Quoting: llortonDefinitely Rocket League
I tried it a bit in couch-coop with a friend fan of the game. It's fun so I decide to buy it to play online with him from time to time.
One month later, they remove the Linux version of the game. I had about 9 hours played at the time. Too late for refund.
I have not launched the game since.

You could have refunded regardless of play time. Just not through the standard option since that is only bot checked. I got mine with 20 hours.

Quoting: wvstolzingI clicked on the Flintstones link; and got intrigued by the fact that the music was made by the late Ben Daglish (familiar to C64 users from Last Ninja 1) -- so I found this link: https://youtu.be/rsOaYLc1VMw?si=xOwoFLeNIcU5UbZG -- looks like a hilariously awful game; though the music *does* have a bit of contrapuntal sophistication.

Another thing that *might* be in its favor, is that it isn't your bog standard 'euro-platformer' shovelware. It's still shit; but at least not *that* kind of shit.

I honestly don't remember anything about the music. That might be a sign for it not being horrible. I'll have to listen to it once I get home.

In terms of gameplay I think any platformer would have been better. The core game loop of the first level (that's the one in the video you posted) was really uninteresting. And the game was hard. I've never made managed to make it past that level. Second level was getting to the bowling alley I've been told. Third level was bowling with Barney. You could try that in some sort of freeplay IIRC – but I never managed to win.

I started reading magazines with game tests shortly afterwards. My parents however, who had gifted me that game (based on their fondness of the cartoon), lost faith in good games for quite some time.

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Papers, Please

I played it for 1.3 hours and was not impressed. I left a negative review. Years later, Steam still recommends games as "Similar to games you've played (Papers, Please)."

Sword Coast Legends and a few other games I never got round to playing until they were broken due to online requirement.

I tried Sword Coast when it was unplayable on my old computer / network, and it was pulled by the time I got a new computer.

D & D should always support single player offline.

Last edited by Craggles086 on 8 October 2024 at 7:27 am UTC

Starbase. It was great at first but the developers seemed to abandon it for many months. I had a lot of fun building ships and flying around with friends, so much so that we forgot about the always-on pvp. Got out of the safe zone for a few hours one day without a problem to get some more rare ores, built up a base to process things... came back the next day to find we're camped and killed if we went to it again.

Between that and the devs ghosting for months made me thoroughly regret purchasing it.

Seems like they're still working on it though (as I just found out looking at things during writing this), so I'm very cautiously dipping my toe in it again, but they already broke trust.

Quoting: williamjcmCyberpunk's character creator was incredibly limited and gender-locked, which went against the "you can be anything/anyone" tagline marketing loved repeating.

Wait, you didn't try the game past that? I do not choose the same gender character from game to game personally. What about games like Horizon: Zero Dawn or Tomb Raider?

Cyberpunk 2077 was a great work of art from different angles IMO.

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Quoting: williamjcmCyberpunk's character creator was incredibly limited and gender-locked, which went against the "you can be anything/anyone" tagline marketing loved repeating.

Wait, you didn't try the game past that? I do not choose the same gender character from game to game personally. [...]

Cyberpunk 2077 was a great work of art from different angles IMO.

No, I didn't go past character creation in Cyberjunk, and never will. The 2.0 update didn't touch that aspect at all, and there are no mods to remove the gender locking either.

Want your male cybersamurai to have a ponytail (a hairstyle that's historically always been gender-neutral) ? You have to pick the body type with boobs. Don't want boobs ? Too bad, ponytails (and most other hairstyles with long hair, by the way) are boobs-only.

Quoting: 14What about games like Horizon: Zero Dawn or Tomb Raider?

I don't mind games with fixed characters. But I haven't played HZD (and I won't because I don't want to support Sony's PSN account requirement on single-player titles), and I gave up on TR after the 2013 reboot because the series became a Ubi-like open-world collect-a-thon.

I don't think I'm going to remember all the way back to like 20-30 years ago, so I'll say this is most memorable at the moment: Cossacks 3. I couldn't get it to work, and my friend was online and bought the game as well so we could play it together. I never got it to work back then, and since it was purchased outside of Steam, no refund was accepted. This was years ago at this point. To this day, I have not purchased a Steam game from a 3rd party. I was mad.

Quoting: RandomizedKirbyTree47Papers, Please. I played it for 1.3 hours and was not impressed. I left a negative review. Years later, Steam still recommends games as "Similar to games you've played (Papers, Please)."

You can "Ignore" it in the store to exclude it from being used for recommendations.

Quoting: williamjcmWant your male cybersamurai to have a ponytail (a hairstyle that's historically always been gender-neutral) ? You have to pick the body type with boobs. Don't want boobs ? Too bad, ponytails (and most other hairstyles with long hair, by the way) are boobs-only.

It could be worse, though, the prerequisite could've been having a dick that clips through your pants.