CHAIRQASITION: Ultimate Chicken Horse

Venn:

Does It Launch

• Kinda sorta, yes.
• It better since you will be restarting the game, constantly.
• Seriously, getting an online game going it a legit carpshoot.

Performance @ 1080

• 300+ @ 1080.

Graphics

• Flat, cartoon, works.
• I really do like the art style.

Control

• When it works, it works.
• Giving it a fail since it will randomly eat shite leaving you unable to control fk or all until the end of a round.
• Or a restart.
• Another biggie is the inability to launch the game with key/gerb, it locks out the controller.
• Launching the game with the controller works but you get SUPRISE player two if you breathe on the keb/gerb.

Jordan:

Does It Launch

• Oh, it’ll start up, but every time you want to start a new multiplayer match, you need to restart the game

Performance @ 1080

Graphics

• Look at that chicken dance

Control

• 2 years and your first input is still slot 1.
• So make sure you grab that controller before doing anything in a menu

Pedro:

Does It Launch

• It launches reliably, which is a notable improvement from Early Access
• But it still fails to join online games without a restart.
• And you will be going through that a lot if you don’t have friends over to play the game with you.

Performance @ 1080

• 60 because VSync

Graphics

• Both graphics and audio works

Control

• Controller support was also very flaky at first but now even the 8bitdo SNES pro controller works fine

QA Score:

Fedora: 
Soulless:
Ubuntu:

Fun section:

Fun?:

• Venn:
  • I’m giving this a reluctant two.
  • Building a nope gauntlet to kill your friends while simultaneously creating a path for yourself is wicked-fun.
  • Yeah, really really fun but really really busted.
  • All I can say is this.
  • 20% of any Chicken horsing session is composed of fucking with controllers, restarting the game, randomly losing connection, and trying to find a level everyone can connect to.
  • When it works, it’s brilliant.
  • That said, if I called the Host/Client sync incredibly buggy I would be accused of understating the facts.
• Jordan
  • On paper, UCH is a fantastic party game
  • The platforming is really good, the vs mechanic is inspired in how it makes people’s brains contort and it inspires really good shit talk
  • However, in practise there are some problems. Mostly technical in nature
  • The control issue has been around since their demo and they haven’t fixed it
  • You need to restart the game to start a new MP match
  • And for some reason, it spawns a second cursor when I use a controller
  • Lack of single player is a bit of a moot point because this is a party game by design
  • The ability to create and share levels is nice]
  • BUT IF YOU CAN’T PLAY THE FUCKING GAME WITH YOUR FRIENDS WHAT’S THE POINT?
  • It took 4 intoxicated technical people to sort out online multiplayer. Sober non techies don’t stand a chance
• Pedro
  • My admiration toward Ben Yahtzee Croshaw is news to no one.
  • But you can never agree fully with someone else.
  • Yahtzee’s shtick is that a video game needs to be able to stand on its singleplayer campaign. I disagree.
  • But this game doesn’t even have a pretense of one.
  • Its job is to be a party game.
  • Simple mechanics, easy to understand concepts, and a healthy dose of watching people fail.
  • It has what it needs to be a good multiplayer only game which could, in theory stand on its own.
  • Unfortunately, having to continuously debug a game when you have friends over is not what people want.
  • This isn’t Early Access anymore, if the game is an officially released state, crap like being unable to reliably play it should be fixed.
  • It’s not fun when the game fails to deliver on the most basic thing it sets out to do.

Fun Score:

Venn: 
Jordan:
Pedro: