Quoting: arvigeusI am the one who usually rushes to YouTube for every puzzle.

That's me playing adventure games. Well, at least these days. I used to play adventures pretty much since the genre was invented (yes, all the way back to Infocom's stuff). And I never needed walkthroughs. Back in the days, the puzzles could be solved by rational thinking and exploring the scene. A bit of Sherlock Holmes here and Lara Croft there. These days? Apparently many devs feel the need to artificially extend the hours required to complete their games by inventing extremely irrational and extremely obscure puzzles. I am usually proud of my problem solving skills and logical thinking, but I am the first to admit that modern adventures tend to frustrate the hell out of me. When I see a locked door, I am looking for a key. But modern adventures make you open a door by looking for a fishing rod, catch a salmon, and use the salmon to make a Grizzly bear charge into the door and breaking it open, after first going to the zoo and help the bear escape its cage.

And then came Life is Strange. I never needed a guide for that game. Not once. I really, really appreciated a game focusing on good storytelling, not artificially delaying my progress with stupid, irrational puzzles. Other than (most of) the writing, that's the thing that I most liked about the game.

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I absolutely hated the ending (weak, unoriginal and completely predictable are the nicer things I can say about it), but this game is still one of the best adventures ever made. The ending didn't change my opinion about the game. It might have made me decide not to play it again, but that's all. 4 was probably the best episode.

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I usually tend to assume that software like this is the result of Coding Under Influence.

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Stardew Valley has me hooked right now. As in really hooked.

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Quoting: Teal

Quoting: KimyrielleHonestly? It looks like a 12 year old tried to explore game programming in the late 80s and thought it's ok to publish the results. Indie publishing brought us games like Stardew Valley and Prison Architect, and that's a good thing for sure, but for every indie pearl there are 10 other games made by untalented hacks without any design talent whatsoever that makes us wish back for the times when games got quality filtered by professional publishers. Like...this one. Whoever made this joke of a game should put their "talents" to better use. I dunno what. Really anything but making games. Don't worry Liam, it's perfectly ok to call out rubbish games like this one as what they are - rubbish that never should have been published.

Why is it such a problem? You can, just, you know, not play the games you don't like, as it's always been? And don't talk like back in the "good old games" lot of garbage trash didn't get published, because it definitely did. The apparent entitlement to be OFFENDED about every unfinished game that gets released baffles me.

If I didn't completely misread the posting, this is a FINISHED product. I have no problem with Early Access and purchased several unfinished games if I believed in their quality, and backed even more on Kickstarter. What I find borderline offensive is the verve of some people to hack together the gaming equivalent of Hello World and publish it, as if their drivel would somehow deserve to be sold on the same shelf as Civilization, Tomb Raider, Prison Architect or Stardew Valley. Honestly, I would find some more self restraint of (wannabe) developers to be a good thing. And I don't question their right to publish rubbish games, I question their decision to actually make use of the right when they better shouldn't.

I do concede that professional publishers have sold their share of rubbish games too, though. It's really not just an Indie problem. But like with writing, self-publishing has made it a larger problem than it used to be.

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Honestly? It looks like a 12 year old tried to explore game programming in the late 80s and thought it's ok to publish the results. Indie publishing brought us games like Stardew Valley and Prison Architect, and that's a good thing for sure, but for every indie pearl there are 10 other games made by untalented hacks without any design talent whatsoever that makes us wish back for the times when games got quality filtered by professional publishers. Like...this one. Whoever made this joke of a game should put their "talents" to better use. I dunno what. Really anything but making games. Don't worry Liam, it's perfectly ok to call out rubbish games like this one as what they are - rubbish that never should have been published.

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Quoting: jesta

Quoting: minidouany suggestion on MMORPG that runs natively on linux or without much trouble through wine?

I play Star wars the old republic through wine, and as far as I know World of warcraft also runs perfectly through wine. But as far as I know there aren't currently any _good_ mmorpg games that run natively on linux...

Yeah, pretty much this. There is not a single really good MMO natively running on Linux (Runescape probably the closest to that you can get), but people report having success running some of them in Wine. In addition to the two you mentioned, Star Trek Online and Guild Wars 2 run ok in Wine as well (both with minor glitches, but playable).

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Quoting: Tuxee

Quoting: wolfyrionThat was ovious

20 Games Top Sellers, Only 5 Titles to Linux

Games like

DOOM,Rocket League,The Witcher 3,Dark Souls 3,Rise of The Tomb Raider etc

You think anyone who is a Pro GAMER etc,would switch to Linux?

What is a Pro GAMER? And I assume that they (whatever they are) account only for a miniscule amount of the overall Steam player base.

I have no idea what a Pro GAMER is either. Probably the poster was referring to hardcore gamers. And no, these people are not going to switch to Linux anytime soon. Got to admit that.

But I still don't share the poster's gloom. Gaming has not (yet) become a reason to use Linux, but it has stopped being a reason NOT to use Linux. As long as you don't insist on always getting the newest and greatest games right away and can accept tiny performance losses here and and there, there is not (too) much reason to keep Windows around (let's just disregard MMOs for a second). For the time being, that's a fairly good development, given that 3 years ago the number of commercially produced games for Linux was a good approximation to zero.

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I thought we'd be still closer to 1% than 2%. That's great news! Let's just grow exponentially from there? :D

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That might be England's special trait even?

"Cannot join alliances. Has a 15% chance per turn to break every other agreement for no apparent reason."

:p

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