In my case, I buy from lots of games companies. I'm doing my bit to pay for Linux gaming, supporting Feral and many others. I wasn't going to buy DiRT Rally at 50% off. However, as part of Humble Monthly subscription, with a selection of other titles - I'm willing to pay the subscription price.

What would you prefer:
- Feral getting zero from me, with me not buying a game that I am so-so about?
- Feral getting a smaller amount for DiRT Rally, as part of the Humble Monthly?

(It was a rhetorical question, pretty obvious what the answer is going to be!)


The comment earlier by "wojtek88" regarding Steam Machines - It does deviate from this Feral Big Easter Sale post - BUT it did strike a cord with me. I decided to follow up that comment by hunting out for Steam Machines sold in the UK (where I live). Here is my finding, and I think GOL should probably consider write a new article discussing it:

- There are very very few manufacturers selling Steam Machines.
- Of those few, the Steam Machines are pretty expensive - The typical price is ~ £1200.
- At that price, one could build a BETTER PC running SteamOS (or Linux). Or pay much less for similar spec.

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Of those games listed, only 4 I'm missing. =P

Yes, I picked up DiRT Rally in the Humble Monthly Subscription. Hoping that INSIDE might make its way to Linux (eventually). I was another one where I wasn't keen enough on DiRT Rally to pay full price. But at the Subscription price: "Yeah, why not!"

Also I recently picked up "7 Days To Die" on Humble Store (and used my Subscription 10% extra discount). I've been playing 7DTD and quite enjoying it. Full price: £18.99 Humble current price: £7.59 10% extra off: £6.83
And the link: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/7-days-to-die

Picked up GoNNER on Humble Store as well, same 10% extra Subscription discount: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/gonner-press-jump-to-die-edition

Those titles are all still on sale (at time of posting).

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As much as I'm somewhat interested in the Enhanced Edition, I already own the original and feel the Enhanced one is priced too high for existing owners.

Also, while I'm being picky, I don't like the fact that the Original version is taken off the market now that the Enhanced Edition is released. You can still get the Original, but only as part of a purchase of the Enhanced Edition.

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Noting that Septerra Core on Steam released the Linux port on 14 Nov 2016, and Jack Orlando's Linux port came out on Steam on 20 Mar 2017. Good that GOG is getting them, but shame about the delay.

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I'm a big fan of Ziggurat. One of the earlier FPS games I got stuck into when I converted my gaming to Linux. Like Hamish, I started off with earlier classics - Wolf3D, Doom, Duke3D, Quake, Blood, Heretic, Hexen - played on DOS or Windows.

Before I played Ziggurat, I had been playing loads of Nexuiz and Xonotic multi-player deathmatch on Linux (especially Nexuiz) - literally for years, until most of the community moved on.

I'm reasonably in agreement with what everyone has said about Ziggurat. My thoughts on it:

The selection of weapons and choosing which ones to keep - makes the game more interesting.
Unlocking additional characters, abilities, and weapons over repeated plays - keeps you coming back.
Adjusting play style, based on character choice and weapons and items picked up - keeps it fresh.
Although the random procedurally-generated levels do get same-y after many playthroughs - not so bad.
At least the type of levels changes as you progress - you only get to see them if you progress well.
Achievements, unlocking items and characters - e.g. killing X number of particular monster, finishing the game.

Took me quite a long time to finish the game (the first time) and then more time to unlock each character. It is a hard FPS. Maybe not as hard as Serious Sam on Serious setting, but when you die - BOOM - Back to the start. With Serious Sam 3: BFE (and the earlier SS games, which can be played with Fusion) you can SAVE whenever you like.

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Quoting: PixelPiOkay guys, let's get some more structured. :)

As I see it, Feral has so far ported games from the following developer studios (publishers):

Codemasters
Creative Assembly (SEGA)
Relic Entertainment (SEGA)
Eidos Montreal (Square Enix)
Dontnod Entertainment (Square Enix)
Crystal Dynamics (Square Enix)
Avalanche Studios (Warner Bros.)
Monolith Productions (Warner Bros.)
Relic Entertainment (THQ)
Firaxis Games (2K Games)

Taking this basis for investigating what the next Feral release could be - The existing Developers/Publishers and their most likely games titles. This is what I came up with:

Rise of the Tomb Raider
Just Cause 3
theHunter: Call of the Wild
Middle-Earth: Shadow of War (but it is 4 months from release)
Warhammer 40000: Dawn of War III (but it is a few weeks away from release)
Viking: Battle for Asgard
NieR: Automata (it's another Square Enix game, but PlatinumGames developers not linked to Feral before)

The above possibilities are due to existing relationships, games which are not out on Linux or Mac, and games which are recent enough to be possibilities. Obviously, this misses out new relationships with new Publishers.

I was also interested in the "MADE TO WADE" and the "TEA" words in the hint. Note that the letters T,E,A are in "MADE TO WADE". If you remove letters TEA you get this: "M A D O W D" (That has DOW ~ Dawn of War ~ tucked away in it.) Or you get this, removing the first A: "M D O W A D" (also DOW in there).

I also tried just taking out the "T" ( sounds like "TEA" ) character and you have these left: "MADE O WADE".
I then looked at words I could make out of those letters, and found things like this:
MEADOW ~ could be theHunter (removing TEA letters)
WOADED ~ could be Vikings (removing TEA letters)
O MAD WEED ~ no idea (uses up all remaining letters, after taking out T letter)
DOW MD ~ Dawn of War M? D? (removing TEA and E and A letters)
MADE DOW ~ Made Dawn of War (removing TEA letters)

Based on PixelPi's approach, I'd say it is likely to be one of the one's I've listed above. Although a new publisher relationship (e.g. with Flying Wild Hog, for instance) would add many other possibilities.

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: g000hShadow Warrior 2 is one of the few modern games to use Vulkan

Do you mean FWH are using Vulkan in their engine now?

Hi. I'm not sure about the Vulkan bit. Best to ignore it until someone confirms that it is true.

If it isn't true, sorry for spreading false info.

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Based on the comments so far, and my own personal bias, my feeling is that it will be Shadow Warrior 2 - which is one of my top games, that I want to see on Linux.

Suffice to say, if it is Shadow Warrior 2, then I will be buying it immediately from Feral's own store.

Shadow Warrior 2 is one of the few modern games to use Vulkan, and noting Feral's recent use of Vulkan to upgrade Mad Max (Linux version only, sorry Windows).

Also, I'd be very happy to see Rise of the Tomb Raider as well, which is one of the titles I think Feral might be porting at some point in the future.

Repeating an earlier comment I made about Shadow Warrior - I played the SW 2013 game only a couple of months ago, to improve Linux stats and encourage (Linux porting) action from SW developers Flying Wild Hog.

EDIT:

I might be wrong about the Vulkan bit (sorry if I am). Haven't been able to validate it.

Maybe I got confused with this: Shadow Warrior 2 does support HDR graphics

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This is a pretty good game (I've played a number of hours of it myself). Turn-based isometric, fantasy strategy game:

Chaos Reborn on GOG 66% off £2.39

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I've recently been playing and enjoying both Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter - at last on Linux - thanks to the new Fusion launcher (Steam), and Broforce (GOG) on Linux.

Great games, highly recommended. True classics!

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