Bought
Race the Sun and
Re-Volt on GOG.
Re-Volt is just difficult, mostly because of the controls. The cars are so incredibly squirrely. Tried to screw around with the controls, but I haven't found a sweet-spot yet. Even the most managable car that I've found spins out at the slightest provocation. Managed to win a race regardless. Not impossible, but frustrating.
The track design kind of blows in general though, judging by the couple that I looked at. Conceptually and technically. Take Toys in the Hood 1 for example. Why do I get oncoming traffic from the slower cars when I'm doing well? Oncoming traffic that can shoot rockets or water ballons at your front bumper? That just makes me want to turn weapons off. There's also a pipe that's nearly impossible to drive through without bouncing around its hexagonal inside. There's a plane where you can drive without toppling over, but the controls make it extremely difficult to stay on it. Not to mention that it's a bad place to be when the AI is near.
Supermarket 2 has a hairpin turn through a freezer. I have never not spun out at that point. Feathering the throttle was somewhat effective, but the AI whizzed past me (or shot at me), so I guess I'm still doing it wrong.
Race the Sun looks neat so far, will have to spend more time with it later (Re-Volt kinda put me off of racing for today), but it seems like one of those games that is best played when you're kind of zoned out.
I have tried playing The Last Express: Gold Edition a couple of times, but the movement in the game is giving me a headache. It's dungeon crawler first person movement inside a narrow train. Add the animated character routines in the backdrops and it's really disorienting for me.
Yeah, I couldn't deal with that game. I've heard great things about it, but it's so unwieldy I stopped after not even ten minutes and un-installed it.