Technically there is Call of Duty, just the older ones, which do still have people playing, and you can get bots for them, etc.
One has to be careful when going online on “old” CoDs, because most of them have an RCE exploit and won’t get (at least officially) patched
Like 80% of the games I already play are random indie stuff. I buy maybe 1-2 new big studio games a year, and even those aren’t exactly AAA. Right now, feels like big studios aren’t trying hard to produce actually interesting games, just more franchise slop.
Steam machine got a solid “Oooooooo! Can’t afford one right now but I’m sure keeping an eye on this one!” out of me.
Honestly the whole “modern tech style” thing is making me feel feel off.
The controller looks nice tho. Supports linux and would go well with retroarch to emulate old games on thinkpad.
Hell maybe a raspberry pi connected to the TV monitor.
Did you want it to come in a Beige Box?
It’s mostly heat sink and fan out the back, cube shape is no frills and works great for what it is.
I’ve never understood these memes. If you don’t want to play whatever game, don’t play it. How do you somehow convince yourself that you’re superior to others due to your inability to run certain programs?
Issa joke. Making fun at the expense of AAA games :)
I understand that it’s a joke, but the humor isn’t making sense to me, and I especially don’t see how it’s at the expense of AAA games
I guess it comes from a point where Linux gamers have been neglected by major studios for so long and now that there are enough other options they don’t have any power on them.
it’s associative, the negative associations with Call of Duty players cannot be transferred to a console that doesn’t support that game, so for people who want to avoid those associations it’s a plus
There’s definitely something to this. Like I’m often scared to be part of any group because inevitably someone in that group will be an asshole. I have played video games for a long time but I refuse to refer to myself as a “gamer” because of the associations.
I also notice I hate when something I love becomes too popular, precisely because it loses its initial associations with the group I was happy to associate with, and becomes associated with a larger group that I don’t feel connection with (or worse, becomes a toxic fan base I actively don’t want to be associated with - e.g. Rick and Morty, I love the show but developed shame for enjoying it, once it became popular and its biggest fans created negative associations with liking the show; you can tell yourself to ignore the shame, but I admittedly no longer identify as a fan of Rick and Morty because of what it will communicate to people about me).
Ok but those Call of Duty games for the DS were always so interesting to me. The attempt to take such a bombastic console experience and squeeze it onto a handheld often produced janky results, but it was a charming kind of jank
I was on a forum, back in the day, focused on weird, or otherwise niche DS ports, and those games were easily the most popular.
They even had tournaments with the Developers, which was neat
You can install Windows on it if you really want to.
No League as well.
No League, no Valorant, no GTA Online, no Battlefield 6, no Rainbow Six Siege
So not much of value is lost
I once tried Valorant, recommended by a friend. I liked it but the community didn’t like me (since I suck), so I didn’t play more.
Trying to uninstall it was such a mess that I think the kernel level anti cheat was in my windows install until I got rid of said windows install
I’m already buying it, you don’t have to sell it to me.
Stop, I can only get so hard.
Also no Roblox, if you were still on the fence.
Actually you can play Roblox on Linux. There’s Sober.
I know it’s probably named in reference to wine, but I like the idea of a Linux Roblox program (emulator? I don’t know Linux or video games) as someone’s manic sobriety project*.
/* I don’t know if this is an identified thing, but most of the large number of recovering addicts I know sort of displace that manic type of love for the substance or behavior into one or more hobbies of some sort at first (examples include: repairing an old boat or classic car, building a house or cabin, making furniture or art, a bunch of types of exercise, joining a club, building furniture or bikes, or cooking) and gradually learn moderation afterwards.
Stop, I can only get so erect!
I thought so too but I was able to get it running when my friends partner really wanted to play bingo in roblox with me. Worked fine after some setup
Lucky for me, my kids are past it.
You might not play them, but others might. Exclusivity is always fucking bad, you’re not only normalising it, you’re celebrating it.
But hopefully this is the push they need. I got no horse in this race. Not games I’m playing and I’m not buying gabecube.
Then tell Epic and Infinity Ward/Treyarch (or whoever cranks those out like Madden games now) about it. It’s their fault these games are not supported on linux by requiring kernel level anti-cheat instead of server side anti-cheat.
Take Destiny for another example, runs perfectly fine on linux, until Bungie permabans your acct for playing on linux.
It’s not linux’s fault, it’s the shitass companies refusing to be good at things.
Jesus, I wasnt going to buy it… But this just sold me on it lol Day one purchase for me now!
Regrettably this stops me from forcing my archaic belief system on my children.
I mean you can always do it anyway and take away their ability to play those games. They will hate you for now, but later when they grow up, they will probably still hate you but a little less.
Is anybody playing Fortnite these days though?
Look, it’s not my thing either, but let’s not act like a game that just a few days ago peaked at 50 million players is some dying fad.
Eh, I still play it from time to time. It’s a good fast paced shooter I can play with the entire fam on a large number of devices. We don’t play it religiously or anything, but a week or so every battlepass. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Many people I would assume it’s just not so mainstream anymore
It just recently peaked at 50 million players lol. I hate the thing but it’s still very mainstream. Majority of my “normie” friends play it
I meant mainstream as in it’s not being talked about as much.
