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Seeing more holes
Jul. 11th, 2022 03:03 pmOne video games company specialising in wargames has an offer on a particular person's games at the moment.
Most of them are not for me: his usual fault is that he confuses detail with realism, so that in a game about the Second World War's Eastern front - the biggest military campaign in history - you end up caring about the sort of bomb individual planes carry. Erm, no thanks. As well as extending the length of time you have to devote to the game, it's also jars me out of my sense of suspended disbelief. As the person in charge of the entire front, I shouldn't even know the name of the person whose decision that is. I probably shouldn't even know the name of their boss. In a game where each side has a couple of hundred divisions, one guide to the game gets to something like page eighty before you press the 'attack' button for a single divisional attack.
However, there is one I would like, about an earlier (and simpler) war.
As well as assorted price cuts, you get this one free if you buy any of the others. Or you can pay its discounted price of £8.64* and get it by itself.
But why on earth would you do that when a couple of extensions to the first one are only £6.59 and come with this one for free??
And then you might possibly find someone who wants to pay for the Steam key for the extension you (I) don't want?
* Slightly less if you use their other site and pay in US dollars, but that's another hole..
Most of them are not for me: his usual fault is that he confuses detail with realism, so that in a game about the Second World War's Eastern front - the biggest military campaign in history - you end up caring about the sort of bomb individual planes carry. Erm, no thanks. As well as extending the length of time you have to devote to the game, it's also jars me out of my sense of suspended disbelief. As the person in charge of the entire front, I shouldn't even know the name of the person whose decision that is. I probably shouldn't even know the name of their boss. In a game where each side has a couple of hundred divisions, one guide to the game gets to something like page eighty before you press the 'attack' button for a single divisional attack.
However, there is one I would like, about an earlier (and simpler) war.
As well as assorted price cuts, you get this one free if you buy any of the others. Or you can pay its discounted price of £8.64* and get it by itself.
But why on earth would you do that when a couple of extensions to the first one are only £6.59 and come with this one for free??
And then you might possibly find someone who wants to pay for the Steam key for the extension you (I) don't want?
* Slightly less if you use their other site and pay in US dollars, but that's another hole..