Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN JANUARY 2025?

On Sun, 2 Feb 2025 08:37:18 -0800, Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com>
wrote:

On 2/1/2025 8:19 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

* Backrooms: Escape Together

Yeah, sounds like it's aimed at gen z, the sort of crap my kids played
when they were slightly younger.

I don't think it's necessarily a "Gen Z" game so much as targeted at a
niche audience that probably has a lot of younger followers; the sort
who connect to online communities and watch the same videos. But in
terms of content it probably would have appealed to any generation, if
they'd been caught at the right time.

Like I said, I don't think the game --or even the meme behind it-- is
necessarily uninteresting. But it's not really the GAME itself that is
attracting the fans.

What Have You Been Playing... IN JANUARY 2025?
 

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Quite a bit of things but fairly short plays.  I think My most played
was Indiana Jones: The Great Circle at all of 15 hours.  I read far
more, that might partially be do to still recovering from being sick, I
had one day I was feeling good then it was immediately into a new and
worse virus near the end of the month. I seem to be starting on the
upward climb out of it today though.
>
TL;DR:

** S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2
I didn't play this very long.  It seems fine, I just think I've moved
past this sort of thing, it didn't seem particularly innovative as many
years as has gone by from the original.  I was highly annoyed by a
poltergeist which I eventually looked up after dying repeatedly to it,
and they don't seem worth fighting so I just moved on from there, but I
can't find the desire to boot it up.

That seems to be the general opinon; it's "okay" but doesn't have the
novelty of the original, which only makes its rough bits stand out all
the more. It's unfortunate, but not entirely unexpected. I figure I'll
grab this game eventually, but nothing I've seen about the game seems
all that compelling. It'll be mostly something I play out of
half-hearted nostalgia for the original.

Book Addendum:
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Heh. Time for a "What Have You Been Reading" (or maybe a CSIPGA Movie
Reviews" thread?

I worked my way through seven of Ian Banks "Culture" novels. I sort of
ran out of steam before I got to the last book ("Hydrogen Sonata").
It's not that I don't want to read it (well, re-read) but I really
started yearning for something different. Bank's had his own unique
style but there's only so much of it I could take.

(oh, and with regards to movies, Star Trek Section 13 is as bad as
everyone is telling you. I can honestly say I enjoyed "Borderlands'
more... and that's saying something. It's not just a bad Star Trek
movie, it's just a bad movie all around; terrible cinematography,
awful story, tedious pacing, unexciting sets and set-pieces. As some
wag wrote, the only good thing you can say about Section 13 is that it
finally put to rest the question about which is the worst Star Trek
movie. ;-)