General gaming discussion

Have you got a problem with Bubsy?

I love me some Nintendo but you missed out on sega and Sony. The megadrive was excellent with some great classics despite the dodgy cringe advertising. The Saturn was a fantastic machine as was the Dreamcast with a stupidly good library despite manufacturing stopping after just 18 months. Sony though, the PS1 wipes the floor with the N64 and the ps1 and PS2 could both be argued as two of the best consoles of all time.

PAL conversions didn't put me off games but I kind of wish they did. I didn't realise how bad they were and if I had of known I'd have imported everything.

Seems Boiling Point Road to Hell has popped up on Steam. It's a long forgotten PC game that was the only review on Eurogamer to get two scores, 2/10 and 8/10. It's an absolute buggy mess with its first patch notes reading like a hard drive comedy article (a highlight being firing an uzinat the police station no longer makes the station disappear) but was a true open world game with a reactive world and environment that the team didn't have the budget to get under control.

I liked far cry 3 for what it was but I'd have preferred if every Ubisoft game afterwards wasn't farcry 3 but now with a snow. I started farcry 4 shortly after 3 and fell off it so fast. It got my full of that style of game with 3 and don't need to play it anymore which is why I've barely touched a Ubisoft game since.

I can assure it's a different kind of jank. You never played these types of games because they never get released on console. There's a big difference between a massive studio creating jank like Bethesda which just comes across as lazy or inept. This kind of jank is from a small team creating an incredibly complex game with wild ideas and almost getting there. There's a lot of bugs and issues but you plough through it because the experience is so compelling and like no other game on the market because big publishers would never fund a game this mental.

The closest Incan think of would be Baldur's Gate 3 which has crazy ambition and systems but it fortunately had the benefit of the early access program which gave it more time to be honed and less buggy.