Quoting: AnxiousInfusionMight pick this up to quench my thirst for top down shooter action in case Hatred never comes to Linux.

From the reviews I've been seeing, your thirst won't be quenched even if it does. Better to stick with something like this, which seems to actually be a good game.

Quoting: liamdaweThe start may feel like an ordinary top-down zombie fest (could that ever be ordinary?)...

These days? It's all too ordinary, but it looks like the lighting does make up for that. I'm at the point where just seeing "zombie" in the tags for a game makes me lose interest, the whole concept is so overdone.

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A friend bought this for me on Steam for Xmas, and I was never able to get it running properly through Wine (ran progressively slower as I played, frequent crashes) so this is something I've been definitely looking forward to.

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I am highly disappointed that in the video on the Kickstarter site includes ZERO ukulele music. I mean seriously, people!

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It looks like this is a QWOP-like, similar to Surgeon Simulator or Octodad, rather than a takeoff of Goat Simulator and the like. That is, doing ordinary things with seriously awkward controls. I can imagine this would be fun for people who liked SS.

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So weird, the second map, at about 0:08 in the video, looks almost exactly like one of the main maps from Gear Up, an third person arena shooter.

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I'm seriously looking forward to this, ever since I got in on the Kickstarter back in 2012. Andrew Hussie is a brilliant writer, although his downfall is with open-ended projects like Homestuck where he tends to run off in all directions. A project with a more constrained scope like this (apparently the intention is to follow this up with other games so it'll be semi-episodic) seems to be exactly the thing to bring out his strengths and constrain his weaknesses. It's also likely to be a lot less in-jokey than Homestuck since he's aiming this at a broader market than just his fans.

From the updates I've been seeing, it's certainly shaping up to be a serious project so I have faith the final result will be worth the wait.

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Looking at comments from both him and the dev, neither seem to really understand what the problem is. Which is pretty sketchy, so I think I'll stay well away from this one.

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I dual boot almost entirely because I need iTunes to manage applications on my iPad, since there are zero good apps for that under Linux. I had intended to use the Windows 7 partition for gaming, the way you'd leave your computer to go play on a console, but I never did end up using it that way. And with the wealth of games coming to Linux these days there's no shortage of fun things to play.

As to Gamer/Linux user, I dunno if I count myself as either in the identity sense. I love games, and I feel most comfortable using Linux, although I'm an odd user in the sense that I'm not an enthusiast or really technically oriented at all. Not sure how to explain why I like Linux over Windows but in the end I do and that's what matters.

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Quoting: N30NIf you look at the depots it seems to be the Tomb Raider Trilogy, not just the first one.

Quoting: Segata SanshiroClearly HL3 :P

Quoting: SteamDB CommentRelax people, it's most certainly not Half-Life 3.

That's exactly the kind of thing someone who's going to showcase Half-Life 3 would say! :P

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Quoting: fleskThese games are easily some of the best point-and-clicks made the last decade. I've only played the first couple of chapters of this one so far, but I already love it. Can't wait to check out the rest.

That was actually my feeling about Primordia, it was similarly amazing. Guess I really need to get around to finishing the original Unwritten Tales, I think I left off upon entering the orc camp so I don't think there's too much left.

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