All hail the mighty butt.
All hail the mighty butt.
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.
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?
ah i see, a fellow eloquent butt enjoyer
We're classy horny weirdos.
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)
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).
You do you, I'm just here for the soundtrack.
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.
Scantily clad android girls for the win!
Thanks for the heads up.
Hold on....can you really run nier automata on linux?
Did I sleep on the year of the linux desktop!?!Yes, it runs flawlessly. It was the first game that was made to run on DXVK.
And yes, the
YearAge 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.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.
There's also good guides to adding all the quality of life mods available for Nier Automata onto the Linux version.
It was like one of the first games that became playable when proton first came out.
On a completely unrelated note, Rebole is the imperative form of the Portuguese verb meaning to sway/shake one’s buttocks.
The ass that freed me from Windows? Nice.
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.
Thanks, Debbie.
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