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Quoting: Beamboom

Quoting: BillNyeTheBlackGuyThe writing, perhaps. Problem is, the Shadowrun games look so outdated and technically dull, so I never got motivated to bother reading the "walls of text" as they were thrown towards me. I'm sorry but text adventures just doesn't cut it in 2015.

I thought the Shadownrun games looked quite nice. The character models left something to be desired, but the 2D backgrounds were beautiful IMHO, particularly in Hong Kong. As for text, I'll happily ready pages upon pages of well written text rather than listen to a bunch of voice acted fanfic-level writing, which is the level I'd put D: OS's writing at. I would have much rather Larian had spent some of the money they did on voice acting to hire a decent writer instead. Then again, I quite enjoy reading, I'm weird like that..

Honestly, HBS could have easily chopped up Shadowrun: Dragonfall's dialog and added voice acting to appeal to the papamole consoles players, but the game story would have been as crappy as Divinity: Original Sin's story and dialogue. Thankfully they didn't do that.

Also, I don't really like Divinity: Original Sin graphics. I know appeals to the people who like that cartoony-realistic style from World of Warcraft or League of Legends, but I never found that art style appealing.

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Wow, I'm actually shocked. From the way they ignored Linux before, I thought they were never going to release a linux port of any of their games.

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Quoting: BeamboomSo, I got to play it a bit more and I just gotta say: Finally. FINALLY a good RPG on Linux. "Good", not as in "good to be an indie" good, not "good for the budget they had" good, but just plain good.
This is the best RPG available for Linux today. There's not really any competition, even. If only the Shadowrun games were like this...

But yeah - I'm ready to vote for this years GOTY.

I personally think Shadowrun: Dragonfall and Pillars of Eternity are better games overall, but to each of their own. Divinity OS bored me halfway through after the story started to turn to shit. =\

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More CRPG goodness is welcome. Now here's hoping for Underrail (and perhaps undertail as well :p ).

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Finally, my main genre back on Linux. Thank you Unreal Engine 4. :D

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He speaks to truth. If you're butthurt about it, then too bad.

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$1200 for a console style computer is asinine. No one is going to pay that much for it no matter how good it is.

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Quoting: EKRboi"we need more AAA games no matter what people in our comments think about them, as they help sell it to the people that the general public will be taking at their word"

Agreed. No one is going to buy a steam machines for AAA games when they can already play those AAA games on windows (with steam big picture mode) with better performance. I know Valve thinks exclusives are evil, but they are a necessary evil. I think Linus said it best,"This is a different market. Your noble philosophy isn't going to sell consoles."

IMO, this whole steam machine thing is DOA for now. Even as a Linux users, I would tell people to get an Alpha instead of a steam machine.

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Quoting: Beamboom

Quoting: TheBossI think people put too much power in the term "release". If it's available to purchase with real world money, and to download and play then it's released.

... and this is why they should stop selling pre-releases..

I rather they not stop early access just because some people are butthurt about the performance or glitches in a game that's meant for testing. Don't like them? Don't buy them. The rest of us is fine with it. Without early access, PC gaming wouldn't have gotten great games like Wasteland 2, Divinity: Original Sin, and Prison Architect.

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I won't believe anything until I hear an official source. A bias moderator doesn't count.

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