HER0

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[–] HER0 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It isn't just for menus, having good mouse input allows you to play significantly more games than with just joysticks.

The touchpads also can act as extra buttons or touch menus, giving you way more input options for games where you don't need one to be a mouse.

[–] HER0 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It will always happen. Games are going to generally target the lowest common denominator: the weakest of the current generation mainstream consoles. Right now, that means Xbox Series S.

[–] HER0 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've been playing through Mark of the Ninja Remastered. It works pretty well after you switch to Proton, as the native version has some bugs and crashes.

Before that, the previous game I played through on the Deck was A Short Hike, which is incredibly cute.

[–] HER0 2 points 1 year ago

I hosted a Barotrauma event with my inclusive Linux gaming community. We had 5 people playing through a campaign that we started early this year, and we ended up playing for a long time.

[–] HER0 2 points 1 year ago

I agree with what many others are saying:

  • Ground Branch gameplay is very reminiscent of old Ghost Recon. Probably the standout feature is the customization/loadouts.
  • Ready Or Not is like SWAT, which has a lot of similarities to old Rainbow Six. The atmosphere is a lot more grim compared to the others. This also has decent AI teammates and commanding over them when playing single player.
  • Arma 3. In a lot of ways, the Arma series can be compared to Ghost Recon, but with a ton of extra realism/depth/scale/gameplay possibilities. There is also a ton of single player content across the base game, DLCs, and community-made missions and mods. Or you can make your own missions. The official single player content has a surprising amount of lore, if you are into that. Compared to the rest of my suggestions, this is the only game that isn't in early access (and it shows). There is so much more to say about Arma 3, if you have interest, but I don't want to write too much here if you don't need to hear more.
  • Zero Hour has had a lot of its thunder stolen by Ready Or Not, but it might still be worth looking into if you want more options.
[–] HER0 2 points 1 year ago

One problem: It is not easy to legally obtain Prey (2006) anymore. I wish more old games were still available on Steam :(

[–] HER0 3 points 1 year ago

Perhaps Barotrauma would be interesting to you? Most of the game can be boiled down to navigating a submarine from point to point, with stops to gather resources and complete objectives along the way.

It also has fuel, maintenance, upgrades, etc.

[–] HER0 3 points 1 year ago

If you must have Game Pass Ultimate to play games on PC, and must not use streaming, switching to Linux full time will probably never be possible.

I think that if you want to switch entirely, you will either have to accept that you can't use Game Pass or get an Xbox to play those games. The more practical approach is probably to use Linux as much as you can, and reboot into Windows when there is a game you really want to play which isn't available otherwise.

[–] HER0 2 points 1 year ago

I just bought Silica and Gunner, HEAT, PC!, which have both been pretty cool so far. Both are early access games that I wanted to support.

Silica has way more to it than I expected, and I'm excited to play more (hopefully with friends, at some point).

GHPC is sort of like single player (for now) War Thunder, with a pretty cool simulation of Cold War era tanks and ballistics while still being fairly accessible. One interesting thing it does: the tank commander will speak to you (which is where the title of the game comes from), and it will get increasingly more tense and eventually turn into panicked screams, depending on the situation.

I'm playing these on Linux, and I have a weird audio issue with GHPC. Nobody else seems to experience this, and it doesn't happen on my Steam Deck.

[–] HER0 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd go back to Oblivion if it weren't for the scaling enemies. That really takes a lot of the fun away for me, ever since I realized the game does this.

[–] HER0 3 points 1 year ago

I was really frustrated with Fable 3 when I

spoilerhad taken all of the "friendly, but more expensive" choices, as ruler, leaving me with no money for my army. I had the money needed to have a full army before the invasion in my personal stash, and was intending on moving it all to fund the army before the invasion.

However, I accidentally moved time forward (with no obvious warning) to the day before the invasion, and it was too late for me to do anything to fix it. I was so upset that I didn't finish the game for a long time after that.


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