(Looking at the trailer) Someone at Frictional seems to be a "The Thing" fan.

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I hate myself for not liking these type of games (basically everything strategy). I would've been so spoiled by Feral and these ports.
I keep buying them, but just for support, not my pleasure. I'm looking for example at XCOM games, I can clearly see they're good quality/fun games and I'm sure I'm missing a lot by not playing them, but just can't get into it and I really tried.

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Quoting: dpanter

Quoting: dubigrasuMichael went full speed ahead and basically speculated the end of Feral.

Well, that wasn't how I interpreted the text in the article. Agree to disagree? :wink:

edit: it was suggested that the article text has been altered since original publication, effectively reducing the negative tone. :huh:

Can't honestly say if the text was altered or not. Possible, I guess.
But, the "Feral Interactive looks like it may be dissolving" and "Feral Interactive's Days Could Be Numbered" are still there and they still sound like rushed-out speculations, but sure, I agree to agree to disagree...wait, no... never mind.

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Quoting: dpanter

Quoting: EhvisIn Dutch we say "een storm in een glas water"

In Swedish it would be "en storm i ett vattenglas" ^_^

I don't get why some people feel the need to shit on Michael for reporting the exact same thing Liam did.
There was even a note that it might be a clerical error, and the article made no wild speculations or crazy assumptions beyond the brief explanations of "compulsory strike-off" and "UK Companies House register".
I bet most people reading GoL had no idea what those things meant, myself included.

Well, I don't think the issue was reporting the strike-off in itself, the news was worth reporting, yes.
But while Gol was very reserved (let's wait/see what this means first) Michael went full speed ahead and basically speculated the end of Feral.

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Quoting: subGood news then. :)

It’s a shame Michael Larabel didn't contact us before publishing this piece, we would have been happy to set him straight.

Surprise, surprise.

Well, according to the article he did contacted Feral prior to publishing it, but alas he didn't waited for a response and spun the story and especially that title towards gloom and doom.
I like Michael, but indeed, he went too far this time.

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Quoting: TeodosioAs Phoronix noted, Feral has terrible employee reviews on Glassdoor. There is something not working there.

I wouldn't call them outright terrible, out of 6 reviews only one is negative and another one neutral. The rest are positive.

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Quoting: DuncNice. I'm one of those weirdos who liked Dead Island (although it's probably telling that it's the only zombie game I ever did like) and thought Dying Light didn't sound as good. But hey, I'll give it a go over the weekend...

"Like" because I'm the same type of weirdo that thoroughly enjoyed Dead Island. I finished it first on PS3 and when it showed up for Linux I played it once again.
As for Dying Light, if you enjoyed DI, you'll love DL.

And indeed, Dying Light with its launch problems and low performance etc, still deserves as special place with us, along with the other old OpenGL ports that we seem to love to hate these days.
Those "piss poor" ports from VP, Aspyr, Feral and the like, were available for us back then when the alternative options were limited, and when they mattered the most.
So yeah, I have a special consideration for those ports, regardless of their former or current issues.

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Quoting: NightwingD9VK doesn't work for me, but DXVK (dx10,dx11) works well, anyone can help?
When I play old dx9 games, games don't lunch.

OS: Linux Mint 19.3
GPU: RX480
Driver: Mesa from Padoka Stable PPA

For some old (32bit) games you might need the respective Vulkan driver, probably something like mesa-vulkan-drivers:i386.

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Quoting: EikeSystem Shock is, like Half-Life 1 & 2, an important game I've missed back then. I still wonder if I should visit them in their enhanced versions. I'm somewhat allergic to outdated 3D graphics.

I'm entertaining this idea myself, currently I have installed Retroarch and looking through my older games that I enjoyed or never finished.
I must say, is better than expected. All these new available enhancements like higher res, shaders save-states and whatnot combined with the ability to tweak the controls to modern standards, are really, well...game changers.
And after a game or two, your tolerance to old graphics is increased, so yeah, you might enjoy even System Shock, old style.

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Is interesting how in this retro-feel frenzy they added even perspective distortions, PlayStation 1 style.
Emulator devs are striving to compensate or remove those, and these guys added them deliberately :)

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