Oh, hey! We didn't miss the weekend this time. Time for another community chat and giving out your latest recommendations.
After mentioning last time about my current love affair with the Raspberry Pi 4, that has very much continued. Everything seems to be holding up nicely on it. There's been plenty of Steam Link game streaming, which has been quite the highlight due to how smoothly it has been working.
For actual games though, I'm going to take this moment to totally plug CARRION again (see my review) because it's just wonderfully crafted. I'm now onto my second play-through to see if there are any fun things I missed. Sounds like it's been quite a successful launch too.
Here's a bit of trivia for you: the levels in CARRION were almost entirely made using Tiled, a free and open source general purpose tile map editor.
If you're stuck for something to play, here's a quick reminder on some good deals:
- Humble Best of Paradox Interactive Bundle
- Humble Daedalic Bundle 2020
- Sid Meier's Civilization VI free weekend (75% off)
- GOG Indie Gems Sale
Over to you in the comments: what have you been gaming on Linux lately?
Another FPS but with one of the best level design I ever saw, the music is so great and fits the fast paced action you're put through, graphics are finely crafted pixel arts with lots of variety.
About the gameplay, I've had more fun with this one than Doom eternal, to hell with flame thrower this and glory kill that, me see me shoot and that's what I want. Doom is still very good don't get me wrong...
And I also finished Shadowrun Returns, a fallout-ish squad based T-RPG. It's good fun, not transcendent, writing is good, found it a tad boring in the end.
Finally, I've started a memory refresher of Beneath a Steel Sky, works great with ScummVm.
Last edited by TobyGornow on 26 July 2020 at 3:51 pm UTC
Oh, and I've been really impressed by Sonic All Stars Racing Transformed, which I've been playing a lot of with my partner. I was pretty skeptical initially, but I'd honestly say it rivals Mario Kart for me :)
Last edited by HadBabits on 26 July 2020 at 3:58 pm UTC
But that made me go back to Warhammer Online (Return of Reckoning) once again, to satisfy my PvP needs.
Otherwise, ShellShock Live still scratches my itch for quick multiplayer combat and fun tactics.
Took a bit of tinkering to get audio working properly on Linux, but thanks to a guide, now it runs perfectly.
In other news, Star Wars The Old Republic is now on Steam, finally bringing a proper WOW-style MMO to Steam. No, Ryzom, Champions of Regnum and Albion Online didn't count, they were in an entirely different league.
Also playing Halo CE Campaign
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