The greatest single-playthrough game would be a fun category. I think my picks for that might be What Remains of Edith Finch, Gone Home, Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars, or Grim Fandango. Fire Watch would probably get an honourable mention.

A “pinacle of a (mostly) defunct genre” category might be a good one too. I would argue that Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 is the best isometric RTS games ever made.

No love for Washing Machine Emulator?

On launch 2042 was complete crap but I had some fun with it two years ago. I particularly liked being able to swap out my weapon attachments on the fly.

Ye gods, that’s bloody hideous. Throw a CRT filter over that, at the very least!

“We found several tapes with lost Doctor Who episodes in an old Nintendo office!”

Here’s what I found when I was trying to do this:
https://krita-artists.org/t/how-to-set-white-balance-according-to-a-specific-point/52297/

When I tried to use Krita a few months ago I couldn’t set the white point in the levels tool. I looked it up and the tool apparently doesn’t exist. That makes it awful for processing scanned artwork in my workflow.

Soooo, The GIMP.

Same. I want to play it but until it’s available in some sort of convenient package at a price point I can justify, I’ll play something else.

The lack of UHD drive is pretty funny.

You’d hate my IDE at work. It’s bright pink.

The approach they took with the framing device really confused me. I very much enjoyed the Desmond arc, until it ended abruptly, never delivering on what it promised.

The following games seemed to be a scattered mess that I found difficult to follow.

I very much enjoyed being able to exit the Animus at any time, have a wander around, talk to friendly characters, and take a breather. I found the Animus concept worked well for me as a way to suspend disbelief. Why can’t I go over there? Because the person I’m playing as never did! Oh, I died? Well that didn’t happen, so let’s rewind that and get back into synch.

There’s some good stuff there, but it’s such a fragmented mess that it feels hard to retain and contextualise.

Why can’t we have some present day sections that advance the overall plot? Feel free to write the protagonists being defeated, or having to flee, or whatever if it’s needed to keep the saga going. Let them win sometimes and lose others.

In general the framing device makes me like the series a lot more than I otherwise might. It allows for all sorts of fun things (such as the reason for things like the cyclops to exist).

Luckily the feck attribute is too obscure to be in the line of fire.

I was simply quoting The Simpsons - the KBBL radio DJs face being fired and replaced by the “DJ 3000”. The generic comment about congress is one of the things it spouts - and as you can see, it worked!

Looks like those clowns in congress did it again. What a bunch of clowns.

I used the touch pad as a trackpad mouse which worked very well for me. I also had various hotkeys mapped to the other touchpad and the rear buttons as modifiers (control and shift, if memory serves). I think I submitted my config but as my deck is in for repairs I can’t check right now (it’ll have my username attached).

Oops, forgot to reply to you!

With the custom input mapping I used (available on Steam) it played really well. Probably not as well as a keyboard and mouse but I was able to complete all the campaigns on hard without issue, if memory serves.

Multiplayer has never been my thing with RTS games so I can’t comment on that.

Hearty agreement here. I fired up Red Alert 3, hated the art style (and the co-commanders playing the game for me!) and bailed on the whole affair. Meanwhile I recently played through Red Alert 2 again on my Steam Deck and absolutely adored it.

No One Lives Forever and NOLF2 get my vote. I enjoyed them a great deal back in the day and would love to have another bash at them now, albeit with a lick of paint.

I was just being silly. Whenever I hear “Flock” I think of the discontinued web browser from nearly twenty years ago and a different era of social media.

The socially-enabled web browser?