On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 18:04 +1100, Robert Ancell wrote: > I also wanted to pick one FPS but they all seemed difficult to use. > The problems seemed to be similar: > * Huge downloads > * Opening and choosing first menu (e.g. "single player") often > didn't work, there were no bots > * Very slow load times > (...)
I've tested both openarena and nexuiz. And the only issue there is the indeed huge downloads (oa ~300MB nx ~900MB) They are in my opinion very straigtforward, 2-3 clicks and you're in a singleplayer game with fully functional bots. Both games also has a singleplayer "campaign" in the form of consecutive unlockable skirmish-levels. However, what might speak against them is the ~18 rating that any of these games would have if sold in stores, due to their violent and meatpieces-flying-gory nature. > I installed Saurbraten and the ground didn't render. Sauerbraten has a very unfinished touch yes, which probably makes it unsuitable for featuring. But I have ran it countless times without seeing that issue. For simple shoot-em-ups there is several games by Kenta Cho (nice search term for USC) that might be worth a look, many are still dependent on 3D drivers like chromium-bsu, but in my experience they seem vaguely playable without them, whereas chromium-bsu just turns into sirup. I've added tumiki-fighters to the wiki, and I would propose this as a replacement for chromium-bsu, since it seems to run very well on my no-3D nouveau drivers. One potential problem with these games is that they use the somewhat unorthodox z-key as the fire-key, also, the homepage describes them as "games for windows", but those are minor things I guess. When it comes to Wine, if it is going to be mentioned on the installer slideshow: https://code.launchpad.net/~lielft/ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu/games-slide/+merge/15545 does it not then make sense to have it in the featured section? (I did even make a comment on the merge about the possibly overly optimistic tone taken when describing Wine there...) - Arand -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
