Quoting: t3g

Quoting: ChiKinThe great thing is that all telltale games run on the same engine, so if you can port one, it shouldn't be hard to port the whole lot. I'm currently playing my way through Tales From The Borderlands on my Windows laptop. It's a great game!

I beat Borderlands, didn't play much of 2, and never played Pre Sequel. In order to understand Tales, do I need to play all of them?

No you don't, but it's a lot more fun if you understand all the backstories. The plot of Tales of The Borderlands starts after Borderlands 2, and considering Pre-Sequel came out after Borderlands 2 it doesn't really add much. Borderlands pre-sequel tells Athena's story, and she features heavily in Tales. But you will have fun with the game either way. You won't be completely lost or anything. I think they do a good job explaining the missing bits in the narration in Tales.

Just play all of them. Borderlands is awesome!!! :)

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I was in an argument on a YouTube comment thread about the viability of Linux, and the person complaining that Linux didn't work for them specifically complained that this software wasn't there. Well there goes another reason NOT to use Linux. It's great to see things picking up. Now maybe if hell freezes over we will see Photoshop for Linux.

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The great thing is that all telltale games run on the same engine, so if you can port one, it shouldn't be hard to port the whole lot. I'm currently playing my way through Tales From The Borderlands on my Windows laptop. It's a great game!

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They only show one game and not that impressive a game either. hmmm. Maybe the prototype is underpowered.

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Hopefully this means it will be a better port.

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I think Valve and their hardware partners knew this would be an uphill battle. I mean if they didn't they were kind of stupid. Lots of people think that something is only worth doing if it is easy, but maybe, just maybe Valve have the foresight to realise that some things are worth doing because they are hard. And this is an early adopter platform. It is cutting edge in many ways and that's why it sucks to some extent and has some problems like low performance, high prices and a limited selection of titles.

What I would do if I was Valve is discount the portion of the sale they take for their own platform. So if you port you get more of the cash for selling your game. This will go some ways to make up for the shortfall in sales and encourage porting. But that's not the only way. You just got to stick to it and make it work. The potential pay offs are huge.

Gamers in general seem like they have brains made of brick. They don't realise that even though the hardware is expensive, the games are cheap. And of course, they have to play the Uber graphics AAA titles that are overproduced, overpriced and unfun to play. If you buy a Steam machine there are plenty of games that you will sink enough hours into not to get bored, and they are really fun. It's like people have forgotten that games are supposed to be fun and just want ultra-realistic graphics and celebrity voice actors.

The thing for me is that even if Valve fails, they did something for Linux, and it will stick. The annoying thing about Linux is that no matter how stiff the competition is, it just never dies. It doesn't care about stock market crashes or buyouts. If linux desktops were products sold by companies it would have died a quick death, but it's not and it won't. If this isn't the time for Linux, it will come, because devs and users won't give up on it, and eventually an ambitious company with good sense and foresight will try what Valve and Canonical did and it will just work.

Sorrry for the long comment. Had a few drinks.

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I think this is highly doubtful. More likely a misunderstanding.

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If you read the comments on Ars, it doesn't look good.

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I really loved Borderlands 2 so I would be more interested in seeing Tales from the Borderlands come to linux

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I find it hard not to have negative feelings about Linux being successful here. I just hope that all the stakeholders involved in the Linux push understand that this is a moon shot project that will only show returns way later down the line. I really think that the cold shoulders from the AAA publishers will make it very hard for success of Steam machines and linux gaming in general.

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