Recent content by randyl

Surviving Mars on Humble. Free for 1 day 16 hours and 9 minutes as of posting this. "While supplies last", whatever that means. I hate that kind of weasel wording when it comes to digital stuff, but I suppose it means there are a limited set of key available...

What about the Path of Exile end game do you like better? That could actually be a draw for me despite some things I don't like about the PoE experience. Like you I've played a lot of ARPGs, and some have different appeal. I enjoy Grim Dawn some, but not the end game grind. Grim Dawn also feels...

This is such a frustrating annoying situation. Even when cards do start to trickle back on the shelves, at some vague future date, they'll likely be overpriced and hard to acquire for a while. My older system died just as the pandemic started ramping up full force. I did get a decent AMD 3700X...

Some JRPG I love. Most of them are old. Legend of the Dragoon Chrono Cross Parasite Eve Breath of Fire III Ocarina of Time Honorable mentions: Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen Dragon Quest XI

The last game I finished was The Darkside Detective. https://store.steampowered.com/app/368390/The_Darkside_Detective/ I'm almost finished Cat Quest, but I'm grinding to level 99 in short sessions so I can do the last quest, dungeons, and an achievement. I"ll probably skip the rest of the...

I was going to mention Tower of Time. I like that game a lot, even with what I consider its clunky parts (upgrading characters and skills). The super time slow function feels so good. I like it over pause in this game because I can see how enemies are reacting and adjust accordingly. In fact, I...

The gun play looks amazing. Ubisoft does that so well. I'm not a fan of the disc launcher, which seems silly to me, but it's hardly the only option so I don't really care that it's part of the lineup. The variation in choices looks so satisfying. Sometimes I want to play stealth bow and other...

Another good remake, can't remember if it's from the 90s or not, is Turok 2. The original console hardware and cartridges limited some features the team wanted to include. In their remaster they added those feature, improved the graphics, and just made a better game while still keeping the feel...

I don't get why gamers champion exclusivity or corporate shenanigans that support such things. I'm going to hope for more platform interop and cross platform ports. If a studio/publisher wants to sell through a single store front, fine. I get that kind of. If a corporately owned studio or...

The absolute first video game I remember playing was Pong, like many older people. In the arcade I remember Tempest being my favorite, not sure if it was the first though. I don't really count those because they weren't PC games. My first real PC Game I remember playing was Ultima III in high...

I also have an aversion to physical copies and recently threw away a ton of old floppies and CDs. I don't have a disk drive anymore so what is the point? We have one external Blu-Ray USB drive, but that is my daughter's so she can listen to and rip CDs that aren't on Spotify so I have an out if...

Microsoft's WSL2 is pretty cool tech and I've read some developers do use it to help debug issues on their Linux ports. It isn't really built for gaming though. The way the windowing system and graphics works it doesn't lend itself well to gaming, although I think people have hacked some things...

Many of these I bought on sale so I didn't pay full price on both stores. These are some of my favorite all time games so I wanted to have DRM copies and to support the remasters. I'm a pretty big fan of Beamdog and appreciate the work they've done on my D&D games especially NWN. No Man's Sky...

My list shows 202 Indie of 431 total. Some of those are questionable as mentioned above. I don't have a monetary cutoff for what counts as Indie to me. For me it has to do with studio size, publisher association, and deep pocket funding sources. Also, some games started out as Indie and have...

Sometimes, but not very often. I buy a lot of games though and don't always play them much or at all. Sometimes I will buy games on multiple platforms or stores if I really like them.