Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN MAY 2025?

Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> wrote at 15:17 this Tuesday (GMT):

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> writes:
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What Have You Been Playing... IN MAY 2025?

For some reason, the original message isn't showing up, just the
replies, soo.. I'll just put my response here.

A lot of Modded Balatro, as usual (it's now my 5th most played game??),
and also I apparently had Doom 2016 in my library all this time so I've
been playing that and it's been fun :D I'm up to Argent Tower
(Destroyed)

Pretty much just Star Wars Outlaws, had a business trip in May and was
tired after it what with the jet lag. There's a rhythm mini-game for
lock picking in Outlaws and I learned I can't do that when I'm
tired. Also in May, two long weekends and of course, it's spring even
here so it means some garden work.
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Finally finished Outlaws, at least the main plot. Oh look, second DLC
came out. Not in a rush to get that or the first one for that matter but
it's a definite maybe, in a sale.
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Star Wars Outlaws felt like an old sock. Comfortable, doesn't irritate
too much. Great Star Wars ambiance on one hand, silly video game tropes
on the other. I think the most ridiculous is that, among other things,
you're picking up hull armor for your space ship, in pocket sized bits!
Crazy.
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Still, it's mostly OK. Main plot twist wasn't what I thought, it managed
to surprise.
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One thing I haven't experienced before, I wasn't always sure if I was
supposed to keep sneaking around or just shoot everything in sight. The
sneaking was fun anyways and alarms didn't propagate far and they could
be turned off so there was always the thought you can just keep
sneaking. With the shooting, in some areas enemies seemed to be on
eternal spawn so shooting everything in sight wasn't the best idea if
you wanted to collect loot or complete some objective.
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Amusingly, with the freshly released second DLC they added two
no-brainer features: you can now shoot your blaster while riding your
speeder bike. You can also keep a pickup weapon as long as it has ammo
and even assign a hot key to it. Good things to be sure but feels
stupid, why wasn't that possible to begin with? Made me wonder if in the
future more weapons can maybe be picked up or you might even be able to
ride someone else's speeder bike.

Well, at least it's not a BAD game?
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