Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?
Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m almost done with Race Driver: GRID. I got all the cars, won all but the final 6 races and pretty much got my fill of the game. I soured on it a bit (mostly due to the amount of events I’m not a huge fan of) but I still like it overall. Not enough to grind for the first place on the career leaderboard though.
I won’t be writing a big summary of the experience as I already mentioned everything before (limited number of tracks, aggressive opponents, mostly fun driving model etc). What I can write however is: playing this title gave me a bit of insight into what I’m interested in in a racing game (in term of events). For GRID the end result looks like this:
| Favourite events | Least favourite events |
|---|---|
| Touge (not even close) | Destruction Derby (I’m so glad it barely exists) |
| Touring Cars | Club GT |
| Open Wheel | 24 Hours Le Mans |
Everything else is pretty much a toss-up depending on the event or track, varying between “this is great” and “please kill me”. It was fun but I’m kinda glad I’ll be moving to something else soon.
Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Are there a lot of cinematics and cutscenes? I tried forza horizon as i think ot was the most popular game at the time and i just wanted to get up and walk away from the computer every time theres like a 30 second cutscene explaining the story and i just wanna drive the damn car in a race!
I’m playing FH4 atm and I feel that! The combination of NPCs always talking, the UI being locked while they do and the fact you can’t lower the speech volume below 1/10 is pretty fucking annoying.
I think FH5 was a bit better in that regard but it’s been a while so I may be mis-remembering.
Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There isn’t any real story beyond “you’re starting a race team, good luck” - it’s completely focused on gameplay. The only “cutscenes” in the game are short videos explaining certain event types but they only show up once or can be skipped (24H Le Mans).