Wow, the end of another week over here in the surprisingly hot and sunny UK. Perfect weather to be sat inside playing games and there's been plenty of that here.
Thanks to the news of Celeste coming to Stadia, I was reminded of the fact that Celeste was in the recent itch.io charity bundle so I've been able to give it a thorough go after only previously playing it at a friends PC. I already liked it a lot but now I've sunk plenty more hours into it I'm totally blown away by it. It's truly no surprise to me now why it has amassed such a following, like on Steam where it has over twenty thousand views an an overall Overwhelmingly Positive rating.
For the Linux version, Celeste appears to be another example of a finely tuned experience with no issues encountered for me at all. If you've not tried Celeste yet, do give it a go. Getting those darn Strawberries has become my most painful mission, like the time I caught a particularly tricky one after 30 minutes of failed attempts only for my thumb to slip off the gamepad stick at a vital step afterwards…
It really does get intense and actually managing to catch each one feels so good. Difficult? Absolutely. However, it's pretty much the perfected experience of challenging platforming with lovely pixel-art and beautiful audio to top it off. If you don't own Celeste you can grab it from itch.io, Humble Store and Steam.
Over to you: what have you been gaming on Linux recently? Have a chat in the comments.
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Get to the Orange Door. I have yet to get to a single orange door. Have died a lot, though.
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Jul 12, 2020
I rediscovered and played "Portal 2" and "The Talos Principle". The PS4 controller works nicely with these, I use no mouse here on this Thinkpad, and while I love "the nipple" of Thinkpads, it's awful for 3rd person games.
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TobyGornow Jul 12, 2020
FTL, and for the first time after lots and lots of tries, I arrived in the sector 8 and wrecked the final boss with the Kestrel. Love this game.
Ion Fury, started all over again since my saves weren't recognized anymore, they were present on the disk but "Obsolete" as stated by the game. This game is so good don't know why I stopped playing it.
Ion Fury, started all over again since my saves weren't recognized anymore, they were present on the disk but "Obsolete" as stated by the game. This game is so good don't know why I stopped playing it.
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I think I might be starting to get sucked into DOTA2. Please send help.
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I've spent 20+ hours last week on Hades and had an absolute blast. I already loved all previous Supergiant games, but they really knocked it out of the park this time. Great gameplay, great visuals, great soundtrack, excellent writing, and a seemingly endless amount of content despite the game still being in Early Access.
The voice acting in particular deserves a mention. In the patch notes, Supergiant said they recorded over 17000 voice lines for this game and honestly I believe it. It's just crazy. Even after 20 hours I'm still finding new dialogue and I've hardly heard any voice line repeated twice. It's rare to see that much effort put into a AAA game, and unheard of for an indie.
Sadly, we still don't know if a native Linux version is in the works (all their previous games had one). They said they're looking into "other platforms" but made no promises. The game is pretty much click&play with Proton though. It can get a bit stutterry in some of the most intense boss fights, but hard to say if it's due to Proton or the game itself.
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The voice acting in particular deserves a mention. In the patch notes, Supergiant said they recorded over 17000 voice lines for this game and honestly I believe it. It's just crazy. Even after 20 hours I'm still finding new dialogue and I've hardly heard any voice line repeated twice. It's rare to see that much effort put into a AAA game, and unheard of for an indie.
Sadly, we still don't know if a native Linux version is in the works (all their previous games had one). They said they're looking into "other platforms" but made no promises. The game is pretty much click&play with Proton though. It can get a bit stutterry in some of the most intense boss fights, but hard to say if it's due to Proton or the game itself.
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Mostly Everspace, I've almost maxed out the upgrades and then I'll try and do a final run, although on the weekend I gave the more recent Star Wars: Battlefront 2 a whirl. It's not perfect, but definitely playable and fun.
Currently playing through Trine 2 coop as well, that's loads of fun. We finished Trine 1 and had a blast, so it's great to come back to this world.
Currently playing through Trine 2 coop as well, that's loads of fun. We finished Trine 1 and had a blast, so it's great to come back to this world.
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TheRiddick Jul 13, 2020
I haven't been playing much. I have been messing with Fallout4 under Linux with ModOrganizer2 a bit, still some bugs to figure out.
I've been thinking about playing Shadow Tactics game which has a Linux port, might be good.
As a off-topic question if anyone knows, I have a B350 mobo atm and a B550 upgrade coming soon, does anyone know of any issues just swapping mobo out? is there any Linux B550 chipset issues or work arounds I need to know about?
PS. I really want to be able to play the Quest VR headset under Linux.. maybe one day.
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I've been thinking about playing Shadow Tactics game which has a Linux port, might be good.
As a off-topic question if anyone knows, I have a B350 mobo atm and a B550 upgrade coming soon, does anyone know of any issues just swapping mobo out? is there any Linux B550 chipset issues or work arounds I need to know about?
PS. I really want to be able to play the Quest VR headset under Linux.. maybe one day.
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I've been thinking about playing Shadow Tactics game which has a Linux port, might be good.It's a great game. Highly recommended. If you've any doubt, there's a free demo which is basically the tutorial mission IIRC.
Personally I've gotten back into The Witcher 3. I actually started playing it last April, but drifted away for some reason. I picked it up again on Switch recently, and am really enjoying it. Turned the difficulty all the way down so I can just enjoy the ambience and story. This port has save game sync capability to both the Steam and GoG clouds, but you need all the DLC. Faced with the choice of paying $14 for the DLC on GoG or buying the GotY edition on Steam for $24 I went with the latter, it fits my "workflow" (gameflow?) better. Witcher 3 on the couch via Steam Link until Mrs wants the lights turned up for her reading, then move to the bedroom and continue it on the Switch. Grand.
That said, I'm currently playing the quest where I'm looking for Dandelion, and I just did the interrogation with Whoreson Junior. Wow, there's some over the top gratuitous violence leading up to that, just in case we have any doubts about Whoreson Junior's character. Yuck. It reminded me a bit of Lee Child's Jack Reacher novels, where the bad guys are often horribly sadistic. I get it, he's a baddie, I don't want all the details before bed time.
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TheRiddick Jul 13, 2020
It's a great game. Highly recommended. If you've any doubt, there's a free demo
I actually already own the game, just gotta be motivated to play it. I also have witcher 3 which I was going to mod to hell and back and start a new play through.
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Kuduzkehpan Jul 13, 2020
Albion Online , grinding for some Avalonian weapons which will be avaiable on August
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As a off-topic question if anyone knows, I have a B350 mobo atm and a B550 upgrade coming soon, does anyone know of any issues just swapping mobo out? is there any Linux B550 chipset issues or work arounds I need to know about?
Swapping motherboard out is usually totally fine, provided the Linux distro you are running has an up to date kernel that supports that board. I've done this several times before, it's pretty amazing to witness. DO NOT try the same thing on Windows, you'll be in for a mess.
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Been playing through Black Mesa and really enjoying it! I just recently got to Xen. It's fantastic! It takes the worst part of Half-Life, and so far it's one of the best parts of Black Mesa. CC did an amazing job taking what's already a wonderful game and making it near perfect.
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I started Into the Breach this weekend, oh my it is marvellous - no matter the fact that I am rather mediocre at it.....
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soulsource Jul 13, 2020
I made the mistake of downloading Gwent...
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2fastHunter Jul 13, 2020
I am working on my pile of shame and started The Talos Principle. It is like Portal with other flavour. Nice one.
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Kallestofeles Jul 13, 2020
Still cannot seem to be able to finish Dwarf Fortress...
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Mount and Blade 2 on proton and some weird itch adult's game.
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furaxhornyx Jul 13, 2020
Did a second run on Punch club, this time triggering another story line (I didn't even know they was more than one). That's pretty cool, wonder if I will get another surprise on my third run (with the last fighting style, the Turtle).
I also played a run on Refunct. The game is very short (< 10 min), this is probably the best introduction to speedrun you will find, all in a very chill atmosphere.
I tried the demo of Neon Abyss and I quite enjoyed the run. It seems to have a lot in common with The Binding of Isaac (which I don't like much), but I prefer the platformer approach more. Release date is scheduled for tomorrow (July 14th)... Decisions, decisions
Finally, I started playing Divinity II: Developer's cut, but the choppy camera made me stop after 2 hours. The problem seems to affect the Windows version too ; currently the only suggested fix that seemed to work was to cap the game to 30 fps, using libstrangle (strangle 30 %command in Steam)... which is not that great
I also played a run on Refunct. The game is very short (< 10 min), this is probably the best introduction to speedrun you will find, all in a very chill atmosphere.
I tried the demo of Neon Abyss and I quite enjoyed the run. It seems to have a lot in common with The Binding of Isaac (which I don't like much), but I prefer the platformer approach more. Release date is scheduled for tomorrow (July 14th)... Decisions, decisions
Finally, I started playing Divinity II: Developer's cut, but the choppy camera made me stop after 2 hours. The problem seems to affect the Windows version too ; currently the only suggested fix that seemed to work was to cap the game to 30 fps, using libstrangle (strangle 30 %command in Steam)... which is not that great
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