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I love those gamepads. I use that or my Hori RAP 4 KAI Fighting Stick. I use to have a bunch of other gamepads but I sold them all once the last of my little ones went off to college/moved out recently.

GUILTY GEAR Xrd -REVELATOR- - Steam

I picked this one up to play with a friend. I played part 1 via of Mednafen many years ago and had a great time at locals playing with others but did not get too competitive with it. My main is May because that is who I used back then but I'm going to pick another soon.

Mortal Kombat 11 - Stadia

Been playing this one a bunch with my wife. I'm going to check out the crypt soon but for now I've been skipping it but now my wife wants some of the costume pieces for her characters from it. My new main is Geras. I've gaining ranks with Johnny Cage.

Mable & The Wood - GOG

I'm on the 5th boss now in Act II. This game was free awhile back on GOG and it's good. It would be better if the map was more helpful. I do like it very much and plan on ending it asap.

Left 4 Dead 2 - Steam

Saturday night gaming is getting really good with my friends and family online. This past Saturday we did a 4 hour run of L4D2's Scavenge mode. Versus seems to be too full glitches with a bunch of problems that have been in the game for years so we stopped playing that but this mode and survival are great.

Blade Strangers - Steam

I'm liking this game a lot. Currently, I'm playing it online with one of my older kids who is on the other side of the US but it's been real smooth. This is the most recent game I got so not much time has been put into it but I'm currently maining Isaac.

My gamepad of choice is the Xbox360 usb since the release of the console of the same name. I fell in love with the ergonomy, the weight and the build quality, plus it's Plug & play. It's my second one and before I was using a PS2 controller with an usb adapter so Dualshock 4 would be my second choice. If I had to buy a new controller today, I'll go with an Xbox One Elite, the triggers behind the controller are great. I still have to try the steam controller but as said before the lack of directional stick is troubling me.

Otherwise, I've tried Succubus: Prologue a FPS so violent, so grotesque, so perverse. Definitively not for everybody and once the shock value is passed the game is meh, great art but meh.

Next, I've finished The suicide of Rachel Foster a walking sim with light adventure elements and a good story. It plays like Gone Home mixed with Firewatch. Everything is great about this game, I liked it.

I'm in the middle of A plague tale : Innocence and I love it. Runs great on Proton 5.0-9 (60 FPS, 1080p full options ). The art and level design combined with the mastery with the engine gives a wonderful result so much that it could be the most beautiful game I've played so far. The story is gripping, characters are great and you get attached to them, gameplay is well made and responsive, level design is linear and I like it since I'm fed up with open world that prey on my play time that gets reduced more and more. Overall, I recommend it wholeheartedly.

Finally, a small question : How do you motivate yourself to work on your personal project ? I'm currently in a high procrastination period, so much It's been a month or more since I've touched my two Godot project I've got on the burner. Same with my music, I pick my guitar for 5 minutes, scratch it a little and put it back. What's your trick ?
Maybe it's just a period... Really busy at work.


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Playing a lot of Unrailed together with friends on the couch and even over remote play together. Awesome game which surprisingly everyone who plays seems to like. Absolutely recommend :D

Last weekend:

- Monster Hunter World: Iceborne
- Dark Souls III
- Death Stranding (with Proton-GE)

All run perfect!

Terraria is one of those games where you can feel somewhat lost if you don't take look at a guide at some point. It's more fun to play it when you have idea that there is better weapon or armor out there, you just have find all the ingredients and in case of ores, you might have to upgrade your pickaxe. There's lot of different things to do.

Truth to be told though, I gave up before final boss. I didn't feel like going back to previous boss in hope of getting random loot that would be needed to be able to craft a better weapon.

I can see that. I think my issue is that I want a perfect balance between "open world" and lore/story/progression, which is almost impossible to do in a procedural setting. I just didn't feel compelled to continue and progress. I think I'll return to it sometime later, when I'm more in the creative mood.

I was also put off by the night time. It felt like just waiting while the game progressed without purpose. I know I could craft or something, but if I ran out of supplies, I just had to wait.

I totally agree that getting sucked into more open ended game can take more effort. Good enough tutorial can help by introducing some core concepts.

For example Factorio demo was great as it was possible to experience some things in advance that in freeplay require bit of effort to set up. It would be bit different to start with pickaxe in hand and all the instructions are that you need to build a rocket. Once you get far enough, you kind of forget the main goal while trying to optimize things and tackle problems as they appear. When that works, it's better than quests that barely have any relevance to the world.

RIP F310, my F310 is also around 5 years going to try and take care of it as best as I can. This weekend started replaying "This is the Police", it's not a very popular game but I quite like it.

This weekend started replaying "This is the Police", it's not a very popular game but I quite like it.

It has more than 6000 user reviews and a "very popular" rating on Steam.

For comparison, the last Deponia game, which also came out in 2016, only has about a quarter as many user reviews, and is from a relatively well-known franchise.

Not trying to be argumentative, but making a point that a game can be considered popular even though it's not mainstream.

And even if it isn't, don't feel bad for liking a game that most people don't like.

Tropico 6, which was on sale, and is just as quirky as its predecessors.

- Once more, I made a friend discover Overcooked. This game never disappoint

You know the sequel has a native Linux version? Great game, with lots of extra content available.

Yep, I bought it almost day one, but haven't played it yet. We were supposed to discover the game with 3 friends... and then there was lockdown

Playing a lot of Unrailed together with friends on the couch and even over remote play together. Awesome game which surprisingly everyone who plays seems to like. Absolutely recommend :D

Forgot to mention Unrailed as well, but it is fun indeed !

small question : How do you motivate yourself to work on your personal project ? I'm currently in a high procrastination period, so much It's been a month or more since I've touched my two Godot project I've got on the burner. Same with my music, I pick my guitar for 5 minutes, scratch it a little and put it back. What's your trick ?
Maybe it's just a period... Really busy at work.

Unfortunately, I am king of unfinished projects (I probably have ~40 projects in Ableton Live, and only 3-4 that I finished). It all comes down to what you want to do with the result: for me, I am more interested in trying weird stuff, rather than producing full songs. What do you want to do with Godot ? Self-learning ? Showcase ? I usually find it easier to finish something when I have a clear idea of what I want to do with it.

Also, sometimes it is just enough to simply open your project, see where it's at, and take it from here

@Furaxhornyx Yeah, I think it's as simple as opening the project and starting working on something easy to start the machine. And you're right, I should write steps and milestones to have a real general view.

Titan Quest is my current Moby Dick. The game is huge and, being a Diablo 2 clone, needs to be finished three times to allow full bragging rights. I'd heard a lot of good things about it in the past and it's all well deserved. The variety of builds is immense, killing monsters feel satisfying, and the graphics are still pretty without the visual clutter of, say, Diablo 3.

The game does feel less responsive than Diablo 2, so, for me at least, it's easier to die in the former than in the latter. However, TQ seems to have more viable builds, and experimenting with those is my favorite part of the genre.

Performance is good, although there are about 3 small areas in the game where fire objects force fps down, if not enough to make the game unplayable.

I'm also stuck on the so-called cookies puzzle in Still Life. I love detective stories, especially those with realistic puzzles and logical actions (the first thing you do here is work a crime scene), but the game has its share of more conventional (read challenging) puzzles too, one of which is now sapping my will with its merciless number of possible combinations. I'm loath to look up the solution though, so I persevere.

Epic store version of Remnant: From The ashes on Linux via Lutris... and then on Windows 10 with the same hardware.

DXVK need a lot of improvements in relation to UE4 games.

This weekend started replaying "This is the Police", it's not a very popular game but I quite like it.

It has more than 6000 user reviews and a "very popular" rating on Steam.

For comparison, the last Deponia game, which also came out in 2016, only has about a quarter as many user reviews, and is from a relatively well-known franchise.

Not trying to be argumentative, but making a point that a game can be considered popular even though it's not mainstream.

And even if it isn't, don't feel bad for liking a game that most people don't like.

:) Yeah, you're right, it is popular. I got a number of the Deponia games free sometime back but have not yet tried it, how would you rate the series?

Finally, a small question : How do you motivate yourself to work on your personal project ? I'm currently in a high procrastination period, so much It's been a month or more since I've touched my two Godot project I've got on the burner. Same with my music, I pick my guitar for 5 minutes, scratch it a little and put it back. What's your trick ?
Maybe it's just a period... Really busy at work.

Ha! If someone can answer this one for you, I'll be fascinated to see it too!

This weekend started replaying "This is the Police", it's not a very popular game but I quite like it.

It has more than 6000 user reviews and a "very popular" rating on Steam.

For comparison, the last Deponia game, which also came out in 2016, only has about a quarter as many user reviews, and is from a relatively well-known franchise.

Not trying to be argumentative, but making a point that a game can be considered popular even though it's not mainstream.

And even if it isn't, don't feel bad for liking a game that most people don't like.

:) Yeah, you're right, it is popular. I got a number of the Deponia games free sometime back but have not yet tried it, how would you rate the series?

I'm not the biggest fan of the writing and characters, but they have some nice puzzles of the classic adventure game variety.

This weekend started replaying "This is the Police", it's not a very popular game but I quite like it.

It has more than 6000 user reviews and a "very popular" rating on Steam.

For comparison, the last Deponia game, which also came out in 2016, only has about a quarter as many user reviews, and is from a relatively well-known franchise.

Not trying to be argumentative, but making a point that a game can be considered popular even though it's not mainstream.

And even if it isn't, don't feel bad for liking a game that most people don't like.

:) Yeah, you're right, it is popular. I got a number of the Deponia games free sometime back but have not yet tried it, how would you rate the series?

I'm not the biggest fan of the writing and characters, but they have some nice puzzles of the classic adventure game variety.

There's a bit of cringe sprinkled here and there and the main character is hard to like, but as classic adventure games they're not bad at all. Some clever ideas and genuinely funny moments. Worth playing IMHO.

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, where Proton *vastly* outperforms Native [60fps Ultra vs 25fps Low]. The game is absolutely stunning and has rocketed up my all-time favourites list. I'm just about to hit the final stage [London], playing as a stealthy non-lethal hacker.
I was going to stealth through both the Machine God / Heist timelines, but am now considering a full replay as mad ninja killing machine

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, where Proton *vastly* outperforms Native [60fps Ultra vs 25fps Low]. The game is absolutely stunning and has rocketed up my all-time favourites list. I'm just about to hit the final stage [London], playing as a stealthy non-lethal hacker.
I was going to stealth through both the Machine God / Heist timelines, but am now considering a full replay as mad ninja killing machine

I wasn't very good at stealth, so things usually ended up me having to knock everybody unconscious that would be running into my general direction. Bank was one of the worst places. Lot of security to get past.

Might have been easier to play it like regular FPS and just kill everybody...

Been playing a 2nd playthrough of Grim Dawn in Proton and started playing HL2 ith my nephew after a few year break. Still a lot of fun with friends.

I wasn't very good at stealth, so things usually ended up me having to knock everybody unconscious that would be running into my general direction. Bank was one of the worst places. Lot of security to get past.

Might have been easier to play it like regular FPS and just kill everybody...

Gah. They really did mess up the pacing badly towards the end. Prague is just a painful grind even with max stealth.. and of course it eats up all the Energy you need for London. I'm now at the last quest in the game and finding it a total nightmare... tempted to just blast through it purely so I've done it.
And I now discover I totally should've done the Heist mission, since it's impossible to get the best ending without it. Damn. This is a major damper on what was, up to now, arguably the best game I've ever played