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    From Elendil@horchata12839@gmail.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Wed Nov 19 15:48:45 2025
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    Looking for a good power trip not something where I am the same
    underpowered guy scavenging for pointless experience. Last thing I
    played like this was World of Warcraft when you take the dragons against
    some of the catapults.
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  • From vallor@vallor@vallor.earth to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Wed Nov 19 23:06:00 2025
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    At Wed, 19 Nov 2025 15:48:45 -0600, Elendil <horchata12839@gmail.com> wrote:

    Looking for a good power trip not something where I am the same
    underpowered guy scavenging for pointless experience. Last thing I
    played like this was World of Warcraft when you take the dragons against some of the catapults.

    The _Just Cause_ games are good for power-tripping.
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  • From Justisaur@justisaur@yahoo.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Wed Nov 19 15:21:38 2025
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    On 11/19/2025 1:48 PM, Elendil wrote:
    Looking for a good power trip not something where I am the same
    underpowered guy scavenging for pointless experience. Last thing I
    played like this was World of Warcraft when you take the dragons against some of the catapults.

    What immediately lept to mind was Saint's Row IV
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  • From Spalls Hurgenson@spallshurgenson@gmail.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Thu Nov 20 10:57:48 2025
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    On Wed, 19 Nov 2025 15:21:38 -0800, Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com>
    wrote:

    On 11/19/2025 1:48 PM, Elendil wrote:
    Looking for a good power trip not something where I am the same
    underpowered guy scavenging for pointless experience. Last thing I
    played like this was World of Warcraft when you take the dragons against
    some of the catapults.

    What immediately lept to mind was Saint's Row IV


    Me, I immediately thought of the old "Prototype" games that came out
    around 2010 (back in the XBox360 era, although a PC version was made
    too). It's pure power-fantasy; you are _so_ overpowered compared to
    pretty much anybody else in the game, and its mostly through sheer
    numbers of opponents that there is any danger to you. And even then,
    managing to fight off several tanks, Apache helicopters, mutant
    brutes, and several squads of soldiers all at the same time is quite
    doable. You get new powers at a fairly rapid rate too, and scaling up skyscrapers is always awesome.

    It's less obvious, but you get a similar experience in almost any
    linear, single-player FPS too (the Dooms, the Quakes, and the like).
    No grinding; just a long run through corridors and chambers filled
    with targets to shoot, and ammo pickups so you can keep shooting them.
    ;-)


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