I can't think of very many other things are in our culture to the point where it becomes a genre.
I'm trying to figure out this thought and I want to get some discussion going.
Clarification - I'm high right now and just pursuing a train of thought.
I can’t think of very many other things are in our culture to the point where it becomes a genre.
Third-person shooters :amerikkka-clap:
Is your high brain saying it's weird that something done in real life became a genre of games? Because there are lots of games where you simulate real stuff, like golfing or playing a guitar or becoming an independent socialist Ireland.
Also racing games are cool. I like Need for Speed. Shift 2 is my favorite. Also Driver: San Fransisco is extremely good.
Tfw I can't even find a good pirate of driver San fran
Idk racing and competition is fun. Sports cars are cool, it's just cars aren't good for mass transportation.
Counterpoint: Playing Colin McRae Rally with my friends on the og xbox back in the day was the most fun I've ever had gaming
All of us in the same room together getting high, passing the controller and the bong around, going head-to-head on our favourite WRC stages
Good times :wholesome:
That game was a lot of fun splitscreen, especially on the ice tracks where you'd just slip and slide through the turns.
To me, the fucked up part is how particularly monetized they often are, their greed rivaled only by the "same game same engine for years but just update the roster names and maybe remove features from previous years" Madden/FIFA franchises.
I'd say that Kart racers don't have that problem, but then I saw what happened to Mario Kart and Chocobo Grand Prix...
As an F Zero fan, they could give us a little bit of this instead of "no new game in almost 20 years cause we can't come up with so.e stupid gimmick to add"
I really hate Nintendo's corporate cultural quirk of being stuck in tradition while at the same time obsessed with novelty.
It's wack. That being said, living with my folks for a couple months, it has been really fucking fun playing Mario kart with them. Same room multi-player is the best kind of playing video games.
None of that would really be a problem if they weren't literal fascists when it comes to controlling their IP. Nobody is allowed to make games except for them, and OFC all they do are shitty rehashes.
A lot of Nintendo stans don't just accept it, they believe it is justified with Thermian Arguments. Link must rescue Zelda from Ganon forever and ever over and over again through time and space or else t h e p r o p h e c y from the late 90s isn't being obeyed.
Having the same engine really isn't an issue since a game is usually upgraded as new games are released on it. As an example Frostbite has been used in Battlefield for a very long time but is more capable it was a decade ago. And Unreal Engine 5 is a different version than 4, but its not like they wrote a new engine from scratch. It's an update
That can be true for other games in other genres but when yearly updates of Madden only update the roster and often strip away features from previous years of the same engine, that is an issue.
kinda something like that is the thomas the tank engine demon game, youre driving a train trying to get away from big demonic train spider thing. idk if it released yet
That anime with "DOUBLE TRACK DRIFTING!" has a game
It really isn't that big. Chariot racing in Late Roman Empire, Early Byzantium was absolutely huge to the degree that teams were literally opposing political parties. Racing now is for Europeans, Arabs and car guys.
Love it when my team called something stupid like "the greens" loses to "the blues" and 40,000 people die in the ensuing football riot and the emperor dies and the entire state fails and becomes Turkey. Fucking idiot society
Burnout Takedown was the greatest racing game of all time!
OF ALL TIME
OG Burnout series was my fave for the crashes. Its one step behind og Halo Warthog crashes.
I got warm feelings about Burnout Revenge but yes I think I agree. Burnout Paradise was such a step down
I can’t think of very many other things are in our culture to the point where it becomes a genre.
You're describing the simulation genre.
speed running competition with games makes them all racing games technically
Few genres with more relaxing or soothing power. Up there with puzzle games and directly opposed to any shooty shooty games which are designed to maximise stress
Learning about how every single shooter that has ever been made was done so under the pretense of getting people to join the military was as shocking as it was unsurprising.
