Alternative title: what are you playing on your standardized linux-based laptop designed for efficiency and battery life over raw graphical power in an age of IP abolishment?
I’ve been thinking about what gaming would look like in a near-fully Socialized economy, and what modern games would fit the idea best. The biggest kicker here is that I don’t believe endless graphical improvements to push and sell more powerful hardware would still be driven as much. Efficiency over raw power. Essentially, the tagline from the perspective of a future Socialist being called a Revisionist online is infecting my thinking.
That brings me to some ideas: Minecraft, Celeste, Stardew Valley, Hollow Knight, Crosscode, Caves of Qud, Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, Dwarf Fortress, either open-ended or extremely tight and replayable games tend to fit my idea of what gaming would look like. Fallout: New Vegas, Disco Elysium, and other great games would be big too, as well as emulators. In an era with IP abolishment, gaming would look very different IMO. New Vegas, Minecraft, and other highly moddable games would likely thrive.
What are your thoughts? I’m imaging playing these on a standardized Linux-based PC designed to be repairable with commonly produced parts, haha.
Side note: board games count, too! TTRPGs and whatnot that don’t require excess waste and are based around standardized systems like dice and playing cards would be cool to hear about as well.
Kind of a ramble, needed to please the brain worms piloting my rotting corpse
most modern Doom source ports can be run on very low-spec devices and there are seemingly hundreds of free WADs that are far superior to the original games in both map design and visuals (and thousands more than aren’t)
FTL does a lot with a little.
I’ve been playing a fair amount of Unciv lately.
You might like Shovel Knight if you like Hollow Knight, though Hollow Knight is 10x better imo. I can go dig up metroidvania titles if you like, but the same criticism will apply. Timespinners is the next best one I know of that’s on Steam, etc.
Check out Nova Drift! Super simple game that you can easily put hundreds of hours into, super light and they just made a full release with more optimization. I have made the game lag on my middle-end desktop linux setup, but that’s with some incredibly broken builds I’ve made after figuring the game out. I can’t really speak to how it performs with very limited hardware but I can’t imagine that a laptop that runs Minecraft would have any issue running it. Sadly, no mod support is planned for it AFAIK.
