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  • If you include remasters, I’ve been playing Shenmue I, which I think I originally played on my friend’s Dreamcast in about 2001. Think it was one of the most expensive games ever made when it first came out, so I guess that’d make it pretty AAA?

    There’s a lot that feels a bit dated in it, like slightly clunky controls, annoyingly long sequences for tiny things (i.e. taking your shoes off every time you go in/out the house), emotionally stunted voiceovers etc - but it also holds up as a good mystery, and such a beautifully realised game world that the clunkiness just becomes sort of joyously nostalgic. I think it’s great.

    Also, the creepy little kids that shout “HEY MISTER! DO YOU WANT TO PLAY… soooocccerrrr?” are still hilarious.



  • There’s a gamingonlinux article which might explain a bit.

    Very roughly, a few alterations to the anticheat to make it work on Wine made some of the anticheat’s workings apparent, which in turn allowed people to work out new exploits.

    Wine is an excellent tool for reverse engineering. Additionally, we had to disable many antitamper checks to make Hyperion run on Wine. This has allowed interested parties to learn a lot about the internal workings of Hyperion, relevant to both Win32 and UWP. As the initial shock of Hyperion’s release started wearing off, many people have begun discovering the various angles through which one can learn more about the inner workings of Hyperion.

    As to why all the anticheat stuff matters so much, I’m not quite sure.


  • For your first time, either is definitely good enough. They’re both pretty full featured, and they both follow “normal” editing conventions - so if you want/need to use a different program in future, you already know how to use 90% of it, you’re just looking for where the buttons are. It’s all very transferable learning.

    As mentioned by another reply, there’s currently a lack of hardware acceleration for timeline playback in Kdenlive which means if you’re really stacking the effects up, you won’t be able to play back in the timeline at full frame rate until you pre-render. It won’t make any difference in simple edits.