Quoting: dubigrasuInteresting, I suppose it works with any version of the game (Steam/GOG)?

Edit: OK, I found that is better to use the GOG version:

If you don't own Daikatana already, the recommended way to obtain it is on GOG.com, especially when you're not using Windows.

Interesting information, dubibrasu, but recommended by whom exactly? Would you (or anyone else) provide a link to your GoG quote, please. I'm wondering about what the rationale behind the quoted recommendation was. Was it a matter of hardware? DRM conflict? Authorial ethics?

Otherwise, Daikatana sounds like it's easily worth a few bucks, provided the kinks have been worked out. Heck, the fact that Romero opened the source code rather than let the game simply "die." I wish more devs/pubs would do this. Especially with so-called "abandonware."

I'm thinking I'll buy it when the patch is officially released, I"m just not sure from where though.

Thanks in advance! :)

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Overlord! What a perfect way to celebrate upgrading Ubuntu to 16.04.1 !!

Awesome news!

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Thanks for the link Flesk!! While reading it, I came across a link to Jim Sterling's take on insecure elitists. [External Link] I think maybe I'll save the link and post it to developers of permadeath only games. *evil grin.*

Quoting: fleskI took the one-shot-death thing to mean that getting hit once meant you'd have to start just the current level over from the start, but I'm not sure.

Yeah, I can see how it could mean that too. I'll post to the forums at the Steam Community page and see what's what.

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Thanks for the update! And, yes, I am very interested in ICOE:RR. It's been on my wish list since I first ran across it in early May.

It looks like it knows it's a silly game, and that's promising. The premise (such as it is) is delightfully absurd. And it should be. But whatever excuse to sets that raptor on a spaceship, we get to be that's loose on that spaceship --- and that is an intriguing thing to be. ;)

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he has one flaw - he dies in one shot...

Tl;dr: "Looks great, I'll look into it," followed by some whinging about permadeath.

Dying "in one shot" sounds suspiciously like another way of saying "permadeath." I'll look at it more closely, but I'll prolly have to give it a pass. I wish I had the patience required to play permadeath games because there are a lot of cool looking ones out there like this one. But I don't.

If I had any coding ability I'd make "difficulty level / checkpoint" mods for so-called "roguelikes." Games could have various levels of "difficulty" with nothing more than more or less checkpoints built into a given "level" or "mission," "permadeath" being the most difficult level.

Wouldn't the market be expanded for a game that had "permadeath" but also "traditional" play options? Wouldn't it allow "get gud" folks to enjoy the challenge of permadeath, while also allow more casual players to enjoy the game. And while I'm sure there's a elitist sub-market that wouldn't play such a dual difficulty game, I can't believe that such elitists outnumber those who won't buy the game because it is "permadeath" only.

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quote=[kozec @ gitub [External Link]]Allows to setup, configure and use Steam Controller without ever launching Steam[/quote]Without launching Steam, yes, but does one need to manually launch sc-controller each session? Or does this driver (and a default profile?) load at startup so that the SC is automatically detected and available for the desktop?

(It's awesome that this makes the SC available for non-Steam games, or without running Steam, but I'm *really* looking forward to the day I can automatically use my SC on my desktop)

Also, does sc-controller run in tandem with Steam's own driver? I.e., must one disable/stop sc-controller upon starting Steam to avoid conflicts?

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I'm tickled that this is coming to Linux day one. I prolly won't even wait for it to get out of Early Access before buying it.

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Huh. I had this on my wishlist at one time, but I just checked and it looks like I --- or someone who looks exactly like me --- had removed it.

Ok. Fixed!! It's back on.

I'll wait till it's on sale, though. $15 feels a bit steep for a 3-year old beta.

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Hooray!! Half-life mod for Linux!!

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View video on youtube.com

A milestone is a milestone. :D

(P.S. I chose this version of the Hallelujah Chorus because, like Linux, it arises from the people, transformative and miraculous.)

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