Yes, I want a PC game. I know I'm not much of a PC gamer. In fact, only games I own on PC are:

Nightmare Ctreatures (that game isn't really good)

Quake (ah, nostalgia is good! But the game is so old it doesn't even run on my laptop anymore)

Thief: The Dark Project (I always loved Thief, but unfortunately right now I can't play because I don't have a USB mouse anymore)

Thief II: The Metal Age (I'd love to get Thief III: Deadly Shadows one day, but I have yet to finish these twoto begin with)

Condemned: Criminal Origins (awesome game, yet I s*ck at it. It s*cks to s*ck at a game you enjoy)

That's bout it. Else I have emulators mostly to play my PS1 games onto my laptop since both my PS1's are broken and that my PS2 doesn't read PS1 discs anymore, so instead I pop the discs in my laptop and play them on an emulator. I also play the SNES games I have on my laptop since I'm too lazy to plug in my real SNES everytime I want to play it, and I keep the games of the consoles which are broken, such as my NES and GEN games. Also I only have one memory card for PS1, 15 blocks to work for every games I have on the console is ridiculous, while on my laptop I have virtually infinite blocks to save, making it much easier and I don't have to delete files continuously just to start a new game.

But now comes a time where I actually want a PC game. It's not in my habits, but yes, I do want a PC game and I WANT it. What is it you may ask? We'll get on it soon enough. What I can tell is it might counter my plans to get Linux at some point..but I'll find a way.

So yesterday night, I came onto GameSpot and I actually have no idea why I did or what I was looking for. On the main page of the site I saw a demo for some game, which I decided to download. After installing the demo and starting it, I already found the menu screen to be quite beautiful to say the least. I couldn't wait to see further. Upon clicking "New Game" and starting it all..I was amazed. It was beautiful.

The game in question is "Aquaria". Some independant game or something like that. I heard it was an Indy game..I think? Anyway, I don't really care about all that. What I care about is that the game is fun and absolutly beautiful to the eyes. Anyway, for the little time I played, it takes place underwater and you play as Naija searching for what? I don't know. What she doing? I don't know either. Basicaly you start the game with her telling you that her story is yours, and your story is hers and what not. The beginning made me want to know more about the story because it left me in the entirety realm of the unknown, in such a beautiful atmosphere that the underwater world can be. I felt immersed by a demo of the game, therefore I can't imagine how the full game could be like to me. The game is entirely non-linear, you just swim through the seas finding items, battling foes and you can sing! Yes, Naija can sing. Singing can activate powers that you have aquired and can open up underwater plants which gives you items to heal and what not. You can also cook items together to create new items. I haven't gotten too deep in the game, but just enough to awaken my curiosity and my eagerness at getting the game one day.

The full game comes with, of course, the full game. But it also comes with I don't know how many music tracks taken from the game (like the whole soundtrack to the game), comes with a level editor which obviously enough lets you create your own game, and also let's you create mods for the game. It also comes with 2000+ art works from the game. Sweet, isn't it? Thing is the game is currently avaible for Windows only. They are working on a Macintosh port which doesn't have any release date yet, and a Linux version is in the works too, though they did not specified if the Linux port would eventually come to life. I believe it will though, because the creators posted a video on YouTube showing Aquaria working on Ubuntu Linux for the first time. It's a bit laggy, but other than that, so far the progress looks great.

I have very few options to m disposition, assuming that the game doesn't get ported for Linux. I'll list them:

1) Not get Linux at all. I don't want to resort to this situation since I hate Windows.

2) Try to get a VPC as Curtis mentionned to me, but considering the problems it has with certain distribution of Linux, I rather not.

3) Make place for dual-booting on my hard drive, from which I could decide to either boot in Windows or boot in Linux, depending on what I want to do at the moment of booting. I already have too many space used up on my computer, therefore this would be a bad solution for me.

4) Get Linux, remove Windows, forget about the game and keep on going. (this is still assuming it will not get ported to Linux)

5) Get Linux and with the wonders of computers, get codecs and source codes allowing me to run Windows programs on Linux (jackpot!)

Yep, with computers, everything is possible. So I doubt all of this will prevent me from going from Windows to Linux since I know that it could eventually be possible to play the Windows version of the game on Linux, with some modifications apported to the OS in question. But in a way, I do think that the game will eventually be ported to Linux, since Linux is probably one of the fastest growing OS out there. Many people now supports Linux and it is becoming bigger every month, with a more installed fanbase and user base. Linux will, without a doubt, one day become a major OS such as Windows and MAC and will stop being overshadowed by them, though of course, I doubt it will ever get as big as Windows, since Microsoft just loves it's illegal monopoly of the market.

It would be foolish for them to deny a port to Linux and MAC, since it would get way more people to buy the game. They are also looking into porting the game to a console, though when I played the demo of the game, I don't see it fit very well onto a console because of the mouse movements which are more than perfect for this game and playing with a controller would just not be the same and wouldn't work as well in my opinion.

But of course, I'm gonna have to wait. Why? Because if I get the game right now for Windows, and then change to Linux, and then they release a port of the game on Linux, I won't feel like paying for the game again and I'll then feel like modifying Linux to work Windows softwares\games will be a waste of time since they would of released the game on Linux anyway. So I think I'm going to wait. Perhaps I should simply get another PC/Laptop and keep one of them with Windows and the other with Linux? That'd be cool, but by no means do I even need another computer as of now. Only time will tell!