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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http://steamcommunity.com/app/17710/discussions/3/540733523949864013/

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http://guacamelee.com/

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Colour key: Venn Jordan Pedro

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/

Good luck sorting the controls
- A wild Unity devel appears https://plus.google.com/102766862318438263839/posts/S6zy81hVUFw

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-

Total-

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

Total-

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…

Total-

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.