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Latest Comments by buenaventura
Some thoughts on the Shadowrun series
26 Jan 2017 at 8:35 am UTC

I am currently playing HK, and it is really great, I love the text and the art, and the combat is really fun.

It doesn't look like Homefront: The Revolution is going to come to Linux any time soon
25 Jan 2017 at 7:44 am UTC

Quoting: LinasI don't think that "it's not a good game anyway" attitude is doing us as a community any good. If it was released for Linux, I am sure that it would have been celebrated as much as it is being bashed right now. I personally would play it. I may not like it in the end, but I do want to give it try.
Well, I mean, I see GoL as a gaming site for smart individuals who use linux for whatever reason, so it is important that we get GOOD games, I want to read about good games + linux specific issues such as drivers, FLOSS software etc. We are not here to scream and beg until all shovelware in the world gets ported to linux :P

It doesn't look like Homefront: The Revolution is going to come to Linux any time soon
24 Jan 2017 at 3:09 pm UTC Likes: 2

Seemed like a pretty craptastic game anyhow, who cares.

Some thoughts on the Shadowrun series
24 Jan 2017 at 7:47 am UTC

I've been eyeing Hong Kong for a long time since enjoying Dragonfall ALOT, but I've been put off by some negative reviews. Perhaps I should reconsider!

Edit: Hong Kong is featured in the this Humble Bundle [External Link] for something like 4 dollars, so I got it. YAY! Don't care to much about those other games (if anyone wants a steam key for Rust, Stronghold Crusaders 2, or Victor Vran (slashed are claimed), PM me!) , but this was cheap anyways.

Torment: Tides of Numenera shows off some more gameplay mechanics in new trailers
20 Jan 2017 at 3:00 pm UTC Likes: 1

Urgh, what a dorky, boring trailer. And the art is pretty awful, too shiny! Still, I am looking forward to this, and I hope that inXile does a good job with the engine so that it works well for us.

The open source Vulkan driver 'radv' for AMD on Linux has patches for geometry shader support
20 Jan 2017 at 10:41 am UTC

I'm not sure I understand Vulkan, I presume it brings better performance? So, if I have a game that supports both OpenGL and Vulkan, I would be better of using Vulkan (when this driver is mature)?

Torment: Tides of Numenera looks set to get a day-1 Linux release
20 Jan 2017 at 7:58 am UTC

I realize now, that Wasteland 2 was also developed by inXile, and that game DID work pretty fine on my computer! So perhaps they can do this! YAY!

Here’s some interesting answers from Gabe Newell and Valve from the reddit AMA
18 Jan 2017 at 8:09 am UTC Likes: 1

I'm happy TF2 is getting some love, it's been kinda rough lately!

Torment: Tides of Numenera looks set to get a day-1 Linux release
15 Jan 2017 at 12:52 pm UTC

Quoting: badberWell, I believe it does have 3D models for characters and it does also include loading screens between areas. That said, I read a comment from someone who did say there have been performance improvements in the latest beta build so possibly it'll run better.
Perhaps they will have a demo available so that I could try it out before buying, we'll see!