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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20I'll buy it just to support the linux gaming community. every time a company releses a linux build I buy the game. otherwise I just pirate it.
- psylence, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Not sure if this is a lame troll or a sad question, IHBT if it is.
You're completely right, it's just moronic for them to tout the game as the linux client, it should be the Debian / Ubuntu / Kubuntu / Edubuntu / Xubuntu / Gentoo / RedHat / Fedora / YellowDog / SUSE / Slackware / Mepis / Mandriva / Knoppix / Sabyon / Xandros / Arch / Linspire / Foresight client. How silly of them. - wzzrd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Too bad SS2 isn't anywhere near as good as SS1 was...
- shrewduser, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9SS2 is quite new...
and its not just the game, but the editor/SDK and the engine....
any of this getting through? - shrewduser, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8excellent, i've been sitting on my serious sam 2 disk for ages.
i wonder if any good serious2 engine games are in the works for linux? - dave444444, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I would like to point out that there is a distinction between serious sam: second encounter (released in 2002) and serious sam 2 (released in 2005)
- 1nc0gnito, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Personally I don't think that the quality of the game is even the point. I am just happy to see games being natively ported to the Linux platform, this is by far the best approach to breaking the ground in the gaming arena so steadily held by MS. We as Linux enthusiast should not be forced to seek emulated or costly solutions to play our few favorite games. So I am all for the support of this project regardless of the actual quality of the game. Let's just break out of the box here shall we ? I want to play Martial Heroes Online, and go visit there.com , Can I ? nope.... and why not ? no ports. We are as Linux enthusiast just expected to find the workarounds ourselves and these so called work around usually lead to a loss in the quality or stability of the app in question. I as a consumer don't want to purchase a retail game or application and then find out I either have to pay for a special application to run this product, or that I may not be able to at all without the use of an emulator which in itself may create instability. If Linux is all we say it is, then this must come to a stop and we should do everything we can to support native ports, again regardless of the quality of the game or app. Support your local OS today !
- XVampireX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It's Doom/Quake style linux version, they give you the linux client and you put in the data from your windows version.
- sievo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Does one require a retail version of the game to use this beta? ie, does client mean it's just an executable to replace the windows exe, or is the beta the full game?
- Schug, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I know the guy who does Sam's voice. He's one f*cked up dude.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2So many great games have been basicly ruined by the damn xbox.
The gameplay is generally heaps worse, things like having to use save points over normal saving becuase the xbox doesn't have the memory required.
The controls are crap because of the limited number of buttons avilable on the gamepads things that should be one button push have to be access through menus etc...
Graphic are worse becuase there optimized for TV resolutions (fortunatly the Xbox 360 has solved alot of this since it does HD and shaders etc).
I can only think of about 2 decent cross platform games and even those had problems.
Think how much better Oblivion would have been if it was just for PC (It was a good game but it just lacked stuff, things like the inventory system and spells where really anoying when compared to the way a pc system would have been designed and lack of items and quests and just advanced features that could have been implemented). Thief 3 was also a fairly decent port but once again would have been heaps better with pc only. Fable also comes to mind as somthing that was nurfed by the xbox, all the hyped features that where dropped becuase of lack of computing power.
I wish more companies would make the xbox games as seperate games after getting the pc versions working, im sure it carn't be too hard to add in save points and redesign menu systems and lower the difficulty for all the 10 year olds. - MasteRR, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yes. But it doesn't hurt to support the old games as well. The more the better.
If you want your new games for Linux go buy Doom 3, Quake 4, UT2k4, etc. - khyberkitsune, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2just for an FYI, being a multi-platform tester....
The XBox 1 is nothing more than a PIII with a slimmed-down kernel of Windows 2000 as it's OS. Any Pentium IV with a gig of RAM and a 128 meg card could emulate this platform without any problem since it is the same architecture with minor hardware routing differences, and the original XBox runs a 733 MHz P-III with I think 64/128 megs of RAM (the video chipset shared memory,) on board. With our current processing power, how hard would it be to copy the shipset instructions? (Hint, how many mod-chip manufacturers are still in business???)
LOL Captcha P33da. That almost matches a P3 model processor. - dumpstergames, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3http://www.croteam.com/internaltest/ss_linuxbeta_rc2.zip
Enjoy and remember to report any bugs to the Croteam forums. - nemoder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Personally I'd rather see older games ported over than newer ones. If linux could run all my old games I wouldn't need windows at all, if a new game doesn't run in linux I just won't buy that game. Not to mention the older games are more likely to have been patched so that they are less buggy and have more content.
- XVampireX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You think they are not going to fix bugs? :P
- MasteRR, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Lets see. Aside from the MMO's every beta of a video game I have played was just a few levels (like a demo), rather than the full game. They could have done that.
- juraj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Well, that is logical... what should they do, offer a dvd image with linux version of the entire game for free?
- MasteRR, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Just a note. I think the beta requires the retain Windows version of SS2 to work. All it is is the binary, no data files.
So it's not quite a open beta, but it's a beta. - shrewduser, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2when will you guys learn, the distro is really irrelevant. linux apps are linux apps... god...
- stoanhart, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Yes, they are just going to give you the source to their new game
/end sarcasm - XVampireX, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Hehe, True patriot speech :P
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@psylence
They'd most likely send it to you in an uncompiled format with the instructions as to how to compile & install it. - Halbyrd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0to expand on sievo's question, do you recieve a binary package, or source? if it's a binpkg, then kyberkitsune's comment about distro support becomes more relevant. if it's source, then any platform that supports x86 binaries (i686, AMD64) will run this with minimal modification.
- hordak, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Yes. (I second that.)
- boaman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2SS1 was one of the best games ever. SS2 was so bad. I guess that proves the SS2 development process of
- develop on a PC
- port to an xbox
- port the xbox version back to a PC
just didn't work. - antdude, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Yeah, loved the Egyptian theme.
- donspaulding, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Yes.
- 1nc0gnito, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3your not a master beta tester man, thats not what that memo said, it clearly read Master Bater.
- i440, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Your excessive overanalyticality (I hope I can get away with using that...“word”) rivals that of the GNU project
- mrynit, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1im a master beta tester
- RyeBrye, on 10/12/2007, -10/+1Sweet. Now I can play SS2 on my iPod - because I loaded Linux on that!
Finally a game I can play on anything that runs a Linux kernel - including my PPC Linux box! - khyberkitsune, on 10/12/2007, -9/+0I think my dugg-down linux-definition troll pointed this one out for you.... WTF is a Linux client if you can't get a Windows-native version properly working, let alone it's not a Linux client, it's a Distro-executable.
- khyberkitsune, on 10/12/2007, -11/+0Can someone tell me what a Linux client is?
Last time I checked, Linux was the kernel, and there were other names for distros using the Linux kernel, a.k.a. Ubuntu, SUSE, YellowDog, etc. - Helfax, on 10/12/2007, -15/+2Ok.. I love linux as much as the next geek. However, resurrecting old games on the Linux platform, will NOT make it any more palatable to the masses. We need mainstream adoption in order to anyone persuade anyone outside the Techno Alpha order. I say this with the utmost respect to my fellow brethren.
Linux will remain a clique OS for the mainstream user as long as it is distinguishable from Windows. The mob mentality while not palatable to a few is the order of the day.
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