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From: Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi>
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Subject: Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN NOVEMBER 2024?
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2024 22:50:12 +0200
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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.