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  • Prime Gaming: 4 November 2023

    From Spalls Hurgenson@21:1/5 to All on Sat Nov 4 10:07:39 2023
    What's this? I'm actually doing a "Prime Gaming" announcement on a
    weekly basis? Well, the start of the month is usually when Amazon
    releases their 'big name' games (with the filler Indie games trickling
    out later in the month) so I tend to be a bit more alert.

    So what do we get today?

    * Rage 2: Deluxe Edition (via Epic)
    Pssst. C'mere, I got something to tell you. No, closer;
    it's a bit of a secret and I don't want everyone to
    know. Okay, here it is: I never actually played "Rage 2"
    so I don't really have all that much of an opinion on the
    game. Is it good? Bad? I really don't know. I can't
    say that I was all that impressed with the original game
    of the franchise, and what little I've seen about the
    sequel didn't excite me... but how bad can it be,
    really? It's an FPS developed by Id and Bethesda, and
    while it may not be a classic, I doubt it's total
    crap either. And it's free. So why not get it?

    Although... you may already own it, since it was a freebie from Epic
    back in February 2021. Still, if you missed it then, here's a second
    chance to add it to your library.



    Just the one game this week. We'll see what exciting new content
    (Indie game filler) gets shuffled down the pipe in future
    announcements. ;-)

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  • From Justisaur@21:1/5 to Spalls Hurgenson on Sat Nov 4 11:22:07 2023
    On Saturday, November 4, 2023 at 7:07:51 AM UTC-7, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

    * Rage 2: Deluxe Edition (via Epic)
    Pssst. C'mere, I got something to tell you. No, closer;
    it's a bit of a secret and I don't want everyone to
    know. Okay, here it is: I never actually played "Rage 2"
    so I don't really have all that much of an opinion on the
    game. Is it good? Bad?

    It's decent. It was free on Epic awhile ago, so most everyone
    who's been around here got it previously. We've got some new
    people here so they may have missed it then. Looking at my old
    monthly report from 2021 on it, it's fairly buggy, the controls
    aren't good, and the driving which is a lot of the game is bad,
    and it feels like a haphazard mish-mash of mad-max, fallout,
    and maybe bioshock. I still finished it and it wasn't excessively
    long. Possibly worth a play for free *shrug*.

    - Justisaur

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  • From Geeknix@21:1/5 to Spalls Hurgenson on Sun Nov 5 08:00:03 2023
    On 2023-11-04, Spalls Hurgenson <[email protected]> wrote:

    Although... you may already own it, since it was a freebie from Epic
    back in February 2021. Still, if you missed it then, here's a second
    chance to add it to your library.

    Can I ask how do you keep track of this stuff. Like the games you have
    played, when you got them, have they been freebies before, which digital platforms, etc.

    Is quite amazing!

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  • From Mike S.@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sun Nov 5 09:47:11 2023
    On Sun, 05 Nov 2023 08:00:03 GMT, Geeknix
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    Can I ask how do you keep track of this stuff. Like the games you have >played, when you got them, have they been freebies before, which digital >platforms, etc.

    Is quite amazing!

    He has a spreadsheet.

    Maybe we should all have a spreadsheet.

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  • From Spalls Hurgenson@21:1/5 to All on Sun Nov 5 12:14:10 2023
    On Sun, 05 Nov 2023 09:47:11 -0500, Mike S. <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On Sun, 05 Nov 2023 08:00:03 GMT, Geeknix
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    Can I ask how do you keep track of this stuff. Like the games you have >>played, when you got them, have they been freebies before, which digital >>platforms, etc.


    He has a spreadsheet.


    You took the words right out of my mouth!

    Although, in truth, when it comes to checking the release date of Epic
    titles, I usually rely on the "added to library" date in Playnite. [1]
    It's slightly faster to check than opening Excel.

    However, games older than two or three years I still need to check the spreadsheet. And even with that, there's only so far it goes back (I
    think I only started keeping track of acquisition dates ten years
    ago).

    Of course, for a lot of the OLDER games, I pretty much bought them on
    or around release, so I can just check mobygames.com or wikipedia for
    when that happened. ;-)







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    [1] A Games library manager/launcher that lets you combine all your
    various libraries - Steam, Epic, GOG, Amazon, etc. - into one giant
    list. Also useful for DOSBox!

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