Tomi on 30/12/2020 at 15:47
GOG.com is apparently giving away Metro: Last Light Redux right now, for the next 46 hours. I say apparently, because I haven't been able to claim the freebie yet - most likely their servers are too busy at the moment.
Tomi on 30/12/2020 at 20:35
Still not working when I try it on the GOG website, but I managed to get the game when I opened the store in GOG Galaxy. :)
demagogue on 8/1/2021 at 00:43
Epic giveaway this week: (
https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/crying-suns/) Crying Suns
I got this a while back. I love the aesthetic. The gameplay is basically the FTL model, the one major difference probably is that instead of moving people around the ship during a battle you're moving tiny fleets of ships in space. It doesn't really gel like FTL does. There's not that much strategy to it. Your fleets pretty much go straight in no matter what, and maybe you divide them sometimes. But it looks pretty and still has a nice little gameplay loop and story. I liked it well enough.
Tomi on 14/1/2021 at 09:16
Star Wars: Battlefront II is the next Epic giveaway, it'll be available later today.
I have no interest in playing multiplayer with strangers nowadays - a fairly popular shooter where you probably can't avoid bumping into all sorts of idiots doesn't sound very tempting, but I just read that there's supposed to be a half-decent single player campaign in the game too! I'm sort of looking forward to trying it out now. :)
henke on 14/1/2021 at 11:39
Quote Posted by Tomi
Star Wars: Battlefront II is the next Epic giveaway, it'll be available later today.
I have no interest in playing multiplayer with strangers nowadays - a fairly popular shooter where you probably can't avoid bumping into all sorts of idiots doesn't sound very tempting, but I just read that there's supposed to be a
half-decent single player campaign in the game too! I'm sort of looking forward to trying it out now. :)
Yes indeed, I played though the SP campaign about a year ago, this is what I wrote then:
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Some annoying checkpointing aside the gameplay is tight and good. It's mostly shooting, but you also have the option to stealth some parts, and there's quite a few flying sections too. The story follows the leader of the Imperial "Inferno Squad", starting at the end of ROTJ and ending with The Battle of Jakku. Interspliced into this are some levels where you play as more recognizable characters(Luke, Leia, Han, Lando, Kylo). The story was pretty good, except when it switched to the other characters, as those sections often felt a bit shoe-horned in. Overall, yeah, a good Star Wars game!
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Played through the SW Battlefront 2 follow-up campaign Resurrection in one sitting aaaaaand, man, it was good. It's much shorter then the main campaign but also really tight and well paced. Great storytelling and very satisfying gameplay.
Not sure if the expansion campaign is included in the Epic version, but either way it's worth a play, if only to see what a modern AAA Star Wars FPS can look like.