Franchise Hockey Manager 8
I like this game a lot. In my mind, this is the version of FHM that finally eclipses the last EHM that was released, even with the 1.5 beta enabled. It’s a bit buggy (ENABLE WEEKLY AUTO-SAVES!!!) and I’ve had a number of crashes, especially during the 2D sim portion of the game, but FHM 7 was patched up pretty quickly so I wouldn’t let that deter you from purchasing this game if you are a fan of the genre.
The budget system is a very nice addition, and I would imagine if you play in lower-revenue leagues, would present a different facet of gameplay in terms of balancing your scouting and development budgets. The new scouting reports are rife with information that can help you discern between a draft-day bust and a draft-day gem; I picked up a guy in the 7th round that had great mental stats that my scouts reported favorably on, and he ended up being rated as a 4.5 star potential guy after a season. Conversely, a guy I drafted in the second round has completely flopped down to a 2 star potential guy. Those are the kind of features that keep me immersed in a GM sim.
– Real player with 157.4 hrs in game
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First let me stipulate that there is a lot to like about FHM8 and for someone who has supported the franchise since FHM1 but has more often than not been a harsh critic of past iterations, I am slowly being won over with this current effort. That’s not to say I believe it is a perfect 10, but for the first time I can clearly see that the evolution of this franchise is now showing the promise we all desire.
So to that end, if you are looking for a deep & engaging hockey fix, the plethora of gaming options provided by this game will be sure in some fashion to scratch that itch.
– Real player with 137.2 hrs in game
Out of the Park Baseball 22
I have been playing OOTP off and on since it was in single digits. I have a love/hate relationship with this game. So, let’s talk about this dysfunctional relationship a bit.
First, how do I play? I am only interested in GM with slight manager touches - typically, setting lineups and pitching roles, and team strategies - because the AI is atrocious at this, but I hardly ever manage or watch a game. I just sim sim sim. For me, I like to do the majors with fictional players, or a full redraft of real players and go from there.
– Real player with 2341.3 hrs in game
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I didn’t want to buy this game at first, given Out of the Pockets’s complete and total greed with their Perfect Team system. However, OOTP came out with some nice updated graphics, a cool new tournament system (Perfect Draft), and made promises to fix one of the largest and most glaring flaws with the Perfect Team system : live players being trash tier in comparison to pretty much every single historical equivalent.
Okay, so…how’d they do?
Graphics : Are updated. But, now, it is clearly noticable that the attendance, no matter the era you play in, is full of cardboard cutouts. Literally. Your in-stadium audience is a bunch of flat, lifeless sprites. Now, I don’t know if this is a graphics option you can turn off or not, I have yet to look. If it isn’t….100% fail. Sorry.
– Real player with 1662.4 hrs in game
Grind: Skateboarding
A perfect blend between Tony Hawks Pro Skater controls, and realism.
A good break from Skater XL or Session if the Sim experience is getting monotonous.
Has needed animation work and sound design, but for what it is in its current state, it has so much potential to bring a good arcade skate game to the store.
– Real player with 11.7 hrs in game
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I am really exited to see future improvements of this game and feel like it has enormous potential.
Easy to implement improvements that I feel could benefit the game massively include:
-Text at the bottom corner of the screen, which shows up after landing a trick, stating the name of trick you just landed.
-More detailed guide to the controls.
-Some sort of text which indicates which stance your currently riding (regular, switch, fakie or nollie).
-A way to choose weather your skater is goofy or regular (setting the default to regular so it doesn’t confuse people who aren’t familiar with skating).
– Real player with 7.2 hrs in game
10 Pin Bowling (VR Support)
10 Pin Bowling
we’ve all been down to our local bowling alley to play. But ended up having to wait for hours to get a lane. Don’t waste anymore more time, run the game up and play. No more waiting, just straight to the fun part. Multiplayer on one pc sharing your headset.
Stuck in lockdown, Wanting to go bowling, or just looking for something to do.
Try our new Bowling Game With Full VR With Motion Controllers support.
Don’t Have a VR System, no worry’s this bowling game also supports a standard display with keyboard & mouse or xbox 360/one controller
Game modes
10-Pin Bowling (Fully Implemented),
How To Play
Solo.
Multiplayer via VR headset sharing.
You can play the game with The Following controller setups.
VR Headset with motion controllers (Tested HTC Vive),
PC Monitor With Xbox 360/One Controller Or
PC Monitor With keyboard & Mouse.
Built With Ue4.
The Game will be upgraded to ue5 when ue5 is released.
BuriBoard
skate 4 looks sick
– Real player with 8.2 hrs in game
Very fun game that easily burns away hours. Great feeling, the movement and controls are perfect. This game will be amazing with what the developer has in mind. Dev is also super open on discord to feedback and bug reporting and everything. 10/10
– Real player with 8.2 hrs in game
Doug Flutie’s Maximum Football 2020
I like this game, I really do. However, I do have some complaints.
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The kicking game is not well thought out.
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Whoever said this game is based on physics is way off base. I don’t know how many times my guy gets caught and tackled from behind and yet I can’t catch up to a guy. OR when I have a clear path to the QB by both LB he some is able to step out of the way and run the ball passed both guys and then he is able to find a hole and get passed my linemen for a gain of 10 or more yards. So that doesn’t make sense, especially when when I do a running play and I try to sidestep or speed burst and automatically get tackled.
– Real player with 384.5 hrs in game
It really hard to recommend this as rough as it is. It’s kind of hard to call it a football game as rough as it is.
Smoothing & Polish there is none.
Everything is extremely abrupt and rough. The animations the transitions. The menus. Nothing is polished nothing feels finished and nothing feels complete. Getting a TD feels like whiplash as it jump cuts to an endzone dance, at break neck speed. They should of spent less time on endzone dances and more time on collision boxes.Which is seems like they did. Instant replay’s are a button press option given at random by the game. So if you want to watch that move or hit again. FORGET IT. Much less saving them. They’ve not yet offered me a replay on a play I actually wanted to see. Individual player stats are also given at random by the game. And only your teams basic stats and run pass breakdown are given in game.
– Real player with 33.6 hrs in game
Concept Destruction
Concept Destruction In-Depth Review
Concept Destruction is another attempt bring back the Destruction Derby style genre into the modern day, and it does this quite well!
Optimization & PC Settings
In terms of graphics, the game has settings for things like bloom, depth of field, ambient occlusion, but nothing for texture quality, which is a bit disappointing because many of the textures are lower quality, and compressed. This is very apparent on the room texture, where its a very bad compressed 2D image. The optimization is a little hit or miss. I’ll see many times where the game is running a high framerate, but instantly will bog down to 60 - 70 FPS when there is a lot of vehicle parts on screen. For a game that is very simplistic with graphics, its a head scratcher on why the FPS can be so inconsistent. I hope that the developer can improve this optimization aspect, and give us an option to improve texture quality.
– Real player with 8.2 hrs in game
So, Destruction Derby/Flatout (well, more DD than Flatout) mixed with Micro Machines (I’m not that old but yeah, I know those). Visually, the game is good, the miniature cardboard aesthetic is done quite well but that’s about everything positive there is say about this game.
The controls is the second best thing to say about this game, why second? Well, they work but apparently the developer doesn’t play PC games cos acceleration, turning and reverse is all mapped to the arrow keys instead of WASD. Yeah, I know I can use a controller, but guess what, it doesn’t work with this game, I’m not sure if it’s the gamepad or the controller so I won’t bash the game for this. I’ll just guess is restricted to player 2 or something dumb like that. Which btw, the game doesn’t have online play, just local and split screen, just like on the good old days of gaming… except I don’t have anyone to play with and can’t invite anyone because… ya know.
– Real player with 3.0 hrs in game
Shelter in Place
Damn! There’s like, a million activities in mini-game filled mansion. Graphics aren’t great, but not too bad either, and physics is good enough iirc. It really does have something for everyone. Painting, archery, umm. climbing, shoot that’s my jam it had a climbing wall. What else? A maze. Other stuff. I dunno. It has everything.
! Wait. I can just scroll down this store page and it has a list. Check it out! https://youtu.be/7wpVd4Pz80o
– Real player with 1.3 hrs in game
1st Impressions Video with Commentary! // Oculus Rift S // GTX 1060 (6GB):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Wn0aemkMZg
My Initial Thoughts:
When I first saw this game it was priced at £15…. it’s now ONLY £7.
Its got some fun cool elements if you are into sandbox type worlds to mess around in but don’t expect Boneworks. The climbing room and and art rooms we’re my highlights.
– Real player with 0.8 hrs in game
Skater XL - The Ultimate Skateboarding Game
this is probably the most accurate skateboarding simulator I have ever played. I would say what also makes this game stand out is the modding capabilities that allows this game to not feel stale. I have played this since its first release and the progression of the game combined with the mods makes this really fun!
– Real player with 1304.0 hrs in game
Pretty fun with mods sucks donkey ass without mods.
– Real player with 69.3 hrs in game
Snowboarding
supported small creators, super simple but a fun sim. :)
– Real player with 0.7 hrs in game
Just more levels better ui and boom epic game
– Real player with 0.4 hrs in game