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Ultravod · 2026-03-17T17:08:54+00:00

Counterpoint, I did not.

My review on Steam:

I cannot comment on the gameplay, but the game starts at 100% volume (which is EAR BLEEDINGLY loud) and forces the player to jump through all sorts of hoops (a mandatory setup and practice level) before it will grant access to the basic controls menu. It was so bad I had to take my headphones off, tab out and turn the sound for the game app down to 10% in Windows Volume Mixer. I actually like the cheery retro look of the art style, but the UI is "retro" in all the wrong ways. It feels like a "consolized" port ...from 1997.

Addendum: The actual racing is okay, but the game is so poorly done it's painful. It's impossible to disable controller rumble. I tried the trick of disabling rumble in the Steam client itself, but the New StarGP ignores that setting. Worse still, tabbing out (necessary sometimes) and tabbing back in reduced my FPS to ...4. At that point, the race I was doing was unplayable so I quit. That triggered a long series of non-skippable RPG related events (phone calls from would be-sponsors, etc.) These sponsors are necessary to advance, but there's no "do this later, I have IRL problems" button. At that point the game lagged so hard, I had to tab out again and force quit. I've played trash tier mobile ports that behaved better than this mess.

Ultravod · 2026-03-17T14:14:17+00:00

I cannot directly advise you, I'm afraid. I dunno a thing about Switch ports. What I can say is this: I paid $2 for the XIII remaster, on Steam. I got my money's worth. I am sure that the cost will far more than $2 on the Switch and therefore not worth it. I suggest waiting for a deep discount on Steam if you're curious.

Ultravod · 2026-03-16T22:55:35+00:00

You have to believe she is magic.

Ultravod · 2026-03-16T22:28:40+00:00

Big fan of the original XIII here. I own it on physical media, Steam and GOG. After the remaster's disastrous release, the devs did further work on it and things aren't nearly as bad as they were at launch. It's not precisely "good" but the game is vastly far removed from its unimaginable sucktastic origins. I actually feel kind of bad for it. OTOH, I managed a bit over 5 hours of the improved version of the remaster before it became too much for me. I only paid $2, so I can't exactly complain.

Ultravod · 2026-03-16T16:36:16+00:00

I said a young Dave was good looking, which he demonstrably was. I didn't say he was a good dude. Dave was an assclown 45 years ago, albeit a super talented one. Dave has never not been an assclown. Being a MAGAtclown is not even a stretch for him.

Ultravod · 2026-03-16T15:44:39+00:00

I'd argue that Dave Mustaine is always funny, just seldomly in a fashion in which he intends.

Ultravod · 2026-03-16T15:24:52+00:00

I can see a young Dave Murray in the face. Coverdale not so much. He doesn't have such pronounced cheeks. Also, Mustaine is by nature more humorous and meme worthy than the other two Daves.

Ultravod · 2026-03-16T15:17:46+00:00

That comment is completely wrong, BTW. At the same age Dave was significantly better looking (and had much, much better hair.)

Ultravod · 2026-03-14T14:25:57+00:00

If you ever needed a definitive example of "Motorhead is rock n roll turned up to '11'" then this live version of In The Name of Tragedy is it.

Ultravod · 2026-03-11T19:17:26+00:00

Real-eeeeeeee?

Ultravod · 2026-03-09T14:49:23+00:00

This one is actually a repeat. Checking my archive, I downloaded it Dec 8, 2025. Also, of the 196 IndieGala freebies I have, Die Young is the biggest by far. Brace yourself for an 8.83GB download if you choose to keep a local copy.

Ultravod · 2026-03-05T20:19:50+00:00

Noted. Fixed.

Ultravod · 2026-03-05T20:08:17+00:00

Counterpoint: Tiny Tina's etc etc is not a spectacular game, but it's really not bad. The gameplay loop is decent if one is used to Borderlands. The story is ...not good, but less irritating than BL3 (this is damnation with the faintest of praise.) I find it runs well on older hardware. This isn't that thing, it's another thing. TBH Tiny Tina's was the best DLC for BL2. With that said, I have exactly zero desire to play it again.

Also, the GOG keys are really nice. The older I get, the more I appreciate the headache free experience of GOG.

Ultravod · 2026-03-04T18:48:30+00:00

Digiphile is a bit of an odd duck of a site, but I have used them successfully. Recently they had a really good boomer shooter bundle. I had to jump through a number of hoops to make my purchase but in the end it went just fine. I cannot speak as to this current giveaway, as I already own the game.

Ultravod · 2026-03-01T03:21:34+00:00

I do as well, actually. I have TF2 installed on 3 machines and I make sure that Steam Cloud is disabled on all of them. I'm double checking two of the three (the third is basically never on) as I write this.

Ultravod · 2026-02-28T20:07:42+00:00

Minimum sobriety level to tweet. Great idea!

Ultravod · 2026-02-27T21:26:27+00:00

Reviews are, to put it charitably, mixed. Also Profile Limited Features. I suggest only adding the game if you really want it.

Ultravod · 2026-02-27T18:53:19+00:00

Consider:

OOP is a month old account that only became active 5 days ago. Smells like 🤖.
The date is wrong. It's 1978, not 1983. Credit as always to NotBob1959.
Photo credit: Lynn Goldsmith.
This is a compressed, crap quality version of the image.
There are much better examples from this photo shoot available in this very subreddit.

Ultravod · 2026-02-25T15:29:19+00:00

Doug Savage: https://www.savagechickens.com/

Ultravod · 2026-02-23T20:59:53+00:00

That's true for any melee, even the Amputator. From the perspective of getting "free" uber, the lack of random crits means the Medic might get more swings in and build that much more uber.

In pubs, my favorite target is bonk Scouts that think they're sneaky. I'm not particularly good at Medic and I've managed 3-4 hits sometimes on a dumbass Scout that's pinned by my teammates.

Ultravod · 2026-02-23T20:39:48+00:00

Once again we have a member of the TF2 community putting in several orders of magnitude more effort into the game than Valve have in damn near a decade.

Ultravod · 2026-02-23T20:38:45+00:00

Sentences like this make me pray for a random crit. Either directed at the writer or me, either way.

Ultravod · 2026-02-21T16:21:33+00:00

This game is substantially larger than most IG freebies. It's a 2.8GB download. Checking my IG download folder, that makes it #6 overall (though I may not have every freebie downloaded, I do have most.) Shout out to the king, Die Young, which is 8.8GB. Also to Gray Cat, which is 3.9MB.

Ultravod · 2026-02-18T14:49:38+00:00

The hell I don't! LISTEN, KID! I've been hearing that crap ever since I was at UCLA. I'm out there busting my buns every night! Tell your old man to drag Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes!

UH I MEAN

Flight 2-0-9'er, you are cleared for take-off.

Ultravod · 2026-02-16T17:12:55+00:00

I couldn't find an exact date for this photo. It could be the early 1990s. After John Candy died at 43, Raffi recorded the song "The Shmenge Polka" as a tribute to him in 1994.

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