I've only played about 4 hours of this, mostly a single session, with my boys (aged 12 and 14 at the time) and I can honestly say that I have rarely laughed so hard since. I picked up a random ring, put it on and it turned out to be cursed, randomly teleporting me around the dungeon every 40-60 seconds. Absolute chaos and, since I was the party's healer, lots of fun moments of me running up to heal one of my sons, only to hear the "tweeeyurp" noise and randomly teleport before the spell completed. We still made it about 5 or 6 levels down before dying though.

Great game, despite the retro graphics and highly recommended!

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Amazing game. Like HeroSiege, only without the racist [External Link], sexist [External Link] CEO.

Seriously this game is an immense, intense Diablo-like that I've already sunk about 40 hours into, despite the "EA" tag. Just brilliant - great character selection, great customisation, great loot, great enemy variety and it's got this whole "chain kill" thing that keeps you moving around the level to try to get a bigger chain score... very compelling.

Not much on story, but when the gameplay is this much fun, who cares about the narrative?

Cheap as chips for the amount of content too - just over £7 here in the UK. My only minor gripe is that there's no online co-op. That would have made it like a top-twenty pick... it's that much fun.

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Quoting: beko

Quoting: ArehandoroOh, the irony: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/oem-secure-boot [External Link]

What's the irony?

Secure Boot is part of EFI. That is not Microsoft specific.

I think the irony is that it's meant to be "secure". Also, it was touted by MS for consumer laptops for "security" reasons, but in reality, putting the marketing BS aside, it just made Linux harder to install. This further solidified (as if that was needed) their monopoly on consumer O/S hardware.

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Quoting: randyl

Quoting: katp32You can do this with OBS as well, it's pretty cool ^-^

The article mentions OBS and how that is a much heavier option. This one runs as a background service that creates a video on keyboard shortcut. To me, that's rather slick for the job it's supposed to do.

I mean... simpler, sure. But it's always recording, forever, right? So, naw - I'm quite happy to run OBS and its replay-buffer, to be honest. Also, that way I get scene selections, or web-cam overlays, if I want them. And the replay-buffer is configurable - you can make it longer or shorter than 30 seconds. I think I have mine on a minute.

Huh - I wonder how this thing captures sound? I guess... it doesn't?

The guy who wrote this tool says "However this requires opening OBS and start recording. I do not know when something will happen that I want to share."

It's like he's never heard of the Replay Buffer. Sure, you start OBS and "start recording", but nothing is written to disk. It just buffers a loop in memory until you hit the "record this" shortcut (again, configurable). It's the same as this tool, as far as I can tell. Only... better??

I don't know if I'm missing something.

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Quoting: AppelsinDishonored DLC: The Knife of Dunwall, and Baldur's Gate II Enhanced Edition.

In my opinion, the greatest DLC ever made for one of the greatest games ever made. Playing as Daud is, incredibly, even more awesome than playing as Corvo! The time freeze on blink changes everything. Utterly fantastic game.

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Strange Brigade is a game I'd love to play on Linux, but it's encumbered with Denuvo, so I never bought it despite a decent rating with Proton. When will publishers learn...

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Can't remember who it was recently mentioned Killing Floor 2, but I downloaded all 80Gb of it and started levelling up my support perk again. Great game, but frustrating when to get a bad team. In KF1, healing your team mates was a given (healing others is like a 60% heal, while healing yourself is about 25%)... but in KF2, it just doesn't happen. Still enjoying it though. Amazing gunplay, very satisfying when you put it all together.

Otherwise, I'm on a three day break to the Borders right, so I'm on my laptop, and started playing Tales of Maj'Eyal again. Lots of nice QOL improvements, still the amazing, frustrating, epic experience I remember! Still my second most played game of all time too!

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I'm gonna play my sceptical card on this title. We Happy Few was meant to come to Linux, but MS stepped in, bought the studio and announce, "suuuuuuure, it's still coming to Linux", then of course, it didn't.

So I'll stay hopeful, but I'm reigning in my expectations for this.

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Whoohoo! Can't wait for this one - but I have short break starting tomorrow, so I guess I'll have to! Essentially purchase next week when I get home though. The demo was superb... I want more. More. MOAR!

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I'm coming up for needing a new laptop - my beloved 2016 XPS is over 4 years old now. This is gonna get a serious look. Love it!

Edit:
So the near-top-of-the-range model, with Ryzen 7, 16Gb of high-speed Samsung memory, and a UK keyboard layout comes in at £975+shipping. That's about £250 less than I paid for my XPS13 over four years ago, which had less memory, but a bigger (500Gb) hard drive and came with Ubuntu pre-installed. The XPS13 is 200 grams lighter though, and had a hiDPI screen... but an all AMD laptop that also looks good??

I'm pretty impressed. I should be in a position to buy something around November time, so this is getting bookmarked!

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