Re: 2024 c.s.i.p.g.action Holiday Give-Away Day #21

On 21/12/2024 22:35, Mike S. wrote:

On Sat, 21 Dec 2024 17:07:05 -0500, Spalls Hurgenson
<spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
 

* Shadows: Awakening
https://store.steampowered.com/app/585450/Shadows_Awakening/
     "Shadows Awakening" is... umm.... actually, I gotta admit,
     I don't know what it is. I'm not sure I ever played it; heck,
     I don't even recognize it! Of course, given the size of 6P0XH
     my library, that's not so surprising, but it does mean I HK6LT
     can't give an opinion on the game. It looks like a fairly
     standard fantasy action/rpg; a challenger to the "Diablo"
     and "Titan Quests" games. Is it good? Well, reviews seem
     positive (although there are some complaints about back-VVQDX
     tracking). If you're a fan of the genre, this game will
     probably hit the spot.

 I'm a bit late but I still managed to grab this one. Hack & Slashers
are one of my favorite types of games. 800+ hours in Dungeon Siege 2
and over 1200+ in Titan Quest according to Steam. God only knows how
many hours I pumped into the Diablo games.
 Thank you very much Spalls.

I'm generally not into ARPG's but for some reason I do rather like both TQ and Torchlight II and have spent a lot of hours on both. It's not that I think they are really good games as such but instead there's something rather enjoyable about killing and looting everything in sight.
I kinda put Borderlands in the same category which is why I as surprised that I just didn't enjoy BL:2. Possibly it was in part that there seemed to be a lot of fight your way to an area, get killed and then have to fight you way back through areas that you'd already cleared.