It's the weekend and the sun is out, so naturally many of us will be staring at a bright screen playing the latest and greatest Linux games.
I tend to go through phases of being attached to specific games for a few weeks before utterly burning myself out on them, currently Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has managed to hook me back in. It's not exactly the newest game, but it still has such fluid and fun gameplay that there's still really nothing else like it in the shooter scene.
HITMAN is also tempted me back once more, since I've never actually gone through the Patient Zero bonus campaign. With HITMAN 2 being announced, I feel like I need to get my practice down in case Feral Interactive say they're porting it to Linux again (they sadly haven't—yet). It would be odd if they didn't, since HITMAN seemed to be quite a popular game with Linux gamers.
Caves of Qud has also been amusing me lately, such a great story maker. I won't tell you how many times I've died…
So many games, so little time. Choosing what to play does become a real issue, with an insane amount of great quality games on Linux—there's truly never been a better time for us.
What are you playing this weekend and what do you think about it?
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.
Quoting: blackmambaWell 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/
- 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 July 2018 at 9:17 am UTC
Just about to start Infinite again.
Also Bit of Portal Stories Mel on the side.
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 July 2018 at 3:01 pm UTC
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