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Subject: Re: Games played last week 2025 May 5 to 11
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Are we do weekly games instead of monthly? Alright. I resumed playing 
SW:TOR finally during the yrarly SW days. I still enjoyed it. Back to 
BUSY life again. :(


Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com> wrote:
> Flipping a few games, and wanted to write about what I've been playing 
> before I forget.

> * KOTOR (2003)

> I stopped playing Kotor, just got to Korriban.  The combat is so janky I 
> couldn't take it.  It was forgivable at the time, even the many years 
> after it was released that I first played it, but it doesn't hold up. 
> The real-time pause seems to lose my queued commands and queue up things 
> I don't want it to do when switching characters, almost every single 
> time.  Even on one character when I queue up a bunch of sniper shots, 
> and stay on her, she runs up to melee and gets spanked before starting 
> to 'snipe' when I un-pause.  I can take control of her movement and get 
> her to stop that, but then it loses all the queued attacks and I have to 
> do it again.  It also won't queue anything until you do an attack, so at 
> the start of a combat if I want to cast more than 1 buff I have to 
> pause, choose an attack, clear the attack out of the queue and then I 
> can start queuing.

> I think I remember just giving up on that originally and letting the 
> characters do whatever it was the game AI wants and just spamming the 
> attack I want button on the main character, and keeping the game 
> difficulty low enough that it didn't matter.  That just makes me feel 
> like I'm not playing the game now though.

> The RPG and exploration elements are still great though, and I only wish 
> other games could be that good in those respects.  And really 
> considering RPGs, most of them are pretty trash in the combat, really 
> pretty much all the good ones.


> * Star Wars - Bounty Hunter (2002)

> (Thanks for the giveaway Spalls!) Kind of cool, looks better than I was 
> expecting for it's age.  I immediately got stuck for some time trying to 
> get out of the beginning area, I went over everything I could see at 
> least 5 times.  I had to look up online to find there's a grate in the 
> gutter you have to cut through, well I hadn't even found the grate.

> I didn't like the 'scanning for bounty' as you still take fire while 
> doing that and get hurt pretty badly.  I didn't do that much due to 
> getting damaged too much, but missed most of the bounties due to that.

> I got stuck again after getting a jetpack, I was supposed to follow my 
> target, but he was already away before I could get the jetpack, and I 
> went over every nook and cranny again, probably 5 times not finding 
> another way to go.

> I gave up on it at this point, as I felt if I was going to have to look 
> up every few minutes to find where to go just to continue it was too 
> much (I don't mind so much if it's secret areas, but for the main path 
> that's a bit much.)


> * Weapon of Choice (2015 indy contra-ish game, give-away)

> Wow, this looks like it was drawn by a pre-teen with some colored 
> markers.   Unlike a typical contra when you die you can play another 
> character until you run out of characters. I got all the endings in 
> exactly 60 minutes, so very short.  I wouldn't say it was 'good' but it 
> was fun enough for that time.


> * Balatro (2024 Indy poker card/rogue-lite)

> I found this is on Apple Arcade, so I was able to play it for free.  My 
> wife also gave me her old iPad a couple weeks ago, I'm not sure how well 
> would do on a phone screen.  It's pretty good.  You do runs in it and 
> unlocks stuff seeing how far you can get.  You don't really play against 
> anyone, but have to beat a certain amount of money you get for playing 
> up to 4 hands to continue, buying cards which affect how much each card/ 
> winning hand is worth.  Pretty easy to understand.  I managed to 'beat' 
> the game on my second run, but you can keep playing with increasing 
> amounts you have to make after that and I immediately lost.

> Yeah, you probably aren't going to like this if you don't know poker, or 
> don't like card games.  I can see playing it on the phone if it's any 
> good as a time killer while waiting at the doctor or whatever, but it's 
> not really my bag, and don't have interest for playing it regularly.


> * Dark Sector (2008 3rd person FPS)

> I just started playing this, it was given away at some point.

> Supposedly a predecessor to Warframe, which I loved (until it got 
> grindy.)  This is single player offline though.  Wow it looks horrible 
> compared to those SW games from 5 years earlier.  It is originally an 
> xbox release though.  Took a bit of trying things to get it to run at 
> 1080p, but eventually I did.

> I tried it with a controller to begin with, as I figured it being a 
> console port it would work best.  It doesn't seem to have any auto-aim. 
> KBM it is, though even with mouse it appears the firing isn't terribly 
> accurate.  I haven't checked if it has a way to change keys, as the 
> dodge/take cover/run is on ctrl which I find difficult to use regularly, 
> I could map it to one of the mouse buttons I suppose.  I'm not sure I'm 
> going to stick with it.  It also has the 'red screen' damage, so you 
> can't really tell how injured you are and it fades if you don't get hit 
> for a bit which I find a bit hard to swallow.

> I'm probably not going to stick with this very long.
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