What have you been playing recently, come tell your thoughts

Streets of rage 4, Doom 2016 and horizon chase turbo mostly :)

Quoting: CatKillerI've been trying to clear some of my backlog.

Monkey Island
Monkey Island 2
Monkey Island 3

About ten minutes of Monkey Island 4 before I gave up on it.

Full Throttle
Whispering Willows
Grim Fandango
Helium Rain
CAT Interstellar
Near Death
Sigma Theory
Jotun

My little one's been playing Minecraft, Qube 2, Contraption Maker, Slime Rancher, Pikuniku, and Area 86. He's also decided that he really wants to play Tacoma, which I'd lined up as my next one to play through, but I'm trying to gently discourage that, since I suspect it will get grim at some point.

Which one do you liked most?
For me, it was Monkey 2


Last edited by kokoko3k on 27 March 2021 at 10:32 pm UTC

Quoting: kokoko3kwhat do you liked most?

It's hard to say. The LucasArts adventures are, I think, the best games ever made. But I'd played them before. I hadn't played through the remasters, though, which is why they were in my backlog.

The ones I play with my little one are an amazing experience because I'm playing them with my little one. Solving puzzles and exploring game worlds is great, but watching a five year old solve puzzles and explore game worlds is a whole other level.

Either way, there's a ton of great gaming to be done on Linux, and that's the main thing.

star sector they have a new update

I've been playing Mad Max, saw it for $5 so I figured why not. I kinda hate the gameplay to be honest, it's like a hodgepodge of all the AAA games that I'm not fond of. However, the setting is compelling enough for me to stick to it for the time being.
I think my dinky HP RX 460 GPU is failing. Display keeps shutting off randomly during games/rendering and stays off for anywhere between 5-30 seconds, happens both in Linux and Windows. This is quite possibly the worst time for a GPU failure.


Last edited by Botonoski on 28 March 2021 at 2:49 am UTC

Finally trying my hand at some of the Mission Packs for Quake, and Scourge of Armagon has been impressing me so far. Honestly finding it to be a pleasant break after I slogged through the original four id Software episodes in preparation for my next article. Levelord does not disappoint.

EDIT: A little disappointed to learn that Scourge of Armagon has a new soundtrack which was not included with the retail Quake: The Offering package. I might be able to burn my own disc from the GOG.com version to use though.


Last edited by Hamish on 28 March 2021 at 7:38 am UTC

You won't believe--Master of Orion . . . I. Played a game of II, then thought I'd go super nostalgic and try I. It's not bad. I'm finding Dosbox faintly annoying (scratchy music, cursor position jumps around sometimes, can't use Alt Tab), wishing I had the mojo to install Boxtron or that Boxtron had become mainstream enough that it would just be in the software centre or in Steam by default.

Also Civ VI. Tried a game where I just pretended religion didn't exist so I could keep my precious District slots for other things. Worked pretty damned well, I totally kicked ass. Hadn't noticed before how in Civ VI, you crush one measly opponent in the early-mid game, and the others hate your guts right into the space age even though you weren't even the one to start the war. It just gets pathetic when the king of the vikings spends half his time denouncing you for being a warmonger for a couple thousand years over one conquest. Overall I think I like V better--the districts in VI are interesting, but between districts and wonders and housing it starts getting really annoying how much of your productive real estate they use up.

Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: kokoko3kwhat do you liked most?

It's hard to say. The LucasArts adventures are, I think, the best games ever made. But I'd played them before. I hadn't played through the remasters, though, which is why they were in my backlog.

The ones I play with my little one are an amazing experience because I'm playing them with my little one. Solving puzzles and exploring game worlds is great, but watching a five year old solve puzzles and explore game worlds is a whole other level.

Either way, there's a ton of great gaming to be done on Linux, and that's the main thing.

Have to quote every single line in your post, sharing your childhood games with your children is a priceless experience.
I tried to make she play with the oroginal version of monkey 1 and 2, but she preferred the remaster (she was 5, i think).
But now that she's 8, she's enjoying undertale, so maybe i will try again with scummvm in the future:)


Last edited by kokoko3k on 28 March 2021 at 6:36 am UTC

Valheim - all bosses that exist at this time defeated. Sitting at ~260 hours with a large build in progress. I'm dying for more content for this game.

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Valheim made me long for Fable nostalgia so this past week I've completed an all-evil re-playthrough of Fable: Anniversary as well as started a similar playthrough of Fable III. It's really hard for me to be bad in video games.

Keeping tabs on Xenia to allow me to play Fable II (xbox360) on PC eventually.

(Fable Anniversary used to not work in Proton and Fable III requires an games for windows live bypasses but works great)


I really do hope Fable 4 works in Proton/Wine.


Last edited by drlamb on 28 March 2021 at 7:11 am UTC

In recent weeks I have been obsessed with several games, first those with Proton: My time at portia, Star Wars Jedi fallen order, Tales of Berseria, Crash bandicoot Trilogy, Horizon zero dawn and Kingdom Come (beautiful). Instead for the natives: Valheim, Mutropolis, Stardew valley.
I try to dedicate some time to everyone, but it will take quite a while to finish them...