Sweet, hop to it! I bought all three figuring the third one would get Linux support soon enough. Which brings up... when is the Galaxy app going to be available for us Penguin lovers?

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Eye of the Beholder 1 and 2 came out for the Amiga, the third did not. Though from reviews I've read, the third wasn't all that good.

Most of the gold-box versions probably look better with the Amiga version over these DOS versions as well.

Sadly the one out of this group I'd REALLY love is Dungeon Hack. think Dungeon Master/EOB meets Net Hack, I believe I still have a save game on my computer of a character I had live, but I couldn't find the stairs to the next level, even after checking every square on the map for a secret door.

By the way, the Adventures Unlimited game is basically an early version of Neverwinter Nights (Read that as basically an 'engine' for creating your own games) and there are (last I looked) a large database of adventures created with it.

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Been looking forward to this port for a while! I still need to beat the first one, but it was enjoyable with the amount that I played of it.

As far as Shadow of Mordor goes, I completed the game from start to finish on Linux (even did almost 100% of the quests, just need to finish off a few of the outcast rescues).

Only 'bug' I think I found is that the cut scenes for the outcast rescues I think may have been cut short, but I'm not sure. They would start to pan around and show a captive tied up, and some would have some dialog that'd start, but then it'd cut short and start the mission. Is this a bug, or just some random dialog the Orcs usually have?

Ha, I never could run it smoothly on Ultra though, granted I only have a 4GB 980GTX, and was running it in 2560x1080.

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I know this is going off topic for a game release, but figured I'd join in with the 'wtf, AMD?' I'm not really a big fan of either platform, my last build was AMD/nVidia because I use Linux 99% of the time, with the occasional boot into Windows for some games. But the AMD CPU/Chipsets have always been problematic for me, and this will be my last one, I'm done after the bull crap of last night. Not to mention having to do kernel arguments to work around some firmware bugs for IOMMU support, and my Roccat Tyon mouse causes boot loops if I don't unplug it before the kernel loads (it gives 'smpboot: do_boot_cpu failed (-1) to wakeup CPU#1-CPU#8), and then USB devices in general are more flaky than they should be, and my SSD drives have had weird random lockups, and then the BIOS decides to redefine which boot order they're in...

So yeah I'm done and will be upgrading as soon as I can get a i7-6700k CPU (some asshole is trying to sell one for 5200 USD on Amazon, http://www.amazon.com/Intel-Boxed-I7-6700K-Processor-BX80662I76700K/dp/B012M8LXQW/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1439832631&sr=8-2&keywords=i7-6700k )

Sorry, back on topic. DiRT Showdown looks pretty cool, I've had it for a long time, but haven't ever played it (because you know, rebooting into windows, blech). I'll give it a try with my Logitech G27 and let everyone know how it goes.

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I wonder how Witcher 1 performs. I've been trying to get it to work correctly (there is a fix out there for the transparent people, but the shadows still look off, well that and I couldn't figure out how to get my save game from my windows machine to be recognized under the version running under Wine.)

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I bought it again through Humble bundle to show support, I think I even initially bought two copies (one for me and one for my brother who told me about the game) but now it's on Linux I can actually play it.

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Now he needs to port it to the Amiga... After all, it was it's birthday.

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I don't know... what's worse, a game that is randomly creating a boss that is a pain to beat? Or a game like Dark Souls 1/2 and Bloodborne, that are just a pain in the ass on purpose. I still can't kill that first big hairy beast in Bloodborne, and there isn't any weapon / armor upgrades I can get beyond what I have, so I'm stuck constantly trying to defeat the Cleric Beast.

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It's Skyrim.

Just had to throw that out there. :D

Can I just state that I really dislike it when the sequels are released for Linux, but the first one is not? If it's KOTOR 2, we'd have that, and Witcher 2 (eventually Witcher 3) etc. Starting to remind me of the 90s, where the Atari ST and 8-Bits had Phantasie 1-3, but the Amiga only got 1 and 3.

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I bought Alien Isolation when it was on sale before I'd heard they were porting it, which now means I have to wait to play it ON Linux. So hurry up and release it already :D

Same thing was with ARK, ended up stopping playing it on Windows so I could play it on Linux. But then of course Satellite Reign's beta was released, so I've been playing that much more than any other game.

I'm just excited that so many games are being released for Linux, and I really appreciate the devs who release them simultaneously instead of releasing their game, then farming out to porting houses which have to then port and probably fix a bunch of bugs as well.

Of course this also brings up that some ports (not because of the porting house, just because of APIs used in the original) are sometimes not as good. An example would be Borderlands 2, which doesn't have the PhysX (or which ever physics API they use, can't recall) in it, so liquids and particles don't look as good.

Sorry, back to topic, the real questions here are A) If they're porting Alien: Isolation to Linux, is it going to have all the graphical frills of the Windows version, and B) is it going to support SteamVR, because that would be absolutely amazing.

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