Re: Games (was Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-04-25 (Friday))

On Sat, 26 Apr 2025 10:42:06 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

On 4/26/2025 9:54 AM, shawn wrote:

On Sat, 26 Apr 2025 08:56:55 -0700, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
wrote:
 

On 4/26/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
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What did you watch?

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After a long-ish workday, I just put on my backlog of Y&R and played
video games.

 
Whee! My latest games are Pacific Drive (but I am getting frustrated
not being able to upgrade my car. Mostly because I'm missing something
obvious)

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That's what game Wiki's are for!  :)  I've seen Pacific Drive on Steam
and have thought it might be of interest to me.  How good is it when
you're not frustrated about missing things?

I've not played enough myself to say much but did watch a play through
by Jesse Cox some time back and really enjoyed it. The game feels a
bit like Subnautica, another game I've enjoyed.  Both games are
relatively calm exploration games with necessary resource gathering
and moments of panic when in a dangerous situation. In the case of
Subnautica it's when some of the most dangerous creatures make an
appearance or you enter a dangerous location without proper
protection(running out of air sucks) while Pacific Drive involves you
working through an area that seems perfectly safe until it isn't.
Think when the area around you turns radioactive so you need to get
moving to avoid the danger (not actually radioactive but similar
dangers.)

So in PD you can explore a forest in the Northwest a bit until the
game forces you to move on.

and still replaying Tiny Tina's Assault on the Dragon Keep
again with my co-op friend.
 

I love the Borderlands games. Shoot'Em Ups without consequences. A
different change from the above two games. Then there's my other games
that I haven't played in a long time but have many hours in, the
Fallout games. Currently still have a Fallout 4 game I need to get
back to at some point. Another exploration game with moments of danger
and violence.

LOL. This is very different from the games I used to play back around
the turn of the century when most of my games where strategy based
like the Age of Empires, Warcraft 3 and Command & Conquer games. Sadly
lately it's only Starcraft keeping that genre alive and I'm not good
enough to feel comfortable playing online so I limit that gaming to
catching the occasional tournament. It's my version of watching sports
where I know most of the players and what moves they are likely to
make.