The game is pretty amazing already. Rock solid Linux version and a very decent tutorial mode for this type of game (unlike Beyond Earth, ughh)!
My first game ended up being a 17-20 hour (my memory and Steam don't agree on this) play session. I'm scared to start the game again :P

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Quoting: STiATI hope the studios / publishers will stop going after reimplementation of engines for playing the games in linux requireing the original copy (since we need to pay for it anyway).

Happened with the guys reimplementing vampires: bloodlines (Project Vaulderie? Seem to have forgotten..)

Looks promising though, taking a few minutes browsing the source I didn't really think they would be able to render properly yet...

Well, they went after them after they started importing and improving character models and redesigning levels in Unity, which is something I would have loved, but it's certainly different than using the original data files.
CCP did go somewhat overboard with their cease and desist letter though: "Specifically, please remove all references to Vampire: The Masquerade and Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines from your website, software, and related materials." [External Link]

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Quoting: xuwangDoes the steam controller work well for this one? I have two steam controllers and am looking for good local coop games.

Last I tried it worked (months ago), but I remember having to set up my own mappings. I'll give it a go now and let you know if it's improved :)

EDIT: Yup, still no native support, but it works reasonably well with the community mapping.

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YES! I will definitely be picking this up! I hadn't heard about it before, so this is great!

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Why isn't this made by Team17? ...that font, those colours...

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Oh no...
View video on youtube.com

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Oooh! That looks great! :D

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Also, apart from the only 11 titles show in Europe, it's down to just 6 in Big Picture Mode for some reason.

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Quoting: Stupendous Man

Quoting: orochikyoBut lets see how people loves to talk about "back up" their movies they "own" (funny fact you never will ever own a game, movie or music, read the eula, you are renting even if you are allowed to download it to your PC), which for me means you will be copying the movie in your friends/family usb so they dont have to pay a penny because you already did pay for it, right? If that is what you want, you can still get DVDs/Bluray disc but no, you want it cheaper, and why not, free!!

Ehm, no. When people talk about backing up 'their' movie (which they paid money to 'own' ), they talk about making a backup copy in case their hard drive breaks. You know, backups.
Of course, if anyone working in the movie industry thinks like you do, that anyone is a thief and a liar, that's why we can't have anything nice. A little trust towards your clients would go a long way, you know.

Precisely. Or in the case of physical discs, in case the media wears out or you know, you just like having your films digitally on your media centre, without having to go fetch a disc, turn on the bluray player and then sit through messages telling you not to be the thief you obviously aren't since you bought the damn disc. Besides, most blurays I get these days are special editions that aren't released where I live, meaning I have to break the encryption since optical media films are region locked! If I didn't have a bluray player, I'd have to break the DRM anyway just to play it on my Linux computer!

Also, I've never heard of anyone copying DVDs or Blurays to their friends. Everyone I've ever met, that lent movies to their friends, either lent them the actual disc or a burned copy downloaded off the internet. In short, DRM didn't even factor into it.

TL;DR: DRM only hinders the consumer in their right to play the contents they paid for and has basically no effect on piracy. (note: only talking film and music here)

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Quoting: melkemind

Quoting: CandricSWhat is a fourth-person?

First-person is when you're seeing from the point of view of the character and third-person is when you're observing the character as if there was a camera there. What would fourth-person be?

Just taking a guess here, but maybe you don't control the person at all, just the environment. Or maybe you make suggestions to the character and they may or may not listen? I have no idea. :S:

Well, fourth-person in grammar is either when one is referring to a general group instead of an individual (like I just did with "one" :P), or it's when referring to a second third-person or a third-person different from the normally assumed one.
If they use it in the second meaning here, you could indeed be controlling the environment (second third-person) instead of the little guy running around (third-person).

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