That's a great release. I was waiting for a long time for them to be released on GOG. X3 Reunion has the common big partitions bug (which comes up on XFS partitions), since it's a 32 bit version. The common workaround with using a small loop image helps.

I put a list of some affected (and still unfixed) games here: https://www.gog.com/mix/linux_games_with_large_xfs_partition_bug [External Link]

If you know more of these, please let me know - I'll update the list (or may be even move it to the Wiki).

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I'm disappointed that Witcher 3 wasn't released today. But really I didn't expect it much. It probably won't come out for another year or so.

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Part of this "AAA are needed" and etc. is losing the point because of poorly defined terms. AAA term itself is bad and non descriptive, so if you prefer a meaningful discussion, avoid it altogether and clearly define what you are talking about. People can understand many different things by AAA. Some mean big budget games (probably most common understanding), others mean publisher funded games, yet others mean high quality games (not so common usage, but it's actually what it was originally coined for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAA_(video_game_industry) [External Link]

All these usages make this term very poor for discussions. Take for example big budget games. They can be publisher funded, but there is a growing number of big budget games by independent studios (which are either crowdfunded like inXile games, or funded by investors and studio profits like CD Projekt Red or Flying Wild Hog games). I.e. these games are indie (independent), but they are also big budget. So are they AAA or not? You easily see how ambiguous it gets already. And now throw in the quality. Should horribly broken Batman game be called AAA? Not if you define AAA as quality measure. But it's big budget, publisher funded game... And surely there are high quality (in bugs sense) independent and low budget games. What a mess.

So, if you care about sensible discussion, phrases like "I mostly don't enjoy AAA" aren't helpful at all. If it's about indie vs publisher funded, that's way more clear, since for example independent studios are better at creating good art (i.e. deeper story and so on), while publisher funded ones are more likely to fall victims of the mass market mentality push from the publisher.

Or if you are contrasting big budget vs low budget games - say so explicitly. That would help others avoid arguing for invalid reasons.

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Witcher 3 didn't come out yet.

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Quoting: omer666HOHOHOHOHOHOHO.
Come on you can't be serious!
With Shadowrun: Dragonfall, Pillars of Eternity, Sword Coast Legends, Wasteland 2 and many other great RPGs - that have been already able to actually release the damn port they promised - around the corner, do you think you have the legitimacy to even SELL this game to us?
Pathetic.

Larian were hit by lack of Linux developers I suspect. They develop their own engine, and unlike the above which use Unity, they actually write their own graphics code.

As was pointed out already, the fact that they didn't include Linux in their new crowdfunding campaign is very telling.

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Quoting: JudasIscariotIf the devs make a 64-bit version, we'll put it up :)

You should ask them. 32-bit is already obsolete - there is no point to make such builds anymore.

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Lately I dislike buying games in bundles, because I noticed I rarely have time to play all of them, and they are just sitting in my account never used. So I prefer to focus only on games I'm really interested in, and buy them directly (mostly on GOG).

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Looks fantastic. Do they plan GOG release?

From the site it appears the game is still in the early stages, so they won't be releasing soon. But I wish them luck.

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In this question: Unique Question: Which are the most important factors you consider when buying a new game? I'd say DRM-free is a major factor for me (in addition to others). I.e. if it's not DRM-free, I won't buy it.

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Quoting: Mountain ManI wonder if the original video files still exist for this game and if something like an HD remake could ever happen? That would be awesome.

Yeah, that could be great. You can ask Doug TenNapel if original resources are still available, but again without EA it will never happen, and EA won't care, because it's EA.

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