I still think VR will be a short-lived novelty for most gamers, like 3D television. I predict that it will always be an overpriced niche product.

Although I must admit that VR and X-Plane 11 looks like a killer combination. But we're still talking a niche application.

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I bought this several months ago because it was on sale for an amazing price and because Bethesda and id were adamant about not bringing it to Linux - my first non-Linux game purchase in several years - and it runs incredibly well in Wine, but I would still love a native Linux build.

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: Mountain ManI was excited until I realized that F1 2015 doesn't support Linux.

Yes, it does, I literally say so in the article.

Interesting, because when I checked out at the Humble store, a big red warning appearing saying, "This title does not work in Linux!"

Or is that only the Humble version?

They've messed up the store for it, since they do list the Linux dev/publisher (Feral) but didn't check it for supporting Linux so it has no icon. I can assure you, Feral did port it to Linux ;)

Fair enough. I am no longer disappointed. :)

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: Mountain ManI was excited until I realized that F1 2015 doesn't support Linux.

Yes, it does, I literally say so in the article.

Interesting, because when I checked out at the Humble store, a big red warning appeared saying, "This title does not work in Linux!"

Or is that only the Humble version?

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I was excited until I realized that F1 2015 doesn't support Linux.

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Quoting: Grifter

Quoting: Mountain ManIn fact, it was BioWare's original intent to sell just the toolset and rely 100% on the community to create the content. They changed this plan at the last minute and threw together the single player campaign because they feared nobody would buy the game otherwise, which is why the campaign is so lackluster

That doesn't sound accurate at all, the original campaign is hardly lackluster, it's huge in scope with a vast array of voice talent and certainly not something just thrown together at the last minute. While waiting for NWN I don't remember at any point when they were going to just release a toolset, from the very beginning they had the campaign in mind and they even wanted it to run on BeOS. If anything was a bit lackluster it was shadows of undrentide, but hordes of the underdark is another massive story like the original campaign. At no point did they fear nobody would buy the game.

I'm pretty certain what I said is accurate. I remember a lot of game journalists at the time questioning whether or not there was really a market for a pure game construction set. Maybe the campaign wasn't a last-minute addition, but it also wasn't the plan to include it when they started development, so it was started relatively late in the development cycle.

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No native editor for Linux makes this a hard sell, because that's the whole point behind Neverwinter Nights. In fact, it was BioWare's original intent to sell just the toolset and rely 100% on the community to create the content. They changed this plan at the last minute and threw together the single player campaign because they feared nobody would buy the game otherwise, which is why the campaign is so lackluster, but it at least served the purpose of showing what was possible with the toolset since BioWare used the toolset exclusively to create it.

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Quoting: elmapullooks like its a scam...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d00I_3THLBQ [External Link]

This smells suspiciously like the infamous Phantom console.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_Entertainment [External Link]

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Quoting: Hamish

Quoting: Mountain ManI don't think the original owners -- George Broussard and Scott Miller -- are even involved with the company any more.

Scott Miller is definitely still involved with the new 3D Realms:

Founder Scott Miller, Manager Bryan Turner, and Community Manager Joe Siegler are all back. The very first employees of 3D Realms!

George Broussard not so much:

George is a very close friend of ours -- he's a huge part of the heart and soul of 3D Realms. George is still connected to us, but isn't active at this time. The door is always open, of course, and we hope to see George back in action in the future!

Source: https://3drealms.com/faq/ [External Link]

Interesting.

Quoting: HamishNice to see Joe Siegler is back as well.

Haven't seen much of him lately. I'm a member of a private forum with a bunch of us from back before 3D Realms went bankrupt, and Joe used to post regularly, but not so much any more. This explains why.

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Quoting: GuestI'm glad 3D Realms is still around in one form or another.

It's mostly just a name these days. I don't think the original owners -- George Broussard and Scott Miller -- are even involved with the company any more.

...which I suppose is a good thing considering they're the ones who ran it into the ground.

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