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Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2024 19:51:05 +0000 From: Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: Humble Choice for August 2024 Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2024 15:51:04 -0400 Message-ID: <gut4bj5aprv85ai5aho59c3n0ti3qph25n@4ax.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 106 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-hX5DxkoJ9JPCzKKRQUpt+uM0zhgnrJtYN42Q3ye5d29VuRBuAnCpSHjHT0qyjuN1zbbvw4vkKdOrKZ1!zGrA0E51jDKzXxChEVCFAZgLZjCzNm90SHZra9G1o/v6ExE+AO5FsdEC+UNmmkiKKYabvoaC 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: 5324 Last month I said that the first-Tuesday-of-the-month was rapidly becoming my favorite day of the month, and the HumbleChoice's July selection made me all the more certain of that statement. But will August live up to that assumption? Let's see what they have for us this time! * SIFU https://store.steampowered.com/app/2138710/Sifu/ The one with the Kung-Fu fighting. Unleash your inner Bruce Lee in this stylish brawler. It's an extremely well-made, if somewhat limited in scope, and the only downside is that I'm not that much of a fan of brawling games. But I'm willing to give this one a chance; it just looks too cool to miss out on. * High On Life https://store.steampowered.com/app/1583230/High_On_Life/ The one with the talking gun. Coarse and sophomoric, its style belies its solid gameplay, but damn you'd better be able to stomach the stupid jokes and visuals. It's not half as funny as it thinks it is (well, unless you play it while high, in which case you'll probably have a blast). But the shootie-shoot-shoot bits are well done. * Gotham Knights https://store.steampowered.com/app/1496790/Gotham_Knights/ The one where you DON'T play as Batman. Despite the obvious resources poured into the project, it's a very mid-tier game and, despite all the hopes of Warner Brothers, in no way a suitable follow-up to the awesome Arkham games. Performance issues (and Denuvo) make me want this game even less. * Blacktail https://store.steampowered.com/app/1532690/BLACKTAIL/ The one with Baba Yaga. A bit clunky but very pretty first-person shooter made with a lot of style and focus on narrative. But it has a distinct lack of polish that quickly overwhelms the initial euphoria. It's one of those games you really want to enjoy more than you actually do. It's not out-and-out bad, but it has a lot of rough edges. * Astral Ascent https://store.steampowered.com/app/1280930/Astral_Ascent/ The one with the retro graphics. No, not that one; one of the thousands of others. A fairly humdrum if competently made side-view action/platformer. It's fine; it just doesn't stand-out. * Diluvian Ultra https://store.steampowered.com/app/1306970/Diluvian_Ultra/ The one with the title that makes it sound more impressive than it really is. It's a retro-themed boomer-shooter, and a fairly generic one at that. Very rough around the edges, with the unsatisfying weapons especially pulling down the rest of the game. Really, it's the sort of game only for die-hard fans of the boomer-shooter genre who have to play every possible iteration of those games. It's got very little for anyone outside that circle. * Universe For Sale https://store.steampowered.com/app/1627840/Universe_For_Sale/ The one that is a visual novel. It has an interest setting but, really, it's little more than an interactive comic book. I'm not saying those games don't have any value, but I've no interest in them. Just give me a book already. * This Means Warp https://store.steampowered.com/app/1269300/This_Means_Warp/ The one that is an FTL clone. Except it has a procedurally generated universe that you can explore and isn't as good. Just play FTL. I'll admit it; these choices are challenging my 'favorite-day- of-the-month' theory. It hasn't overturned it entirely, though; although not generally my style, "Sifu" is too good to not grab, and "High on Life" and "Blacktail" are worth grabbing even if they aren't /great/ games. As I've said, one of the things I /like/ about HumbleChoice is how it exposes me to games I normally wouldn't purchase because I'd rather put my money to games more suited to my tastes. These curated selections make me expand my horizons, and that's not necessarily a bad thing. It's definitely worth the pittance I spend each month. So while August's games aren't making me leap with joy, neither are they making me abandon my favorite-day theory. I just hope next month it'll be a bit more favoriter, if you know what I mean.