The Linux Gaming Issue - Impressions

Let me first talk a bit about my over all opinion about commercial Linux games (since those are the main market, and I guess also the most used games in general) ... so we can also say the opinion of the main gaming market concerning Linux:
IT JUST SUX!
That's it, gaming on Linux (talking about commcercial offer etc.) just sux. The games that are available: egoshooters, multishooters and fun games (but those so called "fun games" mostly for a totally over-the-top price) not to mention the short-fun-open-source games (maybe long term fun games just need more time for development, and therefore OSS isn't that suitable?!).

Most known (and most played from the point of market segments)
Egoshooters:
Quake 4
Doom 3
...anything from Id

Multishooters:
Nexuiz
Enemy Territory
...anything from Id
Unreal Tournament XXXX

Over-the-top priced:
anything older than 2 years what's price is >20 EUR

You might think "those aren't all available games", in fact there is quite a big list of games, (somehow) available for Linux, commercial, noncommercial and open source, but in general they are all not "awesome" games.
Nowadays one doesn't even buy entertainment, like it was back in Mario's time, but also grafic and athomsphere.
Card games for example are missing this. No doubt that it's fun to play them for 5 minutes, maybe up to 20 but they get boring. People want to be involved, they want to be part of the game. Linux is not missing such games, most just not entertain that much as they should.
We have games like Id's developments (Quake, Doom...) but they miss the point of entertaining, they get boring after some time, repetitive etc.
They aren't bad games they are just not awesome games.

So short sum-up of this (messy) episode:
Commercial games:
mostly only shooters which aren't anything else, just shooters
all others are unfinished ports or just stupid games which are neither entertaining nor good looking

Free and Open Source games:
they are great fun for some minutes, but not that "big entertaining as people want it today" (even though I know people playing thoose all day long ;-))

Don't damn me because of this first impressions, you might get an idea why I think so by the end of the week, so keep tuned for my tomorrow's "semi-professional" review of cedega and (if I have enough time to do some late minute testing) wine.


Next time in the geared apachelog: The Linux Gaming Issue - Le Vin