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Quoting: ShmerlCompulsion are only going to start working on Linux support soon [External Link]. Hopefully some interesting update is coming.

Well, that's late. (I always fear such late ports will result in bad sale numbers and thus in a lower probability of later ports.) Thanks for sharing!

I believe the whole project is late, not really specific to Linux support. Might be wrong, but they're not even at full release yet and I think they always planned Linux for after that.

I'm just delighted they're still talking about it and have it on their plans. Hopefully it pans out.

I'm not completely convinced by the price though. The graphics do look beautiful, but it's nearly £25 and that's competing with some pretty stunning titles. That said, it's my kind of game, so I'll likely pick it up, even with the premium tag attached!

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Love this style of game, but (going against popular opinion on here...) I hate lo-res graphics. When done right, it can be pretty beautiful, but I can't behind this, or Crawl. I can't even get behind HyperLight Drifter, apparently one of the most beautiful retro-style games out there. I suffered 4 hours of Teleglitch before I realised that I couldn't even tell the difference between humans, mutants and robots due to the incredible lack of any detail whatsoever.

Pixel games can be great (Halfway, Final Station, Dungeon Warfare, Nuclear Throne, Hero Siege and many, many others), but when the resolution is so low that I struggle to read text... I know that game isn't for me.

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Quoting: razing32Now if only they would solve the camping issue... :(

Most of the maps have multiple spawn points. I've had occasional games when a superior team does manage to peg both exits, but it's rare. In my experience. I'm a big fan of Ballistic Overkill. It's not perfect, but there's a lot to like.

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Not a dig at GOL at all, but this article is quite funny as a result of the Feral radar. The article can be summed as basically: "A game we can't identify has possibly been delayed by an indeterminate amount of time, pushing back a release date we haven't been told about, but the Mac version of this unknown game, might still be on track, also for a unknown release date".

I'm glad we cleared this up.

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I'll be picking this up. It looks beautiful. Might even break my no-EA rule for this as it looks pretty complete.

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Newly released Full Throttle Remastered [External Link]. Not quite finished it yet, but brings the nostalgia on in large chunks. Superb stuff.

Tacoma [External Link]: Finished it in just under 3 hours. It's disappointingly short, but only because it's so engaging. I enjoyed it more than Gone Home and I really, really enjoyed Gone Home. Just not as nice as Soma, I guess, which felt a bit more engaging. I'd still recommend it though, provided you don't have hang-ups on the words "walking simulator". I hate that term. Judge it on the experience.

Deus Ex: MK [External Link], since I got my new shiny GTX1080, I'm playing this at 60fps and... just what a game. Incredible graphics, insane attention to detail and a stealth mechanic that actually works.

Flamebreak [External Link]: A hidden gem, surely. I keep coming back to it. One of those games that rewards true skill, but is easy to slip back into. A bit like Rocket League in that respect.

And I tried a bunch of cheaper titles I've picked up recently: Root [External Link], SolarGun [External Link], Near Death [External Link] and Cloudbase Prime [External Link]. None of them hugely stand out, but they're all fairly decent. Well, apart from SolarGun - no tutorial, no story, no explanations... and I can't get past the third room! I must be doing something wrong. Still, it's only £1.

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Quoting: pete910Why's this remind me of World of goo ????

Also pet peeve, The platforms should be win/mac/linux...

PC could be any OS

Sorry, small rant

Haha! Technically the platforms should be win/osx/linux. Or technically it should be win/osx/gnu+linux. Any Stallman fanatics in here today?? ^_^

The vague use of PC does drive me absolutely nuts, but I guess you have to pick your fights and I think this one was lost about a decade ago when Apple fired out those condescending "I'm a Mac [External Link]" adverts. <sigh>

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There seems to be a bit of confusion between a) support Linux ideals and b) what's best for Linux.

Regarding ideals, I suppose my store choice would be as follows:
a) Itch.io
b) Humble
c) GOG
d) Steam

While regarding what's best for Linux, I'd argue:
a) Steam
b) Whatever, doesn't matter.

This is because, obviously, market share. Developers use this to determine whether they can be bothered to release their game on our platform. I'd like to be idealistic, but I'm going to save any such notion until we are more than a rounding error on Windows sales. More than, say, 10%, maybe. Then I'll think about spouting my ideals.

Until then, I'll buy on the sales platform that gives developers the greatest incentive to support my freedom-loving platform. Anything else, at this point, is just counter-intuitive to Linux support.

To me, anyway. By all means, prioritise your sales (particularly, if, like Itch.io, it's a Steam-key anyway!), use Wine, whatever. But stop conflating "ideals" with "support". If you support a minor store that doesn't feature in development decisions, you're actively hurting Linux as a platform. Your ideals are conflicting with your desire to support Linux.

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Just to pitch in here too - when I bash on companies like Apple, I don't do so because I'm bitter that if only they changed their practices, Linux use would "explode overnight". I do it because they deserve it. Anti-competitive behaviour should be called out when you see it, not justified as a Shareholder strategy. Infuriating.

And to clarify, I doubt Linux use is ever going to "explode". There won't be a discernible "year of the Linux desktop". The move to Linux is subtle, in stages, for most people. And that implies slow, organic growth over decades.

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Quoting: TheBardJust to point that it is avaibable on itch too [External Link]. I'm not sure its a good idea to encourage people to buy on a site where out platform is so much disregarded (GoG), when there are alternatives with the same benefits (DRM-Free) but which clearly supports us as a legitimate platform (Itch).

Didn't realise it was Itch - thanks for that. Sadly, I already purchased on Steam, but hey ho. You use what you like, right? I'll support GOG more when Galaxy releases and in the meantime, I'm happy to give Itch more money where I can.

I need to get back into this - it's a cracking good game, although sometimes the explosions and destruction is just so intense you actually lose track of what's going on.

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