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).
The ass that freed me from Windows? Nice.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Scantily clad android girls for the win!
Thanks for the heads up.
On a completely unrelated note, Rebole is the imperative form of the Portuguese verb meaning to sway/shake one’s buttocks.
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
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.
