[ut3] Unreal Tournament 3 and Gears of War Linux Status

[Matthew Thompson]

The reason why I chose to mention iD and not Epic is that they design their
games with the knowledge that they will some day become open source. Quake
I, II, and III have spawned so many OSS games it's not even funny. If Epic
released the source to the original UT my head would probably explode - we
could have updated graphics, a fixed sound system, and all sorts of ports. I
would play UT over Quake any day, but since Quake is open source and UT
isn't it will be getting much more playtime in the longrun (Quake on
Nintendo DS, anyone?)


On Dec 3, 2007 2:14 PM, Alex Malinovich <demonbane at the-love-shack.net>
wrote:

> On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 13:49 -0600, Matthew Thompson wrote:
> > >I only have to fit my gaming needs to the
> > capabilities of my os. :(
> >
> > Linux is more than capable of being an awesome gaming OS. I would say
> > the only thing limiting your needs are the Microsoft-only shops and
> > companies that produce games these days. If only there were more
> > iD-like companies around!
>
> To be fair, the real name that we should be mentioning for fantastic
> Linux support is Epic. (And more specifically, Ryan.) UT 2003/2004 are,
> to date, the only games I've ever bought a CD/DVD of at a store, brought
> it home, and installed straight into Linux from the media.
>
> While id's support has been fantastic as well, and there are other
> notable companies that have supported us (BioWare comes to mind, despite
> the incredible delays, and Introversion though they're not nearly as
> well-known as they deserve to be), I've thus far been incredibly
> impressed with Epic. That's why I'm trying to remain as patient as
> possible with waiting for the UT3 client. Besides, I'm still busy
> playing ETQW, so an extra few days without UT3 won't kill me. :) (This
> year has been fantastic for online shooters in Linux.)
>
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