Comment on [Discussion] New month, new games. What are you playing on your Deck? - February 2024
dumpsterlid@lemmy.world 8 months agoController support works no problem for me both with the steamdeck onboard controls and also with a gamepad when my steamdeck is docked.
TheBig2023Meltdown@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I tried the demo, and I’m gonna be honest it ain’t for me
The gameplay is fine, but it’s the UI, controls and stuff letting it down. Its not very polished. Probably just early stages of development.
I had a frustrating start, trying to drive a broken vehicle for about 10minutes. I even googled why I couldn’t start the engine. Then I got out and saw the icon indicating broken car. Yeah it’s me being dumb but a well built game would think of this and help the player if they’re trying to start a broken car
I stopped playing after about 30mins, the initial frustration used up too much of my patience
dumpsterlid@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah I think you found a vehicle for the towing job that is purposefully broken down to make it a challenge to tow (I.e. the right front tire is totally flat so you have to lift the front with a winch for the tow).
Sorry you had a bad experience, it is definitely early access, I normally never recommend early access games it’s just there aren’t really any fleshed out alternatives of open world driving games with realistic physics and a large open worlds that even remotely try to do what Motor Town does.
Yeah there are open world racing games, but that doesn’t really get at the vibe of Motor Town with all these vastly different kinds of vehicles and jobs all happening together at once. The closest peers like Forza or Beamng just don’t understand the basic gameplay loop of why Motor Town works so well, so while you might be able to get somewhat of a similar experience to parts of Motor Town elsewhere, even at this stage of development I think Motor Town provides a really unique fun that for a certain type of person is going to an extremely addicting and fun experience.
MajorHavoc@programming.dev 8 months ago
Yeah. This is definitely a game style I want, but I’ve been spoiled by the driving and controls polish in games like Saint’s Row.