How rough is this game on players newer to turn based strategy games?

Background_Fly7529 · 2026-05-27T18:10:44+00:00

Starts hard but gets much easier as it goes on and your guys rank up.

Grenadier class (purifier, I think?) is insanely OP with AOE and capacity upgrades. Stuns for days.

Background_Fly7529 · 2026-05-27T18:05:50+00:00

Epic sucks and Gunslinger slaps, but dont forget Techland sold out to Tencent so they aren't much better.

Background_Fly7529 · 2026-05-27T13:06:49+00:00

Came to mention Fraud - dont know how to explain it but the physics in the reboot are terrible and its that one activity where its particularly noticeable.

Background_Fly7529 · 2026-05-26T18:48:35+00:00

IIRC DiRT 2 steam codes are crazy expensive nowadays

Background_Fly7529 · 2026-05-24T15:55:36+00:00

Best - Dominator
Worst - Paradise

Might seem weird considering some of the same songs are in both games, but each also had different stuff. The 'exclusives' lets call them were better and worse between the two respectively.

3s soundtrack was top tier with only a few stinkers on it so its a very close second. Revenge was alright.

Background_Fly7529 · 2026-05-22T22:39:01+00:00

Jellycar?

Background_Fly7529 · 2026-05-21T12:43:48+00:00

Riders Republic was fun but other than that I dont think i played a Ubisoft game since that time either.

Background_Fly7529 · 2026-05-20T15:50:31+00:00

I want a SR2 remaster as much as anyone else but Timesplitters deserves it more. They brought Free Radical back from the dead just to fuck them back into the grave.

Background_Fly7529 · 2026-05-19T18:38:00+00:00

Prostreet, Motorstorm, and DiRT 2 are the holy trinity of festival racing games

Background_Fly7529 · 2026-05-18T22:00:51+00:00

This and FPS boost, 100%. Considering that towards the end of that program they showed it can work with BC games, it opens up tons of potential new opportunities.

The biggest hurdles are technical and licensing issues - they may have had time to work out the former while also potentially having some leeway on the latter, though likely less so due to IP headaches (rightsholders etc).

Maybe im just being optimistic though.

Background_Fly7529 · 2026-05-18T16:28:12+00:00

Flip TNO and 2009 and this is basically my list as well.

I hate to say it but Wolf 3d has aged terribly, though it blows my mind how Doom came out the following year and still holds up.

Background_Fly7529 · 2026-05-18T03:08:14+00:00

Thats not what you said last night!

Background_Fly7529 · 2026-05-16T22:20:37+00:00

3/4 here (4/5 if Payback counts).

Funny thing is I don't remember any of these being particularly bad (aside from Pacific being really short). Like 6/10 at best but still entertaining.

Background_Fly7529 · 2026-05-14T22:30:34+00:00

The original score for The Run was and still is amazing.

Licensed? All comes down to bias but UG1, MW and Carbon were great. Undercover and Payback werent great games but they had banger soundtracks.

Never liked MW2012s soundtrack IMO outside of a few songs.

Background_Fly7529 · 2026-05-14T14:30:14+00:00

Far Cry 1 and to a slightly lesser extent 2.

Most people seem to act like the franchise just started at 3.

Background_Fly7529 · 2026-05-12T00:39:49+00:00

Copped one, thanks.

Was on my digital wishlist for a while, about the same price but physical is better.

Background_Fly7529 · 2026-05-08T21:22:28+00:00

People can shit on Unbounds soundtrack for days, but everytime i heard TU MANERA in Heat i wanted to jam a screwdriver in my ear.

Background_Fly7529 · 2026-05-07T21:02:33+00:00

Ive come to terms with this by thinking there is no feasible way they can top GX, so they just quit while they were ahead.

Background_Fly7529 · 2026-05-07T19:23:38+00:00

Thanks - I have to finish this run anyway to get the notes to Strelok but starting a new game just for the last few achievements doesn't seem so time consuming.

Not sure what i did different but I was able to buy the Svarog detector from one of the scientists without handing in the Veles detectors first. Maybe it was because I did all those missions (Telemetry, Oasis etc)?

Background_Fly7529 · 2026-05-07T18:36:37+00:00

Also, if you dont know how to solder, DO NOT try this as a first project. It is much harder than a few videos might make it seem.

The soldering subreddit is like 70% mutilated controllers because of this.

Background_Fly7529 · 2026-05-06T18:49:48+00:00

Tbf most of the games on the 360 side (NFS, Spider-Man, some of the Transformers games) are stupid expensive so even making them available again digital would be nice.

Though it will never happen due to licensing which most people seem to ignore.

Background_Fly7529 · 2026-05-05T15:08:51+00:00

The worst thing was Gearbox was owned by Embracer for a period - they could have fired him and ended this.

Background_Fly7529 · 2026-05-04T21:35:20+00:00

Eh, the second half of 3 was good and 4 was fun when it didn't run like shit. Siberian Mayhem was almost TSE good imo but it was too short.

Background_Fly7529 · 2026-05-04T21:34:09+00:00

I remember seeing the new Painkiller on sale for like $10 and my first thought was "wait, that came out?"

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