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It's a hidden object game, not a true adventure game. I've finished three games from Artifex Mundi and after this I'm quite fed up by them, because stories are incredibly schmaltzy. But they have quite good hidden object scenes (especially in Nightmares from the Deep) and nice detailed drawings (but also somehwat kitchy). Logical puzzles are uninspiring. Best HOGs for linux are still games from Total Eclipse (The Clockwork Man: Hidden World).

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Quoting: AnonymousThey don't provide the level editor or tools as open source, only the engine.

But tools are free to use, and they are real-time collaborative (just like Google Docs).
As well they handle hosting for you, for free as well.

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Just picked it up. Add me on steam if anyone wants to game together. shaunmcotton:steamID

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Definitely Unvanquished. It's one of the more promising open source shooters out there. I like Freeciv and played it quite a bit but I'd love for some newer and less known title to win this.

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I think we are at last at that level where we can start to count actually good games on Linux not total :)

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wine? No thanks.

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Quoting: abelthorneWhat makes you think it's a native client? the "launch/2/executable" line? Can't it be the Wine wrapper?

Icculus wouldn't be involved if it was a Wine wrapper. AFAIK he has never been involved with non-native ports.

AFAIK he has never been involved in anything good. Always shipping unfinished crap that never gets fixed. He starts to work on a million projects at the same time and ends up with a million broken ports.

Apart from Killing Floor his ports have worked just fine for me. And Killing Floor was playable too, it just had these weird graphical glitches.

Which never got fixed. Which is the point - he gets it mostly working, then seems to walk away. The most infuriating part of all the last few ports though - DD, KF, Sanctum 2 (which is still in beta) and Goat Simulator (which isn't even available) is that the glitches are reported, but nothing happens.

So is who is deciding "good enough" is "good enough". DD was too glitchy for me. I put up KF because I love that game, but if he leaves Sanctum 2 as is, his reputation will be in the gutter.

I think it's amazing that he gets working what he does get working... but the polish is terrible. Really, really half-a-job terrible.

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Quoting: Samsai

Quoting: abelthorneWhat makes you think it's a native client? the "launch/2/executable" line? Can't it be the Wine wrapper?

Icculus wouldn't be involved if it was a Wine wrapper. AFAIK he has never been involved with non-native ports.

AFAIK he has never been involved in anything good. Always shipping unfinished crap that never gets fixed. He starts to work on a million projects at the same time and ends up with a million broken ports.

Apart from Killing Floor his ports have worked just fine for me. And Killing Floor was playable too, it just had these weird graphical glitches.

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Quoting: jdubDD works fine for me

https://bugzilla.icculus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5831
https://bugzilla.icculus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5894

I think the Steam version is not affected by the second bug, it can be fixed but why do we have to find the solution and patch the game by ourselves? Can you imagine anything similar in the windows port?

Maybe I'm also be affected by the frequent crashes. I am using "maybe" because I stopped playing after the second crash.

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Quoting: .AFAIK he has never been involved in anything good. Always shipping unfinished crap that never gets fixed. He starts to work on a million projects at the same time and ends up with a million broken ports.

Relax, it's time to stop trying to play Dungeon Defenders.

DD works fine for me

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Quoting: .AFAIK he has never been involved in anything good. Always shipping unfinished crap that never gets fixed. He starts to work on a million projects at the same time and ends up with a million broken ports.

Relax, it's time to stop trying to play Dungeon Defenders.

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If eON evolves, it may be something great. Meanwhile, it's pure BS for now. No Witcher 3 pre-order for me before everything gets sorted out.

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For once, de decent way to support Linux :
Recommended:
OS:Major Linux Distribution from 2012

No Ubuntu-only BS.

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Quoting: Samsai

Quoting: abelthorneWhat makes you think it's a native client? the "launch/2/executable" line? Can't it be the Wine wrapper?

Icculus wouldn't be involved if it was a Wine wrapper. AFAIK he has never been involved with non-native ports.

AFAIK he has never been involved in anything good. Always shipping unfinished crap that never gets fixed. He starts to work on a million projects at the same time and ends up with a million broken ports.

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A game can have both singe player and multiplayer modes. Take Portal 2, for example.

It's good to see so many games on Linux now.:D

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Quoting: Ajay KumarA dumb question : single player 467 , multi player 120 (total 587) , But total games 500 ????

How about some games having both single and multiplayer? ;-)

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This is great news, I signed onto here looking to see if Banished runs well in wine and now I find out that a native port will be avialable soon. I'll wait for this to be released on Linux before parting with my hard earned cash :D

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A dumb question : single player 467 , multi player 120 (total 587) , But total games 500 ????

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I think Icculus might be overburdened right now. Goat Simulator and Sanctum 2 are both under him, and those haven't moved at all.

If he is the one making Limbo native now, I'm worried he's gone and taken on too many jobs at once. If anyone has further information on this, please share it with me.

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While I am happy as Linux user / gamer a bit, I am still unsure if all the things happening really help us as gamers.

Issue #1: Because of engines such as Unity which allow somewhat easy game production on Linux, we face a lot of games which look graphically simple but require a extremely beefy maching. "Best" examples for this are games like Paranautical Activities, Sir you are being hunted, etc.

Something which looks worse than Games like UT2kX or Half-life2 and needs a quadcore CPU with a GeForce X40 to run fluently, will not find it's way to my PC.

Issue #2: The huge amount of beta, greenlight, early access games makes it nearly impossible to monitor all games. So for me as a gamer I have a lot of games to choose from for a small amount of money but the few "pearls" are hard to find and will be even harder to find in future.

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Quoting: kalinI have 130 of them and keep buying :)

I got 230 of them and keep buying :)

Quoting: kalin500 for me

498 games I see and some of linux games not available in Russia. So I couldn't see them.

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Well, I'm still wondering how much the costs differ between the wrapping approach by VP and hiring Icculus for a native port*.

I don't know the prices VP take to wrap such an AAA title but I have the strong feeling this isn't cheap either. They said it's not a one-click solution, but involves manual tuning of the game. After all, they're now still working to improve performance. That's developing time wanted to be paid.

[*] note, IIRC, all middleware used in Witcher 2 is available for Linux.

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At the moment it only shows this message and quits:


I played through this game some years ago, will be nice to finish it again (for the achievements, of course ;-).

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Quoting: someoneIt looks like a wine wrapper. At least thats whats in the run.sh (or something the like), but it fails to start the game due to some missing files/folders.

If it is working good or at least only little worse than windows version I am OK with that otherwise no. Unfortunately It is common for such games to not work at the start because of something missing :(

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Quoting: entropyWay to go!

Meanwhile CD Projekt still thinks that eON approach was a good choice, I guess.

As long that works yes as long as it does not work no

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Quoting: entropyWay to go!

Meanwhile CD Projekt still thinks that eON approach was a good choice, I guess.

It worked great on Mac.

I think that eON just needs polishing (and of course we, Linux users cannot be laboratory animals anymore, at least not when final version of products are released).

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Up to them. I won't use any closed client they might make. They said it will be optional anyway. If they'll open it up - I'll think about it.

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Quoting: ShmerlVote for open sourcing of the GOG client: https://secure.gog.com/wishlist/site/release_the_future_gog_updater_client_as_open_source

How about no.

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HURR DURR NO BATTLEFIELD COD LOL STARCRAFT

Thank you :)

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Way to go!

Meanwhile CD Projekt still thinks that eON approach was a good choice, I guess.

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