My first thought is that AMD are fighting a losing battle on both the CPU and GPU front, being quite clearly second best at both.

I would agree with the GPU side of things (especially on Linux), but with lower-end CPUs AMD clearly trumps Intel.

If you look at the FX-6300 and the i3-4130 (both priced the same), the AMD has a passmark of 6359 while the Intel has just 4816. The FX-8350 has 9024 and the i5-4440 has 6500, despite being newer and more expensive and has roughly the same score as the FX-6300 despite costing nearly twice as much. Really, for gaming AMD is the better choice, and getting the more expensive i5 and i7 CPUs (where Intel performs far better) is complete overkill unless you do heavy video editing, etc.

Even if you get one of the best Intel cards, gaming performance is almost identical to those two AMD cards. The myth that you need an i5 or i7 for gaming is simply untrue, that £70 FX-6300 will give you nearly identical gaming to a £230 i7:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66BiQsOM9_M [External Link]

Hopefully that doesn't come across as fanboy-ism, I have no loyalty to one or the other, just like to spend money wisely.

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Yeah, saw the audio thing a while after my post.

I hipe they add a few more features but still keep the game simple. It's true, it is a bit too simple, but that's what makes it nice to play a bit here and there when you have a bit of time but not enough to dive into a deeper game.

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Started playing this earlier without many expectations, then before I knew it, 3 hours had passed. Really fun and really addictive!

Has anyone managed to get the sound to work?

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Is there a video of the whole presentation somewhere?

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Get Deponia: The Complete Journey or Broken Age instead, they are some of the best point and click adventure games I've seen and they are available for Linux.

I played the Deponia trilogy a good while back and loved it (even wrote an article on this site about it). Broken Age though I hated. Would give my reasons but it would turn into a rant, still love im's work though.

That would be the community run Double Fine Game Club. Think of it as a book club, but for games - we pick a title, play it in our own time, then come together to discuss it on weekends whilst somebody streams in the background. Right now, we're doing Toonstruck, which runs "natively" in ScummVM. We're expecting to have Keith Arem (one of the original developers who now owns the rights to the game and is looking toward raising enthusiasm for a re-release or sequel) joining us this coming weekend.

Toonstruck is definitely in my top 3 adventure games of all time. I was actually heavily involved in a project to make a fan-made sequel to the game before Keith announced the sequel a few years back (which then disappeared). I won't miss that then! Have some questions I want to ask him, so looking forward to that.

Think I'll play The Raven, seems to be the general consensus. Broken Sword series after that.

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They really need to get this right, clean up the codebase etc. If this next version really makes developing more attractive than on DX12 and developers start to favour it, this will be the biggest breakthrough in Linux gaming since the release of the Steam client. Really hoping that DX12 will somehow be the "Windows Vista" of APIs too :P.

The DX11 emulation suggests Valve and others are pretty committed to this happening.

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Quoting: CheesenessIf you're interested in chatting with other players/developers, we'll be doing The Journey Down Chapter 2 for Game Club at some point (probably next month).

What club is this? On SteamLUG? Need to get more involved with that, seems like there's always good things.

(becoming hugely off topic now, sorry)

After all those suggestions, I realised I have BS5 and The Maker's Eden as well... Been buying every adventure game on sale. Played the Deponia trilogy already (and some other Daedailic games through Wine).

Broken Sword is a series (despite being a big adventure fan) which I have never played for some reason. Can you play 5 without having played the others?

Still don't know what to play :P Never thought that there would ever be too many Linux games (or adventure games) to choose from.

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Trying to decide whether to play this, Book of Unwritten Tales or The Raven next. Any suggestions?

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Something tells me there will never be a Source 3...

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Quoting: hardpenguinThe only game you can buy in game store in box version with penguin on the cover :D

That's pretty cool, would be nice to see sega release more games for Linux to see more penguins on boxes. Still not enough for me to get it though, I detest football. Super Monkey Ball 3 on Linux though - that I would buy (if they ever make it).

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