I'll straight up admit that I can't compete in most pvp titles; and I don't want to be a loot goblin for the high school kids who are going to 360 no-scope headshot me from across the map and then tea bag my corpse.

That fucking suuuuuuuuucks. I wonder if there's a mod that could accommodate you somehow. I'm not trying to spawn a big debate about difficulty in games here, but I really wish you'd be able to play it for yourself, somehow.

May I ask what part of playing makes it difficult? Duration? Dexterity? Specific motions, etc? If it's too much, please feel free to ignore me.

didn't know they added kernel anticheat to gta online, thought they just disallowed linux players. i had 5k hours on it, didn't really play anything else for almost 10 years. dropped it entirely that day because it's not worth using a worse OS, and turns out single player is more fun anyway with mods. will also pirate gta 6 and play it without windblows, suck my shrimp rockstar.

I play overwatch and rivals on Linux, no issue

Same with Battlefield 6.

You can play Arc raiders and the finals :) and dota and counter strike just to name a few

Plenty of other games like them to pick up

I would create ten different accounts to play a game that's the quality of rdr2.

I couldn't get into it. I'm not a fan of westerns to begin with, so even the environment couldn't pull me in

I've heard supposedly that sitting back further away from the monitor helps with motion sickness, so if you have some sort of TV screen that you could hook up the game to, that might work?

Same here. I get nauseous playing most first person games so I miss out on a lot. The only thing that sometimes helps is if the game lets you slow down the camera movement.

My issue was, I did not feel the expected experience of "Each loop, you learn something new." It was more like, every 7 loops, I might get into the thing I was repeatedly trying to enter; and then it might just be a bunch of random ancient messages that don't teach me anything. On top of that, I really hated the ship controls, especially when they veer AWAY from the autopilot path to pull me directly into the sun. If the game had been remade without any physics system, and simple direct puzzle mechanics, I might've enjoyed it more.

same here. i can play it 30 mins max and then i get very nauseated. and you can't really get anything done in that time.

Silksong was great, but it really has an issue with approachability.

Most of the quality of life upgrades come after challenges that prove you don't need them. I didn't really feel at home with what the game was asking of me until I fought the cogwork dancers. I totally understand why people bounce off the game when they encounter Last Judge.

I haven't played since I beat it. But I did look into this after I did...

In general, every time the screen zooms in, you need to act. What type is something you learn, but that cuts down on the timing aspect There are also audio queues, like a sort of woosh effect. I don't play a lot of fast response games like this, so I never noticed until it was pointed out.

I found it rough near the start, but it gets a lot easier as you go on, once you get more of a feel for when attacks are coming. Eventually you'll be dodging things you've never seen before just on instinct.

Dodges are a lot easier than parries, even if you don't get the extra AP from it. Fights last a bit longer, but you can definitely plough through most of it even with bad timing. Explore thoroughly in act 1, otherwise you'll probably be underlevelled for the last boss there. Not really any need to grind mindlessly, but you can if you really need the extra levels.

I ended up using the auto-parry/block mod, but it means you're practically invulnerable, you only need to do the jump and radiant attack counters

https://www.nexusmods.com/clairobscurexpedition33/mods/478

There's also a mod to increase the block/parry "period"

https://www.nexusmods.com/clairobscurexpedition33/mods/28

I still hope there will be a mod to have the dodge/parry based on your stats (agility/luck), to feel like it's a RPG and not a souls-like game

What did you think of Torchlight? I'm a bit surprised it didn't make your list.

...well, then again, I haven't played anything you listed, so I can't compare.

Myself, I miss the memories I could form playing with friends on WoW. Not the game that much.

I quit my job and dropped out of college to do nothing but play WoW for 8 solid months. It was worth it

Just get it from an alternative source and play it locally. That's more fun anyway and far too few games still have split screen coop.

I'm actually torn on this philosophy.

On one hand, yea you're not giving EA money, which is a win. But on another, when you don't buy a game like Split Fiction, they make less money on that product. Money is the only thing EA cares about, and they track how much a product makes. So, if a game like Split Fiction doesn't make as much money, they probably would be less inclined to make it in the future. Then we get stuck with shit like Fifa/Apex, since you know people are going to spend money on that regardless.

So in the end I still buy stuff like It Takes Two, because I support that work. That game was amazing. However, I tend to buy them on sale.

Have you messed with the settings? Turning off view bobbing might be the trick!

I'm with you on this. It sometimes feels like those who play multiplayer games have a different schedule.

When WoW Classic launched I tried to play it with a friend. But all they did were raids. Raids at dinner time, raids for four hours straight, raids every day. If I'd play with them, I won't even have time to make dinner nor have the time to eat, sometimes I wasn't even home when they begin their raids. It didn't feel like gaming at all, just another chore. And I was told it was the vast majority of players. I remembered it has good would-building when I played the earliest release back at school, but I didn't realize most people play it in a mind-numbing way.

Can't you do rustup update and go from there?

Counterpoint: Someone can play up through Stormblood without having to buy anything.

But, yeah, I agree. I don't really want to think about how much I've spent on this one game over the last 12 years. But roughly spitballing:

• ARR, Heavensward, Stormblood, Shadowbringers, Endwalker, Dawntrail...I'll say that's 6 x $40 (not accurate since I bought special editions for some and moved from PS3 to Pc so that's an extra cost there, too): $240
• $13/m for 11 years (I've played ARR since launch but there have been some times where I turned off my sub for a little bit so I'll just knock off 12 months): 13 x 12 x 11 = $1,716
• Various Mogstation purchases, roughly $40?
• Total for me with this napkin math: $1,996

Woof. But, I do love the game and spent all weekend playing it just now. So there's worse things to spend money on.

Ori was pretty doable for me. It helps that death has no penalty and resuming is instant. But I couldn't get through Hollow Knight and I didn't even attempt Silksong. I'm too old for that shit. Literally, I don't have the reaction time anymore.

Ori isn’t bad. I’d not consider it “souls like” in the slightest.

I played it. Beautiful game. Terrifying.

I didn't think I had thalassophobia until Subnautica.

Beam ng runs perfectly on my 15 year old fx cpu running mint! Shoved a rx6700 in it loll

I played it on steam deck about a year ago, and TBH it struggled. Though it's probably been optimised better since, I think development is ongoing. Still the best driving game I've played.

BRO. PLAY BEAM ANYWAY. IT'S AMAZING!