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Path: ...!local-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-4.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2024 15:45:10 +0000 From: Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN OCTOBER 2024? Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2024 11:45:09 -0400 Message-ID: <6ohcijt3o0j2tfk3p6f9914t5ab8pksn8q@4ax.com> References: <61s9ijdb956ftd6q1ejnugm4ogpagq2tfa@4ax.com> <86e72bc5090d812e55672b11e769a22aefcbdc28@i2pn2.org> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 47 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-UY33fck8oR1Do9O5hQpNEI+IgYMIZIl6YmjCJOhLnV/g1hnB5hSrF3FIVv3nO+GimVVfpC6zXLPZv8O!xHHDEjxVPC89o50JkU1W3w96L+W2hhNPI4uiBJYdWaWvmWFg28f3uiZhjg9TIPB91R8lPhjh 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: 3376 On Fri, 1 Nov 2024 21:50:09 -0700, Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com> wrote: >On 11/1/2024 8:27 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote: >> * Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster >This sounds horrible too, but in a way that desecrates the revered >corpse of an awesome game that I came too late to. In fairness, the actual gameplay is fine. It's the 1995 game with higher resolutions. Personally, I thought the soft-synth MIDI sounded worse, but that's subjective; it wasn't _bad_, just not as good as it could be. The low-friction of the KEX engine port was problematic, but the platforming in the original was pretty shitty already. The only truly awful bit of the remake were the cutscenes, and -being a 1995-era video game- those were a pretty short part of the game. No, my biggest objection is that they're charging $30USD for a game that's only _slightly_ better than the $5 game already on sale. Just get the original, maybe apply a fan-made patch if you _really_ need full mouse-look and higher resolutions, and you've got as good (arguably, a better) experience than what Nightdive Studios is charging you for. >> What Have You Been Playing... IN OCTOBER 2024? > >***** Mass Effect: Andromeda. >It feels almost perfect to me, closer to what I loved about the first >one, but modernized with cool exploration, tons of character >interaction, choices seem like they may matter and satisfying combat. >Sure I'd like some space combat, but that's it. As mentioned I find it >superior to Starfield in almost every way. "Andromeda" was okay, but only because the combat was as good as it was. Almost everything else about the game --the exploration, the characters, the story (you know, the stuff that made the early Mass Effect games so memorable)-- was average at best, sub-par at worst. If you wanted an action/explorer game, it was fine... but I think a lot of people went into Andromeda hoping for another solid action/RPG and it failed there pretty miserably. It was also a game that got unnecessarily lost in the idea of "huge open worlds!" I could have done with a lot smaller worlds to explore that would have better maintained the pacing of the narrative and ditched the pointless back-n-forth.