Codeblew
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Driveclub was developed by a team of more than 200 people with a budget of more than $60+ million
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No, at least Joker 2 made a couple hundred million. Concord made NOTHING since they refunded the handful of sales.
I'm sure they will tweak it and try again, but at this point Concord is nothing but a massive tax write off.
GladiusFrog
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What happened to Evolution Studios is a crime! Imagine what could have been... I wish we could still buy the DLC, Never had the opportunity to try the Bikes Expansion pack. 
ozz ex machina
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What happened to Evolution Studios is a crime! Imagine what could have been... I wish we could still buy the DLC, Never had the opportunity to try the Bikes Expansion pack.
It all went downhill after motorstorm 2 in my opinion.
PauloRoberto
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That's why in this case, Concord is 'just' a failure in this case :-D
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
I love the idea that successful business men and women would devote 180% of their budget to a small team of ResetERA posters to "improve their game".
RaZoR No1
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New PGR/ old school Test Drive / NFS
Trogdor1123
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I thought it was just ok too. Now, I only played at 30 fps and no racer should ever be below 60 fps imo. Really took away from it.
Fbh
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Personally I liked it for essentially being a "serious" arcade racer.
Most other arcade racers these days are some wacky over the top Fast and Furious type thing like NFS, blasting shitty rap music at you and making you engage with annoying characters.
Forza Horizon is great but even they can't fully avoid the annoying characters talking to you and somewhat more wacky and over the top tone.
I also prefer the course based design over bloated open worlds. The worlds in Forza Horizon have definitely been getting better at offer more diverse "biomes" but IMO it still doesn't compare to the variety you get in something like Driveclub which takes you all over the world
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Mattyp
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All you’ll see is tiny ass gifs posted in gaf of rain.
It was decent for its time but it looks shit compared to todays standards and was shit back then when it wasn’t in motion either park the car any place on any track and look at the textures. Extreme blur and smear Driveclub.
Not the main issues with the game but at all was still fun, my issue was Song promised me this as a free PS4 launche or + title wasn’t it? It’s been a minute now, then all we got was a paid delayed copy
Perrott
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They already tried that "two" times already in the last five years - and their Twisted Metal project got nowhere.
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sncvsrtoip
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interesting 10m budget and 50 people team for vr, defenitly more than I would guess
That rain is still the best IMO. Nothing has topped it yet. Back in the day that game running at 1080p was THE SHIT.totally worth it
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sachos
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Seriously, the death of closed track arcade racing games is so sad. 6th gen still the golden era of arcade racing. Also bring back split screen racing games!
Brigandier
Member
The lack of arcade racers this past few gens is so sad... I say it all the time but I'd love a Ridge Racer with all tracks and cars in nice gfx 120fps etc online MP was great fun on RR7.
Reizo Ryuu
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Pgr, not msr.
CamHostage
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Oh, right. (Developer Bizarre did the one MSR with SEGA in the last days of Dreamcast, then took the concept to Xbox and refined it under the new PRG name.) Kind of the same thing, though, right? You drive around interesting-looking real-world locations in licensed cars and try to pull off stylish moves in a race.
Neither game would have been a selling point to me as a PS gamer. If somebody were to say, "Remember that racing game series from Xbox or DC where you got Kudos for racing with style? Get excited because now there's a PlayStation game just like that!", I would need more info of why that would matter to me.
Not that I have a negative opinion, it's just not a thing to me; I know people who enjoyed PGR in its day (although it pretty rarely comes up in conversation), but with Ridge Racer and Burnout and NFS and Auto Modellista and GT and all the racers at the time, I never had any bouts of jealousy of Xbox for any of the PGRs (except for the online features... and Geometry Wars.)
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CamHostage
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True. There was (and sadly still is) a hole in the gaming library that a DriveClub could have filled with the right formula of interest points.
Trouble is, that formula is hard to define without a gimmick, especially on the platform that had "serious" racer down and had lots of "arcade" racer choices (albeit sadly fewer than in the PS2/3 glory days of racing hits), and ""serious" arcade" had died off a bit after the hit periods of Midnight Club / NFSU / TDU (and the proliferation of open-world racing.) It didn't need to be open-world ala Forza Horizon or The Club, and it didn't need a big wild hook like Ridge Racer or SF Rush or Split-Second, there should be a way that "cool cars to drive around" is enough to want a game. But some kind of differentiator could have helped in selling DriveClub even before it had its launch issues.
Maybe if DC had been a licensed Top Gear TV show game, that would have been a hook to make it stand out? That didn't help the actual Top Gear game which came along later, but Evolution might have been able to make a decent game with the tenants of that brand.
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Team Andromeda
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I never knew Evolution Studios was ever that big. Such a shame what happened to the studio and SONY handling of the launch of Drive Club
I so wish SONY would remake Motostorm instead of the pointless remasters we're getting from them
I so wish SONY would remake Motostorm instead of the pointless remasters we're getting from them