Division 1: You can totally solo this game.
for real? Either I am just dumb or marketing actually fails with some games. I would have thought this is 100% mp only. IIrc they always showed a bunch of people with headsets having so much (fake) fun in the e3 shows and whatnot.
Just like tacked on MP in so many shooters in the past, nowadays we need the info when a MP centric game is actually fine solo too.
I don't have time anyway, but added to the list. lol
Quadrata
Some puzzle game where you slide an object to its goal on two plaing fields simultaneously. Short, but fun for what it is.
Frick Inc.
RE tank controls are back! But now you control a real tank, actually some bulldozer/truck crane and a hovercraft with some firing abilities. This puzzle game looks like a natural fit for VR since you control the vehicles via some levers on the bottom of the screen, but you actually have to move them around with your mouse. It's awkward af, but that makes it kinda fun. It's not supergreat, the physics are strange soemtimes but an interesting concept.
Weird bug on linux: I could not complete a third of all levels because one control for one vehicle did not respond. Works fine after abandoning the native linux build and force steam into Win/proton compatibility.
Desperados 3
It's been a while since I last played Commandos and the original Desperados on PC. This seems fine, but something about the controller layout on console does not click with me. Something like Hitman Go, a more basic variant of the same principle feels better on there. Finished only two levels. Might get back to it some time later.
WRC Generations
Feels like some interns were tasked to change the title of WRC10 and that's it. I am not sure if WRC had old rally cars, generations would imply a strong or new emphasis on those, but the game fails to actually utilise them. Sh/Could have been an addon. There are historic races as optional challenges, but no classic career or something. Weird, since after finishing WRC3, WRC2 and prime WRC career, another season which is the same except lacking the annoying managing crap every sports game seems to need to have, I am still not even halfway through with the XP points needed for my game profile for the last achievement. They could have done a proper classic career mode. And also make a career episode from those extreme conditions races. Not a proper story mode with cheesy drama that never is good anyway in racing games, but bundle the stuff better and not just throw it in there. Some stuff to do/unlock, to not make it an apparant grind to level 150.
There are also some online trophies which currently dont work since the servers are not responding. Might be temporarily since I have not found an official shutdown news. At least it reminds you about it after every f-ing race. *rolleyes*
Driving physics are okayish after some adaptation, like in every WRC game, but somehow never feel great. Gravity is off, especially in sweden it is way too easy to flip the car on its roof, because all tracks there are framed with undeformable snow ramps... Throttle is weird too, there seesm to be almost binary inputs. Full throttle or none, which is especially in the wrc class just annoying to hear, with the engine screeming on and off all the time. This also leads to rather too much swaying and sudden burst of acceleration of the car. Just not fun above the basic WRC3 and 2 class. Meanwhile the classic cars have terrible brakes and even worse stability. In Dirt Rally the Audi Quattro, or all group B, were freakish drives, here that one feels somewhat okay, at least compared to the Peugeot and Alpine which sway around like they are drunk. Someone might like german cars more than french...
I hope future WRC games might actually get 3d scanned real tracks or something, because the elements they stick together just feel unnatural somehow. Also Monte Carlo needs proper snow conditions. Asphalt tyres are selected there and work okay even in snow which is hardly the case in reality, as seen in the just finished real world Monte Carlo, where drivers were all over the place, were the game would give 5s penalties all the time. And it does not need to rain in every f-ing country. It does not even look good, so why force that as some gift onto the player.
during the Christmas break I checked out Starhawk for the first time initially...
