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Why would I leave windows if Linux isn’t offering anything better?

Because Linux offers an ad-free experience, whereas Windows offers a free ads experience.

No mouse and like games like MaM/Civ?

Recommendation for slower paced, top down strategy game:

• GBA emulator and the game Advance Wars 2

Recommendation for hard and fast paced game (audio required):

• Crypt of the Necrodancer

Recommendation for story based game:

• Undertale (avoid spoilers, this game will mess with you, only goes for 4 hours per playthrough but you will replay it for the different endings)

I’m not sure what the downsides are here…

Undertale for sure. (I’m a long time gamer, and I consider this in my top 5 games now)

It has such a slow start, and meh graphics going into it. It took me 3 separate years trying to get into it, but once I got past the first 2 hours, man did the humour, characters and music blow me away.

If you’re worried you won’t get into it:

• The graphics start out rough to make the better graphics later on really stand out
• The slow start is actually them setting things up a whole bunch of things that pay off later, stick with it. (Also since the game is only 7 hours and there are multiple endings, you will replay it to get the other endings and notice just how much content is hidden at the start that you didn’t understand the first time playing it).

I’m so glad I came back and stuck with it.

I was just trying to clear something out of my library and ended up with the most powerful gaming attachment I’ve had in over a decade.

My long bet: The EU will force Google Search + Ads, to separate from Youtube within a decade.

I’m curious why people would downvote a request for port forwarding?

first major release under daddy Microsoft, so things may be different

I wouldn’t hold my breath:

1. Bethesda’s management have always unvalued spending effort on engine development
2. Microsoft’s awful mandated top-down rules are what seriously messed up Halo Infinite:

• To go into this point in more detail:
  • 343 industries hired a large amount of “temporary” contractors to work on Halo Infinite (this is standard in AAA games)
  • For legal reasons, any contractor who had worked on a project for 18 months is given workers protections
  • Microsoft mandated that each contractor be “let go” right before reaching this 18 month time-frame.
  • During the regular process of development, different developers would build different things, then over time either help out with any questions on how to use it, or tweak it to support a new use case.
  • During Microsoft’s mandated development, the developer who built a tool or best knew how it worked was let go. Since it’s easier to write new code rather than read existing code unassisted the developer who needs something done before a deadline has to build a new tool. After 5 years we now have 40 something tools that are all built based on different assumptions that keep overwriting each other’s results in wildly expected way. No one knows how anything works anymore.

Single player nostalgia list:

• FPS:
  • Halo series (Reach, 1, 2, ODST, 3, 4)
• Strategic:
  • Homeworld
  • Supreme Commander
• Racing:
  • Trackmania Stadium
• Roguelike
  • FLT
• Survival:
  • Minecraft
  • Factorio
• Tactical:
  • Advance Wars 2
  • Battle for Wesnoth
• Other:
  • Thumper
  • Space Engine

Multiplayer nostalgia list:

• FPS:
  • Halo series (again, 90% of the time the custom game browser already has a game running that I want to join, and it’s still getting updates)
  • PUBG (how is this 6 years old already?)
• Party games:
  • Golf with Friends
  • Tabletop Simulator
  • Ultimate Chicken Horse

I was in it for the parkour; I didn’t really like the combat and kept being forced to fight people.

Part of the charm of the game was to make its combat unwieldy to push people into parkour-ing past/out of each encounter. The whole game was made so that you could finish it without ever picking up a gun.

It sounds like you didn’t get far enough to learn this.

I’m confused and didn’t understand this point.

Both of the screenshots used in the article show the street names.

Every street is shown on the zoomed in screenshot, and every major street is shown on the zoomed out screenshot.

I wonder if they’re lying about this. Maybe the fans are super loud or something and they didn’t want the reporter to know.

That’s far too conspiratorial for me. Loud fans in an engineering sample aren’t a reason to break a fan.

A fast fan blade on a laptop would snap easily if it was handled, which is exactly what would be happening on both a laptop where assembling and disassembling it is a feature and a laptop being actively tested.

If it was a blade that broke, that wouldn’t stop the fan from working, so it was probably the servo, power, or bearings which is exactly what you’d expect to find broken in an engineering sample. Why? Because engineering samples almost always have issues in them. That’s the whole point of the samples, to find out what the issues are so they can be fixed before mass manufacture.

My top suggestion:

Halo 3: ODST

The entire game takes place in a single city in a single day during an invasion, with the player having flash-backs / flash-forwards as different characters so you can see what and how the city evolves over time.

There’s also a secret story (called Sadie’s story) hidden in the terminals found around the city that follows a civilian and a [REDACTED] during the moment of invasion. If you’re able to complete Sadie’s story, it tweaks the 3rd act of the game.

My other suggestions:

You seemed fairly set on FPS games, but they’re not the only ones that have the same dark environmental story telling like Bioshock, SOMA, and Alien Isolation.

These are going to seem weird but stick with me here:

1. Metroid Fusion
2. Frostpunk

Metroid Fusion is a platformer. So what? How can a platformer have that same kind of feeling? Well let me tell you, Metroid Fusion is one of the rare games that was able to do horror and do it without relying the easy immersion that FPS games tend to lean on. I never knew that a platformer could be terrifying and it was a wake up call for me, because I had never even considered that a non-FPS game could elicit those feelings.

It’s a gameboy advance game so super easy to emulate on a computer, you’ll want to play on a keyboard or a gamepad, a touchscreen overlay can’t keep up with the controls you’ll need to pull off to survive. Go into it blind and despair enjoy.

Frostpunk.

It’s basically a Victorian steampunk version of The Day After Tomorrow. The world is freezing. You’re the leader of a charge of a city fighting for the resources to survive. You are from the last group of survivors. If you make a bad choice, everyone dies. The story is told through random events that pop up during the game where you have to decide which choice you want to go with, while exploring the derelict ruins of the other failed survivors to try and gather more supplies.

Most environmental story games where you can see something has clearly gone wrong tend to be horror, where there is a threat that you can point to and say that is the bad thing that must be dealt with or escaped from. Frostpunk goes the other way. It is not horror, Frostpunk is terror. The climate is the threat. There is no escaping it, there is no way to shoot it with a gun, or a special weapon. It is ever-present, and it gets worse and worse each day that passes. It is a building tension that keeps twisting, getting tighter and tighter, where you will be forced to make hard decisions. The stress level only goes up. Whatever you lose you will not be getting back, and you’re only able to keep a few things. What will you sacrifice to make it to the next few days.

Frostpunk is the game equivalent of being a pilot in the cafeteria of an airport and seeing an emergency alert on every news station that a 1 mile high tidal wave is approaching and will hit in 30 minutes. And each minute that passes, the more desperate people will become, and the worse your situation will get.