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instant buy for me on GOG because : " the developer actually said they managed to fix a lot of the Linux issues "thanks to the help of the GOG Linux team""

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Quoting: slaapliedjeIn case you missed these RPGs; Wasteland 2, Shadow Run, Bard's Tale (4 is coming!), Pillars of Eternity, Tyrant, Neverwinter Nights:Enhanced Edition, plus all the other EE games. Of course if you do like old school RPGs, GOG has all the gold box ones wrapped up for Linux too.

They are all old school /sometric RPG (i.e. Baldur's gate style). That's nice, but we have zero first person RPG with a non linear story and/or open world. Maybe Dying light (rpg/action) but that's all. One game.

Some games like Skyrim, Gothic 3, Kingdom Come: Deliverance etc. are really missing on Linux.

We've got good old Witcher 2.

I guess your definition of rpg/action should cover Mad Max and Shadow of Mordor as well. And Tomb Raider? Personally I wouldn't call these RPGs though. I like open world action games with plenty of exploration, but their stories don't leave much room for role-playing.

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Actually, @SadL. The puzzles are randomized to some degree, so it's worth playing through it at least once on each side and then one more time for the full good ending :) For the price, that's some solid fun!

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Quoting: strycoreI've noticed some improvements in The Witcher 3, specifically the part where the Botchling appears. It was previously invisible but is now rendered.

That's the case with upstream Wine master already.

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QuoteThere was one particular moment involving a stairwell that was vanishing before me, with me relying on Samsai being able to solve a puzzle based on what little information I could provide to him.

That moment was epic indeed! (that and the scare-jump into lava)

QuoteIt took a long time to get through that one "Go left, then right—NO I SAID LEFT" and repeat.

oh yeah..and that reminds me..sorry for flooding twitch chat with "up down right etc"

QuoteIn the end, I wanted to try something which resulted in a gate opening for Samsai, naturally he took it to freedom leaving me to rot alone—that's friendship for you!

really Samsai? really?

The problem with this game is that it's a one-off. Yes it can be really funny and entertaining to complete (might lose a friend in the process but hey..). And that's it. The only thing you can do after finishing it is to switch sides with your friend.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeIn case you missed these RPGs; Wasteland 2, Shadow Run, Bard's Tale (4 is coming!), Pillars of Eternity, Tyrant, Neverwinter Nights:Enhanced Edition, plus all the other EE games. Of course if you do like old school RPGs, GOG has all the gold box ones wrapped up for Linux too.

They are all old school /sometric RPG (i.e. Baldur's gate style). That's nice, but we have zero first person RPG with a non linear story and/or open world. Maybe Dying light (rpg/action) but that's all. One game.

Some games like Skyrim, Gothic 3, Kingdom Come: Deliverance etc. are really missing on Linux.

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Like many here, I own the lot! Ah well... at least this article reminded me of Shadowrun. I might put a few hours into a re-run at some point soon.

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No thanks...

Well, it's no HIB, so I wasn't really expecting too much. 2 DRM free games (well, three, but Tesla Effect is not for Linux...), the rest only steam....

Sad.

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Quoting: EikeThere's a free predecessor as well.

Did anybody try playing one of these with a Windows system on the other side?

Sadly we were here, the predecessor, doesn't work at all as advertised on linux. It's essentially unplayable.
Aside from the standard unity fullscreen bug, this specific issue made it impossible to enjoy:

QuoteTo get in-game and get around the "skip-problem" you have to place the cursor at the place where the "SKIP"-button would appear
You have to perform this step during the loading screen, because afterwards the game won't recognise the cursor due to the bug of the bad unity port
Now you can play, but if you die, you can't click the "RETURN TO LAST CHECKPOINT" button...

We Were Here Too, however, works as expected :D

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Good prices. But lately finding myself in situations where DRM-free is highly convenient, and most of these are Steam keys. Most are also available on GOG, so I'll probably pass on the bundle.

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There's a free predecessor as well.

Did anybody try playing one of these with a Windows system on the other side?

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The old SkyRoads (1993) and SkyRoads Xmas Special (1994) still play great under DosBox and I still love that old synth music.
It will be great if the new game can give a fresh twist, without loosing the basic playability.

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Quoting: GuestGame companies must think Linux users only like strategy games or something. It's a good thing though.

And action-adventure games (Mad Max, both Tomb Raider games, Shadow of Mordor...), and car sims (Dirt, Grid, F1, ETS & ATS...), and point&click (too many to list) and platformers (too many to list) :)

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The question behind this game is so heavily silly... and I have no idea why I'm interested in the answer. But it has a lot of Synthwave and all that stuff, maybe that's why.

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Well there goes $15 here soon. Been meaning to get nearly every game on the bundle at some point, now seems like a very good point. After this I may be able to finally get around to going through my backlog, it's getting rather large.;)

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I'll have to sit this one out, one reason I can't go into, but the other reason is I already have everything but Torment in my library.

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Reminds me of classic Konami games like Turtles in Time or Sunset Riders.

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Wow great bundle. I will atleast get more than the average.

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Quoting: g000hAnnoyingly I own all of those except Torment: ToN and Xenonauts. I think this deal will last until the next monthly subscription is active, so I might get the full pack (and $2 wallet credit) if I resume the subscription.

Agree that it is a fantastic bundle. I paid plenty for many of these titles, even on sale elsewhere.

It seems I'm into classics, too. I already got the three Shadowrun games (just playing the last one, sigh), Wasteland, Broken Sword and Dreamfall (which is the only one I cannot wholeheartedly recommend).

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Annoyingly I own all of those except Torment: ToN and Xenonauts. I think this deal will last until the next monthly subscription is active, so I might get the full pack (and $2 wallet credit) if I resume the subscription.

Agree that it is a fantastic bundle. I paid plenty for many of these titles, even on sale elsewhere.

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Quoting: KeyrockI'll take a wait and see approach on this one, given that Games Workshop is willing to license their IPs out to literally anyone, which has lead to a veritable deluge of Warhammer and 40K games over the last several years, 90% of which have been garbage. Hopefully this one falls into the 10%.

I'd argue that it's a sea of mediocrity rather than garbage, few games are actually bad, then again few are also actually good and yes, it's a result of GW handing their license over to anyone willing. Now this relatively recent policy (they used to sue anyone for the pettiest things) stems from GW shooting themselves in the foot with various financial decisions, namely insane pricing (55 pounds for a plastic tank c'mon GW) while shrinking their retail distribution and I'm fairly sure licensing is the only thing that kept them afloat. With the big moneymaker (and more importantly tabletop awareness raiser) Dawn of War flopping recently I imagine their licensing output only to increase and it's unsurprising that mediocre developers who often end up making licensed games (as these come with time and money saving prepackaged audiovisuals and concepts) end up making mediocre 40k games. It requires actual effort (c'mon Relic) to mess up a 40k game as everything comes pre-packaged and often already known to nerds who end up developing it (c'mon Relic), all you have to do is apply basic games design (c'mon Relic) or at least steal it from other successful games (c'mon Relic) and give fanbois what they want (c'mon Relic).

My problem with this is that mediocre developers can make a decent game, but don't end up innovating in any way that would make those games stand out above what is considered bog-standard in their respective genres, except with 40k coating. The last two really memorable (and innovative! what a coincidence!) 40k games I've played were DoW 1 and the venerable Final Liberation. Then I would consider DoW2 as it combined a decent story with a mix of CoH/Diablo gameplay and then maaaaybe Space Marine by the principle of being one of the amusingly few real-time action games in a setting that's 100% action and warfare and grim and dark. After that almost everything else I played were decent games, but in every case I have already played a better version of it when it was called for example Panzer General, Aliens vs Predator, X-Com/UFO Defense or Starcraft 2 (c'mon Relic).

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There is a super experimental build available here: https://lutris.net/files/runners/wine-c3beca6c8f-experimental-3.2-x86_64.tar.gz
It fails to launch any DRM games from Steam, Battle.net or Uplay but will launch GOG or other DRM free games.

I've noticed some improvements in The Witcher 3, specifically the part where the Botchling appears. It was previously invisible but is now rendered.
I've tried a few other games that used to run ok before (Crysis, Bulletstorm) and they ran fine under Wine Staging 3.2. GloriousEggRoll (who is doing most of the work, really) has reported that Warframe launches too.

The project is moving fast so expect daily builds until it stabilizes.

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I'm excited to see another Warhammer 40k game comming to Linux, but I will be rather cautious because not every 40k game is good.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeI keep meaning to try it, but there is that BSG conversion for Freespace 2 out there

It's really worth trying. It's a lot of fun and a very polished effort. I was never able to get the Linux open version to compile correctly, though, and only got it to work (with effort!) in Wine. The Freespace 2 engine, though, is starting to show its age and feels old in comparison with newer, Newtonian efforts like Helium Rain and Astrokill, just as Freespace 2 made Wing Commander feel old...

And yes, it's been a great time for space sims on Linux. Early versions of Everspace, Helium Rain, and Astrokill dropped in '17. I think Helium Rain is being developed on its way to classic status for space traders and it now has a combat skirmish mode to play around with that's quite fun. Astrokill is a ton of fun, my favorite space combat engine to date and, according to those who use it, its VR mode works well in Linux!

For those willing to use Wine, the excellent House of the Dying Suns works well as does the early access Angels Fall First.

Arguably, the only 3 big space Windows titles we lack on Linux are Elite: Dangerous, Star Citizen, and Eve: Valkyrie and, frankly, I'm really not missing any of those (flawed) titles.

I'm curious to see how Hypergate handles multiplayer since, as big a fan of the genre as I am, I'm not sure space combat lends itself to multiplayer very well. Even on the classic, vaunted X-Wing vs Tie Fighter multiplayer was "meh" and the compromises crippled the single player engine. It basically devolves into jousting in open space. Eve attempted to introduce some skill and strategy with complex environments to dodge and hide in. In Elite Dangerous there's some Neutonian mastery that can put you ahead of opponents without such skills. Otherwise, though, it's a tough nut to crack. Space sims seem more fun as solo players...

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I'll take a wait and see approach on this one, given that Games Workshop is willing to license their IPs out to literally anyone, which has lead to a veritable deluge of Warhammer and 40K games over the last several years, 90% of which have been garbage. Hopefully this one falls into the 10%.

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Quoting: KimyrielleI am torn on seeing yet another TW game being ported. On one hand, strategy is hands down my favorite singleplayer genre (second only to MMOs), and it's a blessing to have such a great selection of strategy games available on my OS of choice. On the other hand, we have some glaring gaps elsewhere that still needed filling. Such as aforementioned MMOs, but also RPGs in general. If I knew that Feral can and will churn out another dozen AAA games this games, I'd still welcome this release - but if this is going to be one of three high-profile ports we will be getting in all of 2018 (like 2017 felt to me), I'd have opted for something else, given the choice.

Not sure why you say there is a lack of RPGs, there are tons that run native on Linux, and many more on the way! I actually am okay with few MMOs, though not really an MMO, I would love to see Elite: Dangerous ported.

In case you missed these RPGs; Wasteland 2, Shadow Run, Bard's Tale (4 is coming!), Pillars of Eternity, Tyrant, Neverwinter Nights:Enhanced Edition, plus all the other EE games. Of course if you do like old school RPGs, GOG has all the gold box ones wrapped up for Linux too.

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Turn-based Warhammer: 40K? I could dig that. Looking forward to more details as times goes on!

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I just thought of something. You know how we generally get the port months or years after the original release? This used to be a bad thing, but now with the somehow accepted practice of releasing unfinished games then filling in the gaps with DLC, this is a good thing and maybe the porting houses should just wait for game of the year editions...

Pretty sure one of the Total War games were like that, bought a bunch of DLC to fill in blanks...

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Somebody get overly excited with the post button?

By the way, can anyone get to hard-light.net? Seems to be down..

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Quoting: m2mg2I'm hoping this isn't the shot away from the Feral Radar, but it seems likely as Feral have ported the other Warhammer 40,000 games. I'm hoping for another non RTS game from Feral.

As I wrote pretty clearly, this is not from Feral.

Did you? I'm sorry, I didn't see that. I've read it at least three times and don't see it. Must be going blind, or dumb.

Quotehas just been announced by Bulwark Studios and Kasedo Games, it's due this year with Linux support.

Is it not clear enough?

I saw the announcement info, I just didn't read it as though they stated it would be an in house port. My bad.

I didn't infer it either so don't feel bad. I don't think assuming that readers will know those company names and know that it means that Feral is not porting the game is "pretty clear"... But I ain't real bright either, so there's that..

Isn't it a good thing that it isn't Feral porting it? Don't get me wrong, they make excellent ports, but I would MUCH rather see the Linux version be developed at the same time by the same people. And hopefully released at the same time as all the other platforms. If Linux gaming is ever to grow, we need this. I am sure there will always be a place for the porting houses, but I would love for one day to have them hired as contractors to help develop the games for Linux rather than porting them after the fact.

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