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GOL asks: what are you playing? Come chat

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As another week comes to a close it's time to have a chat with the GOL readership about what you're all playing lately, come and let us know.

This week saw the release of the absolutely magical Spiritfarer. I can't get over how wonderful a game it is, fully deserving of all the praise it has been receiving. Taking care of spirits, while doing a little building and crafting on your fancy boat while also giving out hugs to those spirits that need it. Absolute joy.

Spiritfarer is just so lovely, we're going to need Sin to livestream it I think. Keep an eye on our Twitch Channel for that. Although, with 7 Days to Die Alpha 19 being out it's going to be difficult to tear Sin away from it.

Quite a bit of my own personal time has also been testing out NVIDIA GeForce NOW. It's another game streaming service, which recently opened up to Chromebooks / ChromeOS in the browser so it works on Linux too. You can see a video of Fortnite running here as another example. It's certainly an interesting service but I still personally much prefer Stadia technically speaking, as I find it just works much better overall but I won't deny how good NVIDA did the game access side of things by it using existing accounts for people. Over the next many years, it will be very interesting to see all these cloud services fight for users.

I've also personally continued playing Orcs Must Die! 3 on Stadia with a partner, the huge battleground battles are just so much fun it's ridiculous. Getting to launch catapults at hundreds of Orcs, while another is running around hacking away at them is quite a sight.

As a reminder of some deals going:


Over to you in the comments: what have you been gaming on Linux lately?

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Liam Dawe Aug 23, 2020
Quoting: Hori
Quoting: the articleit will be very interesting to see all these cloud services fight for users

I have one word to say: Exclusives.
Yup, you're not even wrong there, it's already what Stadia is trying but so far their exclusives haven't been big popular titles. I'm most curious to see what their first-party studios do with something designed for cloud-first.
kaiman Aug 23, 2020
Quoting: fagnerlnSome Linux games on GoG can't run anymore as it uses outdated libs
Actually just experienced that with The Journey Down, which I started playing this weekend. Luckily there was a workaround, but for a minute or two I was reminded of the fact how frail (closed source) software actually is. Often we don't notice because software we use on a regular basis also gets regular updates and we never feel the need to go back to a version from 10 years ago. In other cases there is emulation for OSes or platforms that no longer exist. But I guess there might be a whole bunch of fairly new 32bit Linux games out there that will be completely unplayable on modern distros in the not so distant future.
on_en_a_gros Aug 23, 2020
I'm currently on my way to finish black mesa, apart from the teleportation level which is awful performance wise, it was a real pleasure to crawl my way through the black mesa facility. Other than that, I'm going to play some dying light since they launched a new event and maybe try a few runs in rogue legacy, the recent early access of the second one made me want to extend my legacy.
Keyrock Aug 23, 2020
Beyond a Steel Sky - Minor techical quibbles aside, I'm thoroughly enjoying it so far.
pageround Aug 23, 2020
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Quoting: tmtvlPlaying with GNU Guile, working my way through SICP. It's like learning how to program after years of doing everything completely wrong.

Props to you, sir!

As to gaming: Shadowrun Dragonfall, NGU, Slay the Spire
Shmerl Aug 23, 2020
Quoting: KeyrockBeyond a Steel Sky - Minor techical quibbles aside, I'm thoroughly enjoying it so far.

Are there any news on the GOG release? I wonder what the issue is.
Solarwing Aug 23, 2020
I have played civilization 5. The first big game ever on Linux they say.It's a very challenging game when you compare it to civ 1 for example. Yes I remember the first game of civilization series.Me and my friend always liked to use nukes to conquer the world!But as a result the world was really polluted and you couldn't heal irrigation system around the cities.People got killed and that was a bit sad.Well overall it was fun at the time. But what comes to civ 5 I won't use the nukes.Somehow it's not right.Maybe because I'm wiser now!
robvv Aug 23, 2020
This last week I have been playing nothing, due to family holiday! Now that I'm back home I'm hoping to snatch some more time with Hellpoint :-)
DaiKaiser93 Aug 23, 2020
Starting (again, with this making it the 4th time) Pathfinder: Kingmaker with the new turn based patch and controller support.

Let's see how long I last playing it this time.
Shmerl Aug 23, 2020
Quoting: DaiKaiser93Starting (again, with this making it the 4th time) Pathfinder: Kingmaker with the new turn based patch and controller support.

I like the real time with pause method more. Turn based just feel off somehow.
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