I am a good hunter!

From an early age, I took part in many, many successful hunts for the not-so-elusive Urocitellus richardsonii (Richardson Ground Squirrel AKA gopher). These spectacularly enjoyable hunts are also a great way to increase ones social skills and compare hunting techniques (see ,"sitting on the deck with friends, drinking beer, shooting gophers " for a more in depth explanation).

I have also successfully defended my humble abode against an invasion of several Columba livia domestica (Pigeon) that tried to take up residence in my garage. It was a long fight, but ultimately my opposable thumbs were victorious.

In addition to the above described kills, I have also successfully hunted countless Targetus papyrus (Paper Target). While these do not pose much of a difficulty, it is their sheer number that requires the hunt. I've shot hundreds, if not thousands, and I don't feel like I've really made a dent in the population.

One of the impressive things about these conquests, is that they have all been undertaken with the same weapon: my not-so-trusty Farmers Rifle -1 (crusty old .22 with crooked iron sites).

I am hunter, here me .... uhhhh .... bang!

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I agree with Stupendous Man, the Beamdog content isn't at the same level as the original game. It's not horrible, but it's not that good either.

I'll wait and hear the reviews.

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This raises two questions for me:

Will KOTOR 1 get the same love? They both use the Odyssey engine, so porting 2 should get you a long ways towards having 1 ported.

Will the Linux versions make their way to GOG - I own both there.

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I hope it's free to current owners! I already own the game on GOG, but I've never managed to get it working very well in WINE, so I've not really played it yet.

It kind of goes without saying, I'd love to see it come to Linux!

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According to a comment by one of the Triumph team on this blog [External Link], the Linux version isn't heading to GOG anytime soon:

We’re sorry, but GoG currently just carries the Windows version.
When Galaxy hits this might change.
The issue is managing all the builds with updates in a DRM free environment.

The windows version of Galaxy is currently in Alpha, with the Linux version to follow, so, no time soon for sure.

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Quoting: tuxisagamerI haven't dualbooted since 1998 though I do keep Windows on a Virtual Machine for the 1-2 times a year I have to do something that absolutely requires Windows.

I use Windows at work and Linux at home.

Ditto, although it was 2006 for me when I ditched windows for good. With all of the great Linux games coming out, I'm also working toward quitting wine. I no longer buy games that aren't Linux native. I haven't played a game using wine in months.

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It appears that my definition of Really, really soon differs from Leszek Godlewski's.

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Quoting: GuestWorks nicely on Arch Linux 64 bit, GTX 660, with maximum settings. Alt-tab works in the menues.

Only problems I’ve noticed:
- ~/.mbwarband/ directory instead of ~/.config/mbwarband/
- thinks my keymap is qwerty
- infinite loop at exit, you have to kill the process.

I'm also on Arch 64-bit with nvidia (GTX765M), but I can't get the configuration utility to run. It crashes with a few "wrong ELF class" messages. Did you have to do anything special to get it to run?

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I have both Metro 2033 and Last Light. Metro 2033 works fine with wine, so I've played both. I'm not sure there is enough value in the redux's to bother buying them.

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I'm pretty hopeful of it. Trent Oster has mentioned it in the baldursgate forum several times. Both of the EE games work perfectly with wine, but a native version is always preferred.

I pre-bought both of the EE games - I wonder if I will have to purchase Linux versions, or if we will get them as part of the previous purchase?

The windows version is entirely DRM free. If you purchase it from BeamDog, you need to use the DeamDog client to download the game. The game itself is DRM free to run after that, but you still need the client for updates.

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