Quoting: MrNilsson

Quoting: kaiman

Quoting: MrNilssonI haven't played a point-and-click adventure for ages.

Just by reading the article, I'd wager there are better candidates worthy of your attention :-). P&C Adventures had a pretty fruitful phase over the past couple years, and more hot stuff in the pipeline.

Quoting: EikeINHO, sorry to the devs, there are lots of better alteratives if you don't fancy a... simple humour. If you tell about your preferences, I'm sure we'll find recommendations.

Well I think the last one I played was Grim Fandango or a Leisure Suit Larry game. The last few years I just played the Counter Strike games, Rainbow Six Siege and some Fortnite on the PC and sport & adventure games on the PS4. If you're up you can tell me some must plays on Linux. Doesn't have to be only point-and-click adventures. But it would be nice if the games were native Linux games. I just want to explore Linux games at the moment as I'm new to Linux.

From Point and Click games I can definitely recommend Pillars of Earth. The gameplay is not much to write home about, but the story is excelent. You can also give Port Valley Free Demo a try. I played it and it's.. alright. If 4th wall breaking is your thing, you will probably enjoy it.

My personal favourites among native Linux games:

Mount and Blade: Warband - a 1st/3th person RPG. It's sort of similar to Total War Games the way it plays except it is an RPG. You have your tactical map where you decide your moves within the realm. Then for battles, it switches to 1st/3th person view to give you control over your characters, but you also use F1-F5 keys to command your troops. If you ever felt like wanting to be a lord in Westeros from Game of Thrones, this is the game to play. It even has a great Game of Thrones mod.

Day of Infamy - Best tactical shooter I've played since Battlefield 1942. It's something between Counter Strike and Battlefield

Pyre - a mix between sports game and choose-your-adventure visual novel. It is sort of a magical basketball/rugby tournament with story implemented into it.

Distance - crazy racing platformer (just watch the trailer for it to get an idea what the game is)

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This needs a Battle Royale mode. I'm not even joking.

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Quoting: AcrophobicI've been playing Terraria lately. I've never played sandbox game before but I've heard many good thing about it. Since it was dirt cheap on last sale, I bought it. Unfortunately, I don't really like it, but somehow I can't stop playing it.

Exactly how I would describe my time with Terraria. I would even give it a the status of great game, if it wasn't for the shitty control mechanics.

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These statements are consistent. 99.9% of game playing is on mobile, console, and PC. A game developer who’s frustrated with other platforms can’t just retreat to Linux. They couldn’t earn a living. We have to fight for our freedoms on today’s platforms as they stand.

This is simply not true. It's essentialy the same as saying a developer who is unhappy with Steam can't simply retreat to using Epic Game Store, because 90% of PC game sales are on Steam. This really depends on what the game is and how much people want to play it. Not gonna lie, before Steam Play became a thing, there were indeed games for which I wanted to install Windows. And that works both ways. If for example, Cyberpunk 2077 released exclusively on Linux, my estimate is that only about 5% people would refuse to install Linux to play it. Especially since Linux is free.

Quoting: fagnerlnHe has a good perception of freedom.

Stores can do whatever it want, even a exclusivity.

Devs can do whatever they want, so they can accept offers, they can develop for the systems that they like.

Users can use the service they want.

It's all that simple.

I like the idea of Tim talking about Linux, maybe we will receive a native port of Fortnite sometime

Yep, but also:

Stores can dislike what an OS provider does.
Devs can dislike what a store, engine-developer, OS provider etc.. does.
Users can dislike what devs, stores, operating systems etc.. do.

Just because they have the right to do it, doesn't mean I have to be okay with it. If a developer for whatever reason decides to release exclusively in one store, or decides to not release on store of my liking, it is within my right to dislike this decision and express my dislike over it publicly. As well as it is my right to not buy said game because of this decision.

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Mount & Blade Warband. All day, every day. People who say cocaine is addictive never played that game.

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Quoting: x_wing

Quoting: RoosterThat depends on how you look at it. Saying that the only way to get DRM-free content is by using GOG is indeed not true.
However, saying that the only way to keep getting DRM-free content is supporting GOG is pretty reasonable, since providing DRM-free content is literally GOG's mission. No other store made such effort to provide DRM-free content as GOG. So if I, as a user, want to get DRM-free content, using GOG is indeed the way to do so.

Of course, there is "for the cause" argument too. But nobody gave that argument, we were debating about DRM-free content.

Again, is all about a store preference in the end.

I know, I just wanted to point it out, since I felt it is relevant to the discussion.

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Quoting: x_wingbut is completely stupid to keep saying that the only way to get "fully DRM-free" content is by using GOG.

That depends on how you look at it. Saying that the only way to get DRM-free content is by using GOG is indeed not true.
However, saying that the only way to keep getting DRM-free content is supporting GOG is pretty reasonable, since providing DRM-free content is literally GOG's mission. No other store made such effort to provide DRM-free content as GOG. So if I, as a user, want to get DRM-free content, using GOG is indeed the way to do so.

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About half a year ago I moved to a new flat. I checked the wifi options for my new address and they were shit. Also, wifi at home for me leads to heavy procrastination. In the end I decided to not have wifi at my home. However, for gaming I have a pretty good desktop and very very weak laptop. I'm only interested in single player game atm, so with GOG, there is no problem. I simply download a game on my laptop and then copy the .sh file to my desktop once home. But with Steam, I cannot do this. With Steam, I currently have no way of installing new games on my PC, unless I carry my whole PC and monitor to another place.

Therefore, sites like GOG, Humble and Itch which allow you to download the .sh file are my only option for new games.

EDIT: I did not know about steamcmd, I will give it a try.

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Wow, this will be an insta buy for me. I also just became a patreon.

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Will give this a try, when more time.

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