Funny how LGP is dominating the conversation when it is not even mentioned in the article... :whistle:

I do not actually have a wealth of LGP games on hand to try; since they never had the same retail presence that Loki did their games do not really show up on the second hand market, regardless of the DRM situation.

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Information on patching Quake III Arena with download links is posted here:
https://www.quake3world.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=21699 [External Link]

The Penguin Computing advert turned into a wallpaper is available from here:
https://eng.hebus.com/image-80984.html [External Link]

A review of the game by Matt Matthews for Linux Games is archived here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20020506224902/http://www.linuxgames.com/reviews/q3a.html [External Link]

And my raw Quake III Arena timedemo data can be found here:
http://icculus.org/~hamish/dianoga/quake3-timedemos.txt [External Link]

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Quoting: GuestWHAAAT!? You haven't played it yet? You must be joking, yes? :wink:

I played the Ion Maiden preview campaign and Heskel's House of Horrors. Never got around to playing the final product and now I will just be waiting for the patch. Similar thing with Dusk.

It did not help that the performance for me was not stellar but I have upgraded my computer a bit since.

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Quoting: Whitewolfe80Because I ve been gaming since the late 80s monster closet games do nothing for me same problem I had with painkiller series

I would still draw a line between most Build Engine games and something like Serious Sam or Painkiller which just focus on throwing wave after wave of enemies after you in mostly simplistic arenas. Not that it makes them any more to your taste, which is fine, but lavish level design has always been a big part of the Build Engine's appeal.

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Quoting: peta77If they'd give it modern graphics, I'd grab it. But this pixelated stuff is not something I like.

You can have your own taste, but these graphics are hardly "pixelated". They are highly detailed sprites rather than models but that is nowhere near the same thing. I would agree that a lot of the games 3D Realms has been showing at Realms Deep do go overboard in their attempts to look retro but Ion Fury is not actually one of them.

As for me, well, I guess this gives me even more of an excuse to procrastinate on actually playing the game until the patch is released. :whistle:

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Probably better off playing Blood with Raze or NBlood or BloodGDX than Fresh Supply as well.

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Not that it affects me, but has it even been confirmed that the Steam version will maintain Linux support? It seems to be in the gift of the publisher, and the Steam listing only has Windows system requirements.

I would have been more than happy just to pay for the game on itch.io instead, but they owe me nothing so I can not complain. Credit for maintaining the free version.

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Quoting: Cyba.Cowboy

Quoting: HamishYou do realize you are replying two months after the fact, right?

I am glad they got that resolved though.

That may be true, but it's not something they just fixed... It's been listed as "Linux compatible" for a long time now (several years).

Not according to the Internet Archive:
https://web.archive.org/web/20210414005231/https://www.gog.com/game/crystal_caves_hd

Are you confusing it with Crystal Caves Classic which had a Linux DOSBox wrapper?

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Quoting: Cyba.Cowboy

Quoting: bradgy

Quoting: Hamish

Quoting: HerrLangeWhere is Commander Keen?

More to the point, will Linux now get a release for Crystal Caves HD?

It already has! Been playing it on my laptop with ubuntu.

https://www.gog.com/game/crystal_caves_hd [External Link] (not advertised as such but comes with the Linux installer as an extra)

Um, it quite literally says that Linux-based operating systems are supported...
"Works on: Windows (7, 8, 10), Linux (Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04)"

You do realize you are replying two months after the fact, right?

I am glad they got that resolved though.

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By the time I get around to actually playing any of these retro inspired shooters the games will already have become retro themselves. :whistle:

Assuming they go DRM free I am still going to buy them of course. Now, back to winning the Quake II mission packs.

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