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When it happen,s I'll buy a copy. This game looks fun.

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Well, so long as it's a better job than the Witcher 2 "port".

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These guys at least appear to be being upfront and serious about supporting Linux. Unlike so many recent releases.

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Epic Games, if you keep doing this, then i'm afraid your space on Linux gets more more relevant to the Linux gamers..

You better take your comfort place on Linux..


I love the progression!!!..

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This is Unreal!!!!

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It's the same issue I have been experiencing with Rust. The mouse cursor just sticks, and doesn't want to move again, have to do a few little tricks to get it working again. This game looks good, I am going to buy it to support them :)

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Quoting: leillo1975I think Icculus should finish a project before starting another. Sanctum 2 have a lot of bugs...

was gonna say the same thing

Quoting: HamishWell, I will just link to my other post in another thread:
http://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/looks-like-limbo-is-now-being-ported-natively-to-linux-thanks-to-icculus.3851/page=3#r18594

No need to sum up my feelings twice.

Haha "punk kids".
I have been using his ports for a long time but I do hope that he finishes sanctum 2 but it looks like he has a lot on his plate. Have been a fan of his since the beginning and I agree give him some time and he'll come through.

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This Unity crap is making me FLIP THE TABLE
XD

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I get 512 games, I own 129.

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Until we have the big 5(battlefield, Lol, WoW,Cod, UT4) we will not see any improvement in market share

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My audio is all garbled, and crackly... what am i doing wrong... linux mint 17 all avconv up to date latest pulseaudio, monitoring built in analog stereo. forced resample in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf
; default-sample-format = s16le
; default-sample-rate = 44100
; alternate-sample-rate = 44100

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Quoting: oldrocker99I got the 100% Windows version, with .exes, .dlls, etc.; not even a .sh file. I can be patient; it's not like I don't have other games to play!

Same

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Well, Winter Wolves guy is crazy, he is capable of making anything from Ren'py, including RPGs and strategies. So not all of those are just classic visual novels (most of them are adventure games). IMO Heileen is one of worst games from Winter Wolves, it doesn't offer anything interesting, it only creates the illusion of choice... But I liked Nicole, Always Remember Me nad Vera Blanc: Full Moon :)

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I had named 2013 The Year Of Linux Gaming, but it certainly looks like I jumped the gun a bit!

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I got the 100% Windows version, with .exes, .dlls, etc.; not even a .sh file. I can be patient; it's not like I don't have other games to play!

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Yes and no. Yes, because it's actually pretty well crafted by my standards, although the universe is as bland as they come; and no, simply because it's an RPG in disguise, more than a visual novel, just like Long Live The Queen is a Princess Maker in disguise.

Good introductions? I'd go with Planetarian - The Reverie of a Little Planet. Simply because it's short, intriguing, quite engaging, to the point, and rather representative of what a visual novel can stir in the long run. It falls short simply because it doesn't give you enough time to really root for the characters, but its universe I found quite impressive. It's one I still remember, and it's been a couple years.

If you want to play natively though, go with other Key games. Brace yourself, get Clannad or Kanon (seriously, unless you've seen the anime) and rlvm and take your time. It may seem counterintuitive, but the Choose your own adventure comparison holds. Except one "book" paragraph can last a few dozen minutes. Or a few hours.

Or, if you want something else entirely: Katawa Shoujo. Now I've got mixed feelings about this one. Some characters grow on you, some are plain insufferable, the writing varies wildly at times, (is what you get for having a bunch of writers, I guess) and the sex scenes feel like you're reading a football commentary. They're absolutely awful. Clickfest through them though, and there's still something to like. Plus, this one's free.

I might also mention Analogue, except... Yeah, it's... weird. Rather Digital: A Love Story then. Which is also short and quite phenomenally well done. And is also free.

EDIT - Actually forgot to mention: Planetarian is a Kinetic Novel - i.e. there are NO choices. At all. It's just a story.

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Quoting: Hyeron

Quoting: MikeI guess how easy it is to make one is the reason why there are so many.

Actually, it's not. It may be /technically/, but you gotta have a VERY strong writing for it to work. And not everyone is a Jun Maeda. Not even close. Quite the contrary, in fact.
There are so many BAD ones. ;)

Well I got Loren The Amazon Princess through a Humble Bundle a while back. Would you recommend that as an introduction to the genre for someone wwho has never played a visual novel before?

Actually the writing is what made me think of NHK, because he can't write so takes ages to do one, while the programmer by comparison has relatively little to do.

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OK, so it was listed prematurely. It'll be updated eventually. I also saw Eador: Masters Of The Broken World in m y Steam library today, and it downloaded the Windows version (?!). Another "missing executable" error. Oh, well. I only have 198 other Steam games I can play in rhe meantime.

BTW, my Witcher 2 installation plays very well, and I've gotten past the Prologue..

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I hope this mean that they will upload it to steam.

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Quoting: MikeI guess how easy it is to make one is the reason why there are so many.

Actually, it's not. It may be /technically/, but you gotta have a VERY strong writing for it to work. And not everyone is a Jun Maeda. Not even close. Quite the contrary, in fact.
There are so many BAD ones. ;)

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Quoting: liamdaweActually I'm a big Anime fan and watch a lot of it which is I guess for me where it comes from as I am so used to sitting back with a rum & coke and just watching it play out.

I really should just give one a go soon...

I watch anime too and don't get the appeal of visual novels. I like a good anime-esque JPRG like the Tales games, but have never been tempted by these.

Out of curiosity, have you seen Welcome to the NHK? Just reminded me of this because they make a hentai visual novel on it. I guess how easy it is to make one is the reason why there are so many.

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Can't say I don't understand. I like visual novels, but they really have to grip me from the start and never let go, or I feel the same as you. :)

Plus, western visual novels are an odd bunch. Sometimes close to their japanese roots, sometimes so far gone I can't even see the point.

Anyway, as far as Heileen is concerned, things only take off with the second one and the addition of other mechanics. But this one gives the background (although not all endings are canon, obviously).

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Actually I'm a big Anime fan and watch a lot of it which is I guess for me where it comes from as I am so used to sitting back with a rum & coke and just watching it play out.

I really should just give one a go soon...

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So basically you don't understand what people see in Choose your own Adventure books because you only read Tolkien. ;)
Or rather, you don't understand what people see in video games. Why wouldn't they rather read a book or watch TV?

I'm only half-kidding. Visual Novels are in a realm of their own, and it's not everyone's cup of tea. But for those who like it, it engages them in ways non-interactive stuff can't, and most other genres don't.

Have you ever watched Clannad, Liam? Maybe you should. The whole stuff, including After Story. Then when you realize by the end of the show you would have spent even MORE time with those characters, and would have ended up even more attached to them, and would have made other choices, and would have had insights into other "what ifs", you'll have a glimpse of why people love Visual Novels.

That's assuming, of course, you're not one to dismiss a show because it's animated (alas, there are such people). :)

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Maybe some of them are young. In that case, Ryan's prior art counts for nothing. Well, of course that's not true. That's like discounting war veterans because it happened before you were born.

But you know what I mean. They actually don't know what he's contributed. No excuse for a lack of respect of course, but if they're only judging him on the past year's worth of effort... well, that doesn't look so good.

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Quoting: scaineYoung punk! From your profile, I think I'm older than you! Haha!

Oh, I am sure you are, which is why I love saying it. ^_^

It is not the acknowledgement or even the complaints about the problems that bother me, but the patent lack of respect that was expressed by some of the posters here. Because really, everyone involved should know better, and at least recognize some of his contributions a bit more.

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Michael will fix this, he's a nice guy :)

I recommend this game heartily, Electronic Super Joy series got the hardcore feel of Super Meat Boy, a difficult platformer that is much better played with gamepad

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Young punk! From your profile, I think I'm older than you! Haha!

Seriously though, while I'm not disputing what Loki/Ryan contributed the past, I'm talking very specifically about my experiences with three recently ported games - Killing Floor, Dungeon Defenders and Sanctum 2.

And I stand by my comments. KF is shoddy, DD is shoddy. Sanctum 2 is shoddy. You might think past form cuts him slack? Maybe a bit, but three times in a row?

The guy is a legend, and I'm sure he can do better. But he doesn't. I'm curious as to why and I reckon he really does just try to take too much on. There's been no updates on a basically unreleasable Sanctum 2 beta for weeks now and no response on his bugtracker to a single of the many reported bugs.

As Liam notes, you have to pay the bills somehow and maybe juggling multiple projects is one way to do that. But if he keeps pumping out half-assed ports, he's going to end up really destroying decades of reputation.

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Well, I will just link to my other post in another thread:
http://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/looks-like-limbo-is-now-being-ported-natively-to-linux-thanks-to-icculus.3851/page=3#r18594

No need to sum up my feelings twice.

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These young punk kids complaining about icculus is actually rather insulting given the fact that HE MADE LINUX GAMING! Without him there would be no Valve, no Humble, no Indies, nothing. Zip. Zero. Period! Learn some history before slagging the man off, and actually go beyond your own little myopic existences and see the world around you.

And has already been said, it is really up to the developers themselves to keep engaging his services. For instance, he has been keeping his ports of Postal and Postal 2 updated for over a decade since RWS actually cares about their customers, including Linux and Mac users, and keeps bringing him in to port over updates. The over burdened comment may in fact be true however, especially since updating the Postal 2 port should be another thing on his list at the moment.

As for LIMBO, if this is indeed true and a native version appears in my Humble Library I might just take some time out of my life to play it.

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