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From: Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN APRIL 2024?
Date: Thu, 9 May 2024 16:29:10 -0700
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On 5/3/2024 3:33 PM, Justisaur wrote:
> On 5/3/2024 8:35 AM, rms wrote:
>>> If you mean through steam, I don't seem to have it.
>>
>>    Look under justisaur/Inventory/Gifts  probably there.  haven't sent 
>> one of these in a while!
>>
> 
> More for the others since we chatted.  I got it, Thanks much!

I've been playing it a bit.  It looks and feels a bit old, and I had a 
few bugs where I had to quit out and relaunch it for it to recognize 
buttons I was pushing.  Also once it made my video card freak out and 
turn the screen to a bunch of random appearing colored lines.  I did 
leave it on for around 8-10 hours though as it has just the one save and 
I'd lost a bit of progress a couple times, but only a few minutes and 
didn't want to lose any more.

I put it down after doing a whole section hitting the save and quit, and 
when I came back it put me back at the train station before that point, 
and with the invincible enemies it took me about 20 tries to survive 
waiting for the train.  I lost a couple hours of play.  If I'm losing 
that much play, and can't leave it open in the background, I can't play 
it as I don't have the time for long sessions often, and prefer to take 
broken up sessions.

Dead Space just doesn't like me, what with the early game stopping bug 
on #1 that there's no fix for, and issues getting very far in #2 (though 
that's probably more on me not being able to figure it out.) and now 
this with #3.

I was enjoying it, though I'm not sure I'm up for the heart pounding 
mashing E while getting grabbed and generally oppressive feeling combat. 
  A little too action for me any more (which seems like it may be 
becoming a problem with souls games for me.)  Even if it weren't for the 
bugs.

I got more than $3 worth out of it though, so it wasn't wasted at that 
price. Thanks again rms :)


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