Hey there Somethings!<\/p>\n
Today’s (apparently) another installment of “Podcast Rob Shakes Fist At Cloud” as I lay out some video games I was hopeful about but just didn’t cut it for me!<\/p>\n
Star Wars Squadrons<\/strong><\/p>\n Flying Game?\u00a0 Check.\u00a0 Dogfighting Flying Game?\u00a0 Check.\u00a0 Fun?\u00a0 Ehhh….. Dark Pictures Anthology : Little Hope<\/strong><\/p>\n I.\u00a0 Loved.\u00a0 Man of Medan.\u00a0 I’m enjoying House of Ashes even more.\u00a0 Little Hope was… aptly named.\u00a0 In MoM and HoA, the choices made sense to me.\u00a0 In LH the choices felt.. mind-numbingly inane.\u00a0 The one that sticks out the most was breaking in to the police station… there’s LITERALLY bricks and 2x4s and pipes and crap laying around.. but this.. THIS is a good time for one of the characters to chide the other about “Hey..\u00a0 \u00a0I bet you can’t throw this rock through that window!” Just make it make sense….<\/p>\n Vampire the Masquerade : Bloodhunt<\/strong><\/p>\n Ok, I’m not a fan of BR type games.. not my jam.\u00a0 I DO however love me some VtM and am eagerly awaiting Bloodlines 2.\u00a0 To that end, I said “Let me check it out.. it’s free.. right?”\u00a0 Overall, I like what they’re trying to do… different clans, different powers, how they effect the overall BR gameplay.. it’s a good concept.\u00a0 However, the player base is still relatively small, and because of that the number of hackers\/cheaters is VERY disproportionate, and the game doesn’t seem to have a good way of perma-banning them.\u00a0 Much like Rocket League (which, surprisingly, didn’t make this list…) before I stopped playing I could only do one or two matches before my rising blood pressure made me tap out.<\/p>\n Any Poorly Ported Game<\/strong><\/p>\n I like my driving\/racing games.\u00a0 I’ve tried to play many of the older(ish) Need for Speed games either through Steam or GamePass and, I’ll be honest, when I have to THEN scour the internet for some sort of additional patch that I have to read up on how to install just so when I lightly tap the stick to go left my car won’t immediately go in to donuts because the port over of the game couldn’t handle\/work with current controller drivers.. it’s a hard pass for me.<\/p>\n
\nI never played any of the original “X-Wing vs TIE Fighter” games.. but I do enjoy me some Star Wars, and I was really hoping to like this.\u00a0 The dogfight maps feel oddly small, (I mean, I understand they’re trying to keep frantic action in a confined space) and… oddly confined…. like.. it’s SPACE why can’t I go fly.. you know.. .over THERE?\u00a0 Also the back and forth of the combat is intriguing and keeps one side from just steamrolling, but, it still feels like it’s amazingly clunky.<\/p>\n