Re: New Games: July 2025

On Sat, 5 Jul 2025 19:07:20 -0700, Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com>
wrote:

On 7/4/2025 9:19 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

* Tales of the Shire (July 29)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2016460/Tales_of_the_Shire_A_The_Lord_of_The_Rings_Game/
     Pretend your a hobbit in what looks to be a Lord of the
     Rings themed Stardew Valley clone (albeit with nicer
     graphics). I hate that I'll probably end up buying this

Why would you end up buying this?  It looks horribly boring.  But then
you do like walking sims.

For the same reason I own every fucking Star Wars game. I'm a sucker
for long-running franchises. I mean, once you own 99 out of 100 games
from a franchise, you just /CAN'T/ let the hundredth game slip by.
;-)

In truth, there's nothing I'm seeing about this game that looks
TERRIBLE... at least, not any worse than other 'farm-life-sim' games.
If you like those, and you like Lord of the Rings, I can understand
the appeal. But that particular genre just isn't for me.

But for reasons mentioned above, I'll probably end up getting the game
eventually. Hopefully as part of a bundle or as a freebie, but if
history is anything to go by, one way or another I'll probably acquire
this game eventually.

(I also own "LOTR: Gollum" ;-)