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Quoting: CybaCowboyIt'd be a shame if they don't though, because these games look very similar to the "Heroes of Might and Magic" series.

Age of Wonders III is the closest we will get to Heroes of Might & Magic on Linux, bar Heroes of Might & Magic III on Linux by Loki.

Or VCMI and FHeroes2 along with the GOG releases if anyone wants to avoid a huge headache and a truckload of problems with old libs and/or play the HoMM3 extensions, but yeah, so far it's the only contender.

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Quoting: KeizgonI would love to play a good game with cartoony-cel shaded art. I been looking though, and it seems that its mostly Japanese developers (who don't care much for Linux, or in Nintendo's case, PC entirely) who even make such things. If you played something like this that's for Linux, I would love to know! :)

Borderlands indeed. Tiny and Big, too.

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Quoting: pd12yay!

too bad i read the steam reviews and didn't buy it when it was on major sale ...
i thought it wouldn't be updated xD

1. Don't trust Steam users.
2. Don't trust Steam users.
Seriously though, Starbound has received tons of undue flak from complete morons who don't want to acknowledge a game that has been receiving DAILY updates for MONTHS is pretty much NOT abandoned. Their unwillingness to try the nightlies every now and then doesn't prove them right. Quite the contrary, in fact. Simply proves they're morons.

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My favorite thriller story is Dantec's "Les Racines du Mal" (The Roots of Evil), by far. The most mindblowing cyber-noir ever written, putting even Gibson to shame.
And as far as scary gaming moments go, I definitely had the hardest time with Thief 3's Shalebridge Cradle. I barely blinked while playing Amnesia and Penumbra, but the ambiance in the Cradle is unlike anything else.
Anyway, is Fahrenheit as borked as the reviews say? I've been wondering for a few years now.

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To each his own, I guess, I quite enjoyed the first one. It wasn't Game of the Century material, but well...

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http://steamcommunity.com/app/281130/discussions/0/35222218744440251/#c611696927907686668 [External Link]

And Raven's Cry is more than probably a shitty game. No review copies sent before launch day? Gotta be a fool to not know what THAT means.

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Wasn't there a native port done by Runesoft waaaaaay back then? Is it the same or a RE-port? :p

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Quoting: EikeI wouldn't have written this plea if I wouldn't have met these other Linuxers...

And I have mostly met douchebags. Mostly (fortunately). I was simply saying that the old description of Linux users as tech-savvy is really, really outdated these days, thanks to Ubuntu mainly. Is it good or bad? Don't know, don't care all that much. It's just a state of things that's best taken into account. :)

The main point of this example is not "financially", but "emotionally". I didn't have a second look at this game, it's not my cup of tea. I'm not to judge if it's worth selling more than a thousand copies. But if some of us make Linux support emotionally draining - and some obviously do - this should end. Which reminds me of the example I forgot and which would have been much better for the emotional/politeness part: The Stanley Parable.

Now we're talking. Which also relates to my "wholly other" view on the Linux community hereabove. Again, I wasn't saying you aren't right. Just pointing the fact you had taken a very bad example to begin with. ;)

There are, and we shouldn't buy and shouldn't praise them.

Which isn't stated in the article. That one was more of a pointer for your next submission, which you're free to take into account or not. :D

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Quoting: HamishI do feel I need to intercede here with respect to one point, as I am more than a little concerned at the implication being expressed here by some that Linux deviancy from the norm is something that needs to be rooted out and stifled in order for acceptance by a mainstream majority. If such a view is to be taken then I could not help but feel that the existence of Linux gaming as a whole would then become utterly pointless, as by accepting one marriage of convenience we might as well all just become betrothed to the greatest of them all, namely restricting ourselves to playing our game titles on Windows or one of the larger established Console platforms.

Even then... What happens when a SteamOS gamer messes with their Pulseaudio settings, with evdev, with custom rules or whatever? It's even worse than that: it's basically saying "SteamOS means SteamOS where you haven't even added a DE or modified anything. Oh, you did? Welp, there goes your support".
I'd like to see THAT happen with Windows gamers. We'd be in for one hell of a laugh.

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Again, I'm not asking you to give up your customer rights. I'm asking you to do what Linux gamers are expected to do well; be tech-savy, friendly people who help each other.

Erm... Nope. Or we haven't been seeing the same Linux users. Seriously. A good half of them are so noobish they couldn't understand a bash script to save their sorry hide (and that's unfortunately mainly Ubuntu users, a good part of whom do NOT want to learn anything). A great many others are anything but friendly. GOL community != Linux users on the whole. Unfortunately.

There's been some bad news about Linux games lately like Super Win the Game which sold only fifty copies for Linux and hasn't been worth the cost, "financially and emotionally", to support the platform.

And about what? 700 for Windows? Please. That wasn't bad news about Linux games, that was a massive f*ckup by a dev who wanted to go all Ubisoft on the people who could get the word out, and thought it was a good idea to put a price on his game that was (and still is) about three times too high. Look at it this way: should I buy DeadCore or Super Win? Welp. Should I buy Ziggurat or Super Win? Oh. Should I buy the whole Electronic Super Joy mega-insane-bundle or Super Win? You don't release this kind of game on Steam for such a price and pull such pranks on your "reviewers" then complain you don't sell. It's called common sense.

Not saying I don't agree with most of your points, Eike, but this kind of things just don't sound right. I already buy most of my games on full price (although I'm on a tight budget, so some of them still have to wait for the famed Steam sales). I try to be nice with the devs - unless they're Double Fine or some other kind of as***le. I file bug reports. But...

The best customer is the one who delivers his money, writes a review, adds to a big "Thank you!" thread and is never to be heard of again.

Nope. The best customer is the one who delivers his money, writes a review, adds a big "thank you" if he feels like it (which usually means his review was positive. There ARE such things as bad games, even on Steam. Why should we thank anyone for giving us a turd or a Wine "port", pray tell? O_o), files bug reports where they're needed, does not complain unless he has REASON to (see: Derrick the Deathfin, its controllers woes and not-too-reactive devs or Spoiler Alert, aka The Phantom Game), and above all SPREADS the word - thus IS heard of again, be it in other places or in the review pages, chats etc. of Steam.

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