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Street Fighter V Announced For Linux and SteamOS
An anonymous reader writes: Capcom has announced that their upcoming Street Fighter V game, one of the most anticipated games for 2016, will also be available for SteamOS and Linux. Already in place is support functionality for the Steam Controller, Valve's game controller that was recently updated with some new features. Ever since Valve launched Steam for Linux, the number of native Linux games has positively exploded. But will it be enough for gamers to choose a Linux distribution as their gaming platform?
To protect delicate western sensibilities, these versions will feature mandatory Burka costumes for all playable female characters.
Now we are talking serious games shit for my Linux. We rule! FINALLY!
Meh, you really need a 6 button controller for Street Fighter. The 6 button Genesis was the best hand held controller ever.
I play games on Linux. I loved the Portal games, and I'm spending more time than is perhaps good for me in Kerbal Space Program. Got XCOM waiting for me once I take a break from KSP. On my laptop I play FTL, and I've slowly playing through Baldurs Gate; something fun to do during business trips.
If I didn't have these games on Linux, I would not be playing on Windows. Dual-booting is completely impractical, since you'd have to close your work and shut down just to play a game. I'd not use Windows; I'd probably just get a game console instead. Or be content with the games I can play on my tablet. Without Linux games, I would not be playing PC games at all.
Trust the Computer. The Computer is your friend.
Why is this news?
"But will it be enough for gamers to choose a Linux distribution as their gaming platform?"
Not if they're smart. When it comes to ease of use, performance and backwards compatibility, Windows kills Linux all day long. And it always will.
they're not over extending themselves too much by making a version for linux, unreal engine 4 makes it easier for them to do this
a new mega man would be nice.
> But will it be enough for gamers to choose a Linux distribution as their gaming platform?
That's not the point of putting a game on Linux. What this means is that, if you are running Linux, you can play this game. This is GREAT news. The issue facing Linux gamers isn't that there are no good games- it's that of the games made, many never get a Linux version. This is a great game that is getting a Linux version. That's seriously cool!
Most gamers have at least one game that they can't make work on Linux- this means that Street Fighter V will NOT be one of those annoying games. Solid.
Surely this mainstream offering for Linux indicative of 2016 year of the Linux desktop? Just a thought, could be
desktops. Answer that. The question? Right. Never, ever, seen a WP in the wild? But somehow you have seen desktops with some sort of Linux on it. There. Splain that!
But will it be enough for gamers to choose a Linux distribution as their gaming platform?
For some gamers, no. Not at all.
For some: If this generates additional FPS, then, yes. Will they replace Windows? Nah. But will they boot up Linux to confirm reports that they can get superior performance? If so, then yes.
Doesn't matter whether they will actually be able to see a difference from the FPS. If reports say there's something better, then some gamers will spend the time to try it out.
When you look at the number of games for Linux vs Windows you then discover that Linux has a very long way to go to convince hard core gamer's that Linux is the platform of choice. No hard core gamer would want to limit themselves in potential games just to adopt Linux. Only those who have more interest in adopting open source then actually playing games would choose Linux over Windows. In gaming community you have two groups, consoles and PC gamer's. I don't see that changing anytime soon. Especially since Linux gaming is not even close to offering the same experience.
Gamers are, in the main, a tech-savvy crowd. Isn't Linux ideal for them? They can tweak it to their hearts content, ripping that last bit of speed out of things. Saying that Linux is too technical for them does seem a little insulting given that a lot of PC gamers build their rigs from scratch.
So, imo, there has to be something else going on. Such as MS's stranglehold on the OEMs who produce the graphics cards and drivers. That's about the only substantial reason why games weren't that popular on Linux.
This does seem to break a barrier, so I'm thinking that graphic card manufacturers are producing better graphics drivers for Linux. Maybe a back-swash from the uptake of Android machines? Once someone has produced a graphics driver for Android, it wont seem that far-fetched to produce a Linux driver for other Linux distributions out there.
I don't know enough about the subject to make a properly informed guess but it seems a better approach than some of the comments I've seen above.
There are more Linux phones than Windows desktops.
"one of the most anticipated games for 2016"
Being unable to play most games because I haven't had a Windows machine for years or a decent console for that matter(thinking about buying one for fallout 4) , I haven't followed the game news in years.
But it sounds like 2016 will be a slow game year.
When launching a Steam game, namely the old Counterstrike it launches on the left monitor instead of the right one. Wine + Warcraft 3 launches on the monitor I want to use - but with that one, don't dare trying alt-tab!
See, I don't really want to spend $500 on new hardware and risk ending up with the same bugs, while not being able to play fun games I know about (like say, Painkiller which is old but was fun except for the slow downs. Or games like Crysis 1 and Stalker which seemed good but were too slow)
For the record, I use dual monitor with the primary monitor on the right, not left. I won't change that unless I move all furniture around I guess (not even, then).
The desktop environment just got a setting to choose a primary monitor! Mate 1.12, released late 2015 (also known as Gnome 2 before year 2012)
Counterstrike is alt-tab friendly so not all is bad. It's merely bad enough I won't play it (lack of old school servers too). Not only secondary monitor is smaller and lower quality, it's not right in front of me like the primary is.
It's being developed for a non-DirectX *nix based platform with common architecture compared to the PC. Makes me wonder why more PS4 games don't make it to Linux? Probably because it costs money, but surely it's easier than bringing PS4 games to Windows. I guess we just need a larger Linux/SteamOS install base.
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No there isn't, not by a long shot...
Android doesn't count, unless it is rooted and something else installed. What Samsung puts on their phones isn't remotely "Linux".
His argument still stands. Just because there are more of X than Y doesn't mean there's 0 chance you'll ever see Y.
The most popular operating system in the world is called "Android" and it is a Linux distribution. Windows and Microsoft are irrelevant
What's the most popular operating system that can display more than one window on the screen at once? I'd guess almost nobody wants a calculator to fill a monitor bigger than that of a phone. But the last time I checked, stock Android ran apps maximized. And even on those few Android devices that support multiple windows, Android application developers had to opt in to non-maximized window management policies in each application's manifest, and few did.
That starts with configuration stuff like just plugging in a controller and start gaming without ever needing to touch anything
If the connected controller is a standard HID joystick rather than the Xbox 360 Controller, then how does a game know in which order the buttons appear without asking the user to "press the button for jump", "press the button for attack"? Or do games report "zero controllers connected" if only standard HID joysticks, not Xbox 360 Controllers, are connected?
They pull me back in!