This new video on the topic from SomeOrdinaryGamers is well worth a watch.

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Sweet! Zeepkist is a great laugh, and I loved Zaccaria Pinball back when I had a Switch - good to see those two get a mention here!

Quoting: Purple Library GuyI feel betrayed. The picture doesn't show any dogs, much less sleeping ones.

Here.

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There are shades of Animal Crossing here, too, which is a formula that no other developer has ever gotten close to yet. I'll be interested in seeing if this one does! I assume that it doesn't play out in real-time, though.

Quoting: kokoko3kIt is absolutely adorable!

However, the concept of animal fights, which the entire Pokémon franchise is based on, bothers me too much to enjoy playing those games.

I always find it interesting how different cultures view this much more harshly than the original intent; Pokemon was actually based on the Japanese childhood pastime of collecting fighting crickets in the woods combined with collecting capsule-toys from vending machines, with the full brand-name being short for "Pocket Monsters", alluding to both.

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Quoting: razing32Unusual take , but :
The new game they are putting out looks crap.
(TL DR if you did not see the trailer , it starts out with a graphically upgraded Black Hawk Down that gets you excited then jumps into the future to the actual game - lasers , drones , Rainbow Six Siege basically)
And i am wondering if they removed the old games on purpose so you can't compare to them anymore ?

Honestly, that wouldn't surprise me, given that one reason so many game companies lash out at emulation and the like (including doing so in an official capacity - there are companies that would definitely rather not have their older games available) is partly because they know that they can't compete with the past.

It was actually my first thought as soon as it was mentioned that they have a new free-to-play game coming out.

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Quoting: Liam DaweGalaxy works on Linux with Wine too, has done for ages. But, Heroic Games Launcher also supports GOG too, and if memory serves works with cloud saves nowadays too.

I did not know that! Thanks for the info.

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I'm a little bit confused - isn't this a Windows-only problem, since this relates to their GOG Galaxy launcher?

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Oh I like this, I like this a lot! Got a good chuckle out of the trailer, too - some great ideas in there. Thanks for the heads-up!

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Quoting: StoneColdSpiderYou played a Bomberman game???..... Im shocked I tells ya....... Naaaa im not really...... Bomberman is almost your entire personality.....

Heeeeey, there's more to me than just Bomberman! I can't help it if I love the little guy to pieces.

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QuoteWhat have you been playing the most recently?

AI-battles in the absolutely wonderful Saturn Bomberman via RetroDECK (which I highly recommend both for its excellent single-player and multiplayer offerings - it's not only a great entry in the series, but a good jumping-on point if you've never played one, as well), the usual daily Stumble Guys (Proton), and inching ever-closer to completing Doom II (Proton), this week so far!

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Quoting: CaldathrasClearly, the wrong netbook brand attracted my attention. Looking back, the Linux distro on the Acer had a horrible DE. On the other hand, the original Asus Eee PC was running Xandros, a Debian based distro that utilized the KDE desktop. I looked at old pictures of the UI on Wikipedia. I am very impressed by the quality of that DE.

Yep! By default it had this simplified UI with large icons for quick access to common computing tasks, and it was super-simple to just use regular KDE instead, which was exactly what I did.

Quoting: CaldathrasThank you. I agree. That laptop was the last computer I ever bought brand new (replaced its AC adapter & battery too). I only buy used laptops now, and not all that often. I am tired of the constant upgrade cycle. I haven't seen sufficient improvement in computer tech to justify it for me any more.

I think that the best thing about Linux in general, and certainly in my experience on laptops in particular, is that you get software support for a lot longer - typically until the hardware's worn out, rather than due to some arbitrary cycle of forced obsolescence coming from commercial vendors who want more money out of you every so often.

Quoting: CaldathrasIf the new software won't run on my hardware, I'm not interested. There are literally tens of thousands of good games in the back catalogue to choose from that will run on my laptop.

And don't forget emulation as well, if that's your sort of thing! There's a lot that you can even run on a potato, these days.

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