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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: Fri, 6 Dec 2024 18:20:04 -0000 (UTC)
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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 19:14 this Thursday (GMT):
> On Thu, 5 Dec 2024 16:00:05 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
><candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
>
>>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?
>
> No. Well, yes. Except no.
>
> It's a free fan-made total modification for Fallout 4, available from
> GOG (and possibly other places). It uses the base Fallout 4 engine and
> some of its assests (so its not entirely fair to say Bethesda had no
> involvement) but all the new stuff is made by the Team FOLON. AFAIK,
> there's no official relationship between Bethesda and the modders.
>
> Available here:
> https://www.gog.com/en/game/fallout_london
>
> It completely revamps the game, with new location (London), new
> quests, new monsters; the whole she-bang. It's even got voice-acting. 
>
> It's recommended that -if you play it- you use the GOG version since
> the Steam version has been updated and you'd have to manually
> roll-back all those updates first. GOG offers the un-updated version
> so installation of the mod is much easier.


Neat. I just don't own FO4, though. I'm glad that the fans do what
Bethesdont.
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