I played another guy’s game (game dev thesis project) based on the Milgram experiment. It definitely didn’t have this level of graphical fidelity. I’d be happy to give some feedback. I’m running Bazzite at the moment so if you need someone to look at for proton compatibility, etc. I’m happy to be the guinea pig there as well.

Tried the demo a ways back. Seemed okay. Way more into the use of Gealdyr as soundtrack than the game itself, though.

I tried multiple distros over the last year to find a good one to recommend to someone I know. My experience with mint was a mediocre startup followed by mediocre use for a few days, followed by a boot failure. Very disappointing from a distro I frequently hear recommended as a newbie-friendly option.

That’s a lot to ask of one game these days. Last one that ticked those boxes for me was Pacific Drive.

It’s been a minute but i think i know what might be bugging you about the controls. If it’s the having to move and look with the same control, check the settings. There might be a way to adjust it.

As for other options…

-The Farming Simulator games are great for controller.

• Story of Seasons is on sale on Steam right now.
• Out of Ore
• Mini Metro
• Jalopy
• Shipbreaker
• the My Time At … series
• No Mans Sky
• Never Alone
• Hokko Life
• Staxel
• Rebel Galaxy
• Olli Olli
• Arctico

Looking on steam cross-referencing ‘casual’ and ‘good for steam deck’ is probably a good way to find some more.

If you aren’t wearing pants, is it still better to be wearing the top half of the tux or does your swinging wang negate the fancy?

I always preferred BPM to Hellsinger but that’s depressing. I was just listening to a discussion of the EA stuff from someone who has worked in the industry and he’s thinking the outlook is bleak going forward, that EA is likely to get the ToysRUs treatment.

I’ll recommend Kinetica. It’s a one-of-a-kind racing game where you race through gravity-defying tracks as a person in a kind of iron-man negligee with wheels while listening to old-school techno.

Shadow of the Colossus is one of my favorite games ever, battling entities big enough that you run around on top of them, subtle storytelling, an enormous map for the time it was made, and fairly large even by modern standards.

The Tenchu games are also good: ninja stealth assassination.

Dark Cloud 2 is a kind of fun game. Smack your way through dungeons with a wrench and use the bits to build villages for your allies.

Bloody Roar is a favorite for fighting games. Fight to BIOS energy then transform into a wilder form, like a mole, a bear, etc. and you can kick people through the edges of the arenas into new areas to fight.

Devil May Cry is a classic.

Ratchet and Clank, classic.

Time Splitters is reminiscent of even older games.

Red Faction 2 wasn’t a bad little shooter.

Almost the entire mobile game industry. Copiously available, cheap, hollow, dopamine hunting, etc.

I do, because it broadly displays a bad approach. If a thing should be in the game, it should just be in the game. There is no reason the developer has to gate things behind a payment. Terraria, Minecraft, Stardew, and so many others, all managed to keep adding content without pretending that DLC was anything more than a way to pay out for shareholders. The invasion of microtransactions into gaming has been nothing but harmful, deceptive, and malignant, and I refuse to participate.

That’s kind of cool, I guess. Good luck to them. I didn’t bother getting that far because I haven’t burned out my attention span badly enough to desire anything approaching that level of pointless visual noise.

Someone I know wanted a recommendation for a multiplayer game recently. One of the games I remembered existing was Payday 2. DLC and subscriptions involved? Never-fuckin-mind.

Aside from not looking like a game I would play, I kind of doubt the words about it being a trailer are in the game.

I haven’t played 4, but I played 1, 2, and a bit of the presequel or whatever it was called. They were essentially all the same game. Run, shoot, run, shoot, hear vaguely off-color joke, run, shoot. Is there any particular reason to bother with an overpriced remake of the same old game? Is there a reason for worrying about 4KUHD textures on a game where the aesthetic is cartoony? If you’re a 9 year old who’s never played, and it’s all on mom’s dime, I could see being tricked into buying it by the advertisers, but why is anyone else excited about it?

That’s essentially the thing that makes LLMs as unreliable as they are in everything else; they run on probabilities that have no anchor in reality. The game is just another contained reality to which the model has no direct connection.

And now Dupont will claim copyright against anything successful you ever produce.

I’ll jump in to plug Red Moon. It applies an overlay of a color of your choice and enables you to dim your backlight beyond what is normally possible. If you are in a fully darkened room, overlaying an orange/red color and dimming your screen to barely readable levels to read something can trick you into becoming sleepy by tiring your eyes.

No, you wouldn’t. You’re not special. Chill.

Modded MC, specifically TFC packs

It hits almost all the right points to lock me in.

Pfft, organic.