On 3/15/2025 8:11 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

Nothing really to say here. Steam's having another one of their
seasonal sales. I just wanted to be the one to start our usual thread
where we can bitch about how the sales aren't what they used to be.
;-)

I acquire new games so infrequently that I don't even notice sales.

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On 15/03/2025 17:11, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

On 3/15/2025 8:11 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

Nothing really to say here. Steam's having another one of their
seasonal sales. I just wanted to be the one to start our usual thread
where we can bitch about how the sales aren't what they used to be.
;-)

I acquire new games so infrequently that I don't even notice sales.

I also largely ignore the sales on Steam now for a few reasons. They
happen so often that it's not as though you missing out and the
discounts don't feel as deep as they used to - why even bother offering
a game at 10% off? The big one though, it stops me buying 'bargains'
that I end up never playing.

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There's me saying I'm not interested in the sale and less than a day
later I've bought a game. Now in my defence I wasn't actually going
through the Steam sale but instead someone mentioned Chaos in a ZX
Specky group. That reminded me of a game I'd heard about, Chaos Reborn -
well at £1.74 I thought why not.

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On 3/19/2025 1:01 AM, JAB wrote:

There's me saying I'm not interested in the sale and less than a day
later I've bought a game. Now in my defence I wasn't actually going
through the Steam sale but instead someone mentioned Chaos in a ZX
Specky group. That reminded me of a game I'd heard about, Chaos Reborn -
well at £1.74 I thought why not.

The Number will allow it.

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On 19/03/2025 16:13, Justisaur wrote:

Holy shit, something I'm buying right this second! I never had a ZX
Spectrum, but it was ported to the Atari ST*.  I loved playing it even against the AI.  I even found a web version at some point, though I
can't find it now and doesn't seem to be in my bookmarks.

https://torinak.com/qaop/play/chaos

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On 19/03/2025 16:13, Justisaur wrote:

On 3/19/2025 1:01 AM, JAB wrote:

There's me saying I'm not interested in the sale and less than a day
later I've bought a game. Now in my defence I wasn't actually going
through the Steam sale but instead someone mentioned Chaos in a ZX
Specky group. That reminded me of a game I'd heard about, Chaos Reborn
- well at £1.74 I thought why not.

Holy shit, something I'm buying right this second! I never had a ZX
Spectrum, but it was ported to the Atari ST*.  I loved playing it even against the AI.  I even found a web version at some point, though I
can't find it now and doesn't seem to be in my bookmarks.

I see a number of bad reviews on this game mentioning it's slow and
plays poorly, but none that mention the original game.  I doubt it has
all the cool samples and silly names of the enemy wizards, and the game
was only really good for an hour or two unless playing hotseat against others.  Still worth the risk for $2.49!

* https://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-st-chaos_8901.html

I have seen some of the bad reviews and the part about the UI not being
exactly polished is a fair one. Being slow, that one I don't think is
really fair. It's a game you have to think about where to move your
units and balancing risk of what happens if this fails. If you compare
it to something like the new generation of XCOM it's just different. In
XCOM it's a relentless drive forward, oh look there's that cover to get
to, while Chaos, like the original, has a more chess like approach.

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On 19/03/2025 18:24, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Wed, 19 Mar 2025 08:01:41 +0000, JAB <[email protected]> wrote:

There's me saying I'm not interested in the sale and less than a day
later I've bought a game. Now in my defence I wasn't actually going
through the Steam sale but instead someone mentioned Chaos in a ZX
Specky group. That reminded me of a game I'd heard about, Chaos Reborn -
well at £1.74 I thought why not.

That's happened to me more than a few times; I'm suddenly made aware
of a game that has some relation to another game I remember enjoying,
and all of a sudden The Number has incremented upwards again.

Nostalgia is a helluva drug.

I do remember it when it was first released but it seemed a bit
expensive as where Chaos really came to life was the hot-seat experience
with a group of friends. The combination of RNG, fake creatures and
tactics really brought out those high-and-lows that to me are core to
in-person social gaming.

At £1.74, I couldn't resist.

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