Hey! It's 2025! A brand new year, filled with brand new opportunities!
No longer must we suffer the endless flood of no-name titles offered
as freebies into our library. No, in this bright new age, we'll only
get the best of the best! Show us how it's done, Epic! Take us to this
promised land!

* Kingdom Come Deliverance
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/kingdom-come-deliverance
Huh. Well, I can hardly bitch about _this_ game, now can I?
I think it's a great title! Well, I could moan about how
I already have it on Epic (it was a freebie offered in
February 2020) but if you missed it back then, it's great
that you get a second chance to acquire it now. It's a
gorgeous game, with solid (if sometimes ruthlessly difficult)
gameplay. There are a handful of (fairly inconsequential)
free add-ons too, so make sure to nab those as well.

Well, that certainly was something. I'm not sure what that 'something'
was, but it definitely was 'something.' Is it a sign of things to
come, you think?

24 hours and all that. You know the drill.

On 01/01/2025 16:02, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> * Kingdom Come Deliverance
> https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/kingdom-come-deliverance
> Huh. Well, I can hardly bitch about_this_ game, now can I?
> I think it's a great title! Well, I could moan about how
> I already have it on Epic (it was a freebie offered in
> February 2020) but if you missed it back then, it's great
> that you get a second chance to acquire it now. It's a
> gorgeous game, with solid (if sometimes ruthlessly difficult)
> gameplay. There are a handful of (fairly inconsequential)
> free add-ons too, so make sure to nab those as well.

I do like it but as you say it's not like you average first person CRPG
in violence is easy, indeed learning effective combat has a bit of a
learning curve and I always felt that it didn't help that the controls
were a bit clunky.

Saying all of that I still think it's worth giving it a try as it's
really quite different to have a CRPG that is grounedd in reality and
not a fantasy or sci-fi setting.

On 1/1/2025 5:02 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
>
> Hey! It's 2025! A brand new year, filled with brand new opportunities!
> No longer must we suffer the endless flood of no-name titles offered
> as freebies into our library. No, in this bright new age, we'll only
> get the best of the best! Show us how it's done, Epic! Take us to this
> promised land!
>
>
> * Kingdom Come Deliverance
> https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/kingdom-come-deliverance
> Huh. Well, I can hardly bitch about _this_ game, now can I?
> I think it's a great title! Well, I could moan about how
> I already have it on Epic (it was a freebie offered in
> February 2020) but if you missed it back then, it's great
> that you get a second chance to acquire it now. It's a
> gorgeous game, with solid (if sometimes ruthlessly difficult)
> gameplay. There are a handful of (fairly inconsequential)
> free add-ons too, so make sure to nab those as well.
>
>
> Well, that certainly was something. I'm not sure what that 'something'
> was, but it definitely was 'something.' Is it a sign of things to
> come, you think?
>
> 24 hours and all that. You know the drill.
>
>

Hmm... I will definitely try that one. Good I didn't miss that one.

On Thu, 2 Jan 2025 09:46:38 +0000, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:

>On 01/01/2025 16:02, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
>> * Kingdom Come Deliverance
>> https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/kingdom-come-deliverance
>> Huh. Well, I can hardly bitch about_this_ game, now can I?
>> I think it's a great title! Well, I could moan about how
>> I already have it on Epic (it was a freebie offered in
>> February 2020) but if you missed it back then, it's great
>> that you get a second chance to acquire it now. It's a
>> gorgeous game, with solid (if sometimes ruthlessly difficult)
>> gameplay. There are a handful of (fairly inconsequential)
>> free add-ons too, so make sure to nab those as well.
>
>I do like it but as you say it's not like you average first person CRPG
>in violence is easy, indeed learning effective combat has a bit of a
>learning curve and I always felt that it didn't help that the controls
>were a bit clunky.
>
>Saying all of that I still think it's worth giving it a try as it's
>really quite different to have a CRPG that is grounedd in reality and
>not a fantasy or sci-fi setting.

More grounded. It's still pretty fantastical, given the frequency of
attacks and tiny map. It's very much a video-game; it just lacks the
magic and orcs. It's sort of at the medieval equivalent of Grand Theft
Auto in its realism.

A welcome change undoubtedly, but not all that accurate in essence.