GRID (reboot, Codemasters)
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PostPosted: Mon, 7th Oct 2019 22:19    Post subject:
what a crapfest this is
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PostPosted: Mon, 7th Oct 2019 23:50    Post subject:
Terrible game.

Starts with the obnoxious presentation with Travis Pastrama-esque murrica and some aussie chick "narrating" this shit. Then there is an indian radio man while driving "al raight ser lets push to the ferst ples ser" or "al right ser stey out of hes wey ser".

"Cars" are sliding boats and not fun to drive. A stock crapola feels the same as a GT car. Laughing Laughing Laughing

Graphics are OK here and there, but terrible in other places (shadow line is visibly 1m in front of the car ).

Cockpits lack basic details (better than Autosport but Laughing ).

The game is very buggy: some cockpit machinery, such as panels and screens, some times does not work or doesn't move; at first I thought it was just a static prop in the dashboard, but the next race they moved Laughing ; tons of flashing graphics in victory animations; it's like they took the F1 2015 engine and used that here. Laughing

In a world where HDR is king and color has come back to our lives, this feels like "throwback" to 2011 and its crapola sepia filters. Yuck!

Garbage.

What's odd is how different this game is from Dirt Rally 2.0 and F1 2019. How they could produce this abomination is very peculiar.
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PostPosted: Tue, 8th Oct 2019 01:26    Post subject:
What's odd is how different this game is from Dirt Rally 2.0

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PostPosted: Tue, 8th Oct 2019 01:42    Post subject:
I don't mean in genre, but in overall direction. This is so soulless and obnoxious. Who loves this style of presentation? Or more precisely, who would enjoy a driving/racing game if they add two stereotypical twats "narrating" the "career" in "stylish" "yo yo, yo totally rules out there yo" type narration? Seriously. And racing is just not fun. I get the need for "arcadeness", but this compared to even something like Forza 7 is day and night.
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PostPosted: Tue, 8th Oct 2019 02:10    Post subject:
Haha! That sounds absolutely jarring in every possible way, though it doesn't surprise me since all the pre-release videos were looking rather off-putting as well. I imagine they thought it would be "cool" to aim at the lowest common denominator and reignite the ol' Codemasterian spirit from the X-Games and Showdown in order to adapt it to the current generation of e-drifters.

LeoNatan wrote:
"Cars" are sliding boats and not fun to drive. A stock crapola feels the same as a GT car. Laughing Laughing Laughing

Yep, this is an intentional feature:
Quote:
Codemasters has created what it calls a ‘consistent core experience’. “What we really didn't want was for the player to have to relearn handling for each car class,” says Smith. “We wanted a core Grid spirit handling that is at the base, that feels familiar when you pick up any new car.”

https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/05/24/the-5-key-features-that-make-grid-unique
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PostPosted: Tue, 8th Oct 2019 02:17    Post subject:


Retards

Who likes this sort of thing, seriously? If you are a fan of driving/racing, even if you don't look for sim, you want to feel different driving experience when driving different vehicle. Here a fucking nascar drives the same as a LMP prototype!

The intro section which you cannot skip has three races. A prototype (I think), a nascar and a GT. And they fucking feel exactly the same, but in the nascar you only turn left... Laughing Laughing Laughing

BTW, people are complaining about terrible graphics and Hurrdurrmasters are closing the threads as "nonconstructive":
https://forums.codemasters.com/topic/42209-grid-graphics-discussion/?page=29

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PostPosted: Tue, 8th Oct 2019 02:21    Post subject:
There are "e-drifters" that would like this? Laughing I felt that even 'realistic' arcade racing games took a turn for the better because people were asking for that. Hence Forza getting better, birth of Dirt Rally (and fail of Dirt 4), even Forza Horizon became more "sim-ish" than before. The way I saw this was that the people who are buying these racing games are already fans of motorsports and expect a little shred of realism. That's why NFS used to sell well but over the years became a lose for EA, despite not really changing, for example. Grid was also an example of that. It was an arcade that made it feel somewhat believable and fun.

This feels like a free to play "game" that pushes you to buy buy buy, with a "Store" on the front page.
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PostPosted: Tue, 8th Oct 2019 02:47    Post subject:
Agreed, I really don't understand the point of such poor design choices either, this is a formula that goes against the essence of virtual driving. I assume that there is always an audience for extremely simplified, flashy and bling-bling-based racing gaming, but indeed one should expect at least a minimum amount of believability or some basic standards involved. It's like one of the many abysmal Hollyreboos around, using the familiar name as a byproduct of rotten memberberries mixed with "modern" ideas that end up displeasing both the old fans and newcomers. Razz
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PostPosted: Tue, 8th Oct 2019 02:49    Post subject:
I got annoyed today at Forza because it forced me to drive a shit car that didn't suit my driving style.

Yet... in no fucking way would I want every car to behave the same way. That is beyond retardation. So what if I miss out on classes or cars... I drive what I enjoy or adapt my driving style (not for a game like Forza though ). There's a few cars/classes I don't want to touch in Pcars1/2 or other games... so? Razz


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PostPosted: Tue, 8th Oct 2019 02:54    Post subject:
ixigia wrote:
Agreed, I really don't understand the point of such poor design choices either, this is a formula that goes against the essence of virtual driving. I assume that there is always an audience for extremely simplified, flashy and bling-bling-based racing gaming, but indeed one should expect at least a minimum amount of believability or some basic standards involved. It's like one of the many abysmal Hollyreboos around, using the familiar name as a byproduct of rotten memberberries mixed with "modern" ideas that end up displeasing both the old fans and newcomers. Razz

But the people that want these "simplified" over the top arcades (with stories, for example Laughing Laughing ) wouldn't like this, because this isn't it. The two twat announcers talking are not a story mode. Driving is dull, not over the top fun. Mario Kart on my Switch, which is tons more fun than this, has different vehicle types that drive very differently between them. Laughing
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PostPosted: Tue, 8th Oct 2019 16:37    Post subject:
Booted it up. Started with unskippable intro. Ground myself through it. First race starts. WASD doesn't work. Check keyboard layout. A-Z is throttle, that worked fine. "," and "." are steering. Except it's not, as they don't respond. Alt-f4. Thanks.


I guess the fact that the game only showed the xbox controller prompts and never switched to kbm buttons should have clued me in.

Oh well, we still have the original GRID which is a fine arcade racer. Might give this another try when I'm not too lazy to dig out my 360 controler that's around somewhere. But the reviews here will most likely make me think twice. Very Happy
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PostPosted: Tue, 8th Oct 2019 21:27    Post subject:
This game is terrible, I could not even finish the first 3 races.

I bought f1 2019 (and love it ) and I know we can't really compare these two but this game feel so generic Rolling Eyes Shocked
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PostPosted: Tue, 8th Oct 2019 22:15    Post subject:
Just look at this guy's screenshots to see how terrible this game looks:

https://twitter.com/sinsudar/status/1181194307740585986

Comparison between Grid Autosport and 2019:
https://twitter.com/sinsudar/status/1181206711123755008 Laughing Laughing Laughing

2019 runs at 30 fps on base consoles, but looks worse than five year old games on the same hardware, running at 60 fps. Laughing Laughing Laughing
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PostPosted: Tue, 8th Oct 2019 22:27    Post subject:
Quote:

Comparison between Grid Autosport and 2019:
https://twitter.com/sinsudar/status/1181206711123755008 Laughing Laughing Laughing




How to not implent DX12.....
Now, if it looks like that, they could also go with dx11 only and had even more sales, lol...

Derpmasters at work.... Laughing


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PostPosted: Tue, 8th Oct 2019 22:29    Post subject:
It's an epic fail. Both F1 and Dirt Rally 2.0, presumably using the same engine or older, run and look far superior to this. How such nonsense happens in one company, using the same in-house engine, is just
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PostPosted: Tue, 8th Oct 2019 22:33    Post subject:
Jeezes fuck, what a lazy game. Hope it bombs spectacular.
This is not the arcade game people should wish for.


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PostPosted: Tue, 8th Oct 2019 22:34    Post subject:
With rehashed racing games like what Codemasters does nowadays, you'd think at least the graphics would continue to improve with each game. I went to that twitter thread and fucking hell, what were they even doing?!?!?! It's like we're back in the 2000s.


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PostPosted: Tue, 8th Oct 2019 22:47    Post subject:
So in a nutshell: they brutally gimped both the damage system and twitchy sense of speed (Grid's most remarkable aspects back in the day), the cars were designed to handle all the same, they gimped the career mode too, the visuals, and even tracks (there are only 12 here). It's quite impressive in its own way Laughing

This joins my list of games that aren't even worth pirating alongside the recent Wolfeyeet, Gear5, Pink Cry, Crackdown 3 etc.. Let's hope it miserably flops like Derp 4 did so that Codemasters will be forced to put some effort into the future nextgenerer entry, although they might just go for the seamless online casino approach instead.
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PostPosted: Tue, 8th Oct 2019 22:55    Post subject:
Lets hope Doom Eternal won't be on that list, ixi. But my intuition is tangling and I have a bad feeling about that one... Crying or Very sad
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PostPosted: Tue, 8th Oct 2019 23:01    Post subject:
3E74 wrote:


How to not implent DX12.....
Now, if it looks like that, they could also go with dx11 only and had even more sales, lol...

Derpmasters at work.... Laughing

seems the game comes with a dx11 exe too but no difference on w10
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PostPosted: Tue, 8th Oct 2019 23:03    Post subject:
LeoNatan wrote:
Lets hope Doom Eternal won't be on that list, ixi. But my intuition is tangling and I have a bad feeling about that one... Crying or Very sad

Likewise, fingers crossed but..yeah Razz
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PostPosted: Wed, 9th Oct 2019 17:27    Post subject:
What's wrong with Gears5 ? Besides the campaign ? Very Happy


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PostPosted: Sat, 12th Oct 2019 03:54    Post subject:
FFS how do they keep consistently making a game thats worse than the first in the series, what a shit game


RTX ON
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PostPosted: Sat, 12th Oct 2019 07:23    Post subject:
well im replaying the first game now Laughing
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PostPosted: Sat, 12th Oct 2019 09:01    Post subject:
Indeed the first GRID was a real masterpiece.


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PostPosted: Sat, 12th Oct 2019 16:09    Post subject:
lolozaur wrote:
well im replaying the first game now Laughing


At least it did something good.


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PostPosted: Sun, 13th Oct 2019 09:16    Post subject:
Played it about for an hour or two and after numerous crashes, weird graphical glitches on the ground when starting the race and no engine sound for a few seconds either, I deleted this lazy, boring, buggy piece of crap without hesitation. Codemasters needs to get their shit together or they are going to be exposed and buried just like Bethesda by making the same old game year after year.

I think it started to go really bad for them with GRID 2 and cockpit view when they said "no one is using it, so we just left it out of the game." In Autosport they brought it back, but it was still a blurry embarrassing mess.

This game is another rushed, empty joke, but the most insulting thing about it is the damage model where you can really see the downgrade and how horrible it is compared to the first GRID from 2008. It felt so satisfying to crash and wreck you car, but here the car doesn't deform at all.

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Trying to save the game before its to late.... well, it already is Laughing Embarassed
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