Quoting: oldrocker99An amazingly thorough presentation, Liam, and I am impressed with the effort you went through

Only it was Samsai that did it. Credit where credit is due and all that.

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All that I can say is that I personally have had nothing but good experiences with R600g ever since I got my Radeon HD 4670 back in 2011 and that I am still having great experiences with my new Radeon HD 6870 in 2015.

Now that I own the new Shadow Warrior I will finally be able to properly test out the new card though. Other than Trine 2 I have been lacking in terms of a decent benchmark.

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Thanks to the launch of yesterday's Humble Indie Bundle, I had a lot more Linux game purchases to report for March. :)

I also grabbed both of the Enhanced Editions of Baldur's Gate from GOG.com earlier in the March, so that brings me to nine games in total.

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First time in a long time I saw a Humble Bundle and just bought it. On the spot. Without hesitation. Yes.

I am nigh on incoherence right now.

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Talk to Bethesda. With Carmack gone the id name is just a lucrative IP pool.

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I have posted on the GOG.com forums to ask about if/when this will also appear there:
Shadow Warrior (2013) Linux and Mac - Coming to GOG.com?

It would be nice if the new Rise of the Triad could also makes its way to Linux at some point, not that I am complaining mind. :)

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Quoting: StyromaniacThat is wrong to me as well as Ubisoft forcing Uplay onto Steam customers.

I always love this argument. Pot calling the kettle much?

Don't get me wrong, I certainly agree that Uplay deserves a far blacker reputation than Steam, but I always love it when denizens of one potentially walled garden complain about the need to frequent another due to a game they want being locked into another service.

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I am a Linux user first and a gamer second, and I have not dual booted since I was offered the opportunity to stop using Windows for my schooling back in 2007. I actually got more into games after I made the transition.

I personally rate being DRM free as being a heavier requirement than being Linux native though. While being Linux native means I can run the game on my system now, being DRM free makes it far more likely that I will be able to run the game on my system ten years from now, and so on and so forth. This is also part of the reason that I am so very much in favour of legacy source code releases, even though I do concede that it does not really affect my purchasing decisions.

I do still use WINE but not for any modern titles - I must admit to having bought a Windows game on GOG.com recently that I had previously played through WINE, mostly because I wanted a good digital copy. There are a few other older games on there which I might do the same on if I ever see them heavily discounted as well. Seeing as I am supporting GOG.com by doing so and that the vast majority of my purchases are still Linux native, I do not really feel the need to feel all that guilty about it, even though it is still a concession.

I can also say that being a Linux native gamer has actually broadened my horizons when it comes to genre. I would probably have never gotten into Dungeons of Dredmor or the Penumbra Collection if they were not on Linux, and now they are among some of my favourite game titles of all time. The genre which I do have the most affinity for is still classic shooters though, something that Linux happens to be fairly well stocked with.

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I actually had to admit to buying a Windows game for once in my life, but it was for less than $2 dollars and I bought two Linux supporting games with it on GOG for much more than that.

Still though. :|

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I must admit to being rather skeptical about this, actually.

When I first heard that there was to be a new Frozenbyte game, I was kind of hoping for something new. Trine only had so many more places that it could go, and Trine 2 was already mining the esoteric in an attempt to add variety. Sadly the trailer, for me at least, did not serve to really alter my views on the matter. Adding more perspectives just seems to be one more gimmick, one last attempt to breath new life into the franchise. I can also see it frustrating the rest of the game.

All that being said, I would be thrilled if Frozenbyte goes on to prove me wrong, and I do want them to succeed with this. There is a certain symmetry in having three Trine games that I can not deny. I also have to disagree with Cheese's assertion that Trine 2 was darker than the first though, what with it removing most of the horrific elements and embracing more camp.

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