.com/?p=647.

  • Le Drool

  • Seriously though, why an ipad port?   Android first man!   ANDROID!

 

Paragon Evolved

http://rootgamer.com/10024/demo-2/download-paragon-evolved-demo

  • Unity Quake 3 in a Tron suit

  • Demo starts, menu interaction is fine.

  • No ability to change key bindings

  • The demo freezes for me whenever the window is in focus, in game.

    • If I change focus to another window it seems to run perfectly fine. It’s when I try to interact with it that it throws a hissy fit.

 

Arena of Heroes

http://www.indiedb.com/games/arena-of-heroes

  • Turn based moba?   Tickles my interest.   Will have to fart around with it

    • ….And Its basically turn based LOL.   I don’t really know what I expected

 

MX vs ATV Supercross Coming in 2014

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/12/20/mx-vs-atv-supercross-coming-in-2014

  • Yes, please!

 

Bombable: a FlightGear-based combat flight simulation

http://wiki.flightgear.org/Bombable


Scale:

– Nooope
– Not sure if want
– Check it out
– Shutupandtakemymonies


Game: Guacamelee Gold Edition

Webzone: guacamelee.com

Devel: DrinkBox Studios

Engine: DrinkBox Engine (developed in-house)

Price: $14.99/€13.99

Wazzat:”Metroid-vania style action-platformer set in a magical Mexican inspired world. The game draws its inspiration from traditional Mexican culture and folklore, and features many interesting and unique characters.”


Makes with the working

V-

J-

  • Couch co-op works without issue, although you have to hit the respawn orb thingy

P-


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Shiny / Sounds

V-

  • Bitchin’ soundtrack is bitchin’

  • I liked the art style but fell in love when it was brought to my attention that it could cause fk mothering seizures \:D/

  • Knocking it a chair the decided lack of children

J-

  • The soundtrack is pretty awesome

P-

  • Shank in a full metroidvania outfit.

  • None of the gritty stuff

  • It’s all colorful and cheery

  • Background music compliments the visuals perfectly


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Control

V-

J-

P-

  • Where Shank and Mark of the Ninja fell short, Guacamelee succeeded.

  • Tight and responsive controls paired with an out-of-the-box working PS2 Dual Shock can only mean one thing…


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FUN

V-

  • Pacing is spot on. Really, piss me off just enough and I keep coming back.

  • Most modern games are just too easy

J-

  • Little disappointed the chickens don’t try to kill you after turning red.    Pollo Loco indeed

  • Gotta love Luchadores

P-

  • On the first go, it sucked me in for over an hour without me even realising it.

  • It’s like Shank and Dust: An Elysian Tale got drunk in some random mexican bar and this was their dumpster baby.

  • At least it doesn’t take itself seriously. Unlike the aforementioned two.

  • Random pop culture references are actually pretty mild and, considering the general tone of the game, well placed.

  • It does prey on the mexican stereotype to get some cheap laughs, but it does so successfully.

  • Have to duck it a chair because, like most metroidvania games, it resorts to having you backtrack like some obsessive compulsive lunatic in order to squeeze some extra game time.


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Final –


Hate Mail:

NSFW 

http://slexy.org/view/s21qKX6BIf

  • So you admit we’re entertaining.

  • That NoX guy has been on my automatic downvote list for a while.

 

Shiny

http://slexy.org/view/s2UG1Xb2V9

  • ContentID

 

Papo yo, yo

http://slexy.org/view/s2VtYipItB

  • You might want to sit down for this. That’s 9000% us.
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