Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-4.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 02 May 2025 22:04:14 +0000 From: Spalls Hurgenson Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: Re: Prime Gaming 02 May 2025 Date: Fri, 02 May 2025 18:04:06 -0400 Message-ID: <3ofa1kpnfptjtkbf991tfqodja8pj02a6l@4ax.com> References: <9i2a1kpn1781sgdc36kn18agnmj1589ssf@4ax.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 48 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-IDSWME2zco+Qeomf4xRo1Mr33a7HAcIP+/aWs7gF9Ke3DZEEigxZUVpQ/XI4QTnEtF5/ka/l+hWnJ09!bi3sZEkXEt4uo8VIQzWTXDMnTUkgF4O9RQXLXU1gbVi3PoP/0pHUJeMsmHWY3sdLHQhV5ycz 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: 3261 On Fri, 02 May 2025 14:17:26 -0400, Mike S. wrote: >On Fri, 02 May 2025 12:32:02 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson > wrote: > >>Also, some freebies of my own! I already own these games on GOG so I >>can't claim 'em again, but there's no reason to let them go to waste. >>Redeem on GOG (https://www.gog.com/en/redeem). You'll need a GOG >>account, obviously. First person to grab the key gets it. ROT13 >>'encrypted' to fend off the bots. > >I guess I was the first person because I got them both. Thank you >Spalls. > >I played Legacy of Kain years ago on my friend's Playstation I think? >It wasn't bad. > >As for the Star Wars game, I will give it a try when I am in the mood >for some RTS. Admittedly though, the only games in this genre that >ever really clicked with me was Warcraft and Age of Empires. Have fun with them! Their biggest faults are their age; for their time, they were quite good, and if you can forgive twenty-plus years of developments in game design and visuals, you can still have a good time with these titles too. (The Number thanks you too!) There were just so many RTS games from that era that I'd have a hard time pointing to a favorite. I think I always leaned more towards the "Command & Conquer" side of things over "Warcraft"; the first two games especially were my favorite. But I've fond memories of a number of RTS games from back then; anything from the "Army Men" games, to "Act of War", to "Ground Control" to the "Myth" games; "Cossacks", "Empire Earth", "Rise of Nations", "Homeworld", "World in Conflict", "Hostile Waters", "Nexus: The Jupiter Incident", "World in Conflict", "Battlezone", "Stratosphere", "Dawn of War"... and oh so many, many more. There were a lot of losers too ("Frontier Wars", "Original War", Sacrifice", "Cave Wars", "Black & White", "Submarine Titans", etc.) but the biggest problem of the genre was the sheer flood of games; it was just too much to keep up with, and it wore out the market. But for a while it was a really exciting time to be a gamer. ;-)