I didn’t see any thread regarding games here and I would like to get know more about the users here, so if you play video games, what are you playing right now?
I’m personally playing Earth Defense Force 5, at the moment. I like it because I can shut off my brain, for the most part, and just shoot randomly and I will still be doing okay. Alongside this, my ‘main’ game is osu!, which basically translates to logging in daily to do the Daily Challenge they added last month.
Mostly PS5 games xdefiant, valorant, POE, random solo games then if I feel like it I start PC games using cloud streaming service and there last epoch has been main grind.
I just use steam, ea, blizzard, epic, etc apps to buy games and then use Nvidia GeForce now to play on my tv from couch.
PS5 I actually don’t even buy many games since I have those subscription based stuff EA, Plus etc so getting huge library of games already and now days so many are free to play at day 1 and comes 1-2 months later to subscription services if not free to play
I’m doing quite bad with the gaming situation over here!
Can’t play games on my current laptop with its integrated graphics, I use it as a workstation, so don’t want to install games outside a container anyway. My old gaming laptop (Steam games) and PS3 (bought used, few disks, haven’t really played it) is collecting dust, no time to play. Lost my Oculus 1 headset during a move so all the games in Oculus store are forever lost to me without new hardware.
I mostly game on my PS5. Destiny 2 has been my mainstay for years, but I’m also playing through Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga (one of this month’s free games). Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands is another that I’ve enjoyed (though not as much as the Borderlands games).
I really enjoyed playing Manifold Garden on Steam, though - that’s a beautiful game and runs on Linux. Very mind-bending. (Another that I really enjoyed along those lines was Superliminal).
I love retro console games, and lately I’ve been into Super Metroid (SNES) ROM Hacks. Some of the standalone hacks are fantastic, like I’ve played through many of the ones on the Metroid Construction website, Hyper Metroid and So Little Garden being two of my favorites. But I more recently got into the randomizers, and they’re addictive!
There’s a whole community around them. My favorite two are the VARIA randomizer, and the Map Rando. VARIA I like playing on the settings with area + boss rando and major+minor item split. This produces a strategically-rich game that provides a modest reward for knowing advanced tricks and glitches, while allowing you to comfortably beat most seeds using only the basic tricks. (You don’t need to be a good speedrunner, but it helps.)
There are tournaments in it too! Really fantastic supportive community, very positive vibes and some amazing players.
Also, in other console gaming, I finally replayed FF8 for PS1, and beat it this time around. Played that when younger when it came out, but never beat it. I was unfortunately a bit underwhlemed by the last 1/3rd or so of the game…in hindsight I thought the first two discs were golden, the 3rd started great but I started getting disappointed towards the end of disc 3, and disc 4 and the ending were underwhelming.
You gotta play some really old console games with emulators! I had an old laptop like that and it was solid for anything 16-bit or simpler. Also there are some old PC games that run great on old hardware. I went back and played Angband, the ASCII-character-only roguelike, several years back and finally beat it for the first time ever. You can play that one in a terminal!
I had to play it in the laptop for some time (I don’t remember the reason) and it used a lot of CPU % so the fan never stopped. No problem playing it in the PC (Tumbleweed).
Dropped game stations (last one was a PS3) long time ago.
Warthunder… previously when i ran linux mint… i would dual boot back into windows just to play. but since distro hopping to tumbleweed when i bought a new laptop earlier this year. Asus tuf A16 which is all AMD. theres no need to use windows. My tumbleweed install is Gnome + wayland + experimental VRR turned on. when i run warthunder built-in benchmark on both windows and tumbleweed, theres near no difference in fps. i havnt booted into windows for many months now… happy days. few glitch since kernel 6.10, cant wait for that to be fix.
Bro, that ain’t boring. I actually never played Skyrim fully (only like the first 2 hours of the story, maybe?) and I want go through it. If a game is good, its age doesn’t really matter all that much.