LinuxGameCast Weekly EP38 — The Year Of Linux Gaming

Coming up on LinuxGamecast Weekly: Humble releases a Double Fine bundle, Return to Castle Wolfenstein gets a massive update, and Valve Half-Lifes all the things. Then we throw the chairs at Brütal Legend. All this, plus your hate mail.

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Colour key: Venn Jordan Pedro


PSA:

HD4650 doable for Linux gaming? Bwahahahaha ahahahah ..nope.
http://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1dy0uh/is_hd4650_doable_for_linux_gaming/

  • To be fair, my Mobility HD5650 is very doable for Linux gaming. But then again, the 13.1 drivers (now the legacy ones) SUUUUUUUUUUUUCKED. So yeah… nope!

  • Would you ask “Is HD4650 doable for Linux Windows gaming?”

  • http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu.php?gpu=Radeon+HD+4650

  • cal·cu·la·tor  

  • /ˈkalkyəˌlātər/

  • Noun

  • Something used for making mathematical calculations, esp. a small electronic device with a keyboard and a visual display.

  • Yes, you can play some older indie titles but have no illusions of participating in the Steamy goodness.

  • Now, here’s the thing. Linux system requirements are (usually) higher compared to Windows when it comes to gaming. Check with the judge.

  • Eeeesh 354. Mine scores 553 on that website.

    • 3,508

    • 5350 


Steam News :

Brütal Legend, Costume Quest, and Stacking make with the downloading.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/225260/?snr=1_7_15__13

 

Good news, everyone – Linux version of GMod almost done ..kinda
http://garry.tv/2013/05/11/linuxxx/

  • Don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining. Is this still relevant? I’d rather see the Source Movie Maker get ported.

  • Apparently GMod is still a thing. A big thing. More the merrier.

 

Half-Life 2 ALLTHETHINGS!
http://steamcommunity.com/games/220/announcements/detail/1729658462273384426

  • HL2, Half-Life 2 Ep1, Ep2, and Half-Life 2: Lost Coast all make with the working.

  • Mmmm! FSMdamn, Valve! This is some serious gourmet shite! Me, Jordan and Pedro would have been happy with L4D2 right, but you spring this serious GOURMET shite on us!

  • First time playing HL2. This must have been face-melting in 2004.

  • Still one of the best games of the past decade!

  • We now have the entire Orange Box on linux.  That’s pretty cool.


News:

Double Complete Humble Bundle
https://www.humblebundle.com/

  • Mr. Schaffer keeps doing right by me, Imma keep givin’ him the moonie$!

  • Psychonauts, Costume Quest, Brütal Legend and $35 for a taste of Broken Age.

  • Now accepting Bitcoin

  • Linux still crushing the average but slightly less purchases vs MAC.

  • Well, I wanted a copy of Costume Quest and Brutal legend, and they’re on linux now

 

OpenXcom 0.9 released
http://freegamer.blogspot.com/2013/05/openxcom-takes-giant-leap.html

  • Downloaded it to see if it was at least as much fun as Dune Legacy, then it reminded me why XCom was the first game I honestly disliked.

  • Need the original art assets, $4.99 on Steam

  • Went from a fairly incomplete version 0.4 to a fully playable and enhanced version 0.9.

 

Salvation Prophecy: A Military Space Epic – native linux port released
http://www.salvationprophecy.com/index.php/2013/05/06/506/

  • A dev who doesn’t sheep along with the “AMD-on-Linux-sucks-so-don’t-bother” Movement! RESPEKT!

  • Crabwalk is baaaaack!

 

Rawbots free during Kickstarter
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rozgo/rawbots-multiplayer-sandbox/posts/475539

  • Shite don’t run, son.

  • 64bit only, because they don’t really want people to give them money.

  • Did you look at Valve and go all “Pfffft! We know better!” #doingitwrong

  • In all fairness the $29.99 “early access” version has a 32-bit build.

  • You people need to get with the times, maaaaaaaaan

  • Idungeddit

 

8-bit commando
http://2dengine.com/commando/

  • Hey, controller support! Neat!

  • Keeps crashing on the first level with FK all error output.

  • I’m not getting any crashes

  • No crashes here either.

 

rtcwcoop 0.9.5 Released
http://www.rtcwcoop.com/2013/05/rtcwcoop-0-9-5/

  • “This is the first release I consider stable.”

  • Added banning and tempbanning

  • Added obituaries for players

  • Fixed dead bodies blocking bullets

  • Fixed loading screen on widescreen setups

  • What about the improper syncing between clients, like we experienced in our Playas?

  • Perhaps we should give this one a part 3


Review

Game: Brütal Legend
Website: http://store.steampowered.com/app/225260/
Devel: Double Fine Productions
Engine:
Price: $19.99


 Scale:

– Nooope
– Not sure if want
– Check it out
– Shutupandtakemymonies


Makes with the working

V-

  • It’s Steam but i’m dinging it a chair because VSYNC should not be default.

J-  

P-

  • Because Steam!


Total-


Shiny / Sounds

V-

  • WIN win and win. Did I mention win? \m/

J-   

  • Can’t complain about an all metal soundtrack

P-

  • For once I didn’t experience any of the vsync issues other people complained about.

  • Yay! They don’t discriminate against certain types of Metal just because “some people” don’t like it.


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Controls

V-

  • Clearly constructed for a console. Four years after the console release and random gerbil clicking was the best you could come up with?

J-

  • Controls are a bit jittery, I was able to play with keyboard controls.   

P-

  • Console oriented UI, lack of proper graphical options and defaulting to vsync.

  • I spent a good 10 mins to make it through the bridge at the start because that car is impossible to drive


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 Fun

V-

  • You tricked me DF. If this had RTS anywhere in the description I would have noped the FK out.

J-

  • I can’t hate this game.  I like the atmosphere, the soundtrack and the little heavy metal references.     It ain’t perfect, but I certainly had fun

P-

  • Like Venn said, it’s an RTS in the guise of a hacky-slashy, driving sandbox. It’s like Road Rash meets Age of Empires 2 with the “HOW DO YOU TURN THIS ON” cheat.


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Final-


Feedback:

MIC Licking
http://slexy.org/view/s20ycv631o

Retrobooster demo updated to 0.6.5
http://slexy.org/view/s20M3Vdr2F

 

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