ooooh, this is a must watch. Indy:atlantis is pretty much my favorite game ever.
Got the game when I was a kid, it came bundled with a soundcard & cd-rom drive. I had seen Indiana Jones movies but didn't know they also came in game form! I struggled through the puzzles - english being a second language and I had just started learning it - but I did it, I managed to beat the game... and then started it again because apparently there were branching paths with different puzzles in in! Good times. I've played the game so many times, probably interacted with every possible thing in it, love it to death.
I just wish we'd get a new Indiana Jones point & click -adventure, instead of platformers and fps games. But, p&c is a niche genre, I know. :/
OpenTTD, easily. The next two I'm having difficulties deciding.
I'm sure I want some rpg-ish imsim for sure, but dunno which one it should be. Probably picking next two games randomly from this group: DXHR, DXMD, Cyberpunk, Fallout 3/nv/4, Skyrim... I don't know what to pick from these :|
it's been multiple eternities since I've played 3 or NV. 4 I've played more recently, but that was ... basically when the last dlc dropped? So... memory of those games not really the sharpest.
London is mechanically almost identical to 4 (duh? because mod, duh.). The parts of the main-story I've done has been great. I recall preferring side and dlc missions over main-plot in 4, but I was pretty into the main stuff (dlc or not) in NV.
some thoughts about it in no specific order:
I'm around 20 hours in, and it feels like I've only started. Plenty of map markers opened, but VERY little of actual land area explored.
there seems to be less emphasis on settlements, haven't had a permanent residence (storage, bed) so far, been storing my junk in some friendly town crafting stations which don't seem to de-spawn stored stuff (as tipped in the mod's discord).
but settlements are apparently still a thing (not sure how I feel about it, they were the worst part in 4, imo) - haven't aquired a settlement yet.
it's bit more difficult than 4, ammo is a bit scarce and some enemies are ridiculously tanky, even at normal difficulty.
the early game can be a bit brutal, but eases off as you get levels (ref: at ~10-15h or so in, I was finally able to take enemies down with confidence)
The city is HUGE and dense (requires some more grunt from the computer than base-game), there's things to do and see in every corner, a lot more buildings to enter.
"level design" is mostly great, but there have been places where the route forward/mission critical progression item was hidden by all the clutter and generally darker lighting.
the level design also contains surprisingly deep puddles here and there on the streets, and those build up radiation QUICKLY. Bodies of water in this game are dangerous.
Food and other non-stimpacks seem to be in quite a big role, at least in early game. IIRC fallout 3/nv/4 basically showered the player with stimpacks.
Voice acting is pretty good, if a bit hammy at times.
I recall enjoying all fallout games, some more than others. I mostly mod for convinience (eg. busywork, carryweight) so I'm not really playing the game(s) as intended. And this one is great... if a bit buggy here and there - but not any more so than actual Fallout games. :D
I totally recommend London, but it comes with an asterisk: the mod requires tweaking, and depending on your computer-skills it can be either "man, this is obvious" to "wtf am I doing". Config-file editing and extra mods are required to get it actually working. Def recommending Mod Organizer 2 as well. Also, if your base fallout 4 (and dlc) are from steam, you need to downgrade from the "Next gen update". I'm fairly sure there's good step-by-step how-to's to get it set up at this point.
I guess patient with documentation. Out-of-the-box experience is very crashy, and recommended stability mods require some ini-tweaking to make them stable. But the how-to guides keep evolving, I started my trip through the stability-minefield when the mod was released x)
So, I'm an arch-btwistan, what does nixos do for a gamer/youtuber/low-tier-wannabe-musician? Legit asking, because I really don't know what makes nixos tick, and the (very little) I've read doesn't really explain the benefits of it
Just finished Gunpoint - it's a fairly nifty puzzler about a somewhat goofy private eye with cybernetic frog pants and ability to rewire building electronics with his mind. The soundtrack is odd mix of noir-jazzy electronica, and it slaps.
And right after I felt nostalgic, so I started scummvm and booted up Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist. Did not remember laborious the start of the game is with what is essentially copy protection - mixing medicines to order. Beyond the copy protection shenanigans, the game is a Sierra-game through and through: vga visuals are neat, voice acting is goofy but well made, instant deaths... Though the game isn't as malicious as some early Sierra games.
A Short Hike. Essentially a short, cute animal-characters "collectathon" walking-sim/3d-platformer with some low-stakes "arcade" bits here and there. The low-res pixel-effect can be turned off.
AER: Memories of old. Quite a bit in same vein as Rime/Sable, travel between floating islands and participate in low-stakes puzzles/platforming. Pretty charming, imo... and short. Can be finished under 2 hours.
yep. Tested GOG version of Cyberpunk and RT, DLSS, and all that work. Other than that, games with RT or DLSS I've tested and deemed working: Observer (RT&DLSS), Enshrouded (DLSS), Warframe (DLSS).
nvidia user here, made a "soft switch" to linux some time ago, and got to say the current 555 series drivers made a world of a difference. Most games just work.
Haven't made a full switch due doubts with music and video production stuff. But, slowly testing my way in and dualbooting between OS's in the meantime
it's like that friends -meme: "repeat after me: discord is not the place for documentation/wiki/distribution", and joey goes "discord is the place for documentation/wiki/distribution".
I guess just because how the question was laid out, I'm disqualified as I was taught how to use it the first time I used it. :P
with my first linux -system, I had an experienced friend to hold my hand while installing, configuring and usage - including vim. So, the first thing he taught me was how to exit it. This was sometime in ... 2003-ish?
if you use the archinstall to setup everything (partitioning, locales, de's, etc), not that much, but def. more than some "everything and the kitchensink straight out of the box" distros. The installer worked nicely on 2 machines I've tested it on, a laptop and a desktop. While the base system and graphical desktop installed nice, there was quite a bit of manual tinkering left.
But, steam works more or less the same on linux as it works on windows - but there is some proton version selecting, and even then absolutely everything doesn't work.
Personally, nvidia+wayland (and xwayland in general) is pretty horrid with some games, but supposedly that's supposedly getting fixed next month... It's always something and the fix is so tantalizingly close.
and, it's not like the EOL for win10 is that close, seems to be October 14, 2025, so there's still plenty of time.
okay, you got my attention, the entirety of that headline pressed basically all my feel-good receptors.
Do want, hopefully it's good.