CamHostage
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I don't give a fuck that you have to play as your avatar, as long as it still plays like the old games.
Yeah, I think that this is a series that could easily be marketed to a casual audience without changing much about what everybody loved about it. This is just about the fun of riding a dirt bike around the dunes for as much as the game will let you (and then getting blasted across the map when you cross a line in the sand.) Sure, there were Sony's ATV games and a yearly dose of THQ titles that should have fit that bill, but something about those games dialing in on the professional racing technique and circuits eventually made those games unappetizing after a while no matter what they approved. (Did they even have free ride in the later games? I know they had stunt mode but I can't remember any of my PSP games having dune riding?) Strip it back, make it colorful, build fun around the realism (rather than adding too much fake crap and easy play to make it "casual") and turn us loose.