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Latest Comments by tmtvl
Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition officially announced with Linux support
29 Mar 2017 at 11:36 am UTC

Unfortunately the gameplay sucks so much that I just can't enjoy it. This game would really benefit from the random encounters being removed. Or even better: all the combat being removed.

Some small site updates tonight
26 Mar 2017 at 9:57 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Psycic101Great feature. Any chance you can alphabetise the list grouped by time zone so it's easier to find the correct city?
Dagnabbit, I was about to suggest it get sorted by UTC difference, like most websites do. Keep it like it is, I guess, but place the UTC value after the location name?

Reminder: Update your PC info for the next round of statistics updates
25 Mar 2017 at 3:26 pm UTC

I should get myself a gaming rig, but it's hard to find Linux machines with a decent AMD GPU. I can't put one together myself, 'cause I always mess up putting the CPU on the motherboard and end up wrecking everything.

The Entroware Kratos-3000 is another power-house laptop Linux users might be interested in
22 Mar 2017 at 3:57 pm UTC Likes: 2

Tuxedo Computers have some very nice gaming laptops for people who can read German. Could be cheaper shipping-wise for people on the mainland.

RPG Maker MV now has a Linux version and a Linux game export option
21 Mar 2017 at 10:40 pm UTC

Every time I see anything about the RPG Maker series I want to code a game engine that uses Perl for scripting tasks, but it'd just take too much of my time to really be worth the effort.

Editorial: On paying for Linux games when you already have a Windows version
15 Mar 2017 at 2:43 pm UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: liamdaweFallout 4 on Linux, yes please.
No. No! Seriously, we already have plenty of crap games for Linux, we need good games, not festering piles of shit.

Yes, we also have good games, but I'd kinda prefer at least half of the games on Linux being good, rather than invoking Sturgeon's Law.

What have you been playing recently and what do you think about it?
10 Mar 2017 at 3:17 pm UTC Likes: 1

Natively on Linux I've been playing Starbound: It's pretty good.

On my PS Vita I've started a hard run of Persona 3 Portable, and I'm discovering the joy of using items in battle.

And finally I've also been playing a bunch of Neverwinter Nights 2 modules under Wine. The Warlock class in NWN2 is a lot more interesting than its P&P counterpart (due in part to video games not sticking to the recommended 4 encounters/day).

Editorial: Steam Machines are not dead, plus a video from The Linux Gamer
27 Feb 2017 at 12:39 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Alm888The only way to get a Linux version at 100%+ of Windows performance is to work directly with developers and persuade them to build their games with Linux in mind from the ground-zero. And that's my point by which I stand.
The unfortunate thing is that they won't be willing to put the money into the meagre amount of potential extra sales (don't look at absolute numbers, those are deceiving, look at percentages).

Nobody is willing to put in 10% more funds to get a potential 1% more sales. And we come back in our vicious circle (not enough platform selling games -> not many people want to switch -> not many devs want to port their games -> not enough platform selling games).

How to easily find new releases on Steam
15 Feb 2017 at 3:13 pm UTC

I could prolly hack up a scraper, but... the Steam API docs are written in a way that I don't really grok.