Recent reviews by Rusty

Steam Link mostly works for me, using a beefy desktop as host over a 5Ghz wifi network and the Steam Link PC app for windows on a laptop with an Xbox 360 USB adapter + controller. It's possible for me to stream with high video quality and a bit of latency. But for just a few games (Steam and non-Steam games) the controller won't do anything while Streaming, but works, when playing directly on the desktop.

I thought VirtualHere might be a solution, but it didn't work. Basically it didn't seem to do anything at all. There was just an icon in the tray and when I clicked on it, it said "USB Hub". That's it. No additional controller support, as the app promises. Quickest refund ever for me. I'm not against paying for apps, but then I do expect them to "just work" without much fiddling. The FAQ and troubleshooting tips from the dev in the forum were not particularly helpful and sounded like "well, it should just work...".

Good for an older shooter / hack 'n slash action game, although a bit short. Reminds me a bit of the newer doom actually with similar weapons and melee attacks to regain health, although doom does it better. I Finished the game in 8 hours and that was with taking things slow and dying a bit. Despite being short, it feels like it drags on a little, but ends up not overstaying its welcome. There was one disappointing thing: the bossfight at the end is a long button mashing QTE, when I had hoped for a more interesting bossfight.

There is multiplayer with versus and co-op modes, but when I checked it out no one was playing. Could be fun with friends or a gamer group.

As someone not really that familiar with warhammer I thought it was an interesting setting, although I'm sure I missed many of the details or references to the lore. It seems like it might be a good starting point for someone who wants to check out the warhammer universe, but this also means it could be a bit shallow for old fans. To me this game is the closest thing to what Starcraft Ghosts could have been (it was supposed to be a 3rd person action shooter set in the Starcraft universe, but was never finished). So just running around and shooting stuff as a beefy space marine, whether its Starcraft or Warhammer, definitely warms the cockles of my cold heart.

Conclusion: I wouldn't get it at full 20$ price, considering the dead multiplayer, but can definitely recommend it on sale below 10$ for the decent campaign to anyone who likes games like the new doom or is interested in warhammer.

At the moment, I don't want to recommend this game because it has performance issues on Windows 10, but runs better on windows 7. On windows 10 with high settings, you frequently get FPS drops under 20 frequently, even on good hardware like GTX 1080 or RT 6800 XT. I'd recommend playing something else instead. But the game is still good. Power suit, cool aliens, stealth, ruined jungle New York city environment with high tech army trying to control everything. Crysis 3 has a lot to offer and would be great if it would just run better...

So if you are still on Windows 7 or know how to set up a Windows 7 VM for gaming with with a GPU passthrough, don't hesitate to get this. Otherwise for everyone else, maybe get it on sale, if you aren't too bothered by framerate drops.

Good 3D fighting game, but the story and dialog are a joke. 90% of the game's development effort seems to have been spent on the fighting animations and effects, while they just kind of slapped something together for the rest of the game, with barely any thought put into it.

Why do Luffy and Sabo look so cursed? Lmfao, something is just very wrong with their eyes.
The other characters mostly look fine, but man how did they mess up Luffy and Sabo so bad... almost makes me want to refund.

Considering that online play is currently not working, I probably should refund this, but somehow I still want to keep it... Despite it's flaw, I'm sure it will be fun to play with friends who are into anime.

Jump Force promises a lot, but delivers just the minimum viable product. Not recommended, unless you want a mashup fighting game with all the characters.

Here's a more detailed humerous playthrough/review of the game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZYZBCiDIxU

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Beware of Exploitive DLC practices

After buying this, I finally figured out the confusing pricing and chopped up content. It turns out that neither the "Deluxe" nor the "Ultimate" Edition have all characters in the game. The only have characters from the "Character Pass (1)", but are missing the characters from "Character Pass 2". I thought I was buying a complete game, but no, still missing some content...

These are the characters that are included in the "Deluxe" and "Ultimate" Edition as part of "Character Pass (1)":

- Seto Kaiba (Character Pack 1)
- Biscuit Krueger (Character Pack 2)
- All Might(Character Pack 3)
- Majin Buu (Good) (Character Pack 4)
- Katsuki Bakugo (Character Pack 5)
- Toshiro Hitsugaya (Character Pack 6)
- Madara Uchiha (Character Pack 7)
- Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez (Character Pack 8)
- Trafalgar Law (Character Pack 9)

These are currently the characters that are missing from "Deluxe" and "Ultimate" Edition. They can only be purchased separately or as part of "Character Pass 2":

- Shoto Todoroki (Character Pack 10)
- Meruem (Character Pack 11)
- Hiei (Character Pack 12)
- Yoruichi Shihoin (Character Pack 13)
- Giorno Giovanna (Character Pack 14)

This game is a prime example of aweful, exploitive DLC confusion. Somwhow Japanese games seem to be some of the worst at this. I think Street Fighter IV is to blame with the "Ultimate Legendary Epic Orgasmic" Edition nonsense with the entire game being split up in a way that probably not even the developers know anymore which edition has which characters. Tekken and this game have become equally bad. It's borderline fraud in my opinion.

It's good:
- Awesome toy soldier game.
- Lots of retro stuff that speaks right to the soul of everyone who was a kid in the 80s/90s.
- Splitscreen, LAN and online co-op - what every good multiplayer game should have, in my opinion. If you are looking for something that reminds you of the good splitscreen games from the old console era, look no further: This is what you have been waiting for.
- Synthwave soundtrack.
- Look at this developer, honestly commenting on people's reviews. Very cool. I look forward to whatever game they make next.

Two minor things to criticize:
- No storymode - the game is practically begging for this. There are only co-op or competitive multiplayer modes, although the game can be played singleplayer with bots.
- At first exploring is fun, but searching for pickups during rounds takes a bit too long and is kind of tedious after a while.

Meadow is relaxing, looks nice and the music is good... but... it's boring.

All there is to do in this game, is collect things, unlock emotes, use emotes and run around (with other players). That's it. I thought there would be more to it.

I can see how the game can be enjoyable for some people, but it's just not my thing. I like competitive games, games with lots of stuff to do, games with lots of buttons... this isn't that. So for anyone looking to get this game, just be aware of what it actually is. I thought "hmm... looks cool and it's cheap", so I got it, but even at the low price, it's not worth it to me because I won't be playing this.

I think this game could be great if there were some co-op activities in it.

Do you want an exciting, tough, realistic Rally racing game with a bunch of configurable options? Do you want a racing game where you can turn off automatic wind-shield wipers, so you can press the button yourself? Then this is the right game for you. Few racing games have quite the same feeling as Dirt Rally. The cars in this game feel like they have weight behind them and even when you play with a controller, it's kinda like driving a real car. Be sure to tweak your controller settings a bit though, if you don't want to go flying off the edge of the track, every time you push the stick a bit to much.

The game runs perfectly fine on Arch Linux with my 5-year-old laptop (CPU: Corei5 3.0 Ghz; GPU: GT 640M), however there was an additional dependency I had to install to get the game running: "openssl-1.0-compat" is the required package. See this article for more info: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/linux-gamers-on-arch-may-want-to-hold-off-on-updating-due-to-openssl-breaking-some-games-updated.9557

This game also has VR and Steering wheel support! I can only imagine how awesome that must be. Dirt Rally is still worth it without that kind of hardware, but having that kind of support makes the game somewhat "future-proof", so that's another thing to consider, if you're thinking of getting a VR device sometime.

Cheers to Codemasters and Feral Interactive for making this awesome game!

If you want more Metro 2033, then get this. The game runs well and looks nice on my 4 year-old linux laptop. Awesome work by the developers.

This game doesn't work on Linux anymore. It was supported once, but now the developers abandoned the linux version, as you can see from the lack of a system requirements tab on the store page.

I can get to the main menu, but when I join a server or start the tutorial, the game crashes instantly after the loading screen. I posted on the tech support forum, but the only answer I received is that the game didn't work anymore on Linux and the developer with in-depth knowledge of the Linux version has moved on. This is dissapointing to me, since I decided to pick up NS2, when I saw that it supported Linux. I had to wait, until I got a better laptop to play the game and now it doesn't work anymore.

This kind of bait-and-switch tactic is frustrating to see. At least, now I know not to buy anything from this company in the future, since they have proven their incompetence.

The best skateboarding game on PC. There isn't much competition here.