Quoting: Bumadar...its pretty clear that the whole Steam thing has slowed Wine down on some fronts.

It's not clear to me. :) What do you mean?

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Right up my alley.

@Liam: I'm pretty sure I've seen that kind of fourth-wall-breaking, genre-mocking humour in several adventure games at least since the early nineties. A few choice moments in Monkey Island and Simon the Sorcerer spring to mind.

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I played a lot of platformers on the Amiga, but I don't think I ever even heard of this one. It does look like an Amiga game. Has a certain Superfrog/James Pond vibe to it. And that is a good thing in my book.

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Always the same discussion under every article to do with Wine... Wine is bad; no it's good; to dual-boot or not to dual-boot, that is the conundrum. No-one has said anything original on the subject in what seems like years, and it all has so precious little to do with the topic of the article. The word "wine" is such a trigger around here.

Okay, got that off my chest. Rant done. Caffeine depleted, need a refill.

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Silly Liam, you're going to feel like a right idiot when all kinds of interesting stuff happens in the next two weeks and you've already gone and written this review as if the year's done and dusted.

Quoting: tmtvlNo mention of Tyranny?

Check again.

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Developers: If you've got a game that just doesn't sell anymore, open-sourcing it is the only way to go. There's no downside.

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Quoting: Guppychanging pages causes the url to change and a new page to load.

The problem is that the page is identical,

That's what happened for me as well on Firefox. Can't test if it's fixed as I clean up notifications as soon as I've seen them.

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Quoting: etonbears@tuubi : Oh dear, I sincerely apologize that my comment seems to have upset or angered you. I do not comment very often, and generally try to keep my tone as neutral as possible to avoid giving offence, but I have clearly failed on this occasion.

But I was not upset, angry or offended. I just rather bluntly (sorry about that, too sleep-deprived for diplomacy) expressed my opinion that your rant came from the gut, not the head. There's a lot of feeling and no real attempt at rational justification. Nothing but vague, nostalgic tales of bygone times when every game was golden and crap was yet to be invented.

Speaking of those times, I for one seem to remember a lot of shitty games from the eighties and nineties with simplistic, half-baked or recycled gameplay wrapped in the thinnest veneer of content. Every platform had their share. Some obvious mass-market franchise cash-grabs as well, as soon as the market was there. No DLC, but that's only because there was no way for us gamers to actually DL that C, and what passed for DRM was printed in the game manual or inside the cassette cover. Sure there were many great games as well, but those still pop up at a healthy pace. It's simply unfair to compare the worst of today to the best of the past.

Tabletop and pen-and-paper gaming have very little to do with the discussion, as both genres obviously still survive and thrive in their own little niches.

I think it's silly to condemn the fact that it's easier to produce and market a game than it used to be, or to insist that we're all somehow forced to personally suffer through every single piece of shovelware out there. Surprisingly little of consequence has changed for the worse, and quite a lot for the better. Just my humble enlightened opinion of course. No offense intended. Apologies available upon request.

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: tuubiAre you sure it's actually an adventure game and not another sandbox?

I have no idea since I haven't played it, going by what they call it until i get that chance.

Fair enough. Certainly looks and sounds like a sandbox.

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@etonbears: That's some premium snobbery right there. There's so much of it, I couldn't decide which part of the misguided wall of tears I should quote. Games are easier to produce and release now, but that goes equally for those developers with "passion" or "integrity". There are tons of modern examples out there of lovingly produced games with niche appeal, and no evidence of mainstream cash-grabbing. But again, well done on the "nothing's as good as it was in the olden days" spiel.

To everyone whining about having to sift through the crap or wade through junk, what is actually a load of bullshit is that complaint. Why would you need to do that when sites like GOL do it for you? It's a pretty minuscule chance that you personally find a gem nobody else has already happened to find and review for your convenience. I certainly never need to spend time combing through Steam's catalog to find something worth playing. I leave that to GOL's editors (and the internet in general; these games aren't Linux-exclusive).

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