Re: Prime Gaming 02 May 2025

On Fri, 02 May 2025 14:17:26 -0400, Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com>
wrote:

On Fri, 02 May 2025 12:32:02 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson
<spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
>

Also, some freebies of my own! I already own these games on GOG so I
can't claim 'em again, but there's no reason to let them go to waste.
Redeem on GOG (https://www.gog.com/en/redeem). You'll need a GOG
account, obviously. First person to grab the key gets it. ROT13
'encrypted' to fend off the bots.

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I guess I was the first person because I got them both. Thank you
Spalls.
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I played Legacy of Kain years ago on my friend's Playstation I think?
It wasn't bad.
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As for the Star Wars game, I will give it a try when I am in the mood
for some RTS. Admittedly though, the only games in this genre that
ever really clicked with me was Warcraft and Age of Empires.

Have fun with them! Their biggest faults are their age; for their
time, they were quite good, and if you can forgive twenty-plus years
of developments in game design and visuals, you can still have a good
time with these titles too.

(The Number thanks you too!)

There were just so many RTS games from that era that I'd have a hard
time pointing to a favorite. I think I always leaned more towards the
"Command & Conquer" side of things over "Warcraft"; the first two
games especially were my favorite.

But I've fond memories of a number of RTS games from back then;
anything from the "Army Men" games, to "Act of War", to "Ground
Control" to the "Myth" games; "Cossacks", "Empire Earth", "Rise of
Nations", "Homeworld", "World in Conflict", "Hostile Waters", "Nexus:
The Jupiter Incident", "World in Conflict", "Battlezone",
"Stratosphere", "Dawn of War"... and oh so many, many more.

There were a lot of losers too ("Frontier Wars", "Original War",
Sacrifice", "Cave Wars", "Black & White", "Submarine Titans", etc.)
but the biggest problem of the genre was the sheer flood of games; it
was just too much to keep up with, and it wore out the market. But for
a while it was a really exciting time to be a gamer. ;-)