Red Dead Redemption 2
…again
I’ve just resurrected my partner’s old(ish) gaming PC. It’s got a reasonable GTX1060 GPU, so I’ve installed Kubuntu and am dipping my toes into the world of Linux gaming. So far it’s been pretty smooth.
Difficult to know how well it’ll handle RDR2 properly until I’m out of that accursed opening section up in the mountains. Not for the first time I wish there was a way to skip straight to the train holdup.
Went back to try Tokyo Xtreme Racer 3 for PS2 after getting into the series from the new game on Steam.
The driving is a lot more unforgiving than the new game but It started to grow on me the more I played it.
X-COM 2: War of the Chosen:
I’ve played this game off and on for years. Fondly wishing I could get back to it and just not having the time. Then I caught strep throat and literally couldn’t do anything but just play games.
Honestly? Finally. I felt like crap, but I was so happy to have an excuse to just enjoy myself instead of being obsessed with what I “had” to do.
The game changed a lot since I last played so I had to start a new save, and I’m having a blast. I love this game so much even with some of its flaws. Do your squaddies miss a 90% shot sometimes? Yes. Infuriating.
But when they make that hail-Mary hit that saves a teammate, or you sneak through a compound to break out an imprisoned comrade and exfil, it’s ADDICTING.
Also, not gonna lie…the game hits a little different in 2025, seeing as it’s about being resistance fighters waging insurgency and a propaganda war against an alien occupying authoritarian regime that is kidnapping people and hauling them to blacksites. Man, that uh, is a little uncomfortably close. (But it’s only a game…The aliens are actually competent.)
The custom voice packs are incredible too. (My sniper with a Bob Ross voice calmly saying “Let’s do a little painting today.” Or “Let’s get a little crazy.” When setting up a shot from across the map never gets old.
This game’s complete version I’ve seen on Steam for like $5 before. This is one of the best tactical experiences there is, and at first I hated the “pressure” this game puts on you, but I’ve come to enjoy the urgency and being forced to weigh difficult decisions rather than just sending my “A-Team” of snowflake OCs to clear every single mission at a leisurely pace haha.
And the soundtrack. Oh man. Once that “Ready for Battle” track hits where you select everybody’s loadout, you really feel the weight of assembling the right squad when you never know 100% what you’re about to send them into.
I don’t remember if it’s been less than a week since I last played it, but I started Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE recently. Judging off the first case, it appears to be simultaneously the smartest and dumbest game ever produced.
Dead space. Such a simple and fun game. Like literally just follow the white line and shoot the baddies.
Oo I hope it can be paused for when a customer shows up. Looks fantastic for a slow day!
(I considered MUDs but lots of people talk about how obvious the traffic is, it’d freak out I.T, blah blah blah…)
Oo I hope it can be paused […]
In Zen mode, you can turn off gravity [1.1][3] which is effectively pausing imo, or, you could just exit Zen (bound to
Escfor me), which saves its state, and then you can just return to Zen and pick up where you left off [1.1][2].References
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[…] save your progress to come back to later!
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You can change the gravity to choose how calming your game is!
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- When I exit Zen mode, it saves the state, and resumes when I return.
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- Type: Changelog (Patch Notes). Title: “ALPHA 4.0.0”. Publisher: [Type: Changelog. Title: “PATCH NOTES”. Publisher: “TETR.IO”.]. Published: 2020-06-22. Accessed: 2025-10-17T03:26Z. URI: https://tetr.io/about/patchnotes/#chlog_ALPHA_4_0_0.
After seeing comments here on patientgamers I was reminded that I wanted to play Yoku’s Island Express. So I did. 97% complete. Not sure what’s left to do but I’ll figure it out.
Also around half-way through Pepper Grinder so I’ll be working on that for a couple evenings.
Broke my normal rule of waiting for a 50% discount (or better) and picked up KCD2. I’ve just been mainlining it. It’s a bigger, better version of the first game (which I loved, hence the early purchase), and picks up right where that one left off. No complaints, except maybe that horseshoes are a pain in the ass to forge.
I’ve started Cave Story for the first time and it seems really cute. I recently modded my old DSi, so I’m playing that version.
I have been waiting for Cave Story+ to go on a sale for so long, I don’t think it’s every going to happen. Will just have to buy it at full price some day.
I’m just pirating, but from I saw a lot of people have the opinion that the original is a better experience. If I remember correctly it’s an option to just go with original graphics and audio in +, but I figured I’d test out to see if how well the modded DSi works for me.
Trying to decide whether or not to spend £60 on battlefield 6
The games doing very well with new players but getting mixed reviews from longtime BF fans.
I installed Windows again on a 2nd SSD just to play the beta and honestly wasn’t impressed… undeniably an improvement over 2042, But what’s the point in settling for better then dogshit when I can still play the peak of the franchise? and play them on Linux!
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From the trailers it honestly looked really cool, but then I saw and heard about the all draconian user-disrespecting stuff like the online-even-for-campaign requirement and highly invasive kernel level anticheat that requires TPM 2.0?! That part felt bonkers to me.
Like is that gonna be a thing now? “This game demands to register a cryptographic key with your bootloader to make sure you’re not up to funnybusiness.” (I’m not 100% sure how it works, so my ignorance is filled in with LOTS of suspicion…)
Also EA just got bought by like…Saudi private equity? That’s pretty spook to me, too.
I dunno. I just wanna play Titans on Battlefield 2142 again. And BF 3 and 4 were nice too…
Also a Linux gamer. (Shrug)
Don’t wanna be a downer or scare you off too much! Just things to consider, because £60 certainly ain’t chump change! :)
Battlefield 4 and 1 are some of my favourite modern shooter games but I can’t justify buying 6. First of all it can’t run on Linux so I’d have to buy it on PlayStation but also I’ve heard very mixed things. It’s disappointing, I really wanted to have another Battlefield 4 experience again.
Hotline Miami 2. On the final mission of the first section and stuck there because I keep rushing in the final section and keep dying because of it. My usual gameplay style in games like this is failing me.
I loved the first one, but the second one has much bigger rooms, you often die before even seeing your enemy.
Trying to give BG3 another try. Also want to finally beat Undertale. And still continuing Chrono trigger.
Why did you drop BG3 before?
I dunno, I just sometimes get “lost” in big open world games, too many possibilities, and it starts to feel like a big responsibility and a chance to mess up something important. Basically I easily get overwhelmed.
I can understand. Sometimes this causes me to play the starting area of the game multiple times, just to make sure I chose the right starting class etc.
Exactly! I replay a lot, even entire games if I liked them, it’s always less stressful than start something new and big.
Another issue is that I often have less energy to continue something that to start, so I often know the beginning of a game or a tv series or anything but don’t know the rest because I dropped :')
Well, it’s good to know I am not the only weird one 😀
Installed Reverse: 1999 on Monday or so and already have over 20+ hours of play time.
Nonetheless, it’s a gacha game, so I’m slowly reaching the ceiling.
There are several mini-modes to waste your time in and sadly, they’re fun to play - for a while at least.
Don’t know how long this will last, but if you’re into gacha games with weird plots and a ton of words and audio, this thing has plenty of 'em.I’ve fallen for Cyberpunk 2077. I had nearly forgotten how much fun Cyberpunk as a genre is. Just driving around the city seeing the sights right now.
First person driving at night in Cyberpunk was one of my absolute favourite things. Especially in the rain! Such a vibe.
I bought Detroit become human on the steam sale. Gonna finally give it a go
