Quoting: jesta

Quoting: minidouany suggestion on MMORPG that runs natively on linux or without much trouble through wine?

I play Star wars the old republic through wine, and as far as I know World of warcraft also runs perfectly through wine. But as far as I know there aren't currently any _good_ mmorpg games that run natively on linux...

Yeah, pretty much this. There is not a single really good MMO natively running on Linux (Runescape probably the closest to that you can get), but people report having success running some of them in Wine. In addition to the two you mentioned, Star Trek Online and Guild Wars 2 run ok in Wine as well (both with minor glitches, but playable).

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Quoting: Tuxee

Quoting: wolfyrionThat was ovious

20 Games Top Sellers, Only 5 Titles to Linux

Games like

DOOM,Rocket League,The Witcher 3,Dark Souls 3,Rise of The Tomb Raider etc

You think anyone who is a Pro GAMER etc,would switch to Linux?

What is a Pro GAMER? And I assume that they (whatever they are) account only for a miniscule amount of the overall Steam player base.

I have no idea what a Pro GAMER is either. Probably the poster was referring to hardcore gamers. And no, these people are not going to switch to Linux anytime soon. Got to admit that.

But I still don't share the poster's gloom. Gaming has not (yet) become a reason to use Linux, but it has stopped being a reason NOT to use Linux. As long as you don't insist on always getting the newest and greatest games right away and can accept tiny performance losses here and and there, there is not (too) much reason to keep Windows around (let's just disregard MMOs for a second). For the time being, that's a fairly good development, given that 3 years ago the number of commercially produced games for Linux was a good approximation to zero.

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I thought we'd be still closer to 1% than 2%. That's great news! Let's just grow exponentially from there? :D

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That might be England's special trait even?

"Cannot join alliances. Has a 15% chance per turn to break every other agreement for no apparent reason."

:p

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Quoting: Mountain ManXCOM 2 was a Day 1 release. Why wouldn't Firaxis do the same with Civ VI? I suppose it doesn't really matter to me because I see no reason at all to prefer Civ VI over Civ V with its expansions, and I really don't like VI's cartoon aesthetic. Besides, the Civilization series just feels a bit shallow after getting hooked on Paradox's ridiculously deep and complex grand strategy games.

Yeah, I feel the same about it. I absolutely hate the childish looks, and the other changes I am highly skeptical about, particularly cities requiring more tiles. This will just mean that territorial expansion will become even more paramount than it already is, as space will be even more at a premium. And I had a complete facepalm moment when they announced even more restrictions for placing wonders. Them eating up entire tiles and stuff like "Pyramids only on desert tiles". Really? Yes, the real life Great Pyramid is in the desert, but there is no compelling reason whey they all have to be. There are pyramids in South America. Lots of them. Gah.

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Eh, they said a while ago that they'd do a Linux release. Whether or not it will be a first day release has not much to do with their marketing machine about the game in general instead of the ports. Don't panic just because Linux is not mentioned in every single posting. ;)

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Quoting: dmantione

Quoting: mulletdeathIt really, really, irritates me that basically every game Steam suggests to me in my queue is a Windows game.

It does that if you have configured Steam to show Windows games on the front page. If you tell it to show only Linux games, your queue will also contain only Linux games.

Yeah, it's still irritating that it will show you Windows-only games when in Linux unless you filter them. It should be the default setting to show only games that actually run the OS you're using...

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Quoting: TheRiddick

Quoting: KimyrielleSo Stellaris and Master of Orion cost the same now. :D
Which one to get? oO

Stellaris has more content and is not dumbed down space RTS. MOO is pretty dumbed down version which a monkey should be able to handle, they even removed secondary races from the game recently so you don't haft to think about that.

Ah right! I will go with Stellaris then. Strategy games can't be detailed enough for me. Thanks! :D

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So Stellaris and Master of Orion cost the same now. :D

Which one to get? oO

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I am not sure why devs don't get that not all people want games to be insanely hard. And when even "Easy" is still anything but, something's wrong. "Easy" means "Don't challenge me, ever!!!", not "A little less frustrating".

A while back I got Remember Me because I liked the story and the fact that the game featured a strong female lead character for a change. I am not good at this sort of game, so I played it on Easy. All I wanted was to see the story. But no, I never really saw it. Like a third into the game, the bosses started to kick my butt so hard that I just couldn't beat them, not even on the easiest available setting. The game didn't have cheat codes either, so it went off my hard drive, because what's the point of a game you can't finish? I don't get the logic of frustrating players. If they set the difficulty to the lowest possible setting, it means a challenge is not what they are after.

I had no clue that XCOM is one of these games that love to frustrate players like that. It will get a kick from my wishlist.

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