Pathfinder: Kingmaker has been really fun. The devs seem very active with patching issues as they arise.

Minecraft Picked this up again for the first time in years. It's fun and somewhat relaxing, but it's an entirely new game. The mechanics for everything are completely different, but that doesn't take away from my enjoyment. Very detailed wiki's have gotten me through all the new snags. I did need to remove an argument from the Java Settings (Advanced) section on the profile editor of the launcher. The game would simply not launch until I removed it.

Borderlands 2 has me sad. I haven't played that one in awhile, and now it seems that the client version is different from the Windows version. I am no longer able to play with my friends with my character. :'(

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This game is amazing and works flawlessly for me. I don’t know anything about bugs or glitches. The only complaint I might have is the difficulty of finding walk thru help online sometimes. I imagine that would be a non issue to most people.

It is a great successor to BG, and it is easy to get roped into the story as if you were playing a tabletop game. I highly recommend this game.

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Quoting: devnullI have a drone, would love to tie the controller into VR with the HMD and fly one.

I don't know much about drones, but I know the competitive folks use some sort of HMD when racing. They are just little things like sunglasses, but they are quite skilled at flying them. I imagine it's not much of a stretch to put 360 cams on bigger drones and get a full view thru something like the Vive.

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPQuite honestly, I still see VR as little more than a gimmick.

You apparently have never actually tried VR. I had a chance to do so in a shopping mall and said "Why not?". It was amazing. The games can be as simple or as complex as you like. We see complex games being ported over such as X Rebirth, Doom, Fallout, Skyrim. Then there are fun goofy little games like Rick and Morty or the archery one (Longbow I think?). All in all it is great fun.

As for the price, it is comparable to a new console in the $500 range. Maybe that means it is not for everybody, but then again the $750 full simulation racing wheel and pedals setup is not for everyone either. I can tell you this though: VR is indeed the future. All the big names are signing onto this for both production as well as gaming enterprises.

It's amazing, it's affordable to try, and this is great news about the advances on the Linux side. Give it a shot at a VR arcade before throwing the idea out completely.

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Yeah, I donno. It looks great, but I see no need to require grid based movement. Perhaps this could be a featured toggled on and off? I suppose that would be extremely hard to code. Maybe I shouldn't rule out the game just because of that.

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Thx Public Nuisance. I went and upvoted on GOG.

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All the Shadowrun Returns Games. Wonderful stuff!

Borderlands 2 Yay!

Doom 2016 Works very well with WINE

7 Days To Die Been playing on a server with my friends, and they are very impressed with my use of Linux.

Minecraft It is just very relaxing for me on single player.

Looking forward to:
Star Citizen (One day, eh?)
XCOM 2 (Once I get bored with my other games)

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tuubi, with all due respect you are way off base here. To clarify, you are absolutely correct. Now throw all that logic out and insert the human factor. We are talking about market share here, and billions of users don't care about fair comparisons or specifics. They only care about one thing: does this object do what I want it to do?

If we want to see an increase in market share, then users need to feel confident that Linux will do what they need it to do (and it does, plus so much more). All it takes to turn away thousands of users is one program that doesn't work. I almost had my brother sold on Linux, then Marvel doesn't work on it. He went that day and dropped $120 for a new copy of Windows. I almost had my friend and his whole coterie sold on Linux, then ARMA 3 doesn't work.

Should users expect everything to work? No, of course not. Should Linux users and developers do their best to make things work? Yes, and I see evidence everyday of that happening. Every day or two a new release comes out that fixes some kind of compatibility issue somewhere. It would be smart to focus on the big issues first though. It's great that shadows now work finally on Game XYZ part 2. Now can we get the most common peripherals that millions of users own working properly?

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Why the mention of Steam? Steam runs natively on Linux, yes? I did not use WINE to install Steam on any of my Linux boxes. I did have to tweak some things to get it to work on my son's laptop running Ubuntu Mate 16.10 as I recall.

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I got this on GOG during the Star Wars Day sale back in May. I can't get past the first room / area. The lack of a vertical scroll on the mouse killed it for me. But you say there is a mod? That would be worth my time. Using the keys to look up and down every time you want to shoot something is just too much of a pain.

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