Recent reviews by BusinessOrc

Okay, as someone who has put more childhood hours into the PS1 versions of these games than I care to admit I feel like I can speak from the source material pretty well..

While I love this remake, and it is as true to the source material as it can be - and it is a hell of a lot of fun, I can't help but feel something has been lost in these games from the originals. A lot of the original character is lost in the shiny and fancy graphics. The new music is alright - nothing to write home about, but the voice actors are all worse (or maybe I don't like them because they are just not the same)
The worst thing I feel is a loss of perspective and clarity in gameplay. Maybe i'm old and slow, maybe I was never any good at crash, but I feel like it's harder than ever to judge as a player where crash is and how far away you are from things. In the originals I never felt like I was fighting the game, and perspective was working against me but in this game I get frustrated because I was certain I had landed safely or was no where near an enemy. Other times I feel I should have died to an enemy and can't understand why the game decided I was safe. Something I don't remember feeling with the PS1 versions. I can't remember a time in the PS1 games I actually ran out of lives. In these remakes it happens often when I reach the harder levels. In terms of clarity - in the originals you knew exactly where hazards were. A good example is in warped where enemies throw firebombs from the windows. It's much harder to see at a glance where the scorch marks on the ground are.

It would have been fantastic if they added a feature like the SC:Brood War remaster had - the ability to switch to the retro graphics.

This is a great game on it's own merit - just don't go in expecting 1:1 parity with the originals. I feel like it suffers from many of the same issues the oddworld remake had.

I've been putting some serious time into this game now I have the hardware to play this game, at 1440p this pushes my RX470 past it's limit. You'll probably get better performance on windows however. This game works near flawlessly under linux/proton but expect a taxing game.

Quick Edit: I forgot to add - a lack of subtitles in a modern AAA published game is inexcusable.
I am not deaf or hard of hearing, nor do I speak a language other than English - but do like to have subtitles on because of inattention and I can miss some dialogue. The lines are hardly crucial to gameplay but implementing subtitles in a game with only a few handfuls of lines would be so easy.

Rockstar and Take-Two prove time and time again they don't care at all about their products or their user base.
The grand theft auto series on steam (like almost everywhere else) is plagued with issues and bugs, have censored content and content is routinely pruned from the game.
The 3.0 steam release is a near unplayable mess even on windows. It forbids mods (including bug fix patches and widescreen fixes) and is missing 17 tracks from the fantastic soundtrack.
There are a lot of hoops to go through in order to get this to an acceptable working standard on PC.

If you are going to attempt to play this on Linux - be warned you will need a windows machine or a windows VM in order to downgrade and mod the game, the game misbehaves if I run it with lutris or proton and if you want to use a controller with ginput you will need an xinput.dll from somewhere to make it work as the game doesn't come with one.

It's a shame because I have hundreds upon hundreds of hours in San Andreas, it's one of my favourite games of all time and my favourite GTA game. I don't think rockstar will make something this offensive and this fun and this hilarious ever again.
Those are the times we live in...

Having put hundreds of hours into prepare to die I wasn't impressed by the seeming cash grab that was this remaster.
Having played it I can say it is actually very impressive, a superb remaster and runs very well.
I paid less than £4 and it was totally worth it. This game has stolen 90% of the players from prepare to die so if you want to jolly co-operate you kinda need this version.
There have been some ill-advised changed to this remaster, and they left in a lot of bugs and hacks that were plaguing the game that should have been fixed but I can forgive those for what I paid.

This game runs better under linux than the original and no need for DSFix or Connectivity mod.
Having the PVP Watchdog back would be nice though.

10/10 should have got it sooner.

It's half life what do you want? It's practically required reading at this point.

Works perfectly under linux as you might expect.

One of the finest 'games' I own. This is literally thousands of games in one with as many possibilities as your imagination allows for.
Super for party games night across the wire.
Dutifully kept up to date by the developer, and works great on Linux!

This game is like a vacuum. Works excellently under linux!

I'm torn on whether to recommend this.

On one hand it's a very fun, polished and intricate game that's thoroughly enjoyable with an understated art-style I appreciate.
Factorio kinda reminds me of Starcraft: Brood War.

On the other hand I had to refund this game because of an audio bug present in the game/audio engine.
This bug has been present since 2014 and continues to plague Linux users.
The game audio has a delay of 4-5 seconds unless you use the depreciated and unsupported OSS, which requires some additional headache to work around.

Please devs replace the audio backend or do something about the delay on alsa/pulse.

Quick update: Dirty solution here for sound issues https://steamcommunity.com/app/427520/discussions/5/1486613649676712341/

Damn this game is great. It's a big improvement over the initial iteration and I've enjoyed it greatly.
Awesome role-play elements, dialogue, moral choices and rewarding game-play.
The voice acting is top-notch and graphics and animations are smooth and enjoyable.

I'm happy to say that this game runs near flawlessly on Manjaro Linux under proton with fantastic performance. Just remember to disable e-sync with PROTON_NO_ESYNC=1 %command%. Some stuttering and audio artifacts can occur but they fix themselves.

10/10 One of my favourite games of all time. This game has clearly been crafted with love by a team that made what they love, and loved what they made. The best game in the Witcher series, nails the atmosphere, and the world setting. Story is great, combat in my opinion is very fun, and everything else... lets say has charm, lots of it.

Works great on Manjaro under proton. FPS isn't very stable but still serviceable. One crash so far, but none there after,

RECOMMENDED! You can get this game on sale for 99p or so. No excuse, it's an aged game, so cut it some slack.

This is a really good little game. It's got what counts: a quality story, a fantastic soundtrack and it works cross platform perfectly. (It did for me on Linux)
"This is the Police" surely deserves more praise, I've put more hours into it than I really expected. Voice acting is decent and gameplay is not bad either, neither of these things are below average however.
God bless the Unity engine.