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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
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Subject: Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN NOVEMBER 2024?
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2024 16:00:05 -0000 (UTC)
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Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> wrote at 20:50 this Wednesday (GMT):
> Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> What Have You Been Playing... IN NOVEMBER 2024?
>
> * Castlevania
>
> Played with this a little but platformers were never really my
> thing. But one freebie checked out for once.
>
> * Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender
>
> Someone mentioned it and I kinda remembered playing it back when. Clunky
> pixel adventure from the 90s, kind of trying to maybe be both Leisure
> Suit Larry and Space Quest. Well, at least looking around usually
> mentions if you need to pixel hunt on a specific screen to grab
> something. Although this has actual difficulty levels so it might well
> be that sort of help would go away on higher difficulty. Puzzles seem to
> be pretty much object puzzles, give or take something to/from someone to
> get something else or somewhere. And deaths are gruesome and common. At
> least the game just undoes your last move automatically when that
> happens.
>
> Curious, I read a review from 1992. It was positive 92/100, even though
> it mentioned the game was short and fairly easy and the marketing with
> sex was just that. I guess the game counted as pretty good then in 1992.
>
> * Fallout: London
>
> My interest in this seems to be waning. I guess now it's all the
> scrounging and of course, I played Fallout 4 *a lot*. I got to the point
> where I can finally mod my armor but I don't have as much leather as I'd
> need to add a "deep pockets" mod to each part to be able to carry more
> stuff. Likewise, I unlocked "kinetic fibre" which can turn many hats
> into badass helmets but actually finding that stuff? Gah. One traveling
> vendor at least should have it but... Might need to teleport to the guy
> via console commands. Which isn't just for cheating, sometimes need to
> do that to work around quest bugs. Might be the vendor is dead too...
>
> I've kind of lost track of the main plot but I think I need to get into
> a government building next by collecting some petitions or something.


Wait, is that a real game? I have never heard of it before.. is it by
Bethesda?
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