What have you been playing recently and how is it?

After some discussion in "Total War..." thread, I played "getting out Windows partition". Awesome game, short and easy, but funny as hell, now I have nice backup disk :D . Then, according to STiAT recommendation I played "Shadow Of Mordor" and - indeed - it works quite well. Slaughtering orcs in different ways is sweet. I've tried "X-Plane 10" demo, but all I can see is Phantom cockpit, runway and endless sea all around - maybe I should try some seaplane. I played it only as curiosity - I prefer combat sims (we have half-sim in War Thunder, I miss "IL2-Sturmovik" series or "Rise Of Flight" ). Then I run FsUAE and old "Alien Breed" and "Traps'n'Treasures". FsUAE is amazing piece of soft, U can even hear sound of Amiga FDD working. And, for a while, played "Shadowrun: Dragonfall" (brilliant game), "Strike Suit: Zero" (too hard for me), and "Tomb Raider" (beauty but poor performance). So - even without Windows - there's no room for players boredom :D

PS.: @Hyperdrive - SOMA is one of best games I've played ever. Storyline is... just terrifying (in a good sense of course).


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Ark Survival Evolved (Ubuntu 16.04)
Arma3 (Ubuntu 16.04)
No Man's Sky in less than 5 hours (VirusOS). Hope at least wine will make it work...


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Quoting: segulehI've tried "X-Plane 10" demo, but all I can see is Phantom cockpit, runway and endless sea all around - maybe I should try some seaplane.

That means that you didn't download the scenery for the area. I think the demo only comes with the Seattle area by default.

Right now I'm finishing Saints Row IV, but I like change so much of games, so I play frequently Tomb Rider, XCOM, Grid: Autosport, Awesomenauts, Borderlands and a few more...

I'm thinking we have many game hours to enjoy... Yehaa!! :D


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Quoting: SirKatar7 Days to die, just can't stop playing this game.

So it runs well on Linux now? Wasn't the Linux version very messy earlier?

Quoting: ShmerlWhat do you think about the endings? I like the game, but it feels they didn't work on the endings enough. Feels they were cut short of thoroughly explaining what happened.

I'll let you know when I get there. So far though, I've been thinking that I'll need to play through again, because I keep feeling like I missed something. As though I skipped over a dialogue that had some background info I need.

HyperRogue, Defense Grid 2, Dominions 4, Out of the Park Baseball 17 (in a damned 14.04 VM). It will not run on 16.04 :><: .


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Quoting: tmtvl

Quoting: ShmerlWhat do you think about the endings? I like the game, but it feels they didn't work on the endings enough. Feels they were cut short of thoroughly explaining what happened.

I'll let you know when I get there. So far though, I've been thinking that I'll need to play through again, because I keep feeling like I missed something. As though I skipped over a dialogue that had some background info I need.

Thanks :) Would be interesting to discuss what you think. I opened a thread for it: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/forum/topic/2268

Played through shadow warriors, life is strange, tomb raider and busy with victor vran, all on open source radeonsi driver on a 7770M. No glitches or crashing, shadow warrior & tomb raider had to run on medium to get good enough performance.
Got shadow of mordor, but performance is a bit lacking (20fps at places, too slow fir that game). Will wait for some more performance optimizations, the mesa amd devs are pushing performance updates weekly at this stage! Exciting times for mesa!

Quoting: rea987

Quoting: HalifaxAnd then Valve went back to the herculean task of shoveling mountains of money into the bank from their F2P/B2P MMOs, and forgot about a HL2:Ep2 sequel.

You mean MOBAs? Well, I do not mind Valve is making money from various products; besides Half-Life series have been abandoned with Portal and L4D series long ago. I expect a new HL game when Valve considers Source 2 Engine mature enough and VR technology viable after some more L4D, TF and CS releases.

I mistyped after a few drinks, Valve's big three multiplayer games, including the MOBA DOTA2.

I believe Valve makes more from those three MP games than they do their storefront cut of sales:
http://www.pcgamer.com/market-data-firm-claims-valve-made-730-million-last-year/
But both numbers are very large and important to Valve.

I don't know how much money HL:Ep2 made, but it probably wasn't an ongoing continuous stream of .7 billion, year after year. :-) Valve is just highly distracted from their own original franchise that got them here, by succeeding too well in other areas - not a bad thing for them though.

VR Portal is definitely a game Valve is thinking about making, and probably already devoting a lot of internal development time to. The Labs, Robot Repair is basically a pretty compelling official teaser from Valve themselves it's coming.