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0 comments by die_z on Jan 3rd, 2012

I've been wanting a racing game for Linux for quite a while.. it's one of the major shortcomings when it comes to gaming, IMHO.

When I've seen CoreBreach arrive here on Desura I tried the demo, just a couple races and I was off to buy it. During the next hours I finished career mode two times (easy and medium difficulty). After that I moved to to hard and got the reeper by beating the boss on the last track. All weapons and the "cars" I like the best have been fully upgraded.

Well, it's a good game. I like it and will play it some more times, BUT:

- it's a little too easy in my opinion. I don't think I am better than the average, yet I never had to play a track a second time; always won at first try. Completing a clean race, on the contrary, is extremely difficult due to the really fast pace of the tracks, which are relatively narrow

- the audio player is very disturbing when it pops up on song change, that needs to be addressed for sure

- the worst part of the game is multi-player. CoreBreach only has split-screen multi-player support. No network. Gathering some friends and fire up a racing LAN-party is still not feasible on Linux. This makes me sad. The best part of a racing game is the competition with other humans, either online or in a LAN. Time attack and fastest world times do not look interesting to me: what I like best is human interaction. When it's human vs human, absolute time doesn't matter and the fun comes from fighting each other to cross the finish line first

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die_z
die_z Jan 12 2012, 4:24pm says:

Bought Achron a couple of days ago. Now just wrote to the Desura team about its gift key.
Let's see if they come up with an answer I can replay on Achron's page and on forums so people will know how to get the advertised extra copy.

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die_z Oct 13 2011, 6:30pm says:

While desura client is not starting anymore on my 64-bit Debian sid, I was playing trauma on my browser and it fully deserves every cent it costs.
Great great experience. Not only a gaming one, I'd bend it towards "consciousness entertainment".

Completed the main story, now on to the secondary objectives. Fun fact: while playing the fourth dream I completed every secondary ending prior to finding the main one.
Brief still very rewarding game.

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die_z Oct 11 2011, 7:14pm says:

Frozen synapse has some sound and solid gameplay!
Music is entertaining, reminds me of the electronic netlabel scene, something I deeply appreciate.

Great work Frozenbyte!!
Well spent money, once again :)

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die_z
die_z Oct 10 2011, 2:58pm says:

Hell, COGS is really nice, too!
Maximum graphics details, the right audio volume and pleasing soft mental tension for a guaranteed rewarding playing experience.

Enjoy! ;)

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die_z
die_z Oct 10 2011, 2:12pm says:

Installing nvidia-glx-ia32 and loading snd-pcm-oss lets me play zero ballistics with sound :)

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die_z
die_z Oct 10 2011, 1:26pm says:

Just finished Trine additional level.. I already miss this very fine game!

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die_z
die_z Oct 4 2011, 4:41pm says:

honestly, I think VVVVVV (analog mode on) could become my favorite *game* ...ever

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die_z
die_z Sep 27 2011, 7:12pm says:

VERY GOOD!

Redeemed all my humble indie bundle games and Hammerfight works perfect with desura, while it did not start when I tried the version from the direct humble indie bundle download.

This is how things should unfold,
keep up the good work!

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die_z
die_z Sep 27 2011, 2:23pm says:

Hooray! Just got access to desura from my gaming linux box!

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die_z
die_z Sep 26 2011, 7:57am says:

been playing Trine yesterday and found it a really polished game!

simple controls, nice graphics, good sounds and interesting gameplay
..I found voices'volume to be too low, though and had to push other sounds' sliders really low

I had bought this game a while ago and never tried it so far, the humble indie bundle surprises me once more! :)

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