It's been a while since I put a question to the community, so here it is! What are you currently playing and what do you think about it?
I'm still very fond of Ballistic Overkill and recently Insurgency, still a big FPS fan myself and that will never change.
For Ballistic Overkill, it's the simple pleasures here. It's accessible, we never have problems finding a game and the performance is fantastic.
Insurgency is a different matter, as it's difficult, much more realistic and really quite fun to do the co-op mode.
Highly recommend them both.
While I'm here, just to let you know every Monday we will be doing what we decided to call "Ballistic Monday" where we hop on Twitch to livestream Ballistic Overkill and more. Everyone is welcome to join. Keep an eye on our livestream schedule for the info. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
I'm still very fond of Ballistic Overkill and recently Insurgency, still a big FPS fan myself and that will never change.
For Ballistic Overkill, it's the simple pleasures here. It's accessible, we never have problems finding a game and the performance is fantastic.
Insurgency is a different matter, as it's difficult, much more realistic and really quite fun to do the co-op mode.
Highly recommend them both.
While I'm here, just to let you know every Monday we will be doing what we decided to call "Ballistic Monday" where we hop on Twitch to livestream Ballistic Overkill and more. Everyone is welcome to join. Keep an eye on our livestream schedule for the info. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Philadelphus Mar 10, 2017
I've been struck by a desire to replay some of the older games in my library again, so I've been playing things like Torchlight II, Osmos, and Defense Grid 2. Plus Europa Universalis IV and Team Fortress 2.
Though just this week I happened to think of a really old game from 2006 that I used to play called Dodge That Anvil!. It's not on Steam, and has no Linux version, so I installed Wine, installed it, and it (to my amazement) Just Worked™. It's a cute, comedic game where you play a rabbit trying to harvest vegetables for your warren from fields while a stream of anvils rains from the sky trying to squish you, so you have to dodge them as you're running around. You also have a number of gadgets you can get to help you out, and there's a surprisingly long story mode where it turns out the anvils are actually being dropped by invading aliens from the moon, so you have to go to the moon to stop them, and there are a lot of different mechanics that show up over the course of the game, and…well, it's really a pretty good game. I'm hoping to start recording a Let's Play of it this evening, actually. :)
Though just this week I happened to think of a really old game from 2006 that I used to play called Dodge That Anvil!. It's not on Steam, and has no Linux version, so I installed Wine, installed it, and it (to my amazement) Just Worked™. It's a cute, comedic game where you play a rabbit trying to harvest vegetables for your warren from fields while a stream of anvils rains from the sky trying to squish you, so you have to dodge them as you're running around. You also have a number of gadgets you can get to help you out, and there's a surprisingly long story mode where it turns out the anvils are actually being dropped by invading aliens from the moon, so you have to go to the moon to stop them, and there are a lot of different mechanics that show up over the course of the game, and…well, it's really a pretty good game. I'm hoping to start recording a Let's Play of it this evening, actually. :)
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I've been playing a mix of games.
The one that left the strongest impression on me was a surreal, horror point-and-click called Detention. You play as a student stranded in high school after dark, sometime in 1960s Taiwan under martial law. Its unexpectedly personal and emotional story (which is probably based on real-life incidents) hits home and is the source of my melancholy this week. If you liked games like The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, Oxenfree or Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, I cannot recommend this enough.
Playing DiRT Rally is a weekly routine for me now to practice driving at extreme speeds over extreme terrains. Drifting through one dangerous corner after another without crashing is tremendously rewarding. Almost therapeutic when you get into the flow.
I also indulged in some FPS action with ET Legacy (modern build of the Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory) for a bit of nostalgia.
Then there's Renowned Explorers: International Society, an turn-based adventuring game which I find extremely entertaining to kill time with in between things.
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The one that left the strongest impression on me was a surreal, horror point-and-click called Detention. You play as a student stranded in high school after dark, sometime in 1960s Taiwan under martial law. Its unexpectedly personal and emotional story (which is probably based on real-life incidents) hits home and is the source of my melancholy this week. If you liked games like The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, Oxenfree or Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, I cannot recommend this enough.
Playing DiRT Rally is a weekly routine for me now to practice driving at extreme speeds over extreme terrains. Drifting through one dangerous corner after another without crashing is tremendously rewarding. Almost therapeutic when you get into the flow.
I also indulged in some FPS action with ET Legacy (modern build of the Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory) for a bit of nostalgia.
Then there's Renowned Explorers: International Society, an turn-based adventuring game which I find extremely entertaining to kill time with in between things.
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Dying Light - it took me really long to get on board, because I was in love in the way the Zombie apocalypse was presented in The Last of Us. In The Last of Us when you made a noise it was super hard to survive. In Dying Light most of the zombies are slow, and the one that you can wake are easy to beat. In The Last of Us when you were loud for a moment it was guaranteed that you will die. And it made more sense (Plus The Last of Us was golden in general).
But 2 weeks ago I finally managed to spend more time with this game and I love it so far. I finished 61% of main plot and hope to finish main story next week. Of course if I have enough time.
But 2 weeks ago I finally managed to spend more time with this game and I love it so far. I finished 61% of main plot and hope to finish main story next week. Of course if I have enough time.
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Avehicle7887 Mar 10, 2017
Darkest Dungeon for me. It mixes Roguelike, RPG and turn based combat in a single package. The skill and character positioning system is very well implemented and lets you play around with many combinations.
On the technical side, the game is very-veryyyy stable and will run well on almost any potato PC (tested on my Intel N2840 Laptop).
On the technical side, the game is very-veryyyy stable and will run well on almost any potato PC (tested on my Intel N2840 Laptop).
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MintedGamer Mar 10, 2017
Civ 6 has been taking up all my gaming time, I'm hugely addicted to it. I'll get back to Stellaris once the Banks and Utopia updates are released.
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Warhammer 40k Retribution - almost done with all campaigns
Shadow Tactics : Blades of the Shogun
on the fence with Civ 6. Glad they ported it but not my cup of tea compared to Civ 5.
Also on the fence of whether I should play Pillars , Tyranny or Shadowrun.
Shadow Tactics : Blades of the Shogun
on the fence with Civ 6. Glad they ported it but not my cup of tea compared to Civ 5.
Also on the fence of whether I should play Pillars , Tyranny or Shadowrun.
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Rocket League - Has replaced League of Legends for me since RL got released on Linux. This is my competitive game fix. I am hoping to get All Star before season is over, but I have been stuck in Challenger 3/Elite the past few weeks.
Civilization VI - The strategy just got even more interesting with the changes in tech/civic trees/boosts, districts, etc.
Lara Croft GO - Good puzzle game and also 3-year old loves playing it with me.
Torchlight II - Reminds me of what I liked in Diablo II. Good battle mechanics, rewarding drops and plays well online.
Shovel Knight - Just fun. Good mechanics, challenging levels and good music.
99Vidas - I had not played a side-scrolling beat 'em up for a while. This is pretty dang fun and worked well cross-platform online multiplayer with friends.
Portal 2 - I come back to this one from time to time.
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Civilization VI - The strategy just got even more interesting with the changes in tech/civic trees/boosts, districts, etc.
Lara Croft GO - Good puzzle game and also 3-year old loves playing it with me.
Torchlight II - Reminds me of what I liked in Diablo II. Good battle mechanics, rewarding drops and plays well online.
Shovel Knight - Just fun. Good mechanics, challenging levels and good music.
99Vidas - I had not played a side-scrolling beat 'em up for a while. This is pretty dang fun and worked well cross-platform online multiplayer with friends.
Portal 2 - I come back to this one from time to time.
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I've been playing Dragon's Dogma using Wine 1.7.4.8 with the Gallium Nine Patches and the x360ce controller emulator for my Playstation 1 controller. It has been an awesome experience, definitely hooked on it, and i definitely think the game should come out with native Linux support.. its a good candidate really; its a DirectX 9 game so it shouldn't be an issue.
PS; I have Deus Ex mankind divided and an HD7850 2gb OC from sapphire + the mesa-git on and i have this annoying texture corruption where everything doesn't render out properly its annoying... that's why I'm not playing that one , if i was it would have been on this.
PS; I have Deus Ex mankind divided and an HD7850 2gb OC from sapphire + the mesa-git on and i have this annoying texture corruption where everything doesn't render out properly its annoying... that's why I'm not playing that one , if i was it would have been on this.
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I loaded up Master of Orion this week, I actually can't think of a word to describe just how terrible the combat is. 'Totally accurate battle simulator' has better strategy & more control over your units during the battle...
Also played a bit of Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun, fun game.
I would like to play some more ARK, but they update it every day, which is annoying when you have 3rd world internet & have to wait an hour to update.
Also played a bit of Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun, fun game.
I would like to play some more ARK, but they update it every day, which is annoying when you have 3rd world internet & have to wait an hour to update.
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I tend not to be at the forefront . . . last few days I've been playing Pandora and Civilization: Beyond Earth (with the Rising Tides stuff). Pandora was IMO better than original Civ:BE, but probably not as good as Civ:BE with Rising Tides added in. Both are pretty good, but neither is quite the brought-to-modernity-and-improved Alpha Centauri that I'm longing for, just as I've yet to meet the "MOO II taken to another level" game I seek in the interstellar 4X genre.
One thing I've noticed: To this day, I don't think I've ever seen a Civ-ish game where espionage is really all that worth it. And the more elaborate it has become, the worse it has gotten; really, I could get more out of a Diplomat or Spy with less faffing around in Civ II than I can with modern incarnations with their endless missions and crap. This is probably true to life; WW II is one of the few times espionage has IMO really delivered enough positive to make it worth all the negatives. Most of the modern intelligence services of countries around the world, whether the American octopus or my country's little-but-obnoxious CSIS or Britain's maximum snoopers, are IMO way more trouble and expense than they're worth.
The Civ:BE espionage takes up my time for little reward, but at least doesn't cost much in terms of resources. In Pandora, on the other hand, there's less time sink and it's more old fashioned, but there are a number of technologies devoted solely to the spies, and I found it effective to simply bypass researching them whenever possible and buy tanks instead.
One thing I've noticed: To this day, I don't think I've ever seen a Civ-ish game where espionage is really all that worth it. And the more elaborate it has become, the worse it has gotten; really, I could get more out of a Diplomat or Spy with less faffing around in Civ II than I can with modern incarnations with their endless missions and crap. This is probably true to life; WW II is one of the few times espionage has IMO really delivered enough positive to make it worth all the negatives. Most of the modern intelligence services of countries around the world, whether the American octopus or my country's little-but-obnoxious CSIS or Britain's maximum snoopers, are IMO way more trouble and expense than they're worth.
The Civ:BE espionage takes up my time for little reward, but at least doesn't cost much in terms of resources. In Pandora, on the other hand, there's less time sink and it's more old fashioned, but there are a number of technologies devoted solely to the spies, and I found it effective to simply bypass researching them whenever possible and buy tanks instead.
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