Well, it would be better to specify that the engine is opensource, but not the assets. Then it would be clear. If you don't specify it, most people assume it's fully opensource.

And yes, opensource doesn't mean free, but only the first one would need to pay and then could share it for free, so there's not much point in such an approach.

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I'd add Death by Game Show for €2:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/409730

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Please link to the announcement next time, thanks. I managed to find it here:
http://runningwithscissors.com/?p=2318

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Quoting: elbuglioneGOG and CDPR are absolutely DEAD for me...
Stop GOG "advertising" until GOG Galaxy arrives to Linux!

Yes, it's not optimal, but you can still play Linux games from GOG even without Galaxy, so I see no point in the hatred.

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I don't like this. It's more visible than an actual comment, and it just clutters up the interface, making the discussion less readable. There's power in simplicity.

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Quoting: omer666That's a precious piece of information to me because I am actually considering wether I'd get an AMD card in the near future, rather than an nVidia. I thought about opening a topic on this on the forums, as there is no real compatibility list for the time being.

You can search at http://www.opengamebenchmarks.org/ . It doesn't contain whole lot of benchmarks, and even fewer on AMD cards, but there are some, and I personally regularly contribute to that site. You can see which driver was used for a particular game and how well it ran.

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QuoteIf you’re extremely strapped for cash, rather than go to some dubious key reseller, try to wait out for spring/summer/autumn/winter sales. Most major stores now do massive sales for each season like Steam and GOG do.

Use sites like https://isthereanydeal.com/ to be automatically notified when the game goes on sale (on your preferred store).

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Quoting: rambo1462Why no 32-bit? It seems now that no new Linux games have a 32-bit port, like rocket league for example.

Because 32-bit machines can't run modern games anyway. The last Intel 32bit CPU seems to be from 2006. And if you have a 32bit OS installed on a 64bit machine, well... that's your choice (which you should reconsider). 32-bit Linux is slower, more problematic and less secure these days. And it's going to be worse and worse.

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It depends on how microtransactions are implemented. If the fact that you bought a hat or a new map is saved to your save file, so even after the game servers are closed you can still install the game, copy over the save files and have everything you purchased, that's completely fine by me and it's DRM free. If the hat or a new map depends on whether the game server is still running and verifies your purchase, that's no longer DRM free. However, since these cosmetic purchases are often present in multiplayer games, and the multiplayer will often not work once the servers are down, the DRM free-ness might be a non-issue.

There are certain titles where you play offline and still have ingame purchases (e.g. buying new heroes in Kingdom Rush on Android, it's probably different in the PC version, so take it just as an example) - if those were tied to game server availability and you could not play the heroes without it (even though the whole game is offline), that would be a problem in my eyes and a DRM restriction. I would expect that such cases would be covered by providing a DLC/hero/map/item installer/activator in the GOG Library, so that you can install it any time in the future, without relying on any game servers.

What I want to say is that microtransactions are not inherently evil, it just depends on how people use them. For example, in certain games I used microtransactions to donate extra money to developers, because I liked the game and I got it cheap (or it was free to play). GOG proved recently in the Armello case that they're very pro-consumer. I would not expect any dirty tricks here with microtransactions. Of course, time will tell.

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SPAZ was one of my most favorite indie games. I'll definitely consider buying SPAZ 2. I'm not too happy about it moving to 3D, though, (I loved the detailed 2D graphics), we will see how it turns out.

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