Firebreak was fun and really solid, definitely lacking a lot of content though. I think Remedy’s scale and (I believe) It being handled by a sister studio they setup definitely provided a hurdle.

Once i saw everything there is to see, there’s not a lot keeping me coming back except when i get an itch for the gameplay loop again. I got maybe 100 hours out of it playing with friends. and even then, thats just me.

With the game’s narrative on being a meta commentary on the creative process given physical form sometimes, the idea of trading places feels highly appropriate. I love all the little layers this game has going on with its narrative. It feels like you can dissect at many different levels

What matters is you’re enjoying yourself. But yeah, remedy always knocks it out of the ball park, especially in story. They’re one of my favorite studios for that alone

That’s how I first played it. It… wasn’t a great experience. It’s tolerable if you adjust the graphics right but it wasn’t pretty and it still got pretty choppy in Cauldron Lake specifically

It’s one of my favorites of all time. I just wish it was on Steam for easier access

There’s a deer that pops out and scares you a little in the second one. It’s not too big of a jumpscare. But I made my friend play it and the deer scared the shit out of him

Ah. Damn. That sucks. The lack of video options are one of the few things I never liked about console gaming

It really is. I’ve got a whole stack of screenshots from past playthroughs. It’s somewhere around 1000 lol.

Could the motion sickness maybe be Frame Gen or DLSS/FSR? I had a friend who couldn’t use those because they made him severely motion sick during movement

I’m playing with enhanced graphics on. But besides that it still looks great imo on original graphics. The only glaring issue I have with them is some Geometry has this glaring “Jaggies” thing going on with the texture. You see it a bit on forge a bit think. Or Halo 2’s doors in the Arbiter

As an adult, I’m thankful to have a group of 5 that I can usually count on to be there right now. I know there will probably be a day where I won’t have that, so it makes me treasure having them more right now

Ooh. You bringing up your Fedora issues reminded me of when I dual booted Ubuntu Unity and Windows for a while on my laptop. I had the exact same issue on there

The screenshots for Halo always have a unique quality to them, especially Reach and 3. At this point I need to challenge myself to make a Halo screenshot that doesn’t feel Halo-y lmao

The grind is definitely noticeable looking back. Is this the only one with a lot of grinding?

Claptrap alone makes it for me lol. Jack though i want to try playing as

I have a hypothesis that it was some niche hardware compatibility issue, because streaming was that machines bare minimum. It had a 32 bit dual core CPU, an iGPU, 4 GB of DDR3 RAM, and a 500 GB HDD. All this was in the year 2020 and this PC was made in 2008, so suffice to say it wasn’t winning any awards.

Like i said though, this is a hypothesis, so it’s entirely possible it was just Ubuntu deciding it wanted to freak out on me.

How are the games? My friend was telling me he was willing to lend me his Virtual Game Card to try it out when i talked about emulating the original or playing the 3DS version. it was making me consider tracking down my switch

I’ve hopped around. The 3 main ones I’ve touched though are:

• Ubuntu (which had the Storage Bug. Especially weird considering the only thing that thing had going on was Firefox for Streaming at the time)
• Bazzite (which ultimately i switched away from because Halo just wouldn’t launch one morning)
• CachyOS (specifically KDE), which has the issues with WiFi and Bluetooth. From what i understand The Wi-Fi and Bluetooth issues are mostly because Linux doesn’t have great Realtek drivers.

All of which are the Stable Versions. I believe Bazzite and CachyOS are both Rolling Releases which would explain the issues. I don’t think Ubuntu is as far as i know which makes it’s storage issue especially interesting.

I also have an issue with Debian on my media server where despite telling it everywhere possible not to go to sleep, it decides it wants to go to sleep anyways. But i don’t really consider that under these same issues because that’s a media server and i expect it to be a little more “Tinkery” than my Main use PCs.

That’s the same thing stopping me from switching my friends from Linux. I know one of them would if I pushed.

I’ve been daily driving Linux for almost 2 years and also always have a minor issue daily. “Oh. Bluetooth module decided it just didn’t want to work. Better reload. Oh. Reloading doesn’t work? Got to restart. Oh. Now my Wi-Fi has completely crapped the bed and restarts every 5 seconds”.

Then the major issues are catastrophic, even though rare. I once had a system just start… filling up empty storage at a rate of 1 GB a second with an empty log file. I couldn’t figure out why. Ended up reinstalling everything.

I don’t mind fixing these issues. And hell, I have fun, but I’m the only computer guy in our group though so I’d be playing tech support for these people if they ever changed.

I can kind of get what you mean. I like TPS purely because of ClapTrap and the Story. But there’s something about its gameplay that just feels… meh? Like I’ve played a few others so I know it can be a blast. But some thing is a little off. Maybe I’ll take my friend and backtrack to Borderlands 1 for a bit