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Latest Comments by Ilya
Feral Interactive Are Teasing Us, Again
25 Jul 2015 at 12:11 am UTC

Quoting: sunbeam4payday 2, spelunky, Shantae ?
Payday 2 and Spelunky were already announced for Linux, weren't they?

Kill The Bad Guy: Vindictive Impressions Of A Vindictive Physics Puzzler
24 Jul 2015 at 1:10 pm UTC

or park where you're your target will be lurking
ftfy :-)

The Funding Crowd 48
16 Jul 2015 at 1:41 am UTC Likes: 1

Really sad about Voxelnauts, it looks amazing, I hope they still get funded a different way, seeing the work they already have I believe they will find a way!

LEGO Minifigures Online Released For Linux, Some Thoughts
3 Jul 2015 at 4:02 am UTC

Quoting: KimyrielleI don't get the "games need to be hard" attitude, personally.
The fun of a whole lot of games lies in being challenging. Take Chess, Checkers or pretty much any other boardgame, nearly all of them exist to pit humans against each other. There's exceptions of games where people have to work together against the game itself e.g. D&D, a rather interesting case because this is arguably more about the Dungeon master's story-telling than about challenging the players. In any case, it's a mix of the two. Arcade games were made hard for obvious reasons, but most commercially available videogames (all that I know) were also made to be difficult. As technology advanced more story intensive accessible (no walls and walls of text) games have become possible. Then there is the typical mobile game that has neither story, nor challenge, but exists solely to waste your time (and money in a lot of cases).
I think a good game should either be challenging or good at telling a story (or both!) There's really easy games that I've enjoyed because they had a great story (To The Moon springs to mind), and there's really hard games with no story that I've enjoyed (Geometry Wars), but I'm not a big fan of easy games with no good story (I haven't played LEGO Minifigures, so I don't know if it fits, I'll probably get it eventually because I want more LEGO games on Linux)
That's just personal opinion tho.

Civilization V Now Supports Steam Workshop On Linux
20 Jun 2015 at 7:16 pm UTC Likes: 2

Workshop worked, but you had to move files around a bit, and for a lot of mods you had to make the directory case-insensitive (AAAARGH!)

CRYENGINE 3.8.1 Adds Official OpenGL & Linux Support
20 Jun 2015 at 11:11 am UTC

So excited about KC: D (isn't that one coming by the end of this year?), I'm also getting Evolve when that comes out!

EDIT: Kingdom Come ETA is Q2 2016, end of 2015 might be beta or sumfing

Alienware Show Off Their SteamOS Steam Machine, Looking Very Positive, More Games To Come
19 Jun 2015 at 3:36 pm UTC

Quoting: maodzedunI hate the fact you can't upgrade it. And the price tag, as well. I understand it's all due to the small form but it still bugs me immensely.
Quoting: CybaCowboyUm, did you even watch the video?
Spoiler, click me
Step 1: See the title
Step 2: Don't watch video
Step 3: Espouse opinion in comment section
Step 4: ???
Step 5: Profit
He's right though, Alienware is the one where the GPU is fixed on the motherboard (at least according to the steam forums). Not sure if you can add another one yourself.

Alienware Show Off Their SteamOS Steam Machine, Looking Very Positive, More Games To Come
19 Jun 2015 at 12:58 pm UTC

Man, I'm hoping so bad that he's not exaggerating when he says 'a lot'. It's not like I don't have sweet games to play, but E3 was slightly disappointing for a fanatux like me.
XCOM 2, Shadow Warrior 2 and Batman.

Sci-fi Colony Sim Builder 'RimWorld' Alpha 11 Released, New Trailer To Show It Off
19 Jun 2015 at 12:52 am UTC

Quoting: WorMzyRimmer World!? :O

Oh. RimWorld. Well, that could be good too, I guess.
Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-ZiI3iVgpM [External Link]

On-topic now.
I like Prison Architect, but the setting never managed to get me into it as much as e.g. Dwarf Fortress, this game looks like it may fill that gap!

Fallout 4 And Steam Machine Release Dates A Coincidence? Yes, Probably.
16 Jun 2015 at 8:14 am UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: burnallIs there a number 3 in date? Maybe we will get HF 3 too.

10.11. - I found a three one's, so HF 3 is confirmed!
What is HF? Half-Fallout?