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damarrin Oct 22, 2020
I see we're mostly talking about technical issues with games, not the games themselves. So, to try and change that...

Half-Life: Alyx

Took me quite a few months since we got the native version, I'd say about 20 hours in game time. I found it hard to start playing what with getting up from the chair and putting on the headset and usually having to redo the room setup, but once I did I played for hours.

It's the best gaming experience I've had in the last 10 years, if not more. It's so intense, sometimes downright scary, when you know that headcrab will jump on your face in 2 seconds if you don't kill it first. It's typical HL, with its very cool eastern European setting, even for me (Polish dude here) and something new around every corner. On the other hand, the journey is definitely more interesting than the destination, as the ending section is very brief, despite managing to interestingly change the rules, and the ending itself is decidedly low key with required knowledge from HL2 and its episodes to at all be able to understand what's going on.

I had to use the most comfortable settings (teleport movement and snap turning) to play, unfortunately any sort of smooth movement in VR makes me instantly nauseous - to the point that when there's a spot towards the end when you rise in an open area (there are elevator sections before, but they're mostly enclosed and the movement is not so pronounced) and it immediately provoked a tiny lurch in my stomach.

I had technical issues galore. My 980Ti is barely fit for VR, mostly because Nvidia doesn't have async reprojection in their driver, so there was horrible stutter to start with. I had to set the game's gfx settings to medium (it still looks amazing), reduce rendering res to 100%, refresh to 80Hz and enable legacy reprojection to get smooth movement, with stutter only appearing for brief periods during loadings. Interface windows often went empty, mostly annoying when I died and the only thing I could do was load a save (or quit the game) and the window was empty. Furiously pressing all buttons on the controllers would bring back the window contents (often for just a second before it disappeared again) and usually within a minute or so I was able to load the game. I had some graphical glitches during gameplay, too, with some pools of alien blood flickering and the wrong colour, plus a peculiar corrupted rectangle positioned somewhere outside the level appearing through walls in a couple of places.

Add to that problems with SteamVR, like the headset no longer working after system suspend and having to restart the computer to play again, and it's not an experience for the faint of heart.

Despite all that it's absolutely glorious and everyone should play it.

10/10
DrIggy Oct 23, 2020
I recently completed two short but sweet games: "The Story About my Uncle" and "The Lifeless Planet". They are both native and I finished them without any issues on ultra wide 3440x1440 monitor. Both games are sort of 3D platformer at its core but they have very strong and interesting atmosphere and story so I really enjoyed them both.

I also completed "The Fall" a 2D platformer/puzzle game with similar qualities.

I now started playing "Divinity: Original Sin Enchanted Edition" and after that I have these games on my TODO list:
Fallout: New Vegas
Metro: Last Light
Shadowrun: Dragonfall
Wasteland 2
...
Ehvis Oct 23, 2020
Since I've mostly been on a massive Factorio megabase build, I haven't finished much over the past two months. The only exception is Beneath a Steel Sky, which I finished before starting with Beyond a Steel Sky.
Dennis_Payne Oct 23, 2020
I completed a couple of PS4 games. They were some of the free games given to PS Plus members that I've never gotten to trying. I did complete them using Chiaki but otherwise it has nothing to do with Linux.
damarrin Oct 23, 2020
Seers Isle

It's absolutely beautiful. The music is good and so are the characters.

The game unfortunately makes you restart from the very beginning every time you want to take a different path and you really need to draw a chart if you wish to follow every character's story. That last I actually enjoyed a lot as it turns out, it's been a while since I used a pen and notebook at length. You can also fast forward through dialogue so subsequent playthroughs take just an hour or so.

There are 8 endings so at least 8 playthroughs if you want them all, though I found the prerequisites for a few of them very random with little chance of stumbling on and I had to look up online for the last one. The endings don't differ much, even if the journey to get there can be quite varied, including some
Spoiler, click me
sexy time
.

I really wish the endings were longer and more varied, with perhaps a true end that can only be achieved once you do all the others, like some Japanese VNs tend to do. As it is, I'd say seeing 3-4 should be enough and getting all of them seriously dampened my enjoyment of the game.

6/10

Last edited by damarrin on 23 October 2020 at 8:04 pm UTC
stud68 Oct 23, 2020
Fable Anniversary

Finished it with the Good Ending. Didn't feel like doing anything evil this play through.

Also another run through Portal 2.
Defo in my Top 5 of all time greats. Cave Johnson is a Legend.
Mnoleg Oct 24, 2020
I stopped playing DROD: King Dugan's Dungeon about a year ago because the f$K!% goblins in level 23 drove me crazy, but after a long therapy I was able to resume and complete the game. I no longer live in shame and I'm in the ninth level of the Journey to Rooted Hold, but wubbas and slayers threaten my fragile sanity.
Hamish Oct 24, 2020
I actually keep a list of every game I have completed since I graduated High School:
http://icculus.org/~hamish/gameslist.txt
whizse Oct 25, 2020
I actually keep a list of every game I have completed since I graduated High School:
http://icculus.org/~hamish/gameslist.txt
Hey I do that too!

Not since high school, but going well back to 2014. Not going to post it online, because that's one embarrassingly long list...
damarrin Oct 25, 2020
My list goes back to 1998. At a certain point I started taking a picture of whatever I was playing on when I completed the game. Makes for fun reminiscing about places and hardware and furniture, etc.
Gooda Oct 25, 2020
Ah, 1998, that was a good one. The highlight - achieving 100% on Crash Bandicoot 2, that was tons of fun. :)

My list starts around 2007, although I think I could pinpoint month/year for pretty much every game I ever completed. Playing games is such an integral part of my life, 'I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.' All those moments stay with me. Forever. :)

that's one embarrassingly long list
Sadly, with so little time, my yearly lists of completed games are getting embarrassingly short. :(

Last edited by Gooda on 25 October 2020 at 10:36 pm UTC
slembcke Oct 27, 2020
I've been on a weird FPS kick this year. Haven't really played a lot of those in the last decade, but recently had the itch for senseless nonsense. I played through Halo 3 about the time that came out in the Master Chief collection, and that lead to playing Red Faction 1 & 3 of all games. Not exactly classics, but enjoyable timewasters that run fine under Proton. Over the weekend my wife and I (almost) beat Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime, and I also randomly decided to replay Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet since it was relatively short. Both of those have nice native versions.

Still need to finish my first play through of Shadow of the Tomb Raider. It's so good! ... but I've been playing it in like 1 hour increments since the Feral port came out. Gosh... That's got be like a year now? Last November?

@damarrin Ah, yes HL Alyx was fantastic! I've played it through twice now, once in Proton when it came out and a second time in the native version. I do VR work for a living and have been doing it from Linux for like a year now because... why not? The vrserver process definitely doesn't like it when you suspend, though I found simply quitting it before suspend fixes almost all of my non-Unity3D issues though.
kaiman Oct 27, 2020
I've started my list retroactively, so I don't have a date for when exactly I finished each game. But here are the stats for year purchased (approx.) vs completed yes/no



The massive spike this year is mostly due to the BLM bundle from itch.io, but it seems I generally play more games now than back when. Though a lot of games I played in recent years are short indie titles, while as a kid or student those were mostly time consuming AAA games. (I still think I should not let my wife see that graph ;-))
Julius Oct 27, 2020
Ugh, 2005/2006 must have been a difficult time for you? Edit: a wait, it is even missing some years. I guess some non-gamer time then ;)

I completed Diablo 1 (Via DevilutionX on a PineBookPro). Nice nostalgia trip after 20 years. Back in the day I 255 maxxed out my mage character ;)
Was a bit surprised how short the actual single-player campaign of Diablo1 is.

Last edited by Julius on 27 October 2020 at 11:23 pm UTC
kaiman Oct 28, 2020
Ugh, 2005/2006 must have been a difficult time for you? Edit: a wait, it is even missing some years. I guess some non-gamer time then ;)
Yeah, so early 2000s I was quite occupied with writing my own game instead :-). But there's also a period where my gaming desktop was located on the wrong side of the Atlantic Ocean. So for about 15 months all I played was Oblivion on my employer issued laptop, probably at 640x480 and with low details.

And just maybe those years weren't particularly great for PC gaming anyway, or at least had few games I would have been interested in. My collection to date doesn't contain a single entry that originally released in either 2003 or 2004.
Julius Oct 28, 2020
Yeah, wasn't the best time for gaming and since around that time I switch more or less full time to Linux I think I mostly played Unreal Tournament 2003/2004. Those had a really nice Linux port back in the day ;)

Props for actually making and releasing a game... my projects from that time barely got beyond the brainstorm phase :(

Last edited by Julius on 28 October 2020 at 9:05 pm UTC
TobyGornow Oct 28, 2020
Just finished Leisure suit Larry : Wet dreams dry twice, not the best of the bunch but still enjoyable if you like the serie. Worked great with Proton 5.13.
damarrin Dec 30, 2020
Call of the Sea

A very relaxing puzzle game, some nice environments and a pretty good story.

Almost perfect with the latest Proton. There are a few occasions where you read a letter and apparently there’s a video that’s supposed to be playing in a rectangle that appears on screen, but the letter is read aloud so no story bits are lost.

It’s quite buggy, apparently on Windows people are having serious problems with it. I did have some, but nothing completely game-breaking. Although I did have to restart a chapter at one point.

Recommended.
Arehandoro Dec 31, 2020
Rise of the Tom Raider.

I liked it better than the first one, or at least I felt like I knew my way around it better. The atmosphere, the setup, graphics, sound... everything was pretty exciting. Consequently, I bought Shadow of the Tomb Raider, but haven't started it yet.

It's also a native game, which it gives it more points.

Recommended.
g000h Jan 1, 2021
I find I generally can't complete games:

Nuclear Throne - no way near (it is much too quick for me on keyboard and mouse)
Crypt of the Necrodancer - final bosses keep on beating me
Darkest Dungeon
Cultist Simulator
..


Plenty of games I start and then put down, and don't pick up again:

Rise of the Tomb Raider
Pathway
Forager
Metro 2033 Redux
Saints Row: Gat out of Hell
Curious Expedition
Fallout 3
Valley


Okay, I have finished some:

FTL: Faster Than Light
Slay the Spire
Mad Max
Serious Sam 3: BFE
Dying Light
Torchlight 2
Sky Force Anniversary
Shadow Warrior
Ziggurat


I guess I could add - It's the journey, not the ending.
denyasis Jan 1, 2021
I find I generally can't complete games.
Me 2. I get bored or frustrated and wander off

I did manage to best Factorio over the summer. That was nice. I've also been on a bit of a FPS kick recently and am playing through the STALKER series. Runs fine in wine. I'm on the third game, but the first so far it's my favorite (#3 is a very close second and very fun)
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