Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: Dunc...like Adams's Infocom adventures from the '80s, it's not really all that good.

Correct about Starship Titanic. Incorrect about the Infocom text adventures. They're excellent, that is if you enjoy text adventures. They can be a bit of an acquired taste if you weren't of game-playing age when they were among the best games on the market.

... but I'm not sure Douglas Adams' game was among the better Infocom games. Weren't you supposed to

Spoiler, click me

rescue something like a fly from a dog in the beginning, so you could survive in a miniaturized spaceship attacked by the dog in the end

? This was stupid even by eighties' standards...

By the way, googling for the time I found you can legally play it for free now:

http://www.douglasadams.com/creations/infocomjava.html [External Link] (Doesn't work for me.)
http://iplayif.com [External Link]

And by the way II: There are at least two new (professional) text adventures for Linux, Thaumistry and Hadean Lands.

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Quoting: throghWow, let's celebrate proprietary client-software with saving on someone else's computer! Better building ScummVM from source-code with "free as in freedom" and disabling support for network / cloud. :-)

Steam is the only cloud service I'm using. It's just very useful for me (as I sometimes have to use another computer for gaming) and I consider how far I got into a game (and when) less secret than, say, what I'm posting here. And you can still use the game bought with the ScummVM of your liking and building if you so desire.

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Quoting: UltraVioletWouldn’t be better to have all the games in all the sections?

Thaumistry in Best Audio?
Rocket League in best FOSS project?
Cheeseness in Best Game?

No, seriously: some games qualify among the best in some categories, others don:t. That's what the nomination phase was good for.

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Quoting: DuncWhat you don't mention is that it was written by Douglas Adams.

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Quoting: DuncAll that said, I've heard that, a bit like Adams's Infocom adventures from the '80s, it's not really all that good. But hey... it's still Adams. :woot:

I remember having had sort of a love hate relationship with the game. When seem and heard over and over again, the voices and animation got on my nerves. But I think I played through it.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: BeamboomBah - DRM blablabla - not to start another discussion on that topic but it's a closed binary blob you're putting on your PC. It could contain all the spyware in the world and still be "drm free" should they want to.

DRM and spyware are two different things.

But which one do you consider worse?

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Quoting: Aspyr_BlairWe thought so too. I started chasing these guys at PAX South last year. I literally floated to their tiny booth, staring at the game screen, barely looking down to talk to who would soon be my partners in crime for the next 12 months. Its just that beautiful.

Thanks for the work! I'll have to take a look at some videos to find out what this game is about, I guess. :-)

Did the developers consider Linux and Mac versions already before you "chased" them?

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Crytek has struggled financially (and Star Citizen producers have taken over some of their developers).
But I don't see a reason to wish them anything bad.

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: BeamboomBut... I thought this engine for all practical purposes was dead now? Are there new games released on it nowadays?

A few, apparently [External Link].

I've removed Homefront from the list, and Snow is an "upcoming video game", which leaves... none.

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Quoting: PatolaMe too. Another one for my wishlist. But I tend to buy when there is some sale. Is it safe to buy while it is still sold as "Windows and Mac only"?

Some people report a Linux sale counts even if the game is not officially available for Linux yet, but I'd wait for the icon to appear. Got the additional advantage of people trying it out before you.

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: EikeCompare the overall best title selection for 2016 to the one for 2017. IMHO, it has already happened.

1) You're mixing up the years.

You're right, fixed it in the quote for making my point clearer.

Quoting: liamdaweI get it, we don't get a lot of AAA titles, but what's with all the negativity from people lately? Unless you had crazy wild expectations - we all knew this would take a long time to build up.

I'm still getting more good games than I've time to play (plus my time to play has shrunk dramatically). But when I look at the list of best games for 2016, it looks more impressing to me - especially big production wise - than the one for 2017. I didn't expect a huge explosion (and I'm saying so for years now), but a shrink would be/is still disappointing.

Long time to build up, all fine, but what about a long time to crumble down...?

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