Good news, I quite like t his game. Works well with my G27 in Windows.

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Quoting: amonobeaxI'd just like to point something out.

It's good to see game thoughts mature here.
Correct if I'm wrong, but first we used to avaluate only the game's performance on linux rarely talking about the game itself (like giving the dev's a break cause they had decided to release a game for us).

Now it's awesome to see not only the port quality avaluated but also the game quality.
Congratulations GoL community (mainly to all writers).

I was just about to say that. To have actually reviews that'll say 'avoid buying this, just because the developers are supporting Linux, doesn't mean you should encourage them to write garbage.' is great to see. But then remember the days when people were allowed to download demos and try games out before buying? Occasionally I see a game with a demo, but not very often.

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This isn't as big of a 'screw you' to their user base as Elite: Dangerous. All along they've been saying that being able to land on planets would come in a patch, but last I read it's an expansion that you have to purchase separately. Granted we'll all buy it 'cause we're insane. At least they're giving £10 off the £39.99 if you already have the game.

On the other hand you have games like Star Citizen (with a Linux version on the way?) that is including all of that, and it was much cheaper for buy in as well (I think I initially spent 75 bucks on ED).

I already bought Titans, even though I've only played maybe 20 minutes of PA. I did enjoy Supreme Commander, though again, haven't had time to spend playing it.

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So... is it done yet? ;) j/k. It's probably a good thing for now that it isn't, with my ever expanding library in Steam, and my horrible spending habits, if I had yet another game store showing me sales of games that I probably will die before I have a chance to play... Granted I would probably much rather buy through GOG anyhow, due to DRM-less software.

Keep up the good work though with bringing back some classic games!

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Sweet, hop to it! I bought all three figuring the third one would get Linux support soon enough. Which brings up... when is the Galaxy app going to be available for us Penguin lovers?

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Eye of the Beholder 1 and 2 came out for the Amiga, the third did not. Though from reviews I've read, the third wasn't all that good.

Most of the gold-box versions probably look better with the Amiga version over these DOS versions as well.

Sadly the one out of this group I'd REALLY love is Dungeon Hack. think Dungeon Master/EOB meets Net Hack, I believe I still have a save game on my computer of a character I had live, but I couldn't find the stairs to the next level, even after checking every square on the map for a secret door.

By the way, the Adventures Unlimited game is basically an early version of Neverwinter Nights (Read that as basically an 'engine' for creating your own games) and there are (last I looked) a large database of adventures created with it.

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Been looking forward to this port for a while! I still need to beat the first one, but it was enjoyable with the amount that I played of it.

As far as Shadow of Mordor goes, I completed the game from start to finish on Linux (even did almost 100% of the quests, just need to finish off a few of the outcast rescues).

Only 'bug' I think I found is that the cut scenes for the outcast rescues I think may have been cut short, but I'm not sure. They would start to pan around and show a captive tied up, and some would have some dialog that'd start, but then it'd cut short and start the mission. Is this a bug, or just some random dialog the Orcs usually have?

Ha, I never could run it smoothly on Ultra though, granted I only have a 4GB 980GTX, and was running it in 2560x1080.

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I know this is going off topic for a game release, but figured I'd join in with the 'wtf, AMD?' I'm not really a big fan of either platform, my last build was AMD/nVidia because I use Linux 99% of the time, with the occasional boot into Windows for some games. But the AMD CPU/Chipsets have always been problematic for me, and this will be my last one, I'm done after the bull crap of last night. Not to mention having to do kernel arguments to work around some firmware bugs for IOMMU support, and my Roccat Tyon mouse causes boot loops if I don't unplug it before the kernel loads (it gives 'smpboot: do_boot_cpu failed (-1) to wakeup CPU#1-CPU#8), and then USB devices in general are more flaky than they should be, and my SSD drives have had weird random lockups, and then the BIOS decides to redefine which boot order they're in...

So yeah I'm done and will be upgrading as soon as I can get a i7-6700k CPU (some asshole is trying to sell one for 5200 USD on Amazon, http://www.amazon.com/Intel-Boxed-I7-6700K-Processor-BX80662I76700K/dp/B012M8LXQW/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1439832631&sr=8-2&keywords=i7-6700k )

Sorry, back on topic. DiRT Showdown looks pretty cool, I've had it for a long time, but haven't ever played it (because you know, rebooting into windows, blech). I'll give it a try with my Logitech G27 and let everyone know how it goes.

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I wonder how Witcher 1 performs. I've been trying to get it to work correctly (there is a fix out there for the transparent people, but the shadows still look off, well that and I couldn't figure out how to get my save game from my windows machine to be recognized under the version running under Wine.)

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I bought it again through Humble bundle to show support, I think I even initially bought two copies (one for me and one for my brother who told me about the game) but now it's on Linux I can actually play it.

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