Feral Interactive are asking what you want ported to Linux again

The Age of Empires series
all Blizzard games
Halo: The Master Chief Collection

You can already play Age of Empires series and all Blizzard games on Linux with recent Wine version.
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Yes we can, but the less work needed the better.

Not yet released games
Empire of Sin
Dying Light 2
Cyberpunk 2077
Vampire the Masquerade: BL 2
Baldur's Gate 3
Resident Evil 3

Already Released
Resident Evil 2 & 7
Expeditions: Viking
Fallout 4

Well... Skyrim of course :)

More realistically, perhaps

* Shadow of War
* Hitman 2
* Grid 2019
* Dirt Rally 2
* Dying Light 2
* Metro Exodus
* A Plague Tale: Innocence

Is it my impression or we're lacking good modern FPS on Linux?
Dying Light is fantastic (may Techland be blessed with a thousand years of prosperity and good fortune). Hopefully we'll have Dying Light 2 on Linux, fingers crossed.
Anything non-RTS. After hell at work, only the prospect of descombobulating vast hordes of zombies with a spoon keeps one mentally sane. Lacking this, any fast wild FPS will do.
Just anything that doesn't require a lot of cognitive effort.
Not RTS.
Definitively not RTS.


Last edited by mborse on 17 Jan 2020 at 12:36 pm UTC

Well... Skyrim of course :)

More realistically, perhaps

* Shadow of War
* Hitman 2
* Grid 2019
* Dirt Rally 2
* Dying Light 2
* Metro Exodus
* A Plague Tale: Innocence

hitman 2 and plague work very good with proton, so i think it is senseless

Feral Interactive needs to partner with other publishers such as BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment and CAPCOM.

Resident Evil 3 Remake and Dragon Ball FighterZ on Linux would be awesome.

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Feral Interactive needs to partner with other publishers such as BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment and CAPCOM.

Resident Evil 3 Remake and Dragon Ball FighterZ on Linux would be awesome.

How do you persuade these companies to even consider Linux? Square Enix shocked me when they teamed up with Feral Interactive in the first place giving us Life Is Strange and the Tomb Raider serials. No doubt it takes months of meetings, possibly begging in there somewhere too??

Feral Interactive needs to partner with other publishers such as BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment and CAPCOM.

Resident Evil 3 Remake and Dragon Ball FighterZ on Linux would be awesome.

How do you persuade these companies to even consider Linux? Square Enix shocked me when they teamed up with Feral Interactive in the first place giving us Life Is Strange and the Tomb Raider serials. No doubt it takes months of meetings, possibly begging in there somewhere too??

The only one running with the financial risk of the Linux porting is Feral; they buy the publishing rights for Linux and Mac and pay for the porting work.
The original publishers don't have to pay anything..

... How do you persuade these companies to even consider Linux? ...

Remember, a wishlist is what is being asked; so actually anything is a valid request... it's rather that feral needs to know to which guys it does make sense to talk to as there's enough potential customers... so, enough requests/demand and feral making a good offer regarding implementation and support and anything might happen... as you already mentioned, feral managed to get some very fine stuff on linux, so why not hope they are able to manage to get a great deal again for other popular games / franchises?

Feral Interactive needs to partner with other publishers such as BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment and CAPCOM.

Resident Evil 3 Remake and Dragon Ball FighterZ on Linux would be awesome.

How do you persuade these companies to even consider Linux? Square Enix shocked me when they teamed up with Feral Interactive in the first place giving us Life Is Strange and the Tomb Raider serials. No doubt it takes months of meetings, possibly begging in there somewhere too??

idk about SquEnix, but the Life Is Strange devs were showing interest from the first episode, save that the middleware they chose made it difficult. Even then, they were saying future projects would be done with Linux in mind.

Feral Interactive needs to partner with other publishers such as BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment and CAPCOM.

Resident Evil 3 Remake and Dragon Ball FighterZ on Linux would be awesome.

How do you persuade these companies to even consider Linux? Square Enix shocked me when they teamed up with Feral Interactive in the first place giving us Life Is Strange and the Tomb Raider serials. No doubt it takes months of meetings, possibly begging in there somewhere too??

The only one running with the financial risk of the Linux porting is Feral; they buy the publishing rights for Linux and Mac and pay for the porting work.
The original publishers don't have to pay anything..

I did not know that, but they still have to get permissions obviously? Would be great if they could get CAPCOM and RockStar.

The original publishers don't have to pay anything..

I did not know that, but they still have to get permissions obviously? Would be great if they could get CAPCOM and RockStar.

They do need to get permissions, the source code, and maybe a little help to get it all up (maybe stuff is missing to get the game together or something). But I still wonder why not more companies do that, given it's very little to no financial risc for them.

There are some blooming clever people out there, as I can play Resident Evil 2 remake without it crashing out. I just wish the instructions to get it going were clearer, as they were actually wrong on a few things and after pulling my hair out, then thinking outside the box, it all came together. I'm someone who never gives up and will keep trying especially where Linux is concerned. I will do a video on how to get it running and yes you could use Glorious Egg Roll but you still have to get MF-Plat from Windows 7 and it needs to be the correct version, as GE has taken all of that out of their Proton scripts. Resident Evil 7 does nothing but crash on the intro movie after pressing start which is a shame. Proton has come along way though, just wish there was a way for WINE to legally have MF-Plat, but as it stands it's owned by Microsoft, even though Winders 7 has gone End Of Life.

The thing is though I would love to see RE2 native, as suffering from lip sync problems through Proton. Though I did read that it does on Winders as well.


Last edited by clatterfordslim on 18 Jan 2020 at 12:56 pm UTC

The original publishers don't have to pay anything..

I did not know that, but they still have to get permissions obviously? Would be great if they could get CAPCOM and RockStar.

They do need to get permissions, the source code, and maybe a little help to get it all up (maybe stuff is missing to get the game together or something). But I still wonder why not more companies do that, given it's very little to no financial risc for them.

I literally thought that to get companies to port their games, that the porting companies had to jump through hoops and have loads of meetings, persuading the said companies. Instead it's a case of the porters paying for the rights and the scripts, with no payout from the actual game company. But like you say if something is missing in the code or it's going to be a nightmare to port, plus money spent on time and staff to rewrite code?? But that's where Vulcan comes in, to surely make the port easier? No doubt they have to get permissions again to add Vulcan in the first place? Maybe I'll ask Feral Interactive on that one.

All I know is that Feral Interactive are really good at porting games and it would be great if they could get RE2, RE3, RE7 GTA5 though that is a massive game and it would be a really big download.


Last edited by clatterfordslim on 18 Jan 2020 at 1:23 pm UTC

Well holy shit, [if Horizon:Zero Dawn is coming to Steam](https://kotaku.com/sources-horizon-zero-dawn-is-coming-to-pc-1841043569) I definitely want Feral to port it now!

I really hope they port something that DOESN'T already work well with Wine or Proton. Something with EAC, maybe, since EAC has a native Linux client that works fine, so that wouldn't be a problem. Preferably a big title like Apex Legends, which is one of the games that keeps people from switching. That would be the best for Linux in the long run by far.

Well holy shit, [if Horizon:Zero Dawn is coming to Steam](https://kotaku.com/sources-horizon-zero-dawn-is-coming-to-pc-1841043569) I definitely want Feral to port it now!

Wow, I didn't know that, but if it is real, that would be great !

Well holy shit, [if Horizon:Zero Dawn is coming to Steam](https://kotaku.com/sources-horizon-zero-dawn-is-coming-to-pc-1841043569) I definitely want Feral to port it now!

Agreed. For many reasons! Even though I've seen the entire game on live stream, I'd still pay full price to Feral for a Linux port without blinking. The game is that good. Feral ports are fantastic. But most importantly, it would be a different source than where Feral currently ports from. And that's something I would like to see more than any specific game.

That, and if Sony decides to open up more and release more games on PC, it would be excellent for Feral to build a relationship with them early! After all, I can’t imagine Sony would be opposed to keeping some of the PC sales away from Microsoft’s ecosystem :)

And I’m with you there, I’ve already beaten the game twice on a borrowed console and I’ll still gladly pay full price to have it on PC the moment it comes out. I didn’t play the DLC, so that’s a good excuse for a fresh playthrough :D

That, and if Sony decides to open up more and release more games on PC, it would be excellent for Feral to build a relationship with them early! After all, I can’t imagine Sony would be opposed to keeping some of the PC sales away from Microsoft’s ecosystem :)

Well.. Naughty Dog is looking for a developer with Vulkan / DX12 expertise...