I was planning on playing all the Frictional Games in order, and haven't completed the first one yet, but didn't realize SOMA was one until I had already played a decent amount of it. Ha, oh well it is very visually stunning. Maybe one day I will have more time to play games... probably by the time these are considered "Retro".

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I've bought all their games, but damned if I can finish Penumbra. I'm at some point where there are three dogs and they're almost impossible to sneak past (at least I haven't found a way) and by the time you almost beat one down with the crowbar, it backs off just enough to howl for help...

The game gives me serious anxiety, so I just can't manage to get past that part.

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Quoting: sonic

Quoting: lucifertdarkHands up anyone who has had the survey recently, anyone?

Yep, yesterday (second time this year)

I don't think I ever have under Linux

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Quoting: qptain NemoSo basically good support for PUBG in Wine + a distro with good Chinese support and we win. (. ‿ . )

This is what I'd read as well. It isn't so much that there are less people playing on Linux, but an influx of non-Linux playing people in China?

That makes more sense. Let's just get an actual PORT of PUBG. I bought it because someone said it was cool... but then I decided I'd only allow myself to boot into Windows for Elite: Dangerous. :P

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Also, Ultima IV was given away a LONG time ago for free, and you can get the updated / modified graphics for it too.

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To add to that. Ultima 1-3 do have a story line that matters at least in giving some background to the later Ultima games. For example, in the first game, you have to defeat the evil wizard Mondain. Then in Ultima 4, you find Mondain's Skull...

Without giving any spoilers, 1st is killing Mondain, 2nd is The Enchantress, which apparently was hooking up with Mondain and wants revenge. 3rd is Exodus, which I think was revealed to be the 'son' of Mondain and The Enchantress. (I never really played the second one).

Then starts the next trilogy, 4-6. Quest of the Avatar, which is the first CRPG I've seen where your choices affect the outcome. Well okay, it's the first game where you morally had to be perfect. Like the shop where you buy spell components all have blind shopkeepers, and you have the option to only pay them 1 gold instead of the correct price. 5th game is Warriors of Destiny (I never completed this either, as I think the pirated copy my friend had was broken after you got to a certain point in the game). This was the hunt for Lord British. Then the 6th one is my favorite... False Prophet.

Then is the 'Guardian' Trilogy, 7-9.

All very good, well except 8 which for some UNKNOWN reason, they decided to make it a isometric platformer, and it was BUGGY as hell. Not sure how anyone could tolerate it long enough to complete the game.... 9 had it's share of bugs, and apparently there were some large chunks of the story cut out due to massive delays because they started out isometric, then went full on third person.

Of note, Ultima 9 is one of those games that initially was released with software rendering and 3dfx, then later on managed to get directX support.

I think U9 was the first game I ever actually registered, and I think I still have the Patch CD they sent me in the mail!

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I still maintain Ultima VI was the best game (engine wise, story line it's hard to decide, the whole series from U4-9 was pretty good, with 8 being the weakest.)

Ultima 7 was awesome, though I never completed it (got really far, then lost my save game).

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Quoting: shigutso

Quoting: razing32Has a very Ultima vibe to it.

Because it is an Ultima clone :P

True story: Two friends and myself set up a UOX server (Ultima Online server emulator) and played for 34 hours straight. Okay, A friend and I an someone I no longer associate with. This person kept having really slow performance and his computer kept crashing.

He had worked at Packard Bell, whom taught all of their employees that if they had slow performance, they should defrag their hard drive. He defragged his hard drive FOURTEEN times that night...

It was a JTS one (hysterically the company that Atari merged with when they 'died'.) Only JTS hard drive I'd ever seen, but it died on him a week later.

The actual issue with his computer (and it was at every LAN party we'd have), he kept disabling Plug and Play in Windows for some odd reason, so his cards would all have IRQ conflicts. His slow performance was most likely due to his network card sharing IRQs and making the system choke and unstable. My friend told me about this afterward, he said he'd been sick of every LAN party fixing it for him, only to have it broken the next time around. I had refused to help him because he'd been a douche to me about something not too long before...

Anyhow, I thought that w as hilarious, and yeah Tibia was always a UO clone.

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Quoting: WJMazepasIt's not Android, nor Android or Chrome OS works with AMD CPU. And if they were using Android they would say it rather than saying its linux because to Android is more known to the general public than linux

Agreed. And while they haven't said anything about WHICH Linux, seems to me that SteamOS would be an almost perfect choice. Guess we'll see if it ever actually gets made. Supposedly the IndieGoGo is supposed to open up any day now.

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I don't really see any clues that they'll be running Android. Outside of the two icons used on the joystick, which as far as anyone is aware could have been playing 2600 centipede on a phone / tablet running android, since the actual AtariBox is not seen in that video clip that was posted to AtariAge.

I made a joke about the CommodoreBox in the massive thread over there as well...

Funny thing is, to me Commodore is about the Amiga, and the Amiga to me is all about the OS and the custom chips. If you take away the custom Chips, but still have AmigaOS, it's still mostly an Amiga, but if they took a box and slapped Linux on it with the Logo? it just wouldn't have anything to do with Commodore. Otherwise I would have thought of getting one of the CommodoreUSA systems before he died.

Ha, funny that you bring up Oculus and their exclusive games/store.

There are SO many Rift owners that are crying because Doom VFR doesn't work on the Rift. It worked everywhere else. But with the whole ZeniMax vs Facebook lawsuit it's not all that surprising. But at the same time they think ReVive is a perfectly legitimate way to play Rift store games on the Vive... As you say, it's a hack. A hack that could randomly stop working or get blocked (again. They had blocked it, but the programmer ended up breaking their DRM to get it working again. Guess they decided they didn't want to fight that battle.)

But from the update I'd seen, apparently it was just a bug in SteamVR creating some mesh that caused it to crash for the Rift, and didn't actually have anything to do with anything besides a bug. Though I haven't read if the bug was fixed and it works now. I have a Vive anyhow, and mostly wanted to see legitimate reviews for Doom VFR before I bought it.

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