so basically another developer that went casual to earn their bucks in the mobile/tablet market. its a shame how games dumb down more and more to make them cross platform compatible (not that serious sam was a complicated concept to begin with, but this is just another level)

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:/ disappointing. but i bet most people wont care (which is just as disappointing)

btw

It's interesting as we can see that for Unity based games, Ubuntu and Linux Mint are top of the Linux distribution food chain

you make that sound like its something unexpected? :)

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i have bought CK 2 when it was on some steam sale and beeing one of the guys that spend too much time on the Medieval: Total War tactical map and wished it was more complex - what can i say.. it became the most played game for me in the last year or so. Tho i must admit i cannot force myself not to just save/load cheat when something really goes wrong and it kinda kills the gaming experience. if i had anything to criticise at this game then it would be how the forgiving save system kills the immersion :P

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and heres the answer i got

Quoting: fleabittenIt's still on the list of "things we want to do" but we've got no idea when.
There's an insane amount of work to do that's higher priority and by remaining part-time, the number of hours we can spend developing drops a whole lot -- that's why we took a shot at Kickstarter in the first place ;)

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Quoting: JIghtuseI'm disappointed. Talking that DRM-free is nothing on Linux gaming site is really strange.

i'm with you at this one. a week ago or so i was asking in some news if we really should treat steam like the holy grail and to my surprise saw dirt beeing thrown in my direction. maybe its related to why one switched to linux in the first place. for me it was never about the money i have to spend on a windows license, it was about beeing disgusted with all those DRM platforms: GfWl breaking my games when suspended, Steam beeing heavy on my netbook performance, UPlay installation just because of the 1 Ubisoft game i own..
What these Platforms effectivly do in my eyes is turning my PC into a console - i trade the last freedom of software i have for more convenience. personally i dont care much about open source in games at all, but what is really important for me is beeing able to play the game without some 3rd party software requirement - DRM free.

And when i see people easily willing to trade in their software freedom for convenience i really wonder why they switched from windows in the first place, as in my eyes gnu/linux was the attempt to regain freedom of software to begin with.

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not even the old Xbox360 controller is really working for me, with the default xpad driver it isnt recognized at all and when using xboxdrv it detects a 'harmonix drum kit for xbox 360'
the only thing really working is steam big picture mode controller setup, after using that i can atleast play steam games correctly.

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no idea if purely narrative games are what i like, but ill certainly watch out for this

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Quoting: srlsboyIt runs good.

My favorite part is when you shoot a Goliath in the
head, thus turning him into a Raging Goliath. And the
midget goliaths are hilarious!

you should hide when they enrage and let them level up by wreaking havoc on their former friends. its hilarious how their final forms at level 6 are named "Fatal GOD-liath" or "Giant Midget of Death" :D

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i think we wont find a consens there, as i disagree with almost all you just said and any quarrel would be pointless. one thing tho:

FOSS drivers are also just fine for gaming

no idea what it is that you consider "fine" but if performance in fps values matter anything to you then - no, just no.

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Quoting: FutureSuture]What is your take on AMD's open source driver efforts, then? You did not mention them.

to me it looks like the sole reason why they support the foss driver is to save money on developer deployment for their proprietary. unless you really care about open source in every part of your system the support of noveau by nvidia wont even matter to you, because their binary covers all your needs. i bet what most gamers are looking at is plain stability+performance, and from that perspective it simple looks like this: AMD - 2 mediocre drivers, Nvidia - 1 good driver.

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