<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> HL2 is nowhere near as good as people make out.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span><br />Don&#39;t overburden Games with different game mechanics...</p>

<p>Popular rogue-lite space shooter Nova Drift gets updated for Steam Deck verification <a href="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/popular-rogue-lite-space-shooter-nova-drift-gets-updated-for-steam-deck-verification/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/popu</span><span class="invisible">lar-rogue-lite-space-shooter-nova-drift-gets-updated-for-steam-deck-verification/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NovaDrift" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NovaDrift</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SteamDeck" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SteamDeck</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PCGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PCGaming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Gaming</span></a></p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> “coyote time” ruins tight feeling platformer controls.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span></p><p>Super Mario&#39;s sliding sucks.</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://sueden.social/@kontrollierterWahnwitz" class="u-url mention">@<span>kontrollierterWahnwitz</span></a></span></p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> Matchmaking and kernel-level anti-cheat are pernicious and only &quot;necessary&quot; because you robbed us of the option of hosting our own dedicated servers</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> <br />This just happened to me: Installed Skyrim (14 years late to the party), picked up every item in the opening sequence, at least 10 full suits of shitty armour, fantasise about all gold I&#39;m gonna get off the next shopkeeper, see that my movement is now sub baby crawl, enter inventory to lighten my load, find out that &quot;drop&quot; is hard coded to R key, my R key is broken from too much reloading, consider playing rest of game at slug speed as some sort of conceptual art statement, uninstall Skyrim.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> Boss fights. I paid for this game, stop gating its content behind stress tests. All bosses should be skippable, including in, wait for it, souls-likes.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> Having to play 20+ hours to finally reach the point where the &quot;true game / real fun&quot; starts is a BAD game design choice.</p>