nowheretorun
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What Driveclub was intended to be is irrelevant for reviews scores.
Driveclub had little ambition (graphics aside), like i said it shouldn't be awarded 9's just because the devs perfectly achieved whatever unambitious goal they had.
A lot of journalists just wrote that driveclub only offers A, when other games offer A AND B. And tbh Driveclub's A isn't even exceptionally well done or fleshed out compared to other games's A.
Horizon offers closed circuits and p2p races as well as free roaming. Upgrades and tuning, you can just ignore or autotune in SP. Yes people who tune their cars will get better results, but you can restrict the race to stock. In Motorsport you can forget about the career and just jump in and race, turn assists and damage on or off to basically make it as arcadey as you like. Both offer greater variety and better and larger car selection etc.
So, no. This is not what journalists wanted, but they are aware and have to inform you that there are things Driveclub doesn't have compared to other racers.
Of course, it's stuff that you might never care about and that's why one should read the damn review. But a score is just a number and MUST reflect the fact that Driveclub doesn't offer as much content and variety as other racers.
See, you're part of the problem.
72 metacritic means nothing. Just go, read the reviews and try to understand whether you care or not about the stuff that determined the low-ish score.
This is a game on a console, relatively early into its life. It's also the first in the series. We all know how it works with budgets in relation to expected sales etc cos this is where the profit ratio's come in.
Would be interesting to see what a DriveClub 2 could offer in the future.....
For me, even though I've not even played it yet, the first entry looks to be quite ambitious in many many aspects - not least, catering to a certain kind of gamer that could easily be forgotten....
This obviously resonates with the developers and probably many other developers, albeit they don't all put their balls on the line and give them to us like Evo appears to have done.
As long as there has been no bullshitting with how I expect the graphics, this game is exactly what I expected from their early vision. To. A. T.
Well done Evo (as long as you haven't bullshitted on the graphics!).
edit: oh and the fact that it cost me £30.45 along with the free content that's going to be coming, Evo deserve even MORE respect. No microtransaction shit going on here which they considered and could have still done.
New Signature: are Naughty Dog ever gonna fix the matchmaking/broken bugs in TLOUL:R