There were some great choices for Startline, but Dam Busters? NoThankYou.jpeg, lol
I myself probably wouldn't have put it in there... personally I found it more difficult than both the Venom Hot Laps.
YEAH!! Fuck this race, i can't finish top 3 even when i drive like Lewis Hamilton....
Here's how I finished it: I drove like Maldonado
I love the tracks in this game. Japan in general has an amazing flow of the tracks. I think there is only one single track I don't like in the entire game it's the observatory in chile I hate it I dont understand it and I can't drive on it with any cars at any speed.
I love it. From memory it was one of the few tracks that showed the importance of weight transfer when going around sequential corners, as in "if I want to tackle that corner faster, I need to take this line through the one before it so the car leans into it better" or something. Honestly don't think there's a track in this game I don't like.
I will often just go into single events, pick a time trial, maybe turn on light precipitation, and just drive to chill out. It can be very relaxing.
I try and do that, but forget to turn ghosts off so I always invariably end up trying to compete :/
Do you have the DLC packs? There is another race where you have to take the VUHL (Vuhl proof I think) around the track, that one sucks so much, absolutely hated the car on this track.
Nooooo. I mean, not in my case
That taught me delicate throttle control. Thing I love about this game is, every tour event seems to teach me something different, whether it's handling or car positioning or just subtle car/track differences. Never come away from it feeling like I'm worse at the game because of it.
Ooff, lots of losing in my future then.
Don't stress about it. You'll be surprised and happy that they didn't when you see how quickly you improve. We all have faith in you!
Yup.
I see this game as a spiritual successor to the arcade versions of Sega Rally and Sega Rally 2 (minus rallying, obviously).
It is an attractive game set in distinctive and well themed locales.
It has a handling model that is challenging with out getting bogged down in simulation and without the bizzare eccentricities of some arcade games.
It bears enough resemblance to actual driving (weight shifting affecting balance, oversteer and understeer for example) to provide a challenge by simultaneously allowing the user to apply knowledge of racing techniques whilst maintaining a sense of drama and fun.
Its all about racing therefore it allows you to get into the racing quickly. Pick your car and go, much like the arcade games did.
It also has no uneccesary driving aids. You need to learn the tracks and you need to learn the cars if you want to get good.
Back in the days when my reactions were probably quicker I used to set really good times on those Sega Rally games. I didn't do it the first time I played it. It took practice. With practice comes setting faster times and the genuine feeling of reward for that practice.
Driveclub has all of that in abundance. Sadly I'm not in danger of getting top times on the leaderboards these days but it doesn't make the trying any less rewarding.
You say this reminds you of Sega Rally, but all I read from your post was that it's basically PGR5. And I agree completely
It looks really nice, sometimes the lighting is just spot on amazing, and as much I love my CRT's I'd really like to see this game on a big giant plasma.OLED, or something. Just to get the size of everything in the game closer to a real scale would be awesome. It's not the cleanest game I've ever seen, but I down-sample some PC games so that's what I consider cleanest. But holy fuck ballz can it look incredible. I was playing it up close with surround sound turned up, and had a nasty crash in the rain. It was the first time I saw the windshield crack and I blinked and jumped. That's why I think a game like this would be awesome with VR, just make it like you are seeing out of the helmet so you feel like the driver would. Not sure how long it would be fun though, but I'd love to experience that.
I'm playing it on a plasma and it looks pretty amazing, save for the pixel dithering or chasing or whatever it's called that comes with using plasmas. And some color banding, but I think that's going to happen with pretty much any kind of display (that isn't CRT) these days
