Quoting: BrokattYou said it. Although I have promised myself to stop when No Rest for the Wicked releases their co-op update. Maybe I will manage to get to Arbiter by then? :) I love Poe2 but as it stands it's simply not a good multiplayer experience.

I really enjoyed the last fortnight of playing No Rest for the Wicked with my two best pals. Gutted that we have to wait two weeks for the official multiplayer release, but it's a small price considering how mind blowing the game is.

In the meanwhile, back to Path of Exile 2!!

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Quoting: BrokattFor once I actually played most of the games on the list. It's very positive that almost all games are indie and not AAA.

Silksong was an experience to play. Looking forward to the DLC unless that one also develop into it's own game just because Team Cheery can't stop themselves ;) Both Peak and RV there yet have been a blast with friends. Baldurs Gate 3 have gotten classes, cut scenes and even a Linux port since release. I haven't finished Dispatch yet but the story is interesting. I will get around to Clair Obscur, Arc Raiders, Hades II and Silent Hill f at some point. If I can only stop playing Path of Exile 2...

One does not simply stop playing Path of Exile 2...

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Quoting: BrokattGreat! Looking forward to february.

Anyone knows if they removed the annoying window that popus up every time you start a controller, requiring you to give permission to the controller to actually control things?

The what now?? Is that a Plasma window, or a Steam one? Got a screenshot?

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I've had the screenlock kick in while playing using a gamepad back in my early Mint days (maybe around 2016'sh?) but I've never had it happen recently. I wonder if you have to have sleep enabled as an option for this to trigger? I have screenlock configured, but not sleep.

I've spent tens of hours playing No Rest for the Wicked on gamepad recently, and never had my screen randomly lock.

Now that I think about it - those Mint days were when I was using a wired Xbox360 controller, but now I'm on a bluetooth Dualsense controller. Maybe it's the bluetooth keeping my session alive.

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Quoting: scaineI also like the pop-up that overlays the entire game page if it uses AI.

Hrm. A bit ironic, that.

Well, not really. It's not using AI to detect AI, which would certainly be ironic. The feature is just the AI section of the Steam page's declaration being shown as an overlay, because it's easy to miss way at the bottom of the page.

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Quoting: PenguinIt's ironic seeing the majority of votes being in favor of AI usage. Everything tech-related is getting prohibitively expensive because of it. I could sort of understand those that were pro generative AI / LLM before, but now it's nonsense to defend what is leading the tech industry to its doom (at least for the regular users), and I'm not even talking about the whole climate issues that are going on for three years at this point.

Yeah, it's important to remember that even if you like AI, it will either price you out of a PC in a couple more years, or you accept that a £2000 PC now costs £6000 and that's just the happy price of a "useful" tool. And you also have to stick your head in the sand about the environmental impact, smack bang in the middle of a climate crisis.

Sadly, there are plenty of ostriches about, so that last point won't be a problem at least. Unless you live on the coast.

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Quoting: ExplosiveDiarrhea¨gaming optimized distros" are the dumbest thing ever, hobby projects that do not contribute anything upstream and do not teach their users anything.
But they are always fast and efficient when they have to setup their patreon...

Because nobody at all uses Proton-GE patches or Cachy kernel optimizations amirite?

CachyOS is pretty neat. It handles full-disk encryption really nicely (Endeavour offered it, but it was super-slow to unlock the disk), and it has an app that installs things like Snapper and can update your system, or mirrors. I've been pretty impressed by it so far.

Meanwhile, Garuda has a nice feature to install chaotic-AUR, so you get the benefits of the AUR without having to wait around for compiling to happen.

Obviously, if you know what you're doing with Linux, you can probably do everything these distros do on any base. But since I'm not that savvy (despite two decades on Linux), I appreciate these distros for what they offer.

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My challenge with Linux distros is that I use my PC for work too, which is a mostly Microsoft outfit. That means I sometimes have to install things for the work environments like Zoom Conferencing. And they often don't offer RPMs. So I completely ignore any RPM distro when I'm hopping.

Currently on Cachy and Garuda (they're both Arch-based), and they're both awesome for gaming, but it's only a matter of time before an update spoils my fun. I don't have the patience to read a forum to know whether an update will brick my PC, so this time around I'm relying on BTRFS and snapper to roll me back when the breakage inevitably happens!

Time will tell if this a reasonable approach.

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Quoting: zerodoggI switched to the SteamDB extension instead of Augmented Steam when this was first pushed out. It works great.

This looks superb, and I'll likely do the same. But one feature I'll miss is the big banner that Augmented Steam puts across any game that has Denuvo. I also like the pop-up that overlays the entire game page if it uses AI.

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Yep, as others have said, this feels like a slightly disappointing awards. I'm not doubting that the games listed are good in various ways, but I don't feel particularly connected to nearly any of them! I played a bit of Clair Obscur and I think it probably deserved more than just Best Soundtrack, but otherwise, there's hardly a game on that list that interests me.

Is it me? No, it's the kids that are wrong.

EDIT: I'll take it one step further. Here's my version of the awards... all games I've played extensively, and no repeats (so each game can only win one award).

Do I play too many games? No. No, I don't.

Game of the Year - Avowed [External Link]
VR Game of the Year - (I didn't play any!)
Labor of Love - Mortal Sin [External Link]
Best Game on Steam Deck - Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor [External Link]
Better With Friends - Deadzone: Rogue [External Link]
Outstanding Visual Style - No Rest for the Wicked [External Link]
Most Innovative Gameplay - Jump Space [External Link]
Best Game You Suck At - Section 13 [External Link]
Best Soundtrack - Clair Obsur: Expedition 33 [External Link]
Outstanding Story-Rich Game - Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon [External Link]
Sit Back and Relax - Monster Train 2 [External Link]

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