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This article was published by Andrew Evans (@Famine) on October 13th, 2020 in the DIRT 5 category.
How do you stop the career becoming a checklist simulator in that scenario?Just give me the next event please, lots of good vehicles, tracks and visuals etc, and let me earn credits or whatever to build up my garage.
How do you stop the career becoming a checklist simulator in that scenario?
I understand your point but one of the criticisms of games like GRID was that there was no life to the career.
It's a tricky thing to get right unless you go deep into management features, like in WRC 8 or F1 2020's My Team mode.
The two greatest racing franchises are Gran Turismo and Forza. Neither do "storylines", thank God. Only a minority of racing games need to insert a story into the career mode. I don't accept that the absence of cornball stories makes the game into a check-list simulator. If you are interested in racing, then you are interested in doing races. If you like stories, OK, everyone's different, but I can't stand them. I still shudder at the recollection of Test Drive 2 and the constant reminders of what all the characters were doing.How do you stop the career becoming a checklist simulator in that scenario?
I understand your point but one of the criticisms of games like GRID was that there was no life to the career.
It's a tricky thing to get right unless you go deep into management features, like in WRC 8 or F1 2020's My Team mode.
The two greatest racing franchises are Gran Turismo and Forza. Neither do "storylines", thank God.
If you are interested in racing, then you are interested in doing races.
I understand your point but one of the criticisms of games like GRID was that there was no life to the career.
The two greatest racing franchises are Gran Turismo and Forza. Neither do "storylines", thank God. Only a minority of racing games need to insert a story into the career mode. I don't accept that the absence of cornball stories makes the game into a check-list simulator. If you are interested in racing, then you are interested in doing races. If you like stories, OK, everyone's different, but I can't stand them. I still shudder at the recollection of Test Drive 2 and the constant reminders of what all the characters were doing.