Quoting: wvstolzing

Quoting: MohandevirNot against that idea if it helps AAA studios to consider à Linux release.

Me neither; though one thing to keep in mind is that without almost complete feature & performance parity with windoze, Linux-only sales would end up generating quite a bit of resentment. Nowadays, Windows licences are nowhere as expensive as they used to be; if you're a student (at least in the US), they push the damn thing on you for free anyhow (that's how I got my several perpetual [not tied to student status; valid after graduation] licenses); and people getting their windoze pcs pre-built don't even realize that they're paying for the OEM license -- that being the case, being platform-locked *on the same hardware* that could run *the same game* better at little to no extra cost would be perceived as a pretty unfair deal, by someone who isn't already a Linux user/supporter for gaming-independent reasons.

Yep! That's why I wrote IF. Sometimes, consequences are hard to predict.

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Quoting: sbolokanovA version for each platform. Purchased separately.

Not against that idea if it helps AAA studios to consider à Linux release.

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Quoting: sbolokanov

Quoting: MohandevirProbably. I wasn't serious at all as all of us should be. Afterall, it's just gaming.

Yeah, yeah. I know.

But one can't say that we don't want to. Though I'm pretty sure that I wouldn't buy a Witcher 3 port, just out of boycott.

Got no problem with that, your motives are your own, but when compared to all the games I played exclusively on Linux/SteamOS, since 2012, The Witcher 3 is the best game I ever played, by far. Just sad that I had to reinstall a Win7 drive to play it. Thing is, after having played my preferred games a couple of times each, and since I'm using my computer mainly for gaming, my rig was beginning to collect dust, at this point. I really like Shadow of Mordor, Mad Max, Deus Ex Mankind Divided, The Metros and Bioshock Infinite but at some point, it's not enough anymore.

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Quoting: Avehicle7887I highly doubt Skyrim would come to Linux like this. Bethesda and id Software are beer buddies, we'd probably see Doom and Wolfenstein before arrows start hitting the knee.

My Guess is: A game by a company that has already worked with Feral before, take your pick.

ID Software moved away from Linux a while ago. I don't think their interest in Linux is any greater than Bethesda's itself, these days. And Beth's reluctance to release their games on our platform is of a borderline religious nature. Some of their games run pretty well in WINE and probably could be ported with minimal effort, but I think Beth needs a new CEO before they will consider it.

Safer bet lies in Codemasters, 2K Games, Sega, Square Enix and (maybe) Warner Bros. Did I forget other AAA studios? The fact that WB didn't release Shadow of War on Linux and never mentionned it makes me doubt about their futur intentions. Even if Before the Storm seems rock solid, could it be?

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Quoting: sbolokanovDon't be ridiculous, Witcher 3 is long past the point of being made for Linux.

Before the Storm sounds just about right.

Probably. I wasn't serious at all as all of us should be. Afterall, it's just gaming.

This said, Square Enix title is a safe bet. It's probably one of the few AAA studios (besides Valve) that still publish games on Linux. So we have Rise of the Tomb Raider and Before the Storm on the Feral radar.

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Quoting: SamsaiWhy are we even discussing this? It's pretty obvious it's Half-Life 3.

You just cannot claim it's Half Life 3 whithout actual facts... Even if they are distorted just like in my demonstration. It's just plain fun to try and link any annoucements to one game, no matter how plausible it is. :)

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Quoting: qptain NemoOk, so apparently "it's just a shot away" is a line from Rolling Stones's song Gimme Shelter. The lyrics contain the line "Oh, a storm is threat'ning"

Mmmm... Let's see what I can come up with that... The last quest for Act 1 in The Witcher 3 is "Calm before the Storm". "It's just a shot away" from when things starts to get interresting. LoL!

Dreamer! Nothing but a dreamer! :)

Edit:

Just found that:
https://witcher.gamepedia.com/Garibaldi_Hagan,_1224 [External Link]

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Really late on this one...

This:

https://www.amazon.com/illusion-grandeur-legend-invisible-russian/dp/B003V0N7CO [External Link]

Lead me to this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_the_Invisible_City_of_Kitezh_and_the_Maiden_Fevroniya [External Link]

Isn't it similar to what happens with Columbia? Add to this the picture that looks a lot like Father Comstock...

Isn't it giving more weight to the possibility of Bioshock Remastered?

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The Witcher 3. It's probably the best RPG ever. What more to say?! Linux gaming badly needs it. I don't care if they have to remove some features like HairWorks stuff. It would be sad, but it's not the main reason to play the game. It's awesome anyway.

http://www.pcgamer.com/the-witcher-3-outgrossed-some-of-2017s-biggest-games-because-its-just-that-good/ [External Link]

Edit: Typo. HairFX to HairWorks.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: ThorstenFolkers

Quoting: GuestConsidering the insane prices of GPUs right now, I hope the devs have a clear target market in mind, otherwise there might be only a handful of PC customers for this.

We tested on Intel Core i5 and NVIDIA GTX 660 with maximum graphics settings as shown on the screenshots the game runs around 60fps at 1920x1080 resolution.

We will try to get some numbers on GTX 750 Ti aswell.

http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/videocard/ [External Link]

This is good news!

I have A10-7800/660SC in my desktop and i5-3570/1070Ti SC in my Steambox.

1080p@60 is definitely the sweet spot, especially the 60 fps. Burnout 2, 3 and Revenge on the PS2 are still my gold standard for racing games. (Something got lost in Paradise. <-- Haha!)

Glad you are focusing on the CPU threading. That really is what separates the men from the boys with PC games. Looking back, Indianapolis 500 was, graphically, no better than Mario in many respects, but what you could do with those graphics was worlds apart!

Oh... Do you smell it? Windows vs Linux (true native) benchmark incoming! :)

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