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Junkers_Klunker@feddit.dk 1 week ago
Need for speed underground 2 is quite possible the most fun arcade racing game ever made, it just managed to hit all the right places like a beautiful world, a bunch of different cars that all made sense, the way you upgraded your car both in performance and in looks. It is just pure fun in a way nobody, neither before or after, have managed replicate.
ibot@feddit.org 1 week ago
I’m a big fan of racing games. No real racing simulation, but more arcade style. When I got a Xbox Series X as my first games console after over a decade I first downloaded Forza Horizon 5, because it’s supposed to be one of the best racing games on Xbox. I was so anoyed by the whole story… I just want to race and nothing else.
I got NFS Hot Pursuit Remastered. Loved the original when I was fun and enjoyed the Remaster on Xbox.
Some games just try to add more and more and to please everyone but in the end nobody is completly happy with the result.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I bought FH4 because I live very close to one of the castles there and have visited a handful of other places. It’s genuinely very cool to see those places.
But so many other aspects of the game are really overwhelming. I do a race then there’s crazy flashy animations, multiple progress bars going up in the background with strobe lights, my character doing some stupid Fortnite-like dance, then it makes me do multiple attempts at a slot machine mini game?
I look at the world map and there’s literally thousands of things there, with no option to filter out stuff that you’ve already completed.
Maybe I’m getting old, but it felt like one of those mobile games that goes over the top with praise and animations to keep people’s attention and keep them on a dopamine high.
I want that map, with a story where you start with a shit car, and work your way up to better cars by doing well in races. I don’t want any of the flashy nonsense or the 500 online features (that don’t exist anymore because MS shut down the servers - now it shows constant connection errors)