Comments on: On the Eve of Half-Life 2: A Linux User’s Lament

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Sat, 25 Sep 2004 12:11:37 +0000

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By: zealotasd

zealotasd — Sun, 05 Oct 2003 01:26:31 +0000

Half-Life 2 will be ported to Linux, despite the Valve developers’ objections. :D

Someone stole the sourcecode ;(

but hey, Linux port! :D

but whoever gets caught with the Linux port will receive death by rocket from the DMCA — kinda like the punnishment potsmokers and unlicensed pharmacists received in the game “Narc”. ;(

but hey, I only live once! :p w00t! :p

(Information references… http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/02/1547218&mode=thread&tid=126&tid=127&tid=156&tid=186, http://www.gamerswithjobs.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=665, http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/28619)

By:

Sat, 20 Sep 2003 19:26:34 +0000

This game is the only reason I’ll be booting into WinXP for the next couple of months. Until WineX supports it running in DirectX 8 mode that is. I think that Transgaming would be nuts to ignore it considering it’s popularity. It’s a pain that this will be the only way to play such a ground-breaking game – but it’s only a matter of time before Linux users make up a more substantial portion of the PC gaming market. At that point game developers will no longer be able to ignore Linux as a valuable gaming platform. If OpenGL 2.0 is a reasonable competitor to DirectX 9 then developers could make games (such as HL2) cross-platform from the beginning.

My 2 cents . . .

By: Dougst3r

Dougst3r — Sat, 20 Sep 2003 17:51:07 +0000

Thats my policy if there is no linux client. I don’t buy any Windows-only games for full price. If/when HL2 hits the bargain bin for $9.95 then I will buy it and see if it runs in Wine, load it on my seldom used Windows partition, whatever. I’ve been burned too many times by buying some supposedly really great game only to discover it either sucks or else has so many bugs its almost unplayable.
[br]Really good games for Linux are Quake3 (w/ Urban Terror and Quake3 Fortress 2), Jagged Alliance 2 is a fantastic strategy combat game, Duke Nukem 3D is loads of fun, and don’t overlook venerable Quake with its loads of expansions and mods and its great new client: QuakeForge.

By: azote

azote — Sat, 20 Sep 2003 15:37:56 +0000

I will never buy again a game that is not linux native…
Not even run a server …

I Recommned all of you guys to get SAVAGE from s2games.com is the best game engine out there…

By: azote

azote — Sat, 20 Sep 2003 15:37:47 +0000

I will never buy again a game that is not linux native…
Not even run a server …

I Recommned all of you guys to get SAVAGE from s2games.com is the best game engine out there…

By: bdove

bdove — Sat, 20 Sep 2003 04:44:38 +0000

no windows copy, wont see a dime from me without native linux.

No client, no server also applys for me.

By:

Sat, 20 Sep 2003 04:44:30 +0000

They don’t sell linux games in Sweden…
:(

By:

Fri, 19 Sep 2003 19:34:02 +0000

I Steam is appauling, trust me on this. I tried to get into a cs server through steam about 30 times last night and no joy. HL2 is going down….