Quoting: Quote from e8hffffId Software isn't that good as a game developer.  Since Quake3/Wolfenstein everything has been pretty bad, and consider their older games are basic, it doesn't say much for John Carmack and the company.  They make corridor railed games with little interaction, so if they leave Android/Linux/Mac field nothing really lost.

Is this for real? Corridor railed games? Have you even played the original doom? They are full of massive levels where you have to explore ever nook just to get through the level? Before id games didnt even have height or even 3d level design. They created the FPS genre and pc online play, they coined the term deathmatch. Without id we wouldnt even have the basis for modern gaming. I do agree as far as quake 3 being the last game you can really call good but saying they make games with little interaction and railed corridors tells me you didnt play pc games when those came out. Maybe you werent even born or old enough to play. This is maddness. There was only id games in the 90s everything else was pretty much irrelevant. Not to mention they allowed for game modding and people created their own WADS/levels and assets. They pushed the boundaries more than anyone. I would recommend reading the book "masters of doom [External Link]" before saying such things.

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Quoting: Quote from HamishWhenever I hear Carmack speak it is like a captive man, forced to say things and bend his own thoughts to accept a paradigm he would never have assented to even ten years ago.

Naw. He's just gone completely batty.

I feel like Hamish. Maybe it's just that he's moved on from what he enjoyed in the past. I remember reading he was all for multi-platform programming since it would make code much better and better tested, now it seems he's a Windows/DirectX sales rep.

Has he ever said he is for directX? I have only ever heard him talk about how he likes opengl.
If anyone is interested in his opinion of the steam machine and steamos that can be found here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH2hjhcfWic&t=29m49s [External Link] also if you notice the guy on the left mentions linux being the number one consumer operating system in terms of sales month to month and John nods his head in agreement. So we will see what really happens when steamos starts taking off. I bet they will port the games then.

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As someone who played id games before doom was released and still plays the original id games weekly I really could care less. Doom 1 2 3 and quake 1 2 3 4 still work, as well as several of the wolfenstein games. Never even tried quake live. I do want rage though.

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Quoting: Quote from STiATPlayed it a few hours. It's a great game with good story telling (even if it's a linear story). Sadly, at one certain point it keeps crashing on me. Hopefully this will be fixed in the next updates.

And for the minimum requirements - pfft, runs perfectly well on my GTX555 ;-).

This is my experience as well. Except I have a 560ti.

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Quoting: Quote from philip550cYou use the open source drivers right?

Yes, I do. I do not see why that is relevant, except as another example of how my gaming experience has improved by leaps and bounds over the past few years with or without Valve.

No you are correct, I was just making sure. Cause valve has helped improve the closed source drivers.

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Quoting: Quote from HamishI think my thoughts on Steam have been made quite clear here already: I do not use it, and do not plan to.

My gaming world really opened up more with the Humble Indie Bundles than anything else - and while I do have more games purchased over the past few months than I can currently play, something which was unthinkable a few years ago, I really do not know if Steam's arrival can take any of the credit for it.

Obviously since I am not using Steam I will not receive any direct benefits from Valve's work, but there are claims by some that Steam alone is the champion of the Linux gaming industry, and that even those who do not use it will feel the effects. Well, for me the industry was growing long before Valve showed up, and almost all of the games I am playing and have purchased recently seemingly arrived on our platform independent of Valve's efforts.

So for me the past year has been great in terms of games, but not due to Valve.

You use the open source drivers right?

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Quoting: Quote from tweakedenigmaWe do know that it is custom but that doesn't mean it isn't compatible all we know is they didn't base it off another distro.

I'm pretty sure that they said somewhere that they were using ubuntu core, why else would they tell developers to target ubuntu 12.04 and why create repositories for ubuntu? 
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Core [External Link]

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Quoting: Quote from mannylooks like SMB is coming:

http://steamcommunity.com/app/40800/discussions/0/864951475490355056/#p9 [External Link]

https://twitter.com/tommyrefenes/status/397495487617843200 [External Link]

also this https://plus.google.com/103391075724026391227/posts/5B6Dkd2BZvk [External Link]

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damn this was on sale last week but I wanted to count as a linux user so I didnt get it. I dont think i can play though as I guess I need a better video card, first game thats required that I upgrade

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I wouldn't even know how to play this, I dont like sports, especially not football/soccer.
Any non-sports people out there play this and find it fun?

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