Quoting: "Cheeseness, post: 5002, member: 122"This is why the LSB (Linux Standard Base) exists and why it is important to respect it where possible. I don't really understand why installing to LSB friendly locations would make users fearful of being locked to a specific distro though (or were you just saying that you dislike the idea of games registering themselves with the package manager?).

I do in general dislike registering games with my package manager, yes. I am also unsure how you think that if a company only releases a DEB version of their game (or an RPM for that matter) it would not be restrictive. All the LSB provides is a standard set of libraries and operating standards. It does not make it so that one package format will work on any distro. That is what I was arguing about.

Quoting: "Cheeseness, post: 5002, member: 122"This is something that the application should be providing for though, not something that users should have to configure themselves.

Agreed.

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I have to agree with Liam on this one - I dislike games packaged in RPM or DEB packages as I like to keep my games and my system seperate. Going other routes also means that developers do not have to worry about making multiple packages and that end-users do not have to fear being locked to certain distros.

Also, correct me if I am wrong, but if I installed Desura to a system directory (such as /usr/local/games or /opt or whatever) would that not mean that it could be used by everyone? Or alternatively, if I did install it in my home directory but granted other users the permission to read (or even write) to the Desura directory, would that not also allow other users to access it?

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Not surprised - Croteam did basically say the only reason they did not want to release a Linux version was because of the lack of Steam. Someone should check up on the Red Orchestra guys and see if they were serious about that as well.

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They should just handle it like Desura does. Easiest solution.

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It is interesting that you managed to beat Larabel to this. :P

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To be fair about Unity, I was under the impression that Unity 4 was not available yet?

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The thing is Rusty, I am trying to write these from the perspective of Linux gaming being a distinct industry. As such, I am not so concerned about it being the best we can get compared to others we do not have becasue they are not on our platform, but rather want to view it simply on a game by game basis.

It does have faults (like I wrote in the review) and I also wanted to save that extra 0.5 percent to give to Survivor when I get around to reviewing it. Not meant to be unfair but I do have to be realistically critical.

Still, thanks for the feedback Rusty and Bumadar. The best thing to come out of these I think would be more in depth discussion on the games themselves. :cool:

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Looks promising.

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Nah, in general I do not do pre-orders (just a personal thing), and Overgrowth has only been on Linux for a few months.

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Check the Shoutbox, I stayed up rather too late last night working on another one. No promises on when I feel it is ready to be posted though. ;)

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