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I looked at new The Boglands DLC for my favorite action-roguelike survivor-like game, Halls of Torment. I was surprised when I saw that the user reviews were "Mixed" with 101 reviews (70 positive, 31 negative). Some of the English reviews talked about bugs, game crashes and balancing issues. There is also a couple that mentioned problems with "growth traits." Since I did not own the DLC, I could not confirm or deny any of these claims.

Not sure what are those reviews talking about, I already spent few hours in the Boglands and didn't saw any bug or game crash. With balancing I'm not sure, the Boglands is really hard even when you have all the 500 original quests already completed and maxed out almost everything. It's still easier than The Vault, which could make even the easiest enemies a health sponges after 30 minutes. The growth traits are not bad, it just took me two games to figure out how to best use them (maxing out the related trait first and then picking it up).

The new classes are really fun, each of them with their own specific mechanic (especially bard, which has it's own abilities).

You mean something like The Vault?

The main difference between The Vault and Boglands is that in The Vault trigger for boss was to destroy the crystals, here you need to kill 20 000 enemies, but both of them are very hard to survive and you need to have been prepared.

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I'm playing King is watching (it really hook me up), returned to Halls of Torment with Boglands DLC and in the meantime playing Enotria: Last Song (not a bad soulslike).

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I've been having to stop myself from playing more Stellar Blade I love the game too much and was playing it for like half the summer so I've been playing Clair Obscur and a bit of Final Fantasy VII Remake on my PS5 Pro. Over this year I've found out that I play my games more on my PS5 Pro, I think I just like to play games on my TV more then my Computer monitor.

On my computer I've been playing Borderlands 4 with my friends. I really like the movement in the game, but the game likes to not register bullet hits so you can wasted an entire magazine into someone and nothing happens, and some gun manufactures just feel awful now mainly Maliwan. I've been trying to get my friends to play Monster Hunter Wilds again since the Final Fantasy cross over is here and everyone wants to do it but they just keep pushing back when we play. Started playing Smite 2 with my one friend some more after like 1 month or 2 of not playing do to lack of god variety for me but Eset being added to the game makes me want to play again having something new since the last new/ported god I play came out 8 months ago.

Back to the PS5 Clair Obscur is really fun I love the combat every fight feels like you always have a shot no matter how hard it is as long as you can keep up. Tho that does make me play the game a bit less then I like because of how much I have to focus to win fights. The music is really good. My friend hates that (Story Spoiler)

Spoiler, click me

Gustave Died and is just like I don't care about this story anymore I want Gustave.

One fight took me 2 hours because I had to keep up perfect parries for 10 or more minutes for each attempt. According to PlayStation I'm about 57% done so still have a bit to go, looking forward to see what will happen. I've only played 2 hours of Final Fantasy VII Remake but I'm liking. It being an Unreal Engine 4 Game feel similar to Stellar Blade to me in terms of how the character looks makes the game feel familiar/safe to me. Don't really have anything else to say about it yet, just that I guess it show my addiction to Stellar Blade.

I just want to talk about Stellar Blade now. I don't exactly know why I'm so addicted to it. Its the first game I've done a new game+, I've almost 100% the game something I haven't done since I was like 12, I have over 150 Hours in it and I want to keep playing more even tho its pretty linear. I love all the characters, Eve gaining confidence though out the story, D1G-g2r is so cute love how he wants to find out why he has sentience. The Sound track is so good I would just sit and listen to it at camp or running around the desert and wastelands. The space elevator section has such a grand feel climbing all the way into space with the music backing up that feeling perfectly. Hyper tubes are really fun to surf down wish there were more of them. The Nikke DLC stages are really fun wish there was more then 5, makes me want to play Nikke just to get more like it but then I remember its a mobile game and don't want to deal with mobile game mechanics. Uh I wish I was good at writing I'm missing so much stuff but can't figure out how to write it down.

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Solo: Timberborn, AoE2, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Against the Storm
Coop: Journey to the Savage Planet, Dead Island Riptide, Satisfactory

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On the Steam Deck I'm fighting my way through the Resident Evil Series right now: I have already played RE1 Remaster, RE2 and RE3 Remakes, RE4 (not the Remake) and RE5. Currently, I'm in the last campaign of RE6, and I also plan to play RE7 and RE8 after that.

On the PC I'm playing the Battlefront 2 campaign, which is surprisingly good. The EA app sucks though...

Arc Raiders is on my wishlist, and I think I will end up buying it after all. I'm really happy that the game does so well, mainly because (right now) it is playable on Linux. But as long as there is no rating from Valve or some kind of official statement regarding Linux compatibility, my wallet will remain closed.

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I've been playing [The Séance of Blake Manor](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1395520/The_Sance_of_Blake_Manor/), which is a great supernatural detective mystery. The only issue I have with the game is the time mechanic, though I can see why it's important. Recommended 8/10.

Also on my playlist has been [Serious Sam 2](https://store.steampowered.com/app/204340/Serious_Sam_II/), which looks quite nice with the remaster (though still with some blocky textures). No deserts encountered so far, so it's all good :-)

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It's not ARC Raiders because of the third-person-perspective. I do play these games, but I do find them a lot less immersive than first-person-perspective ones.

For instance, I finished [Return to Moria](https://www.returntomoria.com/) with friends a few weeks back. Still, one of the gripes I have with it it's that you can't change the perspective to first-person.

I also don't like the "cinematic"-style that comes with a lot of them, like featuring long cut-scenes & dolly shots (And of course I absolutely HATE when they're trying to emulate a camera with motion blur, chromatic aberration, lens flare, depth of field and film grain. The only time you're allowed to do that is when the player really sees the world through a camera lens. Computer graphics do not have to emulate technical shortcomings of movie cameras,). Games can be more immersive than movies can ever be. Unless you deliberately break them by trying to emulate movies.


Instead I've been playing [FTB Stoneblock 4](https://www.feed-the-beast.com/modpacks/130-ftb-stoneblock-4), a Minecraft modpack.

And every week I'm also usually playing [Deep Rock Galactic](https://www.deeprockgalactic.com/)

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Project Zomboid, Project Zomboid, and more Project Zomboid. I'm absolutely booked on it, especially after getting into mods for it. I absolutely adore this game. I just got a mod that lets my character shower and take baths. There's soo many mods. It's just crazy!

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When I am considering buying a game on Steam, I will often look at the following criteria:
1. Is the developer a single individual or a small (2-3) team of developers?
2. Is developer also the publisher?
3. Do they use the Godot game engine?

If the answers to these questions is yes, the likelihood that I will purchase the game is significantly increased.

Of course, if it is highly recommended by GoL and the GoL crowd, that is a very important consideration also. There are lots of games on this list that answer yes to the questions above. What an impressive video and list of games!

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Nothing screams integrity like using proprietary crap

He is calling his own stuff crap anyway, lol.

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Jack shit. Been too busy battling issues on top of life and the world sucking. Sometimes it's hard to not just wanna drive into oncoming traffic or jump, etc.

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From dgVoodoo's readme:

0. Watch out for

There can be certain frameworks, launchers and similar craps orbiting out there - like Lutris - bundling dgVoodoo (and who knows how many others there are). This one, for example, runs on a system based on a bloated, multiversion, hack-f(or)est Win32 impleme imitation that cannot even run dgVoodoo, just some old, outdated version (probably in a shitty way) and even that one is defective. I mean, only a few components are shipped - the ones they can't replace by anything else. So, when you're using dgVoodoo on a luxfuxOS distro in such an environment, then:

Keep in mind that you are not getting the full dgVoodoo experience; do not identify this with dgVoodoo
You're not welcome anyway
Nothing screams integrity like using proprietary crap while preaching open-source purity. Bravo, you hypocritical fuck

@Lutris: now that you archived the dgvoodoo2 project on your GitHub page to silence me (btw, FuckYou to you for that), you could finally ditch dgVoodoo itself as well, just like I asked. Anyway, you're now going against the developer's disapproval / license.
You're hated. <finger emoji> <finger emoji> Think about it every time you stumble upon anything dgVoodoo-related when rummaging through your files garbage.

What an utter child...

(PS. I saw fit to replace the emojis with text.)

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Still addicted to Europa Universalis 4.

But I have also manged to squeeze in a run of the gog release of [Breath of Fire 4](https://www.gog.com/en/game/breath_of_fire_iv). It was a blast from the past alright, and such good sprite work!

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Fallout 4 and Civilization VI!

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.. And a VERY HARD level, where surviving would be really challenging out of combining the right items and magic.

You mean something like The Vault?

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The search bar resize and buttons relocation are nice. The search bar doesn't need to be so wide! That makes up room for 3 more favorites without needing to scroll the list, but I don't like the inclusion of the favorite app names as much. Nice to see customization is expanding. +1 for Mesa driver info.

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Since it won't (ever) fully implement all the DX7, it's sort of missing the point. May be wined3d will eventually have Vulkan path for it. For now you can use wined3d + zink for that.

And yeah, I wouldn't touch any dgvoodo2 stuff if its author can't figure out what open source is for.

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I'm glad they are switching to Qt! This also can serve as a mixer for pipewire to some degree.

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Introduced this title to a friend, after I'd been playing the demo. He got it and loves it. His computer is a potato, but this runs fine on it. Oh, and not to mention, I also got it.

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Still holding out hope for a Steam Controller 2. 🤞

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Been playing The Outer Worlds 2. Fun game, not "woke" like some are saying, and runs great on desktop Linux and the Steam Deck.

Also, many hours of Animal Crossing: New Leaf on my Nintendo 3DS.

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Mostly Fields of Mistria (Stardew Valley, but fantasy), Melvor Idle (Oldschool Runescape themed spreadsheet), and Hades Revisited on Luanti (terraforming in a world of ash and lava, very much still in development).

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Digimon Story: Time Stranger. Why are the Digimon Story games so good? There's no need for them to be so good but they are. Also a bunch of WRC 9 because rally would be a fantastic sport were it not for the environmental damage it causes. And, lastly, some Neverwinter Nights 2 with Kaedrin's newly updated PrC pack. I'm not very interested in the remake because the original is fantastic and there's a bunch of content which may not work so well with the remake.

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Built in app within Mint are very good tbh. Having all those infos are great. When I was still working as pc maintenance, Mint live image was one of my first tool of choice. Only the usb tool to format usb key + the usb iso creator are the strongest and easiest GUI tool I've tried on linux. it works very well I don't understand why people recommend balena etcher, when you have something as efficient, lightweight and easy to use as those 2 small tools.

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Currently playing and recording Mafia Old Country in Xubuntu 24.04, which I am dual booting with Cachy OS Xfce Edition and Linux Mint Xfce 22.2 Zara is my main everyday driver. I still have Alone In The Dark 2024 version to complete, which I'll probably get around to finishing sometime next year.

I'm interested on your feedback, cause I need a new updated distro and I'm hesitating with the same 3 distro you use. Did you have any issue with any of those?
I was very happy with xubuntu back in the days, and also with mint ^^ I'm looking into CachyOS for the gaming optimisation, but I also enjoy the ease of use from Mint, and the lightweight approach of Xubuntu as well as it's simple and customizable UI.

Other than that I'm pretty tired and can't really focus on games anymore. Casual aoe2 with a friend, and recently replayed rise of tomb raider and shadow of tomb raider.
Also replayed a few megadrive/genesis games recently on emulator. Wiz&Liz, Steel Empire, Sonic 1 and Tiny Toons all stars (the one with sports).

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Just finished playing and recording for YouTube Mafia the definitive version. That was played in Cachy OS Xfce Edition. I've just recorded two parts of Mafia The Old Country, missed out Mafia 2 and three, as Mafia 2 the Definitive edition is not as good graphically nor gameplay wise as the first game. Mafia 3 Definitive Edition has copyrighted music, even when you switch off music in the settings.

Currently playing and recording Mafia Old Country in Xubuntu 24.04, which I am dual booting with Cachy OS Xfce Edition and Linux Mint Xfce 22.2 Zara is my main everyday driver. I still have Alone In The Dark 2024 version to complete, which I'll probably get around to finishing sometime next year.

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Mods for Quake 1 and Blood 1 mostly.

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I looked at new The Boglands DLC for my favorite action-roguelike survivor-like game, Halls of Torment. I was surprised when I saw that the user reviews were "Mixed" with 101 reviews (70 positive, 31 negative). Some of the English reviews talked about bugs, game crashes and balancing issues. There is also a couple that mentioned problems with "growth traits." Since I did not own the DLC, I could not confirm or deny any of these claims.

Here is one of the more interesting/popular negative reviews:
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197972499706/recommended/3919420/

All of this lead me to the conclusion, "I need to check this out", so I bought the DLC.

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there is indeed some stuff to claim if you bought VTT in the past
https://www.fantasygrounds.com/store/claimRewards.php

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Recently:

Battlefield 6

Played more than 110 hours just after the release. It was a really nice experience despite being a game from the likes of EA. And yes I had to dual-boot just to play this game.

Now:

Jotunnslayer: Hordes of Hel
Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader

Have been enjoying myself alternating between these two for the past days.

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