Might be a good stepping stone into the genre for me if it ever enters my price range.

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Quoting: snizzoI could reply to you to all these points (like making you notice that the pure number of articles is of absolutely no meaning towards what you're trying to demonstrate (hint: objectivity and not doing click-baiting covering topics that will generate free hate, more hints?

You were suggesting that AMD and MESA were getting partial treatment due to the amount of coverage they received on Phoronix. I showed that Nvidia was getting a comparable amount of coverage, demonstrating that your initial assertion was flawed. Which, I will remind you, was the basis of my entire argument. The content of the articles is actually in many ways immaterial when it comes to that argument, although I do think you would be hard pressed to demonstrate that Micheal Larabel himself has shown any kind of consistent bias against Nvidia.

Quoting: snizzolook at difference between omgubuntu and phoronix reader base

Now here is an example of a statement that has "absolutely no meaning towards what [we] are discussing", and is merely being used as a deflection intended to shift the focus away from a point you now feel the need to dissociate yourself with. The readership of two different websites has no bearing on anything when it comes to your claims of biased coverage on Phoronix.

In fact, the opinions expressed by Phoronix readers or those on its forums also have no bearing on what you are now arguing here either. You are going after Phoronix itself, which by and large is Micheal Larabel, not his readers.

Quoting: snizzoYou're using rethoric and mixing pseudo science with real (infused?) truth, while, of course I was talking about an opinion. The fact that you replied so hard on this, and that you want me to admit my supposed guilt, simply demostrate, at my eyes, that my personal opinion was right and reinforced. Therefore, I won't reply again, my ego does not depend on people reading comments on forums.

You were making claims that are not backed up by the available evidence. While those claims certainly count as your opinion they do not in any way correlate to established fact. Call that pseudo-science if you like, get yourself further entrenched in your own head space if you like, but I will still repeat my suggestion that you try a little introspection here.

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Easily still Wednesday here.

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Quoting: rkfgI can mostly relate to the Liam's experience.

Except this not Liam's review, but Samsai's.

Credit where credit is due, and all that.

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Quoting: M@yeulCYes, I wouldn't call this game "closed room", this is more likely due to its Rogue like nature.

The point I was making is that the combat is more Painkiller than it is Quake, wherein you enter a combat stage, the door slams shut behind you, and you must contend with whatever is thrown at you using only the tools you have at your disposal at the time, other than what is given to you from item drops.

Quoting: ziabiceThe only thing that keeps me away from Ziggurat is his roguelike nature: I really loved Doom for his level design. The levels are fantastic, and even after years I can still remember nearly all of them and enjoy the game.

Agreed, and more crafted levels are one of the things I did miss when I played Ziggurat, but as I said in the article the game's personality was still enough for me to be able to carry on without it. I do still long for a solid FPS campaign in an Indie title though.

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Quoting: snizzo

Quoting: Hamish

Quoting: snizzoYes please. Just don't be like phoronix and turn this website into a kde, mesa, manjaro, amd etc. zealots center. It's so annoying just reading over 9000 news about the latest commit on amd mesa and all of the hate towards nvidia in general (given that's still the best vendor hardware/software for gaming on linux).

So basically you are complaining that Phoronix covers topics that you hate? And then you turn around and complain about other people being haters?

I think you need to do a little introspection here.

Oh gosh. My message is so difficult to understand? I'm not complaining that phoronix covers some topics (that I don't hate). I'd prefer it to be a news site that gives the same space to everything and treat it objectively, like a journalist do and unlike a blogger do. I'm more and more thrilled to see how many people just don't get what's written in a small comment.

You are annoyed by Michael Larabel's coverage of AMD and Mesa because you prefer Nvidia, and you are complaining about zealotry. I am not misreading your words here. Larabel for all his sins (and he has a few) does give fairly broad coverage of all kinds of topics in the Linux community, including Nvidia.

You just need to do a quick search to see that I am right:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_topic&q=NVIDIA [External Link]

AMD and Mesa are going through a huge amount of change right now and have been doing so for the past ten years. I think that is worthy of the amount of news coverage it has been getting. Nvidia is not getting forgotten. You just seem to be irked by the fact that your preferred option does not completely dominate the conversation.

EDIT: Case in point, here are some statistics:
794 AMD news articles published on Phoronix.
612 NVIDIA news articles published on Phoronix.

Now that is a 9000/1 ratio if ever I saw one...

EDIT 2: And just so I can not be accused of selective quoting, in reference to your original post:

Quoting: snizzoSo yes, I'd like you to post news about linux in general, just don't be too obsessive writing at topics that generate traffic through hate and religion like phoronix do.

You mention KDE, Mesa, Manjaro, and AMD in the same breath as "topics that generate traffic through hate and religion" and yet you still maintain that you do not hate the subject matter. Again, some introspection here would be nice. You do seem to take considerable umbridge with them being discussed.

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Quoting: snizzoYes please. Just don't be like phoronix and turn this website into a kde, mesa, manjaro, amd etc. zealots center. It's so annoying just reading over 9000 news about the latest commit on amd mesa and all of the hate towards nvidia in general (given that's still the best vendor hardware/software for gaming on linux).

So basically you are complaining that Phoronix covers topics that you hate? And then you turn around and complain about other people being haters?

I think you need to do a little introspection here.

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Quoting: CheesenessThose are fair feelings, I suppose. Dark Forces is hard to come back to if you're used to games that let you save mid-level. It was my first FPS game and I didn't come at it with any expectations or baggage, so it's easier for me to overlook that sort of thing. That said, I'm super looking forward to Dark XL's Linux release!

And in my case Dark Forces is one of the few FPS games of that era I have not played, having grown up on Doom and Duke Nukem 3D and then later falling in love with Blood, and I am not even that huge a Star Wars fan to begin with, so it is harder for me to approach it with the same mindset. As I said though I did play Dark Forces II a lot when I was younger as we got it for Christmas one year, so that one does curry special favour with me.

Quoting: CheesenessElite Force was a pretty good, but distractingly Quake3-ish for me. I think there's just something about controls built for an arena shooter that make it harder to appreciate a flowing first person narrative - at the very least though, it wouldn't have been the right choice for Jedi Outcast, which was a sequel to an existing franchise with its own sensibilities and identity.

Granted I also love Quake III to death which might make me biased here, but I do recall often getting frustrated while playing Jedi Outcast, and would have liked something as solid as Quake III's controls. Smooth navigation and solid gunplay have always been very important to me, and for whatever reason they did not really click with me in Jedi Outcast. But again, any analysis on my part is hampered by my not fully remembering what it was about the game that bothered me.

Quoting: CheesenessSo far as story goes, Jedi Outcast feels a lot more solid to me than Jedi Academy (which I thought was kinda weak and plodding). I'm not really a fan of the whole artificial-force-user thing as I mentioned in my article, and there's a lot about all four of the Jedi-oriented installments of the series that fall into the trap of the kind of stuff which eventually lead to the kind of nonsense that is The Force Unleashed.

Academy's plot was nothing special, but I did like the branching mission structure it had. I do agree with you about the Reborn though, and I recall they were a lot of the reason why I did not like the plot. In Dark Forces II the powers of the Valley of the Jedi were left vague enough that you could read what you liked into them, while in Jedi Outcast it is shown creating a bunch of force wielding doofuses that can be killed by falling off a ledge. Defeating Jerec seemed important, while I just could never take Desaan seriously. I also found myself cringing at the Luke and Lando fan service in the game at the time. Of course Katarn would be good friends with both of them...

Quoting: CheesenessWould be super interested to hear your thoughts on Jedi Outcast after a re-play!

Well, I am sure I will come back to it one day, if only to keep myself from talking through my hat about it like I have been doing here. ;)

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Quoting: CheesenessJedi Outcast uses id Software's id Tech 3 engine, but manages to escape some of the Quake 3-esque feel that is present in Star Trek: Voyager - Elite Force (Raven's previous game made with the same engine) and many other id Tech 3 games.

You make that sound like it is a good thing. :P

I recall disliking a lot about Jedi Outcast when I first played it following the source code release in 2013, and actually enjoying Jedi Academy more than it, but I am having trouble remembering what my specific complaints were other than taking exception to a lot of the game's story elements. I guess I would need to play it again to see what exactly got my blood boiling the first time around.

That said, in my mind Elite Force still holds up as the best franchise game I have ever played period, and I also grew up playing Dark Forces II, so a lot of my coldness to Jedi Outcast could just have been due to it wilting under the pressure of being compared to those two games.

As for the original Dark Forces though, talk to me again if or when the XL Engine comes out. Not being able to save within levels is simply unreasonable, and was so even at the time of the game's release.

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Quoting: NanobangIn fact it was Hamish's excellence that made it so difficult

Yeah, it can be such a burden. I think I will try being mediocre now instead. ;)

Cheers though.

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