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Feral Interactive Are Teasing Us, Again

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Feral Interactive are teasing us with a picture somehow related to an unannounced Linux and Mac port.

A promise is a promise! Here’s a cryptic teaser for an unannounced Mac/Linux game. It’s tricky. Real tricky. Enjoy! pic.twitter.com/ISo6WW3zWW

— Feral Interactive (@feralgames) July 22, 2015



They did add a new game to their feral radar recently, and we believe that it's Alien: Isolation.

It's not clear if this new teaser is about that same unannounced radar signal, or another new unannounced port.

Personally, I think it's great that they tease us, but they still have to deliver on Shadow of Mordor yet. We are a patient bunch though, and whatever it is, it will be awesome I'm sure. If Feral could release Mordor before the end of July, that would be a swell birthday present for me, hint hint.

What say you gamers? What do you think this new teaser is for? A google reverse image search claims it's to do with "Islamic Golden Age". Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Beamboom Jul 22, 2015
Bat**** insane theory #1:

A promise is a promise! Here’s a cryptic teaser for an unannounced Mac/Linux game. It’s tricky. Real tricky. Enjoy!

Tricky is the name of a classic Run DMC song, more importantly, it had a music video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-O5IHVhWj0

At the beginning of the video there are a couple of guys scamming a woman with 3 Card Monte. You may recognize these two individuals as the famed magic/comedy duo Penn & Teller (long before the peak of their fame). Teller's act is that of a mime, he never speaks, which is reminiscent of Harpo Marx of the Marx Brothers who also was a mime as part of his comedy act. Marxism had a great influence on the molding and rise to power of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. The game is Wolfenstein: The New Order or The Old Blood. :P

Oh man that was pure poetry. A masterpiece. Magnificent.

... And a great game too. So let's hope you nailed it!


Last edited by Beamboom on 22 July 2015 at 10:38 pm UTC
sarmad Jul 23, 2015
Waaaait a second: Could this be related to the recent finding in Birmingham? 'Oldest' Koran fragments found in Birmingham University?

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-33436021

Ergo this has more to do with Birmingham, or libraries, than the Koran or islam?


The original image from Feral was a scan of "A Thousand and One Nights," which predates the advent of Islam, so it's not directly related to the Qur'an or Islam. If it is related to anything Arabic or Persian though, any game about the Middle East (including Assassin's Creed) or Central/South Asia is a possibility. Many say the original story came from India or Persia rather than Arabia. But that's probably too easy of a guess. I'm sticking with the Witcher 3 because I want it more. :)

This is not true. The image posted by Feral is from the Islamic era, well after the advent of Islam. Also, the "A Thousand and One Nights" book is a collection of folklore tales that predates Islam, but collecting them into one book with this specific name happened in the Islamic era. However, none of this has anything to do with the Koran. I am guessing the game in question is Prince of Persia.
melkemind Jul 23, 2015
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Waaaait a second: Could this be related to the recent finding in Birmingham? 'Oldest' Koran fragments found in Birmingham University?

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-33436021

Ergo this has more to do with Birmingham, or libraries, than the Koran or islam?


The original image from Feral was a scan of "A Thousand and One Nights," which predates the advent of Islam, so it's not directly related to the Qur'an or Islam. If it is related to anything Arabic or Persian though, any game about the Middle East (including Assassin's Creed) or Central/South Asia is a possibility. Many say the original story came from India or Persia rather than Arabia. But that's probably too easy of a guess. I'm sticking with the Witcher 3 because I want it more. :)

This is not true. The image posted by Feral is from the Islamic era, well after the advent of Islam. Also, the "A Thousand and One Nights" book is a collection of folklore tales that predates Islam, but collecting them into one book with this specific name happened in the Islamic era. However, none of this has anything to do with the Koran. I am guessing the game in question is Prince of Persia.

I didn't say the manuscript predated the "Islamic era." I meant the stories from it did (many of them, anyway).
ellie_feral Jul 23, 2015
To be honest I'd really prefer they release something or at least give us a status about Shadow of Mordor. (technical issue ? ...) Hey Feral, don't tease, release !
How about teases and releases? :D See, it's not a case of "tease or release" it's a case of "tease or not tease". And this is really fun. One of you was getting sooooo close to unravelling the clue yesterday...
WorMzy Jul 23, 2015
Ah, Sonic Adventure 2 then? :P
rustybroomhandle Jul 23, 2015
Following on from someone else in this thread's theory... is it the upcoming "Lara Croft: Rise of the Tomb Raider"?
Xenon Jul 23, 2015
@melkemind: May I remind you of Ferals own comment here:

"Somehow" is definitely the key word here. You're all so good at figuring these things out that we decided to make this one ridiculously tricky...6

So if anything, I'd say the safest guess of ALL is that this hint has nothing whatsoever to do with "A Thousand and One Nights" or theories directly related to that. We have to look wider!

... But where? Now that's anyones guess :)

The Elder Scrolls?
FredO Jul 23, 2015
Sonic and the Secret Rings was based on "A thousand and One Nights", but it was on the Wii. So what about Sonic Generations?
ricki42 Jul 23, 2015
Ok... 1001 as binary converted to decimal is 9.

It's Elder Scrolls: Oblivion! From the Steam page:
"included in the Game of the Year edition are Knights of the Nine..."
'Knights' sounds like 'nights' and 9 is 1001, so '1001 Nights' = 'Knights of the Nine'!
Please be true!


Last edited by ricki42 on 23 July 2015 at 12:29 pm UTC
Eike Jul 23, 2015
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'Knights' sounds like 'nights' and 9 is 1001, so '1001 Nights' = 'Knights of the Nine'!

... in binary! :D
Beamboom Jul 23, 2015
It's Elder Scrolls: Oblivion! From the Steam page:
"included in the Game of the Year edition are Knights of the Nine..."
'Knights' sounds like 'nights' and 9 is 1001, so '1001 Nights' = 'Knights of the Nine'!

Another gorgeous theory!

... But I hope it's not Oblivion, I must admit.
wolfyrion Jul 23, 2015
Well unless if the manuscript is supposedly a SCROLL then

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim!!! Confirmed! :D
Stoney_Fish Jul 23, 2015
Night rhymes with might, but it's not Mighty No.9 as it has already been announced.

Knights would guard a princess and Blondie also had another song "Heart of Glass" which leads to the psp game "Glass Heart Princess"

Blondie's song "One way or another" was released in 1978 , the same year that brought us "Space Invaders", Aliens are space invaders so It could be an "Aliens" game.

There are Knights in Quake, never counted but maybe 1001 and Steam is releasing the Quakecon Bundle 2015 tomorrow, maybe they've all been ported. (It includes The Elder Scrolls)
vulture Jul 23, 2015
We will never have Assassin's Creed games on Linux... Maybe the first game because it does not use Uplay but the next games, it's a dream sorry...

you obviously never saw how UPlay is implemented on consoles. same way is possible anywhere if they wanted, only question is if Valve would agree or not to get the same in SteamOS (and I sincerely think that whole problem is only who gets how much when game is bought trough one or another)

just short overview:
- each game ships with UPlay included and accessible trough game menu and only usable when game is running
- more or less, each game i saw only controlled content for that game
- there is no UPlay client on console it self

and since Steam uses digital content, not hard media like consoles. being able to add other games trough UPlay wouldn't be as hard as elsewhere. it could only add code to your library and you're done
sunbeam4 Jul 23, 2015
"rise of the tomb raider" will see a 2016 PS4 release.


Last edited by sunbeam4 on 23 July 2015 at 5:18 pm UTC
Leftmost Cat Jul 23, 2015
Clearly we need to analyze the content of 1001 Nights. The clear answer is Magic Carpet, as one of the tales contains a depiction of just that object.
pete910 Jul 23, 2015
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I know what it is, it's so easy it's not even funny!



Its a .........


Game
sub Jul 23, 2015
That was easy. There is a book called "1001: Video Games You Must Play Before You Die", on the back cover there is Lara Croft. It's a Tomb Raider!!!
The reboot? Ugh. I mean it would be a great get for Linux as it's a big name game and very popular, but I hated that game with a passion.

Hmm, don't think it has anything to do with Tomb Raider.

The upcoming Rise of the Tomb Raider is XBox exclusive (at least for quite some time) and the current one is already available for Mac and, thus, does not fit the hint related to an unannounced Linux and Mac port.

Just read that "Rise of the Tomb Raider" will see a spring release 2016 on PC.
So my argument does not hold.

I liked the current Tomb Raider. Would certainly buy RotTR if it gets a Linux/SteamOS release.
BabaoWhisky Jul 24, 2015
I can't imagine that Feral will release old or very old games... We want that Linux become a new platform for AAA's Video Games but you, you want these old games, it's a joke no ?

Who are interesting by these games, Sonic, Ruins or the must "Magic Carpet" which is a DOS games etc... stop to talk about these relic ... It's a nightmare for me.
FredO Jul 24, 2015
This thread is not asking what we want - of course we all want the latest AAA games on Linux, and nobody has suggested otherwise. Feral already know what they are porting here.
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