Kyle won this one. Racing games are only fun if there's combat involved (Carmegeddon) while GM Mode actually makes sports games more interesting.
No Right Answer: Most Uninteresting Game Genre
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They have a new installment coming out. I was a Kickstarter Backer, so I'm super excited.Smilomaniac said:
Racing games are fun. Recent ones, not as much, but I play the shit out of old NFS games, AND HAVE FUN DOING IT.
EDIT, because of low content rules: I just love the adrenaline I get when races are really close and your car goes fast and omg high stakes. No, I don't play simulation racers.
EDIT, because of low content rules: I just love the adrenaline I get when races are really close and your car goes fast and omg high stakes. No, I don't play simulation racers.
I agree ultra realism is boring in video games. Like a fighting game where guys die in a single attack, an action game where you get hit once by a gun shot and die and have start whole thing over ....While that might be realistic, it sure as hell isn't fun. I think realism is a nice baseline for a game to start with, but if you get too bogged down with it, you remove what strength a video game has...the fact it's not bound by any rules but the ones it wants to be bound to.
Majority of sports or racing games I liked over years have little realism in them. Base wars on NES (robot smashing each others faces while playing baseball. You could win by outscoring or just kill enough players on the other team to make them forfeit.), the mutant league games from the 16 bit era, Mariokart, Rock N Roll racing, NBA jam/hangtime. These games were fun. Possibly unbalanced or silly but pure fun none the less.
Sports games like Madden are something I never took to. I could give a crap about real life sports for most part, I don't want play fictional games about them. All stadiums look the same, and there's nothing cool to unlock playing thru a season. Most realistic races handle so poorly. I've driven a real stick shift and can do it fine in real life. I don't need an overly complicated interface to half ass something that isn't really that hard to do. I agree both the ultra realistic sports and racing game are incredibly boring, but I think sports are collectively worse.
Majority of sports or racing games I liked over years have little realism in them. Base wars on NES (robot smashing each others faces while playing baseball. You could win by outscoring or just kill enough players on the other team to make them forfeit.), the mutant league games from the 16 bit era, Mariokart, Rock N Roll racing, NBA jam/hangtime. These games were fun. Possibly unbalanced or silly but pure fun none the less.
Sports games like Madden are something I never took to. I could give a crap about real life sports for most part, I don't want play fictional games about them. All stadiums look the same, and there's nothing cool to unlock playing thru a season. Most realistic races handle so poorly. I've driven a real stick shift and can do it fine in real life. I don't need an overly complicated interface to half ass something that isn't really that hard to do. I agree both the ultra realistic sports and racing game are incredibly boring, but I think sports are collectively worse.
Oddly enough, the only reason I got an Xbox was for sports games. I personally find first person shooters to be the most uninteresting games in the world. I see another Call of Duty, or Gears of War, or whatever come out and I'm not the least interested in buying it.
Sorry! But it was a really great game for it's day. Even though it did not have anything to do with that awesome showMorganL4 said:Dude! you had me all excited for a moment there.... I thought they had taken the show Top Gear and made it a videogame.... then I read "SNES" and went OH.... its 20 years old. NVM.Kenjitsuka said:Kyle loses because of Top Gear on the SNES and Burn Out Revenge on the 360.
Those are awesome games
And mind you, BO: R had great (and evnetually super difficult) racing in it, without the crashing of opponents.
And that STILL was fun!!!
I guess you do know that the show has mixed itself with Forza 5, to the agreement of most players of that game:
Top Gear website: "Jeremy, James and Richard offer their own brand of wisdom in career mode, you can drive our Surrey-based track, and some say you can even race a creature known only as Stig?s Digital Cousin."
Freakin' seriously? No one's mentioned Speedball yet? Or Brutal Sports?Firefilm said:
Dan, if you want a made up sport that is also awesome, I present to you Speedball 2 (not Tournament, tho that had promise).
There's an HD remake (of the iPhone version, oddly enough) on Steam for like 10 bucks, but back in the days of the Amiga 500 this thing blew me away. It was like Rollerball without the evil corporate manoeuvres and the badguy.
Just two teams, you and an increasingly difficuly set of ugly mugs that you could eventually pay to transfer to your team.
Even today, the infamous call of "Ice cream! Ice cream!" every time a player got KO'ed still haunts me.
Plus it earned you points! Points for crushing your enemies, Dan!
Seriously, go play the game already.
Oh, I know - many, many hours sunk into it during a fairly intense league that I ran with some friends before they added that crazy new demon team. It was frustrating to play more often than not because a) no Undo button, b) no Special Play cards or full Star Player rosters, and c) atrocious net code. So many disconnects/failed connections... ugh.Agayek said:It's a video game now too, as of 3-4 years agoRituro said:
Or even worse...vxicepickxv said:
Lee Trevino's Fighting Golf
Yes... its a thing.
Oh... and the best golf game ever was Wicked 18 for SNES. It was real golf on ridiculous courses.