It'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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This month I resubscribed to WoW and cancelled again, too many freezes to justify the cost. Dragged a paladin through every dungeon in classic.
Tried out Hunt and Snare, and sexual furries aside, it's a fun little game by itself, I adore exploration and little secret areas. Looking forward to future builds adding a reward system for the hunting part.
Last night I got around to trying Quern, the spiritual successor to Myst. Seems well crafted with puzzles that give me resistance without completely stopping me from progressing.
Tried out Hunt and Snare, and sexual furries aside, it's a fun little game by itself, I adore exploration and little secret areas. Looking forward to future builds adding a reward system for the hunting part.
Last night I got around to trying Quern, the spiritual successor to Myst. Seems well crafted with puzzles that give me resistance without completely stopping me from progressing.
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Quoting: GuestEhhhh, I lose track of the specific versions of Windows and just which ones are the unusually rancid ones . . . I knew it was an even number . . .Quoting: Purple Library GuyQuoting: Hamishwaiting for my Longhorn to calve.So is this some kind of retro computing talk about the masochistic experience of deliberately using Windows 8.*? :D
Longhorn was the codename for Vista.
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As for the topic of gaming, I've been playing absolutely nothing recently.
One of the perks of not using it.
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Quoting: Xpander[...talking about Return of Reckoning...]The last days there are so many people the servers are literally booming :D
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
Anyway, the work of the developers is amazing. This weekend there was even and event in nordland, huge armies of newbies running around and smashing each other:
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Quoting: stormtuxQuoting: Xpander[...talking about Return of Reckoning...]The last days there are so many people the servers are literally booming :D
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
Anyway, the work of the developers is amazing. This weekend there was even and event in nordland, huge armies of newbies running around and smashing each other:
Guys I never played Warhammer Online, and I'm not really into MMO either except I played a bit of LOTRO, but damn you're intriguing me there!
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TobyGornow Mar 8, 2020
I've just started Devil May Cry 5 and so far it's good ( First mission though) and it made me realize how much real time graphics have evolved this last five years, I was just playing old games and didn't see the evolution.
I hesitated beginning a Dark souls III run or re-playing the first one as a Pyromancer but DMC 5 won.
I hesitated beginning a Dark souls III run or re-playing the first one as a Pyromancer but DMC 5 won.
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appetrosyan Mar 9, 2020
Dead Space. The first two games aged really well, and there’s still some achievements that I’d like to have. Thirdway through DS2 on Hardcore. The exploding necromorphs usually kill me out of the blue.
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Night Knight and Yazzie on my brand sparkling new 30 years old MSX.
Yazzie is very nicely presented, though a bit easy and short. Night Knight is more interesting in its level design, getting to be quite hard even when using its level code system (or, if one is running it emulated, savestates).
They are fairly easy to run on any linux system via emulating, e.g. in openMSX.
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Yazzie is very nicely presented, though a bit easy and short. Night Knight is more interesting in its level design, getting to be quite hard even when using its level code system (or, if one is running it emulated, savestates).
They are fairly easy to run on any linux system via emulating, e.g. in openMSX.
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Quoting: emphyNight Knight and Yazzie on my brand sparkling new 30 years old MSX.
Yazzie is very nicely presented, though a bit easy and short. Night Knight is more interesting in its level design, getting to be quite hard even when using its level code system (or, if one is running it emulated, savestates).
They are fairly easy to run on any linux system via emulating, e.g. in openMSX.
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Got my first MSX in '84. It's still sitting under my desk, along with my MSX-2. I wonder from time to time of I should try some games (like Head over Heels) again or if they're better left in dear memory. I don't know either of the games you mentioned, though.
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Rocket League is still my main, although I've been doing a lot of "testing" on linux instead of windows. Cannot believe I played without gamemode for so long (wasn't aware). Other than game freezes it's been amazing, hopefully a -dx11 option I found fixes the crashing. Other than losing some of the pretty shimmer effect that Windows has, it's damn near identical.
My success there led me to picking up No Man's Sky on a whim this weekend. First game purchase where I dove in head first, Linux only. Ticked Proton down from v5 and it loaded right up (+gamemode which i'm adding as default across the board until I see problems). Game ran great, just had to peg framecap down to ~100. Then had to tick down to Medium (from High) once I got off the ground, I damn near crashed my ship from the sudden lag spike lol. There is a flicker issue that does bother me, it's only on the sun but it's a very visible box around the graphic. Haven't figured that one but otherwise fairly immersed in the game.
Also tried poking around Minecraft, but couldn't get Optifine + shaders working while I was multitasking another project...and unfortunately I don't have time/interest to dedicate to getting that working right now, mainly curious what my out-of-box game options are.
Truthfully, as many have echoed, Proton changed everything for me. There's some tinkering, but i'm enjoying that aspect and the ratio of "troubleshooting vs play" is VERY reasonable even for someone with limited game time. I am amazed.
My success there led me to picking up No Man's Sky on a whim this weekend. First game purchase where I dove in head first, Linux only. Ticked Proton down from v5 and it loaded right up (+gamemode which i'm adding as default across the board until I see problems). Game ran great, just had to peg framecap down to ~100. Then had to tick down to Medium (from High) once I got off the ground, I damn near crashed my ship from the sudden lag spike lol. There is a flicker issue that does bother me, it's only on the sun but it's a very visible box around the graphic. Haven't figured that one but otherwise fairly immersed in the game.
Also tried poking around Minecraft, but couldn't get Optifine + shaders working while I was multitasking another project...and unfortunately I don't have time/interest to dedicate to getting that working right now, mainly curious what my out-of-box game options are.
Truthfully, as many have echoed, Proton changed everything for me. There's some tinkering, but i'm enjoying that aspect and the ratio of "troubleshooting vs play" is VERY reasonable even for someone with limited game time. I am amazed.
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