I bought the Fudge pack many moons ago. I need to find out if I can get a steam key from them. I also unfortunately bought a physical copy of Postal 3 and it was horrible. Running with scissors apolgized for it, it was that bad.
Postal 1 & 2 are classics though.

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Not sure why you'd refer to that as a bad PC port, since they were all released at the same time, and much like any other game of that period, the Amiga version had the best music.

D'oh! Was just playing Satellite Reign some more, successfully sneaked past some guards and got into where I was trying to, and it crashed straight to the desktop.... Meh, it's beta and is still damned fun!

Sadly most games I get stuck or bored with pretty quickly, mainly 'cause I don't have a lot of time these days to play. But I've been waiting for this one for a long time, and am already progressing rather nicely in it.

One major difference between it and Syndicate, is that you don't have different parts of the world that you travel to (at least insofar that I am in the game) it looks more like you have large sections of a massive city sprawl you go about and do missions in, and then you unlock other parts of the city. It's actually probably more akin to many cyberpunk backgrounds in that way.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: PlintslchoIt looks like Deus Ex gone RTS. I'm really excited.
The new trailer looks fantastic again; and I like the music.

Agreed!
I’m not a fan of squad/party-based games but I want to like this…

Sinners, go buy Syndicate and Syndicate Wars on GOG. They are fantastic games, and are the predecessor to Satellite Reign. Though Deus Ex is very awesome as well, Syndicate came out many moons previously. I beat it on my friend's Amiga 500.

Been playing Satellite Reign a ton the last two days, it's awesome!

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Guess you would've had to been there... That really is all the MMOs are now. Ultima Online was a living society, you just happen to have a lot of criminals there, just like you do in real life.

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The difference is at least there is some adrenaline going when you're trying to run from a mob of PKers (I believe that term originated in UO) and trying to hurry up and whip up your marked stones so you can teleport away to town, or wherever, it is at least a rush. Instead most modern MMOs are only a grind where you wonder aimlessly about, generally running around town in a circle to collect all of the available quests, then run out in the wilderness, again in a big circle, completing the quests, then returning to town to get the reward (again in a big circle). Rinse and repeat.

Besides, don't most games even have a system where items are 'bound' to you? In which case those items wouldn't be stolen. In fact, another cool mechanic they should implement is being able to get an enchanter to bind items to you, in case you did get looted you wouldn't lose that. Make it costly enough that people would only do that on really prized items. But hey, I've only ran role playing games for more than a decade and actually prefer to give players a challenge rather than a grind. But then that's also why I had to move away from playing Dungeons and Dragons, 'cause it's just 'kill kill, more xp, level up, kill kill, loot loot, more xp.'

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Quoting: Kimyrielle

Quoting: Ignis>plus if you die you lose everything on you

Seriously? Pass…

oO

Seriously???, indeed.
Lootable corpses is probably one of the more silly ideas ever brought to MMOs. I guess if that's a feature of that game, I shall pass, too. I'd rather boot into Windows to play MMOs than letting some random PKer that stabbed me in the back have all the stuff I worked my behind off for weeks to get. Or leave it at home in the first place for the fear of losing it, defeating the point of having nice stuff in the first place.
I have seriously no idea who in their right mind would think a feature like this would attract a meaningful number of players to an online game. *shakes head*

Wow, freaking wussies. There should be some sort of reward for someone who managed to beat you in a fight. I know Ultima Online, way back when I played that, the PKers would be able to loot all of your items when they killed you. Then they changed it so that they got a certain percentage of your items. It really hurt when you spent so much time/gold on getting enough reagents to cast spells, and then have someone kill you off and steal them all. But at least there was a penalty for dying. Now when you die in most MMORPGs (and I'm not talking about just PK'd) you spawn a short distance away then run back to where you were to defeat whatever killed you. Remember when you'd lose skill points or XP at least?

This is why Dark Souls is so popular, it's a brutal game (though it's almost brutal to the point you want to hunt down the developers and give them a fair fisting, I know Bloodborne makes me think that). Really if there is no penalties, the games just turn into a grind. I think what would be a cool option, would be the same thing as when you die in some games and it leaves a marker on the map where you died last so you could go gather your stuff, and if a monster or PC picked it up, the marker would move with them, so you could hunt down the bastard that killed you before. Revenge!

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This is awesome news, I already have the game and all DLC, just haven't played it because I hate booting into Windows.

I was tempted to buy it for the PS4, and get the Camera, from what I've read it's one of the few games to take advantage of it. You can peer around corners with the head tracking, and apparently if you're talking in the room, the Alien will hear you. Now if you could do something like that and add the VR headset to it....

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Well, considering how game development usually works, what maybe 2-3 years for the big games? And SteamOS itself isn't even 100% released as a final, and Steam for Linux was only released slightly over 2 years ago, and already has a few 'AAA' titles out for it, and over 1000 games... I'd say it's doing pretty well already!

Compare that to the Playstation 4. It's been out since November of 2013 (Steam for Linux Feb 14th 2013) and it has 337 playable games for it. And when people say 'but it has X amount of AAA games!' it really doesn't have a lot of them, since I bought mine I have been trying to find some games that are exclusive to it, or somehow are better on the PS4, only really found Bloodborne and Last of Us remastered (which came with the system) most other exclusive titles have had 'meh' reviews. A lot of those games are the same 'indie' games you can get on Steam.

Guess it has the Call of Duty games, which won't / aren't on SteamOS, and some people are into those. My current library on Steam with Linux support is listed at 401 games already. So yeah, I'd say SteamOS is going to be a pretty huge success. I think the only real downside of it would be controller supported games, I've noticed some games that aren't listed as 100% controller supported generally work 99% of the time with a controller, so there is that. Hopefully (and from all I've seen it does) the Steam Controller can help alleviate the jump from keyboard/mouse to controller for a lot of games.

Plus, who knows what the future will bring with the VR headset and more studios jumping on board (I'd say if someone as hated as EA would jump on board, we'd have it made, I have seen a few Ubisoft games drizzle into the Linux library, so who knows how far they'll take that with/without uplay....)

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Challenge accepted! Now I need to see if I can get X2 to work. In the past I haven't had many issues getting older games working under newer distributions.

Edit; managed to get X2 to work just fine, downloaded and applied all the patches located here;

http://files.holarse-linuxgaming.de/native/Spiele/X2:%20The%20Threat/Patches/

Though apparently I have to calibrate my Xbox 360 controller... This was running in Debian 8.1 amd64.

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Ha, oddly enough I already had it on epic.

The bug I've found that annoys me is that I have three monitors, and it locks solid if I have all of them enabled, so if I want to play it under Linux, I have to turn off the left and right and play on the Ultrawide one in the middle.

I need to check the fps on my rig though, I haven't paid attention to it.

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