Dunno if it is good or bad, but Warframe has this loading screen where you see players' ships and you can steer them a bit. No real point to it, but at least it's something to do when waiting for someone to load in.
I watched it ages ago entirely because it was on netflix (IIRC), had time to waste & I had heard Jim Carrey was absolutely going ham as the Dr.Robotnik. It was an ok timewaster, obviously not high art or anything.
Got roped back into Warframe after few years of away time. Got to say, occasionally doing few missions and knocking a story mission is pretty awesome. Initially had some issues with solo-required Railjank mission (big space ship piloting), but then my clan mates tipped me of a crew I can hire. Who would have thought a big ship needs a crew? :P
Other than that, also got dragged into Fallout 76. Only played it for ~3ish hours and, tbh it isn't as bad as I've been led to believe. But it's also not that great. The pacing feels odd, but could be just because of the tutorials I'm still in. Audiotapes drag on and on and on, the player encampment (and "mmo aspects" in general) feel VERY tacked on. Coop gameplay feels cool, but ofc. my friend finds all the cool loot and looks like a SWAT team member, whereas I'm dressed in the most basic leather scraps.
Also I've been chipping away in some idle games, Unnamed Space Idle, mainly. Nothing really remarkable happening there, but number go big big.
EDIT: oh yea, fallout 4 patch should drop tomorrow? Yea got to get back on that too. Moddable FO4 experience sounds better than 76. Just... hope the mod authors are still at it.
I guess I'm in the older segment as I'm in my 40's, and still basically exclusively a pc-guy, making a slow but somewhat sure transition over to penguin themed os from windows.
I do play some older console games (via emulation), adventure games (scummvm <3) and quite a bit of modern pc singleplayer/coop titles. My go-to launchers are Steam and GOG.
Sure, pc maintenance can be a lot at times, but I'm a nerd and tinker on my pc a lot anyway, so it just happens.
turning it off will wipe the cached shaders. That cleaned up like ~40 GB (IIRC) for me, without any noticeable difference in performance, stability or smoothness. Though my set of games at the time wasn't all that big: path of exile, subnautica: below zero, portal 2 and some random smaller games.
Overall I’m still getting used to the Steam “processing vulkan shaders” pretty much every time a game updates, but it’s worth it for the extra performance.
That can be turned off, though. Haven't noticed much of a difference after doing so (though, I am a filthy nvidia-user). Also saving quite a bit of disk space while too.
Got to play it with someone for a bit, they seemed to know where all the neat things were (iirc, the murals, scarf lengthening thingies, etc). But due to the inability to communicate more than just "dings" I couldn't convey that I needed a quick toilet break. They were gone after I came back, which was a bit sad but I probably wouldn't have stayed waiting either, tbh.
It was quite okay, I recall playing it through twice, but the second round didn't really offer much in terms of "value" over the first. Cool visuals and concept, though.
Other somewhat similar vibing games which I somewhat relate to Journey:
Sable - Somewhat similar character designs, quite a bit more scifi and some dialogue. Pretty cool 3d platformer puzzle.
Proteus - walking-sim, graphics are those "if atari 2600 could do 3d". Kinda cool experience, but also kinda one-and-done.
doesn't seem like there's any assets in there (textures, music, sounds, videos...), just the code, so the footprint of it is fairly small just because of this.
Hell yea, Indy Atlantis is absolute peak... then again so is most of lucasarts point&click adventure games.
Man I wish the teased sequel for atlantis was actually made :/