Pickups and Trades #5

I’ve been very short on money this month, so I haven’t bought as many games as usual. That can only be a good thing!

On Steam, I bought the following games:

The Risen trilogy. I know, I know, it’s not very good, but it was on sale, and the first one purports to have some flashes of brilliance in it so I bought it as a pack.

Stronghold Crusader Extreme HD: A Real Time Strategy game with Castles instead of bases. Sign me up!

Sword of the Stars Complete Collection: It looks like a space combat game plus its expansions, I haven’t played one of these that wasn’t a Star Wars game in a while so this will be interesting.

Can you figure out this interface?

From GOG, I bought Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat. This is a game that I don’t know if I ever officially owned, (more likely borrowed off someone and never gave it back) but I probably still have the CD-ROM lying around somewhere. It’s based on the Warhammer Fantasy universe, and I enjoyed it hugely when I used to play it nearly two decades ago. I actually have it on the PlayStation, but it doesn’t work very well on there. The user interface was never particularly good, and without a mouse or any form of analogue controls, it’s a nightmare to try to run. I’ll never get the CD-ROM version to run on my laptop in a million years (from what I remember, you needed to be in 256 colour mode. Remember that? I’ll tell you what doesn’t remember that: Windows 8.1,) so I bought a digital version. I gave it a test run, as some GOG users were experiencing problems with it, but it seems to be running just fine and I had a great time getting stuck in to it again!

While my financial situation is unlikely to have improved by the time next month’s blog goes out, I had saved up some money and bought some games at the UK Games Expo at the beginning of June, so I’m looking forward to telling you all about that!