Have they said what they’re doing to RttS this year? I really hope they roll back or at least radically change some of last year’s approach.
I honestly haven’t paid attention at all to what they are planning for this year. I think I might just avoid DD entirely this year and play some franchise mode. It’s just the same grind every year. I never really got into RTTS.
The weird part is that in my case, it’s the folder with the name I mentioned under C:\Program Files\ModifiableWindowsApps that supposedly is empty, but on a different physical drive there are identifiably named folders for two games (Halo MCC and Art of Rally) under the E:\Program Files\ModifiableWindowsApps folder.
But that C drive folder (I’m 95% certain) actually has a game in it (Lonely Mountains Downhill, which has a negligible sub-1 GB footprint admittedly).
Now that they are bringing it to more platforms, I really hope they considering porting MLB the Show to the PC. I know you can stream it to PC but that isn’t ideal in a game like this.
I mean they are releasing it on the Switch. That has to be harder than porting it to the PC.
Harder, but almost certainly much more profitable.
We haven’t had a good PC baseball game since high heat. And that was a longggggg time ago. :(
Baseball games peaked with Hardball!
I played a lot of Hardball on my Amstrad. I especially loved the Cheerleaders between innings.
Same here. Normally, I’d just “fuck it, it’s $11, I’ll just buy it”, but the first 30 minutes or so it’s just such a bog standard boring 3rd person shooter, I’m not convinced it’s worth buying even at $11 because I’ll never play it.
Time to get deeper into it while it’s still on game pass to discover if it gets any better for me.
The other one I should try to get farther in is The Medium.
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Control is excellent.
Medium had a chase sequence about 90 minutes in that I failed twice and subsequently immediately uninstalled. Your tolerance for that sort of thing may vary.
For what it’s worth, I enjoyed playing The Medium and I for the most part haven’t really liked the other Bloober games I played.
I just played Taiko no Tatsujin: The Drum Master!
That was great. I love music/rhythm games. I wish there was more pop tunes from the 80s though. Last Christmas by Wham is great, but it’s the only song like that in the song selection. Most of the songs I recognize are actually in the anime section. I guess I’ve been watching a lot of anime in the last 10 years or so.
To correct this statement, George Michael write the song for Wham! The version in the game however, is a poor facsimile.
Oof, not a great list. Sugar Song to Bitter Step is a nice inclusion, though.
The anime and video game sections of the song list are fantastic in this new version of Taiko no Tatsujin. The rest, not so much.
That said, outside of the classical section, it was never going to have much in the way of western music, as with all the other English releases they’ve done in the series. The reason Last Christmas is in there is because the song is enormous in Japan.
Did you guys use a keyboard or controller to play this? I actually have the drum controller somewhere for the PS2. Too bad I can’t use that for this, hehe.
I used my Pocket SDVX Pico, a controller for a different arcade rhythm game that works quite nicely for any four-button rhythm game on PC. Did better on that than I ever did with another controller, a touchscreen, a keyboard, or the PS2 drum.
I thought the same thing about Control when I got it at release. On top of that, it ran at an inconsistent 30 FPS, with dips into the 20s (on Xbox One X) so it just felt a little sluggish at times and gave me a bit of motion sickness.
Tried it again recently on the Series S in the 60 FPS mode and it is super smooth, and shortly after the boring shooting bits you get some telekenisis ability that lets you fling stuff at enemies and once the game throws more and varied enemies at you, you upgrade your abilities and weapons, and you uncover more of the Oldest House, the game becomes a fantastic experience.
Oh hey, that controller is pretty nifty. I’ve been using my mechanical keyboard for DJMax which has been fine so far, but the placement of the thumb keys on that controller looks very helpful.
I’ve never seen that game in the demo video that requires the two analog knobs.
