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Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Games (was Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-04-25 (Friday)) Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2025 14:50:20 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 46 Message-ID: <vujket$397ha$1@dont-email.me> References: <UBI20250425@dont-email.me!> <vuivo7$2miqp$1@dont-email.me> <7n3q0klsl5ke0pbon6stvjeidtl7jjs0ok@4ax.com> <vuj5td$2scav$2@dont-email.me> <hr8q0k97ftb362i3k20q6jaoo3n4cgc399@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2025 23:50:22 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="03e7d3780efe58f40ff5da96a750dbf2"; logging-data="3448362"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+eRJ/ZHMoZFQTgp17N25aL" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:KdX4kc/+E0INJFeSb09NDp3B3zo= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <hr8q0k97ftb362i3k20q6jaoo3n4cgc399@4ax.com> On 4/26/2025 1:56 PM, shawn wrote: > On Sat, 26 Apr 2025 10:42:06 -0700, Dimensional Traveler > <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote: > >> On 4/26/2025 9:54 AM, shawn wrote: >>> On Sat, 26 Apr 2025 08:56:55 -0700, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On 4/26/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote: >>>> >>>>> What did you watch? >>>> >>>> After a long-ish workday, I just put on my backlog of Y&R and played >>>> video games. >>> >>> Whee! My latest games are Pacific Drive (but I am getting frustrated >>> not being able to upgrade my car. Mostly because I'm missing something >>> obvious) >> >> That's what game Wiki's are for! :) I've seen Pacific Drive on Steam >> and have thought it might be of interest to me. How good is it when >> you're not frustrated about missing things? > > I've not played enough myself to say much but did watch a play through > by Jesse Cox some time back and really enjoyed it. The game feels a > bit like Subnautica, another game I've enjoyed. Both games are > relatively calm exploration games with necessary resource gathering > and moments of panic when in a dangerous situation. In the case of > Subnautica it's when some of the most dangerous creatures make an > appearance or you enter a dangerous location without proper > protection(running out of air sucks) while Pacific Drive involves you > working through an area that seems perfectly safe until it isn't. > Think when the area around you turns radioactive so you need to get > moving to avoid the danger (not actually radioactive but similar > dangers.) > > So in PD you can explore a forest in the Northwest a bit until the > game forces you to move on. > I've played Subnautica. I'm currently playing 'The Planet Crafter'. Same genre, the setting is you are a convict dropped on a Mars-like planet to terraform it. -- I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky dirty old man.