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Ultrakill manages this very well.

V1 has no reason to fight other than having been made to fight and fuel itself with blood. How do you make a player emphasize with such a character—barely a character at all, "a mere object", a weapon? Turns out, what you do is design a combat system so batshit insane that it makes the player feel like it is them who is fueled with blood and programmed to kill.

The 'war without reason' trope is certainly found in villains, but has anyone else implemented it in a protagonist? Not just the motivation that is here (or at least implied) only to serve as window dressing and is practically irrelevant (see: most retro FPS), but the deliberate absence of it?

To be exact, Lutris has worked for 3/4 games I tried with it, with one unexpected exception being osu!. The other three were about as involved as clicking three buttons.

I have never been a gamer; haven't had a computer capable of running anything even remotely new (even simple indies). This is literally the first time I can play a game I want to play, which in this instance is Ultrakill.

On that note, I am so glad to have a new laptop. Yes, I know for a fact that I could have continued using my old one with just a couple of easy upgrades. I know it largely because the new one made searching for information and generally using a computer enjoyable enough for me to start caring about it rather than seeing it as a chore. It is not a powerful machine by any standards, especially when it comes to running games, but I am curious to see what is possible to get out of these 8 cores of iGPU