As long as it doesn't cost too much I might end up buying it. There is nothing wrong with violent video games. What is wrong is real violence.

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Quoting: morbiusWhy did they bother porting that garbage?

Are you saying that based on its gameplay quality or because you disagree with it?

44 on Metacritic. Garbage.

Metacritic is shit, and it doesn't reflect anything properly. I bet people are downvoting it cause of the brutality. I heard that game merchanics are okay, but game can be pretty challenging and in game physics are pretty damn impressive.

There are games out there that are a lot more brutal.

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I've played this with Oculus Rift.

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Another problem is the cultural clash. Game developers make money from selling their proprietary software (even if sometimes indirectly), and as such are inherently incompatible with FOSS goals. The effect of this is two-fold: not only the likelihood of the developers’ prior experience with Linux is smaller than what would be expected from an average user, but this operating system is built on the principles that are contrary to and sometimes outright incompatible with their modus operandi, which presents them with unique challenges not encountered on other (proprietary) gaming platforms.

To add insult to the injury, Linux gaming community abounds in radically minded folks, who often are not willing to bridge that cultural gap - in spite of Linux gamers themselves being an eclectic minority within the larger, and even more radical, Linux community. It is curious how people could hold seemingly incompatible beliefs at once, both despising the closed source software and demanding its authors to support it on more FOSS platforms (yes, there are people who attempt to run Steam on gNewSense).

I certainly hope that this isn't how many developers of games sees it. Yes, Linux started out as FOSS, but these days there are mostly Linux OS that are FOSS + closed source, meaning they easily offer installation of closed source software, codecs and such (many major distributions).

The core of Linux is still FOSS, meaning the critical components. That doesn't mean that you can't install closed source or libraries on top.

Personally I have no problems with closed source or proprietary software and packages that doesn't interfere with my core system.

If you are a gamer, be friendly to developers who are not doing this for profit and can be sometimes bitter about their experience. Also, when trying to reach out to devs for the help, keep in mind that players usually outnumber the developers by several orders of magnitude.

Yes, I totally agree with this, as long as were only talking about the attitude. I still reserve the right to criticize when they say things that are not true about Linux.

Right now the best thing you can do for Linux gaming is switching to SteamOS for your gaming purposes

I can run it as a secondary OS besides my normal Linux box, but I won't use a beta as main OS on my desktop.

Overall interesting article, thanks!

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Cool, maybe I will buy this so my brother's children can play them. :)

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Things are working great for me now. No textures missing, but I do get some FPS drops, but that's okay for now (it's not so bad).

It could possible be my CPU getting a bit old though.

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We have ARK: Survival Evolved where the devs constantly release new builds for Linux. :)

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Let me ask you guys a question. Do you go from your country, with one culture to another country and expect the culture to be the same?

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Yay, cheers! :)

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Quoting: BillNyeTheBlackGuyNice. IMO, KoToR II was the better than the first game, even without the fan fixes. I hope we get to see some other obsidian titles come to linux, such as Neverwinter Nights 2 and Fallout New Vegas.

NWN 2 runs perfectly in WINE.

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So now we have the two major engines in the industry officially supporting Linux. This is a win no matter how you look at it! :D

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