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FREE GAME: Deceive, Inc.
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Spalls Hurgenson
2024-11-07 16:02:34 UTC
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It's a miserable week but maybe we can cheer ourselves a free game.
But where oh where to find one? Oh, I know; let's all go look at Epic
and see if they have something. What, they do? What a coincidence.


* Deceive, Inc.
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/deceive-inc
James Bond (spies!) crossed with Hitman (disguises)
by way of "No One Lives Forever" (humor) and "The
Ship" (multiplayer). Sneak into installations, disguise
yourself as anyone, and exfiltrate with the secrets...
before anyone else beats you to the punch. An
interesting idea whose implementation doesn't seem up
to the task.

This is another duplicate, first offered by Epic in
July of this year, so you may already have it in your
library. I guess Fortnite money must be running low
if they're recycling freebies this quickly.



Bummer; no new game for me. I guess this will be a awful week after
all. But maybe next week will be better (at least on the free game
front. See you in seven days!
Ant
2024-11-07 21:12:41 UTC
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Post by Spalls Hurgenson
It's a miserable week but maybe we can cheer ourselves a free game.
But where oh where to find one? Oh, I know; let's all go look at Epic
and see if they have something. What, they do? What a coincidence.
* Deceive, Inc.
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/deceive-inc
James Bond (spies!) crossed with Hitman (disguises)
by way of "No One Lives Forever" (humor) and "The
Ship" (multiplayer). Sneak into installations, disguise
yourself as anyone, and exfiltrate with the secrets...
before anyone else beats you to the punch. An
interesting idea whose implementation doesn't seem up
to the task.
This is another duplicate, first offered by Epic in
July of this year, so you may already have it in your
library. I guess Fortnite money must be running low
if they're recycling freebies this quickly.
Bummer; no new game for me. I guess this will be a awful week after
all. But maybe next week will be better (at least on the free game
front. See you in seven days!
Huh? I somehow never claimed this game!
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Ant
2024-11-07 21:15:12 UTC
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Post by Ant
Post by Spalls Hurgenson
It's a miserable week but maybe we can cheer ourselves a free game.
But where oh where to find one? Oh, I know; let's all go look at Epic
and see if they have something. What, they do? What a coincidence.
* Deceive, Inc.
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/deceive-inc
James Bond (spies!) crossed with Hitman (disguises)
by way of "No One Lives Forever" (humor) and "The
Ship" (multiplayer). Sneak into installations, disguise
yourself as anyone, and exfiltrate with the secrets...
before anyone else beats you to the punch. An
interesting idea whose implementation doesn't seem up
to the task.
This is another duplicate, first offered by Epic in
July of this year, so you may already have it in your
library. I guess Fortnite money must be running low
if they're recycling freebies this quickly.
Bummer; no new game for me. I guess this will be a awful week after
all. But maybe next week will be better (at least on the free game
front. See you in seven days!
Huh? I somehow never claimed this game!
Oh wait. I remember playing its free Steam weekend. I remember not liking it.

They need to bring back No One Lives Forever franchise. Um, not Contract JACK! :P
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Kyonshi
2024-11-08 09:41:58 UTC
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Post by Ant
Post by Ant
Post by Spalls Hurgenson
It's a miserable week but maybe we can cheer ourselves a free game.
But where oh where to find one? Oh, I know; let's all go look at Epic
and see if they have something. What, they do? What a coincidence.
* Deceive, Inc.
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/deceive-inc
James Bond (spies!) crossed with Hitman (disguises)
by way of "No One Lives Forever" (humor) and "The
Ship" (multiplayer). Sneak into installations, disguise
yourself as anyone, and exfiltrate with the secrets...
before anyone else beats you to the punch. An
interesting idea whose implementation doesn't seem up
to the task.
This is another duplicate, first offered by Epic in
July of this year, so you may already have it in your
library. I guess Fortnite money must be running low
if they're recycling freebies this quickly.
Bummer; no new game for me. I guess this will be a awful week after
all. But maybe next week will be better (at least on the free game
front. See you in seven days!
Huh? I somehow never claimed this game!
Oh wait. I remember playing its free Steam weekend. I remember not liking it.
They need to bring back No One Lives Forever franchise. Um, not Contract JACK! :P
I claimed it but it does not look very interesting. It just looks kinda
cheap and crufty.
Ross Ridge
2024-11-08 14:16:01 UTC
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Post by Ant
Huh? I somehow never claimed this game!
Oh wait. I remember playing its free Steam weekend. I remember not liking it.
Yah, I'm pretty sure they never gave away Deceive Inc. before.
I'm guessing it's this free weekend, which happened in July, is what
Spalls is thinking of.
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Mike S.
2024-11-08 15:01:11 UTC
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Post by Ross Ridge
Yah, I'm pretty sure they never gave away Deceive Inc. before.
I'm guessing it's this free weekend, which happened in July, is what
Spalls is thinking of.
Nonsense. Spalls never gets this kind of thing wrong. He has a
spreadsheet.
Ant
2024-11-08 16:36:18 UTC
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Post by Mike S.
Post by Ross Ridge
Yah, I'm pretty sure they never gave away Deceive Inc. before.
I'm guessing it's this free weekend, which happened in July, is what
Spalls is thinking of.
Nonsense. Spalls never gets this kind of thing wrong. He has a
spreadsheet.
Show us this spreadsheet please. ;)
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Dimensional Traveler
2024-11-09 01:56:43 UTC
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Post by Ant
Post by Mike S.
Post by Ross Ridge
Yah, I'm pretty sure they never gave away Deceive Inc. before.
I'm guessing it's this free weekend, which happened in July, is what
Spalls is thinking of.
Nonsense. Spalls never gets this kind of thing wrong. He has a
spreadsheet.
Show us this spreadsheet please. ;)
Its too large for the internet.
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Mike S.
2024-11-09 14:34:29 UTC
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On Fri, 8 Nov 2024 17:56:43 -0800, Dimensional Traveler
Post by Dimensional Traveler
Its too large for the internet.
I believe this.
Ant
2024-11-09 16:28:27 UTC
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Post by Dimensional Traveler
Post by Ant
Post by Mike S.
Post by Ross Ridge
Yah, I'm pretty sure they never gave away Deceive Inc. before.
I'm guessing it's this free weekend, which happened in July, is what
Spalls is thinking of.
Nonsense. Spalls never gets this kind of thing wrong. He has a
spreadsheet.
Show us this spreadsheet please. ;)
Its too large for the internet.
TWSS! How big? ;P
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Spalls Hurgenson
2024-11-09 01:24:33 UTC
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Post by Ross Ridge
Post by Ant
Huh? I somehow never claimed this game!
Oh wait. I remember playing its free Steam weekend. I remember not liking it.
Yah, I'm pretty sure they never gave away Deceive Inc. before.
I'm guessing it's this free weekend, which happened in July, is what
Spalls is thinking of.
Apologies. It was a freebie on Epic... but it was given away through
Amazon Prime.
Post by Ross Ridge
Nonsense. Spalls never gets this kind of thing wrong. He has a
spreadsheet.
I do! ;-)

But since all I record is wat service the game is on, and whether I
paid for it or not, it sort of gets hard to keep track of all these
freebies. I ought to add a column indicating the source of the
freebies if not the service itself.

Why must collecting thousands of free games require such effort?!?!?
Dimensional Traveler
2024-11-09 01:57:44 UTC
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Post by Spalls Hurgenson
Post by Ross Ridge
Post by Ant
Huh? I somehow never claimed this game!
Oh wait. I remember playing its free Steam weekend. I remember not liking it.
Yah, I'm pretty sure they never gave away Deceive Inc. before.
I'm guessing it's this free weekend, which happened in July, is what
Spalls is thinking of.
Apologies. It was a freebie on Epic... but it was given away through
Amazon Prime.
Post by Ross Ridge
Nonsense. Spalls never gets this kind of thing wrong. He has a
spreadsheet.
I do! ;-)
But since all I record is wat service the game is on, and whether I
paid for it or not, it sort of gets hard to keep track of all these
freebies. I ought to add a column indicating the source of the
freebies if not the service itself.
Why must collecting thousands of free games require such effort?!?!?
Because nothing is free.
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dirty old man.
Spalls Hurgenson
2024-11-09 01:34:07 UTC
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Post by Ant
They need to bring back No One Lives Forever franchise. Um, not Contract JACK! :P
Ain't never gonna happen. GOG (and others) have been chasing that IP
for literal decades now, and still haven't untangled the rights. It's
such a tangled mess -thanks to the numerous buy-outs and mergers- and
the revenue allotted to the rights-holders from any re-release would
be so small, that none of them are interested in clearing things up.

I can't say I'm that disappointed though. Of course, that's partly
because I still own my CDs for the original games (and have old
hardware that can run it effortlessly. And you all made fun of me for
keeping a Win98 computer!). If I really wanted, I could play "No One
Lives Forever" today! :-P



But the thing is... I don't want to. The game was undeniably clever,
and hilariously funny... but the pacing was vile. To get the most out
of it, you had to be absolutely stealthy because a lot of the humor
was in what the guards were doing and saying when they thought no one
was around. But as soon as they saw you, the gags stopped and the
gunplay began. Neither the stealth nor the gunplay were particularly
good either. Especially those stealth missions that you instantly
failed when you were spotted. Yuck. Monolith had some really good
writers but their game-designers were subpar.

I didn't care for "Contract JACK" either but I didn't dislike it as
much as a lot of others did. JACK was basically NOLF without the gags,
and like I said, the gameplay alone just couldn't carry the franchise.
JACK was terrible... but NOLF (and a bit less-so, NOLF2) never ranked
very high for me either.


TL;DR: The games are far more fun to watch than play. But I can still
play them if I want, so nyaaah!
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