I get excited. Then I think of my fifty-strong wishlist and my poor wallet, and suddenly I'm a lot less excited.

Never had that problem of not getting to play the games I wanted though (had a C64, then Amiga before building my first PC, and my friends had the rest of the platforms covered between them), until I discovered how much I like all those console-only JRPG's. But that was some time in the early noughties, I was already running Linux and had pretty much given up on gaming, outside of some classics I played with ScummVM/dosbox etc.

I never understood some publishers who would ask for a port for one system and not the other, especially when it came to sequels. For example, the Amiga only ever had Phantasie 1 and 3 ported to it, while the Atari ST has 1-3.

So I'm hoping we get the newer Tomb Raider game that is the sequel to the one we just got.

I started off with Ultima 1, so never could get into the linear JRPGs. Though to this day I haven't really played Ultima 2, I've gone on and played the rest and loved them all. If I ever get time I should go through and win the ones I never did (2, 5, 6 (without cheating), 7, 8.) With the exception of 2, I was able to get really far in all of them, but then had lost my save games and haven't gotten back to them.

Quoting: slaapliedjeSo I'm hoping we get the newer Tomb Raider game that is the sequel to the one we just got.

Would be awesome indeed. I don't think it'll materialize any time soon though. I invite Feral to prove me wrong. :)

Quoting: slaapliedjeI started off with Ultima 1, so never could get into the linear JRPGs. Though to this day I haven't really played Ultima 2, I've gone on and played the rest and loved them all. If I ever get time I should go through and win the ones I never did (2, 5, 6 (without cheating), 7, 8.) With the exception of 2, I was able to get really far in all of them, but then had lost my save games and haven't gotten back to them.

I never got into Ultima, but I don't quite understand why. I think the farthest I got was in U4. I should try again as the game's free on GOG. Not for Linux, but it's a dosbox wrapper.

Check out xu4 http://xu4.sourceforge.net/ for Ultima 4 goodness. It's still my favorite CRPG of all time. Mainly because you couldn't just kill your way to the end.

Thanks! I'll definitely check it out. One less reason not to give the game another chance.

Not to jump in on the conversation, but going back to the original question, I've lost a lot of the excitement I once had for new releases. It isn't that I'm not happy to see new games come to my platform, I love seeing Linux grow as a gaming platform. I'm just a little burned out on strategy, side-scrolling, rogue-like, pixel art, indie games. It seems like a vast majority of the games we get can be tagged with at least one of those terms.
When we do get more modern, action oriented games, AAA or otherwise, they either have terrible performance, are several years old, or both. We get Tomb Raider, years after release. Dying Light is practically unplayable for me.
And then there's the games that I just don't enjoy, but I don't have any other options. We have two racing games, Dirt Showdown and Grid Autosport. Showdown is a pitiful excuse for a rally game and Grid, while being a very well made game, I simply don't enjoy it. But what else can I play? Distance isn't what I want, the possibly upcoming Dirt Rally looks to be even more hardcore than Autosport, and while I don't know much about Formula One, I don't have high hopes.
Games I do want, MX vs ATV, Dirt 3, and the upcoming Riptide GP Renagade, don't show any signs of ever coming our way. I want GTA V and Sleeping Dogs, not bad ports of the ridiculous Saints Row games. I want new, action packed, single player, first and third person shooters. Not multiplayer. Not survival. Not bad ports of old games. It's all just really depressing. I'm still holding out hope though.
Sorry for the rant. It feels good to get my thoughts on the matter written down. Here's to Linux and the future of gaming, basically the same thing.

Jump in all you want, that's what I started the thread for.

There is a distinct feeling for some ports that is, "we gave you a port... but we can't be asked to make things like gamepads work, though they work great under Windows." situations. Hero Siege, I am looking at you....

In fact there have been several games where they tout full controller support, but the steam controller, or even a 360 controller aren't detected correctly and they crap out.

Granted the first few patches of Dark Souls 3 on Windows didn't detect gamepads correctly either.

I would love GTA games, Watchdogs, the Assassin's Creed series, etc portrd as well. If I want to play some pixelated goodness, I will fire up my heavily upgraded Amiga 4000d.

Gamepad support. That right there is why I love my Steam Controller. Dirt Showdown wouldn't recognize it at first, so I just set it up to emulate a keyboard. Worked like a charm. I later fixed it by modifying a controller config file. I think they've fixed it now, but it is nice to know that I can set any button to be anything else. I have several games that recognize controllers, but require the escape key to bring up a menu in certain areas.
There are so very many games I want ported. GTA is at the top of the list, simply because I know it would provide the most enjoyment over time. I spent countless hours in Vice City back in the day. And if Sega ported some Sonic the Hedgehog games, I could die happy.

Last time I was excited for a new game was when the new Shadow Warrior came out for Linux. But yes, my enthusiasm has lessened, to the point that I do not really follow any upcoming games anymore, and just take things as they come for the most part.

I am spending most of my time replaying old favourites anyway.

Quoting: HamishI am spending most of my time replaying old favourites anyway.

This.
I was excited for new titles in the beginning..

I found myself hardly playing any of those titles, I always go back to quake 3 and unreal tournament 2004, xonotic, transport tycoon, and a bit of parkitect.

It sure has taken away the need to upgrade my hardware that's for sure.

Ha, I randomly get the need to play some of the great old RPGs. The new expansion for Baldur's Gate made me want to play that, until all the reviews came in saying it was a broken mess.

Friends of mine tried playing it multiplayer and it was horrible. So I whipped out Exult and started playing Ultima 7 again! A true classic. But I still need to beat Dying Light (I was stuck on getting the Bolter for so long... finally got one.)

I just wish I had more time to play games. And with my Vive appearing tomorrow, I'm not sure how many Linux games I'll be playing. I still need to test to see if ARK in Linux works with it at all.

In my experience, around half of them are DRMed. So when they are not - it's exciting.

GOG needs to wrap more of their dosbox games to have friendly installers in Linux. I'd play the hell out of Dungeon Hack if/when they do. Having to basically extract it via Wine is kind of annoying.

I always get excited about the bigger games, not so much the indie games.

Quoting: slaapliedjeGOG needs to wrap more of their dosbox games to have friendly installers in Linux. I'd play the hell out of Dungeon Hack if/when they do. Having to basically extract it via Wine is kind of annoying.

You know that you don't need Wine for that, right? You can use innoextract.

Later Elder Scrolls stopped being interesting RPGs to my taste. The last good one was Morrowind :) Too much mass market appeal. So I simply wouldn't care if they come out for Linux or not. It's not likely that I'll ever buy them.

I get excited whenever a game I already own finds it's way to the porting houses. Here is a personal list I've been maintaining so far:

Ports on Steam
Road Redemption: ✔
Payday 2: ✔
Saint's Row 2 ✔
Saint's Row The Third ✔
Saint's Row IV: ✔
Reflex Planned, no date yet
Terraria ✔
Tomb Raider 2013 ✔

Ports on GOG
Age of Wonders III Exists, on Steam
Megabyte Punch ✔
Aliens vs Predator Exists, on icculus.org
Strike Suit Zero Exists, on Humble Bundle
Shadow Warrior 2013 ✔
KotOR II Ported, "In talks with GOG"
Overlord Virtual Programming Current State: Alpha

Every check mark represents a game I "gave up" when I switched to Linux back in Feb 2015 which was later ported to Linux, thus, back into my hands. That said, the more well-known a game is the more exciting I find the announcement. Every big title is one more point toward making Linux gaming a viable option.

I have been playing games since ages a ago :D
Whatever genre or style of games you can think of it I have already played it commodore,Amiga,Arcade,Consoles(I still have my first Xbox),dos Games etc.
At that age I was excited with every game that was gonna get released.
I was getting every game magazine that was available in order to get a demo of the new game.
Every game that was getting out was different from all other games so it was unique and I had to play it ! :D

After year 2005 on PC Gaming --> the chaos
The only game that excited me was obvious World of Warcraft because it was something unique at that age.

After that I cant find any single game that is unique of its style.
Most of the games are repetition of old games or re master ports or copy cat of older games but with better graphics but totally fail at gameplay.

Some indie developers are trying some new ideas , I am trying their games but is not enough.
Maybe I am getting old :'(
is just that I am not getting excited with a release of a new game as I used to do so because is the same story all over again.

NEW FPS -> You have a gun and killing people
SURVIVAL --> You are someone in an island or in an apocalypse enviroment and you are trying to survive , find food and resources. Either vs Zombies or Dinos or any other elements
TURN BASED STRATEGY --> Take Turns in order to accomplish your mission
Fighting Games --> Another copy cat of old arcade fighting games just with better graphics or online gaming
and so one.......

I need UNIQUENESS!!!
some games manage to do this but not on Linux yet so I am just waiting

just check the below link and you will understand what I am talking about ^_^

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_game_franchises](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_game_franchises)

I get a bit less excited about newly announced Linux games these days but only because I have a huge Steam wishlist that I could never afford in its entirety and a sizable backlog of Linux games I currently own. I really need to stop buying games and just play through the ones I already have. I've promised myself that Hearts of Iron IV will be my last game purchase for a while, and then I'll focus on DLC and expansion packs for my current library. We'll see how that goes.

(Yeah, a Linux gamer complaining about having too many games to play. Who thought we'd ever see the day?)

Quoting: Hamish[...] my enthusiasm has lessened, to the point that I do not really follow any upcoming games anymore, and just take things as they come for the most part.

I am spending most of my time replaying old favourites anyway.

Exactly the same here.

I still enjoy playing computer games, but they don't get my excited or glue me to the monitor like they used to do. My time of computer gaming is long over.

But the industry has made things very easy for me anyway; as Shmerl has already pointed out, nowadays most games are released on Steam, which I don't like, and tied to some form of DRM, which I don't accept. So, there's not much (in gaming) to get excited about these days anyway.