I feel happy with this. I try to only purchase DRM free myself but I am grateful for Valve for shining a spotlight on Linux because it has helped a lot. I agree with Liam that day 1 releases are key and more AAA support. I think both of those are improving. More variety would help as well, I love shooters and RPGs myself and while I get my RPG fill on Linux shooters are few and far between. That goes back to the AAA support though as FPS and TPS are more of a AAA genre with few indie releases.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Hopefully they have a DRM free version planned. I created a request for Syndrome on GOG if anyone wants to help lend support.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

I've already completed the game on Windows but I'd happily gift a copy to a buddy to throw some support their way when it comes out.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

I don't play multiplayer games much anymore but for $5.49 CAD i'll support them for making a Linux version. The game at least opened for me luckily, I know many wer ehaving issues with it launching.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: BillNyeTheBlackGuyNice. Here's hoping they go for turn based combat this time.

I can't think of an Obsidian game where they used turn based combat. I wouldn't be against it but I wouldn't get your hopes up.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Count me in. Obsidian is one of my favorite game developers.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

I've been playing a lot of demos lately but for full games I am working on Deadfall Adventures. It's overall got sold gameplay, nothing special but not bad. The sad thing is they only had one guy working on the Linux version and he left the company so it has been in an endless beta phase where it has seen zero improvements in almost 2 years. Going to probably play the visual novel RE: Alistair++ once i'm done.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

I can only cite my personal experience. From a crashing and reliability standpoint I will take AMD drivers any day of the week. I have had multiple issues with various Nvidia cards over the years on Linux ranging from not booting the OS after a restart to simply not wanting to run the driver install file in the very first place. AMD drivers have not crashed on me once and have never given me any issues such as the OS not loading after a restart. I have installed the FGLRX drivers as well as the drivers right from AMD website same as with installing Nvidia drivers from the driver manager as well as Nvidia's website.

From a performance standpoint I have always been underwhelmed with AMD on Linux. I can't even max out Pillers of Eternity with my R9 280X without my framerate dropping to the 20's at times let alone more intense games such as Shadow of Mordor.

Due to performance reasons my next GPU on my Linux system will most likely be an Nvidia GPU. It saddens me because I despise most of Nvidia business practices and would rather go AMD. I would rather support AMD who gave us TressFX which runs on both AMD and Nvidia cards well instead of Nvidia's Hairworks which kills performance on AMD cards. I would rather support AMD who supports OpenCL which runs well on both Nvidia and AMD cards instead of Nvidia's PhysX which kills performance on AMD cards and slapped original Ageia PhysX users such as myself in the face when they bought the company. I would rather support AMD who is a big reason we have Vulkan coming up instead of Nvidia who hopped on the Vulkan wagon when it suited them.

I maintain a Windows system because at heart I am a PC gamer and if after a few years a game still isn't on Linux then I don't feel the need to wall myself off from a good game. I buy between 5-7 linux games a month, I donate to Linux Mint, I donate to various Linux patreon Causes. On the Windows side of things I will continue to support AMD but on Linux I doubt I will be able to.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

If I had the money I would just start gifting copies of it to people, that's how much I would like to help them get additional funding and get this finished but sadly I am not in a financial state where I can do that. Best of luck to the developer.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Dawn of War II was solid. Haven't played retribution. Would be welcome news.

View this comment - View article - View full comments