Sunday chat: What have you been playing, and what do you think?

Not a Hero: I picked this up during the previous Humble Bundle; it's definitely a well-made, fun game -- though the later stages can get a bit too challenging if you're a sluggish old geezer like me, with diminished motor skills. I quite like the sense of humor too.

Hotline Miami: I can barely advance to the 4th chapter. I really like the concept, do wish to play further, but it seems like I simply lack the skills to do so.

Downwell: ... what, a non-linux title??? Actually, this is a 'game maker' game that *can* run *natively* on Linux, with a game maker executable obtained from elsewhere. (e.g., a free demo) This is absolutely addicting; and I've spent more time on this, than any other game recently. Still haven't beat it though. Check some videos on youtube, this one's highly recommended -- though admittedly it's not an official linux sale, etc. But it sounds like the developer has no intentions to bring it to linux, despite the fact that it *already runs* on linux. Go figure. I guess he can't be bothered to figure out the steam integration, etc. for a linux port.

I've solved the last two optimization puzzles in Human Ressource Machine - yeah!
Finally got the hardest puzzle, program size of prime factorisation...

And I played a few more hours of Deponia Dommsday.

Did not buy Lara yet, still too much on the stack.


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Where Linux games are concerned, I've been playing some Mountain Blade: Warband and Baldur's Gate: EE. Furthermore I've been trying out Final Fantasy XIII and Dark Souls II under Wine.

I've been playing GTA V Online with a friend the past few weeks.

Quake via QuakeSpasm source port. Yup, I still do not have a decent PC. :-P

Quake via QuakeSpasm source port. Yup, I still do not have a decent PC. :-P

That's still one of the best FPS ever.

I play Quake single player on QuakeSpasm and QuakeWorld on EZQuake quite a bit.

There's also Yamagi Quake 2 and q2pro for some Quake II fragfest.

If you want to have a quick death match someday I'd be interested.

STILL playing Torchlight 2, Dominions 4, as well as Star Drive 2, and, yes, Half-Life.

I recently tried Tomb Raider but with the camera controls as they are and all those QTEs I find the whole game too horrible to play. The lack of performance doesn't help either. And let no one tell you the game is playable on Mesa 11.2. Thats a blatant lie.

I played some Human Resource Machine but the puzzles are simply not challenging. Still an enjoyable game.

I started with Episode 1 of Supreme League of Patriots yesterday and while I agree with the reviews I find the game interesting enough to continue playing it.

I've been Playing [PA:T](http://www.uberent.com/pa/) (as usual) & the beta [community made expansion: Legion](http://exodusesports.com/article/legion-expansion-community-faction-mod/). Also se-up a VM so I could play [Dark Souls III](http://www.fromsoftware.jp/pc_en/), twitch streams of Bloodborne really pulled me into the line of games. Since I had the VM up I've also played a little [Rocket League](http://www.rocketleaguegame.com/) with friends (any news about on when the Linux port is actually getting a release?).


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I played some Human Resource Machine but the puzzles are simply not challenging. Still an enjoyable game.

I found some optimization puzzles to be challenging.
Btw, they said that all speed optimization challenges except the obvious case are solvable without loop unrolling:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/375820/discussions/0/483367798509740473/?l=german#c483367798509830249
Didn't suceed without for all of them, though.

I played some Human Resource Machine but the puzzles are simply not challenging. Still an enjoyable game.

I found some optimization puzzles to be challenging.
Btw, they said that all speed optimization challenges except the obvious case are solvable without loop unrolling:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/375820/discussions/0/483367798509740473/?l=german#c483367798509830249
Didn't suceed without for all of them, though.

I have been going for the size optimization challenges. Mostly this gets you the steps optimization challenge too but not always or I haven't looked hard enough.


Last edited by Farmboy0 on 9 May 2016 at 7:08 pm UTC

More testing (native and non native) than playing as always however in middle on this can test various games case


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Last edited by Liam Dawe on 10 May 2016 at 2:29 pm UTC

I have been playing x-rebirth and it's awesome! One of my favorites games ever!

Shmerl, how do you get GOG games to launch on Debian? Do they need 32 bit libraries?

If you mean native games, and they are 32-bit, you will need various 32-bit libs, like support for PulseAudio, SDL and such. They are usually listed in the GOG game card requirements.

You need to enable multiarch first:

dpkg --add-architecture i386

If you mean Wine, then also, to run 32-bit games in Wine you need to have certain 32-bit libraries. Simply installing wine will already pull in lot's of them.


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I have been going for the size optimization challenges. Mostly this gets you the steps optimization challenge too but not always or I haven't looked hard enough.

For many of the more complex puzzles, you can do either speed or steps in one program.
But you can start the next program (there are tabs for thee programs in the upper right) and do the other challenge as well.

7 Days to Die. Since Alpha 14.6 the Linux version is playable again (the broke the shaders in 14.5), although there are some snags:

- It used to be extremely fast in 13.8 to start up, until the main menu appeared. Now it takes minutes (?). From main menu to game it's also slower, but still rather fast.

- There's a bug with tone mapping or bloom or something, making light sources and bright surfaces on Linux _extremely_ bright.

- There's still some weirdness with scavenging. Things that are not very scarce in real life, but extremely so in 7DTD. Like loads of zombie lumberjacks, but chainsaws extremely scarce. Or that you can't find loads of cement in any construction site.

And the good:

- 13.8 had a lot of out-of-memory crashes, these are mostly gone.

- The skill system has been revamped, and I think it's become rather nice.

I have been going for the size optimization challenges. Mostly this gets you the steps optimization challenge too but not always or I haven't looked hard enough.

For many of the more complex puzzles, you can do either speed or steps in one program.
But you can start the next program (there are tabs for thee programs in the upper right) and do the other challenge as well.

Yeah I saw that but I have solved all the puzzles using the size challenge so far. Most of the time you can solve the speed challenge that way too.

I finished Cradle, but have spent more time in it since, both for just enjoying its world (a desolate, but beautiful corner of Mongolia) as it's laid out, as well as for completing achievements. The achievements help in working out the cryptic plot and ending, which is something I love, being a fan of films of that sort. It's such a beautiful game and I look forward to anything the developers put out going forward.

I recently purchased Saints Row IV and V and have been playing through IV. Love the ridiculous jumping. And it's pretty funny. I'm new to the Saints Row series, so this is my first taste.

The Last Door 2. I'm taking breaks between chapters just to make it last longer. I loved the first episode and this one is building up to be just as good it seems. The first game was just possibly the best representation of Lovecraft-style horror I've ever seen.

And, as always, the Binding of Isaac:Afterbirth and Left4Dead2. Who knows when I'll get tired of BoI (I spent untold hours on the flash version, too) and L4D2 is great for just a quick play with no commitment.