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    Philip Rebohle, DXVK's founding developer, stated in an interview that he started the project "to get one specific game to work". Later, he explained in a forum post that he was a bit of a Nier fanboy, and that it was a relatively simple game to use as a test subject for DXVK.

    Rebohle was later contacted and hired by Valve. Wine already had a D3D11 compatibility layer, but it wasn't nearly as far ahead as DXVK at the time. It's fair to say that Linux gaming wouldn't exist in its current form if not for one guy's appreciation for Nier Automata. Rebohle still works at Valve, currently conributing to VKD3D-Proton.

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    [–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 74 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

    People make jokes about the oversexualization of 2B...

    But Nier Automata is truly the most humanist and deeply thoughtful game I have ever played.

    Further, it has almost pitch perfect ludonarrative harmony and I have deep respect for Yoko Taro eschewing the three act arc of plays and films, recognizing that video games are a different medium and must define their own narrative rules that fit the medium.

    Can we hear it for good gameplay, top tier writing, and flipping basically every anime trope on its head?

    [–] Hupf@feddit.org 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

    You do you, I'm just here for the soundtrack.

    [–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

    The soundtrack is similarly fucking amazing, honestly. Top tier world-building with an orchestral score that has a made-up language meant to mimic what a future language that is a mashup of all human languages might be like. Valid thing to just be here for.

    [–] SitD@lemy.lol 45 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    ah i see, a fellow eloquent butt enjoyer

    [–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 1 week ago

    We're classy horny weirdos.

    [–] TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

    It is truly a masterpiece of games as a medium.

    Cannot listen to the end of yorha without tearing up when the choruses collide.

    Games as art prime example. Think about it daily. (Not just the ass i promise)

    [–] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 week ago

    Best game of all time in my books, and with its success they were even able to give Replicant the glow-up it truly deserves (and fully finish it including Ending E).

    [–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Scantily clad android girls for the win!

    [–] tisktisk@piefed.social 43 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Hold on....can you really run nier automata on linux?
    Did I sleep on the year of the linux desktop!?!

    [–] rtxn@lemmy.world 64 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

    Yes, it runs flawlessly. It was the first game that was made to run on DXVK.

    And yes, the ~~Year~~ Age Of The Linux Desktop is already here. Unless you have to use Adobe products, or play a game with some incompatible anti-cheat trojan, there are very few barriers to switching to Linux full-time.

    [–] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

    Depending on your profession a small team just proved that you can even fly as high as it gonna gets.

    More often than not the main problem is how our education system is set up, teaching certain topics like CAD or image manipulation with specific software from companies which "invest in education" (i.e. pay Universities and educators to create future customers for them). Adobe and Autodesk are the biggest dicks in this regard, but also Apple.

    Back to games, the general rule by now is "if it is on Steam and doesn't have the worst anti-cheat, it usually works". Outside of Steam you may have to tinker a little bit, but Heroic and Lutris make this easier by the week. The biggest problems more often than not are the god damn third-party launchers.

    [–] rtxn@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

    I'm a sysadmin at a university. Fortunately we never used Adobe, and recently ditched Autodesk and Unity for Blender and Godot. Still on Windows, but I'll take what I can get.

    [–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Can confirm, I’m just hitting my first year of using Tumbleweed as my main OS after giving up on Microsoft. It plays almost everything without issue. The very few things I boot into Windows for are games that I want to use Autohotkey with, old games that don’t work well with Proton, or VR.

    [–] lime@feddit.nu 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    if you are using ahk for things like macros, xbindkeys is your friend! It allows you to bind any command to a key or combo.

    if you're on wayland there's no real alternative, as usual.

    [–] anzo@programming.dev 2 points 4 days ago

    On wayland, switch to ydotool (the port of xdotool)

    [–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

    Thanks for the tip, I'll check it out. Most of my AHK scripts are simple, not really macros, just adding toggles to keys or remapping stuff, like putting mouse buttons on a keyboard key, or remapping WASD to ESDF for games that don't support key remapping. I messed around with some key remappers for Linux about 9 months ago but I couldn't find anything that worked well in the game I was playing (Dyson Sphere Project). That's almost certainly due to my ignorance. I really need to learn python.

    [–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago

    There's also good guides to adding all the quality of life mods available for Nier Automata onto the Linux version.

    [–] heartfelthumburger@sopuli.xyz 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    It was like one of the first games that became playable when proton first came out.

    [–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 36 points 1 week ago

    On a completely unrelated note, Rebole is the imperative form of the Portuguese verb meaning to sway/shake one’s buttocks.

    [–] Sabata11792@ani.social 14 points 1 week ago

    The ass that freed me from Windows? Nice.

    [–] TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    That’s just a whimsical interpretation. If Nier hadn’t existed, he would have chosen another game he liked. Nier wasn’t his main motivation, just a guinea pig.

    [–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

    Thanks, Debbie.

    [–] cymor@midwest.social 5 points 1 week ago

    There are others that paved the way, too. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothee_Besset https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loki_Entertainment https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_C._Gordon