Wow this looks really interesting. I've always had a fascination for the atmosphere that comes with wind and cold, but don't like the meaninglessness of pure survival games. So this game here, with a story and even a female protagonist, well this one goes straight onto my wishlist.

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At least it's great to finally read about a rise, if small, instead of the usual fall.

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Quoting: lucifertdarkAnother month where I didn't get the survey, they really need to do it once every couple of months with every single steam user included, then we'd see how "small" the Linux community really is.

As long as the randomness is truly random the relative amount of "skipped" Windows users would be around the same so it would matter very little if every single user received a survey.

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He should just calculate a 0.5-2% additional sale from whatever his current sales are and consider if it's worth it or not from that. That's where it likely will end up.

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That the game Wine works better than a "native" port only further underlines a thing I've said repeatedly: Feral uses a translational layer too, just like VP. There is an overhead, and with that overhead the lesser performance on Linux won't go away.

So VP versus Feral versus Wine is just a battle between the various layers. And from that perspective it's really quite cool that the open source project Wine holds so well.

This is not me saying that we should stop buying Feral products or anything stupid like that. This is me saying we should stop dissing VP for doing the same, give kudos to the Wine project, and be happy these layers are made, or we would not have seen any of these bigger releases.

So all is cool. But this is why.

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So, finally! This is a great release for Linux.

I smacked down the money for the 5 episodes before even trying the first episode. I've read too much of this game to need to try it first.

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Quoting: X6205Uhm... so unknown game i have never heard off gets a linux release. But users bitching abou Witcher 1 for linux are ignored.
[...]And what about Aspyr or Feral porting their best Mac titles to linux?

The porters do not own the rights to the games and can't do this by their own whim. Obviously it's up to the publisher of the respective franchises what will be ported to where.

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Overlord is the best rated one of the two as well - and I've never played this one (only the sequel) so this'll be a purchase for sure!

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Quoting: Tak

Quoting: BeamboomBut why oh why do all RPGs have that same fantasy setting?

Shadowrun?

Well not all in a literal sense :) Luckily. But I seriously am of the impression that 9:10 are.

Quoting: ColomboThey don't? Most of RPGs have different fantasy setting?

All I see are mages and knights running around in a medieval environment with castles, deep woods and dark dungeons. I call all that identical.
I guess there are nuances for those who are into fantasy (I'm not - if that's not already apparent enough :) ).
Maybe some are more "realistic" than others, some you play humans while others you can be a friggin' cat. Sure. Maybe some have dragons, others have golemns instead. Or orks. Elves or not. Yeah whatever. To me it's the same setting, the same universe, give or take a component or three. It's castles, woods and grottoes. I just know instinctively what kind of characters and stories I will encounter. Some skeletons in an abandoned mine probably. And so forth.

It could have been *so* much more varied - if only visually! They could keep the *exact* same mechanics, only wrap it up in perhaps a gothic setting, vampires and werewolves instead? Or a totally *new* universe, and not just a fork of the fantasy formula (cause it really is formulaic)?
Really, whatever but fantasy!

Or, if we should use franchises as examples: How about a Matrix like universe? Or Avatar? Transformers? Alice In Wonderland? How about anything - anything! - but yet another fantasy RPG? Wouldn't it be refreshing!

But no. Yet again, another story of the woodlands, the castles. I bet there will be a rich evil man in there. With dubious plans. And some villagers who need help from a beast that lurks nearby.

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The only thing that really matters in these games though: Are there any players?

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