Quoting: lavestopped playing after 30 minutes of fallout: new vegas because it was all fallout3 again and had a very hard time to motivate myself playing the borderlands2 dlc campaigns after finishing the original game. if the coop gameplay is good again and they do something about that piece of crap that is the inventory (borderlands 1 was way ahead here) then i might still fall for it.. but my first impression is this: meh D:

Man, that's a shame. NV had a great story and quests. It was a massive step up from Fallout 3.

BL2 is a similar huge jump from BL1 if not bigger - not sure what your objection is to the inventory system... it's been over a year since I played it but don't remember any inventory-related annoyances.

If this happens, I'd love to see a Metro-style redux for BL1/2. I'd buy both games again, happily.

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Y'know, I wondered if you could start a SteamOS session without having to boot fully into that environment. Great find - thanks!

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Do you find, with all these compositor fixes, that SteamOS does a better job with screen tearing than stock Ubuntu?

I use stock Ubuntu, Nvidia proprietary, with Unity. I have very few problems with using Linux for gaming, but I do occasionally see some games experience screen tear. Not all games, and not so severe that I'm prepared to run crazy Openbox/Compton combos to eliminate it, but it's about the last thing I'd like to see fixed in my gaming experience.

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If I see a Steam Greenlight campaign that supports "PC", I immediately hit the "not interested" button. Simples. Largely the same on Kickstarter, although sometimes I'll contact them in the interests of writing up the Funding Crowd articles.

This isn't about trolling devs (and agree that this shouldn't be the approach). But the sooner devs start making a distinction between "PC" and "Windows", the better for everyone.

I agree that Steam should lead the way here.

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Update from the Devs on Steam:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/250620/discussions/1/37470847767073128/?tscn=1406718183

Fingers crossed they issue the patch quickly.

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I've been boycotting Rust... for some reason. Can't remember exactly, so probably not a great boycott really. Was it one of the devs being arrogant?


Ah right - I've just googled it and it was comments that Facepunch's Garry Newman (of Garry's Mod fame) made about Linux. Lots of comments, mostly whine-noise about low sales of Garry's Mod on Linux... as if it hadn't been out for 7 years before being released on that platform. 7 years. Does Newman think Linux users just spring into existence? Or perhaps we migrate from other platforms and thanks to steamplay, already have hundreds of previous purchases from there. Unbelievable.

I would love to support Facepunch, as at least someone in that company appears to "get it", given that comment above, but honestly, I can't bring myself to give this guy my money. Thanks to his ill mannered comments, I actually now regret owning his game from when I was Windows.

And the worst part of that is, I only bought it for one, single LAN-party when there was a bit of peer pressure to buy it for this one mod everyone was wanting to play. Can't even remember its name.

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I'm really surprised that The Fall is so low. It's absolutely superb and wasn't it recommended by Cheese in one of the articles here? Loved that game and bought/played it due to that recommendation.

I'm a bit surprised by Far Sky too, but something about the underwater environment puts me off. It gets good reviews, but I'm just not a fan of the underwater idea.

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Yeah, the comments have been hugely out of order. I'll likely pick this up in a couple of weeks - gonna try A Valley Without Wind first.

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Really looking forward to this one. Sadly, I'll be away on holiday when it releases, but it'll be insta-buy when I'm back at the end of next week. Been tracking it since forever (through GoL and their sadly neglected dev blog) and can't wait to finally play it. Great news.

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Yeah, I'm torn between these two. They both look superb. I'm drawn more to InSomnia than After Reset myself, but the "Linux later" thing tears me up.

It's an improvement though, when you think about the brief history of Linux and games. Used to be, we didn't get consideration at all. Then we got "Linux as a stretch goal". Now we're getting "Linux later".

I'd like to think that over the next six months or so, this whole distinction fades away completely.

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