Well, duh! It's obviously Monkey Island Special Edition.

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This is about early access, right? The actual release might still be simultaneous.

OT: Personally I don't get why people are so eager to play unfinished games. No early access for me, ever.

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EDIT: Samsai was quicker.


Just for reference, I'm pretty sure this is where Samsai gets his numbers:



I've got a GTX 760 as well, and this screenie shows the relevant section of NVIDIA X Server Settings.

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Quoting: liamdaweAlso, I'm surprised MATE is as low as it is, it's great!

Part of it might be the overlapping "target market" with more established traditional DEs like Xfce. Well, more established only if you forget that MATE is basically GNOME2, but my point still stands.

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Quoting: NovenWhich controllers are you talking about? I would love an excellent controller because my Logitech F310 does not work.

Weird. My F-310 works perfectly (in XInput-mode) on Mint. Out of the box, even. Either there's something missing in your setup or your controller is broken. Have you tried if jstest-gtk detects it correctly?

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Quoting: NovenThis is why I am glad the Steam controller will be out eventually. Having a native supported controller will be very nice.

There are already several controllers with excellent native support in Linux (with SDL2). Sadly that does not translate to universal support in games. Even some big budget titles/ports manage to mess things up. I doubt this will change overnight when the Steam Controller comes out. I also doubt the dual touchpads can beat more conventional controller designs in certain types of games, but we'll see.

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Quoting: EKRboiI tried Mint once, I remember having a terrible time getting rid of/blacklisting nouveau in Mint over its cousin Ubuntu..

The weird thing is, I haven't had a single problem with the xorg-edgers ppa since I switched to Mint a few releases ago, and I had tons when I ran Xubuntu.

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Seems really nice. I don't do early access, but I'll definitely check this out once it's done.

Quoting: liamdaweI've always had a love for these first person dungeon crawlers since the early games on Amiga, so to have a sci-fi version with guns and RPG elements, it was far too good an idea to pass up.

You never played Captive on the Amiga then? Excellent sci-fi crawler from 1990. Unless this is just nostalgia, as I haven't actually played it in a couple of decades.

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Quoting: neffoYou were limited in your use of the product though. You were limited to a single physical copy, physical media typically had to be in the drive for the game to work. If that copy was lost, destroyed you lost your access to the game. Backup copies of the physical media weren't allowed, and were typically very difficult to make regardless. Physical media wasn't exactly what I'd call freedom.

You're pretty much wrong on all accounts where I live. It might have been this way for you, but many countries held out well into the "noughties" before giving in.

It was perfectly legal for me to make any number of physical copies for backup purposes, to "crack" my game to play it without the installation media and use whatever means were necessary to circumvent copy protection to do this. As long as I respected copyright and didn't provide - let alone sell - illegal copies of my games to others. This was tested in court, so it's not just speculation. Yes I know I'm being deliberately vague here. That's because I find the specifics incredibly boring.

BTW, I don't understand where you got the idea that I miss physical copies. I'm perfectly fine with and actually prefer digital distribution. That's got nothing at all to do with what we're discussing here.

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Quoting: neffoThe idea of games as an explicit license rather than a physical thing has existed longer than internet distribution has existed. It's been that way since at least the early 90s, but physical ownership never gave you implicit rights over the thing you owned.

That idea didn't creep into law in the early nineties though, at least not where I live. And of course physical ownership didn't give me the copyright, nor should it have, but at least the seller didn't retain the right to tell me which or how many computers I was allowed to play the game on or come and confiscate my copy whenever they felt like it. Nor could they insist that I log in every time I want to play. The whole concept that the seller should be able to dictate the way I privately use the product after the sale is quite new and frankly absurd.

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