Overall I feel successful in my game shopping, made a lot of returns as well. But I do regret getting a couple games (even on sale) I grabbed wasteland 2 because I felt nostalgic for the old fallout games, but it felt unfinished.
The other game that had positive reviews was project zomboid, which is clunky to play, and while it might be progressing in its development, feels slow, like I should check back on it ina year or so. I’m considering grabbing Vein as a replacement.
Anyone else feel like a game or hardware was disappointing?
I got NFS Unbound and NFS Heat this past winter when they were on sale for around $7 each.
Heat has been surprisingly fun. I haven’t played an NFS game since the second Most Wanted and it turned me right the fuck off to the series and back to the OG Most Wanted.
Unbound was utter garbage through and through. Cringey acting and stupid characters, annoying dialogue while driving, terrible design choices, cartoony and realistic at the same time in weird places, customization was lacking, driving and races were not fun, felt like one of those games trying to be edgy while being safe about it in typical corpo fashion… I hated it. I didn’t care that I spent less than a Starbucks coffee for it. I asked for a refund and uninstalled it on my own.
I haven’t done a refund like that in a few years. Other refunds were for performance reasons like this VR surgeon game that had awkward controls.
I haven’t played Unbound, but thought about picking it up after enjoying Heat. Thanks for the heads up!
I’d not played a NFS game since the original Underground but I had a decent time with Unbound.
The chase mechanics were often annoying and I 100% agree that the tone felt off in a very ‘corpo suits pretending to be cool’ kind of way, but I thought the visuals were cool and the soundtrack introduced me to some great new music.
I didn’t actually finish the game in the end, but I mostly enjoyed the time I spent. Solid 7.5 out of 10 for me.