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linuxdweeb 28 points 3 years ago

I pirated Need for Speed Most Wanted (2005) and played it from start to finish on my Steam Deck because it was impossible to buy. I would've paid $20 for that old ass game if it was available for sale, but it was literally impossible.

The problem is that these giant publishers are led by MBAs, and as someone who went to business school, I know first hand how stupid those people are.

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BewilderedBeast 8 points 3 years ago

As someone who dropped put of business school to fix cars for a living, I feel this.

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Lemmchen 5 points 3 years ago

Need for Speed Most Wanted (2005)

Man, I loved that game. It was the last NFS I played, everything after that sucked donkey balls and required an Origin installation.
Any tips on how you got it to run? I have the ElAmigos release and I think I tried it once but didn't have any success on the Deck.

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linuxdweeb 3 points 3 years ago

I don't remember all the steps I had to do, but I do remember it being a pain in the ass. I downloaded the black edition from myabandonware.com and installed a widescreen mod (which messed up the UI since some elements were slightly offscreen, but it didn't bother me).

Besides that, the only other annoyance was the controls. There are actually a lot of community layouts for this game, but the ones I ended up using were a pain when navigating the menus. You'll definitely want to try a few.

FWIW, here are my current working launch settings for it:

  • Proton 8.0-4
  • Launch Options: WINEDLLOVERRIDES="dinput8=n,b" %command%

So I guess if you get past the installer, those should get it to launch.

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cujo 1 point 3 years ago

Following if you get any info, I loved that game

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mellejwz 1 point 3 years ago

I seem to remember that Carbon also doesn't need Origin, or am I wrong? I also think that it was awesome.

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madcaesar 2 points 3 years ago

20$? That's crazy talk. I barely buy AAA games today for that 😅

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linuxdweeb 3 points 3 years ago

I'm a sucker for nostalgia.

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CheeseNoodle 2 points 3 years ago

to be fair plenty of older games hold up today in terms of gameplay if you don't mind dated graphics (or if the game uses a timeless visual style). There are a few that I'd totally pay full price for a re-release simply because its hard to get them to run on modern systems.

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Secret300 1 point 3 years ago

Played the fug outta that game on PS3, kinda wanna play it again

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FeelzGoodMan420 1 point 3 years ago
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thanks for using Leebra!

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