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I'm disappointed to hear that the SP mode is disconnected from co-op, just like I was bummed to hear R6: Siege cut out a campaign. I already have a game to play open world co-op: The Division. Even though there are things I don't like about The Division, it's a totally fun game to play with my friend and it doesn't need to be replaced right now. I'd rather have a story driven co-op shooter come out. I don't hate open world, but it's not a genre I can go back and forth playing 2-4 of them at a time. They feel like a lot of wasted time after a while. I don't mind linear games as long as some games are open world.

I run Firefix in linux and I can't watch Giantbomb videos. It's because I don't have Flash installed for Firefox. Giantbomb videos work if I watch them at YouTube since they're converted to HTML5 there. I'm still surprised that GiantBomb videos don't work in Chromium when Twitch streams do work fine. I watch a lot less GiantBomb videos due to these inconveniences. No, I won't install Flash for Firefox.

Well, now that I've learned it runs on Linux, it's on my wish list. I've never had a hacking game, but it sounds neat.

I've got codes to share as well. My friends got their own from Nvidia like I did.

DHMX-UC4C-VNCJ-J8LN
7AMX-FQR9-6M3H-X7NN
MR4D-VGMH-TQXB-7X6E
L66V-9YRL-JGMT-BRHM

I'm in the beta and agree with post 1 and 2. Terrorist Hunt is fun, but from what I've tasted, there is a lot of empty space on a $60 plate. It reminded me of Evolve just like post #2. I really wanted a tactical, co-op campaign FPS.

(BTW, Evolve is pretty good for the money now. They need a big relaunch marketing campaign to be successful IMO. They have added a lot of content and the price is lower than it used to be. They shouldn't have released until there was more content.)

According to a Steam announcement, Gauntlet will not be coming to Linux anymore. I wonder if WB didn't want to deal with another platform of bug fixing after their recent release failure of Batman.

I've become very aware that I'm not very good at all at the genre of game that got me into PC gaming in the first place: Strategy. I really suck at RTS, I'm middle of the road in MOBA, and I always lose at tabletop strategy games. The game that got me into PC gaming was Red Alert. After that, my next favorite was Age of Empires II. It's frustrating to suck at RTS games. :( I can still rock the house in a shooter, and that kind of makes me feel unintelligent.

Another difference from quite a few years ago in contrast to now is how many games I play. I have so many games to choose from these days that I miss, to a degree, only having about two games that I play all the time. No longer do I play the same game for 10-20 hours in a week and still want more. Now, I want variety quicker. That also makes me feel like my attention span reduced. (I blame that on the necessity to multitask in an IT environment!)

Overall, though, the good old days weren't better than today in my opinion. With my streaming setup at home, I can basically have a LAN party any night of the week with my friends without the inconvenience of physically moving and setting up our hardware. One of those friends live in another State now.

I haven't played 2 yet so no comment on that one. I completed the first one a couple years ago and have to admit that I pushed myself to beat it because I didn't want to leave it unfinished. That said, I did enjoy playing through the first half or 3/4 of the game. To be honest, I only bought the second one because it dropped down to $5 and I thought, "Hey, it's worth it to me to try it out for a couple hours for five bucks." After looking into reviews more, I'm quite excited at this point. I just installed it yesterday for the first time. (I've been working through a backlog of games.)

I just played through the tutorial last weekend. I'll try it some more. It was cool. I had no issues with it running in Linux.

I'll be righteously angry @microsoft if this game doesn't come to PC as quickly as the last one did.