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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • It’s worth it for the price.

    General:

    • Explosions / killing / respawning
    • Lots of Star Wars location and sound-design fan service

    Campaign;

    • Gameplay is fun, but simple. The most complicated part is just reading the controls in the settings menu since the game doesn’t tell you how to do one of the first things in the first mission (the button you need is 3)
    • Story is basic but it works well as a sequel to Episode 6 and a prequel to The Mandalorian.

    Multiplayer:

    • Take turns being on offence / defence
    • Keep playing the same class / hero character to unlock more abilities for that class / hero character
    • Servers are populated, even for niche locations

    Replayability:

    • Depends
    • If you like regular FPS games, you might get bored of it in 10-20 hours
    • If you like playing the same game over and over again to slowly grind up new things, you’ll probably play it for 100+ hours

    Other stuff:

    • Purchase through steam
    • Running the game downloads and installs the EA launcher (but you can log in using your steam account, no need to create new ones)
    • As far as launchers go, the EA launcher is tiny, surprisingly fast, isn’t annoying and doesn’t get in the way of anything (only setting you’ll change is turning off the autolaunch when you start your pc)
    • Achievements work through steam
    • Invite friends through in-game party system. This can only see your friends on the EA launcher, but you can import all your steam friends in the EA launcher in a second and you only have to do it once.


  • There’s some really good recommendations in here, but we can’t settle on what to recommend for you without a little more info.

    • Are you planning to game on it? (as in computer game, not ttrpg)
      • If yes, use Bazzite. (it’s already set up for gaming, and it’s “immutable” which means that it’ll be hard for you to break)
    • If not, what experience do you prefer more:
      • Windows 7
        • Use Linux Mint (Cinnamon Edition)
      • Windows 10 (but without all the cortana, and bing stuff)
        • Use PopOS
      • I want something Windows like, but I want more control over how I can customise it
        • Use Kubuntu
      • I want something Windows like, and I want more control to customise it, but I also don’t want it to break if I start doing weird things to it
        • Use Kionite (Will look the same as Kubuntu from the outside, but will lock you out from doing or using certain things)

    Which one should you pick?

    The answer is No (and also yes).

    Huh?!

    The real answer is not to pick one, but to pick more than one. You can (one at a time) install each of them onto a USB then change your computer’s settings to boot up from the USB instead of windows. That way you can try each one to see what you like without installing them on your computer first.

    For each one you try, you can check:

    • Do I like the interface?
    • Are there any compatibility issues? (wifi issues, sound issues, graphics issues, etc…)
    • Am I happy with how long the battery lasts?
    • etc…

    Then once you’re ready, you can install the one you want to use onto your laptop.















  • Undertale for sure. (I’m a long time gamer, and I consider this in my top 5 games now)

    It has such a slow start, and meh graphics going into it. It took me 3 separate years trying to get into it, but once I got past the first 2 hours, man did the humour, characters and music blow me away.

    If you’re worried you won’t get into it:

    • The graphics start out rough to make the better graphics later on really stand out
    • The slow start is actually them setting things up a whole bunch of things that pay off later, stick with it. (Also since the game is only 7 hours and there are multiple endings, you will replay it to get the other endings and notice just how much content is hidden at the start that you didn’t understand the first time playing it).

    I’m so glad I came back and stuck with it.

    I was just trying to clear something out of my library and ended up with the most powerful gaming attachment I’ve had in over a decade.




  • Single player nostalgia list:

    • FPS:
      • Halo series (Reach, 1, 2, ODST, 3, 4)
    • Strategic:
      • Homeworld
      • Supreme Commander
    • Racing:
      • Trackmania Stadium
    • Roguelike
      • FLT
    • Survival:
      • Minecraft
      • Factorio
    • Tactical:
      • Advance Wars 2
      • Battle for Wesnoth
    • Other:
      • Thumper
      • Space Engine

    Multiplayer nostalgia list:

    • FPS:
      • Halo series (again, 90% of the time the custom game browser already has a game running that I want to join, and it’s still getting updates)
      • PUBG (how is this 6 years old already?)
    • Party games:
      • Golf with Friends
      • Tabletop Simulator
      • Ultimate Chicken Horse