Coming up on this LinuxGamecast Weekly: Steam prepares for new releases, Humble misses a bundle, and we play the most CPU intensive game ever created for Linux. Then we throw the chairs at Sonic 3D. All this; plus your hate mail.
Links:
PSA
Steam
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http://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta#announcements/detail/1623821008699675553
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http://www.webupd8.org/2013/04/euro-truck-simulator-2-game-for-linux.html
News
Review
Feedback
Colour key: Venn Jordan Pedro
PSA:
Moar power
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=129879
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I’ll probably have to try this on my old desktop PC at some point. Though I doubt the 8 year old GS7600 will have any of that.
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Neat stuff. Will definitely try it out when I have a few spare cycles
Steam News :
This minor update includes improvements for upcoming Steam releases
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta#announcements/detail/1623821008699675553
11bit studios hands out 6000 keys for Anomaly 2 Multiplayer beta. Oh, about that Linux support.
http://steamcommunity.com/app/209890/screenshots/
- Locks up my laptop, need to drop into a TTY to kill it manually.
- Same here.
- ^ Yup. Like how they are keeping a game that locks Linux boxes available.
- Same here.
Public Linux Beta of Euro Truck Simulator 2
http://www.webupd8.org/2013/04/euro-truck-simulator-2-game-for-linux.html
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Still suffers from the excessive flickering, which stems from the fact that the in-game vsync option is broken. If I force vsync through the Catalyst Control Center the flickering stops.
Anna gets Steamy
http://store.steampowered.com/app/217690/
- Crashes as soon as it’s done loading. Which is a known bug with Unity 4 and fglrx 12.10+.
- Unity devs have no idea why some games work fine (Guns of Icarus, Cubemen 2, etc.) and why some don’t (Anna, Wander, etc.).
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AMD refuses to acknowledge it as a bug, regardless of the countless number of reports me and a bunch of other people have sent them. “Linux is not our top priority.”
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Don’t quite feel like paying 10 bucks for it. Will wait until it drops in price
News:
SEYKEN:Crystal Kingdom JRPGS beta
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Java MMO, strangely similar to WarSpear Online for Android.
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Look at all the fucks I don’t give! ^__^
Humble not-so-weekly Bundle
http://www.humblebundle.com/weekly
- I had a sneaking suspicion that they were gonna have some trouble keepi
g this up. They don’t have all that many games, do they.
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Hey, I like that they are trying new things but FFS stick with it.
Most demanding game for Linux ..is?
- Runs slow as balls on my computer. Geez! Is this all done on the CPU?
- Shoulda got that 8 core gorrammit
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Still crawls on my box. Probably set P mans on fire.
Chasm now has a Linux demo
http://discordgames.com/?page_id=1947
- It uses Mono to run an .exe… Lazy!
- Had to download Ethan “flibitijibibo” Lee’s patch for the game to work on my end. (http://www.flibitijibibo.com/chasmLinuxPatch.tar.bz2)
- Linux Support thread: http://discordgames.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=39
- Bash script runs fine on my end.
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Controls are a bit strange
Love match set
http://www.managames.com/tennis/game_en.html
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I have yet to find the appeal in sports games.
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It’s a guy thing.
Scale:
– Nooope
– Check it out
– Shutupandtakemymonies
Game : Sonic 3D
Website: sonic-the-hedgehog-3d
Devel: EZeddy
Engine: Eduke32
Price: naught
Makes with the working
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Do I approve of only having a *.deb package? Nope. Even on Ubuntu I prefer keeping my games in one folder. Not a fan of system-wide installs for games. Runs OOTB but getting dinged for lacking a *.tar
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Had to unar the .deb file extract it to / and then invoke the game manually because sonic3d doesn’t run without using /usr/games/eduke32_sonic3d -g data.grp
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Assuming the only download options are x86.deb and amd64.deb It does take a bit of work to get it to work properly under anything other than Ubuntu/Mint/etc..
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Shiny / Sounds
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I’m amazed they pulled this off with EDuke32. Hail to the hedgehog, baby.
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Sound reminds me of the original Genesis version.
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Looks fine, sounds fine, nothing special here though. Certainly no “shutupandtake my money”
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There’s nothing wrong with the graphics itself, if you disregard the fact that Sonic in 3D has never had anything better than a lukewarm critical reception.
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The music takes about 3 minutes become a homogeneous mass of background noise in the shape of cottonless Q-tips getting shoved into your ears. But maybe that’s just me.
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Control / fun
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This is where Sonic 3D makes with the failsause. Controls.
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Keyboard and wireless gerbil support work but HTH wants to play a platformer like that?
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It detected my Logitech Precision gamepad but fk all if I could configure it properly.
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- Camera follows a bit too close. The game plays pretty much like a PC based sonic would.
- Controller support is a bit messed up. I can only move backwards, and jump forwards
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Fully playable with WASD, but still. Its mean to be played with a controller
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It gets two chairs because it controls just fine (then again the Quake 2 engine has been around for what 16 years?) and if you ignore the Sonic texturing it might have even been moderately interesting.
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I was never really into Sonic in 2D and 3D only added a new dimension to my indifference.
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Final – *
- It’s a mediocre game. There’s absolutely nothing to set it apart from the rest of dross that is your average Linux game.
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Like Sonic? Go for it! If you don’t like Sonic, it won’t change your opinion.
- Nice graphics (considering the engine) but Ubuntu only installer and lack of proper gamepad support kills it IMNSHO.
- Ditto. I’d still be a bit more generous being that it made me chuckle with nostalgia for a good few minutes
Feedback:
Province Based Strategy Game?
http://slexy.org/view/s2MrS3R5hC
http://linuxgamecast.com/discussions-2/#/discussion/135/province-based-strategy-game…
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There’s Dawn of Fantasy, but I’m not sure it’ll run on a netbook: http://dof.reverieworld.com/index.php
Getting Trine 2 to work