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PayPalIt's Sunday, it's a lazy day for some and plenty of you are probably playing through your backlog of games.
I've been testing out the Linux beta of the upcoming monster capture game Monster Crown. One that was crowdfunded some time ago, and it's incredibly promising. The developer has been great to chat to and they seem very committed to polishing the Linux build. Still a long road ahead though but a rather unique take on a Pokemon-like that I can't wait to put more time into
Additionally, a fair amount of my time has been spent playing Danger Zone in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Today I saw something quite hilarious actually; someone managed to use their Drone Pilot starting perk, to capture one of the late-game drops coming down and fly it across the map to themselves. First time I've seen someone do that, was a fun surprise. Naturally, I ran after it to attempt to take them down but they had some traps waiting for me. Those jump pads can be a real nuisance, sending me far into the air to come crashing down—dead.
Over to you: what have you been playing recently, and what do you think about it? Let your fellow GOL readers know in the comments.
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SirLootALot 8 Mar 2020
Got Slay the Spire on the humblebundle. Love it. Very addictive.
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Not going to lie.
These few days..Hearthstone. No, not the BG.
After so many years and so much money wasted on doctors..I have relapsed. Send help.
These few days..Hearthstone. No, not the BG.
After so many years and so much money wasted on doctors..I have relapsed. Send help.
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Indivisible. It’s great, too bad the Linux version requires 8GB RAM with 8GB swap when the other versions are fine with 6GB RAM only. I’m playing with the minimum memory required and some locations need 20 minutes to load (I’m not exaggerating). Still, it runs fine otherwise and the characters and setting and story and level design are all good.
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DarkVantage 8 Mar 2020
Picked up Black Mesa. I missed the Half-Life train so I'm enjoying the storyline for the first time. Intense! Reminds me of System Shock 2, which is one of my all-time favorites.
Also playing through The Pedestrian. Love the puzzles and graphical style!
Also playing through The Pedestrian. Love the puzzles and graphical style!
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+1 Gorgon, +1 Urtuk + 1 Wildermyth ! All really great games, i played them, and will play more for sure.
Farcry 3, via Proton, no technical issue beside the annoying Uplay registration process.
I cleaned the maps, all towers, all camps, but the story is too stupid, i hate QTE scenes, i hate unskipable scenes, and i disagree with the "mind" of the game (like, you have missions : find and kill rare animals to progress. I don’t care killing stuff, but the idea of "oh it’s rare, let’s kill it", i dislike). So i don’t feel i want to go further (i only have story to complete, and then "mini games"). Still, it was about 20 hours of fun + 5 hours of struggle because of cutscene, QTE and stupid AI you have to escort a few times. The same gameplay, but with a real open world not attached to story, i’m in.
Test Tube Titan, lots of fun while in alpha and Beta, now it’s released, it’s only better, and i love it.
WH40K Gladius (T’Au DLC out now). Two years i’m playing this from time to time, i don’t really see why not two more years. Really like it.
Last edited by Tchey on 8 Mar 2020 at 2:19 pm UTC
Farcry 3, via Proton, no technical issue beside the annoying Uplay registration process.
I cleaned the maps, all towers, all camps, but the story is too stupid, i hate QTE scenes, i hate unskipable scenes, and i disagree with the "mind" of the game (like, you have missions : find and kill rare animals to progress. I don’t care killing stuff, but the idea of "oh it’s rare, let’s kill it", i dislike). So i don’t feel i want to go further (i only have story to complete, and then "mini games"). Still, it was about 20 hours of fun + 5 hours of struggle because of cutscene, QTE and stupid AI you have to escort a few times. The same gameplay, but with a real open world not attached to story, i’m in.
Test Tube Titan, lots of fun while in alpha and Beta, now it’s released, it’s only better, and i love it.
WH40K Gladius (T’Au DLC out now). Two years i’m playing this from time to time, i don’t really see why not two more years. Really like it.
Last edited by Tchey on 8 Mar 2020 at 2:19 pm UTC
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marcelomendes 8 Mar 2020
Er... Guild Wars 2 with Lutris 90% of the time, a bit of Rise of The Tomb Raider...
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Warhammer Online
then Warhammer Online and then a bit Warhammer Online....
addiction is real.. Return of Reckoning is amazing. Runs really good under wine also. I would say better than under windows 10, where people have lots of issues with it lol
then Warhammer Online and then a bit Warhammer Online....
addiction is real.. Return of Reckoning is amazing. Runs really good under wine also. I would say better than under windows 10, where people have lots of issues with it lol
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Recently:
- Daikatana: Played and finished with Daikatana 1.3 source port. Just disable sidekicks and enable unlimited saves; it becomes a much much better experience. It is not a bad game as many say; first chapter starts so mediocre that it left a bad taste everyone's month, so people never bothered to play remaining chapters. Especially 2nd and 3rd chapters are quite impressive.
https://bitbucket.org/daikatana13/daikatana/src/master/
Quite recently:
Half-Life 2: Entropy - Zero: You play as a metrocop in HL2 universe. It's a different and refreshing experience to try the other side of the story. End game is a bit hard and meh but overall it's quite nice. Here's how to run it natively;
https://steamcommunity.com/id/realtunya/recommended/714070/
Today:
Half-Life 2: Year Long Alarm: A short but decent mod. Once again Gordon Freeman kicks some zombie and combine arse. Nothing out of ordinary but leaves a nice taste anyhow. Here's how to run it natively;
https://steamcommunity.com/id/realtunya/recommended/747250/
Right now:
Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter: I am playing that natively via Serious Sam Fusion 2017 which offers so much options that even my mobile focused laptop can run it 120 FPS by using Vulkan renderer. Arguably, TSE is the best in the entire franchise. Get a friend of yours the play it on COOP (Classic); of course it supports cross-platform multiplayer.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/564310/Serious_Sam_Fusion_2017_beta/
- Daikatana: Played and finished with Daikatana 1.3 source port. Just disable sidekicks and enable unlimited saves; it becomes a much much better experience. It is not a bad game as many say; first chapter starts so mediocre that it left a bad taste everyone's month, so people never bothered to play remaining chapters. Especially 2nd and 3rd chapters are quite impressive.
https://bitbucket.org/daikatana13/daikatana/src/master/
Quite recently:
Half-Life 2: Entropy - Zero: You play as a metrocop in HL2 universe. It's a different and refreshing experience to try the other side of the story. End game is a bit hard and meh but overall it's quite nice. Here's how to run it natively;
https://steamcommunity.com/id/realtunya/recommended/714070/
Today:
Half-Life 2: Year Long Alarm: A short but decent mod. Once again Gordon Freeman kicks some zombie and combine arse. Nothing out of ordinary but leaves a nice taste anyhow. Here's how to run it natively;
https://steamcommunity.com/id/realtunya/recommended/747250/
Right now:
Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter: I am playing that natively via Serious Sam Fusion 2017 which offers so much options that even my mobile focused laptop can run it 120 FPS by using Vulkan renderer. Arguably, TSE is the best in the entire franchise. Get a friend of yours the play it on COOP (Classic); of course it supports cross-platform multiplayer.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/564310/Serious_Sam_Fusion_2017_beta/
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Outside of the regular 7 Days to Die, I've been building stuff in Planet Nomads. The survival stuff is rather easy now. The story bits are ok, but the most interesting part is still building crazy things.
I also started in The Longing. Good atmosphere, but obviously not a whole lot that can be said at this point.
I also started in The Longing. Good atmosphere, but obviously not a whole lot that can be said at this point.
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Recently I've been playing Stone Story RPG and Black Mesa.
Stone Story RPG is quite interesting ASCII art RPG and while it is not really a idle game - it has sometimes quite idleable grinding.
Black Mesa is really impressive, but it still on some levels has quite bad performance problems where the framerate drops to 1. Sometimes deleting the glshaders.cfg fixes it, but often it sadly doesn't. I just have to turn on god mode because you cannot really survive the gun fights with 1 fps.
Last edited by kusochi on 8 Mar 2020 at 2:39 pm UTC
Stone Story RPG is quite interesting ASCII art RPG and while it is not really a idle game - it has sometimes quite idleable grinding.
Black Mesa is really impressive, but it still on some levels has quite bad performance problems where the framerate drops to 1. Sometimes deleting the glshaders.cfg fixes it, but often it sadly doesn't. I just have to turn on god mode because you cannot really survive the gun fights with 1 fps.
Last edited by kusochi on 8 Mar 2020 at 2:39 pm UTC
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Betrayer, via SteamPlay. Striking visual style, though I turned the contrast down because the stark black and white was making my eyes bleed.
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Warhammer OnlineHold up.. I used to LOVE this one.. I guess you are referring to an unofficial server..are there any newbie players there or only old players min-maxing everything? are there lots of players? ..I will probably have to bookmark this..
then Warhammer Online and then a bit Warhammer Online....
addiction is real.. Return of Reckoning is amazing. Runs really good under wine also. I would say better than under windows 10, where people have lots of issues with it lol
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... i hate QTE scenes ...
I know, right? I stopped playing Tomb Raider because at least half of it was just one QTE after another. Come to think of it, that's why I never finished the final boss battle in Turok 2 on X360, just an interminable QTE. I don't remember them from Farcry 3, so I must have blocked them out.
Anyway, all this is just to say: I feelz ya, compadre.
Last edited by Nanobang on 8 Mar 2020 at 3:06 pm UTC
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Warhammer OnlineHold up.. I used to LOVE this one.. I guess you are referring to an unofficial server..are there any newbie players there or only old players min-maxing everything? are there lots of players? ..I will probably have to bookmark this..
then Warhammer Online and then a bit Warhammer Online....
addiction is real.. Return of Reckoning is amazing. Runs really good under wine also. I would say better than under windows 10, where people have lots of issues with it lol
Lots of new players now after LazyPeon video about this game. we hit the 3500 online yesterday. just about week ago 1200 people was max on prime time. now its booming :)
edit: if you want install guide: https://youtu.be/WXNNsUKhTgk
Last edited by Xpander on 8 Mar 2020 at 3:09 pm UTC
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Got hooked on Decenders. Even managed to find a spot in the top 10 of the daily leaderboards. Twice in a row. Yesterday I was about to do it a third time, but before finishing I temporarily went into the kitchen to get some grub. When I came back the screen was black and I've had a GPU hang :'(
Also started replaying Black Mesa which I haven't done since 2016 according to my last save files.
Also started replaying Black Mesa which I haven't done since 2016 according to my last save files.
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Acrophobic 8 Mar 2020
I've been playing Tangledeep nowadays.
I've got addicted to traditional roguelike game recently, thanks to Shattered Pixel Dungeon in Android which is really easy and intuitive for newbie in that genre.
Unfortunately, famous traditional roguelike in PC like ADOM,DCSS and TOME is a bit too hard for me, thanks to its graphic and intertwined rules. Not to mention the permadeath.
With that said, Tangledeep is really awesome for newbie like me, because: 1) the graphic is nice; 2) its rule is quite simple; 3) there is option to disable permadeath.
Not to mention it's really cheap and often available on sale.
I've got addicted to traditional roguelike game recently, thanks to Shattered Pixel Dungeon in Android which is really easy and intuitive for newbie in that genre.
Unfortunately, famous traditional roguelike in PC like ADOM,DCSS and TOME is a bit too hard for me, thanks to its graphic and intertwined rules. Not to mention the permadeath.
With that said, Tangledeep is really awesome for newbie like me, because: 1) the graphic is nice; 2) its rule is quite simple; 3) there is option to disable permadeath.
Not to mention it's really cheap and often available on sale.
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Supraland. A 3D platformer with nice visuals, level design and gameplay and tons of secrets. I like it very much so far. There is a demo on Steam, you should try it. It performs poorly though, about 50 fps with crashes every few minutes.
DARQ has just been updated with a new level, short but good.
Halo 1. As bland and boring as Halo: Reach. Probably even worse. You walk, you shoot, you drive, that's it.
WRATH: Aeon of Ruin got a new level too as well as a new enemy type and some other changes.
Nier: Automata. An uncommon one, its gameplay always varies from 3D platformer to 2D platformer to 3D action to shoot'em up to twin stick shooter... It doesn't run great, with frequent framerate drops to 45-50 fps and the mouse cursor always on the screen.
Descenders on the recent 'free weekend' event. A bicycle racing/stunt game. I had been playing for 10 or 15 minutes, and it crashed twice during that. Whatever, I'm not a fan of racing games anyway.
Bright Memory. A one-man project, inherently a 30 minutes long demo of the upcoming full-sized version. It looks promising. It may crash too though. What's the problem with so many games crashing? Is it my computer, or games themselves, or just UE4 and Unity being too shitty?
Castlevania: SotN (PS1, Mednafen). It's overrated in my opinion but still a good game with great graphics and music. I had finished it once in the past, but it got released on Android recently (based on the PSP port), and after spending some time with my phone I decided to play on my computer instead. Maybe Konami will release the game on Steam too, I think it's likely.
I will probably spend the next two weeks on Supraland and Nier, then Doom Eternal and Doom 64 are released, then Resident Evil 3 is... I'd like to find some time for My Friend Pedro as well.
Last edited by ageres on 9 Mar 2020 at 1:05 am UTC
DARQ has just been updated with a new level, short but good.
Halo 1. As bland and boring as Halo: Reach. Probably even worse. You walk, you shoot, you drive, that's it.
WRATH: Aeon of Ruin got a new level too as well as a new enemy type and some other changes.
Nier: Automata. An uncommon one, its gameplay always varies from 3D platformer to 2D platformer to 3D action to shoot'em up to twin stick shooter... It doesn't run great, with frequent framerate drops to 45-50 fps and the mouse cursor always on the screen.
Descenders on the recent 'free weekend' event. A bicycle racing/stunt game. I had been playing for 10 or 15 minutes, and it crashed twice during that. Whatever, I'm not a fan of racing games anyway.
Bright Memory. A one-man project, inherently a 30 minutes long demo of the upcoming full-sized version. It looks promising. It may crash too though. What's the problem with so many games crashing? Is it my computer, or games themselves, or just UE4 and Unity being too shitty?
Castlevania: SotN (PS1, Mednafen). It's overrated in my opinion but still a good game with great graphics and music. I had finished it once in the past, but it got released on Android recently (based on the PSP port), and after spending some time with my phone I decided to play on my computer instead. Maybe Konami will release the game on Steam too, I think it's likely.
I will probably spend the next two weeks on Supraland and Nier, then Doom Eternal and Doom 64 are released, then Resident Evil 3 is... I'd like to find some time for My Friend Pedro as well.
Last edited by ageres on 9 Mar 2020 at 1:05 am UTC
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Dwarf Fortress.
I'm currently trying to deal with a site infested with alligators. It's hard without a military and only two picks and single battle ax. I hope I don't have to abandon the site, besides the alligators, it's a pretty good site and I already mapped out my basic base layout. :(
I'm also playing OpenXcom on android.
I'm currently trying to deal with a site infested with alligators. It's hard without a military and only two picks and single battle ax. I hope I don't have to abandon the site, besides the alligators, it's a pretty good site and I already mapped out my basic base layout. :(
I'm also playing OpenXcom on android.
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Supraland. A 3D platformer with nice visuals, graphics and gameplay and tons of secrets. I like it very much so far. There is a demo on Steam, you should try it. It performs poorly though, about 50 fps with crashes every few minutes.
Performance is indeed poor, but I love that game. Even 100%ed it. Turning the shadows down helped my getting somewhat acceptable performance.
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