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.

* Tomb Raider GOTY (via GOG)
This is the game-of-the-year version of the 2013
reboot. Not a great game - it's a bit heavy on the
quick-time events - it picks up about halfway through
and becomes an okay experience overall. Again, this
isn't the first time this game has been offered for
free on Prime, but this time you can get it via GOG.
Good enough for me!

* Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars (via GOG)
It's yet-another Traveller's Tales Lego game based
on the Star Wars franchise (this time on the animated
Clone Wars TV show). It's... fine. It doesn't
break from the formula much; if you've ever played
one of these games before, then you know exactly
what to expect from this one. Mostly, I like it
because its DRM-free from GOG.

* Electrician Simulator Simulator (via EPIC)
You can guess exactly what this game is about. It's
another workplace sim. Your experience for this
game will be heavily based on how much you enjoy
the genre. I wish its electrician-buts were a
bit more sophisticated, but otherwise it's an
okay example of the genre.

* 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.

* Vlad Circus: Descent into Madness
Another retro-graphics point-n-click adventure.
It's more psychological horror and has a touch
of survival adventure gameplay to it. Still, it's
really hard to be scared when the visuals look
so... blocky.

* Dark City: International Intrigue
Yet-another hidden-object adventure game, the sort
that have been haunting Prime Gaming for years.
Pretty art, but I find the gameplay reminds me
too much of those awful hunt-the-pixel puzzles
from old-school adventures. But a lot of people
seem to enjoy them, and who am I to judge.

* Living Legends: Fallen Sky
Another hidden-object/adventure game. See my
comments above; they all apply here too. If you
like these games, great. But I really can't see
the appeal.

The games might not be the greatest, but there's a lot of them.
Sometimes quantity trumps quality, I guess. It almost makes me NOT
despair of how much money I've pumped into Jeff Bezo's pockets with
this stupid Amazon Prime subscription.

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

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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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?

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