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Forza Horizon 5 and Jurassic World Evolution 3, but recently I got the urge to play some more classic PC games from the 2000s. I'm ordering some (used CDs) for my birthday and see if I can get them to run. Ahh, the nostalgia! Those were the good old days when ownership was still a thing

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I hope they fix the long loading time for Split Fiction.

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With my SO, we have been playing a lot of Heroes III of Might & Magic (through [VCMI](https://vcmi.eu/) ), with [Horn of the Abyss](https://heroes.thelazy.net/index.php/Horn_of_the_Abyss) and [In the Wake of Gods](https://heroes.thelazy.net//index.php/In_the_Wake_of_Gods) extensions, and it's a blast

Also been playing Half-Life at lunch time with my colleague...

Nostalgia...

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All my latest games I played on EndeavourOS, all worked flawlessly
(Intel i7-14700KF + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080)

• Escape From Duckov


• Prodeus


• Hell Clock


• Manor Lords


• Witchfire


• Diablo 4: Season of Infernal Chaos


• Dying Light: The Beast


• Path of Exile 2: Rise of the Abyssal

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Lately I've been playing some modded Terraria with the Archipelago randomiser, it's been quite fun. I have been also meaning to continue my Cyberpunk 2077 playthrough, but I keep getting distracted by real-life things..

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Warframe for the most part, 1000h in on Nobara Linux. 40k:Darktide, 40k:Rogue Trader, Path of Exile 1 & 2, Last Epoch. That's pretty much my year of gaming covered :D
Latest ones being Ball x Pit, Megabonk and started Sworn just now.
Forza Horizon 5 is the only one I'd like to play, but it just doesn't start properly every time and requires a re-install at times...Also sucks that moving my profile from Gamepass is nearly impossible. In my case, moving the profile broke my controls for some reason.

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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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From dgVoodoo's readme:
+ Click to view long quote

What an utter child...

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

People like him are going to stand to lose the most when more and more people moved to Linux.

I mean what's he going to do if Microsoft ever made one of their new versions of Windows a Linux distro?

Microsoft have made such things before. And have shown with game consoles, that they will change their entire business strategy at the drop of a hat.

If it ever happens. He probably should delete his readme, before too many people remember what it said

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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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Hi Liam Dawe, thanks so much for the write-up on GamingOnLinux and the shout-out for HandFoot. I really appreciate you taking a look and helping get the word out 🙏. If you ever want follow-up screenshots, videos or an interview for the Linux/Proton side — I’d love to help.

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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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