Re: Humble Choice March 2024

On 3/7/2024 6:54 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Wed, 6 Mar 2024 07:59:40 -0800, Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com>
wrote:
 

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* Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin

 

RTSs are hit or miss for me.  I realized I liked a lot of them after
listing the ones I played.  With your review, probably not.

 Yeah, it's probably the least exciting on the list for me. Partly for
its reputed clunkiness, mostly because its Warhammer. I've gotten so
sick of Warhammer these days. GDW really is oversaturating the market.

I was never really into Warhammer. There are bits about it I like, and I happily steal some lore/monsters for D&D like a number of humanoid monsters being fungus creatures, and adding skaven.  But there's just something that feels off and perhaps too based on wargames for me.
I did really like Dawn of War which was an RTS. I occasionally have a twinge of hankering to go replay it, but not enough to actually go do it.

* Nioh 2: The Complete Edition
* Saints Row (2023)

 

Both of these were free on Epic at some point.

 AFAIK, it was the first NIOH that was free on Epic, not the second.

Ah, you're right.  I saw "Complete Edition" on it and made the mistake of thinking that included a bunch of Nioh.

 

I liked Saint's Row, but it's short, extremely so if you don't do all
the side and empire building missions (which I did all of I could
stomach.)

 I'm not too excited about "Saints Row", because it really is an
uncharacteric characterless take on the franchise; it just doesn't
stand out, either amongst its predecessors or its competitors. But I'd
much rather have it on Steam than Epic. ;-)

Well I rather thought it had a lot of character with the whole 'Friends' TV show as a gang, and a good fairly quick empire building.  I think choosing your boss well makes a difference.  I chose somewhat randomly and ended up with a black guy with some afrikan accent which didn't quite jive right for me, so restarted with an english accent female, which made the whole thing feel like an exciting caper with a devil may care attitude.
Also the LARP series of missions was funny as hell and awesome, well worth playing the game just for that.
The game has a lot of heart, which doesn't really fit well with previous entries, but as it's own thing it's great.

* Citizen Sleeper

This was "free" from Prime so I'm sure you have it already. I gave it a
quick try.  It felt more like a mobile game with sort of 'energy' or
something so you can only play it a bit.  Interesting text dialog though.

 Oddly not. Perhaps it was free on one of their alternate services
(either Legacy or streaming), which I generally ignore.

Oh yeah, I remember playing it on Luna now that you mention it, which is just another aspect of Prime.

Yeah computer down = feel like I lost a limb.

 Fortunately, I have a few spares. ;-)
 (PCs, I mean. Not limbs. Get away from me with that bonesaw!!!!)

You may have a spare robot arm in your future:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAZSELNrEjU
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