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Tekken 8
2024
As a filthy casual who isn't very good at fighting games, I loved Tekken 8. It looks, sounds, and FEELS tremendous. Easy to pick up, tough to master, with plenty of tools to help you get there, and a bevy of weird and wonderful characters to mess around with.
The suite of single player modes for casuals like me is really impressive. Arcade Quest is a solid tutorial, and Character Stories streamline the arcade mode and allow you to quickly see those great, great, great endings. Unfortunately, I found the main MK-style story mode to be pretty tortuous. Lots of boring yapping with uninteresting characters. These stories are better conveyed in the stylized, often quite short arcade endings - stretching them out with a full story mode didn't help them, and you're often listening to minutes upon minutes of waffling before you get to a single fight, which is quickly followed by more waffle.
[Steam Deck notes: temper your expectations, set it at approx 50% internal resolution, and you can have a great time]
The suite of single player modes for casuals like me is really impressive. Arcade Quest is a solid tutorial, and Character Stories streamline the arcade mode and allow you to quickly see those great, great, great endings. Unfortunately, I found the main MK-style story mode to be pretty tortuous. Lots of boring yapping with uninteresting characters. These stories are better conveyed in the stylized, often quite short arcade endings - stretching them out with a full story mode didn't help them, and you're often listening to minutes upon minutes of waffling before you get to a single fight, which is quickly followed by more waffle.
[Steam Deck notes: temper your expectations, set it at approx 50% internal resolution, and you can have a great time]
Destroy All Humans!
2005
Destroy All Humans!
2005
1080° Avalanche
2003
Pikmin 2
2004
Pikmin 2
2004
Gran Turismo 7
2022
Gran Turismo 7
2022
Gran Turismo 7
2022
Not a car guy or a racing game lover.
GT7 on tv: 7/10, pretty fun, good graphics
GT7 in VR: 9.5/10, easily the best racing game I’ve played, best VR game and one of the best gaming experiences in general. Showing people is an absolute treat and there seems to be little chance for VR sickness.
Can’t give it a perfect 10 because the inclusion of microtransactions means it would take 1200 hours, at the very least, to get every car in the game, which is absurd because getting new cars is the motivator.
GT7 on tv: 7/10, pretty fun, good graphics
GT7 in VR: 9.5/10, easily the best racing game I’ve played, best VR game and one of the best gaming experiences in general. Showing people is an absolute treat and there seems to be little chance for VR sickness.
Can’t give it a perfect 10 because the inclusion of microtransactions means it would take 1200 hours, at the very least, to get every car in the game, which is absurd because getting new cars is the motivator.