Civilization Beyond Earth: because it is a re-skin of Civ5 cut down on features so that they can sell more DLCs :(

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Quoting: HoriThere are sooo many Quake clones out there... they are all almost identical.... out of all, I only liked and kept playing OpenArena.

Oh the irony... complains about quake clones but the only one he/she likes is the one that is truly a quake clone while the others differ a lot from the quake series :p

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That fundraiser page is outdated, see: http://redeclipse.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=476
Sadly the only one right now who could do the port relatively easily is the Tesseract creator (and Red Eclipse supporter) and he seems unavailable for the time being. Really a pity, but maybe someone else will give it a try in the future... after all the game is fully FOSS and the Tesseract engine is really awesome :)

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Glad they seem to have gotten a license agreement, IMHO the original Battletech lore is one of the best developed SciFi settings one can have for such a game. Really looking forward to it, I just wish their release target wouldn't be mid 2017 :(

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Performance is pretty much the same as on Windows with an Nvidia card. It is a relatively heavy game though, but not unusually so.

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Quoting: omer666Strange, I don't feel like this at all. In fact I played a lot more Heroes 3 than Civ V so I can't really express myself on this point. But many features remind me of Heroes, including the various buildings/mines/lumber mills you can find in the map, the way quests are handled on the map, etc. Just my opinion.

Sure, there are some similarities but while those are a mayor part of the game in the HoMM series (aka: exploring a map with your hero+group of units while gathering resources from such points on the map and following a story line), in AoW3 they are only relevant in the early game (kind of like ruins in Civ) and it quickly becomes a game of managing your cities and building up armies.
Some of the maps in the AoW3 campaign do play much like HoMM, but they are pretty much just quick fillers to advance the story, while the majority of play-time will be on large area domination maps that play very much like a round of Civ5. Edit: I realized this when I started to build roads and was magically terraforming the areas around my cities... something hard to imagine in a HoMM like game ;)

If you want to play a HoMM like game, Disciples III runs great via WINE.

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Yeah, not Heroes like at all. More like Civ5 with turn based tactics mode bolted on top.

It's a great game, but a civ5 like game maybe doesn't lend it self so well to a story based strategy game, which I assume most people will have bought AoW3 for.

In addition: maybe its just nostalgia, but the previous 3 parts seemed a bit more fun back then.

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What is odd is that this genre is called twin stick shooter, but it plays MUCH better with a mouse and keyboard... almost on a FPS kind of level.

Great game though, recommended to anyone who likes such arcade games.

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CoH2 does't run well enough on my old laptop (rather odd as the graphics really don't look that much better than CoH1, and that runs fine)... so for me it's SR:Hongkong (but it feels a bit like the same as before) or given that it left Early Access in August: Satellite Reign... but I have not played it that much yet.

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Looking at recent DirectX12 benchmarks I am starting to think that it isn't only the AMD drivers but also the way the hardware is set up. AMD seems to have optimized for Mantle early (and CoH is a prime example of a game that would benefit from it) and are now cought in the painful transition period were its hardware is not optimized for current generation graphics APIs but the new ones are not utilized yet.
See: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/3hpdj5/amd_wins_nvidia_on_directx_12_benchmarks/

Of course their drivers are still way too buggy... but that's another story.

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