Malix
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- Comment on Day 576 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
It the map has locations named and there’s a compass, I’ll manage. The quest pointer in later bethesda games is “a bit” too much handholding, imo. But that said I’ve seen some mw memes about some cube and how hard it is to find… No idea what that’s about but probably going to find out :P
- Comment on Day 576 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
so, I take there’s no in-game map then? oof, but I can deal with map on second monitor.
attacks not connecting might bug me a bit, but I suspect there’s some mod for that if it ends up breaking my brain.
Thanks, these were good to know stuff!
- Comment on Day 576 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
ah, in that case I’m gonna venture forth without it. Expansions are cool, but I kinda want to get my feet wet with the base game first. QoL mods which make the experience have “less friction” I’m entirely fine with
- Comment on Day 576 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
oh for sure (near vanilla) experience for first time. Gameplay changing mods etc are for playthroughs after the first one.
I take the Tamrield Rebuilt mods are mostly quality-of-life -stuff?
- Comment on Day 576 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been meaning to check out Morrowind, most people have been frothing about it since forever and… tbh, only Elder Scrolls game I have really played has been Skyrim, only dabbled with Oblivion and Morrowind.
And… oh, OpenMW is in my linux distro’s repository too, that’s one barrier removed already! I take MW is quite a bit more approachable than Daggerfall, but probably quite a bit less than eg. Skyrim?
- Comment on I Live In Eastern Europe And I'm Making A Creepy Game About Authoritarianism (Demo Is Live) 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been waiting for this demo, right off the bat I have 2 technical points to raise:
- please offer a toggle for the filmgrain/noise. streamers and youtubers will thank you, as that stuff absolutely murders capture quality.
- my framerate tanked to 35 and staid there after the intro interrogation, which ran fine at stable 120 fps (uncapped, vsync). Using linux + proton-ge.
- Comment on Remedy's new CEO is a former sports betting guy and EA executive who aims to 'scale Remedy in a way that builds lasting value' 2 weeks ago:
so… FBC: Firebreak 2: MTX Boogaloo: Revenge
- Comment on Moder games with Abuse-like controls scheme? 5 weeks ago:
honestly, can’t remember the plot at all, it’s been about 3 eternities since I’ve played it. I do recall liking the gameplay tho. :P
- Comment on Moder games with Abuse-like controls scheme? 5 weeks ago:
Oh, also: Rochard - if you can get it anywhere, it is pretty dope. It’s a bit of a mix of action & puzzle platformer but with Abuse-like controls. It was pulled from steam years ago, dunno if it’s available on consoles still.
- Comment on Moder games with Abuse-like controls scheme? 5 weeks ago:
Way back I played a bit of A.R.E.S: Extinction Agenda (store.steampowered.com/…/ARES_Extinction_Agenda/) - it’s a bit of a score attack game, but controls pretty similarly to Abuse.
If purely multiplayer game is your thing, Teeworlds (store.steampowered.com/app/380840/Teeworlds/ , teeworlds.com) controls just like Abuse. It’s about cure orb-shaped creatures duking it out. It’s free, btw.
- Comment on Pet Peeves with Games? 1 month ago:
Skipping straight to action instead of main menu and options is annoying.
When I started playing [game name here, atm can’t remember it, it’s from warframe people] it immediately started a plot cutscene which wasn’t available later on. I sure wanted to see that plot presented in a 720p medium settings on my large 1440p display.
Sure, in the grand scheme of things the plot in the game is irrelevant as it can be, but damn it, let me enjoy it full screen.
They have likely fixed, but holy hell, why was it like that in the first place. Abysmal new player experience.
- Comment on Day 541 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 month ago:
That’s looks like the part of the game where you chase the mob guy with the squeaky voice. I recall having to redo the part several times, if the random goons didn’t kill me, the “boss” sure did.
But then again most scenes in the game were like that, the difficulty felt hella swingy all the time.
- Comment on First spin with 5K UHD 2160p Ultra Wide 2 months ago:
oh wow. That sounds like quite a bit of troubleshooting.
- Comment on First spin with 5K UHD 2160p Ultra Wide 2 months ago:
hmm, if the steam’s controller translation gets in the way, can’t you just… disable steam overlay for the game? That should prevent the translation.
- Comment on First spin with 5K UHD 2160p Ultra Wide 2 months ago:
never mind the display, that cockpit is glorious tho. How much of a configuration hell is it with game? Elite (AFAIK) accepts pretty much anything as an input, but what about other games?
- Comment on Day 498 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 months ago:
is Steam a flatpak or such on Bazzite? AFAIK that makes quite a difference. DE shouldn’t, but… who knows.
Either way, if the change was a positive one, it’s great.
- Comment on Day 498 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 months ago:
Curious to know what happened with Bazzite to make you switch. I haven’t used it myself but I’ve only heard good things about it.
Been thinking of trying out cachy, but I already have perfectly good and configured Arch, so haven’t bothered.
- Comment on Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production 2 months ago:
only played the shareware, until I found out that the full game was eventually released as freeware.
Then years after I went to game store and bought One Must Fall: Battlegrounds on release day… mistakes were made.
- Comment on Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production 2 months ago:
ut99 > 2k4! But it is a close call, admittedly.
But also, epic released some absolute bangers in the 90’s, though admittedly as a publisher. eg. Castle of the Winds, One Must Fall 2097.
- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 2 months ago:
started Red Dead Redemption 1 last night, seems like just hitting esc during cutscene pauses it.
Admittedly I was wanting to go to settings and drop some settings, but that’s only allowed during gameplay, not cutscenes x)
- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 2 months ago:
the bane of my eyes. I don’t have glasses, but holy hell this effect starts to strain my eyes when games have it.
- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 2 months ago:
in general: settings which have multiple levels, display it as a slider so I can visually see which ones are actually maxed out and which arent. It’s insanity when most settings have off/low/med/high/higher and randomly some of them have additional levels like epic/ultra/psycho/gigaultrapseudobullshit. You have to go each and everyone through to figure out which have higher settings. Now, this is not a flex, my system can’t run new games on gigaultrapseudobullshitultra++, but older ones? sure.
for fps & tps games: FOV.
otherwise, in no particular order, option to toggle off entirely:
- motion blur
- chromatic aberration
otherwise, must haves:
- subtitles on/off
- master volume/music/sfx/dialogue as separate sliders.
- don’t default volume to max, this is instant ear explosion if you happen to use different audio devices
- Comment on 2 months ago:
it kinda feels like the more expensive a game is, the less value it seem to have.
- Comment on We have one at home 3 months ago:
heh, I have Superbook for the exact same purpose! (for the uninitated: it was a “laptop” which used your phone/tablet/etc as the tech, it was basically just a 1080p screen and keyboard for a phone).
Mine took 3-4 factory resets and firmware flashes to get working, and then the damn thing gave up the ghost the same night and hasn’t worked since… not that it has any real use anyway. Good buy /s
- Comment on a Landscape of Knowledge Games 3 months ago:
Chants of Sennaar was great! Had an absolute blast trying to work my way through it. I probably sounded like I was playing Baba Is You when trying to wrap my head around the glyphs (?) and the messages they try to convey.
Figuring out the symbols, their meaning and then using them properly to translate between different people was surprisingly rewarding and fun. I wouldn’t have minded if the game had a bit more gameplay, but at least it didn’t overstay it’s welcome.
- Comment on Valves first title with a 3 in it 3 months ago:
portal 3
- Comment on 3 months ago:
well, if we’re sticking to scummvm, they offer some free games on their site: scummvm.org/games/#games
the freebies are in general fairly old (like early-to-mid 90’s dos stuff), but work fine on scummvm, hence they’re offering them there. AFAIK all of them are controlled by mouse only.
Not all of them are suitable for all ages though.
Flight of the Amazon Queen is a story set in 40’s, about a pilot for hire and his small plane crashing into the amazons while transporting a movie star. Overall theme is cartoony/goofy/comedy, with a bit of juvenile humour ( by modern standards). There are some things some could find unsuitable for children, I guess.
- rubber breasts, used in non-sexual way to build a costume to fool gangsters
- the “bad guys” are essentially ww2 germans (but not referred as such, iirc their faction isn’t even given a name, I think)
- some alcohol & tobacco references
- very mild innuendos.
Beneath a steel sky - postapocalyptic oppressive world, although a bit cartoony/comical and oddly british considering the story takes place in australia. Banger adventure game but does contain few violent deaths. I played this during my early teens, but I wouldn’t suggest letting very young kids have a go at this.
The rest of the games on there I either haven’t played or can’t recommend.
But, since you asked for games for kids to learn to use mouse, I suspect the kids in question are like 5-7? These 2 games aren’t probably for them yet.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
If you want to just, remove steam from the equation, eg. for no-internet kids’ computer:
basically: buy them from steam, then just install them. Then, just copy the game files somewhere else, install scummvm & add the games to scummvm to play them.
Scummvm is just an app which runs these older adventure games on wide variety of systems, incl modern windows (the games are occasionally so old, windows doesn’t support them natively at all). Scummvm is fairly straightforward to set up, basically just click “add game” -> browse to where the game is -> ok -> it is now in scummvm, click “Play” to play it.
If you’re asking about “yar har har, me mateys, and a bottle of rhum” -methods, that’s an excercise left for the reader.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
ye. ended up checking some of the games’ store pages. There’s a note about scummvm.
Dunno if they keep the scummvm updated though, not that it matters much unless there’s an issue with a specific game. IIRC Indy Atlantis is bundles with decade+ old scummvm, though it’s been a while since I checked.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
depends on the age of your kids, buuuut: if they’re fairly young, maybe spyfox/putt-putt/pajama-sam/freddi-fish games? those can be found on eg. steam, and should run fairly painlessly from there.
Basically they are point & click adventure games aimed for younger kids. I’m in my 40’s and kinda do enjoy spyfox as well x)
The games are fairly old (afaik mid-to-late 90’s, or so), so graphics are fairly low res by today’s standards, but they’re essentially just playable cartoons with mild puzzles, all dialogue is spoken (subtitles are an option) and no real fail states.