Another review of the game on Linux can be found here:
http://mrsneeze.com/games/reviews/theocracy/index.html [External Link]

And more information on the corrupted saved game issue can be read here:
https://www.neoseeker.com/forums/6456/t1748995-load-error-768/ [External Link]

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Store page on GOG.com is up with all three platforms listed:
https://www.gog.com/en/game/baldurs_gate_dark_alliance_ii [External Link]

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I am still waiting on my finances to be in better shape before I pick up the first Dark Alliance. $38 CAD is quite a lot for a 20 year old game, even if I am willing to spend more for a native Linux version.

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Quoting: GuestI'm BTW always unwrapping the GOG dosbox games to use my systems dosbox. Not to save disk space, but I use dosbox-staging which is much better in handling fullscreen and non-standard screen resolutions...

In my case I built DOSBox Staging and then just dropped it over the DOSBox binaries provided by the GOG.com installers which also works seamlessly. DOSBox Staging gives a huge performance improvement in Build engine games like Blood, so it is something GOG.com themselves should really consider adopting. Yes, I know, BloodGDX, NBlood, and Raze are a thing, but I am becoming more and more of a purist with age... :whistle:

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Quoting: HamishI am assuming it is just the verification process on GOG.com slowing things down as usual

And yep, GOG.com has all three versions up now.

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I am assuming it is just the verification process on GOG.com slowing things down as usual, but just in case I decided to check what Humble Store was offering:



How exactly is one supposed to parse this platform list? It's internally inconsistent.

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Just as an update on where things stand with the upcoming article, I do have the next game installed and have been playing it on and off since March, but it has proven to be a difficult game to master when juggling other commitments. Now that I am done lambing and calving I hope to be able to put more focus on it, but the arrival of spring in general increases my workload by quite a lot. Progress is being made though.

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Quoting: LinuxerUmm what is a .pak file?

Okay, now I feel old. :whistle:

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Quoting: VoidpointUnforeseen delays have pushed back the release beyond our initial projections, but we're committed to not sacrificing quality in order to hit any specific deadline.

*insert Duke Nukem Forever joke here*

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Quoting: HamishThere was a mod for Blood II: The Chosen called "Limbloss" that functioned in much the same way but was a lot less elaborate.

Just as a little expansion on this, the Limbloss mod like so many others for Blood II was actually about restoring a feature cut during the game's tortured development:

• Complex death scene system allows players to blow off limbs and body parts dynamically adding infinite variety to the already tons of death scenes that will exist.

Source: https://www.blood-wiki.org/index.php?title=File:Blood-2-Poster-Back.jpg [External Link]

Sounds very much like what GHOUL actually delivered a few years later.

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