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I actually do intend to get outside this week, but I also did drop a wad of cash on some dollar bin classics this week from the GOG Summer Sale, here is my haul:
Toonstruck, Beautiful Desolation, Xcom 2, Day of the Tentacle, Prince of Persion 2008, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time Trilogy, Beyond Good and Evil, Flashback, Jazz Jackrabbit 1 & 2 Collections, Edna & Harvey two games, Thimbleweed Park, Broken Age, Gemini Rue, Beneath A Steel Sky, Lost Horizon 1 & 2, Virtuaverse, Cave Story Plus, Jade Empire.
Couldn't pass up a lot of the classic point-and-click adventures I am currently enjoying Beneath the Steel Sky (though I have to say I would have never found the putty on the floor and this made me want a remaster of the game).
Beyond this I took a peek at Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, another game I've never played and it's pretty fun so far. Very enjoyable game play that hasn't aged too terribly. Okay maybe the fighting mechanics could be a bit better (which if I recall was the criticism of Assassin's Creed).
Otherwise I may dip into some more Max Payne 3 (which I've warmed up to a bit more but also still stand by everything I said previously), Resident Evil, or Final Fantasy 9 and make some story progress.
Going to try and get outside this weekend for some biking too if this nice weather holds up.
I also want to install the titles that I grabbed from GOG's summer sale (Bio Menace, Commander Keen Complete Pack, Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure, Crystal Caves, Jill of the Jungle: The Complete Trilogy, Monster Bash, Secret Agent, Stargunner, and VirtuaVerse), ranging from 39p to £2.99 with several freebies thrown in (a price-range that reminded me of buying tapes back in my C64 days), and continue with curating games for my GPD MicroPC palmtop.
It was a blast throughout (even if it was weird playing Holiday Hare '94 in June*), and the only episode (if you can really call it that) that slightly outstayed its welcome was the one where you play through all of the Bonus Stages consecutively - it's the only episode that doesn't have a save feature, therefore you're expected to play through all of it in one go.
*For some reason they never integrated Holiday Hare '95 into Jazz CD like they did with '94, though it's still included separately in GOG's Jazz Jackrabbit Collection. I played through that, too, again even though it's June. :tongue: