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GOG now supports Linux (50+ titles in the first batch)
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MrNyarlathotep
Banned
Good news for those interested in Steambox / SteamOS
ashecitism
Member
GOL made a short interview with them:
http://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/gog-com-now-officially-support-linux-games.4076
http://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/gog-com-now-officially-support-linux-games.4076
Horatorobor
Member
This is huge, library of games in linux is expanding rapidly.
I would like to see The Witcher on linux, since I never got to finish it while I had Windows.
I would like to see The Witcher on linux, since I never got to finish it while I had Windows.
Except that it was a Wrapper port and it fucking sucked.
Wonderful news for GoG, most old games can and NEED to run on Wine/DOSBOX, which should make it easy to port over.
Okay, but that's not a rebuttal in any way. The game technically has Linux support, it was and is advertised as having Linux support, and CDPR even discounted the series to celebrate the fact the game's now Linux-compatible, hence my assumption that the two events coincided.
MrCunningham
Member
Great news! DRM free gaming on an opensource operating system is a perfect fit. I'm actually using Linux Mint 17 right now as I type this.
rockmanjoe
Member
Great news to wake up to!! So many new ports too!
jim-jam bongs
Member
This is great news, though I've been using PlayOnLinux to play all my GOG games in Ubuntu for over a year now already. It does make me strongly inclined towards putting Steam OS on my new tablet though.
Funkyhamster
Member
How well does PlayOnLinux work? I haven't had great luck with WINE in the past, but I might have to try it out again. The day I can play MOHAA, Morrowind, AOM, and Pharaoh on Linux is the day I leave Windows behind forever. After this GOG announcement, I'm hoping for eventual native support for these games, but I don't know if that will ever happen.
jim-jam bongs
Member
PlayOnLinux works extremely well, because it's based around users creating profiles of the WINE versions, settings and libs needed for particular games. Obviously that means that not every game works right now, however it makes the process of tailoring profiles to experiment with settings a lot easier.
The installer list under games prefixes titles with GOG when they apply to their installers, which work really well because they're rebuilt for modern Windows anyway.
Why would they advertise "NOW ON STEAM OS/LINUX" on Steam if it wasn't going to Linux?
freshVeggie
Member
I'd really like linux to become more popular and all game releases to be available day one there, too.
But at its current state I find it hard to imagine being a linux-only gamer. There are so many great games you miss out on.
Of course there's always the exception but I just imagine most linux gamers to have windows on parallel to play these games.
Wish that steamos opens the flood gates for linux to become equal to windows with game support. But the pessimist in me thinks it'll just fragment more.
But at its current state I find it hard to imagine being a linux-only gamer. There are so many great games you miss out on.
Of course there's always the exception but I just imagine most linux gamers to have windows on parallel to play these games.
Wish that steamos opens the flood gates for linux to become equal to windows with game support. But the pessimist in me thinks it'll just fragment more.
You mean "Coming to SteamOS", but, yes, I agree. I think that's just a case of a front-line support staffer not getting the memo. That TW3 banner wasn't made by Valve and it was up for days.
Funkyhamster
Member
Awesome. I'm trying it out with Deus Ex from GOG right now. Not having to rely on Windows for old PC games would be a huge relief.
I'm really impressed with how far Linux gaming has come in the past few years in terms of ease of use as well as the software library. It seems like new PC games supporting Linux is inevitable now, so playing older games is the one thing that worried me. If there's an easy way to play the classics, be it through WINE or native GOG builds, then that gives me a ton of confidence in the future of Linux gaming.
batteryLeakage
Neo Member
Fantastic news!
I'm hoping that the reason it isn't on GOG.com yet is because CDProjekt decided to port the game natively. Most companies wouldn't go through the trouble, but CDP is one of the few that seems to value their reputation and not just money. While they were very quiet on the matter, I don't think they were very happy with the response the Linux version received.
Plus with their money-back guarantee, and I can see them being flooded with requests given the performance of the game.
Hopefully it was just someone jumping the gun and revealing too early. It would sting if it was recanted entirely.
I'm not a Linux-only gamer (I do have a Windows partition and have consoles), but it tends to be the majority of my game-time these days because Linux is my OS of choice and its a real pain to boot into Windows solely to play a game. It kind of sucks that there is such a disparity and I'd love to have more games at my fingertips, but if you like indie titles there is plenty of good stuff to play on the platform already and its only getting better. Steam Linux has close to 600 games available for instance. I'm hoping the big-budget stuff will come with time but even if it doesn't and only the indie stuff keeps being released, I'll continue have a lot of quality titles to play. Its not as bad as you might think as long as you can look past the fact that Windows has more.
In my experience (though I don't use Wine as extensively as some do) older games that don't rely heavily on intricate D3D shaders or multithreading tend to work very well out of the box on Wine. I've never come across a problem with DOSBox. Given the type of games GOG.com has in its catalogue (good and old) and the GOG team configuring per-title, I'm confident that most of their content could make the transition unscathed.
I'm hoping that the reason it isn't on GOG.com yet is because CDProjekt decided to port the game natively. Most companies wouldn't go through the trouble, but CDP is one of the few that seems to value their reputation and not just money. While they were very quiet on the matter, I don't think they were very happy with the response the Linux version received.
Plus with their money-back guarantee, and I can see them being flooded with requests given the performance of the game.
Hopefully it was just someone jumping the gun and revealing too early. It would sting if it was recanted entirely.
I'm not a Linux-only gamer (I do have a Windows partition and have consoles), but it tends to be the majority of my game-time these days because Linux is my OS of choice and its a real pain to boot into Windows solely to play a game. It kind of sucks that there is such a disparity and I'd love to have more games at my fingertips, but if you like indie titles there is plenty of good stuff to play on the platform already and its only getting better. Steam Linux has close to 600 games available for instance. I'm hoping the big-budget stuff will come with time but even if it doesn't and only the indie stuff keeps being released, I'll continue have a lot of quality titles to play. Its not as bad as you might think as long as you can look past the fact that Windows has more.
In my experience (though I don't use Wine as extensively as some do) older games that don't rely heavily on intricate D3D shaders or multithreading tend to work very well out of the box on Wine. I've never come across a problem with DOSBox. Given the type of games GOG.com has in its catalogue (good and old) and the GOG team configuring per-title, I'm confident that most of their content could make the transition unscathed.
MrNyarlathotep
Banned
I would be surprised if SteamOS doesn't become the de facto gaming OS, because I can't think of anyone else who would want to make such a thing (and by 'want to make' I mean be prepared to invest the time and money for zero return that Valve are)
Laevateinn
Member
I don't really game on PC as I've been exclusively a Linux user since around 2000 and before that my PC was pretty old. So this is pretty good news for me. I'll look into these this weekend. Anything on here I should keep an eye out for besides the obvious? I only really know Duke Nukem, RotT and the Sid Meier games.
MrNyarlathotep
Banned
I've personally enjoyed;
Defcon
Don't Starve + DLC
Gemini Rue
Long Live the Queen
Pirates! Gold Plus - first time on Linux!
Sid Meier's Colonization - first time on Linux!
Space Pirates and Zombies
Spacechem
SteamWorld Dig
VVVVVV
batteryLeakage
Neo Member
It depends on your tastes, but Legend of Grimrock, Spacechem, and VVVVVV are all worth looking into IMO. Also recommend eduke32 to go along with Duke3d.