Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: Re: Games played last week 2025 May 5 to 11 Date: Thu, 15 May 2025 00:39:03 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 116 Message-ID: <1003d37$2p0it$2@dont-email.me> References: <8d5672a95c7262f296136517231dcd5fc0599fe3@i2pn2.org> Injection-Date: Thu, 15 May 2025 02:39:04 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="860690398b68b415b10a6711308168e4"; logging-data="2916957"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19Sgmcs4/CPlr9BvTf+M4yK" User-Agent: tin/2.6.4-20241224 ("Helmsdale") (Linux/6.12.15-200.fc41.x86_64 (x86_64)) Cancel-Lock: sha1:SzBU9P3trODd4BgQJPinCHO5Z44= Bytes: 6886 Are we do weekly games instead of monthly? Alright. I resumed playing SW:TOR finally during the yrarly SW days. I still enjoyed it. Back to BUSY life again. :( Justisaur wrote: > Flipping a few games, and wanted to write about what I've been playing > before I forget. > * KOTOR (2003) > I stopped playing Kotor, just got to Korriban. The combat is so janky I > couldn't take it. It was forgivable at the time, even the many years > after it was released that I first played it, but it doesn't hold up. > The real-time pause seems to lose my queued commands and queue up things > I don't want it to do when switching characters, almost every single > time. Even on one character when I queue up a bunch of sniper shots, > and stay on her, she runs up to melee and gets spanked before starting > to 'snipe' when I un-pause. I can take control of her movement and get > her to stop that, but then it loses all the queued attacks and I have to > do it again. It also won't queue anything until you do an attack, so at > the start of a combat if I want to cast more than 1 buff I have to > pause, choose an attack, clear the attack out of the queue and then I > can start queuing. > I think I remember just giving up on that originally and letting the > characters do whatever it was the game AI wants and just spamming the > attack I want button on the main character, and keeping the game > difficulty low enough that it didn't matter. That just makes me feel > like I'm not playing the game now though. > The RPG and exploration elements are still great though, and I only wish > other games could be that good in those respects. And really > considering RPGs, most of them are pretty trash in the combat, really > pretty much all the good ones. > * Star Wars - Bounty Hunter (2002) > (Thanks for the giveaway Spalls!) Kind of cool, looks better than I was > expecting for it's age. I immediately got stuck for some time trying to > get out of the beginning area, I went over everything I could see at > least 5 times. I had to look up online to find there's a grate in the > gutter you have to cut through, well I hadn't even found the grate. > I didn't like the 'scanning for bounty' as you still take fire while > doing that and get hurt pretty badly. I didn't do that much due to > getting damaged too much, but missed most of the bounties due to that. > I got stuck again after getting a jetpack, I was supposed to follow my > target, but he was already away before I could get the jetpack, and I > went over every nook and cranny again, probably 5 times not finding > another way to go. > I gave up on it at this point, as I felt if I was going to have to look > up every few minutes to find where to go just to continue it was too > much (I don't mind so much if it's secret areas, but for the main path > that's a bit much.) > * Weapon of Choice (2015 indy contra-ish game, give-away) > Wow, this looks like it was drawn by a pre-teen with some colored > markers. Unlike a typical contra when you die you can play another > character until you run out of characters. I got all the endings in > exactly 60 minutes, so very short. I wouldn't say it was 'good' but it > was fun enough for that time. > * Balatro (2024 Indy poker card/rogue-lite) > I found this is on Apple Arcade, so I was able to play it for free. My > wife also gave me her old iPad a couple weeks ago, I'm not sure how well > would do on a phone screen. It's pretty good. You do runs in it and > unlocks stuff seeing how far you can get. You don't really play against > anyone, but have to beat a certain amount of money you get for playing > up to 4 hands to continue, buying cards which affect how much each card/ > winning hand is worth. Pretty easy to understand. I managed to 'beat' > the game on my second run, but you can keep playing with increasing > amounts you have to make after that and I immediately lost. > Yeah, you probably aren't going to like this if you don't know poker, or > don't like card games. I can see playing it on the phone if it's any > good as a time killer while waiting at the doctor or whatever, but it's > not really my bag, and don't have interest for playing it regularly. > * Dark Sector (2008 3rd person FPS) > I just started playing this, it was given away at some point. > Supposedly a predecessor to Warframe, which I loved (until it got > grindy.) This is single player offline though. Wow it looks horrible > compared to those SW games from 5 years earlier. It is originally an > xbox release though. Took a bit of trying things to get it to run at > 1080p, but eventually I did. > I tried it with a controller to begin with, as I figured it being a > console port it would work best. It doesn't seem to have any auto-aim. > KBM it is, though even with mouse it appears the firing isn't terribly > accurate. I haven't checked if it has a way to change keys, as the > dodge/take cover/run is on ctrl which I find difficult to use regularly, > I could map it to one of the mouse buttons I suppose. I'm not sure I'm > going to stick with it. It also has the 'red screen' damage, so you > can't really tell how injured you are and it fades if you don't get hit > for a bit which I find a bit hard to swallow. > I'm probably not going to stick with this very long. -- "And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your strength". --Deuteronomy 6:5. BUSY weekdays w. updates, spams, appts., works, etc. Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly. /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://aqfl.net & http://antfarm.home.dhs.org. / /\ /\ \ Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail. | |o o| | \ _ / ( )