Started playing the Talos Principle. Took a bit of tinkering to get it to work properly but now I’m loving it. Awesome puzzle game, highly recommended.
Satisfactory
I think almost everyone knows this game. I‘m in phase 4 and about to start producing the needed items. All I‘m gonna say is that I would‘ve gone insane if not for community-made blueprints. My biggest gripes with the game are how awful it feels to build a train track, how dumb drones are (cause otherwise everyone would ditch trains, I reckon), and that the hoverpack doesn‘t have a built-in jetpack for when you‘re out of electrical grid range. All in all, I probably prefer this kinda game to be isometric/2D, it‘s finnicky to build a big factory in 3D, although more satisfying to then see it in 3D. I know this sounds negative but that’s just cause it’s quicker to list the negatives since there‘s too many positives - I did have a good time, as my 100+ hours thus far would suggest.
Horizon Chase Turbo
Putting the finishing touches on this one and, my God, get the Senna Forever DLC, it‘s the absolute best part of it! To anyone who doesn‘t know this game: It‘s an old-school racing game that runs at full 90 even on the Deck. I mean old old-school when racing games were 2D and scrolling, although this one is 3D it feels the same. It‘s nice to have a high fps racer on the Deck, so I recommend it. The aforementioned DLC gives it a 1st person camera and F1 racing, and it‘s a match made in heaven!
I’m back to playing Colin McRae Rally 04 - mostly on desktop by I also finally took the time to set it up on a Steam Deck. It runs and plays great!
I love me some old rally games.
Hey! I feel like I haven’t seen you comment in a long time, I miss your write-ups you used to do on these posts.
I’m going to have to try Rally 04, I like rally games.
Man, I didn’t expect people to remember me. Uhm… hi! ヾ(・ω・*)
I’ve been busy with less fun stuff for a while and when I did play games it wasn’t for long enough to warrant a post unfortunately. I’m hoping for a more permanent return soon as I’m eying to start some titles that will fit this community again.
CMR04 is great! Still holds up really well, has a nice balance between arcade and sim in its driving model, looks simple but in a readable way and has a mod for widescreen resolutions on PC. It also has no problems on Linux which is a big win for me. Probably my favourite rally game of that era.
Oh shoot, I hope everything is okay.
Glad to know about both widescreen and Linux, those are both pretty important to me.
It’s not but I make do. You’d be surprised how well hobbies and lack of sleep can help with that! I appreciate the sentiment though.
Same here, it was a really nice surprise. I love how well so many old titles work on the penguin.
I feel that. Hobbies have definitely helped me through many rough times. Dark Souls and practicing piano have both gotten me through a lot. I’m lucky enough to have a kid on the way, she’ll be my first, but I am worried that I might go through a dark period and won’t have time to use my hobbies as much to help me out. Maybe raising a kid will take that place. I’ve heard it’s very rewarding.
I usually play older games (hence me being on here), and when I made the switch to Linux I was very happy to see almost all my games play flawlessly. Even newer games or somewhat newer games run great. I’m currently playing through the Talos Principle (2014 I think) and getting 350-400 fps. It’s certainly not the most demanding game but that’s impressive to me.
Man, I’d be terrified to have a kid honestly. I’ve had enough experience with taking care of people to know I REALLY don’t want to deal with that if I have a choice - I’m too much of a self-sacrificing idiot for that. Good luck though! My friends with kids are happy about their choices so I hope you’ll end up the same way.
My first experience with Linux made me swear I’ll never going to touch it again, funnily enough. Now here I am, running it as a main OS on everything I can and having a great time with both games and any kind of personal projects I can come up with. Heck, the fact that some games run better than on Windows is still kinda crazy to me at times even though I understand why. It’s amazing how much things progressed.
I am indeed terrified to have a kid. Excited but terrified. I feel like I can’t even take care of myself and now I’m supposed to be responsible for a whole other person in a matter of weeks? Wild.
I only switched to Linux recently. I started with mint, then quickly switched to Bazzite after hearing it’s good for gaming, but I found out I don’t like rpm-ostree so I’ll probably be switching to another deb/ubuntu based distro again soon. Either that or go full masochist and do arch. Probably a bad idea though. I’ll probably either go back to mint again or try kubuntu (I really don’t like GNOME). Which distro do you run on your main gaming machine?
Cosmoteer
It’s a 2D space sim where you build spaceships, manage subsystems, break up pirate ships to add parts to yours (even mid battle), with absolute freedom to do whatever and mechanics that encourage experimentation. Man, I don’t remember when a game pulled me in so bad.Links Awakening - all time favourite and is fun on switch or gameboy
Fire Emblem: Three Houses. My kid and I assigned video games to each other for the summer and that’s what I got assigned. They’re playing Persona 5 Golden.
Not a patient game anytime soon, but they loved the original Fantasy Life and we’ve been playing and loving the new one too.
Final Fantasy IX on my little Miyoo Flip. I’ve never played a FF game before and it’s my wife’s favourite so I thought why not. So far I’ve helped steal a ladder, had a concert ticket turn out to be a fake :( and stole gil from a few houses and I’ll play some more this evening. It’s also a beautiful looking game.
Back to playing Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Playing a rogue Grey Warden dwarf this run through, and I’m already loving the character.
I turned off the always on waypoints this time, which should probably be the default setting. It’s more fun to explore than to mindlessly follow the floating dot.
Looking forward to kicking some Venatori butts.
If in-person tabletop gaming is okay here, my group is about to start one called Don’t Tell Mom & Dad, an RPG in the vein of Stranger Things. You play a bunch of kids having supernatural adventures around their town.
Sounds fun!
Heroes of Hammerwatch: It’s a roguelike 2d isometric RPG. Haven’t played much yet but so far I haven’t found a reason to stop playing.
The wandering village
It is a nice little recourse management game. What makes it special is that you need to do it on the back of an ancient “animal”. If you befriend (it trusts your judgement ) or tame it can you tell it what to do like where to go (so you can pick a bio), sleep, eat, run, walk and so on. I went for the befriend route, hurting it by ripping out resources from it didn’t sit well with me (but I am very curious, because you do miss out on a lot). The story is pretty simple but it is nicely paced and I do like the lore. I actually didn’t really think the main quest would be anything special so I was happily surprised.
I remember being interested in it when it was first announced, but I totally forgot about it afterwards until your comment. I’ll definitely have to give it a try sometime.
Project Hospital, X4: Foundations, and Elite Dangerous.
I haven’t played Project Hospital for a long time, but all of the updates made me want to play again. I’m enjoying it a lot so far.
I’ve also just came back after years away from X4 and ED. I’m just relearning the basic systems again, but can see myself putting in a lot of hours back into Elite Dangerous. X4 is a tough cookie for me, but I think it’s definitely worth trying to invest a bit more of my time into.
Lots and lots of Vintage Story. It feels like a much more mature version of Minecraft and a combination of the best features of it and games like The Forest, even though it’s still in early access.
I’ll have to look into it. Sounds promising by your description.
CP2077. Love the looks. Gameplay is fine. City is mostly backdrop yes, most of the focus seems to have been at crafting a bombastic main quest line. So far so good, just wish there were more depth to the city and its systems.
I decided to take a break from BG3 and started playing the first Death Stranding. I’m still pretty early in the game but it’s already got me intrigued. The story is way out there and I hope it all comes together to make sense at some point.
