Now he needs to port it to the Amiga... After all, it was it's birthday.

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I don't know... what's worse, a game that is randomly creating a boss that is a pain to beat? Or a game like Dark Souls 1/2 and Bloodborne, that are just a pain in the ass on purpose. I still can't kill that first big hairy beast in Bloodborne, and there isn't any weapon / armor upgrades I can get beyond what I have, so I'm stuck constantly trying to defeat the Cleric Beast.

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It's Skyrim.

Just had to throw that out there. :D

Can I just state that I really dislike it when the sequels are released for Linux, but the first one is not? If it's KOTOR 2, we'd have that, and Witcher 2 (eventually Witcher 3) etc. Starting to remind me of the 90s, where the Atari ST and 8-Bits had Phantasie 1-3, but the Amiga only got 1 and 3.

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I bought Alien Isolation when it was on sale before I'd heard they were porting it, which now means I have to wait to play it ON Linux. So hurry up and release it already :D

Same thing was with ARK, ended up stopping playing it on Windows so I could play it on Linux. But then of course Satellite Reign's beta was released, so I've been playing that much more than any other game.

I'm just excited that so many games are being released for Linux, and I really appreciate the devs who release them simultaneously instead of releasing their game, then farming out to porting houses which have to then port and probably fix a bunch of bugs as well.

Of course this also brings up that some ports (not because of the porting house, just because of APIs used in the original) are sometimes not as good. An example would be Borderlands 2, which doesn't have the PhysX (or which ever physics API they use, can't recall) in it, so liquids and particles don't look as good.

Sorry, back to topic, the real questions here are A) If they're porting Alien: Isolation to Linux, is it going to have all the graphical frills of the Windows version, and B) is it going to support SteamVR, because that would be absolutely amazing.

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I really want to find time to play this game, but I first have to find to learn how to play it! Definitely one of the more complicated games to learn.

But I have a lot of their other games as well, just haven't had time to play 'em. Looks so very fun.

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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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