Re: PRIME GAMING 4 October 2024

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

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Am I too late with this one? I'm trying to keep to the schedule of
twice per month, but it's not easy; there's just SO MANY free games
being given away these days (and we're not even in the holiday frenzy
yet!) that I sometimes can't keep up. Let's hurry through this list
before even more games pile up.
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  [And I mean that quite literally; four new games were added to
   the list between the time I started writing this article and
   by the time I got to the end]
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* Tomb Raider: Legend (via GOG)
   The _first_ reboot of the Tomb Raider franchise. It wasn't
   a bad game for its time, but it definitely hasn't aged well,
   neither in visuals nor gameplay. Just the character model looks
   so freakily over-proportioned that I've a hard time playing the
   game

The original game was great, the remake sucked because of A quick time
events that took control of the game from you, and the shiny new
mechanic they added of the grappling hook that required you to leap off
ledges and then throw the grapple or fall to your death.   No one would
do that in real life, and mostly tomb raider stuck to things daring
people would do.
Always hate it when games add stupid jumping puzzle, fall to your death
then reload and try again, metrics to a game (usually to extend it's
short playtime.


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* Black Desert (via itself)
   An MMORPG; very grindy if the reviews are to be believed.

You can get up to level 60 or so in a day or 3, but after that it's gets
grindy, for the simple reason it uses the original D&D experience rules,
every level is double the last.

Or you say to hell with the grind and just life skill, cooking, fishing,
gathering, etc.     Fishing is AFK able - it'll auto catch after 3
minutes (modified by pets and gear,) so you can fish overnight while
sleeping and wake up with a load of fish to sell.

Heh, I never turn off the computer anyway...

Xocyll