BAR is peak RTS game. Although lately I’ve mostly been playing Dawn of War for my strategy fix.

I’ve been playing American Truck Simulator, OpenTTD, and sometimes hopping into my playthrough of Stalker Gamma. It’s a simple life.

I’ve been playing Doom again lately (as one does) but I really should take a detour through the other idSoftware games… especially this one

Splendid! I have a laptop running Arch, and while I did set that one up manually, it was a lot of work. Next time, when I do it on my gaming PC, I’m definitely using Endeavour

I know it isn’t what you mentioned but it reminded me when I wad reading anyway. I am quite hyped for the new Heroes of Might and Magic.

I’ve never even dared to make an account there to ask questions because they’ve always been toxic as fuck. And lately they’ve been going about pivoting to AI, after they sorta monopolized the “business” of answering questions on several subjects… They can go eat my ass with that shit and attitude.

Most of them have no idea what they’re talking about, and sometimes those who do, are making a video just for entertainment purposes or got paid (in getting a free game key) to not say anything too bad about it.

I got pretty much the same opinion as you, probably a bit angrier about all the shit they did, with Unreal Tournament, their store and spyware and exclusives, and their unoptimized bloated game engine taking over the industry.

So no, I guess I don’t claim those games or have an account. I already have a million games I’ll never finish playing on Steam and emulators anyway.

Yes. Next stupid question.

I hate that feeling of bouncing between things, or of just staring at my screen so much. So much. But when it happens, I am rarely able to snap out of it in the moment. It usually takes a few days and a mood change to fix it.

When in doubt, true doubt, Doom is always there for me, in every device I own.

Me too. Stopped a couple years ago after I hit 2,000 hours of play time. This year I’ve played a lot of Helldivers 2 and Monster Hunter, which I have a combined total of nearly 1,800 hours again.

I’ve been playing using the latest forks setup on the Fitgirl torrents of Switch games. Started with The new Zelda and Unicorn Overlord, then grabbed some other games. The folder comes with a launcher to both emulators, I customized the whole thing to be my own Switch central, and updated the Ryujinx build with the last “official” one on the Internet Archive.

Other than that, this thread has good recommendations for followup projects to both. The megathread has places to download the games themselves individually.

Usually around Christmas time it’s vacations and steam sale times and sometimes beach trips with my Switch and phone. So it depends a lot. But, also because of that, there are some games I played on the past in this time of the year that kinda got stuck with holidays vibes because of it. Some kf them are Doom, Quake and Monster Hunter. I think I’ll be playing Pokemon Platinum this year too, on my phone.

Real. Ever since I spent some time setting up good CRT shaders, playing retro games feels a lot cooler. They just give the best feeling and look pretty nice with them on. Sometimes for fun, I leave the shader on for regular Windows usage.

Hmm for patient games I’m playing now… Does Super Robot Wars V count? I feel like I’ve mentioned it in several weekly threads already. I’ll also mention NFSU2 with the underground2.net modpack, then.

Very good ARPG with tons of depth to build making and a nice dark fantasy theme. One half of my favorite Diablo-likes, the other being the much simpler and more casual Torchlight 2.

Doom and Doom 2 MIDI’s. Playing these games at night just feels right. And also, the intro and soundtracks of Unreal Tournament '99. Absolute late night vibes.

Super Robot Wars V! I’m having a blast with the silly crossover story finding excuses to throw dozens of mecha from different shows at me all at once. Last night I played a mission where I had 8 Gundams in the field from 4 different shows at once! And we were fighting dragons from Cross Ange.

As far as I can tell, Spike is continuing his (extremely valuable and helpful to us) work, just behind the login at his forum. I finally signed up like I intended to, and it looks like business as usual. You guys should come, too.