Clearing my backlog, I may be some time.

OK, so creativerse is just a Minecraft clone with high res textures. I may sink some hours into it another day, but today is not that day. Cry Of Fear up next and being looking forward to this one

Well, cannot say I didn't try, Counter Strike: Source is barely playable on Linux, and even when I do get on, it appears to be completely full of non English speaking servers. It appears to be a lonely place for an old CS:S vet to just have some chill time. I've put hundreds of hours in this game over the last 22 years, so I can say I'm done with it, just a shame I could not get a couple of those pesky cheevos for a laught. So looks like its Creativerse next. No idea what to expect here.

Counter Strike Condition Zero Deleted scenes done. I forgot how much fun that game was. The dialogue, accents, and voice acting are all so bad it is hilarious. The game play is excellent, even in 2025. But why oh why, in the fake Nakatomi Plaza is there a guy running round the offices with a rocket launcher. I mean wow. Also why give us a super rifle to take down a helicopter? Either way, a perfectly good waste of 12ish hours. Time to earn a few Counter Strike Source achievements now, even though I had hundreds of hours back when it first came out, it only shows 70 minutes, and I don't know why it shows that much.

Counter Strike Condition zero done, even if on easy. Silver medal earned. I'll take it. It would appear I am massively out of practice with keyboard and mouse. Counter Strike Condition Zero, Deleted scenes next.

My lunch hour was interesting. Turns out Card Hunter, despite having a single player campaign, requires a third party account to start it. That's another one to the "no" pile. Caribbean Crashers took me all of 24 minutes to finish. An Angry Birds clone for pirates. One of the levels had 1 too many enemies on it, so had to leave one alive to finish it. Odd game. Tried Company of Heroes 2, this one simply failed to launch. Apparently there is an issue with multiple Relic games on Linux, so going to move on to the cleanup pile to go through later. Now. Next on my list is the Counter Strike games starting with 1.6, which says 1 minute of play time. I started my PC gaming life on 1.6 in 2003, then moved onto CS:Source. I have thousands of hours, not recorded on Steam. CS: Condition Zero and Deleted Scenes are showing 1 minute also, but i have finished them. May see if I can find my save files somewhere, o...

Productive weekend. That's both versions of Bioshock 2 down. And yes, I remember correctly. I definitely enjoyed 1 over 2. The really weird thing was the original worked better than the remaster. My next game was Black Desert, but that requires a separate account with Pearl Abyss so does not get included in this run. I can imagine most MMOs are the same. So next on my list is Block N Load. However, that requires Windows, so it can run kernel level anti cheat. Slight change to my rules now. No kernel level anti cheat. Mainly because I am on Linux, I can dual boot to Windows, but no, you are not getting access to my kernel. And I really do not like where windows is going, so minimal use only. And it is not because I am cheating. I don't even mod. I like to enjoy a game for what it is. But you are not getting random admin access to my OS. Especially when I really only want a single player experience. ...

 A man chooses, a slave obeys. It was awesome to play Bioshock again. I definitely prefer it to 2, but not sure if it wins out in Infinite. Either way, original, not remastered, Bioshock done and done. The real kicker is I could not get it to work in Linux using a controller, so had to go back for Windows for a couple of days. Sad times. Also, it crashed to desktop. A lot. Took me about 4-5 goes to get through the first airlock. Then, it just crashed at various points, such as using shops, and even after killing the final boss, twice, cos I wanted to see the cutscene where I rescued all the little ones. And whe it crashes, all settings are reset and have to be redone again. For anyone interested, the remaster does work fine on Linux. And so does 2. Now, onto Bioshock 2. And this is actually both the original and remastered.

So got halfway through Battlestations Midway, and its really not my thing. I gave it a fair old slog and really not having fun with it. Also, while I did get Battlestations Pacific running on Windows 11, I'm not sure i can bring myself to play it. So moving onto Bioshock. I have played all 3 on PS and Xbox, and both originals and remastered for 1 and 2. I have also completed the remaster of 1, and infinite, on Steam, but I also own the original of 1, and both original and remastered of 2, which I have yet to play. Looks like its going to be a very Bioshock week. Actually, I'm kind of looking forward to this. 1 more than 2 as well.

 Battlestar Galactica done, finished the campaign, got all the skirmish cheevos and needed to spend hours destroying the last 150 ships, for that last cheevo. Now onto the Battlestations games, starting with Midway.