EDIT: I’ll add my progress for this long weekend in this same post, see how it goes…
Long weekend here so I get to play… or do I get to install games, figure I don’t want to play them and clean up my backlog the drastic way?…
Deadly Premonition: The Director’s Cut I tried it, but it was soooooo buggy. It wouldn’t listen to my gamepad and you have to stand to the exact spot or it won’t register to interact etc. Also, it does that thing that some games do, make my cursor go crazy. It’s not worth it to restart my laptop 2 times each time I launch the game to get to use my laptop again. And I kinda didn’t really like it.
Unbox Do I think it’s a cute enjoyable game? Yes. Do I have the patience to retrain my reflexes for this game as a chore and not have a good time playing something else this weekend? No.
The Walking Dead. I can now say with absolute certainty that I dislike the zombie genre in any medium. I’m a vampire gal and that’s it. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ Also, I’m not a QTE fan, and it seemed kinda boring overall. I believe everyone who says the game has a great story, still not for me.
Black Rainbow Done, little fun HOPA.
I guess there’s a very specific niche of “ACII-trilogy-and-TR-1st-reboot-trilogy-era” games that I enjoy and nothing more “classic” (= painfully outdated controls and graphics, great stories maybe but a pain to play today) or more “impressive” (=RPG-grindfests that require roughly 2,5 times the HW/SW I have) will please me ever again.
So glad to know it’s not just me. I don’t have the patience to brave through a game anymore, if it makes my life difficult I just abandon it. (I plan to watch a gamethrough on YT, though).
I finished Indigo Prophecy and don’t regret it, but that was the good old days. I proved myself, now I can rest. :-)
I had some trouble with Unbox also. It was fun and mostly satisfying, but I think I’m just not very good at the game! :D I never could control my little box very well, let alone with any precision. Oh well!
So happy it’s not just me and my crappy motor skills. :-)
Deadly Premonition is THE Buggy Game, tbh. You were playing the fixed version, and even the newest switch port suffers from performance issues. If you get through it with fixes/knowing the list of bugs/sheer will, you’ll be rewarded with one of the weirdest gaming experiences ever, though. Played through it… somehow and loved it.
But yeah, it seems it works even more like ass on your laptop and I don’t think it’s salvageable