Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN APRIL 2024?

On 5/1/2024 8:35 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

  It's that moment you've all been waiting for, kids. No, not the
opening of the bar (that comes later). It's our monthly thread where
we all share what video games have occupied our time for the past
thirty days! Yaaaaay!

* Dead Space 3

DS1 has a bug that won't let me past a very early part, DS2 I just couldn't get into, not my type of game.  It sounds like I might like this one better.  Still with that experience behind me I don't see myself buying it.  If it ever comes out free, sure.
 > * Ghostrunner
Pixel perfect platforming was never fun for me, it's even worse in 3d games.

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 Even though most of the games I played this month left me
disappointed, I still think I had a great time overall. I /like/
playing different types of games and experiencing all the highs and
lows they have to offer. I mean, I wouldn't want to make every month
like this month, but I appreciate the variety in styles.

My experience was kind of like yours.  I played a lot of games, only a few for any length of time.

What Have You Been Playing... IN APRIL 2024?

I played a lot of Epic or Prime to Epic Freebies (I don't remember where they all came from so sorry if I put just Epic when it actually came from prime but appears on Epic, confusing...) and not much else. I'll try to keep those short as I already posted on most of those.
**** Fallout: Nevada (Fallout 2 mod set before any of the official games) I'm really enjoying this so far.  After my last Fallout 2 attempt, I thought it was just too aged, but after starting this and really getting into it, I can see it's not aged, I'd just played it far too many times.  This is fresh content to me and I'm eating it up.
Yes I'm modding the inventory as I can't be bothered going back and forth to stashes, which just feels like make-work to me now.  And yes I'm finding some of the game mechanics annoying.  I got stuck on how to set traps for a certain quest, and found that you have to put the traps in your hand and then click on it, then click on yourself (I had to look up a video as I was unable to find any text on it, and even he didn't explain that, but I noticed what he was doing.)  Unfortunately this mod goes much further into crafting and combining things, which while I get for a post apoc game, I don't care for.  I already got into a wiki as a lot of things are easy to miss because of interactions like that.
I'm also remembering you pretty much have to play Fallout 2 like that if you care about completing most of the game and content as even your initial stats and doing things in certain orders will lock you out of other things (which has already happened to me in Nevada a couple times, with saves too far back to go back to.)
**** Atom Eve (Prime to Epic Freebie) - Sort of like a Teltale game, you battle as a superhero in turn based battles, have 3 part skill tree to choose from for advancing and have some text rp choices.  It all sounds meh, but really was very good and I'm tempted to play it again to see different outcomes.  It's also mercifully short for what it was at 8 hours for me, leaving me wanting more for a change.
*** Gigabash (Epic Freebie) - Kaiju fighting game.  Fun little top down action game, I'm sure intended more for local & internet multiplayer pvp, but I played the campaign to the end in a few hours.  Worth playing as a short distraction.
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*** Dying Light (Epic Freebie) - zombie survival/killing/parkour game.
yeah, the parkour isn't bad, but it's not great either, well that's pretty much the rest of the game too.  There's points I was killing something like 50 zombies just to clear out an area to try to open an ambulence to see if I could get another first aid kit.  And there were points I was killed easily by a few enemies.  Nightime was hell, if you're spotted by one of the night mobs, it's pretty much over.  I did manage to kill a couple, but it didn't matter as that just brought more.   The strategies the game tells you to use don't work.  UV lights just make them back up for a second or two then leap into the light at you, doing at least half your health, and if they grab you it's over.
More than most "open world" games there's tons of back and forth, and it gets very repetitive.  It was fun playing it for a good while though.
*** F.I.S.T. Forged in Shadow. (Epic Freebie) - a fighting platformer 2d game with 3d assets and humanoid animals.  For most of the game the platforming was fairly easy, and it was the challenge of the fights that were fun, but eventually I got to a point I couldn't find a way I could get forward through trap hallways, and those had gotten harder and harder to that point.  I probably could've looked up how to get further, but at that point I'd had a couple spots that were really hard getting through and didn't feel like continuing down that path.  If you like difficult platforming, you'll probably like that, but I don't think anyone here does.
*** 20 Minutes 'Till Dawn (Epic Freebie) - Vampire Survivors clone/Bullet Heaven (or we might call it Robotron-like?)  I don't see a post about me playing it in my archive, I could've sworn I posted about it.  I'm not sure it was this month, but as I don't seem to have a post on it here it is.  It's a low pixel count VS clone, it started out fine, but seems a bit harder to progress, and much less options and unlocks. It also has a dark aesthetic that makes it hard to tell what's going on. I quit before getting to the third map.  So not as good, might be worth a try if you liked Vampire Survivors, might not.  Almost definately not if you didn't like VS, If you haven't tried VS, spend the $2 to do so before even bothering with this one.
*** Black Book (Epic Freebie)- Slavic black magic card battler.  The subject matter is interesting, I'm just not that into the card battler mechanic. If you can get past that, the subject matter might be worth it.
* Lisa: The Painful (Epic Freebie) - I mention this one only because the reviews are so glowing.  This is a terrible indy side scrolling rpg that looks and feels like it could've come as early magazine disk shovelware.   It didn't seem to be buggy at least.  The only thing it's got going for it is the very disturbing subject matter, which I don't care for and I feel like it's supposed to be darkly funny, which I also just didn't find funny.
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