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Article #697816Re: Free Rocket League for the weekend & sale on steam
From: Toby Newman
Date: Tue, 09 May 2017 08:01
Date: Tue, 09 May 2017 08:01
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On 2017-05-08, Justisaur <just...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 5/5/2017 11:01 PM, Ant wrote: >> Justisaur <just...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I saw Rocket League is free trial through Sat. I keep waffling about >>> buying it, but it's really highly rated. Now I can try it first and >>> it's on sale if I decide to buy it. >> >>> Anyone joining in to give it a try? >> >> Yes. I told others too. I doubt I can play it tonight though. >> > > Well it's over. I'm really glad they gave the free weekend, because I > didn't care for it. I'm not much into sports usually, so I'm not sure > my perspective is off, but it seemed to me driving games are much better > at driving, and that a dedicated sports game would be much better at > sports. I found it highly frustrating. I played about 4 matches, I > seemed to start off with he first one pretty well, but after that it was > just endless missing the ball. The last 2 of the games went into > overtime with no points on either side. I think the appeal is the high skill ceiling mixed with ample opportunities for fun lucky shots. -- -Toby Add the word afiduluminag to the subject to circumvent my email filters.
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