PC Gaming Disappointments
Seeing a mention of Circus Maximus reminded me of my ongoing wish for a PC version of something like this, which reminded me of a wish for a PC version of Car Wars, which in a roundabout fashion takes me to this list of my all-time at-the-moment PC gaming disappointments.
- Interstate 76 - this is the one that made me think of the list. I really liked MechWarrior II when it came out, but for some reason Interstate 76 just didn't click for me. Maybe because I didn't have a good steering wheel controller. For whatever reason, for me it went from, "Car Wars on the PC! This is gonna kick ass!", to "meh".
- Master of Orion III - Loved MOO, loved MOO2, played this one _once_ and put it on the shelf. I might have even thrown it away in my big PC game cleanup a couple of years ago, and all I threw away then was trash.
- IL-2 Sturmovik - Maybe I'm getting too old for combat flight sims, maybe turning up the realism is a big mistake, but I could never get flying in this sim to feel good. I'd always be in some weird attitude, nose pointed one way, plane going the other, yank the stick and end up in a spin.
- Rome: Total War - loved Shogun: Total War. Loved Medieval: Total War even more. This one just came off as 'okay', mostly because at the start you can only play three different Roman factions. Word on the street is that if I can manage to win with one of these, it'll unlock other factions. With that being the case, this one might deserve another chance.
- Outpost - unlike some of the games on this list, I wasn't the only one disappointed here. Pushed a lot of people's hardware to and past its limits, but made up for that with gameplay that bordered on nonsense. The classic example from the game was the case where the colony's air is turning brown, the people are down to 400 calories of rations a day, and everyone in the colony goes on strike at once to protest the presence of hookers in the town common areas.
posted by Booder at 8:43 AM
3 Comments:
Oh man, I loved Car Wars too, but I can't believe yer dissin' Interstate 76!
And Interstate 82, where you fight Ronald Regan in a Giant Robot Suit at the end, c'mon!
It just don't get any better than that!
You don't know how bad I _wanted_ to like I-76, but it just didn't do it for me.
I think that was the first game I ever played where the cars REALLY felt like they were musclecars from the seventies with the luxury car shocks and everything, you could kiss the ground with the corner of yer front bumper just by spinning the wheel hard, that sticks in my mind.
We played it a lot on the LAN too, y'know, along with Mechwarrior 2, just like you were saying, 'cause it was the only decent car game we had back in the day.
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