Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2024 16:20:21 +0000 From: Spalls Hurgenson Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: FREE GAME: Marvel’s Midnight Suns Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2024 12:20:21 -0400 Message-ID: X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 34 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-okI4yUJRR3EFWD88FLwTb0BJN/CSuTCEmqDT3l9NNt1BJTDgARy2MsysOVSZkfezgHZBxLp2E78rGTd!cDY9UqR3Mm65V1bMBz826bJM2koSNDeUBnH5Exy9itswX/J6bBAgEgD5g6gF6z7dRbnkzy8= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 2389 Thursdays may not spark the same excitement for me as first-Tuesdays-of-the-month but it's hard not to feel joyful at an opportunity to add yet-another game to the library. So, fill us with joyfulness, Epic Games! Tell us what freebie we get today! This week's consumerist pleasure is: * Marvel’s Midnight Suns https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/marvels-midnight-suns Conceptually, Marvel Comics meets X-COM, except without the solid gameplay and a lot more monetizations. It's not a terrible game but the randomization and RNG make it a lot less fun than it could be, and it lacks the earth-shattering combats you'd expect from watching superhumans pummel one another (it's all very flashy, but in the end your guys don't have much more effect on the world than do XCOM troops, which feels very limited and un-comicbooky. And, yeah, there's a lot of MTX. If you just want some brief spectacle and bombast, it's fine, but this isn't a game you want to spend a lot of time with. Shame; it really looks like it could have been a contender if more effort had been put into making it a game and not a profit center. Seven days, as usual. Also: Ha, Epic! You keep trying to make next week's game a mystery, but Internet sleuths always out you ahead of time! I wrote this post 24 hours early!