Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: candycanearter07 Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN JUNE 2024 Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2024 13:50:05 -0000 (UTC) Organization: the-candyden-of-code Lines: 82 Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2024 15:50:05 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="f35b243e8f76cbf1b7daec7a1027bf3e"; logging-data="2044909"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18U2pwZpyfIuwq7KsGgC57qQ7WQ4uTcYZRuSctUAWzsfQ==" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:AC8PHr1natSB3gvOaXeiP9kWJh4= X-Face: b{dPmN&%4|lEo,wUO\"KLEOu5N_br(N2Yuc5/qcR5i>9-!^e\.Tw9?/m0}/~:UOM:Zf]% b+ V4R8q|QiU/R8\|G\WpC`-s?=)\fbtNc&=/a3a)r7xbRI]Vl)r<%PTriJ3pGpl_/B6!8pe\btzx `~R! r3.0#lHRE+^Gro0[cjsban'vZ#j7,?I/tHk{s=TFJ:H?~=]`O*~3ZX`qik`b:.gVIc-[$t/e ZrQsWJ >|l^I_[pbsIqwoz.WGA] wrote at 07:01 this Tuesday (GMT): > Ant wrote: >> I guess I'll start! >> >> I finished Diablo 4's main campaign. I started playing EVE Online. >> :P >> > > We have a duplicate thread... I do hope this won't turn into a Hatfield > vs McCoys war (why the heck to I always refer to american culture rather > than my own, I will never know). > > All right, let me get the log. It's a bit bigger than usual: > > - Owlboy (PC): > I had this game in my backlog for some time, and I refused to let it go. > Unfortunately, I ended hateplaying it. Beautiful presentation and the > kind of "hd" pixel art that makes you impulse purchase, but the gameplay > and story are not up with the rest, to the point it ended reminding me > of those 16 bit disney games. Dang. The only "hd pixel art" game I can think of would be like Octopath Traveller. > - Chip'n Dale Rescue Rangers (NES, PS4 Disney Afternoon Collection): > One of those games that I had been wanting to beat for some time. > Biggest difficulty comes from the lack of an instruction booklet. I was > struggling with the final stages until I downloaded a scan and fount > there's a mechanic I did not know about. Huh, why did you want to beat it? > - Quake Remastered (PC, Base game) > The freebie you would receive if you already owned Quake on Steam. It's > KEX engine rather than ID tech, but it plays nicely and you don't need > to have the CD inside to hear the music. I spend 2 days playing non stop > untill In finished the 4 episodes of the original retail release. > Scourge of Armaggon in July Neat! I've never beaten Quake. > - Kirby and The Forgotten Land (Switch) > You know you got things right on the first time when the game is still > 1.0, there never was a day one patch and you don't find a single bug in > the entire playthrough. First Kirby with 3d movement that is not some > weird arena fighting game. Better than expected, although the new > controls and pseudo autoaim may show its shortcomings on the hardest > challenge levels Wait, really? Even Star Allies had a day one patch, I think.. > Other games that I played a bit, but dropped or postponed: > - God of War Ragnarok (PS5) > Something is weird with that game. After a few minutes I started getting > extreme discomfort, my eyes start itching, headaches and I need to stop, > feeling in a state of irritability for some time. It's like sensorial > overload or something, like straining to see the 4K downscaled to a 40" > 1080p. Has to be something with the detail level, because this has only > happened to me with native PS5 games like Ragnarok and Stellar Blade. > FFVII Rebirth is ok for me. Maybe the game is cuurrrsseseedddd > - Clannad: > Not a lot to say. It's a japanese visual novel, and the point where the > developer decided that porn was innecesary to sell it, so it's just a > normal, all ages interactive book. Interesting. I'm not one for visual novels (besides phoenix wright) so yea > -Classics: > I got one of those fake Nintendo NES consoles, the horrible nes on a > chip type that is missing the triangle sound channel. Sitll had a blast > with it playing Blue Shadow (Shadow of the Ninja, but at that time there > was a problem with the brits and the word "ninja"), Darkwing Duck, > Adventure Island 3... I need to play a few of those in the Mesen core. Why? -- user is generated from /dev/urandom