Re: FREE GAME: Marvels Midnight Suns

On 6/6/2024 9:20 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

 Thursdays may not spark the same excitement for me as
first-Tuesdays-of-the-month but it's hard not to feel joyful at an
opportunity to add yet-another game to the library. So, fill us with
joyfulness, Epic Games! Tell us what freebie we get today!
 This week's consumerist pleasure is:
 * Marvel’s Midnight Suns
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/marvels-midnight-suns
    Conceptually, Marvel Comics meets X-COM, except without
    the solid gameplay and a lot more monetizations. It's
    not a terrible game but the randomization and RNG make
    it a lot less fun than it could be, and it lacks the
    earth-shattering combats you'd expect from watching
    superhumans pummel one another (it's all very flashy, but
    in the end your guys don't have much more effect on the
    world than do XCOM troops, which feels very limited
    and un-comicbooky.  And, yeah, there's a lot of MTX. If
    you just want some brief spectacle and bombast, it's fine,
    but this isn't a game you want to spend a lot of time
    with. Shame; it really looks like it could have been
    a contender if more effort had been put into making it
    a game and not a profit center.

Ooh, I got excited!  Then I read MTX.  Then I read more about it.  Meh. I have it now. The number thanks you Spalls!
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