On 05/05/2025 01:16, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

Although, really, I don't care that much about the game itself. "Half
Life", for all its historical import, is passe. If it releases, well,
we'll see how it is, but it's not up there with the 'must buy' games
anymore. It's not quite library-fodder, but "Half Life 3"? It's about
as important to me right now as the next "Halo" installment.

Half Life certainly deserves its place in history but like you it's not something that I think I really want that. Would I buy it though, of
course I would as I enjoy the formula of it and even now I probably
replay HL:2, or some of the episodes, every few years and still enjoy them.

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On Mon, 5 May 2025 09:21:05 +0100, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:

On 05/05/2025 01:16, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

Although, really, I don't care that much about the game itself. "Half
Life", for all its historical import, is passe. If it releases, well,
we'll see how it is, but it's not up there with the 'must buy' games
anymore. It's not quite library-fodder, but "Half Life 3"? It's about
as important to me right now as the next "Halo" installment.

Half Life certainly deserves its place in history but like you it's not >something that I think I really want that. Would I buy it though, of
course I would as I enjoy the formula of it and even now I probably
replay HL:2, or some of the episodes, every few years and still enjoy them.

I'm excited for HL3, but not so much as I was for HL2.

I was just thinking about which game release date last genuinely
excited me. I think it was Tiny Tina's Wonderlands.

I think there are far more games to be had these days. When game
releases seemed few and far between the anticipation was greater, for
me at least anyway.

--
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On 5/5/2025 5:14 AM, Mr Rob wrote:

On Mon, 5 May 2025 09:21:05 +0100, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:

On 05/05/2025 01:16, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

Although, really, I don't care that much about the game itself. "Half
Life", for all its historical import, is passe. If it releases, well,
we'll see how it is, but it's not up there with the 'must buy' games
anymore. It's not quite library-fodder, but "Half Life 3"? It's about
as important to me right now as the next "Halo" installment.

Half Life certainly deserves its place in history but like you it's not
something that I think I really want that. Would I buy it though, of
course I would as I enjoy the formula of it and even now I probably
replay HL:2, or some of the episodes, every few years and still enjoy them.

I'm excited for HL3, but not so much as I was for HL2.

I was just thinking about which game release date last genuinely
excited me. I think it was Tiny Tina's Wonderlands.

I think there are far more games to be had these days. When game
releases seemed few and far between the anticipation was greater, for
me at least anyway.

I don't anticipate many games. If and when I want a new game to play I
look at what's available at that time for something that interests me.

--
I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
dirty old man.

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On Mon, 05 May 2025 10:41:05 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

I was excited about "Mechwarrior 5: Clans", enough so that I bought it
day one. That sure taught me a lesson. ;-)

What was like? It's on Gamepass but having cleared out most of the 7
TB of storage that I have at Christmas, I have no room again now and
have to uninstall a game or games just to try something new. I was
thinking of adding another 4TB of drive space but I'll only fill it up
rapidly and be back to square one.

Is it worth me making room do you think?

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On 05/05/2025 13:14, Mr Rob wrote:

On Mon, 5 May 2025 09:21:05 +0100, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:

On 05/05/2025 01:16, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

Although, really, I don't care that much about the game itself. "Half
Life", for all its historical import, is passe. If it releases, well,
we'll see how it is, but it's not up there with the 'must buy' games
anymore. It's not quite library-fodder, but "Half Life 3"? It's about
as important to me right now as the next "Halo" installment.

Half Life certainly deserves its place in history but like you it's not
something that I think I really want that. Would I buy it though, of
course I would as I enjoy the formula of it and even now I probably
replay HL:2, or some of the episodes, every few years and still enjoy them.

I'm excited for HL3, but not so much as I was for HL2.

I was just thinking about which game release date last genuinely
excited me. I think it was Tiny Tina's Wonderlands.

I think there are far more games to be had these days. When game
releases seemed few and far between the anticipation was greater, for
me at least anyway.

My last one was Talos Principle II as I loved TP:I and have replayed it
about three times. Unfortunately it was a bit of a disappointment as it
just don't capture me in the same way. Part of it I feel was sequels are
rarely as good a game experience as the first time in but more
importantly I think they went too far with the narrative aspect of the game.

In TP:1 the narrative part was there, and I enjoyed it, but it never
felt like it got in the way of just solving puzzles.

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On 05/05/2025 14:50, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

I don't anticipate many games.  If and when I want a new game to play I
look at what's available at that time for something that interests me.

That's my general view, I'll either go though my stash of games or see
what's on my wish list and is on a good sale.

Buying an actual new release is very rare for me.

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Am 05.05.25 um 02:16 schrieb Spalls Hurgenson:

I know, I know. Rumors of this stupid game getting released have been floating about for... well, how long has it been since "Half Life 2"?
'Cause that long. But it looks like this time there really, REALLY
might be some meat behind it.* That not only is the game in
development, but that it's already being playtested and maybe --just
maybe-- that there will be an official announcement later this summer,
and an actual RELEASE DATE this winter.

Although, really, I don't care that much about the game itself. "Half
Life", for all its historical import, is passe. If it releases, well,
we'll see how it is, but it's not up there with the 'must buy' games
anymore. It's not quite library-fodder, but "Half Life 3"? It's about
as important to me right now as the next "Halo" installment.

No, what I'm really interested in is: what product is Valve going to
attach "Half Life 3" to. Will it be a VR exclusive? A SteamDeck
exclusive? Some new version of Steam? Some sort of cloud-streaming subscription? Because I doubt Valve will allow the game to release
/without/ taking advantage of its marketability to the fullest.

* taste the steak
https://wccftech.com/half-life-3-playtested-summer-reveal/

There are rumors of a new Valve VR headset with inside out tracking also
there are rumors of a new steam console after their first failed attempt
they now havwe a better software base to make inroads in this segment.
But as usual with Valve they will drop the news when they are ready and
not before!
So far most rumours except the ones regarding HL3 came to be at one day!

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On Tue, 6 May 2025 08:46:21 +0100, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:

On 05/05/2025 14:50, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

I don't anticipate many games.  If and when I want a new game to play I
look at what's available at that time for something that interests me.

That's my general view, I'll either go though my stash of games or see
what's on my wish list and is on a good sale.

Buying an actual new release is very rare for me.

Unless I have forgotten about any imminently upcoming games, my next
day one purchase will be Borderlands 4. I am genuinely looking forward
to that one.

Doom: The Dark Ages is on Gamepass, but I have very little appetite
for it. Doom 2016 was a shock for me because I thought it would be my
'go to' game for a least a few weeks. I got bored with it after around
6 hours cumulative over a few weeks. I really thought I liked it, and
then, I didn't after a while.

I had the same experience with Doom: Eternal. I got bored with it very
quickly. Those games should have been automatic likes for me, but they
just didn't hook me in any meaningful way.

I can't think of any other games on the immediate horizon that I wish
for.

I tell myself that I would really like to see a Half-Life 3 soon, an
Unreal 3, or a Tiny Tina's Wonderlands sequel.

I think the first and the third are coming. But Unreal seems to be a
dead and buried franchise.

Further in the distance is Hellgate: Redemption which is supposedly
being made by some of the original Flagship Studios team. That is
another game that I will willing pay good money for on day one.

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Mr Rob <noemailformethx@jsjsaiiowppw.com> writes:

Unless I have forgotten about any imminently upcoming games, my next
day one purchase will be Borderlands 4. I am genuinely looking forward
to that one.

I'd like to say the same but I'm not sure, BL3 was already a somewhat
mixed bag. Streamlined faster combat, even worse writing than before (or
maybe I'm even further away from the target demographics), powerful
characters and event-added superweapons presumably to power through the
tedium. That part worked, I think my second playthrough wouldn't have
happened without. Third playthrough was with the soldier, her mech
turned out to be superweapon enough. The robot guy was even more OP pre-nerfing. Playing with the operative at least had more challenge but
he too gets his impenetrable shield going almost all the time pretty
fast.

I wondered before if they'll just automate the fights for BL4? Or just
have a parkour button and a fight button for controls? Or maybe that's
going too far. There were some pretty cool character skills and skill
interplay in BL3, one skill boosting another, but you needed a guide to
figure that out.

Doom: The Dark Ages is on Gamepass, but I have very little appetite
for it. Doom 2016 was a shock for me because I thought it would be my
'go to' game for a least a few weeks. I got bored with it after around
6 hours cumulative over a few weeks. I really thought I liked it, and
then, I didn't after a while.

After the 2016 Doom I felt pretty much Doomed out. I would've really
liked a new game+ with all the weapon upgrades but it wasn't there. I
watched some gameplay video of the whatsit sequel between 2016 and Dork
Ages and wasn't impressed so didn't bother. I guess it'd work for some senseless mayhem but it also feels like maybe I'm getting old and
getting through the hectic battle arenas and challenges in 2016 already
felt taxing.

I tell myself that I would really like to see a Half-Life 3 soon, an
Unreal 3, or a Tiny Tina's Wonderlands sequel.

You played Wonderlands? I tried but it just felt kinda like Borderlands
but too much the same old and too much silly stuff. IOW, what sorta
kinda mostly worked as a largish BL2 DLC didn't seem to scale well to a
full game. Tiny Tina works in small doses but gets old quickly.

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JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote at 08:21 this Monday (GMT):

On 05/05/2025 01:16, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

Although, really, I don't care that much about the game itself. "Half
Life", for all its historical import, is passe. If it releases, well,
we'll see how it is, but it's not up there with the 'must buy' games
anymore. It's not quite library-fodder, but "Half Life 3"? It's about
as important to me right now as the next "Halo" installment.

Half Life certainly deserves its place in history but like you it's not something that I think I really want that. Would I buy it though, of
course I would as I enjoy the formula of it and even now I probably
replay HL:2, or some of the episodes, every few years and still enjoy them.

I definitely would feel obligated to buy it /if/ it ever did come out
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JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote at 07:46 this Tuesday (GMT):

On 05/05/2025 14:50, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

I don't anticipate many games.  If and when I want a new game to play I
look at what's available at that time for something that interests me.

That's my general view, I'll either go though my stash of games or see
what's on my wish list and is on a good sale.

Buying an actual new release is very rare for me.

I get excited for indie games, sometimes. Like Deltarune or Dreamsettler
or Desktop Survivors 97 (why do they all start with d?)
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Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com> writes:

I think I just felt done with both BL and the looter shooter grind by
3. I was also not impressed on what I heard about the DLCs and never
got them, but was constantly reminded to get them in game which I
found highly irritating.

I have to agree, I still play on occasion and every time I go back to
the ship there's these guys (Axton and Salvador) pushing the second
batch of DLCs. Or maybe just one of them, not sure.

I got the initial batch of four DLCs but they weren't that good. There
was a horror themed one and a western themed one and I can't even
remember the others. Oh, now that I checked, the first one was a kind of
BL2 throwback, a heist on some Hyperion space station. So lots of the
loader bots and I remember this was actually fun. Only issue, BL3 isn't
so heavy on needing corrosive weapons so I didn't have much but I think
the DLC drops may have been tuned with that in mind.

The last DLC was a trip inside Krieg's head. I'm not sure I finished. I
like the idea, it's a bit like old Alice with a mind trip to improve
someone's mental health. But still, it was pretty weird and I don't
recall if Krieg got any less mad. Probably not.

I enjoyed playing the girl with the mech, but didn't have any interest
in continuing after finishing the game with her. I can't see myself
buying BL 4.

I specifically wanted to see if she was going to be any less OP in PT2
but no. I was so amazed I just went and finished PT2 with her :) I mean,
for sure she was a little more vulnerable when on foot but in the mech
nothing could touch her. I think with some of the bosses you had to
fight on foot at least some of the time so there was that but that still
didn't really change anything, difficulty-wise.

And with the legendary class mod you get twice the time in the mech
which is enough to be there almost all the time, the cooldown finishes
before the mech self destructs.

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On Fri, 09 May 2025 16:44:47 +0300, Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> wrote:

Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com> writes:

I think I just felt done with both BL and the looter shooter grind by
3. I was also not impressed on what I heard about the DLCs and never
got them, but was constantly reminded to get them in game which I
found highly irritating.

I got the initial batch of four DLCs but they weren't that good. There
was a horror themed one and a western themed one and I can't even
remember the others. Oh, now that I checked, the first one was a kind of
BL2 throwback, a heist on some Hyperion space station. So lots of the
loader bots and I remember this was actually fun. Only issue, BL3 isn't
so heavy on needing corrosive weapons so I didn't have much but I think
the DLC drops may have been tuned with that in mind.

With the exception of the General Knoxx DLC for BL1, every other DLC
for all three of the Borderlands so far has been awful.

I particularly disliked all of the BL2 DLC's and was really
disappointed by them as BL2 is a really good game. I have recently
replayed BL2 and came away with a new appreciation of BL2 in terms of
its place in my rankings of BL2 games.

In order of preference my favourite is Borderlands 1, followed by BL2
and then BL3

I preferred Tiny Tina's Wonderlands over Borderlands 3, but that's not
to say that I dislike BL3, far from it.

Even the BL PS was OK

I enjoyed playing the girl with the mech, but didn't have any interest
in continuing after finishing the game with her. I can't see myself
buying BL 4.

I specifically wanted to see if she was going to be any less OP in PT2
but no. I was so amazed I just went and finished PT2 with her :) I mean,
for sure she was a little more vulnerable when on foot but in the mech >nothing could touch her. I think with some of the bosses you had to
fight on foot at least some of the time so there was that but that still >didn't really change anything, difficulty-wise.

And with the legendary class mod you get twice the time in the mech
which is enough to be there almost all the time, the cooldown finishes
before the mech self destructs.

Moze was my least favorite character in BL3 and I never once went
beyond PT1 with my character.

FL4K was just about OK but I much preferred Zane and then Amara, in
that order.

In Tiny Tina's Wonderlands my preferred character is the Spore Warden,
but an added bonus of TTW is that you can mix and match character
skill trees after gaining the basic skills for your class. The Spore
Warden skill tree allows for your pet to have a chance to revive you
if you get killed, assuming that you can keep your pet Spore alive.

You can play any character and then add a Spore Warden's early skill
tree perks (obviously limited by available skill points).

Being revived by your pet is a real boon, especially during boss
fights which are particularly tough (and annoying) in TTW's.

Perhaps a subject for a new thread? I *HATE* boss fights, always have
done, always will do too. I have abandoned many a game because of the
boss mechanic.

Good games too that I have never touched again due to annoying boss
fights. The curse of 'consolitis'.

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Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> wrote at 11:01 this Wednesday (GMT):

Mr Rob <noemailformethx@jsjsaiiowppw.com> writes:

[snip]

Doom: The Dark Ages is on Gamepass, but I have very little appetite
for it. Doom 2016 was a shock for me because I thought it would be my
'go to' game for a least a few weeks. I got bored with it after around
6 hours cumulative over a few weeks. I really thought I liked it, and
then, I didn't after a while.

It looks super cool, tbh. I like the more medieval style.

After the 2016 Doom I felt pretty much Doomed out. I would've really
liked a new game+ with all the weapon upgrades but it wasn't there. I
watched some gameplay video of the whatsit sequel between 2016 and Dork
Ages and wasn't impressed so didn't bother. I guess it'd work for some senseless mayhem but it also feels like maybe I'm getting old and
getting through the hectic battle arenas and challenges in 2016 already
felt taxing.

You felt DOOMed?

I tell myself that I would really like to see a Half-Life 3 soon, an
Unreal 3, or a Tiny Tina's Wonderlands sequel.

You played Wonderlands? I tried but it just felt kinda like Borderlands
but too much the same old and too much silly stuff. IOW, what sorta
kinda mostly worked as a largish BL2 DLC didn't seem to scale well to a
full game. Tiny Tina works in small doses but gets old quickly.

Well, as long as it's not too long?
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Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com> wrote at 17:47 this Friday (GMT):

On 5/7/2025 3:20 PM, candycanearter07 wrote:

JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote at 07:46 this Tuesday (GMT):

On 05/05/2025 14:50, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

I don't anticipate many games.  If and when I want a new game to play I >>>> look at what's available at that time for something that interests me.

That's my general view, I'll either go though my stash of games or see
what's on my wish list and is on a good sale.

Buying an actual new release is very rare for me.

I get excited for indie games, sometimes. Like Deltarune or Dreamsettler
or Desktop Survivors 97 (why do they all start with d?)

I generally don't get excited as I've never played them, so don't know
if I'll like them.

The few sequels I did get excited for because I loved the original so
much were all huge disappointments. Even though they still had really
good scores on Steam. Risk of Rain 2, and Everspace 2 being the most notable. They're both on my 'give 'em another try' list, I just haven't gotten around to it.

Probably all the shovelware indy games that get given away everywhere
don't help either.

Well, I have technically played all 3 (deltarune and ds97 have demos,
and dreamsettler is almost the same gameplay as the first one), but I
get what you mean.
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Mr Rob <noemailformethx@jsjsaiiowppw.com> writes:

FL4K was just about OK but I much preferred Zane and then Amara, in
that order.

Hmm, I think my Amara playthrough went nowhere, maybe I should get back
to it. I don't really have a preference for the characters, I started
with Zane since I liked playing Wilhelm in TPS who was much the same,
then fl4k, then Amara briefly, then Moze.

Perhaps a subject for a new thread? I *HATE* boss fights, always have
done, always will do too. I have abandoned many a game because of the
boss mechanic.

I don't much care for boss fights either, especially difficult ones. But
if I can muddle through somehow with, say, less than 20 tries, it's ok.

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