As new releases are a little light today, and I'm really rather tired it's question time. What has been your biggest let down from a Linux game this year?
Mine is a little controversial, as my personal pick is Dying Light. Now, if you remember from a previous review I liked the general gameplay, but I'm still completely stung by just how terrible the ending is. I can't remember a game that had me so annoyed at the ending it's unreal. It still crashes often too, and with so little communication about patches for it and future performance fixes it's still on my naughty list. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Mine is a little controversial, as my personal pick is Dying Light. Now, if you remember from a previous review I liked the general gameplay, but I'm still completely stung by just how terrible the ending is. I can't remember a game that had me so annoyed at the ending it's unreal. It still crashes often too, and with so little communication about patches for it and future performance fixes it's still on my naughty list. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Probably utterly predictable, coming from me, but:
Divinity: Original Sin
Divinity: Original Sin
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Am with you Liam. Utterly destroyed it for me that did. "press E" "press F..... " done... WTF
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coryrj19951 1 Nov 2015
The only one I haven't even got to play, Raven's Cry. I heard the game was just bad in general, but never even got to check that. I seen somewhere it was an AMD problem. The first and so far only game that I have ever gotten a refund on.
Oh yeah, and Divinity... kinda wanted to play that game... months ago :P
Last edited by coryrj19951 on 1 Nov 2015 at 8:16 pm UTC
Oh yeah, and Divinity... kinda wanted to play that game... months ago :P
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Not sure this counts as the game was originally released earlier for Windows, but 'we' got it this year:
Bioshock Infinite. Don't know I just can't get all the hype, maybe I don't understand it, maybe I can't immerse myself in the world completely, but it just feels like a bland, generic shooter. Entering one arena after another and shooting the baddies, then repeat ad infinitum.
Nice to have the game on linux, absolutely, but I think Bioshock 2 was better both in terms of game mechanics and its ability to produce great atmosphere.
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Bioshock Infinite. Don't know I just can't get all the hype, maybe I don't understand it, maybe I can't immerse myself in the world completely, but it just feels like a bland, generic shooter. Entering one arena after another and shooting the baddies, then repeat ad infinitum.
Nice to have the game on linux, absolutely, but I think Bioshock 2 was better both in terms of game mechanics and its ability to produce great atmosphere.
Last edited by manus76 on 1 Nov 2015 at 8:19 pm UTC
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Another one disappointed with Witcher 3 delay (even though I haven't played W2 yet, but still).
Dying Light is GOTY for me. Yes, the ending is lackluster, but pretty much everything else is pretty great.
[edit] also, 60h played and not a single crash.
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Dying Light is GOTY for me. Yes, the ending is lackluster, but pretty much everything else is pretty great.
[edit] also, 60h played and not a single crash.
Last edited by pb on 1 Nov 2015 at 8:20 pm UTC
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silverphil 1 Nov 2015
Project CARS hasn't come yet
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Kimyrielle 1 Nov 2015
Divinity: Original Sin. Yes, breaking promises is a sin, too!
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GustyGhost 1 Nov 2015
Not a game from this year but this is the first year I've tried on Linux: Dungeon Defenders. The mouse sensitivity is broken so you are forced to either in play bird's eye view or with a gamepad.
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This actually goes all the way back to last year, but Divinity: Original Sin, just shameful.
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From my side, where the **** is witcher 3 now? Also same for Rome total war 2.
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scotsman9999 1 Nov 2015
There isn't any great one for me, but I would have to say collectively it is the promised linux ports that then are delayed, never mentioned again and forgotten. Some less prominent ones that I didn't see mentioned on this site - Pinball Arcade, Digital Leisure's laserdisk games (ie Dragon's Lair), Apogee Throwback Pack, among many others, had ports mentioned once or twice and then shelved.
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One is obvious, like for most of you I guess - Divinity: Original Sin. Second one is less obvious - Darksiders.
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Luke_Nukem 1 Nov 2015
Man, I'm just dying to play Carmageddon. I was seriously hoping to see it this year.
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Giana Sisters Twisted Dreams
I think the most insulting thing about it, is that we've received the biggest runaround for a delay ever. It only slightly tops DoS because everyone stopped caring at this point.
Because it makes me a bit bitter to even mention it, I'm going to lighten the mood and say Skullgirls was the best surprise for me. Unlike GSTD, they actually pulled through and earned my trust. I hope their Indivisible campaign pulls through (LabZero will disband if it doesn't...), the Linux prototype is just amazing.
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Mine is yet another year of AMD disappointment. It seems Crossfire support will remain a dream (which renders my setup useless) and the single driver performance is still crap. It's very irritating considering they virtually closed the gap with Nvidia on Windows with the Omega update last year. It's one of these topics that automatically pisses me off :(((.
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+1 for Project Cars... :/
By the way, as I was lacking a good sim racing, I started playing Dirt Showdown and it's not as bad as I though: it's not a sim but it's fun (even for somebody like me who dislike crashing or scratching a car) and technically very fluid (appart from some wheels missing from the cars - see https://github.com/virtual-programming/dirtshowdown-linux/issues/4 ).
By the way, as I was lacking a good sim racing, I started playing Dirt Showdown and it's not as bad as I though: it's not a sim but it's fun (even for somebody like me who dislike crashing or scratching a car) and technically very fluid (appart from some wheels missing from the cars - see https://github.com/virtual-programming/dirtshowdown-linux/issues/4 ).
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