Quoting: GuestI bought 5 last year. For me it was even a bigger disappointment compared to earlier games than 4. I guess (the old) San Andreas will be the peak gta experience for me. Even with the multiplayer, the third party solutions were way more fun. I wish they returned to single player format (maybe coop) but i guess thats not really a possibility at this point.

Sleeping Dogs [External Link] is my second favourite GTA after San An; might be worth a look if you haven't before.

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Quoting: MarlockValve should just hire Ryan to do his thing

My impression (which could be wide of the mark) is that that wouldn't be appealing to either party.

Hiring talented people to work on broadly whatever they want is their general MO, but those people are then Valve employees doing things for Valve. It's not a sponsorship deal like you'd get for, say, Linus or Greg, where they're supported for being an ecosystem treasure. They do sometimes do consultancy contracts where someone is paid to do a particular thing for them - I think Ethan Lee had one of those, as well as folks like Collabora.

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Kona II

Man, that guy really didn't have a lot of fun in 1970.

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Quoting: dannielloI think that with GTA6 we will have the same situation like it was on GTA5 - it will be limited in time console exclusive. The question is how long?

Ars did a write-up [External Link] of the historical gaps if you wanted to let that guide you.



(note that we're 4,949 days and counting between the release of Red Dead Redemption on consoles and its release on PC)

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Quoting: AnzaI wasn't even aware of the tank controls as the traditional mouse controls work just fine.

No mouse in the default Deck setup.

On regular adventure game scale it's somewhat below the classics. Some puzzles are bit tedious, but still in overall enjoyable game.

Some puzzles are lifted wholesale from the classics; which I believe is from affection. The timing-critical puzzles in Italy were a bit annoying on the controller.

Should play the Broken Sword games at some point, but there's always something else to play first.

I played 1, 2 & 5 relatively recently on the Deck and had a great time. The 3D ones didn't appeal. I can also recommend the Darkside Detective games on the Deck.

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Quoting: PhlebiacI loved the earlier Arkham games, but I could never get into games with a lot of driving (like GTA), so haven't delved into Arkham Knight much. Is driving the Batmobile required for a lot of the game?

The story mode has you up against tanks (lots of tanks) so it's not optional. And as well as Riddler trophies and puzzles there are riddler races. There's a lot of car-required content, but there's a lot of content overall. I think my playthrough was around 70/30 in favour of not being in the car.

Quoting: PhlebiacAlso curious about Crowns and Pawns; at one point the reviews seemed a bit mixed, although they look fairly solid now. How does it compare to something like the Broken Sword series?

It's definitely on the Broken Sword trajectory, but less dark in story I would say. "Grandfather died and left you his house" is also the start of Stardew Valley, after all. It has tank controls like OG Grim Fandango which takes a bit of getting used to, but the controller layout is pretty good.

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What have you been playing recently?

Just finished GTA Batman [External Link] and now I'm playing Crowns And Pawns [External Link].

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Quoting: NezchanSeems like the creator of Xscreensaver is rather upset about this development, given Wayland has no way to implement screen savers at all.

Another win for Wayland?

In its way. Since the passing of CRT monitors there hasn't been that much point having screensavers at all, so it's just a niche enthusiast thing now.

OLEDs would benefit from screensavers for the same reasons as CRTs did.

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Quoting: ElectricPrismStill trying to figure out what to play -- DOOM? Apex Legends? Split Gate? Maybe MCC?

Edit 2: I'm also looking for a good racer, LAN PvP -- unfortunately Garfield Kart and Super Indie Kart are not LAN AFAIR :(

You can search for the games on Steam for LAN Coop.

Yeah I already did that and the tags weren't too helpful. I bought a few of them, and have to return 1 since the term "Multiplayer" was used ambiguously to mean "Multiplayer on 1 Big Screen"

"Multiplayer" isn't the tag you want to look for.

LAN co-op [External Link]

LAN PvP [External Link]

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Repetition for emphasis: this is the global top sellers; the other things in the list are sold everywhere but the Deck is only sold in a handful of regions and is selling enough to take the top spot.

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