While I do get warm nostalgia vibes when playing RCT2, these day I mostly play Parkitect if I am looking for a management focused Theme Park tycoon game.

I also never really liked the scenarios in such game, I would usually just go with sandbox with the largest map.

I really need to check out the EA version.

The trailers looks awesome and feedback from those who have played has been very good.

Vageua does look pretty cool. Wishlisted.

Cheers.

At least you can see the post (or so I am guessing). I honestly thought it would be shadowbanned/blocked.

I can strongly recommend this title even if the idea of a text adventure doesn’t seem that appealing.

It has great ambience, solid RPG gameplay and a genuinely interesting and engaging world. Supports multiple playthroughs as well and you can play rather different characters (in addition to initial class selection).

This does look like a lot of fun and the art is really beautiful.

I don’t think people at that level have friends, more like business aquintences. And all they do is work; feed their net worth value must increase addiction.

I see. We’ll that’s too bad.

It’s a great game but definitely flawed in places. I will agree that the world building really carries the game. By modern standards the open world is rather small (and some parts look like they simply didn’t have time to develop - the hotel in downtown), but it works really well.

I will pick a less commonly chosen favourite; you get to meet the creator of the zombie movie genre and help him out.

And I love the Hollywood map music track (and this just excellent track among many).

VTMB2 sounds like an action game that’s lacking in RPG elements, so it’s not for me.

I might get it at as some point if the game + all DLC are available for under $10. If not, no problem, there are more than enough games to keep me occupied.

The Cannon Fodder soundtrack is an eternal classic.

The reggae intro song was a nice touch.

That, ah, doesn’t quite seem to be the approach being taken with the DX remaster. “They really turned those 1999 graphics into 2003 graphics,” wrote one disgruntled fan in the immediate aftermath of the game’s reveal. “How did someone not realise how awful those visuals look?” asked another.

A remaster shouldn’t just be about “upgrading” the graphics, but also being mindful of the overall aesthetic. The whole thing sounds like a project by an executive who probably never played the original Deus Ex and only vaguely knows anything about it.

I think this is due to the broader “move towards AI”, gaming was big around COVID, now it’s in a massive decline, at least in terms of employment and investment opportunities, if not actual revenues.

Microsoft is a criminal organisation that thrives on corruption (no real action being taken with respect to anti trust proceedings is still relevant today).

Crime isn’t only about someone stealing your phone, extracting many billion of dollars via oligopolistic methods of limiting competition and leaving people with no other option than to use their products (irrespective of price or feature considerations) is also criminal activity.

They are not going to fight the US administratorion on this.

Cool art, but yeah this is spam.

“Boomer shooter” refers to old school FPS/shooters in the sense of boomer = old? Never knew that.

I always thought it was because of the more fast paced styles of the older games and emphasis on explosive weapons.

Most people who played Doom / Unreal / Hexen when the games were released were early millenials or tail end “Gen X”. From memory, FPS games weren’t really that popular among people in their 30s and early 40s in the 90s. It was all young kids, teenagers and (I am assuming) university students.

Office applications (Excel, Powerpoint, PowerBI, Word) is one area where I can’t have any friction at all, since that’s how I get my income. I need the latest version of these applications for desktop, web version does not cut it and Linux emulation seems very spotty unless you are OK with using a much older version of office like 2013/2016.

That just on the Microsoft side, there is also Tableau desktop, some Adobe applications and even open source Windows applications that I rely on that don’t have native Linux versions (Notepad++, Paint.net).

I am planning to buy a new laptop, might be worth trying to switch to Linux on the laptop and experiment with emulated Office solutions (while always having a reliable fallback on desktop).

I wish the EU would require Microsoft to release the latest desktop (no cloud subscription required) version of Office for Linux (and broad, open ended criminal liability if they try any tricks).

I cannot switch without a native, official supported version of Office.

Have yet to play the remake. Played the original on PC in 99 or so. It was a very novel experience at that time (I had mostly played cRPGs, RTSs, city-builder/tycoons etc.). A lot of the puzzles were challenging for young brain though.

Anyone tried this? How does it compare to some of the more elaborate megaWADs?

You can continue getting updates for Window 10 for free and they don’t really add new software to Windows.

Microsoft Office and lots of line of business apps (e.g. I prefer Tableau desktop over the web version) require Windows. Many game (not only multiplayer ones) continue to have issues with Linux (although there have been massive improvements in the last ~5 years).