Never understood the hype around this one.
Installed 5 just to recall how it was.
Just a generic arcade racer with an open world. With an endlesss series of icons to clear on the map to distract you from as much as possbile from doing real races cause they get old realy fast. Also terribble DLC implementation, the game is not shy of showing you DLC ingame you don't own. That oops... wanna play?? Here is the shop. Nothing stands out realy.
I dont think its trying to stand out in anyway.
Its mass market general casual gamer target.
It's the COD or Battlefield of racing: No 'real' sim, nothing risky or ground breaking on game mechanics in the genre.
It's: Casual gamers racing sim, with Multiplayer and random people to race and show your car off to (which everyone does, and no one cares but the person showing it off).
Gameplay is: Drive around in permanent god mode with no car damage, with the option for outlandish HP upgrades on nearly any car. So you can do open world flying down roads, run off in the grass, get points for destroying things trying to get back on the road.
Stop at random points for races if you wander over to them while driving, race some people, leave and go back to "look ma no hands" attempts at drifting and wrecking fences.
Not defending it, just your explanation of why you don't get the hype, is why it has hype:
Random dude at home that usually plays CoD and Madden wants to go arcade vroom-vroom and gets to custom paint his car with other people online to see it, that they don't care about your 12 hours you took painting your car.
Its the FIFA of arcade racers. Same game 6 times, just upgraded with the new cars (FIFA it's players) and people will continue to buy it. For that 'easy to play a sport' gaming experience.
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It's the COD or Battlefield of racing: No 'real' sim,
Now ̶J̶o̶k̶e̶ Snark Bot is failing to read all of the prompt properly, he really needs a restart.
AND TECHNICALLY, if you want to nitpick, by the definition of simulation it is a racing sim. It simulates racing. simulation doesn't have to me mean realistic to apply, it just means lets you fake do it. (Simulates driving).
Your pocket pussy is a simulated pussy. But its no where near realistic. (or I hope you can tell the difference when you use it)
But I get what you mean, it wasn't funny, but I get it.
-We don't control what happens to us in life, but we control how we respond to what happens in life.
-Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times. -G. Michael Hopf
Disclaimer: Post made by me are of my own creation. A delusional mind relayed in text form.
I don't get generic shooters. But there is 400 of them. And a few of them are the most popular game for casual gamers, by far.
Audience for everything.
-We don't control what happens to us in life, but we control how we respond to what happens in life.
-Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times. -G. Michael Hopf
Disclaimer: Post made by me are of my own creation. A delusional mind relayed in text form.
The main problem I have with this is the controls I think. It's not optimal to play with a controller, you never gonna get good using one. But that's what arcade racers are for, just play with a controller.
So you'll need a wheel to be competetive. First out of the box using a wheel is terrble. So you are fiddeling with settings and then you are getting deeper in it and the racing just isn't all that great. And then it hits you: why the fuck do I wanna play an arcade racer with a wheel, we have racing sims for that.
I never had a problem in forza with it and a wheel so not sure
Both my old logitech and my new thrustmaster ts-pc racer 'just work'. Same with Avi's direct drive..cant remember what he has exactly.
Other than my pedals being backwards it's always plug it in, start game, 95% of it is good to go.
And why play it with a wheel? Why would I want to play a game with a controller? I could buy a console for that.
So why use a wheel? Because for example, when me and avi are tired of sim racing, and focusing on apexs on corners, and driving lines, and 'racing clean' in the sims, we can hop in here and jump off ramps do "RUBBING IS RACING BRO!" races with each other. and just have laid back fun.
We get tired of that? Goto Wreckfest with wheel and pedals, and try to destroy him before he can finish.
(just pointing out different people have WAY different outlooks. I use wheel in anything that supports it. Otherwise I rather drive mouse and keyboard than a controller. Hell ANY game with M&K over controller for me).
-We don't control what happens to us in life, but we control how we respond to what happens in life.
-Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times. -G. Michael Hopf
Disclaimer: Post made by me are of my own creation. A delusional mind relayed in text form.
Never understood the hype around this one.
Installed 5 just to recall how it was.
Just a generic arcade racer with an open world. With an endlesss series of icons to clear on the map to distract you from as much as possbile from doing real races cause they get old realy fast. Also terribble DLC implementation, the game is not shy of showing you DLC ingame you don't own. That oops... wanna play?? Here is the shop. Nothing stands out realy.
It's the map. Everything is super wide and easy. You're doing hairpins in 3rd gear, and only need to lift for mid speed corners, everything else is flat out. It's really not possible to crash anywhere. There are safe walls all around the courses, you bounce off trees with a very slight speed drop, opponents are bricks that can't be moved, and you can't be moved as well. And it's like that for whole game, for offroad, and for tarmac racing. Then there's ai that waits for you if you're slow, or rubberbands behind you if you're fast. There's hardy a sense of challenge or achievement driving races. Mario Kart offers higher challenge and is more difficult to drive. It really gets old fast.
anyone tried this game with a wheel? its an awful experience here with logitech rs50. Ive tried using some recommended settings from other people but still kinda sucks cant keep the car on the road at higher speeds. Works fine ofc with a keyboard or a controller.
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