Allie<p>June 1, 2023 - Day 152 - NewPlay Review<br>Total NewPlays: 168</p><p>Game: Slipstream</p><p>Platform: Steam<br>Release Date: May 22, 2018<br>Library Date: Mar 4, 2019<br>Unplayed: 1550d (4y2m28d)<br>Playtime: 18m</p><p>Slipstream is a retro-styled arcade racer. It's not 8-bit retro, so much as a throwback to the arcade racers I sucked at in the early-mid 1990's.</p><p>One of the things I find myself struggling with is that the more games I play, the more reference points I have, and the harder it becomes to enjoy some games.</p><p>If I open an MMORPG, I played WoW for over a decade, but that burned me out on MMORPGs. So an MMORPG has a lot to overcome.</p><p>If I open a survival game, it needs to grab me as well as Subnautica... used to. Until I played Breathedge. Friendship ended with Subnautica, Breathedge is my survival friend now.</p><p>For arcade racing games, it's Forza Horizon 4*. Slipstream is a very well designed arcade racer, and leans heavily on nostalgia for that era of games. It's just that I don't have any nostalgia for that style of game.</p><p>So while it's well done, it doesn't offer me something that I don't get from another game, in a more enjoyable way.</p><p>Sorry, Slipsteam. You're just a bit:</p><p>2: Meh</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/Slipstream" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Slipstream</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ArcadeRacer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArcadeRacer</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Racing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Racing</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/MastodonGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastodonGaming</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaming</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Project365ONG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Project365ONG</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Project365" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Project365</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/NewPlay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewPlay</span></a></p><p>*Almost 18 months ago, I found a literal showstopper bug that causes FH4 to crash, regularly. It took months for the Forza team to accept that it was a bug.</p><p>It's STILL not fixed. Much disappoint.</p>