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Dying Light Is Almost Playable On Linux, If You Do Some Tinkering (Updated)
By Keyrock, 29 January 2015 at 1:49 pm UTC
Quoting: Xpanderwhat is chromatic aberation effect? that blur when you sprint? thatone is nasty as hell and makes my head hurt.


also the draw distance on linux doesnt really change much.. disabling the shadows from that file is the key.. rest of the stuff can be even on high.

View video on youtube.com
I saw a substantial gain in framerate when lowering draw distance to minimum. I guess it's on a case by case basis whether it helps people or not.

As for chromatic aberration, it's the colored glow around objects like this:

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It occurs naturally sometimes when you look through a lens, such as a pair of glasses. As someone who's worn glasses most of his life, I'm well familiar with the effect, though in my experiences it's generally been far more subdued and not nearly as ridiculously pronounced as in this game.
Aspyr's Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy Remaster Is Real And It's Out, We Have Keys For You [Key hunt is over]
By Linas, 29 January 2015 at 1:46 pm UTC
I was quite young when I saw Alien for the first time. It freaked me out so much that I woke up that night screaming in my fathers arms. He was like "There is no way in hell you are watching the second one.", and I replied "Are you kidding? That was awesome!", and went back to sleep.

Since then it is kind of hard to scare me, but Amnesia succeeded. Although I found Penumbra games to be more captivating, or maybe thrilling is the word. :)
Starbound's Massive Stable Update Released, It's On Sale, And We Have A Server
By hansonry, 29 January 2015 at 1:38 pm UTC
Aww man, I'm at work for the next 8-9 hours :(
Looks amazing!!
Aspyr's Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy Remaster Is Real And It's Out, We Have Keys For You [Key hunt is over]
By Xpander, 29 January 2015 at 1:24 pm UTC Likes: 1
My Craziest moment was in Amnesia The Dark Decent

there i was, headset set to super loud, all the lights in room switched off...
slowly and carefully crawling around in the darkness of the game... suddenly after i dropped through a hatch into a water i heard noises and saw water splashes coming directly into my direction .. i literally fell off my chair and heart started to race like crazy ... that first atempt there i ofc died because i wasnt near the keyboard anymore ...
Aspyr's Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy Remaster Is Real And It's Out, We Have Keys For You [Key hunt is over]
By drmoth, 29 January 2015 at 1:19 pm UTC
Best movie thriller, without a doubt goes to Memories of Murder, a South Korean detective film:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0353969/

The film was also both funny and terrifying, and the way it juggles these moments attests to its greatness.

Scariest moment in gaming - probably some scenes in Dead Space and F.E.A.R., until I got used to the concept of jump scares and it wore off.

Although, I would have loved to have played Deep Sea, it sounded pretty terrifying:
http://www.joystiq.com/2011/03/12/deep-sea-the-scariest-game-ever/
Dying Light Is Almost Playable On Linux, If You Do Some Tinkering (Updated)
By Eike, 29 January 2015 at 1:14 pm UTC
I didn't pay much attention to this, but it is a day one release on Linux, right? Cool stuff - even though not in my country.
Great to hear they are seeking for information to make it better on Linux!
Aspyr's Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy Remaster Is Real And It's Out, We Have Keys For You [Key hunt is over]
By phobic, 29 January 2015 at 1:11 pm UTC
Scariest movie of all time: The Exorcist (the 1973 version) ..total mind bender...

Scariest game might just have to be amnesia, the dark descent.
Dying Light Is Almost Playable On Linux, If You Do Some Tinkering (Updated)
By jakejw93, 29 January 2015 at 1:04 pm UTC
Good find, although I'd rather not have to tinker with stuff like that for the game to run okay. If you get me....
Aspyr's Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy Remaster Is Real And It's Out, We Have Keys For You [Key hunt is over]
By triodo, 29 January 2015 at 12:58 pm UTC
Thriller: Probably Heavy Rain
Scariesto moments: A lot of years ago when I was a teenager playing Resident Evil 1 on Playstation
Aspyr's Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy Remaster Is Real And It's Out, We Have Keys For You [Key hunt is over]
By tuubi, 29 January 2015 at 12:58 pm UTC
There are too many good thrillers for me to choose from, so I'll just pick some non-obvious choice at random. As a teen I was heavily into sci-fi novels, and one book that made a lasting impression in the late nineties was Peter F. Hamilton's Reality Dysfunction. I have no idea if I'd still find it as good and/or thrilling. Maybe it was just the sheer size of the epic: ~1000 pages and it seems it's just the first part of a trilogy. (Note to self: Read again at some point.) But yeah, it's a story, and quite thrilling iirc. I did read and like Crichton's Jurassic Park as well, so there's another. It's got several thrilling, if not very scary moments.

Now that I think about it, I very rarely read, watch or play anything labeled horror, and when I do, it's always for something besides the scary stuff. Must be something wrong with me I guess. Being frightened just doesn't... entertain me, and being entertained is obviously the reason one would consume any kind of entertainment.

Games and movies that rely on gore effects and/or jump scares seem especially "cheap" and unimaginative. Childish almost. But then again, I know and love several people who do enjoy them, which leads me to believe I'm just not the target audience. I do love me a nice parody of the splatter genre though. Hot Fuzz springs to mind as an example.

So, back to scary games. Haven't played anything horror themed lately, so let's go for the oldies again. Yahtzee's Chzo mythos, the pixely horror adventure game series was pretty good, I guess. Free and recently with Linux binaries thanks to Hamish.
Starbound's Massive Stable Update Released, It's On Sale, And We Have A Server
By pd12, 29 January 2015 at 12:56 pm UTC
yay!

too bad i read the steam reviews and didn't buy it when it was on major sale ...
i thought it wouldn't be updated xD
Aspyr's Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy Remaster Is Real And It's Out, We Have Keys For You [Key hunt is over]
By z1lt0id, 29 January 2015 at 12:51 pm UTC
Jacob's Ladder which heavily influenced Fahrenheit actually. The end of that movie left me in silence and I felt a true emptiness for hours. I felt hollow afterwards and the film really shook me up, I'll never forget the emotions that film was able to get out of me. The performances were second to none and you can clearly see why it inspired Silent Hill, Fahrenheit and tons of other entertainment.
Dying Light Is Almost Playable On Linux, If You Do Some Tinkering (Updated)
By Nanobang, 29 January 2015 at 12:50 pm UTC Likes: 4
For $60? I'll let the developers fix their own game and continue to wait for what I'm sure will be an amazing experience someday soon.
Dying Light Is Almost Playable On Linux, If You Do Some Tinkering (Updated)
By z1lt0id, 29 January 2015 at 12:49 pm UTC
I can't even get the game to get past the main menu, it's a garbled mess. I did post it in the Steam forum but yet to get any form of reply.
Outlast, That Really Scary Game Looks Like It's Still Heading To Linux
By PublicNuisance, 29 January 2015 at 12:47 pm UTC
I loved the atmosphere and story in Outlast. I didn't like how stealth was forced through lack of combat though. If my character can see a pipe on the ground but can't pick it up to defend himself that;s a flaw in my opinion. Regardless I do plan to finish it, I'll just wait for the Linux version to do so.
Aspyr's Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy Remaster Is Real And It's Out, We Have Keys For You [Key hunt is over]
By PublicNuisance, 29 January 2015 at 12:43 pm UTC
My favorite thriller story was probably Condemned: Criminal Origins. Really did a good job and I wish the sequel had of made it to PC.

I would have to say the scariest moments in gaming for me would either be playing Doom or playing Jurassic Park when I was six. Both games just made me so tense. Doom because from room to room, you could hear the monsters that were up ahead and Jurassic Park because when you entered a building it went into first person view which made everything more scary when dinosaurs are hunting you.

Of more recent games I would say Outlast was quite scary but it also had no combat so that was a little more cheap about it.
Aspyr's Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy Remaster Is Real And It's Out, We Have Keys For You [Key hunt is over]
By tuxisagamer, 29 January 2015 at 12:33 pm UTC
The music video for Michael Jackson's Thriller was the best Thriller.
Aspyr's Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy Remaster Is Real And It's Out, We Have Keys For You [Key hunt is over]
By daschaffert, 29 January 2015 at 12:24 pm UTC
The movie I liked most was alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds (Die Vögel)" and my scariest computergame was DOOM when I was 8 years old ...

Thx Aspyre for the great work and thanks to gamingonlinux for all the fantastic information!
Aspyr's Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy Remaster Is Real And It's Out, We Have Keys For You [Key hunt is over]
By wolfyrion, 29 January 2015 at 12:22 pm UTC
Best Thriller Film - Psycho
I was a kid when I saw this so it will always stay forever in my mind ^_^

Best Moment.... well I wasn't expecting that! :O

View video on youtube.com

Best Thriller game - Laura Bow and The Dagger of Amon Ra

I died more than 9000 times!!!

View video on youtube.com

Best Moment

Me jumping like a headless chicken that finished the game FINALLY!!!
EXTREMELY happy that I have FINALLY finished the GAME --

WAS READY TO WATCH A BEAUTIFUL ENDING................ BUT THEN..................
View video on youtube.com


All the enthusiasm went downhill..... had to play it again several times from the last saved point.... :(
Dying Light Is Almost Playable On Linux, If You Do Some Tinkering (Updated)
By Maelrane, 29 January 2015 at 12:19 pm UTC
A rather "stupid" question, but does the filesystem you use change anything? For some games *I heard* it's bad to use anything but ext4. (Although I'm not sure how or why you would optimize stuff for a certain filesystem.)
I personally am running btrfs exclusively since a few months. May this be a problem with dying light?
Aspyr's Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy Remaster Is Real And It's Out, We Have Keys For You [Key hunt is over]
By lordix, 29 January 2015 at 12:16 pm UTC
I do not play much of this type of games, but "White Noise Online" made me a little nervous when I tested xDD
Aspyr's Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy Remaster Is Real And It's Out, We Have Keys For You [Key hunt is over]
By ripper, 29 January 2015 at 12:02 pm UTC
Thriller story (movie): The Shining
Scariest moments in a game: Penumbra and Amnesia, just about at any moment :-)
Aspyr's Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy Remaster Is Real And It's Out, We Have Keys For You [Key hunt is over]
By pd12, 29 January 2015 at 11:55 am UTC
I have probably supressed almost all my memory of any horror-like events.

Oh, apart from Metro 2033 - I was too scared to continue alone when the other NPC was like "I'll wait at the town gates while you go venture into the tunnels" and haven't played it since xD

As for less jumpy scary and more mind-scary - Gemini Rue was a great game for that!

Unfortunately if I get the game, I'd probably not play it since I'm such a coward - so I'll probably gift it instead xD
Aspyr's Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy Remaster Is Real And It's Out, We Have Keys For You [Key hunt is over]
By gomera, 29 January 2015 at 11:55 am UTC
I don't know which it is the best, but the first real thriller experience that I can remember that seriously give an impression was "Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller".

When I played this game, I was astonished by the animation scenes, CGI characters and voices but above all, the script. Without doubts not the best game I played but at its time (mid 90') was a huge surprise for me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell:_A_Cyberpunk_Thriller
Aspyr's Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy Remaster Is Real And It's Out, We Have Keys For You [Key hunt is over]
By quarkslot, 29 January 2015 at 11:54 am UTC
Thriller? For me the film Seven - a great blend of crime and horror with a very dark ending.

But my scariest moment in gaming is from Thief: The Dark Project, I remember the first time I met the undead in an early mission - Break From Cragscleft Prison. Being a stealth game, I wasn't expecting a zombie to leap up at me, groaning, when I got close to it - scared the life out of me, still does!
Dying Light Is Almost Playable On Linux, If You Do Some Tinkering (Updated)
By Von, 29 January 2015 at 11:46 am UTC
Chromatic aberration ruins this game for me. Not even blur is as bad.
The Witcher 2 Has A New Beta For Linux, The Improvements Are Staggering
By HadBabits, 29 January 2015 at 11:46 am UTC
So I indeed had to restart a couple times, but other than that Witcher 1 runs very well, and I'm really enjoying it. However, I do wish it was a shorter game; I wanna get to the pretty sequel with the refined mechanics :D
Dying Light Is Almost Playable On Linux, If You Do Some Tinkering (Updated)
By HadBabits, 29 January 2015 at 11:42 am UTC
Yay, I can get 40+ minimum frames now :D But that blur sure is awful; hopefully some clever person figures it out.
Aspyr's Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy Remaster Is Real And It's Out, We Have Keys For You [Key hunt is over]
By Metallinatus, 29 January 2015 at 11:41 am UTC
If zombie movies can still be considered thriller.... so I guess I would go with 28 Weeks Later.... I love that movie :)
Gaming speaking, I like RPG Horror games so I would go with Ib and Mad Father as a close second :P
The scariest moment, through.... I didn't actually play many scary games, so I will go with Castlevania 64, the very first "scary game" I played when I was still a young kid.... in special the first moment when the werewolf appears.... followed by the first time I faced the big skeleton boss I guess.... well, I was tense for most part in the first level the first times I played it :D

EDIT: Come on, just look at those first 10 minutes and tell me it isn't great :P

View video on youtube.com
Aspyr's Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy Remaster Is Real And It's Out, We Have Keys For You [Key hunt is over]
By VelhoP, 29 January 2015 at 11:34 am UTC
Scariest game for me was Silent Hill on PlayStation 1.

Everytime i was concentrade trying to figure out the puzzle, a damn freaking demon DOG, or the FLYING demon comes from nowhere and makes me shit myself.

I never managed to finish the game! *scary memories comes up*

Damn i'll sleep with the lights on tonight =)
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