Not if. according to one reviewer, you keep getting stuck on walls,
etc...
Too frustrating for me. Almost bought it.
On Sat, 11 Nov 2023 22:06:05 -0700, PW
<iamnotusingonewithAgent@notinuse.com> wrote:
Not if. according to one reviewer, you keep getting stuck on walls,
etc...
Too frustrating for me. Almost bought it.
Would that I had your strength of will.
Because, yes, /of course/ I ultimately made the purchase. Not so much
because I wanted the game or thought it would be fun or that it was
worth the price. But more importantly, it makes The Number go up by
one, and makes my wish list a little bit smaller. ;-)
It helped that I ransacked my Steam inventory and sold a bunch of
those otherwise pointless trading cards. Individually, they only net
me two or three cents each, but I have accumulated a lot of them over
the past few years. Selling them netted me enough cash to knock the
price of the game down a few bucks, which made the sale that much more palatable. I looked askance at the game when I was paying $10USD, but
was far more willing to make the plunge when it was around $7 ;-)
Also, the game install is 90MB; isn't that cool? That fact alone
almost makes the game worth the price. I mean, when was the last time
you bought a new game that could fit onto a single ZIP disk? ;-)
"Ion Fury" itself is a so-called "Boomer
shooter": an FPS game hearkening back to the simple shooters of the
mid-90s
"Ion Fury" itself is a so-called "Boomer
shooter": an FPS game hearkening back to the simple shooters of the
mid-90s
 I say no. I say reject the comfort food attraction of this sub-genre
-- which can only bore you, and perhaps is intended to do exactly that,
like 'cookie clicker' games --Â and make a conscious effort to try new things; I don't know what, perhaps FMV games or abstract puzzlers, or
who knows what, just not a brain-dead click-and-shooter that's likely
aimed at steamdeck or switch mobile platforms.
On 11/13/2023 2:36 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
Also, the game install is 90MB; isn't that cool? That fact alone
almost makes the game worth the price. I mean, when was the last time
you bought a new game that could fit onto a single ZIP disk? ;-)
"What's a ZIP disk, Grandpa?"
On 14/11/2023 01:50, rms wrote:
"Ion Fury" itself is a so-called "Boomer
shooter": an FPS game hearkening back to the simple shooters of the
mid-90s
I say no. I say reject the comfort food attraction of this sub-genre
-- which can only bore you, and perhaps is intended to do exactly that,
like 'cookie clicker' games -- and make a conscious effort to try new
things; I don't know what, perhaps FMV games or abstract puzzlers, or
who knows what, just not a brain-dead click-and-shooter that's likely
aimed at steamdeck or switch mobile platforms.
I like the occasional bit of mindless violence games but this, well
they're too basic for me and the interest soon fades.
On 11/13/2023 2:36 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
On Sat, 11 Nov 2023 22:06:05 -0700, PW
<iamnotusing...@notinuse.com> wrote:
Not if. according to one reviewer, you keep getting stuck on walls,
etc...
Too frustrating for me. Almost bought it.
Would that I had your strength of will.
Because, yes, /of course/ I ultimately made the purchase. Not so much because I wanted the game or thought it would be fun or that it was
worth the price. But more importantly, it makes The Number go up by
one, and makes my wish list a little bit smaller. ;-)
It helped that I ransacked my Steam inventory and sold a bunch of
those otherwise pointless trading cards. Individually, they only net
me two or three cents each, but I have accumulated a lot of them over
the past few years. Selling them netted me enough cash to knock the
price of the game down a few bucks, which made the sale that much more palatable. I looked askance at the game when I was paying $10USD, but
was far more willing to make the plunge when it was around $7 ;-)
Also, the game install is 90MB; isn't that cool? That fact alone
almost makes the game worth the price. I mean, when was the last time
you bought a new game that could fit onto a single ZIP disk? ;-)
"What's a ZIP disk, Grandpa?"
"What's a ZIP disk, Grandpa?"
On 14/11/2023 00:35, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
"What's a ZIP disk, Grandpa?"
Modern technology that is, I had a ZX Microdrive.
On Wed, 15 Nov 2023 10:26:52 +0000, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:
On 14/11/2023 00:35, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
"What's a ZIP disk, Grandpa?"
Modern technology that is, I had a ZX Microdrive.
I had to look that one up (8-bit computer tech isn't really my forte).
It's a really small tape format. Frankly, it looks inconvenient; where
do you stick the pencil to wind up the tape when it inevitably spools
out? ;-)
Still, it held a reasonably impressive 85KB which - IIRC - compared
well against Apple's initial 80KB floppy disks (although by the time
the MicroDisk came out, Apple had expanded capacity to... 140KB I
think?). Still, given the size of the Microdrive, it wasn't too
shabby. Performance - getting data onto and off of the device - was
horrible though, as with all tape devices.
And apparently it was one of the least reliable tape systems around.
Quoting Wikipedia: "The tapes stretched during use (giving them a
short life span), eventually rendering the data stored unreadable.
Also the "write protection" was software-based, thus a computer crash
could erase the data on an entire tape in 8 seconds."
Makes the Iomega Zip Disk 'click of death' thing look quaint in
comparison. ;-P
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