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[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Anyone know of any games in which the story takes place in Canada? The last (only) one I've played is honestly Cross Country Canada when I was like 7.

[–] rocky1138@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

https://www.thecrimsondiamond.com/

Great adventure title. Just finished it this past week with my wife.

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Woa, you even type commands like in Cross Country Canada lol. I'll check this one out too. Maybe make my wife watch as well.

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Oh wow, this is a beautiful-looking game. Thank you.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game.

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

This looks cool. I don't follow Scott Pilgrim at all, but still looks enjoyable.

[–] zaidka@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

Thank you, I'll check it out!

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Hmm, looks like this does include Dwarf Fortress. (KitFox is in Montreal, but Tarn Adams spent a couple decades working on it in Seattle)

Does it make sense to buy it on sale, if paying for a thing that I've played a ton of already is the point?

[–] dudesss@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago

I wouldnt pay for anything full price.

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

No, especially since the platform it's sold on is American.

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

...sold through an American company.

Why patronise Valve when GOG is right there?

[–] dudesss@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What do you recommend on GoG?

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I've found that GOG generally has around 40% of the games I like on Steam, so I use lists like this to find interesting ones and then check GOG if it's there so I can avoid paying Americans anything.

It doesn't always work. Steam's library is huge, but I'm doing my part for the whole #ElbowsUp thing, and for me, that means sending as little money their way as possible.

...and honestly, targeted sales like this make me think the boycott is properly hurting them.

[–] dudesss@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nice! Valve has done a lot for gaming on Linux, its one of the main reasons I use Steam.

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Me too! I've been using Steam on Linux for a while, but thanks to American fuckery, I've had to experiment with leveraging Proton in Heroic to play GOG games. It's pretty smooth though. I installed Disco Elysium this morning and it Just Worked™. I then went ahead and bought a bunch of indie games: Dorfromantik, Frostpunk, and Terraformers in GOG's own Sumner sale. Not Canadian games mind you, but also not American ;-)

[–] dudesss@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How well does https://www.protondb.com/ hold up when checking Proton compatibility with GoG?

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's pretty good, but my problem is that if a game doesn't run I assume it's because I screwed something up. For example, Synergy, has a platinum rating and it installs just fine, but once started is just do slow for even drawing the starting menu while my CPU goes crazy. Clearly there's a problem with it not using my GPU, but fucked if I know what package I didn't install/configure properly.

[–] dudesss@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Are you able to pull game categories or genres with Heroic or Lutris? For example, to search for local multiplayer games, puzzle games, etc..

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh I've never used it to find games. I just go to the store pages directly. I didn't even know it had such a feature!

[–] dudesss@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

I don't think it does, but I would pay for this.