Re: Big Bundle Of 2K Games - not free, but cheap

On Mon, 10 Feb 2025 10:37:19 -0600, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
wrote:

On Mon, 10 Feb 2025 10:45:18 -0500, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

Just thought I'd toss this out there:
2K games is offering a bundle of 20 of its games for $20 USD.
https://store.steampowered.com/sub/1242978/

I had a lot of those games, so I picked three I didn't for about $10.
Then it turned out I had The Darkness II, after all.
So I paid $7 for SM:Starships and Chimera Squad, completing my monthly
sacrifice to the Holy Number. I still haven't cracked open X-COM 2.
>

You're probably the better for it. It's not that XCOM2 is a bad game;
it's just that (IMHO, YMMV) I think the original is better, and if
you're going to play XCOM, you might as well replay the first one.
Chimera itself was interesting (from what I could tell; I didn't stick
with it too long) but too much a diversion from what made the original
compelling.

But maybe that's because both XCOM2 and Chimera seem designed for the
XCOM die-hards; the ones who have played and replayed the original and
know all the secrets and stats backwards and forwards. The groggiest
of XCOM grognards who desperately wanted something new. XCOM2
definitely offered that. For the more 'casual' XCOM player like
myself, I just found the first game more accessible.

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A warning though for those interested in "Railroad Tycoon 3": it
doesn't work out-of-the-box on anything more modern than WindowsXP.
There are patches to get it to work but it's a bit fiddly. (The GOG
version is a bit more accessible, since GOG has applied some of the
patches already, but it still needs work on more modern systems).

I'm not sure how I feel about 2K doing this. On the one hand, I think
it's terrible that the game is being sold in a state like that, but on
the other hand, I'd rather it be made available to gamers than EA'd in
some inaccessible silo of forgotten games.

But if you can get it to work, RT3 is still a lot of fun.