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Subject: Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN JULY 2024?
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2024 09:26:26 +0200
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Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

> What Have You Been Playing... IN JULY 2024?

It's been a messy month. Lots of games played, but most of them dropped.

- The Binding of Isaac Rebirth: Afterbirth
Got the expansion during the Steam summer sale. Funny how I played 4
hours of this game back in 2014, and 10 years later I went hard on it
with the Steam Deck. 7 completes duns so far, 4 to go in order to unlock
the true final boss.

- Monument Valley 2
First one made me consider that mobile gaming could be good, but the
sequel has been a severe disappointment.

- Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
Dark souls before dark souls. This game can be as infuriating as it can
be addictive. First time I have to use "run ahead" in Retroarch to lower
the latency so that the combat and jumping over cliffs is fair on a
modern TV with input lag

- Quake Remastered
Can't have a lanparty without Quake. Halfway through Scourge of Armaggon
(The first expansion)

- Pacific Drive
A lot more complex than I was expecting. My summer car + S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
= even more complex survival. I expected a simpler game with a lot of
story that happens on a station wagon. Having to craft, repair, ruins
things for me.

- Quake Live
I never understood how Quake 3 and live look like absolute trash when
Quake I was so good. Those textures and models... it's like, C'mon,
Half-Life was out already.

- Half-Life source.
Test playthrough to see how the Optiplex can handle "old" games with its
built-in Intel HD630 graphics, since next year I won't be bringing the
gaming PC to the lanparty. The verdict: It's going to need a low profile
GPU.