QuoteWorkaround game bug in Pioneers of Pagonia causing GPU hangs on RADV.

That was quick. I usually don't waste my time with early access titles, but oh the memories playing the original Settlers on the Amiga, in split-screen two-player mode no less!

So good to know Pioneers will be playable, should I give in to temptation ...

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Reminds me I never completed Lamplight City, though mostly because I let it sit for so long, I no longer remember what it is I am supposed to be doing next. Shardlight was pretty decent, too. So I guess I'll give Rosewater a try once it is out, even though the Wild West theme doesn't have me thrilled exactly.

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That came just in time, as I am nearing the end of my first (and, for the near future, only) playthrough. Currently, GOG Galaxy has the clock at 211h, while the game itself says 175h, so seems I did reload quite a bit.

It starts feeling a bit tedious, but I've only a few companion quests to clear, so I guess I shall persevere. Given I never finished the originals way back when, that's really a testament to how much I like this installment.

Quoting: RaabenWhile I don't exactly regret the time I had with BG3 at launch, this really does remind me why I wait for the Final GOTY Enhanced edition of games.

That's the thought I had when Larian announced the (regular) boxed edition, which at €99 + shipping is incredible value considering that the digital game alone goes for €69.

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I played it on desktop using Wine + vkd3d-proton and it was a smooth ride.

For me it did not quite reach the quality of Firewatch, but after a slow start it did manage to pull me into the story. There weren't that many choices to make, but there are one or two in particular early on that affect the ending. Since the game is rather linear, there's probably not much value in replaying the bigger part of it just to see the outcome styled as the "true" ending. Despite choosing poorly, I did get an ending that is still considered "good", so I guess I can't complain.

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Neat. I was always on the fence about getting one, and now I'm even more so!

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Disco Elysium and Paradise Killer are two of my most favorite games. Spiritfarer was not my thing, though it took me some time to figure this out, so I guess that speaks for its qualities.

But The Forgotten City!? Don't know why that gets so much praise. Perhaps the concept isn't bad, but I found the writing at the start of the game so cringeworthy that I did not persist long enough to see if it would get any better.

The rest I have not played.

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I had this wishlisted for a while, but I'm not fully convinced that I'd actually enjoy it. For one, the goal of the game, if the title can be trusted, doesn't sound all that desirable to me. But maybe the title doesn't tell the whole story ...

More importantly, having too many choices, especially if their outcome is hard to predict, can be quite paralyzing. Yeah, it's only a game; yeah, you could restart or reload any time; but it's just not my idea of fun.

I guess it'd be okay if I could blindly take the choices behind which I'd stand IRL, but I assume those would not lead to a "good" outcome. So I feel that I could only lose (either by abandoning my moral compass or by running into a "game over"). So, sadly, the only way to win is not to play.

Still, conceptually and artistically it's quite an interesting game!

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Quoting: Pecisk"Fixed Old School Runescape and other games on systems with 128+ virtual cores."

Sounds like somewhere some Admin is really bored while sitting in their Datacenter :-D.

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QuoteWill you be picking it up?

Already did, as part of the Chapter II pass. I might even play it.

But before that I've still a campaign to finish, where I started as close to my birthplace as possible, once nearly vassalized the Pope (I was missing a fraction of a single point, and could have gained it by upping my military strength, but died unexpectedly in my early 60s), began a tradition of marrying women from India and eventually converted to my mother's Jain faith, with half of Europe following suit. Thinking about it, there's definitely more fun to be had in that playthrough :-).

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Would have been a day 1 purchase for me, but luckily the early access players already figured it will not work on Linux, so I skipped it. From what I gathered from the related Proton issue, it's relying on a "xbox game services" component, which it tries to download from the Windows App Store.

To me this sounds as if this is nothing that Wine/Proton could provide quickly, if at all.

I'm slightly disappointed, but seeing how Forza Motorsport requires an online connection even for the single player content and is (by now) touted as a live service game, I guess it's for the better I'm no longer tempted to buy.

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