Quoting: TcheyI’ve lost interest in Civ games long ago. Civ4 i think ? I play a huge amount of Civ1+2 back in time too... I’d much prefer a new IP, based on no licencing at all, a fully new universe.

As for the Firaxis XCOM games, i don’t care, i consider OpenXCOM (+mods like XFiles) and Xenonauts (+ mods like XDivision) vastely superior, complex and entertaining. Just the "Time Units" vs "move and shot" kills me in so many "modern games".

My favorite Civ game is still the second one, along with adding the Test of Time and other stuff, I just prefer it for some reason over the cartoonish graphics of the newer ones.

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Quoting: peterp771Favorite moment: playing TF2 and LFD2 on Linux for the first time. Doesn't seem like a big deal now but in 2013 it was huge deal. Triple AAA games had finally arrived Linux.

To be fair, there definitely were AAA games released for Linux before Valve released Steam for it. Unreal Tournament and Quake/Doom games for example. There were a decent amount of games for it, but they were coming out at about the rate that new games came out for the Amiga.

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Quoting: mr-victoryNo, having Steam library on NTFS doesn't cause odd issues, for me at least.

My understanding of this is that it is an issue with specific games. So it is quite possible you will never run into it.

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Quoting: pageroundInteresting! I hope they produce a Alpha Centari 2. Keep the gameplay, update some graphics, print money. I will be watching to see what Solomon does.

I always figured this was Beyond Earth... at least the premise is similar. I should actually play the two and compare.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeYeah, I think these were the only id Software games' expansions done by third parties?

Nope, there was X-Men: The Ravages of Apocalypse for a start, although the less said about that game the better, or so I have been told. And there were a number of custom map compilations released such as Aftershock and Time of Reckoning, but those are more like D!ZONE was for Doom.

It turns out my brother actually picked up a Microsoft Sidewinder Precision Pro while thrifting for only $6 CAD, so I can definitely pencil in trying it out with Heavy Gear II once I have a few less pots boiling on the stove as it were. Still have a number of articles lined up for the next few weeks.

Excellent! I picked up some flight sticks and a few with force feedback I still need to find the time to play with. I know Linux has some support for force feedback at least, though I can't recall if it's mostly just with wheels or not.

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Quoting: grigiWhom here remembers happypenguin.org ?
That was awesome some 15 years ago...

I loved happypenguin.org. It covered a lot more of the open source engine / free games. Kind of wish Liam would cover more of these gems. Seeing another 'AAA game works with Proton' is getting a little boring. We get it, Proton is awesome and for the most part just plays anything.'

I'm loving the 'retro computer build' series! I have a stack of Retro systems that would have a hard time running most kernels, though I could likely get a 10 year old kernel on there... I should find a copy of Mandrake...

TBF, he covers most relevant FOSS games, there just aren't that many that can compare to commercial releases. If you still want your dailyweekly digest of updates for smaller projects, I can recommend Holarse's (Wochenen)drückblick, where I constantly find interesting projects I haven't heard of before and considering there is not much in the way of news included, the few German words should not distract all too much.

Ha, used to digging through foreign languages for releases for Atari homebrew releases too.

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QuoteQuite disappointingly though, the famous meme "All your base are belong to us" from Zero Wing that was in the Sega Mega Drive (Sega Genesis) version is absent from this new release. This is due to each of the games being upgraded from the original Arcade game versions. However, the good news is that a patch is coming that will add the cutscene back in, it just wasn't ready for the main release.

Haha, this is amazing! 1) Arcade didn't have it (honestly didn't know this was an arcade port in the first place). 2) They're adding it back in just to honor the meme. 3) Yet something that simple isn't ready yet...

Triple hilarity there!

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Quoting: mr-victory

Quoting: Purple Library Guywhy would you be using Proton with the Paradox launcher at all?

A specific HOI4 mod (Europe in Flames: Agora) doesn't work with native HOI4 while it works on Windows, macOS and Proton. Also my PC is shared with a hardcore Linux hater (I may be exaggerating, but still) so even if I don't want to use the mod, Windows version of HOI4 will stay installed no matter what and I will have to either flip from Proton to native or have 2 copies of the game.
IIRC you asked this before.

Weird, is the mod installing some case sensitive files that are causing it to not work on Linux?

Also why would you share anything with a Linux hater, sounds like you need to ditch people. :p (kidding of course, educating people on why Linux is awesome is always a better way than to just kick them from your presence.)

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Quoting: TurkeysteaksAmazing to see how much gaming on linux has grown since then.
I've used linux all my life that I remember; playing BZFlag as a kid blew my mind. Then got hugely into Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory which worked amazing on linux, and then got really into linux gaming with the Live Linux Gamers distro. It was a live distro that came with maybe 10-20 games preinstalled (still playing Urban Terror today!). Made a few other stops along the way before I finally joined steam in 2014.

So many hours spent troubleshooting games, getting them to work under linux or solving weird issues. It's mindblowing to me these days that you just click install on regular ol steam and then click play, and boom - it's working. It's the case with so, so many games that I'm used to it now. Never thought plug & play would become the norm but I'm so happy it has.

Thanks for 10 years steam!

I think I'm mental. Part of the fun to me is getting the actual game to work. Most of the games I start up, play for a few hours, then it scratches that 'itch' then I ignore the game until I get the itch again. Now though I have the problem of 'I'm in the mood to play a game, which one? An RPG... okay I have... a lot... meh, I'll just watch YouTube.'

Sad that the state of affairs is that now I have so many games to play on Linux, I can't pick one to actually play!

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Quoting: IvancilloI didn't know about these mods.

My first gaming approach to Quake on Linux was out of the X :

It used SVGA lib.

Yeah, I think these were the only id Software games' expansions done by third parties? I want to say there may have been two for Quake II as well, but I need more coffee before those memories are unlocked in my grey matter.

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