So, given the kinda joke about people hating phone calls, yet using voice chat in games, I can't help wondering what people's preferences may be on chatting in games.
When you play online games, which do you lean towards when it comes to text/voice chat, or other options I didn't fit here, contextual pinging (e.g. Apex Legends), emotes, or voice/chat commands (e.g. Team Fortress 2/AoE 2)?
Does Proton for games on Linux work without using Steam? 🤔
I know vaguely of stuff like Lutris, so I'm still wondering how gaming on Linux looks if you're not completely bought into Valve's pseudo-monopoly. That should be in line with Linux thinking, right?
If it does, hell yeah. Then the other trick might be controller stuff outside of Steam, but one step at a time.
What's a game called, or what is the genre of a game, with detailed interactivity and interesting worldbuilding without RPG progression systems or mechanics? 🤔
You might say "immersive sim" but these often also have that, for me at least, RPG baggage attached. Although not always, as Dishonored arguably sheds much of that in its design.
Still, unsure how to search for these sorts of games.
I think some of my favorite video game cultural stories are those that occurred outside the industry, either before they were integrated by it or hobbyist projects that people made and shared with no aim to enter the industry or have their ideas integrated by it.
Somehow I never got way into the boom of flash games awhile back, but I think some of them served as an example of what I mean of extraindustrial gaming culture.
Any folks on here happen to write dor follow blogs covering primarily or exclusively experimental video games, as well as those somewhere along the outside of the industrial output?
On the Android version of the Discord app, in system settings for notifications, there's a social category that mostly makes sense; however, there's one notification type under there I can't figure out: social.
What does this include that's outside direct messages & friend requests (the other types under the social category)? Discord support pages, on a brief glance, don't appear to cover this.