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  • Re: Prime Gaming 10 May 2024

    From Xocyll@21:1/5 to All on Fri May 10 15:33:46 2024
    Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> looked up from reading the entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs
    say:
    <snip>
    * Nine Witches: Family Disruption
    A more traditional point-n-click adventure game.
    I'd be more excited about this one if it didn't use
    such ugly retro graphics; I really wish the
    developers hadn't slammed the 'pixelize' button
    so hard on their original art. Still, the gameplay
    might be enough to carry it, and the story - sort
    of a "Day of the Tentacle... but with occult Nazis"
    thing - is weird enough to be intriguing.


    So Day of the Occult Nazi Tentacles?

    I think if such a thing were actually made I would have to buy it.

    Xocyll

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  • From Justisaur@21:1/5 to Spalls Hurgenson on Fri May 10 20:44:10 2024
    On 5/10/2024 11:19 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

    I think I'm getting back into the habit of announcing these things.
    Every two weeks - give or take a few days - seems to be the
    appropriate tempo, no? Anyway, this time we have quite a few games to
    go through.


    * Fallout 3 GOTY (via GOG)
    It's not the first time this game has shown up as a
    freebie on Amazon. The big difference is that this
    version is on GOG. Otherwise, it's the same green-
    tinged post-apocalyptic action/adventure role-playing
    game turned marketing gimmick for Amazon's latest TV
    show. Look, I'm just happy to have it a DRM-free
    version.

    I'm not sure how many of these I'm up to now. 4 or 5 maybe? I've got
    two physical copies (including the original collectors one that came
    with the lunchbox and bobble-head, but that was because that's all they
    had left at Gamestop.) But a DRM free GotY edition is good.

    Still if I'm playing it, I'm probably playing it in the mod that puts it
    in the New Vegas engine.

    It's interesting to me that a company owned by MS is giving a game away
    through Amazon (a competitor in many things) in Gog (another competitor)

    I suppose because Amazon is the one with the Fallout TV show. I'm not
    sure how GOG fits in, but I'm not complaining.



    **** Luna free streaming games ****

    Oddly Luna also has Fallout 3. Now why you would need to stream a 16
    year old game that they also just gave away on the same platform is a
    mystery. I suppose if you want to play it on a laptop with only an
    Intel video card maybe?

    It also has Fallout New Vegas, and a couple lego games, including the
    one being given away.

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  • From Lane Larson@21:1/5 to Xocyll on Fri May 10 23:20:36 2024
    Xocyll wrote:
    Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> looked up from reading the entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs
    say:
    <snip>
    * Nine Witches: Family Disruption
    A more traditional point-n-click adventure game.
    I'd be more excited about this one if it didn't use
    such ugly retro graphics; I really wish the
    developers hadn't slammed the 'pixelize' button
    so hard on their original art. Still, the gameplay
    might be enough to carry it, and the story - sort
    of a "Day of the Tentacle... but with occult Nazis"
    thing - is weird enough to be intriguing.


    So Day of the Occult Nazi Tentacles?

    Thimbleweed Park the signals are very distressing tonight

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