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Quoting: HamishWhile it obviously sucks for those who are suffering from this, I must admit to getting a certain amount of schadenfreude from this. Maybe even a little vindication. ;)

Wow, I wasn't aware that the German word schadenfreude is also common in the US. :)

I thought Hamish was Canadian? As for as the German saying, outside of the Pennsylvania-Dutch communities and their surroundings I don't hear words like this. Granted, Hamish is an intellectual and some of his circles may indeed use such terminology but here in N.Y. I'm stuck trying to teach people it's just "regardless" and other simple things... Yeah not really what I would call common.

Yeah, I am Canadian. As for using schadenfreude, like Xzyl said it is not that common, but it does come up on occasion:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schadenfreude#In_popular_culture [External Link]

As for myself, I picked it up from my mother. No, she is not German. Just well read.

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I should also probably mention that we have a gallery of high quality Blood screamshots over at the Blood Wiki for anyone who wants take a more expansive look at the game:
http://www.blood-wiki.org/index.php/Blood_Screamshot_Gallery [External Link]

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Quoting: melkemindMaybe GamingOnLinux could compile a list of trusted porters with good track records and make sure game companies are aware of reliable options. I doubt any developer wants the negative attention that comes with a port that is no longer supported.

A porting resource for developers could be good.

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Quoting: FutureSutureLinux gamers who have an AMD graphics card and are running the open source driver can literally run this game better than me.

While it obviously sucks for those who are suffering from this, I must admit to getting a certain amount of schadenfreude from this. Maybe even a little vindication. ;)

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OH MY GOD, HE CAN ACTUALLY TALK! WITH PEOPLE!
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/the-dark-descent-of-frictional-games-part-two.4519

The first trailer did not actually impress me all that much, but it is nice to see that Frictional is at least doing some things new going by this one, and of course I am going to be buying it.

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For those who only know Duke Nukem from the FPS games, do not let that put you off, because these are still some of the nicest action platformer games ever made. Even the original despite having only PC speakers sounds still plays surprisingly solid, and the second might just have the best music tracks of the era.

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Quoting: muntdefemsI used to be a Desura champion, and I really wished it to become a real alternative to Steam, but my enthusiasm has totally waned by now. Nothing has changed in the 2.5 years I've been using it, even after changing hands twice. A non-working Linux client, and fewer quality games being released there (and those who do, usually during early development, are totally neglected by the devs once they get into Steam) is nothing to be excited about, that's for sure.

Unfortunately I do have to agree with all of this. Which is sad.

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Thanks for the information ssokolow. That does help alleviate the issue somewhat.

I have gone to the trouble of creating two distinct custom launchers for the GOG.com version. One is a command-line prompt using BASH and the other is a graphical launcher using Zenity.

http://www.blood-wiki.org/index.php/Installation#Custom_GOG.com_Launchers [External Link]

I can't help but feel that I have been doing a lot of their own work for them though.

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So mixed feelings so far using the Linux tarball.

The good news: the game launches fine, with cutscenes and music, and seems faster than my own custom configuration.

The bad news: the CD Music tracks only play once and then stop, and it does not have a selection screen for Cryptic Passage like Shadow Warrior does for its expansions. It does not seem to provide me with any easy way of launching it.

The latter is actually pretty bad. I honestly was expecting better than this, based on my previous experiences with some of their other Build engine game wrappers.

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Full Disclaimer: I am the co-founder and head moderator of the Blood Wiki.
http://www.blood-wiki.org/index.php/Main_Page [External Link]

So of course I am going to bristle a bit at the suggestion that the "control scheme is pretty bad". For what the game is and how it plays the control scheme is perfectly suitable, you just have to break out of the mouselook paradigm ingrained in your head by playing too many modern shooters. Same thing with the difficulty curve. Blood does take some investment, but if you do take the time to take it seriously it really does deserves its place as one of the greatest shooter games of all time. It is better than Duke Nukem.

Honestly though, I am still a little surprised that it showed up for Linux, considering how difficult it was to get Blood onto GOG.com in the first place.

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