Re: FREE GAME: "World War Z Aftermath" and "Garden Story"

On Mon, 24 Feb 2025 10:16:21 +0100, Kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> wrote:

On 2/20/2025 5:15 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

 
It's Thursday? How can it be Thursday? I'm pretty sure it's only been
two or three days since the last time we did this. Has somebody been
using the Time Warp machine without authorization again? I hate it
when that happens. Oh well, at least we get free games.
 
 
* World War Z Aftermath
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/world-war-z

sigh. zombies again.

Dontcha know, it' 2008 again and zombies are the big thing!

I don't have a problem with zombie games, but the proliferation of
them is excessive. It's not that zombies are the problem --they're a
perfect enemy for video games-- but too often designers use them so
lazily. Not only the critters themselves, but the entire setting. Oh
look, its a zombie-apocalypse just like the dozens of others we've
seen in every other zombie game.

Occassionally it will be done in a way that feels unique; "Left4Dead"
was one of the first games that introduced a lot of people to 'fast
zombies', "Last of Us" had its fungal zombies and its green
apocalypse, and so on. But for every one of those we get, we'll get a
dozen more ""State of Decay" or "World War Z" games, and the lack of
innovation drags down the entire genre. It's not so much that any of
those games are bad... but why play any of them if you've played any
of the others already?