Online Circle Pong

Не смог заценить игру, так как она в настоящий момент находится в забвение. Это чисто мультиплеерный проект, только онлан пустой. Как-то так....

A truly shoddy example of the lazily slapped-together games that dominate Steam. The game locks up in the loading screen most loads. Once you actually get it loaded, you're presented with an "Online [b]Cirlce[/b] Pong" banner, which is like, the most blatant red flag I can imagine, short of a screen that simply has "LOLOLOLOL" flashing across it. Once you try to find a game, you'll find there are no matches available. Once you try to create a game, you're presented with a screen with a lot of required fill-in-the-blank settings boxes, and no indication whatsoever what these settings are or what values are appropriate for them. After actually playing a match, you can figure those values out rather quickly, but it's still another indication of the developer's lack of interest in putting any actual investment into the project. One you load a game, you're presented with broken bots (as in, expect some of them to just sit and not do anything at all), and some truly shoddy ball bounce and paddle movement mechanics, all aggravated by it bugging out on you each time you go to the edge of your paddle zone (apparently creating resistance or blocking was too hard, so the developer went with paddle-sticking seizure-jerking instead). Despite my being someone who is fond of just about any game involving bounce or gravity mechanics, even I found the actual gameplay to instantly become a bore- or, more precisely, it never managed to once ever become at all engaging. You jerk a paddle through glue, tap balls without any expectation that you can meaningfully control their bounce, and yield to the paddle's need to regularly attempt to seizure itself to freedom from the gameplay hell that it finds itself confined within. You can't even speed up the spawns to any meaningful degree, so the boredom can't even be alleviated by the mindless chaos that would offer. This game barely qualifies for being labeled as such. At best, Online "Cirlce" Pong qualifies as a well-intentioned but presumably abandoned early prototype; At worst, it's only a step away from being an asset flip (and it certainly has shoddy enough graphics to fit in well among those), sharing in their design of being a mock-up designed to look like a game, but without there having ever been any intention to turn the development into such. Massively disappointing, given how the actual underlying concept here is so darn compelling.