Gaming, obviously, evolves all the time, like any industry in the world. However, a decline in split-screen racing games is moving backward.
Daniyal from eXputer: "Despite being part of our childhoods and defining the 2000s, racing games are slowly and steadily losing their appeal."
I really miss games like Project Gotham Racing and Driveclub, which were games which weren't sims (obviously), but also not 'arcade' like the NFS games where you had boost-functions and could bounce of walls and everything.
It was the so-called 'sim-cade' genre, so you still had to drive (relatively) clean and well in order to stand a chance to win the race, and your opponents offered a good challenge.
These days it seems all we have now are GT(7) and Forza Motorsport, and perhaps the latest EA WRC game, and I'm not sure any off those games offer anything as good as earlier entries in those series had to offer. Maybe only GT7, but Forza Motorsport seems pretty barebones compared to earlier Forza Motorsport games, and EA WRC is worse than both Dirt Rally 2 and WRC10/Generations, so even though we now have far superior hardware, these racing game devs are releasing worse products than they did 10 years orso ago, and we have far less options as well.
Try wrekfest it’s good. Had a terrible frame rate on my PS4 pro but fixed on ps5!
Graphics a little dated but beautiful lighting and gameplay is superb!
Decent campaign mode too
100% Wreckfest is the most fun you can have with your pants on lol
People are less interested in cars today because guess who introduced cars to most kids?
Dad.
Guess who is increasingly not around anymore?
Dad.
Single motherhood and idiotic feminist nonsense is rampant, and women are not the ones introducing their kids to cars, monster trucks, demolition derby etc.
It's incredibly sad.
Sony letting Driveclub die was idiotic move.
Even if it didn't get blistering sales immediately, it had SO much going for it. Sony having a road-based, slightly more arcadey counterpart to Gran Turismo was a great concept.
Most of the big racing games nowadays are online-only. GT7, Forza Motorsport, The Crew Motorfest and the upcoming Test Drive Solar Crown. It's f***ing depressing. I hate the focus on this live-service bullshit. Why is it so hard to give an offline career mode? F*** these devs, I won't buy any of their crap.
Speaking of, The original The Crew is having its servers shutdown on Steam soon making it unplayable. Some people would have paid full price for it, not to mention paid DLC on top of that and now they won't even be able to play it.
Exactly!
Live service games are like renting a game for a fixed price. Once the servers get turned off, that's it.
I miss the days when most racing games included splitscreen. I used to play games like Burnout 3: Takedown, Need for Speed: Underground 1/2/Most Wanted etc with my brother, on a tiny 21" CRT TV and those are some of my favourite racing game memories.
Was sad when most Devs stopped adding splitscreen to racing games, starting in the 7th gen.
no but do you remember "Wacky Racers" from the cartoon, also looney toons: space race.
also hydro thunder, and of course, the MEGA, Metropolis Street Racer, which Microsoft brought out and renamed project Gotham
I am getting more and more like an angry (but wistful) old man.
I remember during the 00s we had excellent NFS games, Burnout, Flat out, Midnight Club , Project Gotham...
The amazing age of arcade racers is well and truly over.
The Steam Deck was home to a plethora of thrilling racing games, including a number of exceptional AAA titles as well as some exciting indie games.
I play Forza Horizon 5 on my Steam Deck all the time, it handles the game amazingly and it looks great.
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The one where hardware-software cooperates and makes an experience for the user. Not a wheel that moves with a mind of its own and turns as it pleases against a user’s wish.
I spent $400 on a wheel setup that requires so much calibration that it’s sitting in my closet with zero hours play time. I hoped it would work.
Couch and LAN need to make a comeback in general!
Developers should make more couch multiplayer games, period
Plenty do. There's lots of indie games that die and fail because there isn't enough advertising or word of mouth.
Developers should also bring back arcade racers too. I miss fun in racing games. Yes Sims are great at what they do but I want chases, I want to smash people off the road. Everything is to serious now when it comes to racers
Imagine Couch Co-op burnout paradise