256 has lots of partical effects, made by the people who created crossy roads, and had a native linux port that's worked on a modern ubutnu distro for me out the box

Pacman 256 is a fun little take on the pacman formula with some nice voxel looking graphics to go with it

Long live the pacman, for he is a legend

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Quoting: hazukashiidesuHighly recommend MudRunner, its older, but still getting new mods and there's enough trucks and maps on the workshop currently to keep you busy for a _very long_ time. If you've got a wheel its better in my opinion than the newer snowrunner game since the shifting is actual shifting vs just swapping between high/low/neutral etc..

Its also great game to play while watching mediocre tv shows/movies as well. Ground through the entirety of GoT in a little over a month just playing this in the evenings.. and I only completed like 6 maps..

Do you happen to know the drm situation in mudrunner?

Picked up the cheapest 3 item bundle mainly for mudrunner and when playing the first challenge I got a "waiting for steam" dialog when for some reason my Internet suddenly went down, clicked cancel and all it did was close the game

The game seems to work fine in offline mode but not sure if that will be persistent or not. But this was a bummer for me as I'm not a big fan of online requirements when I buy digital games, unless it's just basic steamworks drm

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Quoting: TevurI already have it on my Deck. Is it also a good experience on desktop?
I thought by their own description that their UX is made exclusively for the Deck.

I've not tried this particular one

But I use emudeck even though I don't own a steam deck, works just fine on ubuntu and just makes things so automated, it's a nice quick way to get my emulator stuff setup on my desktop

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Quoting: sonic2kkHere's hoping there's no Anti-Cheat nonsense, even if it's got Proton support enabled this just adds yet another lifespan to the game (not to mention more Epic Games junk).

I'll keep a cautious eye on this, but at worst, we can stick to the tried and true ARCADE GAME SERIES: PAC-MAN [External Link] (there are better ways to play Pac-Man, but this is convenient and legal.)

There's pacman museum+ as well which works great on proton

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1665130/PACMAN_MUSEUM/ [External Link]

Honestly I love anything pacman but like the other person said, not willing to spend money on an online only game. I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't retain a very healthy playerbase for very long, even with crossplay :-/

I'm still going to wishlist it and might buy it on discount one day

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Quoting: Pengling

Quoting: StoneColdSpiderN-n-n-n-n-no....... No one said Bomberman...... Your just hearing things....... Now go back to sleep......

Hahahahaha! :grin: :tongue:

Quoting: LoftyThe various Bomberman games are some of my favorite retro games. If your ever feeling you need some simple gaming comfort food it usually does the trick.

It's my favourite series, though I think everyone on GOL knows that at this point, haha. :grin: Last year's Super Bomberman R 2 was my most-anticipated game in many years, and I loved every minute of it. :smile:

Who's your favourite in the R games? Has to be blue bomber for me, I find him so relatable

Not picked up R2 yet as it didn't look different enough from R1 to make it worthwhile.. I still don't think I like the R series as much as bomberman live which is my personal fav

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Was one of my fav games from last year, I've never played the original so I have nothing to compare however

The gamepad improvements will definitely be appreciated, the controller support definitely wasn't up to snuff for their upcoming console launch

Still waiting on their remaster of SS2 that I'm meant to get for free for preordering the remake. Never played SS2 either so looking forward to that.

I loved bioshock back when I played it in 2008 but now I realise it's very console like and slimmed down in comparison haha still love it though

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Quoting: Lofty

Quoting: Doktor-MandrakeHell, my main interest in things like yuzu is being able to play the Virtua Racing re-release that for some stupid reason is switch exclusive, and it forces me to use sideway joycon when playing splitscreen, I much rather get a bunch of xbox controllers out

speaking of emulation, if your talking about the OG Sega Virtua Racing then the best version is on the PS2.

upscaled to 4k ofc ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy6hK4AbYw0 [External Link]

The switch release is very special to me as its more like a remaster, made by m2

It's very similar in concept to the rerelease of Daytona USA ON xbox 360 and ps3, based off the arcade versions but with higher resolutions and much better draw distance

The switch release even allows up to 8 player splitscreen, a call back to the arcade days with 8 cabs next to each other

But it shouldn't be locked to switch, especially with the lack of wheel support. About 5 years ago I was round my friends playing on his xbox one with a racing wheel hooked up, daytona usa through backwards compat, the wheel works flawlessly, even has forcefeedback!

It's crazy to me that sega made a really good remaster of VR and haven't added it to be pc and xbox with wheel support.

I even went as far to try and emulate the joycon on my wheel using yuzu 🤣 as you would expect it didn't turn out great

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On a other side note

I really hope this doesn't have a negative impact for switch users with Nintendos next console

98% of my switch library is all physical media, I've always gone out my way to only buy physical games with the entire game on them.

Denuvo works on switch and I feel like they might push hard putting drm on their software in the future. This is disappointing for me as its less likely I'll be willing to put down 60 quid of my hard earned money on games that will lock me out without Internet.

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Quoting: LoftyNot that i ever want to side with a giant mega corporation but i can kind of understand the perspective on switch emulation, i mean people are emulating games that are practically day one release on emulators, sometimes games that have been leaked. And there was a whole highly visible monetary aspect to it too. Emulation is meant for game preservation and nostalgia (edit* i stand corrected.. not exclusively) It's not very nostalgic emulating a current gen game on non supported hardware and it's not a game that needs preserving whilst its still on immediate sale.

The whole name of this project is obviously a troll towards Nintendo too so their reaction was to be expected.

Emulation will continue though. one way or another, which is great.

Yeah I certainly get that sentiment, I've seen some people say they buy these games even though they don't own a switch just to download them off the Internet. The vast majority obviously don't but I commend the people who do

I've always felt conflicted myself, I've had a switch for years and loved that it was small enough to be a little companion for my pc, fits nicely on a desk, I love platformer and switch has some great 1st party titles in that regard

On the other foot, I love emulation, nintendo have shut down entire rom sites before which denied people not just their own software, but other software like Japenese to English translated rpg games, or random Taiwan mega drive games that I love to collect

They even go as far to say people aren't allowed to dump their own cartridges which depending on region depends on legality but in Japan AFAIK its illegal to dump your own games and thats how Nintendo wants it :(

Hell, my main interest in things like yuzu is being able to play the Virtua Racing re-release that for some stupid reason is switch exclusive, and it forces me to use sideway joycon when playing splitscreen, I much rather get a bunch of xbox controllers out

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"Sega Model 2 & 3"

Yes! I already had model 3 setup compiled from source but was abit of a pain to setup, so this is great news

AFAIK there's no native linux version for Model 2 emulator? I'm guessing emudeck sets it up via wine?

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