For the first time in forever I am playing multiple games at the same time.

Lands of Lore: Throne of Chaos. I had that game as a kid but I don’t think I ever got any further than the first enemy. And it’s amazing! The whole game is dubbed. And it has four protagonists to choose from, each with their individual voice lines about basically any situation or item you come across. And all the NPC’s lines match them and they address you by name.

And the graphics are super beautiful. Pixel graphics but with great details and animations. Like when you get your spellbook you get a super elaborate T-1000-like animation of some droplets forming a scroll.

X-Wing via XWVM: The old X-Wing game with updated graphics and quality of life improvements. Just awesome! It’s still an alpha but basically plays like a beta. I have hardly any bugs, just occasional crashes, and none are game breaking. And supposedly they are already pretty far along with TIE Fighter compatibility. Can’t wait to play that. TIE Fighter TC is nice and all, but stuffing everything into the X-Wing Alliance engine feels pretty clunky while XWVM just works.

Cyberpunk 2077: My son bought it on sale and I wanted to try it as well, although I don’t really like cyberpunk. Too realistic. But the game is great. Plays like a combination of Deus Ex and GTA. I’d say it feels more like the original Deus Ex than the newer Deus Ex games. Maybe with slightly less open levels. But not much.

Limbo: The game is about to be delisted from GOG so I got it quickly. It’s chill to play which suits me well. Love it so far.

Doesn’t make it any less outrageous.

You are what you eat.

Is there even a botanical definition of vegetables?

Proton is mostly a fork of Wine which has been used for decades to run Windows software on Linux. Valve didn’t do all the hard work by themselves.

Yeah, Proton runs outside of Steam in Heroic and Lutris. That’s basically what the umu project is about. I think it works in Bottles as well.

Almost everything Valve has done for Linux gaming is open source and will remain even if they go away and lock everything down tomorrow.

There is a bugreport about this somewhere, I think the SteamOS github. Basically the charge limit doesn’t work in standby. Maybe it’s a hardware limitation of the LCD models. I have that as well.

In almost every game the gameplay tips and tutorials they give you are not only suboptimal but often outright counterproductive. This is especially bad in multiplayer games.

It was really nice in Doom Eternal, where they added quick swapping to the tips.

In the same vein, when the game starts immediately without giving you a chance to configure it. Because the default configuration is always wrong.

The Steam Deck is great in that regard. Just put it to sleep.

When there are several waterfalls in the game and not one has a secret behind it.

Funny, first time I’m hearing of Romero Games and it’s such bad news. But I guess they can stay afloat with the name.

I originally registered the domain I’m now using for Lemmy for the company “The Empire”. I was a kid and did it just for the lulz. Also I additionally used my real name.

Nothing ever happened.

CDPR came to the rescue even outside of GOG. My son bought Cyberpunk 2077 the other day on Steam and luckily for me it comes without DRM so I can even play it while he is playing.

Would be funny if in the future only non-nvidia cards supported PhysX.

Yay! Do anticheat next!

The important stuff is fortunately almost totally spelled out and hard to miss.

Damn, I came really close the other day. Managed to live through the “the game will kill you now” event. Unfortunately I couldn’t keep up when I was at the boss.

But to progress the game you have to get up.

But when you finish the game a new mode is added allowing you to play normally with increasingly more difficult challenges you can put on yourself.

Man I hate the pessimism. It’s a month away and one organizer is saying he’s done if this fails.

Wouldn’t be the first petition to gain massive momentum before the finish line.