I love age of empires, I so hope the new HD remake of 2 works in Wine :D

There is an HD remake? Other than 0 AD? :P

Quoting: HamishThere is an HD remake? Other than 0 AD? 

Yes :P AOE2 HD remake coming to steam ;)

Not exactly WINE since I was actually playing it from a Windows XP partition on the old Dell D600 laptop I am stuck on until the replacement hard drive shows up, but I just won a random map game of AOE II without losing a single unit, losing a single building, cutting down a single tree, or killing a single turkey. Beat that. :P

Without cutting down a tree? WTH?

It was a four player game separated into two teams, with myself playing as the Spanish. I concentrated on quickly advancing through the ages, building a market as soon as possible and researching cartography so that I could see all that my ally could see. Then I concentrated on building a monastery and a few monks so that I could grab all the relics that my allies scouts uncovered, grabbing all but one of the relics on the map.

With all the gold that those relics generated, I could buy all the resources I needed from the market and concentrate on building cannon galleons and conquistadors. With those units I managed to surgically take out my enemies with no loss of life on my part, as they were in previous ages and had most of their buildings accessible from sea, and my ally also provided some more basic grunt troops.

I also managed to build a large flock of decorative turkeys and penned them up with palisade walls. Now THAT is how you play the game. :P

Quoting: HamishIt was a four player game separated into two teams, with myself playing as the Spanish. I concentrated on quickly advancing through the ages, building a market as soon as possible and researching cartography so that I could see all that my ally could see. Then I concentrated on building a monastery and a few monks so that I could grab all the relics that my allies scouts uncovered, grabbing all but one of the relics on the map.

With all the gold that those relics generated, I could buy all the resources I needed from the market and concentrate on building cannon galleons and conquistadors. With those units I managed to surgically take out my enemies with no loss of life on my part, as they were in previous ages and had most of their buildings accessible from sea, and my ally also provided some more basic grunt troops.

I also managed to build a large flock of decorative turkeys and penned them up with palisade walls. Now THAT is how you play the game. :P

You sound just like my dad. Have you played AOE 3? It was my favourite.

AOE3 killed the franchise for me. I did not like the jarring shift to 3D graphics that made my head spin, they severely changed the game balance, and most importantly I hated the fact they made it have a purely fictional story campaign that only dealt somewhat with American history. The previous games may have played fast and loose with certain historical realities, but I still learned a lot of history from them that encouraged me to find out more about the events depicted, and the fact that it was not so insular helped broadened my historical perspective to include a larger vision of the world. We played the demo a few times and then never came back again.

Although, I did like Rise of Nations. I remember playing that through WINE soon after I made the full switch to Linux back in 2007. Everything ran perfectly except the sound did not work, as far as I can recall. I should try it again at some point, if I ever get a period where I do not have a large swath of natives games taking up my time.

I loved the game. Historically accurate or not.  The graphics were amazing for the time in my opinion, and I welcomed them with open arms. 

Well, you enjoy what you like. But I just could not get into it, even though I loved the previous two games.

Quoting: HamishWell, you enjoy what you like. But I just could not get into it, even though I loved the previous two games.

To each his own. :)

There are some from my screenshot archive:

http://i.imgur.com/xfOHNAd.png
Soldat (free)

http://i.imgur.com/bi3V287.jpg
Baldur's Gate

http://i.imgur.com/SkaGvFz.png
Colobot

http://i.imgur.com/eb6VkhS.jpg
Zeus: Master of Olympus

http://i.imgur.com/Nd2g9sp.png
Toribash (free)

In the latest edition of "I can't believe that works in Wine!":



Playing on I Live.... AGAIN's Halloween Bloodbath server in recognition of Blood II: The Chosen's 15th birthday last night. ^_^

Batman Arkham City running at 1080p. Scaled in half for posting.

[img=960x540]http://i.imgur.com/xeULcxB.jpg[/img]

i dont do much screenshots.. but you can get many from my videos:

Elder Scrolls Online Beta weekend started:

View video on youtube.com

GW2 runs good
View video on youtube.com

Hi this is my contribution

This is my wine screenshots galleries (since 2009 when begins with blog http://gamesonwine.blogspot.com/)

This is 6 galleries with around 5000 images since 2009 (various when stay as wine maintainer, in this time have around more 100 apps as maintainer)

https://picasaweb.google.com/108973449704898914301/GaleriaDeJuegosDeWindowsProbadosEnWineParteA

https://picasaweb.google.com/108973449704898914301/GaleriaDeJuegosDeWindowsProbadosEnWineParteB

https://picasaweb.google.com/108973449704898914301/GaleriaDeJuegosDeWindowsProbadosEnWineParteC

https://picasaweb.google.com/108973449704898914301/GaleriaDeJuegosDeWindowsProbadosEnWineParteD

https://picasaweb.google.com/108973449704898914301/GaleriaDeJuegosDeWindowsProbadosEnWineParteE

https://picasaweb.google.com/108973449704898914301/GaleriaDeEmuladoresProbadosEnWine

or if you can see my channel (this is recently october 2013), in this channel have around 750 videos

https://www.youtube.com/user/mrdeathjr28

This is video example

View video on youtube.com

many games is working but some times in new wine versions add some features and maybe too affect some titles but must be follow with testing

:)

Just me doing the Blood II regression check I do every time I get a new release of WINE:
[url=https://postimg.cc/8792Qqcw][/url]

Last edited by Hamish on 25 Dec 2019 at 3:32 am UTC

I have finally made it around to trying out Wolfenstein: The New Order. When it came out performance was not so good for me in windows so I decided to wait a while and see what happens after it received an update or two. I loaded it up and updated it in windows yesterday and while it was much better it was the first time I had booted windows in a while because ive had linux games to keep me busy I was quickly reminded how much I'm not a fan :| With my setup, wine is typically just not an option... I need every ounce of power my rig has in windows so losing even a bit of performance to wine is a no go.

BUT! I decided to give it a shot anyhow, seeing as how RAGE ran better or on par with windows as it did in wine when I played it long ago and this being the "same" engine I was feeling good about it. It was super easy to get going and Low and behold! It runs better and smoother in wine than it does in windows at HIGHER settings! WOW! I didn't even think this was possible, but there I was, playing with no stutters, less texture popin, at a higher frame rate than in windows, with some eye candy upped a notch AND my gpus were running a few degrees cooler at the same fan speed. WHAT?! Take THAT winblows!

I hate to say this as obviously a native port should be straight forward (already OGL) if they wanted to do it, and of course I would prefer that. But unless I have some magic unicorn of a machine I would say that a wine wrapped "port" put up on steam for linux would be totally acceptable and I NEVER say that. */me ducks to dodge the incoming flames*

So now onto some screenshots.. I just started playing so I have not made it very far, but I will post some more as I progress.

Halloween BloodBath 2014:

http://www.blood-wiki.org/index.php/Halloween_BloodBath#2014_BloodBath