What's wrong with racing games?
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Everyone spouting about repetition, but all games are guilty of at least some amount of repetition. FPS genre much? There's a lot more FPS games that are total rehashes and bad, but people would still play those over a racer? Halo and MW jump to mind.
I love racers, but sadly they haven't made a great racer for PC... ever.
And yes, I own close to all of the mainstream ones.
And that "If you've played one,m you've played them all" is wrong, really.
For instance, a racer with a realistic handling model is a different game to an arcade-style racer.
And yes, I own close to all of the mainstream ones.
And that "If you've played one,m you've played them all" is wrong, really.
For instance, a racer with a realistic handling model is a different game to an arcade-style racer.
I'm a PC gamer, in which controlling cars SUCKS unless you shell out for a racing wheel.
Which I haven't. So I don't play racers.
Which I haven't. So I don't play racers.
While that can be said and hold ground, racing games suffer from repetition harder because there aren't too many ways to change a racing game to make it at least feel different. All you can really do is have different vehicles (race motorcycles instead of cars) and change the scenery. Many sports games also suffer from the same problem.Jiraiya72 said:
My personal problem with racing games is that I don't play games for realism, so I don't really like driving a realistic car.
Sorry, sorry, but this is about as wrong as you can get.Grand_Arcana said:
I guarantee you as a long-time racing game fan that games created by different teams of developers are drastically different and there are lots of racing types that have entire games dedicated to them (Formula One, WRC, DTM, WTCC, Street Racing, Truck Racing, Drift Racing, Drag Racing, Driving-In-Circles Racing etc.) And I only listed the ones that have to do with cars.
if people are bored of the classic style need for speed games... arcade style with invincible cars... yeah look at some of the wonderful stuff made by Codemasters... like the TOCA series or Grid, or pretty much anything they've put out... it's all varied and pretty damn fun.
I play pretty much anything i can get my hands on; FPS, RPG, MMO, RTS, TSG, Racing, flight sims, combat flight sims, and all sorts of other stuff...
I get bored of a genre i play another one, go back and forth... racing games are fun though... unless you obsess about em too much then they get dull fast...
I play pretty much anything i can get my hands on; FPS, RPG, MMO, RTS, TSG, Racing, flight sims, combat flight sims, and all sorts of other stuff...
I get bored of a genre i play another one, go back and forth... racing games are fun though... unless you obsess about em too much then they get dull fast...
Well, if your into cars like my brother is, then your more into racing games... i tend to be of the variety of "i'll take the red one".. and unless distruction is involved (demolition racer, take your pick of burnouts) or if it has powerup items that let you go from last to first by decimating everything in front of you, cause basically, just not interested in playing a game that has a.. let's say 5-10 minute race, that i lost in the first turn, since i couldn't bank my turn off of my opponent's car.
Although that rant should prove i'm not a big race fan to begin with.
Although that rant should prove i'm not a big race fan to begin with.
Totally going to grab this for NFS: Shift and GT5. Also, my pc racing games.
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I like racing games, have been playing them since I started gaming. My favorites are some of the Need for Speed and some NASCAR titles.
It's been a bit average for PC racing fans lately, hence why I own a PS3. Gran tourismo is fun and all, but I can't help but feel something so much better good be done on PC.Funkysandwich said:
OT: Racing games are pretty varied, a lot of people dislike similuation games because they are designed for car/truck (or flight) enthusiasts, not joe everygamer.
I have a pretty strong dislike for the realistic racing games like Gran Turismo (too much focus on the parts that aren't interesting to me, not enough on what I find fun), but I can play the hell out of the more arcade-style ones. I spent a bunch of time with Burnout Paradise recently, not even doing any of the "crash into stuff and make it explode" stuff I used to like the series for, but just doing races and time trials and stuff, because the controls are a bit more forgiving than in a more realistic game, and if you do happen to screw up and wreck your car, you just get a new one for free five seconds later right where you crashed and can keep going with minimal penalty. Similarly, I'm also a big fan of the F-Zero games, even if GX was way too goddamned hard. That's the kind of racing I can get into.