The Official Martin Hash Video Game Thread

[Okeefenokee]

That medieval game looks incredible.

Kingdom Come? Yeah, that might be my first full-price purchase in a long, long time.

Not sure it's worth installing Windows, though.

PC games should be made for Linux by default these days. Just test the games on the most common distros like Ubuntu, Mint, etc. Or, for that matter, maybe Valve can create a default PC gaming distro branched off Ubuntu.

Gabe said he was working on a linux client for steam ten years ago. Hasn't happened yet. It's clearly a scam. Gabe's goin' to jail.

[Okeefenokee]

The way I think it should be done is for somebody like Valve to create their own Ubuntu branch and market it as a default gaming distro for most machines. They could work directly with other publishers and developers to figure out what needs to go in there, minimum hardware standards, etc. It would basically be a distro put together by the gaming industry itself that they all build towards.

Then, if you want to use other distros, people could write scripts that will test your system and tell you how compatible it is with the latest Valve distro.

They almost did something like this with their Steambox idea, but I think where they went wrong was trying to make their own console. They should focus on a free, open-sourced Linux distro that only Steam and other development studios maintain and perfect that fucking thing for gaming only.

One thing that would be cool is to create a script that ranks your system according to video, sound, and processor speed. Maybe add something in there for networking, such that it can test your broadband, etc. Then a game could say your min requirements are rank 2 processor, rank1 video, rank 4 network. The script could easily by built into the Steam platform and automatically tell you what games you can play on your current system.

Steam could be integrated directly into the OS too.

The console market is saturated, and moving closer and closer to combining like Sirius and XM.

PC market belongs to Windows, and is also moving towards a merger with console gaming.

The gaming industry is moving towards less division, not more.

Customers are more interested in removing the barriers of the various platforms.

[Speaker to Animals]

Kingdom Come? Yeah, that might be my first full-price purchase in a long, long time.

Not sure it's worth installing Windows, though.

PC games should be made for Linux by default these days. Just test the games on the most common distros like Ubuntu, Mint, etc. Or, for that matter, maybe Valve can create a default PC gaming distro branched off Ubuntu.

Gabe said he was working on a linux client for steam ten years ago. Hasn't happened yet. It's clearly a scam. Gabe's goin' to jail.

There's been a Linux steam client for about six years..

[Speaker to Animals]

The way I think it should be done is for somebody like Valve to create their own Ubuntu branch and market it as a default gaming distro for most machines. They could work directly with other publishers and developers to figure out what needs to go in there, minimum hardware standards, etc. It would basically be a distro put together by the gaming industry itself that they all build towards.

Then, if you want to use other distros, people could write scripts that will test your system and tell you how compatible it is with the latest Valve distro.

They almost did something like this with their Steambox idea, but I think where they went wrong was trying to make their own console. They should focus on a free, open-sourced Linux distro that only Steam and other development studios maintain and perfect that fucking thing for gaming only.

One thing that would be cool is to create a script that ranks your system according to video, sound, and processor speed. Maybe add something in there for networking, such that it can test your broadband, etc. Then a game could say your min requirements are rank 2 processor, rank1 video, rank 4 network. The script could easily by built into the Steam platform and automatically tell you what games you can play on your current system.

Steam could be integrated directly into the OS too.

The console market is saturated, and moving closer and closer to combining like Sirius and XM.

PC market belongs to Windows, and is also moving towards a merger with console gaming.

The gaming industry is moving towards less division, not more.

Customers are more interested in removing the barriers of the various platforms.

The market is split again. Serious gamers want deep, complex games. A lot of others want simplistic gameplay on a console. They are two different ways of gaming that don't really mix well.

PC games absolutely are going to drift into Linux land unless Windows improves, which is doubtful.

[The Conservative]

$10 and it's yours.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/3920/ ... s_Pirates/

GoG has both the original and the Gold versions together for $6.
https://www.gog.com/game/pirates_gold_plus

Sure, maps to go with the D/L?

Eh? Oh, maps of the Caribbean? Some of us don’t need them.

Sure, then you need to remember the time tables of the gold and silver train as well, and where they are going be...

[SuburbanFarmer]

Sure, maps to go with the D/L?

Eh? Oh, maps of the Caribbean? Some of us don’t need them.

Sure, then you need to remember the time tables of the gold and silver train as well, and where they are going be...

It’s been a long time, but it remember it always being the same month.

If you need to cheat at it, you have the Internet.

[The Conservative]

Eh? Oh, maps of the Caribbean? Some of us don’t need them.

Sure, then you need to remember the time tables of the gold and silver train as well, and where they are going be...

It’s been a long time, but it remember it always being the same month.

If you need to cheat at it, you have the Internet.

Same month, different place depending on the age/year you are playing.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Sure, then you need to remember the time tables of the gold and silver train as well, and where they are going be...

It’s been a long time, but it remember it always being the same month.

If you need to cheat at it, you have the Internet.

Same month, different place depending on the age/year you are playing.

Go get the information from dying sea captains, like everybody else.

[Okeefenokee]

Not sure it's worth installing Windows, though.

PC games should be made for Linux by default these days. Just test the games on the most common distros like Ubuntu, Mint, etc. Or, for that matter, maybe Valve can create a default PC gaming distro branched off Ubuntu.

Gabe said he was working on a linux client for steam ten years ago. Hasn't happened yet. It's clearly a scam. Gabe's goin' to jail.

There's been a Linux steam client for about six years..

He's going to jail.

[The Conservative]

It’s been a long time, but it remember it always being the same month.

If you need to cheat at it, you have the Internet.

Same month, different place depending on the age/year you are playing.

Go get the information from dying sea captains, like everybody else.

Always do, or at port. The point is the book and map were always required when playing originally.