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Looks Like LIMBO Is Now Being Ported Natively To Linux Thanks To Icculus
By Samsai, 6 June 2014 at 10:14 am UTC

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Quoting: Samsai
Quoting: abelthorneWhat makes you think it's a native client? the "launch/2/executable" line? Can't it be the Wine wrapper?
Icculus wouldn't be involved if it was a Wine wrapper. AFAIK he has never been involved with non-native ports.
AFAIK he has never been involved in anything good. Always shipping unfinished crap that never gets fixed. He starts to work on a million projects at the same time and ends up with a million broken ports.
Apart from Killing Floor his ports have worked just fine for me. And Killing Floor was playable too, it just had these weird graphical glitches.

Looks Like LIMBO Is Now Being Ported Natively To Linux Thanks To Icculus
By Mnoleg, 6 June 2014 at 10:13 am UTC

Quoting: jdubDD works fine for me

https://bugzilla.icculus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5831
https://bugzilla.icculus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5894

I think the Steam version is not affected by the second bug, it can be fixed but why do we have to find the solution and patch the game by ourselves? Can you imagine anything similar in the windows port?

Maybe I'm also be affected by the frequent crashes. I am using "maybe" because I stopped playing after the second crash.

Looks Like LIMBO Is Now Being Ported Natively To Linux Thanks To Icculus
By jdub, 6 June 2014 at 9:44 am UTC

Quoting: Robert
Quoting: .AFAIK he has never been involved in anything good. Always shipping unfinished crap that never gets fixed. He starts to work on a million projects at the same time and ends up with a million broken ports.
Relax, it's time to stop trying to play Dungeon Defenders.

DD works fine for me

Looks Like LIMBO Is Now Being Ported Natively To Linux Thanks To Icculus
By Mnoleg, 6 June 2014 at 9:42 am UTC

Quoting: .AFAIK he has never been involved in anything good. Always shipping unfinished crap that never gets fixed. He starts to work on a million projects at the same time and ends up with a million broken ports.

Relax, it's time to stop trying to play Dungeon Defenders.

GOG.com Announce Galaxy Their Optional Client, Linux Support To Come
By , 6 June 2014 at 9:21 am UTC

If eON evolves, it may be something great. Meanwhile, it's pure BS for now. No Witcher 3 pre-order for me before everything gets sorted out.

Eador. Masters of the Broken World Strategy Game Releases Long Awaited Linux Version + DLC
By , 6 June 2014 at 9:18 am UTC

For once, de decent way to support Linux :
Recommended:
OS:Major Linux Distribution from 2012

No Ubuntu-only BS.

Looks Like LIMBO Is Now Being Ported Natively To Linux Thanks To Icculus
By , 6 June 2014 at 9:03 am UTC

Quoting: Samsai
Quoting: abelthorneWhat makes you think it's a native client? the "launch/2/executable" line? Can't it be the Wine wrapper?
Icculus wouldn't be involved if it was a Wine wrapper. AFAIK he has never been involved with non-native ports.

AFAIK he has never been involved in anything good. Always shipping unfinished crap that never gets fixed. He starts to work on a million projects at the same time and ends up with a million broken ports.

Steam Hits The Big 500 For Linux Games
By WorMzy, 6 June 2014 at 8:56 am UTC

A game can have both singe player and multiplayer modes. Take Portal 2, for example.

It's good to see so many games on Linux now.:D

Steam Hits The Big 500 For Linux Games
By pb, 6 June 2014 at 8:56 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Ajay KumarA dumb question : single player 467 , multi player 120 (total 587) , But total games 500 ????

How about some games having both single and multiplayer? ;-)

Banished City-building Strategy Game Will Get A Linux Port
By kevie, 6 June 2014 at 8:42 am UTC

This is great news, I signed onto here looking to see if Banished runs well in wine and now I find out that a native port will be avialable soon. I'll wait for this to be released on Linux before parting with my hard earned cash :D

Steam Hits The Big 500 For Linux Games
By , 6 June 2014 at 8:39 am UTC

A dumb question : single player 467 , multi player 120 (total 587) , But total games 500 ????

Looks Like LIMBO Is Now Being Ported Natively To Linux Thanks To Icculus
By Sabun, 6 June 2014 at 8:29 am UTC Likes: 1

I think Icculus might be overburdened right now. Goat Simulator and Sanctum 2 are both under him, and those haven't moved at all.

If he is the one making Limbo native now, I'm worried he's gone and taken on too many jobs at once. If anyone has further information on this, please share it with me.

Steam Hits The Big 500 For Linux Games
By , 6 June 2014 at 8:07 am UTC

While I am happy as Linux user / gamer a bit, I am still unsure if all the things happening really help us as gamers.

Issue #1: Because of engines such as Unity which allow somewhat easy game production on Linux, we face a lot of games which look graphically simple but require a extremely beefy maching. "Best" examples for this are games like Paranautical Activities, Sir you are being hunted, etc.

Something which looks worse than Games like UT2kX or Half-life2 and needs a quadcore CPU with a GeForce X40 to run fluently, will not find it's way to my PC.

Issue #2: The huge amount of beta, greenlight, early access games makes it nearly impossible to monitor all games. So for me as a gamer I have a lot of games to choose from for a small amount of money but the few "pearls" are hard to find and will be even harder to find in future.

Steam Hits The Big 500 For Linux Games
By Astro, 6 June 2014 at 7:59 am UTC

Quoting: kalinI have 130 of them and keep buying :)
I got 230 of them and keep buying :)

Quoting: kalin500 for me
498 games I see and some of linux games not available in Russia. So I couldn't see them.

Looks Like LIMBO Is Now Being Ported Natively To Linux Thanks To Icculus
By , 6 June 2014 at 7:57 am UTC

Well, I'm still wondering how much the costs differ between the wrapping approach by VP and hiring Icculus for a native port*.

I don't know the prices VP take to wrap such an AAA title but I have the strong feeling this isn't cheap either. They said it's not a one-click solution, but involves manual tuning of the game. After all, they're now still working to improve performance. That's developing time wanted to be paid.

[*] note, IIRC, all middleware used in Witcher 2 is available for Linux.

Looks Like LIMBO Is Now Being Ported Natively To Linux Thanks To Icculus
By pb, 6 June 2014 at 7:52 am UTC

At the moment it only shows this message and quits:


I played through this game some years ago, will be nice to finish it again (for the achievements, of course ;-).

Eador. Masters of the Broken World Strategy Game Releases Long Awaited Linux Version + DLC
By , 6 June 2014 at 7:52 am UTC

Quoting: someoneIt looks like a wine wrapper. At least thats whats in the run.sh (or something the like), but it fails to start the game due to some missing files/folders.

If it is working good or at least only little worse than windows version I am OK with that otherwise no. Unfortunately It is common for such games to not work at the start because of something missing :(

Looks Like LIMBO Is Now Being Ported Natively To Linux Thanks To Icculus
By , 6 June 2014 at 7:49 am UTC

Quoting: entropyWay to go!

Meanwhile CD Projekt still thinks that eON approach was a good choice, I guess.

As long that works yes as long as it does not work no

Looks Like LIMBO Is Now Being Ported Natively To Linux Thanks To Icculus
By hardpenguin, 6 June 2014 at 7:47 am UTC

Quoting: entropyWay to go!

Meanwhile CD Projekt still thinks that eON approach was a good choice, I guess.
It worked great on Mac.

I think that eON just needs polishing (and of course we, Linux users cannot be laboratory animals anymore, at least not when final version of products are released).

GOG.com Announce Galaxy Their Optional Client, Linux Support To Come
By Shmerl, 6 June 2014 at 7:41 am UTC

Up to them. I won't use any closed client they might make. They said it will be optional anyway. If they'll open it up - I'll think about it.

Steam Hits The Big 500 For Linux Games
By hardpenguin, 6 June 2014 at 7:39 am UTC

HURR DURR NO BATTLEFIELD COD LOL STARCRAFT

Thank you :)

Looks Like LIMBO Is Now Being Ported Natively To Linux Thanks To Icculus
By , 6 June 2014 at 7:20 am UTC

Way to go!

Meanwhile CD Projekt still thinks that eON approach was a good choice, I guess.

Eador. Masters of the Broken World Strategy Game Releases Long Awaited Linux Version + DLC
By , 6 June 2014 at 6:34 am UTC

It looks like a wine wrapper. At least thats whats in the run.sh (or something the like), but it fails to start the game due to some missing files/folders.

New Release: Noir Syndrome Murder-Mystery Game
By Pic, 6 June 2014 at 6:32 am UTC

Soon you'll call yourself Gaming on Steam. This game was available for a long time on Desura. It's not too good, by the way.

Looks Like LIMBO Is Now Being Ported Natively To Linux Thanks To Icculus
By Liam Dawe, 6 June 2014 at 6:20 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: abelthorneWhat makes you think it's a native client? the "launch/2/executable" line? Can't it be the Wine wrapper?
Icculus only does native ports.

Looks Like LIMBO Is Now Being Ported Natively To Linux Thanks To Icculus
By Ilya, 6 June 2014 at 6:17 am UTC Likes: 1

Thanks Icculus! I love you!

Looks Like LIMBO Is Now Being Ported Natively To Linux Thanks To Icculus
By Samsai, 6 June 2014 at 6:14 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: abelthorneWhat makes you think it's a native client? the "launch/2/executable" line? Can't it be the Wine wrapper?
Icculus wouldn't be involved if it was a Wine wrapper. AFAIK he has never been involved with non-native ports.

Looks Like LIMBO Is Now Being Ported Natively To Linux Thanks To Icculus
By abelthorne, 6 June 2014 at 6:09 am UTC Likes: 1

What makes you think it's a native client? the "launch/2/executable" line? Can't it be the Wine wrapper?

Eador. Masters of the Broken World Strategy Game Releases Long Awaited Linux Version + DLC
By , 6 June 2014 at 4:36 am UTC

Quoting: jdubDoes this game ever go on sale?

I bought it in bundle :)