Thursdays may not spark the same excitement for me as first-Tuesdays-of-the-month but it's hard not to feel joyful at an opportunity to add yet-another game to the library. So, fill us with joyfulness, Epic Games! Tell us what freebie we get today!
This week's consumerist pleasure is:
* Marvel’s Midnight Suns https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/marvels-midnight-suns
Conceptually, Marvel Comics meets X-COM, except without
the solid gameplay and a lot more monetizations. It's
not a terrible game but the randomization and RNG make
it a lot less fun than it could be, and it lacks the
earth-shattering combats you'd expect from watching
superhumans pummel one another (it's all very flashy, but
in the end your guys don't have much more effect on the
world than do XCOM troops, which feels very limited
and un-comicbooky. And, yeah, there's a lot of MTX. If
you just want some brief spectacle and bombast, it's fine,
but this isn't a game you want to spend a lot of time
with. Shame; it really looks like it could have been
a contender if more effort had been put into making it
a game and not a profit center.
On 6/7/2024 8:40 PM, candycanearter07 wrote:
Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 16:20 this Thursday (GMT):
v encoding error?
Thursdays may not spark the same excitement for me as
first-Tuesdays-of-the-month but it's hard not to feel joyful at an
opportunity to add yet-another game to the library. So, fill us with
joyfulness, Epic Games! Tell us what freebie we get today!
This week's consumerist pleasure is:
* Marvels Midnight Suns
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/marvels-midnight-suns
Conceptually, Marvel Comics meets X-COM, except without
the solid gameplay and a lot more monetizations. It's
not a terrible game but the randomization and RNG make
it a lot less fun than it could be, and it lacks the
earth-shattering combats you'd expect from watching
superhumans pummel one another (it's all very flashy, but
in the end your guys don't have much more effect on the
world than do XCOM troops, which feels very limited
and un-comicbooky. And, yeah, there's a lot of MTX. If
you just want some brief spectacle and bombast, it's fine,
but this isn't a game you want to spend a lot of time
with. Shame; it really looks like it could have been
a contender if more effort had been put into making it
a game and not a profit center.
Seven days, as usual. Also: Ha, Epic! You keep trying to make next
week's game a mystery, but Internet sleuths always out you ahead of
time! I wrote this post 24 hours early!
Well, I don't like fighting games anyway.
I think it was on Humble just a while ago, wasn't it?
On Sat, 8 Jun 2024 14:29:18 +0200, Kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> wrote:
On 6/7/2024 8:40 PM, candycanearter07 wrote:
Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 16:20 this Thursday (GMT):
* Marvel?s Midnight Suns
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/marvels-midnight-suns
Well, I don't like fighting games anyway.
I think it was on Humble just a while ago, wasn't it?
Yes, back in January of this year. It came with a free "Doctor
Strange" DLC too. I wasn't particularly sanguine about that one
either, but at least it offered a substantial expansion in the form of
the DLC. Which is more than Epic is offering.
I wouldn't really describe "Midnight Suns" as a fighting game, though
(well, not anymore than any game with combat is a 'fighting game').
It's more akin to a tactical-strategy game, like "XCOM", "Jagged
Alliance" or "Phoenix Point". Yes, many of the combat manuevers are
melee attacks (supermen like going hand-to-hand when thumping other
supermen after all) but it's not like you're ordering each uppercut
and kick, Street Fighter-style. It's a game that has a lot of
potential and, in fact, was done quite well with the old "Freedom
Force" titles back in early 2000s. But "Midnight Suns" ruined its
gameplay with -you guessed it- grindy gameplay and lots of MTX.
On Tue, 11 Jun 2024, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
On Sat, 8 Jun 2024 14:29:18 +0200, Kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> wrote:I guess most games would be fighting games if you just put your standards right. Even chess is technically a big old fighting game between two
On 6/7/2024 8:40 PM, candycanearter07 wrote:
Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 16:20 this Thursday (GMT):
* Marvel?s Midnight Suns
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/marvels-midnight-suns
Well, I don't like fighting games anyway.
I think it was on Humble just a while ago, wasn't it?
Yes, back in January of this year. It came with a free "Doctor
Strange" DLC too. I wasn't particularly sanguine about that one
either, but at least it offered a substantial expansion in the form of
the DLC. Which is more than Epic is offering.
I wouldn't really describe "Midnight Suns" as a fighting game, though
(well, not anymore than any game with combat is a 'fighting game').
It's more akin to a tactical-strategy game, like "XCOM", "Jagged
Alliance" or "Phoenix Point". Yes, many of the combat manuevers are
melee attacks (supermen like going hand-to-hand when thumping other
supermen after all) but it's not like you're ordering each uppercut
and kick, Street Fighter-style. It's a game that has a lot of
potential and, in fact, was done quite well with the old "Freedom
Force" titles back in early 2000s. But "Midnight Suns" ruined its
gameplay with -you guessed it- grindy gameplay and lots of MTX.
groups of bodyguards protecting their respective... uh... target?
On Wed, 12 Jun 2024 06:45:03 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote:
Gottfried Neuner <smaug@ereborbbs.duckdns.org> wrote at 22:53 this
Tuesday (GMT):
On Tue, 11 Jun 2024, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
On Sat, 8 Jun 2024 14:29:18 +0200, Kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> wrote:I guess most games would be fighting games if you just put your
On 6/7/2024 8:40 PM, candycanearter07 wrote:
Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 16:20 this
Thursday (GMT):
* Marvel?s Midnight Suns
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/marvels-midnight-suns
Well, I don't like fighting games anyway.
I think it was on Humble just a while ago, wasn't it?
Yes, back in January of this year. It came with a free "Doctor
Strange" DLC too. I wasn't particularly sanguine about that one
either, but at least it offered a substantial expansion in the form of >>>> the DLC. Which is more than Epic is offering.
I wouldn't really describe "Midnight Suns" as a fighting game, though
(well, not anymore than any game with combat is a 'fighting game').
It's more akin to a tactical-strategy game, like "XCOM", "Jagged
Alliance" or "Phoenix Point". Yes, many of the combat manuevers are
melee attacks (supermen like going hand-to-hand when thumping other
supermen after all) but it's not like you're ordering each uppercut
and kick, Street Fighter-style. It's a game that has a lot of
potential and, in fact, was done quite well with the old "Freedom
Force" titles back in early 2000s. But "Midnight Suns" ruined its
gameplay with -you guessed it- grindy gameplay and lots of MTX.
standards right. Even chess is technically a big old fighting game
between two groups of bodyguards protecting their respective... uh...
target?
I always thought chess was about two warring nations trying to
assassinate the other's leader. I mean, why else would there be a King,
Queen, and Knight?
also this is totally just "every game is a puzzle game" but fighting
games lol
was that a meme?
On Wed, 12 Jun 2024 06:45:03 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
<candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
also this is totally just "every game is a puzzle game" but fighting games lol
Or every game is an 'adventure', or a 'simulation' or a 'role-playing
game'. It's about watering down genres until they are worthless
descriptors.
Of course, it doesn't help that so many games these days are
cross-genre titles. It used to be so much easier to pigeon-hole
titles. Now every game has stats, every game has realistic world
design; first-person shooters let you drive cars and fly planes;
strategy games have involved stories and characters; platformers have crafting. You can assign ten tags to a game and still not have a clear
idea about everything it offers.
Bah humbug, I say! ;-)
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