I didn't play it for too long (~28 hours), mainly due to massive bugs and a very low framerate I didn't continue (GTX560 didn't seem to cut it, maybe 760 will be a bit better :D).

They said often in the forums that they're addressing a lot of the old issues of the original game with this update. I hope they did, because the game and setting does have a huge potential, and basically it was fun to play.

I'll certainly get it - since it's for free for me, and test it.

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Now I know what I'll buy myself for Christmas: Steam Controller and SteamLink (I want SteamLink for playing in the living room, don't want to move my PC there) :-).

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I've been an Intel/NVidia buyer for years now, mainly due to the reason that at that time, AMD basically only had proprietary drivers as NVidia back then (and NVidias were better), and I always enjoyed Intels openness.

Since the development of the open source drivers and opening up of documentation by AMD, I'm having a good look at AMD, but still see a general decline by developers. NVidia still has the best (proprietary) driver around, Intel is pretty good for working, but the performance does not hit it for gaming. Intel drivers are undergoing huge changes and restructuring as well, and will do so for some time to come (they're switching to atomic, so are fully rewriting core and drivers, and have some kind of ... "middleware" which holds old-code and new-code together which results in [a lot] of ugly hacks).

I'd love to buy a AMD next time I buy a computer, but hands down, I'm not certain that AMD will be a comparable choice to NVidia with their proprietary drivers by then. But they're welcome to surprise me.

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Quoting: PerkeleenVittup

Quoting: STiATI didn't finish HL2 either, not even HL1. It never fixed me, basically I could say I didn't like the game at all.

Count me in also. I owned HL1 and Blueshift from the start, tried to play them both more further in many, many occasions, but always ended up feeling i'm forcing myself to it. Bought 'em due the massive hype at the time, i suppose. The HL games are obviously not bad, no, just can't get into much feeling playing them.

Then again, the Jedi Knight series... i consider 'em like the best games ever.

I had some special love for the S.T.A.L.K.E.R series. Nobody knows why, the studio even went bankrupt on the titles as far as I know.

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I didn't finish HL2 either, not even HL1. It never fixed me, basically I could say I didn't like the game at all.

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wine is a wrapper too and has good performance on a lot of games.

I think VP has a very bad reputation due to the huge problems in The Witcher 2 (I don't know if they still exist or if the game was patched successfully).

They now did proof they are capable of adapting their wrapper to several games which ran with pretty good performance. So we'll have to wait and see how the games will be.

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I have both of them (bought them when I still dual booted - it was the time they were released), and they're really fun titles if you don't mind killing baby seals :D. I enjoyed the games a lot.

Looking forward to playing them again, I for sure don't remember much of the two games.

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Asked my wife to hide my credit card until the winter sale :D.

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They're faster releasing games than I am playing their games :(.

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Quoting: Mountain ManWell, this is depressing, although I'm still convinced the survey is deeply flawed. What's even more disheartening is that I see some developers citing the survey as a reason why they won't support Linux even though actual game sales on Linux are between 2% to 5%.

Most publishers state sales between 1 % and 2 %. I personally think that's not a too bad value, if not too much effort has to go into porting an engine.

That said, I have little hope that steam machines will actually raise the market share of Linux. Valve for sure has a long breath on this (they're getting rich with Steam anyway taking a 33 % cut on everything sold), but they'd still need to get a lot of publishers on board, including Activision/Blizzard, EA and others. And EA will do nothing to support Valve or Steam in any way, placing their bet on their own online distribution (both with their own downloaders, not to have to share the profit with Valve "just" for distribution). For getting them on board, the market share would need to be between 5-10 %, so they can't ignore the profit, and that's a a hell long road until that happens.

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