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I basically raged through a bunch of games today taking no guff from any game: kill me and feel my deleting wrath. Too many games will do this to a person, I think. But I did stick with a few of them. 

Quantum Break - By the Alan Wake devs. I've played it before but not to completion. I needed 3 headshots for a Game Pass quest and got them pretty quickly. I kept playing through Act 1 because it was fun. I got all the achievements I needed for Rewards quests as well. It's like a game such as Psi-Ops - 3rd person shooter with superpowers. Here you can manipulate time. It's well done. Not a fan of realistic graphics or the characters really, but fun. Maybe I'll keep it installed for some more play later. 

Royal Tower Defense - Rage deleted. It reminds me of Advance Wars a bit in that it feels more like a puzzle game where there is only one solution to a map. I think I just like to place towers and see what happens. Problem is, what happens is that I lose. It's really just a numbers game but I like the visual look of my tower placement better. 

Minecraft: I joined my friend's "permanent" world and began searching for the Fortress in the Nether. I couldn't find it even after ranging far and wide in there and losing my dog to lava. I got so annoyed, I rage deleted my copy of the game. After some cooler thought though, I'll probably reinstall it. Some farming contraptions I've heard about may make it interesting to me again. 

Farm Together: Booted it. Thought about the endless quest for the last achievement. Booted it off my hard drive. It began to infuriate me how much grinding I've had to do. It's not worth it. 

Lock's Quest - Interesting game where you build walls and attack towers to fend off intruders in chibi 8-bit style (or maybe it's 16 bit... pixel art style?). I got overrun after a few levels though and didn't want to keep at it. 

Romancing Saga 3: Thought I'd be turn-based battling but instead, I was doing some sort of real-time strategy battling between armies. I had an even battle with a foe and lost. Seemed nothing much I could do about it but choose one of a couple of strategies and watch it play out. Got a game over screen so I game-overed the game and sent it to digital hell. 

Siegecraft Commander - When I started it, I remembered I had already played it and had some trouble with it. It's an interesting strategy game that's hard to describe. Maybe like a cross between an RTS and pool (billiards). I felt like it didn't quite work too well later in the game. Anyway, I sent it back to the server farm. 

Queen's Quest 2: A find-the-object mystery adventure game. Sometimes these objects are hidden a little too well. I told it to go hide itself. 

Masters of Anima - Initially I was digging this quite a bit because it's essentially the gameplay of Overlord which is a take on Pikmin. I love summoning minions and setting them about my enemies. Thing is, as usual, when there are several minion types on the field, jumping from one to the other gets hectic after a while. I was in no mood for that. 

Capcom Arcade Cabinet - Looked through all the games in there and thought about playing 1943 but really, I've played it so many times already. I've even played most of the games in this collection at one time or another. It was not appealing today. Shmup off my drive.

Planet Alpha - This is a side-scrolling 2D adventure/platformer. Very lovely graphics. You are marooned on an alien planet it seems and beset by robots and local fauna. There's a lot of sneaking around and timed jumping and such. Not exactly my thing so I'm right on the edge of letting it bite digital dust but I'm surviving so far. Maybe back at it tomorrow.