It was a day like any other, and then suddenly... FREE GAMES!
(dramatic sting music!!!!)
This week on Epic Game Store:
Drone Racing League Simulator >https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/the-drone-racing-league-simulator
This game is exactly what it says on the tin. Fly a drone - one of
those small-propellered camera drones that have made going to the park
so annoying - around a variety of environments from stadiums to
shopping malls to city streets. Apparently it has a fairly steep
learning curve, being more simulator than game, but that's not
necessarily a mark against it. Its unimpressive visuals might be; it's >always-on connection requirements certainly are (it does have a
limited offline mode, though). I dunno; even for a free game it's not
really jumping out at me as a must-grab. But maybe others will see the >appeal.
Runbow
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/runbow-fc9fa4
A side-view racing/platformer with /very/ Indie graphics. Mostly
focused on the only competitive aspects, but there is apparently a >single-player mode too. But between its gameplay, its multiplayer
focus and its visuals, none of it looks like something I would be
interested in. Yeah, I'll pass on this one too.
So, not the most exciting freebies but - with a few exceptions -
that's been the rule for Epic's offerings these years. Still, the
mouths of gift horses, and all that. Seven days to claim, as usual.
It was a day like any other, and then suddenly... FREE GAMES!
(dramatic sting music!!!!)
This week on Epic Game Store:
Drone Racing League Simulator https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/the-drone-racing-league-simulator
This game is exactly what it says on the tin. Fly a drone - one of
those small-propellered camera drones that have made going to the park
so annoying - around a variety of environments from stadiums to
shopping malls to city streets. Apparently it has a fairly steep
learning curve, being more simulator than game, but that's not
necessarily a mark against it. Its unimpressive visuals might be; it's always-on connection requirements certainly are (it does have a
limited offline mode, though). I dunno; even for a free game it's not
really jumping out at me as a must-grab. But maybe others will see the appeal.
Runbow
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/runbow-fc9fa4
A side-view racing/platformer with /very/ Indie graphics. Mostly
focused on the only competitive aspects, but there is apparently a single-player mode too. But between its gameplay, its multiplayer
focus and its visuals, none of it looks like something I would be
interested in. Yeah, I'll pass on this one too.
So, not the most exciting freebies but - with a few exceptions -
that's been the rule for Epic's offerings these years. Still, the
mouths of gift horses, and all that. Seven days to claim, as usual.
On Thu, 29 Sep 2022 11:50:03 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
It was a day like any other, and then suddenly... FREE GAMES!
(dramatic sting music!!!!)
This week on Epic Game Store:
Drone Racing League Simulator >https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/the-drone-racing-league-simulator
This game is exactly what it says on the tin. Fly a drone - one of
those small-propellered camera drones that have made going to the park
so annoying - around a variety of environments from stadiums to
shopping malls to city streets. Apparently it has a fairly steep
learning curve, being more simulator than game, but that's not
necessarily a mark against it. Its unimpressive visuals might be; it's >always-on connection requirements certainly are (it does have a
limited offline mode, though). I dunno; even for a free game it's not >really jumping out at me as a must-grab. But maybe others will see the >appeal.
Runbow
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/runbow-fc9fa4
A side-view racing/platformer with /very/ Indie graphics. Mostly
focused on the only competitive aspects, but there is apparently a >single-player mode too. But between its gameplay, its multiplayer
focus and its visuals, none of it looks like something I would be >interested in. Yeah, I'll pass on this one too.
So, not the most exciting freebies but - with a few exceptions -
that's been the rule for Epic's offerings these years. Still, the
mouths of gift horses, and all that. Seven days to claim, as usual.
Yeah. It's really hard to make me pass on "free," given my pack-rat, buy games I'll probably never play nature.
Pass. My Epic and Amazon Gaming accounts are full of enough garbage. It
just makes it harder to find the games I *want* to play.
Pass. My Epic and Amazon Gaming accounts are full of enough garbage. It
just makes it harder to find the games I *want* to play.
I'm starting to get to that point too, I may start getting picky about what free games I'll bother to fire up the Epic nonsense to get.
I've only got Amazon but I just pick up the games I think I may like as >what's the point of installing a game you'll never play and never
actually own.
Personally, I often grab games because I never know when I might give
a game a second chance. There are times I've seen a game, thought to
myself "What the @%!$ is this? I'm never going to play this piece of
$#*%!!!" only to be later convinced - by good reviews, or a friend, or
just giving the game another look-over - that maybe it is worth my
time after all. And I'd much rather pay $0 than $10. So it's handy to
have that big library.
On Sat, 1 Oct 2022 10:33:35 +0100, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:
I've only got Amazon but I just pick up the games I think I may like as
what's the point of installing a game you'll never play and never
actually own.
Because the ladies dig guys with huge.... video game libraries? ;-)
Personally, I often grab games because I never know when I might give
a game a second chance. There are times I've seen a game, thought to
myself "What the @%!$ is this? I'm never going to play this piece of
$#*%!!!" only to be later convinced - by good reviews, or a friend, or
just giving the game another look-over - that maybe it is worth my
time after all. And I'd much rather pay $0 than $10. So it's handy to
have that big library.
(Does this sort of re-evaluation happen a lot? Well... no. But it's
happened enough times that I'm glad of my general policy of
non-exclusivity. I mean, it's not like adding these free games really
costs me anything. Epic/Steam/GOG/Amazon have already hoovered up all
my personal information).
Then again, this is coming from a person who scoops up old monitors
and computers from the curb, so take it for what it's worth. ;-)
On 10/1/2022 10:02 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
Then again, this is coming from a person who scoops up old monitors
and computers from the curb, so take it for what it's worth. ;-)
The price of curbside pickups?
On Sat, 1 Oct 2022 10:33:35 +0100, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:
I've only got Amazon but I just pick up the games I think I may like as
what's the point of installing a game you'll never play and never
actually own.
Because the ladies dig guys with huge.... video game libraries? ;-)
Personally, I often grab games because I never know when I might give
a game a second chance. There are times I've seen a game, thought to
myself "What the @%!$ is this? I'm never going to play this piece of
$#*%!!!" only to be later convinced - by good reviews, or a friend, or
just giving the game another look-over - that maybe it is worth my
time after all. And I'd much rather pay $0 than $10. So it's handy to
have that big library.
(Does this sort of re-evaluation happen a lot? Well... no. But it's
happened enough times that I'm glad of my general policy of
non-exclusivity. I mean, it's not like adding these free games really
costs me anything. Epic/Steam/GOG/Amazon have already hoovered up all
my personal information).
Then again, this is coming from a person who scoops up old monitors
and computers from the curb, so take it for what it's worth. ;-)
I take everything on offer for free because I will maybe one day give
a game a try that I would never purchase for any amount of money and
end up really liking it. I like having a huge list of games to pick
from in order to do this. Good reviews on Steam for said game will
just encourage me further to try it out.
Yah, I take every free game, at least for the any service I already have, >regardless of whether I think I'll actually play it or not. Even games
in genres I don't like and likely will never change my mind about
(eg. platformers) I might still be glad it's in my collection at some
point. Maybe I'll want to run it sometime to help someone troubleshoot
a problem with the game. Or just look at the pretty graphics or to hear
some music track. Even a game I already have on another platform might
be useful to have on a second platform as well.
Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com> writes:
That is a really good point you brought up about music tracks. A lot
of my music collection is made up of soundtracks from video games. I
have tracks from games I did not like but I still listen to the music
from those games.
Interesting. I'm not much into game music, maybe back with Star Control
2 and Crusader: No Remorse which both featured tracker style music which
I liked at the time.
More recently, I have to say I have enjoyed licensed music in games
quite a lot. Borderlands especially since the original and the sequel
had licensed a small bunch of songs I liked. Other games too but nothing >comes to mind right now. Well, I did listen to the Fallout: NV
soundtrack quite a lot but those were all licensed I think.
That is a really good point you brought up about music tracks. A lot
of my music collection is made up of soundtracks from video games. I
have tracks from games I did not like but I still listen to the music
from those games.
Interesting. I'm not much into game music, maybe back with Star Control
2 and Crusader: No Remorse which both featured tracker style music which
I liked at the time.
More recently, I have to say I have enjoyed licensed music in games
quite a lot. Borderlands especially since the original and the sequel
had licensed a small bunch of songs I liked.
As a complete aside, one of the things that I find slightly annoying
about modern life is that we have too much choice. I'm sure when I was >younger the selection of tootpaste was limited to about three brands all >which were pretty much the same. Now there's more brands and then each
one of those has a selection of different ones. Don't get me started on >toilet paper or even crisps (that's chips to the non-UK)!
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