I got Covert Action, because I'd played the other two back in the day, and I was looking for a new experience. Runs with DOSBox, which is to be expected, and it is a new experience.

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While I'm hoping for Bioshock:Infinite to be ported for Linux (Aspyr?), this looks good enough to support. I have become somewhat picky about buying games, thanks to Steam, but this looks like a winner.

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Sweet. Freely downloadable RTS! Thanks so much for the information!

The engine is from MegaGlest, BTW. One more wonderful thing about open source is that developers don't have to reinvent the wheel, but can stand on the shoulders of others who produced something that can be built upon!

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Oops: double post!

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This is to Liam:

Reading your farewell message caused me to infer that you, along with all the insults you received, also suffer from depression.

As a gamer who also suffers from depression, I am all too aware that depression, along with a situation that cannot fail to make you unhappy, can combine into a crisis situation. I just wish to tell you that it will get better for you, and that there's no shame whatsoever in seeking help for an illness, because depression is an illness, not a defect in one's personality.

I wish you nothing but the best. I hope you can feel better enough to return to the superb website you started. I also hope you are able to acquire a bitchin' video card!

By the way, "bitchin'" is nondirty surfer slang for "brilliant," "super," or "fantastic."

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Quoting: edoThis rise is probably due to the CSGO port, many people stop using dual-boot due to that.
The next month will be interesting too

Actually, I ceased dual-booting after X-COM came out. I don't miss many of the Windows games I used to play when I did dual-boot,and I expect several of them to suddenly appear in my Steam library, just like Borderlands 2.

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Aggghhh, and I have a dead desktop, for which I'll have to wait for a new mobo and CPU, and then download this beast.

The best description I've heard for this game is "first-person Diablo."

Oh well, I'll have a much faster CPU, and a much better motherboard. I just have to wait about a week [drums fingers impatiently].

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I've seen more than one post about having to restore your /home folder.

Putting /home on its own partition is a very good idea. For one thing, it makes installations a lot simpler, since there's no restoration of your /home folder.

You can use these instructions:http://www.howtogeek.com/116742/how-to-create-a-separate-home-partition-after-installing-ubuntu/ [External Link]. While these instructions are for Ubuntu, they work on practically any distro.

Or, with a new installation, you can select "Something Else" and give the / (root) partition, say, 128GB, or even 64GB (which is PLENTY) and the rest of the drive as a second partition mounted as /home, keeping the /swap partition as is. Then, you only have to restore once. Of course, back up /home and keep that backup secure!

I have a second drive on my desktop mounted as /home, but anyone with a laptop should do this on their single drive. Again, it makes new installations MUCH quicker and easier.

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One thing I think bears mentioning is that Germany is also a nexus of board game design, and at least two German board games, Settlers of Catan and Carcassone, are computer/tablet games.

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This was the very first game I Kickstarted, and it's wonderful to finally have the release version. It ran just dandy on my desktop, whose motherboard just died. That's another story.

BUT--I played for an hour or two. This is perhaps the game that Fallout 3 should have been, and it's true to the feeling of the grandfather of post-apocalyptic computer games, the first Wasteland. It's heavy on spoken and printed dialog, and it is decidedly turn-based in combat. The world is big, with locations that you enter sizeable themselves. Each one, BTW, has a big glowing portal as an exit, which made me smile. This project made news when it committed to using Unity as a development engine, insuring that Linux donors could get the program.

This is a BFG, (in which the G stands for Game), and is well worth the $30 price; it will reward gamers with quite a few hours of replayable, absorbing ,strategic adventuring. Now, I'm jut waiting for Pillars of Eternity, which was the second game I Kickstarted, and Torment:Tides of Numenara. Some time next year, I expect. Wasteland 2 (along with, shall I say, additional AAA games in my Steam library) will keep me busy until the fantasy RPGs of my desire appear;).

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