Comment on Four wheels good, two wheels bad: why are there no exciting cycling games?
ms_lane@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Road cycling is a rich persons sport, gaming is circuses for us poors.
No one wants to play ‘tour de riche’
A /decent/ Downhill game could be good (Descenders wasn’t it., super wide mariokart-esque tracks - give me some goat tracks that need berms on the corners)
horse@feddit.org 3 days ago
I can’t fully deny that, but I’d say you can get into road cycling for about the same cost as AAA PC gaming.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 3 days ago
Most(as in >half) gamers do not have a top end gaming PC. Shit most don’t even have a PC. And those people likely don’t have the next Gen consoles either. I only have a Ryzen laptop with bazzite, an old Gen 2 or 3 i7 with dual sli gtx260s that I’ve had for the better part of two decades, a steam deck, a Wii, and a super cheap PS4.
But the people that are buying the 5070s day 1 are likely the same people who have a $5,000 road bike hanging in their garage that they haven’t ridden since lockdown.
horse@feddit.org 3 days ago
That’s kind of my point. Some people buy 10000€ world tour level bikes, but you can get a road bike with hydraulic disc brakes new for under 2000€ which will still be a very good bike and be future proof for years to come. And you can get much lower than that if you are willing to go used and ride something a bit older eg. with rim brakes and that will also be an excellent bike.
Cycling is an expensive hobby (just like gaming), but it only gets ridiculously expensive when people buy into the marketing and want the newest, highest end stuff. Which is fine and of course you can get some marginal gains out of it. It’s like buying a 5090: your games will run a bit better, but you can get just as much enjoyment out of an older card for a fraction of the cost.