Honestly my greatest fear for the game is that it’s just bland. I can live with a flawed game (the original VTMB certainly could be called a flawed game itself after all.), but I think blandness would be the real killer for me.
Gaming journalism has really lost all credibility. A fucking 10/10 from TheSixthAxis. For this pile of shit. Even if you’re a hardcore pokemon fan, as a journalist you can’t just ignore the issues. No wonder GameFreak feels no need to do better when they all lap it up like honey, no matter what they release
beautifully shows what city life is like in the Pokémon universe
With flat ugly buildings? With textures that literally cut windows in half when they meet a corner? With people/pokemon popping up 10m in front of you?
I play Minecraft to build incredibly dense, complex, automated farms and sorters. I love the new copper golems, but they’re actually worse than my usual redstone. I’m currently testing them as a flush system and redundant sorter for when server problems backup my main hopper loop or someone decides to toss fish in my system again.
Just the other day my buddy was telling me how he would play Warzone 2100 with friends and they’d just focus on base building. Combat was consensual and didn’t focus on destroying opponents’ bases.
Speaking of Pokemon, I’ve been playing one Pokemon challenge runs for a while and they’re fun. You modify the game to choose a specific mon as your starter, and from there on you can only use that mon in battle. If it faints, you reload. You also can’t use items in battle. You can have other mons for HMs to navigate the world, but otherwise you clear the elite four with one Pokemon. If it’s gen 2, you also beat Red.
My current record for Crystal is something like 11 hours in game time using Jolteon. Since it’s so grindy, playing it on an emulator at 4x speed makes it so you can literally complete a run in a single day depending on your starter.
As others have mentioned, it’s not really anything I even think about any more. The other day I bought Microsoft Flight Simulator 40th Anniversary, installed it and was playing it before I even thought that I should have checked for compatibility first.
The biggest question is deciding which OS you want to install… I went with Nobara because it already had all of the dependencies needed for Steam, but it is not the only distro that comes ‘Steam ready’.
I heard Mint is closest to the window experience, not sure about steam ready though, i didn’t know that is a thing i need to watch out for. i think i might try that first
I use mint with steam. No real issues at this point.
If you can. Get an external solid state drive and install Linus there to figure out any issues then if you screw up, you still have windows 10 as back up until you figure out all the issues. Then when you are ready wipe windows and install Linux that way
I think Mint is the cleanest recommendation when you don’t want to be held liable for issues; but for gaming specifically, I ended up liking CachyOS a bit more.
It’s very bleeding-edge, which if you know tech is often a good and bad thing. But games work well. It is not quite so clean with things like installing popular apps - I’m using a package manager called “bauh”, which is relatively new, unrefined, but works. I still end up installing a few things from terminal, which I know shouldn’t be needed for casual users.
Last I tried Mint was early in the year and I think I installed from an old version. It could be what few gaming issues I saw are gone.
Don’t see why you wouldn’t be just fine. I am playing Dune Awakening right now on my Linux machine. There’s the proton db website to help if you run into issues, but I haven’t had any so far. If I have a problem with a game, I usually force it to an older version of proton, or just fiddle with the versions and that usually fixes things.
Drives are cheap. Get a new drive, pull out the windows drive and put in the new blank drive and install linux and give it all a try. I just bought a new gaming laptop and the first thing I did before powering it up was swap out the nvme drive to a larger empty one and installed PopOs to match my desktop machine. It’s working just fine.
I just enjoy sharing the screenshots mostly. Honestly I wish I could put more time into it. I have a huge cutting room floor of pictures and things I want to talk about in games that I just don’t get time too or just don’t make for very good discussion
Last time I actually heard of review bombing was for Helldivers 2. So for me it feels like there hasn’t been a big public review bombing event in a long time, and reviews can filtered by country, time, and there’s warnings when there are unusual spikes.
So for me no I had forgotten about it, since it hasn’t made headlines in a while.
Not sure if you’re already familiar with other games in the genre, but look into anything among the modern 'Roguelike’s. While there are skill elements, they’re sure to mix in enough luck-based mechanics that you usually feel like you could have won with better luck.
Besides Balatro, the other mega-popular recent games along this line are Slay the Spire and Vampire Survirors. If you haven’t already played those, definitely check them out.
For deeper cuts, I don’t know. I’ll just add this would also be a good thread to crosspost to !videogamesuggestions
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