Borderlands 2 is coming to linux!

CSCoder4ever · 2014-09-02 23:36:04

Sorry... I couldn't resist... but apparently Borderlands 2, which is one of my favorite games, is porting on over to linux, as well as the Pre-sequal! ( Or borderlands 3 lol ).

source.

officially no reason to go back to Windows now.

awaiting Sector11's Rant 8o

Sector11 · 2014-09-03 02:13:17

That's awesome ... finally a real game I'd play!

How's that for a rant!

CSCoder4ever · 2014-09-03 02:31:23

You're serious? 8o

Just gotta update dat GT 210 to a 750 Ti and you're golden!

On Topic: dat rant

dot|not · 2014-09-03 06:43:10

Please don't be an ugly-half-ported-emulated-mess. Please, please, please!

pvsage · 2014-09-03 06:54:17

@Sector11: Ranting - U R doing it wrong.

Good news for gamers! I suspect this is a test case, and the future of commercial games in Linux rides on how well it sells. I'm no gamer - as I've mentioned previously on this forum, I think my last PC game was Tomb Raider III - but I wish nothing but the best for Gearbox Software and 2K Games in this endeavor.

Sector11 · 2014-09-03 12:23:06

pvsage wrote:

@Sector11: Ranting - U R doing it wrong.
Good news for gamers! I suspect this is a test case, and the future of commercial games in Linux rides on how well it sells. I'm no gamer - as I've mentioned previously on this forum, I think my last PC game was Tomb Raider III - but I wish nothing but the best for Gearbox Software and 2K Games in this endeavor.

Gee, and I though I did that rant so well too.

I gave up games back in my DOS days, but every now and then I pop in DosBox and play the registered games I have: Castle Wolf - the granddaddy of them all, Hexxen and Doom. I get tired of them quickly and delete them.

But I understand people playing games. My wife has discovered flash games and like you wish them well. It will draw more people to Linux.

I do have games here though: sudo apt-get install sgt-puzzles - a bunch of brain games. For those rainy days when nothing else fills the bill --- been a long time since I've opened one.

Homepage: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/

th3pun15h3r · 2014-09-03 13:23:32

Has borderlands 1 or 2 been playable with wine? Haven't tried it yet. I read that the latest tomb raider was and really want to try that on the other rig I just frankensteined from my wife's old pc parts.

CSCoder4ever · 2014-09-03 13:30:10

I hear that both are in fact playable in wine, I personally however have failed to successfully install Borderlands 1 in wine.

Also turns out that Borderlands 2 is in fact on the Linux part of my steam library... how awesome is that!?
it being playable is another story, but at least a port's on its way.

pvsage · 2014-09-03 15:37:33

Sector11 wrote:

But I understand people playing games. My wife has discovered flash games and like you wish them well. It will draw more people to Linux.

OK, I admit Flash is something different. I wasted about an hour and a half of one evening/morning on the Skinnerbox called "Cookie Clicker" (thanks to Gamer Luna and her infamous sister's Tumblr blog )...then I moved on.

But anyway, Steam is not Flash. Seems Steam support is the most compelling reason to go to Jessie or Sid at the moment.

CSCoder4ever · 2014-09-03 15:50:50

^ I'd be using Arch... but Unfortunately I find the support for my 7950 on the... -1 side, so I'd much rather wait until I go Nvidia to go there! 8o

don't worry, I'd find a machine to throw #! on! 8o

Sector11 · 2014-09-03 16:43:42

pvsage wrote:

But anyway, Steam is not Flash. Seems Steam support is the most compelling reason to go to Jessie or Sid at the moment.

Hehehehehe .. we all get stuck on something, I had a Hands of War (flash) thing going for a while... my wife is always saying, "Hey look at this one!" She finally understands why she can't download the full versions though.

I'll wait for Jessie/janice From what I understand Steam is for 32bit isn't it?

{yelling} ... and don't anyone tell my wife about steam ... I'll never get the computer! {/yelling}

CSCoder4ever · 2014-09-03 16:53:45

Yeah you need 32-bit libs to use it, but it's nothing excessive!

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