What games are you playing, Lain?

share your screenshots, post reviews, etc. >previous thread https://lainchan.org/inter/res/5665 Remember to have fun!

Fall guys! First time playin' it since I had a potato for a laptop when the game first came out. It's pretty fun.

thinking about modding an elder scrolls game again... skyrim vr maybe - spend a few days picking mods, get to level 6, get bored and never open it again for the next 7 years

In like my 4th playthrough of Elden Ring, but the first one since I moved with my girlfriend, so I've been chipping away at the game trying to get to the DLC. Man I miss having time for video games. Being an adult is like kicking dead whales down the beach.

Factorio space age released on monday, so I've been playing it since then.

Currently trying to get SiN Episodes: Emergence working on my machine, it's a great little sci fi shooter with mid 2000s booba physics and a cool ass aesthetic to boot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFEXNKplqVU

Rimworld! Rimworld! It's the only place I can live out my dreams of running an organ harvesting operation, a drug operation, and own slaves all at the same time! Please save me before I start modding the game

Don't have lot of time lately but I plan to play Heart Of Darkness for the Xth time again :)

I completely don't regret buying it officially on Steam, it's marvelous.

>>8078 episode two is the best of the Half Life 2 games, Half Life 2 by itself is one of the most polished experiences in gaming too

Cyberpunk 2077. I have beaten the game once getting the "good" ending. But i was focused on simply beating the game. In my second playthrough i will try to finish all quests and get a complete picture of night city.

donkey kong country returns for nintendo wii. it's fun if you like 2D platformers, and liberties were taken with the ape physics, giving it a high skill ceiling. an issue i have is the difficulty will very suddenly ramp up to 100 for a single level. for example, its been a week and i'm still stuck on 8-2 Hot Rocket, and it took me 30 attempts to on 6-1, followed by the rest of world 6 taking at most 15. speaking of, i love World 6: Cliff (pictured). the overcast skies, and dusty, rocky terrain, and the black tar contribute to a dull color palette, and it's punctuated with an almost uncharacteristically dreary track list. i know it's up this board's alley, so here's my personal favorite.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Aa2p1jTtYg

>>8080 I beat it while high on hash and micro dose hits of meth in my e-vape juice.

>>8065 I like Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. Use ET: Legacy sourceport. It works well with modern hardware and it has a working server browser (it has been broken for years on vanilla ET). Note that you want to install the 32-bit version because mods need it. >https://www.etlegacy.com/download >https://github.com/etlegacy/etlegacy/wiki/Useful-Links I also like roguelikes, roguelites, RPG games, Touhou and shoot 'em ups. Currently thinking about playing Angband, Nethack or Dwarf Fortress (get Linux Dwarf Pack appimage or PeridexisErrant's DF Starter Pack). For NetHack, you might be interested in trying Vulture variant because it has isomorphic graphics: https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Vulture Otherwise, you should add some settings to your .nethackrc: # https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Options OPTIONS=number_pad:1 Other games worth playing: Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior, Blood, original Doom 1 & Doom 2 (DSDA-Doom or GZDoom or Zandronum. Be sure to check out Cacowards!)... More: Fire Emblem (I like the GBA games), Mega Man, Demon roguelike (monster collection roguelike), TOME, Cataclysm: DDA, Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, Shattered Pixel Dungeon (on mobile), Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Explorers Of Sky, Noita, Rogue Legacy, Shovel Knight, Elona+... Even more games can be found at: >https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_of_games >https://libregamewiki.org/List_of_games >https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games

>>8065 I finally tried the old bloodline. It have bugs, but they can be tolerated, it's a better RPG that everything that have been created the last past years and some lines are really funny.

>>8065 im playing black ops 6 on gamepass to relive teenage wasted time and i got the notion from miladychan putting up a contest for it for like 2.5 thousand dollars but knowing its crypto it'll probably be some indian grinding out the hours. anyway the game honestly doesn't feel that different, there's all sorts of bullshit movement options now and the 'culture' has been replaced with 90 IQ mystery meat consumers, but when you just put everyone on mute and start shooting nothing really matters

>>8083 >Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory Ah, good times. Used to play that every time I got out of school, along with Cod2 and WoW. Couple of years back tried to get into it for the fun of it, but I think the bots and the no-life players who cut you down from miles away got too much. It was a shame I couldn't find the fun kinds of mods, like Star Wars, RTCW-weaponry (can't recall the name) and jaymod. Also noticed that trickjump maps seem to have gone out of fashion, but I guess that's understandable, since we've had almost two decade's worth of time for people to solve 'em all. >>8084 Yes, the writing for Masquerade is absolutely superb, although the gameplay is just horrendous by today's standards. Wouldn't have understood to play it if it weren't for ssethtzeentach doing a video on it. I regret nothing. >>8065 The best games I've played within the past 5 years has to be Dark Souls, Psychonauts 2, Pathologic 2, and Talos Principle 1 and 2. Lot's of room to ponder and wonder and try to use your head. Especially in TP 2, which what the most recent game I played out of all, I liked Lifthrasil's and Straton's audio logs, who came close to Nietzsche and Plato respectively. The ending cinematics started to get ridiculously long after doing all the puzzles, and I really would've liked to see more from the somnodrome. Moreover, I was somewhat left with the impression that the puzzles in TP2 were a lot easier than in TP1, although there was this one puzzle I had to spend like half an hour or more to solve (can't recall which one), and the gravity puzzles were nauseating to do, because of the fast perspective flips. Other than that, a solid game.

Been playing a lot of Quake recently. Mostly Arcane Dimensions. Very good stuff, everything from core mechanics to visuals is significantly improved, without going out of style. Many new weapons and monsters too, and the best thing is maps, those are heavenly good. I did finish it yesterday, and today gave a try to some standalone maps from Siteseer. Found this gem on 2-3 screenshots in the latest Lainzine. Quite small, but very well made and with a nice final fight.

>>8117 Arcane Dimensions is amazing. Have you played dwell? I finished 1st world and half way through the 2nd one. Should get back to it... Didn't game much lately.

>>8065 Currently I am going through the DLC for I Am Sakuya which is a Touhou FPS fangame. Basically it is ZDoom or GZDoom but with Touhou characters and weapons as well as bouncing knives you can throw. The DLC has you playing as Reimu. It is actually quite fun. Also, I am slowly going through the original Splinter Cell on GOG.

Stalker 2 , free with the microshit rewards

Well, I find myself mulling about a bunch of different games of old and new depending on the mood of the moment. It seems my focus retention and increasing age make it harder to sink everything into a single game like I would have in my more youthful years. Kowloon's Gate for the PS1, the soundtrack and atmosphere have captivatex me greatly, it is in Japanese so playing it presently involves using a translation camera app, although a more complete English fan translation ROMhack is being developed. There are also tools for emulator translation. I also like playing Project Diablo 2. I play WoW on a private server for over a decade, mainly Warmane as my sporadic playing schedule sometimes involving years long breaks are most suited to such a stable server. I can always get back into comfymode. I have been looking into how I could backup all my characters and host my own offline server using AI to simulate other player characters to make the world still feel alive and playable even though offline. There is some repacks to accomplish this but not at the scale I'm thinking of. I also like random stuff and wish I had more friends that liked the same older soykaf as me. Ultima Online Renassaince, Quakeworld, melee combat games like Chiv and Mordhau, CSS CS2, Factorio was fun, Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. Also so late to the party but been having fun getting into Dota 2, DotA 1, WC3, SC Brood War. It's sad that I likely won't know the feeling again of having my homie over for a sleepover LAN party playing the Last Blade 2 and SSBM until sunrise. I like the worlds of games, tinkering, or the concept of what they could be in the right context probably more than I actually enjoy sitting there playing them alone.

>>8080 Despite my best efforts not to like it. Wound up really enjoying this game. Got about 120 hours into it playing a netrunner build. Actually loved it lol. Besides that I've been playing backpack battles - which is a fun puzzle / auto battler indie game.

I am currently trying to go through Metroid: Rogue Dawn which is a romhack for NES Metroid. I was playing NES Metroid quite a bit and decided to take a break and try Rogue Dawn. It seems very well made. Also, I have been playing the original Splinter Cell off and on.

>>8132 I had that same desktop, monitor, keyboard, and router back in 2003 or whatever. Good times.

I think I started too much games in this year without finishing them properly. This is not like me, really, I usually finish the game right before moving on. Kind of want to write it all out just to make it sorted for myself... Albion - I actually started it in the autumn of 2023. It's an old RPG from 1995, but damn it is big. It is also quite interesting. I just do not have enough time to play it, unfortunately, as perils of real life do not quite let me to sit down and play properly, and I really want to get into the vibe for this one. Because, you know, it's just that good. It is amazing how much stuff they could put in less than in a GB back in the day. State Of Emergency - small arcade from Rockstar. It's actually pretty short and I've all but finished it, but I need to write a python script in order to unpack some files and really call it a day on this one. Otherwise it was rather fun for what it was. Gladius - strategy by LucasArts. It is big and slow. I like the setting, and the game has a modding community that is still active to this day, so I guess it says something, but it is just... that slow. Strategies are slow as a rule, but this one is a darn drag. Not sure when I'll get back to it. Just Cause 1 - well, I think I started it 18 years ago for the first time and it still lies around my desktop. This year, maybe. Need For Speed: Carbon - I'm actully trying to make a huge texture pack for it. I mean, I want a proper texture for every muscle car in my garage. I made three so far and about six of them left. This will take a while. Jet Grind Radio - I wanted to use it as an escape from Carbon, but... turns out this game has a whole system that allows the player to upload their own graffiti, and so I want to make a graffiti pack for this game too. Oh, the irony. Anyway, I made one graffiti and need to finish two more. Wipeout 3 Special Edition - I actually started it way, way long ago, but now that I connected NeGcon to my PC, I got back to it and I actually almost finished it by now. Only few races left and I'm done with it. Huntdown - awesome shoot'em up which I'm almost done with. I just need to wrap it all up by shooting a video that demonstrates a small mod I made and then upload all the stuff online. Soon™. Ion Fury - actually, I completed this one several years ago, but they made an update with Aftershock DLC for it, so I downloaded it again, and want to launch it with an eDuke for whatever reason, rather than with a default exe, and I had to download a new version of eDuke for the updated version of the game, yadda-yadda... Anyway, I completed it again. And the I completed the Arrange mode. And I'm now finally doing the Aftershock DLC that I came for in the first place. And you know what? This game is tons of fun. One of the best shooters I've seen in the last years, if not one of the best games overall... though Huntdown which I mentioned just above is kind of amazing too, and you can play that with a friend to top it off... Really, Ion Fury and Huntdown for all you retro lovers out there. Just the things to try if you haven't tried them yet. So, yeah, I'm in the Aftershock DLC and will be done with this one soon enough. Forza Motorsport - the very first one, from the original XBox. I actually started this, what, four or five years ago? But I only have several races left for now, and I hope I will be done with them soon... It might take a while though. FM is a really-really background game for me. I kind of hope it will work with NeGcon, actually, and that's why I decided to include it to this list: to remind myself that I should try to connect NeGcon to my 360.

I am currently playing Beyond Citadel and loving it despite having to make alterations to some text file to get to work without screen tears and without mouse input issues. There are instructions online of what to copy and paste onto the file explorer to get to it.

>>8080 Enjoyed it too. 260+ hours already. Was very sceptical in the beginning but I'm glad I gave it a chance

Playing through a bunch of Doom Wads, Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, and Morrowind with my first time playing Tamriel Rebuilt. All are loads of fun Lain, I've played Doom 1,2,TNT,Master Levels, etc but wads are just awesome and people still make them all the time. I want to make my own but sadly on OpenBSD there aren't a lot of options for making maps.

Currently I am going through Minoria, the spiritual successor to Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight. Pretty good so far. Also, I am going through FF8 Remaster with cheats cause I hate grinding and I hate the junction system. I just want to get through it to move past it although I do like dialogue and soundtrack. I had played a bit of Blue Fire a week ago but I gave up on it cause of how bullshit the parkour platform challenge levels were. Fortunately I got the install setup from a free place.

>>8065 Chilling at "M A N I F O L D G A R D 3 N"

MARVEL RIVALS I like the THOR & ROCKET RACOON team-up

>>8220 >I hate grinding You do realize you're playing the Final Fantasy that actually punishes you for grinding, right? The game is actually easier if you keep your levels low, and no that doesn't mean doing a ton of magic drawing.

>>8065 ss14 (d/l here: https://spacestation14.com/) FOSS rebuild of ss13, featuring: - a functioning engine - 25% of the features - 25% of the lag - pixel movement - really cool spaceships (frontier/hullrot) - main-branch devs that hate fun i wanted to play 13, but found out it is a huge pain in the ass on linux, so i went with 14 instead.

The Sims for men. I sat on the ground, my back against a wall, as it is the only way to be safe. My entire body was about to give up and I had to catch my breath. I calmly took a bag of tortillas from my backpack as I obseved a zombie slowly walking in my direction. Of course he did, I just fired my last rounds, every Z in the city was coming for me. I had my time. Once I was done eating, I got back on my legs and bashed his skul with a showel. Project zomboid may seem like an easy game because the Z simply walk (unless you turn it on) but it's deceptive. You will die. A lot. One bite mean you are a gonner. It will take days to go trough the symptoms but it will claim your life eventually. Unless you turn it off. And it's not a game about zombies. It's a game about decay, the end of the world, the vermin taking over the city, then the plants taking control of the houses, and eventually the road. If the Z don't get you, scarity and the winter will. That's what the crafting system is for, and it take hours to learn the ropes. You can rebuild society. On the mean time, you have the choice. Keep society going, go post apocalyptic or go primitive. Live innawood, innacity, onnaroof, onnaboat, innahouse, innabunker even. Build your house, choose one, live in your car or camp. Yes, this is the best innawood game. You can turn the Z off and go camping, living off the land.

>>8065 I'm playing earthbound for first time on retroarch at my N3DS, is very comfy

Playing a bunch of stuff: >Crab Champions >Dark Souls 2 SOTFS playthrough with my brother >Descenders (bicycle sim, very fun) >Voices of the Void (weird indie game about downloading space signals) >Steins;Gate 0 (so far not as good as the first one) >Higurashi chapter 1 Every few days I'll just pop on and play one of these for a lil bit

Foxhole andd warframe mostly, I finally stopped playing planetside 2 because I realized I was way too invested and becoming toxing, both ingame and irl

Previously played FFIV, enjoyed it. Decided to play all Ps1 available Final Fantasy chronologically, skipping FFVIII.

>>8246 How is it compared to the nes version? How are the load times?

>>8247 Music is better, colors are different, and I assume any bugs and mistakes were fixed. No loading times.

Disco Elysium and Cyberpunk 2077. I've finished the latter countless times, but recently I had an urge to replay it on very hard mode. As for Disco Elysium - it's my second playthrough, and the first one lasted only an hour. Really enjoying the game so far.

Currently going through Enders Lilies before getting Enders Magnolia. I have been on a Metroidvania binge after completing the latest Momodora game, Moonlit Farewell as well as Lost Ruins. I am also playing Ember (real-time RPG similar to Baldur's Gate) and Fantasian: Neo-Dimension on Switch. >>8238 Which is why there was no max level cheat.

E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy. Very jank, nice aesthetic, fun gameplay, a philosophical catalyst for introspection, will not tell you things or give you answers; requires a lot of openness to "use", and a lot of effort.

I had to stop playing Enders Lillies cause it became cheaply frustrating and relied way too much on "trial and error." I am going to focus on Ember and Deus Ex for PC gaming while still playing Fantasian: Neo Dimensions for Switch.

Playing Marvel Rivals & WB's MultiVersus

in the middle of my second factorio run. ive automated up to blue science and advanced oil processing. need to get a proper rail system in place. my first run took 60hrs. this time around im trying to use no outside blueprints and want to set up rail so i can scale easier in the lategame. space age seems fun but i dont want to try it alone >.<

I'm watching old scetches Saturday Night Live - so cool and funny!

I finally completed the original Deus Ex for the first time in my 35 years of life. I went with the most conveniently available ending since it was late at night and then watched the other endings on YT. Currently I am going to go through Thief 2.

Pokemon, I am always shiny hunting Pokemon.

I'm back at routinely do the daily activities in Warframe to catch up with the new content after not playing it for a year. it's a nice change of pace since last time I played, where I was doing pointless endurance runs with a friend. Now I can experiment and strengthen my understanding of the game and different mechanics while grinding meaningful soykaf. And while I wait for things, I'm enjoying Settlemoon alot. a charming lil city builder game. Once i'm done with everything I can do in warframe, I'll go back on my obsessions and fully explore the new Rain world DLC, The Watcher. I've explored two new regions in my 3 hours of playing it. I'm very thrilled by the new content and intrigued by the story so far.

>>8308 Why are my comments getting deleted? Okay, be sure to practice common sense IT safety - check the files with an antivirus, since I personally didn't. Here's what I wanted to comment: 1) Get a DS emulator (Desmume) 2) Browse archive.org for DS pokemon games (https://ia801305.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/28/items/all_pokemon-_games_archived_by_ramdhan/Pok%C3%A9mon.rar) 3) I love you

I've been playing Lost Odyssey, an Xbox 360 exclusive, and it's easily been one of the best gaming experiences I've ever had. The story is incredibly emotional and rich — this feels like Microsoft's own Final Fantasy of the Xbox 360 era. As you progress, you uncover more about the main character and his past throughout the centuries (he's immortal), as well as the deep backstories of the other characters. One of the most powerful elements in the game are the "dreams" — short stories that reveal more about the characters’ lives. These were written by a Japanese novelist and they're the high point of the game. If you're curious, there's a YouTube channel where you can check them out: https://youtube.com/@atyod?si=EocF_hyuctF7Magc I love this game and I wish that Microsoft hadn't cancelled the sequence.

I just completed Doom 2016 for the second time this time on Steam instead of console. I am currently going through Afterimage, a Metroidvania, and Kinki Spiritual Affairs Bureau, a 3rd person shooter action game that parodies Japanese horror and special ops games.

Fatal Frame. its the best horror game for the PS2. resident evil 4 is a close second.

Right now I am mostly playing the bullet hell shooter shoot'em up Suguri. I am very close to acutally beating this, but it is an incredibly hard game as you can see by my hour count, but I will not let that discourage me, I am very close, one day victory will be in my grasp. I am right now quite focused on Japanese studies so I've been quite slow on it. Really good fun game with a lot of unique mechanics. There is a great emphasis on being aggressive rather than being passive, if you are pasive and don't prioritize aggression you will die.

>>8400 I haven't touched it in a long time but back in 2015~ I was absolutely engrossed in it. I still really love the game and the feeling of the levels and music. Glad to see someone else enjoying it. Are you going to play Sora afterwards?

>>8065 i've been playing a lot of star citizen lately. still buggy but way more playable than the soykaffest that used to be.

>>8065 I'm not playing anything right now, just finished a couple of titles, so now I'm at that period where I'm looking for what to play next, I'm considering either the Master System or Mega Drive Hokuto no Ken titles, Kung Fu on NES or The Legend of Kage on NES, I'm in a bit of a martial arts mood for whatever reason, which started out by playing The Karate Kid on NES oddly enough. I blame watching Cobra Kai on Netflix.

Just finished 'Robocop: Rogue City'. A little too narrative-driven for me, but going full death machine is always fun., No idea what I'll play next. Debating between another drunken run of 'Fallout 4' or starting something new.

Previous thread reached its limit so let's use this one. I recently got done Expedition 33. I tried Songs of Conquest but could not get into it due to the factions but fortunately it was gifted to me so I lost nothing. I am planning to go through Rainbow Six Vegas soon as well as Pizza Tower. I have also been playing Capcom Fighting Collection 2 on Switch especially Power Stone.

>>8065 I'm playing both TECMO World Cup Soccer on NES and TECMO World Cup '93 on Master System. It seems that if you're into soccer in the 80s/90s and a video game had either TEHKAN or TECMO in its name, you were set for playing something good.

I couldn't complete Rainbow Six Vegas since it seems like it was meant for co-op and one of the parts towards the end got ridiculous. Not a bad game but it is heavily flawed and needed more quality assurance. I just got hold of my copy of The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy for Switch. I am still at the very beginning but it looks really good.

I bought stellar blade, played for a day and never continued it. Instead I started to play Rimworld again, I've bought the missing DLCs, the new one seems pretty cool, I like how they take popular mods and integrate them directly inside the game.

replaying fnaf games, they are so good in isolation without the memes or books and soykaf

I just got through Signalis for the second time with normal difficulty this time. I plan to go through Code Vein. I had played through it originally on Xbox One several years ago.

>>8065 I like reading the rules

>>8065 Jelly No Puzzle Online html version: https://avorobey.github.io/jelly/

I have been focused lately on total completion of The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy meaning getting all the endings. I like it a lot and how the different storylines explain each other.

Old School RuneScape, it's the only good game. In all seriousness, it's the only game that has really stuck with me and kept me playing for two decades now. I'll try out new stuff every now and then but nothing sticks. I like being able to pick up and play whenever and having whatever progress I make matter forever, timeless classic. Tetris and Typeracing are nice too.

>>8609 I've finished runs on both of these now and moved on to Winning Eleven for the time being, most specifically 2002 and it's new patches/mods with current lineups and competitions, it's crazy what an active community such an old title still has, and all of it for free too. Even the latest FIFA Club World Cup got one with the proper kits and competition aesthetics, it's just great to play. It's better than EA FC and eFootball for sure.

>>8065 just got world at war on the 360... i feel like i dont hear much about this game nowadays...

>>8065 Tetris. This is the only game i've been playing lately, i got discouraged from any other game and now i just want to play tetris

I've finished Amnesia the Bunker on hard, highly recommend it, top tier horror game. I will probably finish it again.

>>8696 The best cod ever! will play it on my ps3, I just need to download it

I have recently picked up playing Starcaft 1 with some friends of mine. It's very hard, especially considering one of them is an oldhead who's very good and the other plays a very turtly style which wrecks me 99% of the time. I'm very slow and don't know what I'm doing most of the time. I've taken to playing the Terran. They require lots of micro management to do well, which is difficult and hard on my hands, but I'm slowly starting to learn the ropes, and figure it out. I won my first game against an actual player today, the turtle guy. It felt very satisfying, and like I won with actual strategy. My approach was to rush spacecraft and start to build a siege army on his base. I started to encroach with my siege tanks and he surprised me with an attack from behind, which led to my main base being destroyed and me having to scramble to save my remaining bases. It took me a while and I had to rebuild quite slowly but by then he had failed to acquire many more resources and ran dry-- only because he didn't know how to transport units with his race, the Protoss. Overall, I feel a little bad that he only lost the way he did because he didn't know the game as well as I do, but at the same time, I accomplished a very successful legitimate siege, the way they work in real life. I cut him off from his offensive routes, locked him in with chokepoints and made him run dry of resources, which is what killed him in the long run. I think that might be the kind of play that Terrans specialize in? I think one of their best units is the Siege Tank which is crucial in all of their strategies. That and developing air superiority as quickly as possible, because their Battle Cruisers with the Yamato Cannon can melt most high level aerial units, although I feel that is less the case than the Siege approach. Of course, they need a mixture to be successful, which isn't so much the case with the Protoss and the Zerg.

I just achieved all 100 endings for The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy with the final unlocked ending being Ending 55 which is the definitive ending. I liked the game and VN aspects despite some parts needing a fast forward button. I think I will go through Hexen Remastered which I got for free on Steam since I had both normal Heretic and Hexen on Steam.

I have been trying out Gray Zone Warfare. It takes some getting used to. Unlike most extraction shooters, this involves a massive world so it is like Tarkov meets World of Warcraft.

>>8711 These were my finishing stats. I probably fell asleep at one point though, hence the long playtime. You?

Been playing Crimson Horror for Doom 2 recently. Nice halloween / autumn themed WAD.

>>8722 Neat match! Makes me want to pick up SC1 again. Last time i played it was on a n64 emulator on my phone playing SC64. Controls was awkward at first, but surprisingly intuitive after learning them. Won at least a match against zerg as terran. I really enjoyed spamming vultures in the early game with their mines and ion thrusters. Not as strong against zergs, because of overlords, but against protoss it can really help fend off potential attacks for a while until they get their Observers. After that, i would focus on marines with stims and medics, along with some siege tanks and harass. Just have to be careful to not blow up my own marines :D

Started Diablo 1 last week, picked Sorcerer. It was a tough but a fun ride until the very end when I discovered… that I bricked my character! Apparently you can’t be a mage and focus on magic exclusively since there are monsters in the very late-game (Blood Knights) who are fully resistant to anything you cast, and my points in non-magic talents were so low I could only equip starter weapons! Rerolling a rogue (actually an amazon idk why they called her rogue), lets see how it goes. The game is great fun, atmosphere is extraordinary and music is god-tier (or should I say, diablo-tier). Went for a second playthrough as a rogue (amazon). It's been a blast, almost too easy for the first 5-6 dungeon floors. But from there difficulty picked up, and stayed on consistently challenging level till the very end. Killed Diablo himself by stashing full belt of greater mana potions and simply shooting him in point blank range while drinking potions to maintain my mana shield (book luckily bought from Adria in the very last moments).

>>8818 Thanks for the recommendation. Didn't expect Doom wads on lainchan.

>>8065 I'm playing the 1st Harry Potter title on PS1, plan to try out the sequel, and the GBC RPGs, later on too.

>>8832 Could we set up a private server for d1? I would play online this way this doesnt happen

hey guys, i need a game suggestion, i'm looking for a super lightweight FPS solo with survival/exploration and crafting elements, especially gun modding. LINUX ONLY

>>8962 Minecraft with mods. Merry Christmas.

>>8964 get the fuarrrk out of this site. you disgust me

just bought this JRPG, is it any good?

>>8980 nobody? i think it looks really cool...it's like the old jrpg games from my youth on ps1...the only problem is although the graphics are not high-end, for some reason it is crashing my weak surface pro...maybe it'll run smoother in xfce rather than gnome the name is so lame but it looks like it has some really cool intelligent content if you like girly anime rpg games that aren't super cheesy

>>9015 On hardware like that where you probably want to maximise as much resources as possible left over to run actual software instead of the thing that you use to work around the computer, why are you using Gnome or anything else that isn't a simple basic windows manager. >too complicated learn it >it doesn't just wurk sitting in comfort isn't going to get you anywhere

replaying sh3. it's been a massive favorite of mine since middle school. i've replayed it countless times. feels good.

>>8065 I'm playing through Batman: Return of the Joker on NES. It doesn't feel as much as a Batman title as the OG Sunsoft title on NES, nor as much as the Game Boy title of the same name... but it's still a damn good Batman video game, so far the visuals, OST and level design are all great, diffucult, but fair, especially thanks to its password system that works as a save feature. I think I can beat this, I'm on 5-1 right now, and I know there are 7 "worlds" total, so I'm getting there.

i've been playing elin (again) i lost my 50 hours save because steam didn't upload it :(

>>9019 I managed to beat it, and then went ahead and beat the Genesis port too. I'm more of a Genesis than an NES fan, though I grew up with both, but here? NES is actually made by Sunsoft, Genesis is published by them and developed by a mediocre 3rd party developer, NES looks and sounds better, plays better, everything... Genesis isn't awful though, just not too good.

Starting a new mmo called toram online. I wonder if anyone else plays toram or mmos in general? If so what are your reccs?

>>9045 only mmo i play is osrs it's alright. for other online multiplayer games, ss14 is kind of fun

>>9019 >>9025 thank you for these

>>9053 No problem, Lain! It's always nice to see some good art depicting sexy bodies.

>>8065 I'm playing through Mulan on Mega Drive, a decent bootleg that filled the gap Disney left on home consoles for this film, after beating the surprisingly good Mulan title on Game Boy, impressive animation and decent level design and gameplay, also playing the arcade title Legend of Heroes which clearly ripped of, or adapted without the license, the Mulan film by Disney, also a surprisingly decent title too. I was always sad Mulan seemed to get nothing compared to other Disney films from the 90's in the video game department... but we're actually eating good, I just had to look outside the obvious stuff.

Been playing rimworld again, been pretty cool so far. Last time I played was with Ideology so quite a bit of new content now. >>9046 Dunno if its surprising to hear people talk about ss14 here tho I guess ss13 got a lot of it's players from tg/vg. Still pretty cool that the curse is finally broken with 14

>Soul Hackers (3DS) Realised I bought this game 13 years ago but never finished it. Play it during the commutes to/from work. >Stalker 2 Loved the first three, so I bought it on instinct. Not as good, but has its moments, >American McGee's Alice Jabberwocky can eat six dicks with a side of balls .>>8154 >jet grind radio I know this is a post from two years ago, but JGR/JSR is my favourite game of all time. Great taste.

>>8065 I uninstalled Tainted Grail cause it was too much like Skyrim and didn't care for the "twist on King Arthur legend" crap. I am going to try to go through Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen as a spellcasting archer. I also have been playing Chrono Gear.

>>9121 I reinstalled Tainted Grail and will be giving it another chance. Dragon's Dogma feels clunky but it is still decent.

Well I completed the main mission in Dragon's Dogma and began the epilogue but noticed it seemed very grindy so I looked up a walkthrough and decided to look up the "true ending." I am glad I stopped right there. Nice little explanation about why there is a self-aware and smart dragon trying to kill everyone but the rest did not make sense. I also hated the way it chooses a "beloved" for your character. I also went through Ib and liked it overall despite not knowing how to get any other ending besides the basic bad one and the better one even after going through the hidden segment on a second playthrough. Nice game overall. Tainted Grail is better than I first thought and I am glad overall that I reinstalled it. I got it as a Yule gift so it is all good.

>>8065 I replayed TECMO World Cup '93 on SEGA Master System... which is odd because there was no World Cup in 1993, and it wasn't made by TECMO at all, it was called Kick 'n Rush in Japan and was made by SIMS, a great SEGA developer, it was localized as if it was madeTECMO for the Master System, and as if it was made by Tengen on the Game Gear... decent title though, I like how you can choose your kit color, so I can play as Brazil, but with their blue, I like the new Jordan one, I might buy that. A shame we lost to France, the team's still rough around the edges... thankfully I did win the 1993 World Cup afterall.

I am currently liking the new update for Gray Zone Warfare. Snowbreak: Containment Zone is still offline. I am also liking Tainted Grail more.

>>8962 You should definitely check out Ashes 2063. It's sprite-based and runs on zdoom, so it should be lightweight and work natively on linux. It's also entirely free. The setting is post-apocalyptic, which seems up your alley. The first episode is neat, but it's the second episode, afterglow, where it gets stellar with exploration/environments and gets more gun upgrading. The music is also great, I particularly love the mission completion music from the first episode. I do recommend playing in order, since there is some plot progression, plus the first episode is still solid and not too long.

>>8065 I'm playing PS1 Space Jam right now... it's very bare bones, the only things you get are a standard basketball match, a few mediocre minigames in between quarters, and a mode where you have to win 5 matches in a row, the only good thing I genuinely found is that if you switch all of the subpar extras off it can be a decent NBA Jam clone for what it is. P.S. winning 3 out of 5 would've been fitting in basketball... 5 in a row to win the mode is BULLSHIT though.

I completed Tainted Grail. Now I am playing Sudeki (GOG version) and I am liking it more than I expected. I had to make changes in the Nvidia setting to address jagged lines and to turn on Vsync. It is going well.

>>8065 Lately i've been playing a pokemon fire red romhack called moemon. It's basically the vanilla game but the sprites have been modded to all be kawaii anime girls. I love it. Great way to freshen up a game I've played like 5 times over already.

>>9160 I've managed to win those 5 in a row on "Easy" and even then it was a pain, it all comes down to your attacks are 50/50 wheter you score or not, but defending is BS so you'll concede on most attacks, so winning can be a pain, especially when it comes to winning 5 in a row, I'm proud that I managed to do it even on the easiest setting... I SUCK at this and I put in effort.

>>8065 AoE2: DE Playing competitive PvP is a unique experience, I really enjoy pushing myself and trying to improve. When I get into a flow state in a close game it's genuinely meditative, it clears my head+takes me out of whatevers troubling me irl+energises me afterwards. It's also just really fun feeling like your brain is pushed to its absolute limit trying to juggle mechanics multi-tasking split second decisions and long term planning all at once

wow I sort of wish I felt like I had time and mental attention available to play a good game. Any recommended war simulation games for Ganoo Leenux (I can use wine I guess if I can find the dang things)

>>9167 Dominions 6, 4x strategy with insane depth, works flawlessly with proton

>>9172 Not him, but that game looks awesome! Might give it a try myself when the opportunity presents itself :) >>9167 >war simulation games for Ganoo Leenux I'm not 100% sure, but one would think Hearts of Iron IV ought to work. But if that isn't to your liking, a couple months ago I found an Age of Empires-like RTS game called 0AD on Arch package lists. I gave it a whirl and thought it was pretty decent, and since it worked on Arch, I suspect it ought to work on your OS as well.

>>9173 >Might give it a try myself when the opportunity presents itself :) It's super addicting once you get the hang of it. I've played multiplayer with friends a lot too, which works well cus the turns are made asynchronously (the turn only ticks once everyone has submitted their moves). Maybe if we get enough lainons interested we could get a game going?

I just completed Sudeki (GOG version) and it was good overall but really needed refinement. It also seemed like it got rushed at the end. I will try Subnautica for the first time tomorrow.

>>9175 I am liking Subnautica so far and I like how it has an unstuck feature in the menu just as Tainted Grail does. Also, Snowbreak servers are back so I did some catching up.

I dropped Mouse PI cause it wasn't really that fun and I dislike the plot synopsis. I am going to keep playing Subnautica and get started on Tormented Souls 2, the latter of which I got as a gift. Also, I got a couple of mods working for Snowbreak to de-censor it. Suck it CCP and feminists. Oh and I might do some more Gray Zone Warfare this weekend.

>>8065 I'm in the mood for MJ after the film, so I'm playing Moonwalker on SEGA Mega Drive and it's been a blast. I grew up with it, but never got far, now I'm back into it and beat it on "Easy" with savestates as I was only getting a few shorts bursts to play it, I'll have more time this weekend to sit down and go for a full run, no more savestates, I'll try finishing it on "Easy" then maybe move up difficulties. It's genuinely a fun title, has that SEGA feel from the late 80's and early 90's that I love, it reminds me of Spider-Man vs. The Kingpin.

>Idols of Ash Great game. You descend a pit and as long as your in its inhabitant a giant millipede tries to consoooom you. Gameplay is fun and the edge cases are easy to learn. Base game can be completed in 25 minutes first playthrough if you can do 3D platforming, realistically this is about 6 hours of game to get quite good and do most of the levels. Ought have mods (I would like a organic-looking, colorful light mode, bhop level like), does not yet. >Deadlock Very hard, based on movement / shooting skill together with item / stat combination knowledge. Kinda fun, but a total timesuck with matches averaging 30 minutes.

Subnautica 2 has been pretty fun, especially playing with friends online where we just mess around and build soykaf. There has been bugs and crashes but that is to be expected (picrel air bag thing shot super high up). Runs ok on my machine, it is kinda demanding but it's a newer game. We got to the hot zone part and stopped there for now. I like how the cave have those bubble plants at the bottom but I'm confused on what to really do next since it's mostly trial and error.

>>8065 I've been playing Ship Of Harkinian lately, which is a PC port of Ocarina of Time It's really easy to install AND you can also put sick mods onto it; I chose to play as a hot feminist women, for example

I had to stop playing Tormented Souls 2 cause of a game breaking glitch so I watched the ending online. The game was a missed opportunity. Currently, I am playing Illusion of Time/Gaia on an original Xbox with emulation since my PC's SNES9x application will not run it for some reason. Other games work just fine though.

>>8065 Currently playing WH40k: Rogue Trader. It’s starting to grow on me despite the clunky combat and leveling system.

Beat Motorslice recently. Great post-apocalypse platformer. Completionist friendly since you can get all achievements in reasonable time and even after that have a bit of extra replay value left to collect 100% orbs in subchapters.

>>8711 Ontos is coming out this year. It probably won't be as heavy on the survival horror side but I am so excited. I like The Bunker more than Alien Isolation because Alien Isolation is too long for me and not as explicitly open-ended. I hope Alien Isolation 2 takes inspiration from Amnesia The Bunker.

>What game are you playing? Final Fantasy 2, on the Gameboy Advance port. It's the one 2d FF game I've never really played through to completion. Haven't yet beaten it - at time of writing my save file is right outside the last dungeon. I like how open-ended the game is and how, if you know where to look, you can score some pretty good loot from the outset. I like the large variety of weapons and magic, although I dislike how everything but swords are kinda eh for attacking with. I like the big magic list - this is the game that adds alot of the series' staples, like Toad, Ultima, and osmose, and I like the thematic differences in how you get magic: Most of the white spells you can buy, but the black spells you have to win off enemies (The mage family of enemies are a very good source of spell tomes, including being able to get Flare like four dungeons before you're intended to). I like the (admittedly light, but what do you expect from a NES game) plot and how it really does feel like you're fighting a war, infiltrating enemy strongholds, liberating prisoners, destroying superweapons, retaking the game's equivalent of Cornera, etc. It's a total ripoff of Star Wars, especially in the first half, but it works. I like that the world changes as you advance the plot - epitomized by What's basically the Death Star II outright destroying four main towns. The game also has the Morrowind quality where it's just fun to master the game's mechanics to the point where you can become very overpowered. The Emperor is also just genuinely fuarrrking cool. He raised an army of monsters to conquer the world alongside the more 'conventional' soldiers and wizards of his army. When you storm the second Death Star, he fights your party himself, and Comes back from actual, no hyperbole Hell to serve as the final boss. He makes Gestahl look like a pussy. It is a NES game again, so, light on plot and probably my imagination doing the heavy lifting, but I feel like that's a good thing. 2's story overall I feel helped lay the groundwork for the 1st half of 6, in a good way, with the fighting a war against a world-conquering empire. The keyword and dialogue system is also really cool and unique, and helps dialog feel more like an actual conversation rather than being told "Welcome to Corneria!" by random townies. Minwu is also a really good introduction to the rotating guest party member system by essentially being your set of training wheels, with his big arsenal of white magic to help you through the first dungeon. Him departing also shows how the war's getting serious. What I don't like is the mechanics, which, while fun to exploit, aren't very well explained and you can only really get the most out of them if you're already familiar with how they work. Dodge tanking, for instance, is almost completely preferable to face tanking, since even with heavy armor you can still be very quickly killed. It also does mean you can grind sixteen weapon levels from the moment you get control of your party and steamroll everything. The GBA port nerfed this, but did so by making grinding weapon levels really weirdly difficult, since you need to fight a 'powerful enough enemy' to advance the skill, but, from how it's calculated, you can literally be fighting the enemies in the final dungeon and still not get any skill points. Leveling magic doesn't have this, so you can just grind sixteen fire levels and nuke everything, regardless. Getting more MP is also a bitch and the best way I found to do it is to just cast Sap and Swap on your own party. The weird elder scrolls leveling system was ambitious and very novel for RPGs, diverging from the more traditional D&D soykaf of FF1, but it's also probably why the game has been critically panned, since it's odd to get your head around. The game's world is also tiny and you can traverse the entirety of it (beyond like 2 islands and the semifinal dungeon) on foot. The game also doesn't stop you from going into an area with enemies that are too powerful for your party to handle, or, contrarily, from going to the wizard town and buying overpowered magic from the word go. The magic balance is all over the place because of the spell level system, where the cost for any particular spell is equal to its level, which means Sleep 16, which just puts enemies to sleep, and Toad 16, which is an instant kill spell, have the same resource cost: 16 mp. Alot of the spells are also redundant (Silence and Amnesia both suppress spellcasting, for example) and there's like a dozen variants of spells that just one-shot an enemy (admittedly with a range of elements to get around some immunities) Teleport, thankfully, does give white magic users some bite before you get Holy, and it's available pretty early on, and lets you get out of dungeons without backtracking. Aside from Minwu the rotating guest party members are kiiiinda crappy. Ricard is about as good as they get since he has alot of sword levels and good equipment when you get him. And we have to talk about the elephant in the room: the boss fights, or the total lack thereof. Every single boss besides The Emperor and The Hell Emperor is a regular enemy from 1-2 dungeons later in the game. None of them have a unique name or sprite, and none of them are very dangerous. Alot of them can be one-shotted by Teleport. Boss fights are usually supposed to be the high points of a FF game and the deficiency here is probably the game's biggest failing. Overall the game's design is very novel and envelope-pushing but brought down by being imbalanced and some questionable design choices. I'd rate 2 as: below 1, on par with 4, and above 3. 3 used to be one of my favourites but it's aggressive linearity, annoying design choices, and really soykaf final boss have kind of soured me on it. I'm gonna need to replay it on the NES later and see if it's tougher, since I feel like the game's been a tad easy and it might be the same kid gloves the GBA port of FF1 was wearing.

Steam Next Fest started yesterday, which means tons of upcoming games are providing free demos available to play. I'm struggling to find games that stick lately which is why I'm happy to dive into those piles of small demos. For my rather specific interests I've already found a dozen of interesting entries to try. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raY_EDMfVqg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiJg2l_F1To https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwDObErm9H4

>>9239 You can also find games on torrents and shut the fuarrrk up.

i've tried playing earthbound for the second time, and again i couldn't finish it. what is so cool about this game? i don't think its bad, just boring after a while because of the repetitiveness in fights and ton of those inconsequential fights. the vibe of it and graphics are nice, but the story just isn't pulling me in. and for example i had great fun with chrono trigger, which i consider similar to some extent.

>>9241 Going through one-click install demos gathered in one place with all kinds of sorting and tags is much more efficient way to try more games in less time than going through torrents and you must be heavily mentally deficient to not realize this.

>free demos *paid for with your data I can't believe lainons still fall for the "free stuff" meme

>>9243 >Look at how convenient this proprietary DRM spyware is! (posted on lainchan.org)

>>9245 I trust Gaben, but if you don't you can still use the website to browse those games, download them using sandboxed steam-cli, then run with umu-launcher, bottles or whatever else you like. >>9244 Are you retaгded? Don't you know how gamedev works? Developers go extra miles to make working demo in time for fests like this because it is the ultimate opportunity to shiII their game to wide audiences and get wishlisted. I wonder what kind of nonsense you even have in your mind, do you think Steam can decide instead of developers to give demos of their games on a whim? How would that even work, where would they get demos for WIP games on developers behalf? And even for complete games do you think Steam can touch game binaries and like cut 80% of files to turn it into demo automagically? That's not how any kind of development works and Steam can't touch soykaf and make any decisions other than allow or disallow a game on their platform.

>>9247 >I trust Gaben Good for you. https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/steam >you can still use the website to browse those games Which is the same kind of spyware translated into javascript. >download them using sandboxed steam-cli, then run with umu-launcher, bottles or whatever else you like. Or maybe just torrent or use GOG instead of using the equivalent of a SaaS platform so you actually own the game.

>>9247 >download them using sandboxed steam-cli, then run with umu-launcher, bottles or whatever else you like. If I do this, will Steam be unable to track me?

>>9249 No. Steam games are "packaged" with their own DRM and leased to you.

>>9248 > Steam collects and shares huge amounts of sensitive user information Most of this information belongs to two big groups: your banking information saved to buy games your hardware information to share with Steam and make stuff like Proton work better It is fully understandable if you want to avoid this, but trusting them is still a fine option as well because they still have the reputation of "good guys" and they also are the main reason of current state of Linux gaming (because of Proton). > Steam has been and may still be recording your internet history That one is complete BS and in my case it's not even possible because it's installed via flatpak. > Steam is self-updating software Only updates when I do "flatpak update" and confirm. > Or maybe just torrent or use GOG instead of using the equivalent of a SaaS platform so you actually own the game. Some of those games may have their demos on itch, most only have them on Steam. They're definitely not on torrents. Game developers don't go to torrent trackers to share demos of their WIP games there. >>9249 >>9250 That DRM is optional and many (most?) games just ignore it exists and don't bother using it. Expect the biggest greedy megacorporate AAA titles to have it enabled and everything else not. Stuff like Bethesda, GTA, Cyberpunk - that is where you will most likely find it used.

>>9251 >Most of this information belongs to two big groups: >Your banking information saved to buy games Which is already a potential risk if someone hacks their servers. But whatever, everyone does this so it's good am I right? >Your hardware information to share with Steam and make stuff like Proton work better Sure, just like microsoft collects data constantly, using 30% of your CPU idle, and constantly pings back home for "diagnostics". >trusting them is still a fine option as well because they still have the reputation of "good guys" Maybe if you're a tourist from /v/ or reddit. >and they also are the main reason of current state of Linux gaming (because of Proton). They don't do this for charity. It's to gain a market advantage for their own future console. >That DRM is optional No. That DRM is mandatory. I'm not talking about Denuvo but it's similar. It's Steam's own DRM that lets them pull the plug if you are not playing while being logged in on their servers for too long, or if they find anything fishy. Otherwise the whole leasing system wouldn't work and people could buy the game and uninstall the client forever (like GOG). You can literally see the DRM files in a steam game folder and it's what pirates have to crack for websites that rip games from Steam. Even if you trust the billionaire mega corporation with your data, the issue here is that you do not own the game but a license to play it on their own terms. Everyone hated Steam when it was released for this kind of license-system and Valve made it a standard.

>>9252 > They don't do this for charity. It's to gain a market advantage for their own future console. It's still beneficial to support them in this for now. There is no better opportunity to invest in a well maintained Linux gaming ecosystem. I will hardline them only when they fuarrrk up their reputation bad enough. > Which is already a potential risk if someone hacks their servers. But whatever, everyone does this so it's good am I right? I don't think your checkout information is possible to use to steal your money even when servers are hacked. No one stores this kind of information unprotected. Maybe they can leak your email/name/phone or whatever else is there, but all of this information isn't even required if you don't plan to buy anything on Steam, you can probably use it for demos and free games only without adding your credit card info and therefore without adding any of your personal info whatsoever. I think it doesn't even require phone to register, you can just use burner email or email alias. > Sure, just like microsoft collects data constantly, using 30% of your CPU idle, and constantly pings back home for "diagnostics". Steam does randomized hardware surveys and if you are chosen to participate, it will ask you if you agree to share your hardware information. There is meming in Linux gaming communities about "can't wait to share my nixos stats" or whatever, because those hardware surveys are later used in global OS gaming stats and Linux numbers go up recently. I don't know about telemetry in general though, if this is the only kind of telemetry they do or there is more. I find it highly unlikely to be anywhere as insane as Windows sending your keystrokes and screenshots of your screen every few minutes and stuff like that. > No. That DRM is mandatory. I'm not talking about Denuvo but it's similar. It is optional and you can find lists and tools to check if a Steam game is DRM-free or not. https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45614612-DRM-Free-Complete-List/ Anyway I agree with your take that it's better to buy games on platforms that allow you to own the files forever like GOG, but I personally will still support Steam for now. Most games I play are small indies that aren't even on GOG anyway and I never buy AAA stuff, I would only ever play that if I can pirate it.

>>9253 Notice how both your answers to the stored information are just hypotheticals. It's proprietary software and you will never know what they actually do with it. >It is optional and you can find lists and tools to check if a Steam game is DRM-free or not. https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/drm it's MANDATORY. That's not the Steam DRM your link is referring to! Have you ever tried playing a Steam game executable while not logged in? Where do you think the login popup comes from? Have you ever checked your inbound connections while playing a Steam game? Do you think the game developers put the code inside their own game to connect to Valve servers? How is Steam able to block you from playing the game if you move the files elsewhere or if you don't log in? It's the pre-packaged DRM Steam puts into every game you buy. They need to compile the Steam DRM in to sell it on Steam, otherwise the whole buy-it-as-a-license system wouldn't work. Read the link above. I also literally told you you can find the DRM files on any game you buy, and that pirates need to crack that DRM to share it on steam-piracy websites. Are you just silently assuming I'm making soykaf up?

>>9254 It's not mandatory and your own screenshot proves it: > Q. My C# / .Net game doesn't run after applying the Steam wrapper > A. The Steam wrapper doesn't support .Net applications. Instead of using the DRM wrapper, use SteamAPI_RestartAppIfNecessary. If you go to the link to read about SteamAPI_RestartAppIfNecessary, it mentions it's also optional. Steam doesn't care about people pirating your game, it gives you some basic tools to slightly protect it if you want, but most of those APIs are meant for achievements, saves, and online player metrics. And you are free to not use them at all. > Q. Do I need to apply DRM to my exe every time I make a new build? What they meant by this is that wrapper tool modifies executable and if you want to use their drm you need to apply it again after you recompile your game because you have different unmodified executable. It doesn't mean that it's necessary to use this tool, just that if you choose to use it, don't forget to use it again after rebuild. > I also literally told you you can find the DRM files I checked few games and only a single one had something like steam_api.dll, but that is irrelevant, because steam wrapper can just transform exe file and not produce any extra files at all. Anyway, I've been running a Steam game outside of it with umu-run a week ago or so, I'll try it together with few other games later to see how many of my 7-8 currently installed games don't have DRM. > They need to compile the Steam DRM in to sell it on Steam, otherwise the whole buy-it-as-a-license system wouldn't work They don't care, you pay 100$ to host your game on Steam, they get some cut from your sales as well but if you want it, you can have your game unprotected or even completely free. Blender is free on Steam for example. "Oh no the model is broken!"

>>9255 Can you play games bought on Steam without loggin in on your Steam account?

>>9256 usually no. depends on the game, 98% the answer is no

>>9257 This proves the games have Valve's DRM like I said. Argument's over. Not gonna ask you to do the hard work of checking your inbound connections or read the user agreement to see how they sell you a LICENSE to play the game that they can revoke any time they want. As I said, you don't own the game.

>>9258 I didn't even read the argument you've been having to be honest but I will step in: you're not wrong, and no you do not own the game, as steam never offers you an option to store your game locally. Any person with sufficient experience with computers can get around this, though. Valve's DRM is there just to stop normal people from doing soykaf they aren't technically supposed to do. Still against any kind of anti-DRM argument you can think of, but in the end this is the game developer choice, not Valve. As far as I know, you do not need their DRM to have your game listed there. Big titles examples: BG3 does not have valve's DRM, and you can play it completely offline with our steam closed.

>Any person with sufficient experience with computers can get around this, though. Valve's DRM is there just to stop normal people from doing soykaf they aren't technically supposed to do I mean yeah, of course. It's what the guys at cs.rin.ru do. But at that point just torrent (unless you really want that demo i guess) >BG3 does not have valve's DRM, and you can play it completely offline with our steam closed. Doesn't BG3 have it's own launcher from CDPR though, regardless of where you buy it? Maybe that 2% that doesn't need you to log-in on the steam account is just games with their own DRM which can self verify proof of ownership.

>>9260 Not quite sure how they are doing today, but the way I did to play BG3 when it released was: a friend bought it on steam. I got the CSF from him and the game just worked^tm out of the box.

>>9255 >>9256 > I'll try it together with few other games later to see how many of my 7-8 currently installed games don't have DRM. So I just checked few Steam games I've been playing recently and 3 of them don't use Steam DRM and are runnable outside, with Steam app not running at all: Motorslice, Demon Turf, and Cavern of Dreams. Demon Turf is the Queens Edition one which is actually 3 games in 1, they were previously separate releases on Steam. The only difference is that Steam saves and username are ofc not visible/inaccessible and you start from clean state when you run them outside. Some games like Motorslice use Steam username in smart ways incorporated into the storytelling itself, in this case it was replaced by "Autonomous". Example run command: > PROTONPATH=".../GE-Proton10-34" umu-run ./MotorSlice.exe

Hypnospace Outlaw It's a great game in where you are a moderator of the internet in the 90s. You go into websites similar to geocities' ones and look for stuff to report that you got asked for through email. The whole time your interface is a whole OS where you have folders, executables, emails and a browser. There's even video and audio, viruses, etc. Then you get coins with which you can buy software, etc. Really enjoying it.

>>8834 Doom wad here, been trying to get all accomplishments from Doom 1 in gog lately.

>>9265 There's always tons of cool stuff releasing for original Doom games. Check doomworld if interested.

>>9266 >in the 90s there were no j@nnies tell me you didn't browse it without telling me, p0s3r

>>9264 > You go into websites similar to geocities' ones and look for stuff to report that you got asked for through email.

>>9268 you're that dense of a mf that can't even consider playing a game where you think you would be siding with authorities, meanwhile you're telling people on the internet to kill themselves I hope every action you make in life is 100% aligned with being a rebel, but I doubt it since you already showed that you were a poser

>>9269 I would maybe play a cop game ironically, but not a fuarrrking snitch simulator ffs. Ew.

>>9266 >>9268 >>9271 picrel

>>9271 >>9266 how old are you? you know what don't tell me I'd rather think lainchan is still one of the few places where your type is minority

> You go into websites similar to geocities' ones and look for stuff to report > Oh my god what a brilliant game I must play it immediately!

obligatory laingame.net (comes with a simplified version if you can't keep track of Dc files, Tda files, Lda files and Cou files at once)

Otterly Lost - 3d platformer collectathon game where you play as otter, free demo on Steam. It was quite enjoyable to me. Has all kinds of modern extra mechanics like climbing and gliding, mini games and puzzles, etc. I only wish it had some teeth with some monsters trying to kill you, or even with you fighting them, etc. But the whole point might have been to avoid combat and make a fully pacifist 3d platformer, which is an admirable goal.

Yume 2kki! Finally got the English translation loaded in EasyRPG

>>9285 Here's my progress so far. Sorry I only cared to describe the ones I disliked, maybe I'll write more about those I liked later.

I got through Illusion of Time/Gaia last week. I am now going through Super Metroid on SNES9x on PC. I got through Victor Vran last week and got hold of Grim Dawn which I will start soon. Also, I am playing through Stellar Blade for the first time.

Wanted a 4x game to Just One More Turn for a while, so I grabbed Dominions 6. I didn't think I'd enjoy it as much as I am. Very cool magic system/setting. Not sure if I'll try multiplayer or not because I like beating up somewhat dumb AIs more than I like trying to actually outwit people and I don't want to go to the discord(s) for matchmaking.

I'm loving the World Cup so far and got in the mood to play... however I don't have access to EA FC 26 or eFootball Kick Off at the moment, so what I have left is Netflix's FIFA, which isn't as bad as it might seem, but it's subpar. I went for the next best thing, a 2026 World Cup patch on PS1 Winning Eleven... and man, it rocks. I'm loving my Paraguay run on it so far.

Currently going through Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past. It has been nearly 20 years since I last played through it. I got through Super Metroid for the first time in my life a few weeks ago. >>9302 Thrallball. Aristocratic men play sports that help train combat skills such as gunmanship, swordsmanship, kickboxing, and throwing lawn darts.

>>8065 Need For Speed II (PS1). I grew up loving Need For Speed IV: High Stakes (PS1) and Gran Turismo 2 (PS1), so I decided to give this a try as it had the Ford GT90, McLaren F1... a lot of cars I loved from this era, and it seemed simple in its structure. Well, it's quite difficult too, the physics are crazy even in simulation mode, you'll spin and flip often, though your opponents will too, it's quite fun at first honestly, though when you're trying to win it can get frustrating, there's also a lot of rubberbanding, a God sent most of the time, but annoying in those few moments you can get ahead, I usually just win in the last few corners on the last lap. I'm still trying to win the tournament by winning the last race, the knockout mode though? No saving between races, so I'm not doing it, I know what I'm capable of and what I'm bad at. It's fun, I like it, but it's a flawed gem too, and the tracks are too narrow.

Way too many. Sakura wars, persona 5, Mario kart DS, 999, and I'm always playing some slew of arcade fighters and other arcade games like crazy taxi.

played this indie game called yellow taxi goes vroom. overall it was pretty fun platformer reminded me of old platformer games on the n64.

I recently got through Baldur's Gate 2 and its expansion 15 years after having gone through the whole thing previously. This time it was the enhanced edition and I used custom portraits. I also played through as a mage/thief half-elf instead of a human cavalier. I might go through Icewind Dale Enhanced Edition but I am currently playing the new Quake update and will play through the Total Chaos Doom WAD.

Here's some kind of RS3 glitch that seems to have pulled from the rare pool twice.

Here's also some enhanced images from Endfield.

I am currently addicted to Stardew Valley since it combines action with some exploration with crafting and harvesting. The only downsides so far is that you cannot kill villagers and the female carpenter is a mudshark.

>>8065 I'm finally getting into the Castlevania IP. At the moment I'm going through the 1st NES titles, and the arrange mode in Castlevania Chronicles for PS1. I think it's good for someone like me who's just starting out. It all started with me wanting a video game where you attack with a whip, unfortunately most Indiana Jones titles are awful, so I went with Castlevania to scratch that itch for me. I'm enjoying it so far, glad I gave this IP a shot.

In terms of Doom, still playing RAMP2026 - it's always a mixed bag ofcourse, but definitely the best mapset series for maximum variety of wild mapping ideas and experimental gzdoom scripting. This time there's record amount of maps that are basically a small standalone game prototypes. Someone even managed to program a furry sidescroller.

>>9361 In terms of other games, still keep enjoying Genshin Impact. Still didn't spent any money on it. Gonna get handheld retroconsole for birthday, maybe I'll play some classic 3d platformers like Spyro or some Dreamcast stuff in bed.