Quoting: MagamoThere is also slow work on a demo environment. I'd recommend having a look through their forums. Also, there's a LOT of game mechanics differences between Morrowind and Skyrim/Skywind. Skywind also is taking a lot of liberties with their assets, it doesn't feel to me as though it will be anywhere near the same game to me. Also: OpenMW runs on Linux. Skyrim does not.

wine runs skyrim native dx9... performs like a champ so....

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Actually to take an MMO that had crafting done right was the original GW where it was about prestige as all armor maxed out really soon and it was all about looks... then if you want to spend your life farming mats through monsters or god forbid mining have at it.

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Quoting: Kels

Quoting: Xzyl

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Quoting: XzylResource gather because Minecraft that's why. Craft armor and weapons because Minecraft that's why.

Those things were in WoW and other games years before Minecraft existed.

And those things were in warcraft before WoW ruined warcraft. I just think the popularity of Minecraft has made it so that even if a game wasn't to include crafting it's almost obligatory now to do so.

Maybe it was, but we're talking about MMOs. WoW is the one I'm familiar with but they weren't and still aren't unique in that regard. I doubt Minecraft has much to do with its inclusion here.

My first MMO was EQ (way back in 98 if I remember right just to show my age), that game was magic and best part is the majority of the audience wasn't <15.

edit @ neowiz, yeah there were quests in games where you could make things by collecting things but it wasn't as integral and that's the point.

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Quoting: TheBossI had, and still have very little idea of what I'm doing. Like I said before though, you can focus on whatever you want, combat included. Combat has a whole section the the Destiny Board (fame levelling up). The only way to be able to use higher level combat equipment is to fight.

Put it this way, I've chosen now to be a bowman, and to get access to a Tier 3 bow I need to kill a certain amount of mobs with my tier 2 bow, but while killing a lot of mobs you can then harvest them (like fox hide's). You can then craft the hides into leather when you're back in a town, and this then levels up something else entirely for you.

It's a big game, lots of stuff to do, give it a chance ;)

I still may play it it did look fun to a point (trying to justify spending even more at the moment when Christmas is eating my wallet like it's a snack cracker). So much hoof beats though! On a side note Liam, I enjoyed your stream especially the way you would hit a wall and ask and get random almost useful responses. Thanks for the cast.

Quoting: Kels

Quoting: XzylResource gather because Minecraft that's why. Craft armor and weapons because Minecraft that's why.

Those things were in WoW and other games years before Minecraft existed.

And those things were in warcraft before WoW ruined warcraft. I just think the popularity of Minecraft has made it so that even if a game wasn't to include crafting it's almost obligatory now to do so.

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Quoting: BeamboomThere was a time when PC gamers complained about games being console ports. Today we have to live with friggin mobile phone ports.

That's very funny, and sadly incredibly true.

I watched Liam play and my impression was this....

Resource gather because Minecraft that's why. Craft armor and weapons because Minecraft that's why. Listen to horse hoof beat sound over and over fight once in a while to gain proficiency as a fighter.

I so want a good MMO but seriously enough with the crafting it was awful enough when EQ2 and GW2 decided that crafting should be a main focus of character development, not every game needs crafting it's what smiths and armors are for and most towns had one or two not 100% of the populous was a God damn smith. If I wanted to craft I would play a @!#!@# crafting game.

If I ain't out slaying I'm not playing.

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Quoting: Xpanderstill better than nothing, hopefully more games benefit than only those on the picture

I honestly think it's per-game optimizations, which makes me wonder why the heck they haven't focused on some of the new bigger releases, like Alien and Mordor?

Probably those optimization/profiles were done some time ago in the driver development for the release and that's the slide they have probably leaving those 2 games out in the cold. Just a guess. There are probably other reasons as well, however if I had to guess that is just a small bone being thrown out.

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However I don't think this is really anything to be excited about. Take the 112% bioshock... that's ~4+ fps higher at 40 and ~7+fps at 60... I wish this game didn't make me seasick I would love to finish it but it played alright (not great) on catalyst ~55FPS last time I tried so I guess every little bit helps. As far as the >100% metric, it was actually tech sites that made it popular as it exaggerates a couple of FPS to make cards look further apart, so it's kinda silly to call out AMD over using the metric.

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Quoting: mr-eggIm starting to think this steamOS thing was designed to lure devs into just the Linux ecosystem and long term there not actually too bothered about it other than being an additional 'feature' to their software suite.

fine by me. it gets hardware &amp; software houses developing more for Linux, at some point the Linux desktop will probably really take off ( especially in India, Russia / china ) and combined with Microsoft bizarre stop the desktop being a desktop philosophy, I wouldn’t be too surprised if the whole concept was a trojan horse of sorts to move more users over easier.

Valve are essentially providing the chicken..

In case you guys missed it in another thread the whole "Linux initiative" by Valve was in response to the Windows store, that since has blown over so they no longer throw their weight into it but just keep prodding it enough to keep Microsoft from double crossing the largest game distributor.

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I just want to point out that AMD users can play DX9 games at blistering speeds and it keeps wine usage up especially when porters ignore anything but nVidia.

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Quoting: HolzhausI'd like to see a category "best port quality/3D performance".

This, other than just fan favorites like last year there was some seriously flawless ports that no one seemed to care about but played amazing. Obviously Nvidia only games don't get into this category.

Edit ^ yeah that above post about genre is also a decent idea.

IReally just try to cover the landscape in a fair way, obviously NVidia only games while good for you guys who love supporting that evil company don't deserve to be #1 because of compatibility reasons but if you wanted a team snot only category I wouldn't mind that at all.

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Dr.McCoy, forgive me, crocodiles?

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