Uh, what certain feline? Is this something I should already known about :'( ?

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I've been holding back on OpenMW while I waited for the devs to get to, well, probably the state it's in now. This is good news.

"This is a GREAT plan! I'm happy to be a part of it!"

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Very retro. After the rerelease of Might and Magic, the Bard's Tale, Wasteland I, the Tex Avery series, and more, Dragon Wars (which I had pretty much completely forgotten :'( ) is a pretty good addition to the canon of Really Old Great Games. Nice! :D

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]Illwinter, the devs for the best 4X TBS ever, Dominons 4, had abandoned Shrapnel, the publisher of DOM 3, because of Shrapnel's treatment of them, and went to Desura, which is where the official Dominions forums reside. Also, their other game, Conquest of Elysium 3, is on Desura as well.

As a rather big fan of Illwinter, I fervently hope that Desura and its new owners is paying them as well.

I have also had some big problems with the Desura Linux client as well. On my ancient Lenovo laptop, I'm unable to install any of the many Desura games I have bought from them ("There was an error during the validation process and it has been stopped," no matter which game I'm trying to install). I complained to Desura, and they did point out that I can download most of them separately and install them out of Desura. True, and it is one of the benefits of Desura, but...

And, Real Soon Now, I will post a review and very high recommendation of Dominions 4 (see above) here.

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Quoting: neffoValve had it wrong from the start, they should always have placed a GNU icon before the Linux icon.

(But seriously, the Tux icon looks rubbish. It doesn't really work in two colour. The head-alone logo looks even worse. SteamOS looks gooooood.)

Steam, and Gabe Newell, have done more to support our beloved OS than perhaps even Canonical, and Mark Shuttleworth. I will also note that most, if not all, distros (including Debian and its derivatives, Red Hat/ Fedora and its derivatives, Open SuSE and its, Arch and its, and, yes, Slackware, run Steam and its games very well indeed. At least, that's what was reported on the CIV V "thanks for the port!" thread, and it was specifically written for SteamOS.

YES. I know LT calls GNU/Linux "Linux," but RMS, the creator of GNU, which is the OS we're actually using, asks (and reasonably politely) that we call it GNU/Linux, inasmuch as he correctly points out that in a running distro, about 5% of the whole system is the kernel. I have test-driven this rant on Ubuntu Formus, and got pretty promptly shot down, but I still feel that RMS' contributions are worthy of recognition.

And what's wrong with the Tux logo? Note my avatar...

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I was a Kickstarter backer, and I certainly have gotten more than my money's worth; this is still the current RTS champ, AFAIC.

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I have tried using a gamepad, and, having never played any game on a console, ever, I didn't much like it :huh: .

In other words, you can have my keyboard and mouse :wub: when you pry them from my cold, dead fingers. :P

Not that I couldn't learn, but, still, I am not in love with the concept of using a controller. Your mileage, of course, may vary :) .

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If you haven't seen OTTTD, and you've ever wondered just what happens to the dead enemies in the lanes of a tower defense game, boy, this game is for you. The lanes get clogged with alien attacker guts.

My biggest problem is the "funny" Ah-nold voice, which isn't funny. OTTTD was the only one in this bundle I already had, and the others are pretty nifty, especially A Druid's Duel, which can and will eat your lunch until you figure it out.

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Quoting: edqeThanks to all Kickstarter backers to make this game possible. A great game.

This was my very first Kickstarter pledge, and not the last, and WHAT a game has come out of it, and the other Kickstarted projects (War for the Underworld, Planetary Annihilation, Pillars of Eternity!) I have supported.

Patience has paid off, big time.

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:'( I bought the game a couple of years ago, in my dual-boot days. I could buy it again, but... :whistle:

Of course, when games I had bought for Windows showed up in my library, I didn't repurchase them, I went, "Ahhh! Total War:Empires is here!" and downloaded the sucker. I did pay for the complete CIV V on release day last June, but it was $16.99, and that was huge discount for the game and every DLC .

I, being retired, have a small gaming budget (especially since I have had to reassemble (and reassemble and reassemble :><: ) a working low-budget PC (AMD 8320E, MSI 970 Gaming motherboard, GeForce 750ti), and I have frame-rates in the 40-60 fps range, which is nowhere near the frame-rate that others, with a bigger budget, keep chasing. I had had two dead ASUS boards, one replaced from Newegg, and one I had to repurchase because it was outside of Newegg's 30-day return window. It was still under ASUS' warranty. I sent the board back for return, and they wanted $50 more than the board cost to "repair" it. Now, that's customer service! The replacement Gigabyte board booted; about half the time, and it would not go online, neither my Atheros wireless PCI-E card nor Ethernet :O. I sent it i and received a refund for Amazon :huh: , which I used to buy the MSI. The first one I got was a lemon, and I went on MSI's forums to figure out was going on. I received rapid response from an MSI employee who suggested, after I had told him I had tried a different power supply and video card, that I place the mobo on a non conductive surface. When that didn't work, either, he gave me the direct link to get an RMA, which came up ready for printing on the same website, on the spot. Finally got a working system.

What I have is more than satisfactory as a PC. I know that if I'd paid oh, $120 more, I could have gone the Intel way, but I am suspicious of a different socket with every new chip. I have always bought AMD, always trying to build a good machine on the cheap. Works so far.

When it works... :'(

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