What are you playing this weekend and what do you think about it?

Turok 2 for sure!!!!

Superhot, Hacknet maybe HoN

Been playing a lot of Stellaris lately—I'm getting back into it seriously for the first time since the game-changing 2.0 patch, and while I one of the people who were initially skeptical about the changes I find I'm actually enjoying the game a lot more now, especially the war side of things. Previously I tended to play really pacifistic empires as I found the war system confusing and cumbersome (compared to other Paradox grand strategy games), now I'm in the middle of a campaign as an empire of Determined Exterminator robots, trying to cleanse the galaxy of all organic life (and enjoying it a lot). :)

Some funny moments have occurred, such as when the Fanatic Xenophile fallen empire awoke, then their rivals the Fanatic Xenophobes awoke a few years later and started a War in Heaven. I tried to stay neutral (as I wanted to wipe both of them out), but the Xenophiles declared war on me and forced me to become a vassal, drawing me into their war. In revenge I continued expanding peacefully and upgrading my tech, eventually taking out the Xenophobe empire they were fighting (while also fighting off attacks from the Fanatic Spiritualist fallen empire every decade or so because one of my sectors colonized one of their holy worlds). And while all this was happening, The Contingency (an ancient machine empire trying to destroy all advanced life in the galaxy) awoke and because of how much of the galaxy I owned three out of four of its initial expansion sites were near my borders, so I had to destroy them. All this finally left me strong enough to break free of my masters, then conquer them in turn…which transferred all of their vassals (which was most of the rest of the empires in the galaxy by this point) to me :O. Now I'm the undisputed master of the galaxy, having wiped out two more fallen empires along the way, just waiting to conquer or integrate my vassals to get that sweet, sweet achievement.

X: Rebirth. Because why not?

Well I haven't even had my morning coffee yet but I guess once that's rectified I'll play some Enemy Territory Quake Wars for a bit and then continue my Elder Scrolls Oblivion playthrough for a bit. I've installed these both recently after completely forgetting I even owned them, things got nostalgic pretty quick lol.

ETQW servers are populated in the evenings of Europe and North America. If you are into competitive action, TAW Clan's public events also offer custom maps which spice things up pretty well. :-)

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/etqw#events
https://www.gametracker.com/search/etqw/

- Warhammer40K: Gladius - Relics of War: Very nice game, I'm a bit surprised and astonished at the same time, that I really do not miss the diplomacy in the Civ-type 4X game :)
- X Rebirth: Gave it a try after some years, and - again - I'm very surprised that it is not AS bad as I remember it. It is not X3, but some of game's features are awesome... Looking forward to X4! (and also to StarCitizen, if/when released on Linux... although I estimate that could happen some time e.g. early 2026, so, X4 for now :) )
(No time for Stellaris this weekend :( ...shame on me :) )


Last edited by Boldos on 15 Jul 2018 at 9:17 am UTC

Desperados here too :) Great game from my childhood its nice too replay it again.

I'll try to finish the Tiny Tina DLC in Borderlands 2. For as far as it will allow that to be done solo.

Bioshock Trilogy including DLC's from start to finish.
Just about to start Infinite again.
Also Bit of Portal Stories Mel on the side.

I just got Wizards and Warlords and spite it being on a very early stage, I'm all over it. Deep fantasy 4X, with more micromanaging that you can dream of.

Also, I started playing Tahira, had it on my library for months with out touching it, and I'll probably play an hour or 2 of that as well.


Last edited by Linuxpunk on 15 Jul 2018 at 3:01 pm UTC

Also Bit of Portal Stories Mel on the side.

Great game!
But only Hard Mode is the real thing!

Also Bit of Portal Stories Mel on the side.

Great game!
But only Hard Mode is the real thing!

Agreed! Only way to play.

Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun. A great game, the only thing that's missing are English subtitles for short character comments in Japanese.

I gave Desperados a try, but... while it did trigger fond memories, I don't feel like I'll play it ever again for a longer time. I'd rather use my time (if I had any) for Shadow Tactics, I think.


Last edited by Eike on 16 Jul 2018 at 9:08 am UTC

At the moment I'm playing Hover when I need a break from running AWS tests. I usually enjoy exploration in games and Hover allows me to do that quickly allowing me to relax a bit so I can get back to testing. :D

Bioshock Trilogy including DLC's from start to finish.
Just about to start Infinite again.
Also Bit of Portal Stories Mel on the side.

Wish the remasters of bioshock 1 and 2 would hit linux already

Me too. But both work fine wine DVXK and AMD for now.

OK iam late ;)
but i can write what i played this last weekend ;)
Rocket League
Factorio
and testet while learn; true

SC 2 through wine.

I wish blizzard would take their heads out of their rectums and finally consider us 'nix gamers.

I wish blizzard would take their heads out of their ******s and finally consider us 'nix gamers.

And why should they do that? You seem to be quite content purchasing and playing their Windows™ products. No need to change anything. :D

I wish blizzard would take their heads out of their ******s and finally consider us 'nix gamers.

And why should they do that? You seem to be quite content purchasing and playing their Windows™ products. No need to change anything. :D

SC2 is now free, though.