Does anyone here game in Linux at all? If so, what games do you run, native or emulated (Wine/Crossover), and where do you foresee the future of gaming on Linux?
Lately, I've been using Wine to play a handful of games. Right now I'm getting Skyrim onto this machine through Crossover. I think the future of gaming on Linux is going to start looking good, with Gabe Newell talking about Linux being the future of gaming and the soon to be unveiled "Steam Box", which has been rumored to run some variant of Linux (Probably Ubuntu)
>>27
Valve is the reason that AMD drivers don't suck dick anymore.
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>"Linux is useless for gaming"
>recommends fucking OpenBSD
>>1 I get all my games from either Steam or itch. I always try to get a native Linux version, but the Windows games I play tend to work fine on wine or proton in 2024. Then again, I mostly play older games like Half-Life or Sonic Adventure, or indie pixelart games like A Space For The Unbound, Celeste or that schizophrenic milk girl VN. I'm not sure if fancy newer games work all that well.
>takes a blatantly obvious troll post a little too seriously
>quotes non-existent post
>Steam on Linux
It's cool it exists and I don't care if it's closed-source, proprietary, whatever. I'd rather have Linux ports than not.
But the fact Steam is the "okay" launcher/DRM/bloatware on PCs to begin with has always rubbed me the wrong way. People complain about all the others ... but Steam is fine? I remember buying games on discs and the Gamespy stuff was effectively opt-in adware in the installer. Imagine you needed it just to play.
Get rid of DRM, even if Steam exists as a marketplace, allow people to just install the games and run .exes for the games they've purchased without running the client. It's absurd to me PC gaming ended up this way.
It's coming out soon, and I'm pretty excited for the new Mario Kart. Sure the console price is pretty steep and 80-90USD for a game is fucking robbery, but the bundle deal seems good.
I sincerely hope the rumours of April 23rd being the Canadian preorder date are true. I have money and I desperately need to spend it on stupid bullshit.
Why'd they have to release a new Donkey Kong just when I get burned out of platformers
>>1 Sucker!
Mario Kart going open world.... No thanks! I just hope the next Splatoon is good.
Tariffs will delay the release or hike up the price. Don’t get too excited.
I love Hollow Knight. It is a beautiful and difficult game with a wonderful soundtrack.
Blasphemous 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lExJihxMXw
Metroid. Not Super, not Fusion, not Zero Mission. Just OG Metroid.
the shantae series. it's so cute and I like the dialogue
>>9
something tells me you're a shallow person
Hollow Knight is great, if you only play one metroidvania it's the one you should go for.
Axiom Verge is an old favourite of mine, a little bit wonky in places and the difficulty is pretty steep, but a lot of fun. The sequel is prettier but doesn't live up to the first game in my opinion.
The Messenger is very underrated, I never seem to hear anyone talk about it. The writing in particular is excellent. Do be aware that it starts out very linear and only opens up around the mid-game.
Rabi-Ribi is really fun, and mixes up the usual metroidvania design with fighting game/bullet hell elements which is pretty cool. The combat system clearly has a lot of depth to it that I never really got too far into.
Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight barely qualifies as a metroidvania, but it's one I love so much I can't not bring it up.
Without question, it's Rabi-Ribi. Crazy levels of exploration and sequence breaking possible when you master the hidden movement techniques, really simple and satisfying controls and mechanics, adorable characters. The movement techniques are really crucial to how the game can give you a glimpse of something that makes you wonder what's there and if you can get there since, if you master them, you absolutely can get there.
Cave Story, if it counts!
Hollow Knight bugged me: the whole 'going back to collect your past progress' thing that has taken over games. I already died, can't I just go back to my last save? I'm being punished/taxed for not playing well. I died! Now I'm hitting diminishing returns instead of just...losing progress?
I loved Aria of Sorrow, felt like a more polished Symphony of the Night with tighter controls etc. Collecting Souls could be grindy at times, but at least you were always making some kind of progress in an RPG/random-chance kind of way.
Played a little bit of Bloodstained but it just felt a bit off. Plus I got absolutely stuck on a difficult boss, lost a bunch of progress at one point (probably missed a save room), and ended up ragequitting. But it had the right idea.
Favorite is probably Axiom Verge 2, basically every time I unlocked something I felt like "wow this is awesome". Something your average Castlevania game won't do (not that I don't love SotN, OoE and AoS!).
I generally tend to just enjoy most games in the genre though, even the more unremarkable ones. That Love Live one from a year or two ago was cute and pretty fun for a weird anime spinoff. Strider 2014 which I doubt many people cared about is one I also will fondly remember.
Right now I am playing Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap (that Monster World II remake from a few years ago) and I'm honestly shocked how serviceable it is, even though it sticks close to the original game.
Normally 8-bit stuff - especially from the Sega side - is obnoxious to me.
Just talk about whatever game you're playin, want to play, want to buy, what you just bought - whatever.
Just a nice, lazy places to spout random crap about games.
Wow, Driver San Francisco is one of the best games I've ever played! I really enjoyed that!
I've been playing Ridge Racer 7. It came out in 2006 but I'm mesmerised by how beautiful it looks
I'm most of the way through Dark Souls 3. It's pretty fun, and I've had a good time with it, but it does seem to have an awful lot of reliance on "Remember this thing from DS1? Well it's here too!". It's neat the first few times, but I'd rather it had the courage to try its own stuff a little more. I will say the secret areas are really cool, I really enjoyed the spooky evil version of the tutorial area.
I've been playing Soulcalibur VI, it's really fun! But, I've always been a Tekken fan and I struggle with other fighting games. I'm playing through the tutorials and story mode and learning all the techniques and stuff to play properly, but then a couple of my gal pals came round to play and they absolutely pwned me by button mashing!
I can't see the flaws in my own aim anymore, or even how I approach team battles. I watch my demos over the next day and it's just white noise.
How am I too retarded to play Heavy
Tears of the Kingdom is two steps forwards, two steps back.
Hypnospace outlaw
It's a game about old internet
It's pretty damn good
>>258
Oh yeah, the sequel, Dreamsettler, is coming soon btw
I've been playing around on a friend's Minecraft server. It's the first time I've played the game in years, and there has been some serious feature creep in that time. That being said... I've been surprised at how much I like the new features, once I've given them a chance. Beekeeping and archaeology are ridiculous things to add on the face of it, but they are actually quite fun and satisfying, and some effort has been made to integrate them into the rest of the game. The biomes in the nether and underground add some much needed variety and reason to explore (although it's true it is at the cost of a certain austere beauty these places used to have as well). I also have to say, as someone who primarily plays the game to build stuff, I'm a big fan of a lot of the new block types. Copper makes excellent roofing, the new tree/wood types are beautiful, and there's a lot more interesting unique decorative blocks for accenting. I don't really care about the new mobs or combat stuff, but that's fine, not everything has to be for everyone, and you aren't forced to engage with them. It's heartwarming to see that the game is still good, even without the blinders of nostalgia.
Couldn't deal with /vg/ any longer so I decided to discuss this game here. My main question is which will happen first: Temmie becoming part of the main plot or MK actually being given a personality through the church chapter.
Easily one of my favorite parts of Papyrus is his tacit acceptance of whatever his brother has going on, without even attempting to understand it anymore.
>AH YES, MY BROTHER.
>TENDS TO TELEPORT AROUND WITHOUT WARNING,
>HAS MASTERED SLACKING OFF SO EXPERTLY THAT HE SLACKS OFF ON THE JOB BY GETTING ANOTHER JOB,
>AND HAS PLANNED ELABORATE JOKES THAT TRANSCEND THE FABRIC OF SPACE AND TIME BASED ON A PLAN HE REFUSES TO TELL ME ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING ABOUT.
>WHAT OF HIM?
Toby knows Papyrus is one of his best characters and that's why he's been putting so much mystery around him
you are filled with.. DETERMINATION
>>17
I don't know if it was an intentional reference or not but for some reason Trunks "I'm filled with determination!" as a transformation line in Sparking Zero.
At the current point in the story, Susie doesn't do much more than act as Kris' dog. They point, she reacts. Someone disrespects them, she attacks. She's a minor player in most of the scenes we see her in during the Hometown segment.
Alphys really thinks that some human dick/minge is all it took to pacify Susie and that's hilarious to me
This is either a hot take or a very cold one, but I don't care for Deltarune for the story, mostly because it doesn't exist?
In comparison to Undertale where there was an overarching plotline surrounding your journey and actions, Deltarune's feels shallow and inconsequential, and its mostly just a collection of gags and short-term "encounters" that you experience once and instantly stops being of relevance, yeah there are the more complex side stories (like Spamton), but those don't matter either on account of being too small to be relevant.
Yes I know about snowgrave, thats pretty much a reboot of the genocide route that mostly threw subtlety out the window because no one got the original's message (the atrocities committed by the protagonist, is ultimately the fault of the player) and blamed everything on chara.
Deltarune's plotline feels like a simple game of DnD that no one takes too seriously (rather than a fleshed out plotline), and considering thats the surrounding theme I wouldn't be surprised if the shitty twist™© is that Deltarune is literally Kris and his friends sitting down playing a tabletop game.
Anyway sorry for the rant, I can't wait for the wave of unironic edge that will come with chapter 3's evil route.
Damn, Kris, where the hell are we?
Kris: A textboard.
>>20
Yeah, I can see that interpretation, but I also think it's a tad too reductive. We've already had a decent amount of suspense set up in this first two chapters(Kris' struggle to regain autonomy, Ralsei's ulterior motives, Noelle's thematic association with the angel and Roaring) and we haven't even begun to explore the second in that list.
I unironically think Jockington is the key to finding out whatever Ralsei's deal is; his lack of self-worth is single-minded and(to our knowledge) sincere whereas Ralsei's is at the very least incomplete. Seeing someone, especially a Lightner who fully accepts the role a Darkner "should" be in would scare the shit out of him, and get him to drop that mask for a split second.
If Toby never approaches that THEN I'm willing to call him a hack but it's just too soon.
The retard snake is relevant now again, anyone got any ASCII art of him
I'm Pluey, but you already knew that. I'm everybody's favorite meme!
Does anybody here play fighting games? What fighting games do you play? What's your region? Want to play together?
I play nearly everything on PC and a few on xbox
Ougon Musou Kyoku Cross
I've always loved Tekken but I suck at pretty much any other fighting game.
Growing up reading the Official PlayStation Magazine, they always used the term “Beat 'Em Up” for fighting games like Tekken, SF, MK etc. but more recently in other places I've seen that only used for games like Streets Of Rage where you fight lots of enemies. I wonder if that's a UK/US thing?
idk where im from tekken is called a fighter and streets of rage is balled beat em up
I play Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 2(the Wii version) and I think that getting used to that game kind of makes you retarded at the next one due to how little but significant the differences in movement mechanics are. It sucks too, since it feels so clean but has far worse AI than its sequel.
Fighting EX Layer is the best, followed closely by Kinnikuman Muscle Grand Prix 2
Reina in Tekken 8 is a demoness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsCpewoF2E4
I have been playing sf6 with some friends recently, we roped a guy who just played for honor to try it and he's been raging about drive rush and grabs.
Personally I have been enjoying it more than sf4/5. I hope Dan/Oro/Sakura make it back it, but I wouldn't be sad if none of them make it back for this iteration. I have been liking this direction of adding characters from other fighting games though.
Is there any character anyone is hoping for Sf6, or any other fighting game?
I've started making an effort to get better at Smash if anything. Unforunately I'm a massive bellend with a brain the size of a squirrel's, so I can know I'm going to get punished for doing something and not be able to imagine any alternate path, resigning myself to my fate.
MUGEN
I kind of like them in theory, but whenever I try to get into them, I find myself struggling to master the direction-sequence controls and remembering all of my moves while other players just pummel me. Seems like there's a dearth of lower-skill players to practice against in most games and most of them have CPU AI that just plain doesn't play like a human player at all so it's not much use to practice against them, either. Still, I can occasionally convince a friend to play Nitroplus Blasterz or something and we'll both have fun with it.
>>95 I hope they are luring in the P5 fans and then they make Tartarus even longer and dumber than the original.
Tbh I really don't know if I'll pickup P3 remake. If they don't even have FemMC or The Answer then what's the point? FemMC had the better social links and The Answer was ungodly hard as shit but cool as hell.
New rumors about Persona 2 and 4 also getting remakes.
>>99
I wonder if they'll delete the gay bromance and the female protagonist from P2.
Devil Summoner coming back?
Possible announcement at the Tokyo Game Show.
Were the rumors false? Maybe the Devil Summoner (collection?) games will be announced at some other event.
Anyway, Metaphor will be released soon.
Persona 4 remake rumors? Say it ain't so.
My uncle who works at Atlus told me that the next Megaten game is going to be called Persona 666 and Lucifer will be a romance option
Raidou vs.the Soulless Army remaster confirmed.
If you're like me and haven't updated your PS3 for a while, I just want to warn you that they seem to have removed some themes from the store, which has corrupted them on my console.
Last night I went to do a trophy sync, which forced me to update the system software. After it updated, the screen was black, but I could hear the game preview playing music on the XMB. When I pressed X it started the game, and everything was visible. “Seems like a problem with the XMB theme” I thought, restarting it in safe mode. Everything was visible again when I reset to default settings, but found that the cool animated theme I had plus a few others were corrupted. I guess they're gone forever :(
It turns out I just had to log back in and go into the Account Management menu and into the transaction history, that seemed to fix it! Happy days \(^o^)/
If feels almost like what the writers were going for... they even implied christianism to be merely a tool of social control (the 'ethos')
Fuck off polnigger
I'm sure the Japanese share America's autistic obsession with da jooz
fuck outta here
idiotic
>>4 There's quite a lot of games and anime with the idea of a shadowy group pulling the strings behind the scenes. Which I would add doesn't need to be Jewish.
>>7
The villain mastermind of Trails in the Sky does just that and has a jewish surname lol. Maybe the japanese are onto something.
>>8
However the pro-incest messaging and references to the Book of Esther in TitS make it obvious that the series is merely Zoroastrian propaganda with a plot reflecting historical religious conflict.
Share your instances where bugs/oversights in a game let you cause something funny to happen, whether beneficial to the player or just silly. (Looking for stuff that's presumably unintentional, rather than clearly deliberate cheats / Easter Eggs that happen to be funny, though I suppose that could be fodder for another thread.)
Jazz Jackrabbit 2
In the part where a witch turns you into a frog and you have to get the Princess to kiss you to transform back, there's a split second moment after activating the kiss animation that you still have character control. You can use this to turn yourself around so that it looks like the Princess kisses the frog on the butt instead of on the face.
Crusade (AGT text adventure)
In this game, there are some events that can cause you to break your leg, which means wasting a bunch of turns unable to do most actions while you wait for it to heal. In the AGT version, at least, perhaps because of vagaries of the AGT system, the "broken leg" is handled as an object that's put into your inventory when the injury happens and removed again when it heals. The developer was smart enough to recognize that the player might try to "DROP LEG" and prevent them from doing so, but forgot that "THROW LEG" is also part of the standard AGT command kit and didn't add any special exception to that. So you can break your leg, throw the broken leg out of your inventory, and go about your merry way as if it never happened.
Spear of Destiny: Return to Danger / Ultimate Challenge
It's well-known among the Wolf3D fandom that these mission packs redid the sprites and audio for the enemies, despite them mostly still being the same things as before, but one change in particular leads to some rather funny unintended consequences: the SS officer's "Mein Leben!" death cry was swapped for "Tod fürs Vaterland!" but because the Wolf3D sound code is kind of lousy and tends to cut off the digitized sounds a lot, coupled with the heavily bitcrushed audio files, he semi-frequently sounds as if he's just saying a Homer Simpson "Doh!" when killed.