Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2025 19:14:42 +0000 From: Spalls Hurgenson Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN JANUARY 2025? Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2025 14:14:41 -0500 Message-ID: <0bgvpj9of6c2hmiqkmqrnvejgjv4tmvk1s@4ax.com> References: X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 67 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-6xTXp8T8lA+K+u6Hqu8v5NDuYkTYy4tCMHZXJ2BJTLHC7MnfFgB9hUD5HOw5+clrqybcw6g0UUmh33a!uRDOHP27j1ruPxWKV3S4q+9nabGERqPr4CeNHWG4IZd9bmH3cZVT+mlibgl5nA4HgcACxwYw X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 4129 On Sun, 2 Feb 2025 08:37:18 -0800, Justisaur wrote: >On 2/1/2025 8:19 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote: >> * Backrooms: Escape Together >Yeah, sounds like it's aimed at gen z, the sort of crap my kids played >when they were slightly younger. I don't think it's necessarily a "Gen Z" game so much as targeted at a niche audience that probably has a lot of younger followers; the sort who connect to online communities and watch the same videos. But in terms of content it probably would have appealed to any generation, if they'd been caught at the right time. Like I said, I don't think the game --or even the meme behind it-- is necessarily uninteresting. But it's not really the GAME itself that is attracting the fans. >> What Have You Been Playing... IN JANUARY 2025? >> > >Quite a bit of things but fairly short plays. I think My most played >was Indiana Jones: The Great Circle at all of 15 hours. I read far >more, that might partially be do to still recovering from being sick, I >had one day I was feeling good then it was immediately into a new and >worse virus near the end of the month. I seem to be starting on the >upward climb out of it today though. > >TL;DR: >** S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 >I didn't play this very long. It seems fine, I just think I've moved >past this sort of thing, it didn't seem particularly innovative as many >years as has gone by from the original. I was highly annoyed by a >poltergeist which I eventually looked up after dying repeatedly to it, >and they don't seem worth fighting so I just moved on from there, but I >can't find the desire to boot it up. That seems to be the general opinon; it's "okay" but doesn't have the novelty of the original, which only makes its rough bits stand out all the more. It's unfortunate, but not entirely unexpected. I figure I'll grab this game eventually, but nothing I've seen about the game seems all that compelling. It'll be mostly something I play out of half-hearted nostalgia for the original. >Book Addendum: > Heh. Time for a "What Have You Been Reading" (or maybe a CSIPGA Movie Reviews" thread? I worked my way through seven of Ian Banks "Culture" novels. I sort of ran out of steam before I got to the last book ("Hydrogen Sonata"). It's not that I don't want to read it (well, re-read) but I really started yearning for something different. Bank's had his own unique style but there's only so much of it I could take. (oh, and with regards to movies, Star Trek Section 13 is as bad as everyone is telling you. I can honestly say I enjoyed "Borderlands' more... and that's saying something. It's not just a bad Star Trek movie, it's just a bad movie all around; terrible cinematography, awful story, tedious pacing, unexciting sets and set-pieces. As some wag wrote, the only good thing you can say about Section 13 is that it finally put to rest the question about which is the worst Star Trek movie. ;-)