Yeah, well, you know, that’s just, like, your opinion, man.

I can get immersed in incredibly simple games, like Baba Is You. I have simple rules to follow and a world that conforms to those rules. I can tune out reality and immerse fully in the game.

The main thing is that I don’t need hi-res realistic 120 fps graphics for this to work, I don’t know if this is because the way my brain is wired or because I was raised in the 8 bit era and imagination was a significant part of that immersion.

Well, good luck with that. :-)

Whatever it was, it was temporary. Sorry to have wasted your time.

I bought the collection a few years ago and played nearly all the titles.

There’s something about these games that makes them feel “off” for me and I can’t quite put my finger on it.

I mean, there’s guns and aliens to shoot, huge buildings and large terrains to cross with cool vehicles. Yet, it never clicked with me. It feels like the games have no soul.

It’s a weird feeling that I could never explain properly.

Take all those billions and go unfuck Teams. Thank you.

– millions of office workers

I wouldn’t say unusable, it’s tolerable. But it does get in your face in a very opinionated way, that gets old fast.

Yes, everything you like about the original is there. The storytelling, the philosophical undertones, the brain wracking puzzles. Except that everything is way larger, with much to explore, new gadgets to master and characters to interact. They dropped some of the stuff that annoyed me in the original, like the machine guns and mines.

The puzzle difficulty is spot on, so if you played the through the original you’ll find the first puzzles easy but then they ramp up.

I’ve finished the main story and now I’m going back to get the 100% stars, as one does. I’m sure I’ll buy the DLC for this one as well, as I did for the original. Its is that good.

Soma may be my favorite Frictional game, even though I played nearly all the Amnesia series.

I think I’ll install it again after I’m done with Talos Principle II.

I’ve avoided Gnome since the shift to GTK 3, when it became apparent that the devs were hiding functionality in the name of some greater vision that was never explained to lesser mortals.

You don’t get to treat me as a moron, only my wife can do that.

XFCE and KDE have served me well, at least they don’t hide settings and functionality from me.

Ads and idiots.

I think we have a good idiot ratio right now, let’s not increase it.

Absolutely nothing.

One more vote for Tidal. High quality and large catalog, I’ve been using it for years.

I have this broken game in my backlog for decades now, I wonder if this will make it run this time. Hexen II, according to Steam it was released back in 1998.

That will most likely never happen, so stop lying to yourself.

I’m finally playing The Talos Principle II. It has been in my waiting list for a long time. I’m a big fan of the original and I’m currently hooked on the sequel. It has everything I love about the first one, only in a much larger scale. The storytelling is spot on, the puzzle difficulty is tweaked to make it easy for beginners to get the hang of things but gets quite challenging later on even for hardened players. There’s lots of new artifacts and mechanics to learn and some of the old classics like the laser connectors.

If you loved Portal and Portal II, this is for you.

Bring back Geocities next.

As they say in my county: “go and die far from here, so I can’t smell you”.

On the other hand, all I have in my Epic account are the free games. I expect those cost his company money.

Even so, I feel dirty and will close my account. I can get the titles I really like in Gog or Steam.

Selling artificial intelligence to natural idiots.