I must admit to being a little perturbed to hear that Senscape is working on another game when Asylum is not even out yet. I have been hearing about this game for years and it is still not done yet, and I can not help but feel that they need to focus on that before trying anything new.

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Quoting: Xylemonid Software has had the opportunity to do this for so many years via Steam, but it seems Zenimax wants them putting no effort at all towards Mac or Linux. Such a shame really, especially since up until Quake 4 there were official Linux ports.

There were Linux ports even as recently as Enemy Territory: Quake Wars in 2007 actually. It should be noted though that other than Quake Live the Linux releases that were put out by id Software at that time were not actually official ports as you claim but instead the personal work of Timothee Besset who left the company around when Zenimax forcibly stamped out the practice of releasing unofficial binaries.

I think the most damning thing is that no id Software titles have even appeared on GOG.com for any platform, except for the ones that were published by Apogee and as such could be placed there by them. It is a real shame that I can not recommend a good place to buy Doom or Quake.

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Quoting: CybaCowboyI was referring to what the media and seemingly the majority of the public thought of the game... As for myself, I actually quite liked MP (though I never did get around to finishing it...)

Fair enough.

Quoting: HamishSee, I am only sort-of familiar with the work involved in porting a game, but if it's as easy as you lead me to believe, it would certainly be preferred considering that in most cases, native support runs better than a compatibility layer like WINE, an emulator or a virtual machine...

It does depend on the technologies used, but porting in of itself does not necessarily need to be harder than using other methods:
http://www.hardware.no/artikler/ryan_c_gordon_and_michael_simms/68450/2 [External Link]

Quoting: micmonI would buy this for a native DN:MP port alone

Well, of course we are all just speculating at this point...

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Quoting: CybaCowboyIt'll be a WINE port, because I highly doubt they'd go to the effort of natively porting a game that was only considered "average" to "above average" to begin with...

It was certainly ten times the game that DNF was despite what you claim, and in someways it was actually where Duke was on his best form, in terms of both the quality of his lines as well as the general portrayal of his character. It was not perfect but MP was still a very fun game.

Also, if they do have proper source code access to it then it would be an absolute doddle to port to Linux and Mac as they already had full OpenGL support to begin with. A professional porting contractor could probably at least get the game running on Linux or Mac in a day or two without too much trouble.

In fact, I would wager that in terms of difficulty making a native port or doing a supported WINE wrap would actually be about the same in terms of effort, especially when you consider the fact that they are targeting both Linux and Mac here.

A lot of people these days make porting out to be far more difficult than it really is, especially when proper cross-platform technologies were taken into account in the first place.

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Quoting: TerynSo long as they keep their end of the bargain and keep it DRM-free, this box looks like an awesome deal!

3D Realms was one of the first to get on board with GOG.com and have been selling their own titles without DRM for quite awhile - I do not think we need to worry about that too much.

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I wonder what they are doing with Manhattan Project, whether or not it will be WINE wrapped or instead a proper native port. Both would be an absolute doddle to do.

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Frictional was still the publisher for A Machine For Pigs and had a supervisory role on it, so they can not completely wash their hands of it, if you would agree to the term..

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Quoting: DrMcCoyAnd while I do think it's weaker, I still like The Dark Descent. A Machine for Pigs kinda didn't really grip me, I'm saddened to say.

Oh, don't get me wrong, I do still like Amnesia as well, and can even say a few nice things about Piggies... but then I should save any elaboration on that front for the next article. ;)

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There should be no need for the client just to download and play the game though.

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I feel that I should now point out that on September 8th icculus's Trello page had "Update Linux and Mac Postal 2" moved from "Unsorted To Do" to "Doing". :)

https://trello.com/c/6djZ447x/78-update-linux-and-mac-postal-2 [External Link]

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