Quoting: mulletdeathI love horror and I love point and click adventure, so surely they'll be good together, right?

We'll there's been plenty of point and click horror games made since the nineties, so why don't you find out. :) You could get started with some of the free ones like Yahtzee's "Chzo Mythos" quadrilogy of adventures, if you don't mind the low resolution.

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Quoting: KimyrielleOther than a few exceptions such as the ones you listed in your post, gender or skin colour almost never matters.

I still think the author should be allowed to choose. In the real world details such as gender, sexuality, ethnicity, age, social status, upbringing and pretty much everything else do influence the way people interact with their peers. You simply must keep them in mind if you're going for a believable character living in a world even slightly resembling our own. You give Tolkien's Frodo as an example, and indeed he's a good one: Hard to find a character that is easier to replace. He is pretty much a blank slate living in an intentionally unrealistic fantasy world. Not bashing the story though, even if it's not one of my favourites.

Now I'm not saying you couldn't replace a significant chunk of all game protagonists as well, but giving the choice to the player would in most cases require at least additional art assets, code and writing. You can't deny that. In any case, let's hope your message reaches the developers and we'll see a bigger percentage of games feature female leads in the future. Wouldn't change my gaming habits, seeing as pretty much half of the games I've bought in the last couple of years already seem to feature heroines instead of heroes.

EDIT: Some inane drivel replaced with other drivel.

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I'd make a great hunter, as nothing on earth would see me as a threat. Who am I kidding, they wouldn't be wrong. I feel bad if I have to kill a fly.

The only thing I "hunt" is bacon, and then proceed to pay the cashier. But I'll beat the crap out of virtual monsters any day.

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Quoting: KimyrielleI think that a good writer can always adapt a given story to a custom character and make it fit regardless of whether the player picks a white guy or a black female.

A tall order, and often an expensive one. Any story-heavy game (the kind I prefer) would need a lot more work. Picking the lead is the prerogative of the author, I'd say, even if they do have a bias. The industry probably still has a rather small percentage of female writers and developers. Not much of an excuse, though.

Quoting: KimyrielleWhat is so off-putting to me is that when devs decide to go with a premade character, 99% of the time it will be a male one. Because apparently even in 2015, women gamers do not exist. At least not in the heads of the devs and publishers, who in this time and age are still reluctant to publish a game featuring a female lead at all.

Sad but true. Personally I fully support game character gender equality, even if I don't share your opinion on the importance of character customization.

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Quoting: BeamboomCan u create your character in this game, and is gender amongst the options?

No, you are Victor Vran. The game is about him.

And that's the only thing that keeps me from buying this game. It looks great otherwise. :S

Might be a bold statement, but I'm 90% sure you'll forget the lack of character creation and gender option if you just give it a chance. It's too good to miss out.

True. One would think you'd miss out on a ton of great games if you absolutely refuse to play anything with a male main character. Just seems a bit weird to skip games based on the sex of the protagonist alone. Not that it's any of my business what you play and what you don't play, I guess. :)

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I want to fly like a bird... because it seems slightly more enjoyable than flying like a refrigerator. And a lot safer. But I definitely don't want to fly like an irate avian (trade mark deftly avoided, phew), as I hear they tend to smash into things and explode a lot.

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Looks fun. Wishlisted for now.

About the Steam runtime and GOG: Does Valve disallow use of the runtime outside Steam? I thought it was just a collection of custom built open source libraries. Can't Haemimont Games simply depend on the runtime in their GOG build or alternatively copy over the needed libraries from the runtime package?

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Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: tuubiBut anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering and so on, young padawan.

You thought I was angry?

Nah, I guess the partial quote didn't quite fit. My point was that we shouldn't be dicks on the internet even if the other person is wrong. You won't get anyone to see the error of their ways by accusing them of stupidity or malice.

But enough about this. We're so far off topic it's not even funny. And I guess I'm starting to sound like a condescending old git. Sorry about that.

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Quoting: Mountain ManI feel it's important to call people like that out, and when they throw a hissy fit over it, well, I can't help but laugh.

Yeah, he was wrong in blaming Linux as a whole for his hardware problems. Baseless bashing gets on my nerves as well. But anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering and so on, young padawan.

It is undeniably true that Linux support for customized laptop hardware as well as other niche components and gadgets is rarely available. Expecially as most (consumer) hardware vendors do not feel any pressure to support Linux themselves. Then again, the same hardware will most likely be unusable in newer Windows versions as well.

Spoiler, click me

A good example is my wife's work laptop from Dell that came preloaded with an old Ubuntu LTS (12.4 or something, can't remember as I immediately swapped in an SSD with the latest Mint). Everything works great except for the integrated webcam. There are simply no working drivers for recent Linux kernels or Windows versions (according to Google). Apparently it works fine with older linux kernels and Windows 7, and that's it. I'm pretty sure the support will be fixed at some point in the open source Linux driver, but according to Dell there will be no drivers for Win 8 or newer.

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Quoting: Mountain ManLooks like I struck a nerve. Exactly as intended.

Your trolling was a success? Have a cookie.

Quoting: Mountain ManSeriously, dude, you're on a Linux site talking trash about Linux. What'd you expect?

He most certainly shouldn't expect conspiracy theories and flaming. This isn't a circle-jerk site for zealots and Tux fetishists, hopefully. We're here for news and discussions on Linux gaming, not on how much better we are than the heretics who are too blind to see the glorious superiority of our preferred OS. This might come as a shock, but your attitude is in no way beneficial to "the cause".

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