Quoting: ShmerlAAA is too ambiguous of a term. Some simply mean big budget games by it, and not all big budget games are made by backwards thinking legacy publishers. Some are made by quite innovative and forward thinking ones, who are interested in Linux too. And in my experience, big budget doesn't necessarily guarantee artistic quality, especially if mass market is the target. Personally I'm interested in more good games, and whether they are big or small budget is really secondary for me. I acknowledge though, that perception of art is to a degree subjective, and good can mean different things for different people.

The hipster is strong in this one. :)

Seriously, I love a good indie title, but if you play a game like Mad Max or Tomb Raider, you'll see where all those millions went. There's just tons and tons of highly polished content, from graphics and animation to audio design, made by large teams of professional artists. The mass market focus and the sometimes glaringly Hollywood-style writing-by-committee (sorry, Ms. Pratchett) does not stop them from being astoundingly beautiful and simply hours and hours of great fun.

Of course this is all subjective but assuming a game must be "less good" if it's "mainstream" is just silly. Or at least the assumption part of it is silly. Nothing wrong with informed opinion of course.

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Despite what Liam says in the article, honestly it looks like a prettier, less blocky, more complex, still blatantly obvious Minecraft clone/tribute. But that's not a bad thing. Minecraft is still extremely popular and I'm sure there are a lot of ways to improve on the formula. IMHO Microsoft's track record with improving stuff has been less than stellar lately, so someone else has to do it.

EDIT: This genre is not my cup of tea at all so I could very well have missed something that makes this game unique.

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Quoting: PhiladelphusAlso, are the graphs truncating things to show only ten options? In the first graph of Linux Distributions (Combined) things like SteamOS and Slackware show up, but are absent from the Linux Distributions (Split) graph. I can see this being a stylistic choice (for instance if there are several dozen distributions with only a few users each), I'm just curious if it's intentional.

I think there used to be a combined "others" entry in these cases, or was this only discussed in comments somewhere? Anyway, under the graphs there's a "Click for full statistics" thingy you can click to see the rest.

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Quoting: EhvisSo Mad Max counts as 2016, since the Linux version released in 2016. Right?

Yeah it was a good question, it's released for LINUX during 2016.

Mad Max nominations have already been accepted into several categories. Consider your question answered.

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Quoting: EikeOf 15 "silver" games:
* all available for Windows
* 9 available for Mac
* 8 available for Linux

(It seems to be more like a top 97 by the way, if I'm able to count.)

You seem to be missing some of them, maybe due to your location. I see 16 games in the silver tier, 9 of which are available for Linux. Payday 2 not showing for you maybe?

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Quoting: tuubiYeah I think they were already on sale. Valve's being a bit confusing once again.

Valve's not being confusing for people who can read. It's pretty clear in huge letters on the store frontpage
"TOP-SELLING GAMES
Last chance to get great deals on the best sellers from this Steam Winter Sale".

Seems to have confused some and I doubt they're illiterate. Also we're not talking about the store front page.

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Yeah I think they were already on sale. Valve's being a bit confusing once again.

What I find really cool is that in the top three tiers (silver to platinum) for every game that supports Mac but not Linux there's a game that supports Linux but not Mac. The percentage of games supporting Linux is huge compared to the percentage of actual gamers on Linux. Bodes well for the future of the platform I think.

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Quoting: oldrocker99It's not only New Year, but also my 45th wedding anniversary! And my wife :wub: lets me play games :D !

Congratulations on having a cool wife! :)

Quoting: oldrocker99A very happy New Year from an old (and I mean old) rocker to all!

Keep on rockin' good man!

One thing I love about this community is that we aren't fussy about irrelevant details like age or sex or nationality. As long as you like games and are vaguely penguin-shaped, or even just a part-time penguin, you are welcome. <3

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Happy 2017! Sadly no rum for me tonight. I could really go for a swig of good old Matusalem [External Link] right about now.

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Thanks guys. My impression of the Metro games seems to have been a bit off. I've already exhausted (and exceeded) my Winter Sale budget, but I will get the bundle in the next sale. :)

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Quoting: omer666

Quoting: tuubiThe Metro games proclaim "full controller support" so I assume it's not all hardcore twitch action, but how's the difficulty? Can I expect to enjoy the story even if I'm not that keen on (or very good at) FPS action?

It can range from really easy to hardcore crazy depending on your difficulty settings.

Ah, so there's an easy difficulty level available. Good enough for me. Thanks.

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