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Damn, I bought this game in Desura like a thousand years ago, before it went to Steam. I remember the main dev's house got robbed or something and they didn't have backups; they lost months worth of work. The first impulse they have was to drop the game and I got angry as fuck. I'm glad that at the end they kept going, it looks pretty sweet now.

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Quoting: cprnMoney's not an issue... Time is! ;D

Totally agree!

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Compared to the Lucas Arts and Broken Sword games, the puzzles were particularly easy. I would say that the quality voice acting, humor, and animation were the saving graces of this game. The length of the game did feel truncated, especially in the latter third of the game.

The game's writer missed several key opportunities to drive the story forward emotionally. A prime example would be finding out what happened to the lost family member. That specific set piece should have hit with a lot more visceral impact, but it fell flat because there was so little time spent with the development of back story and the relationship of the family.
I wanted to feel propelled into action, to save the day, and feel triumphant in beating the main antagonist. What you are handed is a very empty victory that relies far too much on secondary or even tertiary characters. It left me feeling rather powerless as a player.

The game is still wonderfully humorous and it is still worth the three hours I got out of it. But, keep an eye out for how the difficulty and options drop off when playing as Lily as opposed to Aidan. That was highly frustrating and a little insulting to the general intelligence of the player. Yes, she is a small child, but she is written as somewhat of a child genius and those sections should have played quite a bit more challenging than what was presented.

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Hi, is there a GamingOnLinux Guild in Albion Online?

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Life is strange !
I've bought a lot of games this year, but this one is the top first.
The story is awesome, cool graphics, very good voices, i want more games like this.

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Thanks guys. My impression of the Metro games seems to have been a bit off. I've already exhausted (and exceeded) my Winter Sale budget, but I will get the bundle in the next sale. :)

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Quoting: tuubiThe Metro games proclaim "full controller support" so I assume it's not all hardcore twitch action, but how's the difficulty? Can I expect to enjoy the story even if I'm not that keen on (or very good at) FPS action?

I have zero twitch skills and suck hardcore at FPS's and I greatly enjoyed the Metro games. There were a couple of parts that I had difficulty with but for the most part, you can play it pretty slow and methodical.

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My top 3 NGOLOTY in alphabetical order
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
Tomb Raider
Undertale

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Can't even start the game... It crashes after OpenGL initialisation on AMD drivers it seems, at least on MESA.

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I'd add Death by Game Show for €2:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/409730

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I am still having issue with login and even when I got the update from last night. I am not sure why they have another login to get into the game it really does suck. It should be an option not a requirement.

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Money's not an issue... Time is! ;D

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Quoting: throghWell thanks for the video. But I would appreciate having more freedom within videos or just to say in content generally speaking. Perhaps with usage of MediaGoblin, Mediadrop or even Plumi? Talking about freedom is one thought, being free from such monopols like YouTube is another. ;)

Video hosting requires heavy resources, it would murder our bandwith and probably increase site load quite a lot.

Then you have to get the rights from everyone included to host it and on top of that, it opens up me specifically to copyright issues.

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low budget: https://steamdb.info/sales/?min_discount=85&min_rating=60&displayOnly=Game&category=999

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Quoting: tuubiThe Metro games proclaim "full controller support" so I assume it's not all hardcore twitch action, but how's the difficulty? Can I expect to enjoy the story even if I'm not that keen on (or very good at) FPS action?

Actually, their control layout was clearly created joypad first then ported to mouse/keyboard, judging by the awful default keyboard bindings.

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Quoting: omer666

Quoting: tuubiThe Metro games proclaim "full controller support" so I assume it's not all hardcore twitch action, but how's the difficulty? Can I expect to enjoy the story even if I'm not that keen on (or very good at) FPS action?

It can range from really easy to hardcore crazy depending on your difficulty settings.

Ah, so there's an easy difficulty level available. Good enough for me. Thanks.

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Quoting: tuubiThe Metro games proclaim "full controller support" so I assume it's not all hardcore twitch action, but how's the difficulty? Can I expect to enjoy the story even if I'm not that keen on (or very good at) FPS action?

It can range from really easy to hardcore crazy depending on your difficulty settings.

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The Metro games proclaim "full controller support" so I assume it's not all hardcore twitch action, but how's the difficulty? Can I expect to enjoy the story even if I'm not that keen on (or very good at) FPS action?

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Quoting: NovenTheHeroI am just waiting for my free key to arrive in my email.

They were distributed two weeks ago. I am afraid that chances of getting a key are slim at this point.

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Got the Metro Redux bundle, finished 2033 already (Last Light is waiting until after college exams lol). Absolutely amazing!

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War Thunder - it was the one game I played regularly before I decided to switch to Linux and having a Linux version avaliable made the switch pretty painless in terms of gaming needs at that time.
And Shadowrun: Dragonfall since it "cured" me somewhat from my War Thunder addiction.

Since then I bought and played lots (way to many actually ;-)) of great games for this platform - some of which I probably would not have noticed on Windows.

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nice review :D

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That's cool that someone (HexDSL) mentioned Refunct! It's a very short but pleasant game (and a cheap one)! :)

I'm with @Keyrock for the GOTY2016: Shadow Tactics definitively! :)

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I am just waiting for my free key to arrive in my email.

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RWS are stand up guys. I had purchased the Fudge Pack long before they had released it with a Steam key, and I had already gotten one of the Postal games in Steam, but was wanting all of it there. Not only did they give me the Steam keys, they had accidentally given me a different key first. But it was good by them. They also apologized to everyone who bought Postal 3. Ha!

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Quoting: Armand Raynal

Quoting: slaapliedjeWas he necessarily actually doing much coding? i kind of thought with the Unreal engine you could potentially make an entire game without much code at all and just needed to feed it textures and such.

Granted I could be completely wrong about this, I only played with the new editor for a short time (looked really powerful though).

To make a whole game like what nothern shadow looks like you need relatively quite a lot of code if i'm not mistaken, even with the unreal engine. Although UE provide a tool(blueprint IIRC) that makes programming more visual and easier, it's just sort of a graphic translator for code, so it's still code in the end.

Just providing the art with creative commons would have been cool though.

Well, "coding". I call that part engine scripting. But ye, it's code, and especially for RPGs depending on the design it can be a lot of code. But it's rather easy code, and my guess is for games like this if you have an engine 80-90 % of your time goes into characters, models, maps, textures etc. rather than coding the real story-path (and designing the whole story).

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Lots of great games this year. What a time to be a linux gamer!

Looking at total hours, my number one goes to Salt and Sanctuary. "SoulsVania" doesn't really do it justice but hey, why not?

Honourable mention: Hyperlight Drifter.

If it had been released in 2016, I could have voted for the Talos Principle. I did only play it this year :-)

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Quoting: throghWell thanks for the video. But I would appreciate having more freedom within videos or just to say in content generally speaking. Perhaps with usage of MediaGoblin, Mediadrop or even Plumi? Talking about freedom is one thought, being free from such monopols like YouTube is another. ;)

I agree with this, and host my own MediaGoblin install for photos I want to share. Unfortunately my ADSL2+ uplink is too slow for video, so I dump video content on YouTube and encourage the use of youtube-dl to get at it.

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I'm one of the people who can't log in, but I too got the game through the newsletter. I personally dislike games that require a separate login to Steam anyway, so no big loss.

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