Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on February 01, 2006 05:27 AM
Personally I've never been very much into the typical shoot-drive-smash-em-all type of 3D games. I usually find them unimaginative and rather boring. But I've always loved good strategy games and classic intellectual games alà chess, go, bridge, backgammon etc. There is lots of good chess (Jose) and go (glGo) software also available for Linux/Unix. Besides. also when using Wine, the chess/go software made for Windows tends to run quite well on Linux too.
Linux is a perfect gaming platform for me...<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:-) Well, ok, I might be interested in trying Rome Total War or Civilization IV sometimes, but then again, those kind of big strategy games, although perhaps entertaining, tend to take huge amounts of time, have a steep learning curve, and occasionally crash even on Windows. I don't need them and I am probably even happier without them.
So, here was an alternative view to this subject: Who needs those often time consuming, bloated, buggy, 3D hungry "modern* video games that also often lack real intelligent content that could keep you interested in them for more than a few weeks, when there are smart classic games enjoyed for hundreds of years already and that you can play on your Linux PC too.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 01, 2006 05:27 AMLinux is a perfect gaming platform for me...<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:-) Well, ok, I might be interested in trying Rome Total War or Civilization IV sometimes, but then again, those kind of big strategy games, although perhaps entertaining, tend to take huge amounts of time, have a steep learning curve, and occasionally crash even on Windows. I don't need them and I am probably even happier without them.
So, here was an alternative view to this subject: Who needs those often time consuming, bloated, buggy, 3D hungry "modern* video games that also often lack real intelligent content that could keep you interested in them for more than a few weeks, when there are smart classic games enjoyed for hundreds of years already and that you can play on your Linux PC too.
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