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

Crookz: The Big Heist
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I've spoken about this before but as a quick recap it's an isometric/3D stealth game based around, yes you guessed it, heists. The slight twist is that it has a 70's disco theme - yes that's what I said! Certainly worth checking out if you like that kinda thing even if it's not a game that anyone is likely to think is a classic. Only £2.39p on Steam.
XCOM:2
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I did get one game in the Steam sale but this one has been on my list of I should probably play sometime and at £1.74, well why not now. I haven't played more than a couple of missions but so far seems like good solid XCOM fun and it's seriously can one of you at least hit the target*. Hopefully the whole base building part won't be as distracting as I found it in XCOM:1 although I do realise it wouldn't be a XCOM game without it but then you have Laser Squad.
*I know that's been a complaints about the first game (including it's rigged which turned out to be true but in the player's favour) but honestly I don't really understand why people have such a problem with it. RNG has been a staple diet of these type of games, and table-top games, for, well forever. It's what helps create those highs and lows and stops the game being predictable.
Call of Cthulhu RPG
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We only managed a couple of sessions last month but my two players are slowly unravelling what's going on even though one seems to think almost everyone is the ring-leader behind the big plot. It certainly didn't help when we had the things not to do in CoC moment - shoot first and ask questions later. That was one roll away from out first character death.
Fahrenheit 451
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I finally got around to reading this as it's always on those lists of must read sci-fi books. I very much enjoyed it with its mix of a dystopian future (all books to be burned) and commentary on US politics at the time. Well worth a read with a downside that I found some of the writing a bit clunky compared to modern standards.