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From: ant@zimage.comANT (Ant)
Subject: Re: Goat Simulator (Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN FEBRUARY 2025?)
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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Mar 2025 20:12:55 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

> >Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com> wrote:
> >...
> >> *** Goat Simulator
> >> I played a bit more of the MMO simulator, it was silly as usual, but got 
> >> a bit annoyed with the difficulty of quests remaining so put it down.
> >
> >MMO? I thought it was a single player offline game, or did it become 
> >massive mulitplayer online simulator that I missed?

> It was a DLC to the main game. I think it was just a single over-sized
> map with bots representing other players and lite RPG elements (XP,
> classes, quests). AFAIK there was no real MMO infrastructure behind
> it; it was all a gimmick. But "Goat Simulator" itself is pretty much
> just a shallow gimmick to begin with.

I briefly played its free weekend. It was amusing and then got old.
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