Quoting: neowiz73looks real promising, at least it's not using Unity, :P Most of the games in my list I want or like to play are using Unity and each one are having some graphical issues because of similar bugs in Unity.
I haven't seen to many really good hack 'n slash rpgs.

I'm glad Diablo III plays as well as it does in Wine, otherwise I'd probably still have Windows installed, but if I could get a native Linux game that is just as good, I'd be very happy. Even better if it has offline play, because as much as I love Diablo III, it still bothers me somewhat that it depends on my ability to connect to Blizzard's servers.

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The worst part is that the developers aren't even willing to admit that there's a performance issue in the Linux version.

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I bought the last two versions, 15 because it was on sale, and 16 only because they introduced MLB licensing. This version has some nice changes, but apparently the biggest feature -- depicting the movement of players on the field during games -- is still rather rudimentary, so I'll either wait for another sale or wait for them to get the kinks worked out in the next release.

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Awesome. I really don't give a crap about the DLC, but performance improvements and bug fixes are always nice even though the game is running pretty good for me as is.

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I love the look of the game, but "pirate ship deathmatch" just doesn't appeal to me. Is there more to the game, or is that pretty much it? I guess what I really want is an updated version of Sid Meier's Pirates!, or even a port of the one that came out in 2005, because that was pretty great. I should see if I can get that to run in Wine.

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I really like Rune Factory 4 for the Nintendo 3DS, so despite my cynicism I am very much interested in this game. I understand the combat isn't quite as sharp and engaging as Rune Factory 4, but you apparently have a lot more options for customizing your farm in Stardew Valley. However, Rune Factory 4 is going to be hard to beat. It's a really cool hack and slash RPG and a really cool farming/life sim, two disparate genres, yet it excels at both.

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Quoting: TheBoss

Quoting: Mountain Man"Mac/Linux ports are one of my top priorities. I will start looking into it seriously very soon, I promise."

Translation: "Mac/Linux ports aren't my top priority, and I haven't even started looking into it. I make no promises."

If your game isn't coded from the very beginning with Linux and Mac support in mind then it's obviously not a top priority.

Well we should never put too much hope in promises, as too many times they end up not working out.

It doesn't mean it's not a top priority now. As a developer who works on the code behind GOL myself, I have a big list of things to do. Some things have to get done first, so I sympathise a bit especially being one guy like this developer.

I know. I'm just being cynical. It's a bad habit.

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"Mac/Linux ports are one of my top priorities. I will start looking into it seriously very soon, I promise."

Translation: "Mac/Linux ports aren't my top priority, and I haven't even started looking into it. I make no promises."

If your game isn't coded from the very beginning with Linux and Mac support in mind then it's obviously not a top priority.

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Not just AAA titles, we need big players like Blizzard and EA to come aboard. I would especially like to see native Linux builds of Diablo 3, Hearthstone, and Heroes of the Storm. I love what companies like Feral and Aspyr have done, and Valve, of course, but they can't do it all.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: Purple Library GuyBut in that case, you shouldn't be complaining about political correctness...

Of course I can,

Of course you can. Free speech and all, we established that. But just because someone can do something does not mean they are justified in doing it.

because the question was asked with the sole purpose of injecting controversy into something that was otherwise completely non controversial.

"into something that was otherwise completely non controversial" . . . well, if you mean that the interviewer didn't ask any other controversial questions, I suppose that's a true statement, but so what? What would your point be? What kind of belief system sees controversy as inherently evil? Shortly ago you were defending your right to be obnoxious about attacking things you identify as "political correctness" on the basis of free speech. Even if you consider controversial speech inherently annoying or offensive (in which case you're forgetting the whole point behind freedom of speech, which is precisely to preserve controversial, political speech, seen as the important baby for whose sake the bathwater of rudeness, obscenity and so on must be grudgingly kept), your right to complain about it is identical to a controversial speaker's right to indulge in it. Trying to have it both ways is a contradiction.

For that matter, controversial is in the eye of the beholder. Many would consider categorical attacks on political correctness themselves "controversial". In which case you should be on your own case for the sin of controversy, while simultaneously defending yourself as exerciser of free speech.

If on the other hand you mean that the question's topic should not have controversy attached to it--well, no. You're wrong about that, and at a bare minimum a lot of people disagree with you in good faith and have serious reasons for doing so. Including but not limited to some of the things I pointed out before, which you have carefully ignored. Let us assume that you, too, have serious reasons for your stance, beyond just "I hate this topic and wish people would shut up about it" (although I have not seen them). If you have serious reasons for thinking things like all-white-characters are just fine, and other people have serious reasons for thinking they are problematic, then that is a situation that calls for argument, discussion, meeting of minds--not for the people who disagree with you to just stop. Which is to say, it is a controversy--it is controversial--and no amount of pretending it somehow shouldn't be will change the fact.

I guess you've never heard of manufactured controversy.

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