you don't need to feel guilty about hopping from game to game.

Well, I'll keep feeling guilty especially when it prevents me from completing games I put on hold months/years ago.

*glances at games like Boneworks, Monster Hunter World, or WH40K Mechanicus, to name just three out of maybe hundreds*

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Damn, even though I already have the first game, the F.E.A.R. collection for that price is a steal.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Steam Beta ever since I got a Steam Controller. Outside of maybe one case where the client segfaulted on boot *years* ago, but that's it.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: Beamboom

Most Innovative Gameplay: Starfield

That right there is the only documentation one need against user driven awards. It really is a general popularity contest. The more users, the more votes.

I think RDR2 getting "labour of love" even though Rockstar abandoned it the year prior is a better example. :D

View this comment - View article - View full comments

What have you been playing recently on either Steam Deck or desktop Linux?

On desktop, Leaf Blower Revolution, Vampire Survivors, Euro Truck Simulator 2, HoloCure, Space Beast Terror Fright, a few adult-only games, Operencia: The Stolen Sun, Ultrakill, and a few games by Kairosoft. On Deck, mostly VS.

Space Beast Terror Fright runs on Deck, but it has UI issues as it's made for 16:9 ratios, and the small screen kinda hampers visibility.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

TLoU robbing games like Hi-Fi RUSH for Best OST and REmake4 being nominated for story-rich are also... not great at all.

At least the latter had zero chance of winning against BG3, but still...

View this comment - View article - View full comments

My stats are 356 games played, 1888 achievements unlocked, 2079 sessions, 143 new games.

My top 5 most played games are Aragami 2 (~6% of total playtime), The Great Ace Attorney Collection (~5%), an adult-only game I won't mention (also ~5%), Powerwash Simulator (also ~5%), and Baldur's Gate 3 (~4%).

And to give you an idea of how much total playtime I got, I put 96 hours in BG3, and 112 hours in TGAAC, though I did leave those games running in the background a few times, so these aren't fully representative of my actual playtime.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: EhvisThis is the same thing why games on Steam will go to EOS for their online services. It's not always a bad thing.

Personally, I've always had such piss-poor experiences with EOS games that I had to outright block all of Epic's domains on my Pi-hole. And it's not a connection problem, because I've never had issues with Steamworks or other game network backends.

And for games that rely on EOS to even work offline (Killing Floor 2 is an example, as it'll refuse to load your local save if it can't connect to Epic's servers), I have a DLL I can replace the EOS DLL with that basically acts as some kind of "yes man" for basic functionality.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Ever since I switched to an AMD GPU, I've had little to no issues with KDE on Wayland for normal usage and KB/M gaming. But for some reason, if I play a game using a controller, I'm forced to disable KDE's screen locking when idle, because controller input seemingly isn't considered to be activity.

Never had that issue with X11, so I keep using that.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: PikoloLegend of Grimrock was realtime, and that's my favourite from the genre

I played Legend of Grimrock (the first one), and I found out that managing a party of four in real-time isn't exactly a pleasant experience, especially since you also have to manage the characters' hunger. Can't remember if there was equipment durability on top of that, but I wouldn't be surprised if there was. I didn't enjoy it at all, and quit after completing the first floor of the game.

However, I've had more fun playing Vaporum and its prequel [External Link], which are both single-character dungeon crawlers.

For party-based ones, I've kinda enjoyed some of Experience Inc's JRPG-like dungeon crawlers. So far, I only tried three of their titles in the genre, Saviors of Sapphire Wings / Stranger of Sword City Revisited [External Link] and Undernauts: Labyrinth of Yomi [External Link]. On Switch, though. Dunno how the PC versions compare.

View this comment - View article - View full comments