Anyway, the GOG.com store page for Ion Maiden now lets you buy it there as well:
https://www.gog.com/game/ion_maiden [External Link]

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Quoting: TechnoJunkyI've made all the suggested changes to the quake4config.cfg file but I have crappy video. It looks like a 1970's cartoon. No shading, flat, boring. I'm running the Nvidia driver on Ubuntu 17.10. I've got the video settings in the game set to Ultra, wide screen.

Sounds to me like you have somehow toggled the "Force ambient light" option in the Advanced Settings. Turn that off and you should be golden.

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It is not like either Harebrained Schemes or Paradox Interactive have been hostile to Linux before, or more to the point, that Harebrained Schemes has failed to deliver a Linux release after the Windows version has shipped before. I know that at least Shadowrun Returns was released on Linux a few months after the Windows release.

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It was odd, when an advertisement for Battletech came up, to see YouTube promoting a game I might actually play.:O

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Quoting: Wendigo"When I was young"™ this was called "Freeware".

More like Shareware really, with it being a less polished version with a beg screen to buy the full game.

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Quoting: HendrinMckayI'm the reverse to be honest, I hate regional pricing. Why? In most cases if I pay in US funds, it is cheaper for me than paying in CDN funds. This goes for both Steam and GOG. Hence why almost all of my purchases as of late are via Itch.io or the odd Humble Bundle purchase.

I am Canadian, and I really appreciate GOG.com letting me pay using Canadian dollars. For instance, when I bought Ion Maiden from the 3D Realms store it was in USD. I go to pay off my credit card, see the pending charge, and transfer over the proper amount. I check my balance a week later and I see I still have a charge of ¢11 because by the time the charge was processed the value of the Canadian dollar had dropped compared to the American dollar. When I pay using Canadian, I can just pay off my card and not worry about currency conversions.

See also what happened to me with edX, where my refund was not enough to cover the entire charge for a course I cancelled because of the drop in the Canadian dollar. Ten years ago my father was doing contract work for a man in Massachusetts, and as such was getting paid in American dollars. Back then the Canadian dollar was worth more than the American, so the value of his pay was actually less than if he was working for a Canadian.

You can both win and lose here, but personally I just don't want the hassle.

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Quoting: kneekooBut I don't see any of these games as cash grabs.

Granted. That was more of an aside to some of the general negative feelings expressed about Ion Maiden, rather than what you wrote in particular.

Quoting: kneekooRebuilding an old game on a new engine takes a lot more effort than the other way around. You need great textures and great visual effects to begin with, because that's the first thing people see. But then there's the need for accuracy in terms of maps and gameplay, which are essential for remakes and "reloaded" stuff. If it doesn't have the proper identity, it's a failure. So a new game on any engine seems a lot easier by comparison.

Sure, it does takes effort, but so does creating an entire new concept from the ground up, and Ion Maiden by virtue of trading on nostalgia had to jump many of the same hurdles in terms of presenting itself as authentic with the added burden of having to create something new. The art burden is certainly no less, and may even be even more difficult as the Ion Maiden developers insisted on using old fashioned techniques for creating the artwork.

I am reminded of how in the newer series of Red Dwarf where they have switched back to physical models rather than just using CGI they have really struggled to find people still capable of shooting physical models effectively, as so much of the industry has switched over to CGI entirely. There are hundreds of developers that could create a new Duke Nukem game on a modern Unreal Engine today, but only a handful that could still create a Build engine game effectively in 2018.

I am not sure if anybody wins in an argument over which is more difficult, but I highly doubt the creation of Ion Maiden is as easy in comparison to a modern remake as you have made out.

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Quoting: kneekooI feel guilty to point this out here, especially with Duke in another camp, but what I really want is Duke Nukem 3D: Reloaded.

To be honest I have never really gotten the appeal of Duke Nukem 3D: Reloaded. Rebuilding an old game on a new engine sounds like much more of a "cash grab" to me than building a new game on an old one.

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I just opened IonMaiden_Preview-1.0.exe with File Roller and extracted all of the files inside to a directory. You need p7zip installed to make this work I believe though.

Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoAnyone of You managed to find all the secret locations?

I have gotten it down to just five secrets left in the first level so far, including finding the Portal reference room posted here earlier.

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Quoting: HamishHere is my question though; GOG.com insists that Galaxy is completely optional, so how do Crackshell handle the Windows version of the game on GOG.com? Surely they must have a Windows version on GOG.com that does not have multiplayer available in order to have a non-Galaxy standalone installer?

This indeed is a point that alienates me. How do they handle games like this one, or Vikings? Can you really run them without Galaxy? It's not listed as a requirement either....

Case in point, Shadow Warrior Classic Redux is on GOG.com for Linux, and that has Galaxy support on Windows. Since they seem to need to provide a version without the Galaxy features enabled anyway, what is preventing the Linux release?

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