Well, I just finished playing through Wanton Destruction again. This time with actual boss encounters!
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/the-big-three-build-engine-games-on-gog.5491/article_page=1

I am also considering giving Max Payne 2 another whirl through WINE just so I can try to unlock the happier ending. At least it is a fairly short campaign.

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Quoting: dubigrasu

While I do appreciate the enhanced textures I am still not sold on the new aesthetic that the BFG Edition creates, with the darker lighting from the original game in particular looking far better than the brighter world included with the BFG Edtion. Further many of the game features themselves have been altered or badly cut resulting in a game that is far less interesting to play.

Can you elaborate a bit on that? Thanks

In the original Doom 3 campaign it is mostly just little changes and cuts to certain scripted events as well as the removal of the handheld flashlight, but in Resurrection of Evil they made a whole lot of frankly stupid cuts such as replacing all of the new arcade machines with clones of Super Turbo Turkey Puncher 3.

The Doom Wiki has a more elaborate list:
https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Doom_3:_BFG_Edition#Differences_with_Doom_3 [External Link]

There were also several edits to the bundled versions of Doom and Doom II as well.

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Thanks for all of the kind words everyone. I almost was not able to get this article out in time for Halloween due to a crisis on my farm that I have now hopefully managed to navigate okay. Fingers crossed.

With regards to multiplayer, I was under the impression that whatever the status of the Windows version of the BFG Edition on GOG.com it did not really matter to Linux users as we would be bound to the multiplayer support included with RBDOOM-3-BFG anyway. Since the original release was Steamworks tied we would be stuck just with LAN multiplayer on Linux regardless.

And as for the few people commenting in favour of the BFG Edition here, that is perfectly okay, my own comments were just a bit of editorializing on my part. I am also someone who favours Chocolate Doom for when I go back every few years to play the Ulitmate Doom or Doom II again, so there you go.

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Quoting: vlademir1

Quoting: HamishSo am I letting the side down then by having a more than five year old rig that uses a ton of second hand parts?

First, I want to second Liam, this is not a pissing contest by any stretch. Second, years old tech is hardly outdated let alone something to think of as "letting down" the Linux community.

I see you missed the sarcasm. :whistle:

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Quoting: AnxiousInfusionParticipating in this survey has a ratcheting effect on my choice in hardware. I feel as though I can never migrate to anything less powerful than what I have because it would harm the overall "score" of Linux gamer computer strength.

So am I letting the side down then by having a more than five year old rig that uses a ton of second hand parts?

Isn't one of the strengths of Linux that we can make it work on all kinds of hardware?

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What bothers me is that last year I had five broken kernel updates on my CentOS partition and not a single issue on my main Arch partition. There are no guarantees folks.

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Last Humble Bundle I bought was Humble Indie Bundle 14 back in 2015, with my interest in them having already dwindled well before then. For me they stopped being a large part of my gaming life a long time ago. And I used to buy every Humble Indie Bundle they produced.

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After playing The Lost Mission from Doom 3: BFG Edition I found myself playing Doom 3 proper again through dhewm3 to compare the two versions.

Might be an article in that. Maybe.

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I get why the Wine question is relevant, but it does look a bit odd next to what is mostly just system and software specifications. It really is more to do with gauging the Linux gaming culture on here, which is a valid thing to want to measure, but kind of opens the survey up to a whole new world of questions. For instance, you might now want to ask what online game stores people have used, or whether they are okay playing games that employ DRM, or even just adding a manual field where people can list what games they have recently played.

If you ever do decide to go down this road though what I would suggest is having these questions listed as a separate "Player info" or similar section on people's profiles rather than just having them bunched in with the rest of the Computer info which is mostly just dry hardware information.

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This is why I still love and use Zaphod Mode, as it makes each screen live in a world of its own. True, you can not move windows between screens, but once you adjust your workflow to accommodate for this it just becomes second nature that you need to launch a separate instance of an application on each screen. It is also why I am on Xfce now instead of GNOME, as for whatever reason GNOME refuses to play well with Zaphod Mode. Still, it allows me all of the benefits of having a single screen while still giving me a second head to play with. And I never have to deal with a game launching on the wrong screen.

EDIT: Just in case anyone is interested, I have done a little housekeeping and uploaded my xorg.conf:
http://icculus.org/~hamish/configs/xorg.conf [External Link]

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