I can't imagine how many "articles" Phoronix will squeeze from that single blog post... :P

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Great news!

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It's only me, or having Chris Avellone doing something in every single new game that is been developed these days is becoming annoying? Honestly I don't like his writing, "Fallout: New Vegas" was boring, "Wasteland 2" boring too, same "Icewind Dale" back in the days or "KOTOR II". Surely he knows how to add a layer of complexity to a game's world, but this usually contributes to make the game boring and the kind of game that throws choices at your face too much explicitly.

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Damn, 9.9€ when on sale and 19.9 € normal price for a game from 2002, seriously?!?! How much Bethesda wants to squeeze from this lemon?

I have the original CD and I payed much less for it!

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After 5 patches, it is still so buggy and unplayable using Mesa radeonsi driver that I had to play on Windows: it is so buggy also on Windows that I had to force a flag to not use DirectX 10 to play (is a known issue with AMD graphics cards). Done that, it worked well without a single crash.

That said, I played all the first part of the game (set in Arizona) and now I started to play the second set in California. It's not a great game, the setting is anonymous, there's not a single place I can remember or that impressed me. What I mean is that if you played ie Skyrim there are places in the game that are so well done that you can say "let me go to that temple". Not in this game.

Characters are anonymous too, apart from Scotchmo, an alcoholist hobo, which has some funny lines. The story? The usual "we are the survivors, we are the good, fight the evils". As a RPG isn't that great too: there are some moral choices to do, but the world you live feels static.

Fights are usually unbalanced: or you are too strong (and the game become boring) or the opponents are too strong (and the game become frustrating). You can't avoid fights, once started: sometimes you can meet some super strongs opponents that kill your party, completely random. Fights are turn based, but you can't plan the fight: you can't carefully place your party before fighting the overwhelming opponents.

Why am I still playing it? I don't know, maybe the old school feel.

My vote is 6.5 on 10.

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Honestly, at 3€ it's a bargain. The Hard Reset "classic" works very well under Linux using WINE and Mesa, tried to install the Redux edition, but requires DirectX 10 (the Steam store requirements are wrong).
I hope they'll port the game to Linux, will be amazing: I enjoyed playing it, it's so '90.

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Quoting: aL

Quoting: ziabiceFeral, can you please stop porting games I already own and played using WINE? Thank you!

Please bring us: Sleeping Dogs DE, Batman, Deus Ex: HR, Hitman, or whatever you already ported to Mac OS X that's not a RTS game that I don't own.

Cheers,
My wallet

maybe you can put the list of your games on advance, so they can work on it...

Or you could stop using wine and play things that are on linux already. My backlog of native linux games is longer that I would like already :)

You are right.

I'm having this backlog drama: 450 games, 305 running on Linux, the ones I actually want to play are the other 145...

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Feral, can you please stop porting games I already own and played using WINE? Thank you!

Please bring us: Sleeping Dogs DE, Batman, Deus Ex: HR, Hitman, or whatever you already ported to Mac OS X that's not a RTS game that I don't own.

Cheers,
My wallet

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I have nearly all games listed as eligible, but none gets connected. I bet Gabe said "NO, NO, NO!" :D

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*throws money at the screen*

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