A little bit miffed about Lara

I’m not a big gamer. OK, I play Trackmania via wine, and some old stuff on retropie. I bought one game off steam (native Linux), but that’s about it.

Anyhoo, with the Proton announcement offering better compatibility and performance than bare wine, I started a hunt for a cost effective test (I was thinking something like Crysis, previously used for benchmarks), but then I remembered, there are new Tomb Raider games that apparently have kick ass graphics. So I went off to hunt for one that I could test. I came across Rise of the Tombraider.

Imagine my disappointment when it’s still £40 (for a two year old game). Imagine my further disappointment when I found it’s already been ported to Linux and will run natively.

It does look pretty awesome graphically.

I’m now kinda torn. Do I find something to test proton with, or do I shell out £40 for the native version of ROTT? Oh, and extra for a new controller (I only have the Steam controller connected to my main rig, and I hate it).

Decisions, decisions. Maybe sleep on it, and forget it before my next glass of whisky.