beard ひげ @beardalaxy@gameliberty.club

30 hours later... unbound is finally finished. yeah, about 6.5/10. nothing to write home about, but not bad. it would be a LOT worse if i couldn't mute everything but the sound effects.

next game is probably going to be touhou luna nights. i still need to play system shock but i need to use my 1 month of game pass while i have it.

Only now, at pretty much the end of the story for Unbound, I'm starting to "get it." The game is a lot different from other NFS games in that it doesn't prioritize drift unless you're specifically in a drift event. Having a car with a good drift stat will usually mean your acceleration isn't as good, and the way drifting works here doesn't focus as much on keeping acceleration but instead building up boost by drifting to then explode out of the drift. However, if you get a car that has good acceleration you have much better handling as well, and you can e-brake to take even extremely sharp corners then accelerate to go much faster than the competition through turns.

It's honestly really weird, and much different than what I'm used to. Now that I know what I'm doing though, I'm lapping AI drivers with ease.

By the way, none of this is explained to you at all. I didn't even know the boost outright changed the physics until I watched a video on it.

NFS Unbound won't let me use "THEGRID" as my license plate because it... Contains profanity....?

my mouse just magically works again....? sure, i won't complain.

I was told about an engine inspired by RPG Maker called RPG Architect. It has 3D support and the developer is apparently a madman adding in new features that the community suggests all the time. I'm pretty interested in trying it out, and I might actually go for that for the next game instead of Godot depending on what I'm feeling more.

The one obvious downside is that there is NO FORUM FOR IT. At least, not as far as I can tell. Only Discord. That sucks ass, I don't want to use Discord for an entire ass game engine.

far, far less people would go buy a new star fox game rather than an f-zero game. the fans of the series are pretty fractured and the game itself is way less popular. with f-zero being shitted into a 99 game my hopes for anything star fox related that's actually good aren't even in the gutter, they're in the sewers being guarded by pennywise.

has anyone else noticed that youtube URLs are getting a little fucky lately? like they've got these massive strings tagged on to the end of them, probably for tracking purposes.

joel's incredible musical ability mixed with shitty memes is a wild contrast

oh yeah and i had to sprint to the other side of the park today because someone wasn't watching their baby who was WALKING INTO THE STREET

FUCKING

my roommate's dog that is staying here "temporarily" bit a fucking hole in the wall.

i guess we know who to charge if we lose money on the deposit.

okay well, don't write up a reply to a post and then decide you don't want it to be a reply. it erases the entire thing.

goodbye, nfs unbound review.

basically, the driving is good (2nd to nfs hot pursuit remake) but a lot of the stuff in the game ranges from questionable design decisions to really annoying shit. the weird car effects and graphic choices aren't that bad if you use the cloaked effects. play it with the voices and music muted if you're going to play it at all.

i haven't beaten it yet but i've played enough to judge it. like 6/10, maybe 6.5. fun enough to keep playing, but with compromise.

I'm starting to learn that the AI in NFS Unbound is pretty bullshit. I started playing the game on Easy just so I could learn how it feels and I've never been able to increase it because I'm getting 2nd or 3rd place pretty often. Even when I'm racing really well, I'll have someone right on my ass who is able to overtake me and then they're gone. And this is on EASY mode.

Right now I can't get above 4th in a race even when I'm playing near perfectly and have a better car than any of the other drivers. It's just pretty much impossible to keep up with these racers, they don't make any mistakes and seem way faster than me even when I'm using NOS.

Might have to retire this one... But I'm pretty close to the end so I want to try seeing it out. It's just starting to get frustrating. Feels like it's based on luck at this point, on whether they'll hit some traffic that spawned in front of them or not.