Agreed. Matchmaking + Dedicated server would be the gold standard.

Yeah, I feel like all of those games would be better with community ran dedicated servers instead of this modern matchmaking crap. Matchmaking really killed communities and smaller clans.

Import it as a custom filter list. The option should be on the bottom.

I read somewhere most of the cost is payment providers, scams, chargebacks and refunds they can’t offload onto the publishers.

uBlock Origin (not on Chrome) + https://raw.githubusercontent.com/liamengland1/miscfilters/master/antipaywall.txt

There have always been pretty tech demos without much gameplay. There was Incoming it was basically a super simple turret section showing off the awesome (at the time) capabilities of the first Voodoo card. It was impressive and fun for about 15 minutes. Still doesn’t look too bad considering it came out in 1998.

Glad you like it. It has no right to be this good and campy but somehow I also can’t put it down.

If you want something even more crazy another guy made X-Pirates on the XCOM engine. It’s a catgirl post-apocalyptic pirate mod (NSFW, yeah, not kidding).

X-Com (1993)+Mods, Jagged Alliance 2, Master of Orion 2, Starsector, Avorion and lately Balatro and Peglin for mindless fun.

Sounds like you guys might like The X-Com Files. A mod for the original.

I never tried it before because I thought the RPG part would be dumb. But it’s surprisingly fun and has the great Meretzky humor.

it’s even on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1104470/Super_Hero_League_of_Hoboken/
EDIT: GOG version is probably superior: https://www.gog.com/en/game/superhero_league_of_hoboken

The counter-clockwise one would have been the more fitting nazi symbol for Night and the Goddess of Death. Had to think about “Are we the baddies”

It is pretty incredible. But it takes more power to reach those high clocks.

Avg FPS from all tests:

Source (German): https://www.computerbase.de/artikel/prozessoren/amd-ryzen-7-9800x3d-test.90151/

Those are also among my favorites. Also the Title Theme to Anno 1404: When Cultures Meet and the Beyond Good and Evil Soundtrack.
Also a great theme is used all over Tilo Alpermann’s - The Night Of The Rabbit OST

Aquaria: Original Soundtrack by Alec Holowka

Such an underrated game. RIP Alec.

If it’s an EXE and you just want extract it you can use https://github.com/dscharrer/innoextract
It supports the special GOG Inno files. And it’s a lot faster than the official installer with less temp files.

I don’t think it’s a LSD like trip. But you definitely go “WOOAHHH” a few times. It’s well made and rather short.

Also (now also on PC): Monument Valley 1 & 2: https://www.monumentvalleygame.com/

I vote for Concord. I didn’t buy it, I didn’t play it. But seeing Sony fail so spectacularly was massively entertaining. GOTY material indeed.

Other than being a nostalgia-reference filled and well put together time waster it’s not that special. It’s very inoffensive and it runs well. Maybe that is enough for most people to indulge and enjoy.

I don’t think it GOTY material but I don’t hate it. It’s certainly fun and has tons of cute details.

I am currently somewhat addicted to The X-Com Files. It’s a mod for OpenXCom which in turn is a port of the original 1993 X-Com. It’s fucking brilliant (and free).

Before that I played a campaign of Starsector. I also liked Gris and Dredge earlier.

I don’t know which I despise more: sleazy ubi suits or the cockroaches that finance those ubi suits.

Fucking sucks that you can’t just buy from a dev studio directly. So only indie games on GOG for me… Haven’t had that much fun in quite a while. And no longer need to upgrade my PC.

A $379 PELADN HA-4 mini PC has 16GB DDR5 RAM, 512GB NVMe SSD a Ryzen 7 7840HS that easily beats a PS5 (it ties even a i9 11900K desktop in CPU benchmarks).

The APU on that thing runs most games on medium settings (like a PS5) at 60fps and the latest games as well as a non pro PS5. It’s a lot faster than a steam deck.

Who on earth needs a console for twice the price that performs worse or slightly better? If you are a tinkerer you can even upgrade that thing with an eGPU.

Radeon 780M with fast DDR5 and 8 core unlocked 5.1GHz CPU only has problems maintaining 30fps in Black Myth Wukong.
It runs circles around the non Pro PS5 in everything else. I wonder how the chinese did get it that cheap. I got one and almost can’t believe the value of that thing… The metal box is decent and temps are great. All that copper makes that thing quite heavy though.

Is Allan Alan’s evil twin?

Child of Light was a successful attempt at making a good indie-like game. I liked it. It was different and creative. They had something great. I wonder what became of the announced sequel…

Plourde expressed that he was unsure if it was still in development but said that he was not involved and that it was unlikely, with most of the core team responsible for the original game having departed the company.
With a focus on games as a service, Plourde expressed doubt over the prequel, believing games such as Child of Light to be no longer something that Ubisoft would want to make.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_of_Light#Sequel

Fuck Ubisoft.

Still works over the Internet once it is paired since about 2018’s Remote Play Anywhere. I think you don’t even need to open ports in your router anymore (not super sure about it).
Or you can use a rented PC (like Liquidsky, Paperspace and Shadow) if your home internet has to little upstream like so: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1398383317
Steam really needs to explain it better. I couldn’t find a definite feature or requirements list. The FAQ only mentions that it might work with cellular data:

Can I use the Steam Link app with my cellular network? Using Remote Play Anywhere with your cellular network may work, depending on the policies of your cellular provider.

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/7112-CD02-7B57-59F8

Only via Steam Link. It might work even better streaming from your own PC than the Netflix version.

Child of Light was a successful attempt at making a good indie-like game. I liked it. It was different and creative. I wonder what became of the announced sequel…

Plourde expressed that he was unsure if it was still in development but said that he was not involved and that it was unlikely, with most of the core team responsible for the original game having departed the company.
With a focus on games as a service, Plourde expressed doubt over the prequel, believing games such as Child of Light to be no longer something that Ubisoft would want to make.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_of_Light#Sequel

Fuck Ubisoft.

Fuck Ubisoft.

Wait. What’s the article about? Ahh yes, very iconic. Fuck Ubisoft.

Recently got Mad Max from GOG. It’s pretty great for Open World car combat and Arkham style brawling. It also runs great. Too bad it didn’t get more attention.

Yup. Hope he still sees it. Mine is more a bonus to what you wrote. Should’ve been next to yours tho.

Steam version was inferior to GOG. It was definitely missing the multi core CPU fix and maybe even still had TAGES protection (not sure about that one).

Genre mix of 3rd person brawling and some stealth sections. Hovercrafting including some races (many optional). Some adventure style puzzles. Awesome soundtrack. French style and subtle + not so subtle and satirical storytelling that doesn’t assume you’re a doofus. It actually made me a little sad at one point.

Technical: GOG version supports multiple threads/cores. Widescreen fix available. Check here: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Beyond_Good_%26_Evil

Best thing is: I heard they see the number on their publisher dashboard next to the followers. Don’t know if it’s true, but I like the idea.

Fuck Ubisoft.

Yeah, that’s pretty gross.

What does that even mean? Do they plan to make shorter games on the same old engine?
What would those external developers do? A Skyrim sidescrolling roguelite?

I’d sure hope they did those before release. Don’t give them ideas selling in-game music as DLC later.

At least you can get the mods from Nexus. If you have the GoG version of a game and the mod you want is on the Steam Workshop, that royally sucks.
(yes I know you can get most of them with SteamCMD, it still sucks)

Not from Epic, no. But there is Legendary https://github.com/derrod/legendary

It’s (relatively, don’t use the embedded browser) pure Python and runs anywhere. I also use it on my Win7 retro machine because the Epic Launcher sucks. It also supports epic DRM and can log the game in.