SDV felt quite hectic when I tried to do everything the game told me about, but once I let go and didn’t worry about the upcoming evaluation, everything became nicer.

But if you can’t shake the need to do everything ASAP, can’t help you there. But the game has very few (if any?) missable things, no need to do everything NOW NOW NOW, there’s always next year.

Though, yea, there’s quite a bit of work to do for eg. 100% community center or both dungeons. I suppose there’s mods to alleviate the “grind/difficulty”, but haven’t checked.

Probably the LJN’s entire NES-catalogue? IIRC they were pretty much all some media-property-license-schlock.

I’ve played very few movie-to-game adaptations, but one that I did play was Total Recall for NES. It’s fairly ass, imo.

The game does follow the movie fairly well, although I can’t say I recall Arnie pummeling dozens of hobos in a cement factory in the movie x)

The controls were fairly stiff and difficulty quite high up there, it was on NES after all.

I think that one option might be to have two lists of achievements.

And then we’d just replace one problem with another, some people care way too much about achievements and they’d be working even more to get ALL of them / both sets.

Friend of mine recommended it to me, and it was already on my radar as it did look very interesting. Bought it, played about an hour and proceeded to ask for a refund. It didn’t do it for me at all.

The funny thing is that on paper it should have been a slam dunk for me, but literally nothing in-game felt like I liked doing it. Weird.

Welp, not every game is for me, and in this case I know I’m a rare outlier. :P

Entirely up to the game & how interesting the post-game stuff is.

I have 100%'s eg. Batman: Arkham Asylum (on normal, not gonna try-hard it). The amount of collectibles was within the toleranse and it was fairly fun to hunt the items with the hints provided.

Now, few years forward with Arkham City and Arkham Knight? Hard nope. Too many collectibles/activities/timewasters, stupendously huge areas, too obscure hints, nah, nopety-nope-nope. And the good ending in AK was tied to finishing “optional activities” which I just could not be bothered with, watched the ending on youtube and uninstalled.

Diablo-likes I can grind for hundreds, if not thousands of hours, as the “click go brrrr, get item of +1 betterness” after campaign is fun for surprisingly long periods for me. But at the moment I have the problem that I have pretty much played all of the available ones (edit: ones that I’m willing to buy, that is).

Bricky is entertaining and laces the lore with memes. Easy entry to the lore, if a bit wrong at times - or so I’ve been told. “Close enough”, imo.

kinda wild a file-link ever went straight to executing it after download - which on it’s own could be dangerous as well.

I guess the “the s in IOT stands for security” also applies to notepad: “the s in vibecoding stands for security”

heh, ofc. Apparently something to do with file:// and such uri handling, apparently executing local files? Yikes.

notepad has formatting now? o_O

does it produce markdown or something?

I don’t know, I don’t play cod. See the links from previous replies for that.

as for should you get linux, only you can answer that once you’ve done the research

The daw/music software? Just wine. used wine to install the app & vst plugins, then just using the “start menu” shortcut for the app to run it. I did have to use winetricks to install dxvk on the prefix (without it, some plugin ui’s did not work properly), but after that it works fine.

as for “does it run good” - well enough for me. Some of the guitar/bass amps and instruments I use seem to use noticeably more cpu than on windows

yep, this.

basically, games that need some extra dll file to get mods running, it’s generally just adding WINEDLLOVERRIDES=“nameofthedll=n,b” as env var for the game and off to modded adventures it is.

I haven’t tested this, but fairly sure you could just install vortex, mo2 or whatever other modmanager to same prefix as where the game is.

Depends really on the games and software you require.

For games, check:

• https://www.protondb.com/ - people post their experiences with games if they work or not.
• https://areweanticheatyet.com/ - lists of anticheat enabled games which work or not.
• https://appdb.winehq.org/ - wine’s appdb has games and general applications listed, with some info on how they work or not. Some info is absolutely ancient at this point.

In general, indies and singleplayer games generally work fine. Battlefield/Fortnite/etc hugely popular multiplayer stuff with kernel-level anticheats generally doesn’t.

I’ve only ever set up few printers to work on linux, and they’ve been bigger office printers. And they’ve all worked with minimal effort. Absolutely no idea about home printers.

edit: as for windows software support, generally win-apps run on wine. Some really well, some with issues, and then some just dont. Afaik eg. ancient versions of Photoshop run, more recent ones don’t.

I run a windows version of a music software (renoise) because my effects/instruments have only windows versions. It works, but performance isn’t quite as good as it was on actual windows.

could have something to do with the odd, and massive, influx of new win10 users?

doesn’t either of the loopback devices provide desktop audio?

this must be the flex-box that’s all the rage

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

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!

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