video game

I like to play games well into their sunset years, which is great because it saves me a lot of money on GPUs. I had Fallout 4 back when it was relatively new, but having tired of my other options, I decided to see how it ran on modern Linux. As it turns out, the answer is that it runs about as well as it does on Windows, maybe even slightly better in the graphics performance department. I started out with a steam deck howto and worked the rest out from there. These instructions assume you have all of the DLC.

I recently started playing Fallout 4 again, because I own it already and it runs well on my potato, even under Linux. The last time I played I had dual nvidia GTX 950 cards in SLI under Windows 7, and now I have a single 1070 under Linux. The performance is as much better as you would hope. The game is just about as reliable on Linux as it is on Windows, which is not very. However, my current configuration lets the game start up pretty quickly, and liberal use of the quicksave feature keeps me from losing too much progress in the inevitable explosions.

Assassins Creed is a really nifty psuedohistorical series of parcourt assassination games, and Assassins Creed: Unity is one of the recent entries in the series — which was included in a Humble Bundle of most of the titles. This post is not a news flash. It is a summary I'm writing because I don't want to have to track this information down again, distilled from a couple of pages I found googling.

Micro-rant: when you preface a game with an unskippable video featuring your logo, people begin to despise you by the fourth or fifth launch. I don't even know who ASPYR is, but I know they do Linux gaming and that they're annoying.

I'm a big fan of the Fallout franchise, so when I discovered Fallout Shelter, I was happy to see a new member of the family. It's actually a pretty engaging little game, but it has some ugly flaws that I find frustrating, so I'm going to complain about them.

Fail? Okay, that's a bit hyperbolic. If my failures were like Rockstar's, I'd be sipping umbrella drinks right now. Or recovering from same. But GTA Online is frustrating by any measure right from the get-go. Here's why.

I thought about actually titling this piece RIP, Ouya but thought hey, let's save the hyperbole for the body. What's actually happening is that I'm taking my Ouya back to Gamestop and washing my hands of this whole experience. Maybe I'll buy one used later, when the Mad Catz console comes out and they all end up on eBay for a song; by then perhaps there will be a CM port. Unfortunately, the Ouya console is deficient in basically every area.