Just tried this at a Dave & Busters with some friends the other night and was literally facepalming not being able to crash at all. Seems like they want to take any semblance of skill completly out of the equation and make it so literally anybody can compete/do well. Guess I shouldn't be surprised in this day and age though.I'd rrcommend Butnout Paradise Remastered.
I was just at a pizza arcade buffet and I saw a new Cruis'n game by Nintendo.
You couldn't crash in this game if you tried. All the exits are invisible walls and your car will do a barrel roll with the turbo boost. It's actually not that bad at all. The levels have environments crashing and moving. It makes me wonder why we don't see these types of games anywhere else. Another one would be the Batman racing game that's only at the arcades.
While I did recommend NFS: Rivals, just keep in mind that this might not be what you typically expect from NFS. If you want the urban metropolis with tuner cars and extensive customization, you aren't going to find it here. It's more of a cops n' robbers type game with a focus on exotics. The map is more focused towards scenic drives in nature rather than a city.
But you pretty much describe a simulation there, don't you? What's arcade about it?
overall feel of the cars, I guess... I think 'sim' has a pretty high standard for realistic weight, collision, etc... and in a lot of those areas, Driveclub isn't very realistic. it considers those attributes, which a lot of arcade racers don't. but it's like... you have sort of old school NFS controls, maybe something like NFS Hot Pursuit 2 (the PS2 one that came out alongside Burnout 2)... it's not a drifter, and the cars try to feel more realistic. but the controls are just forgiving enough that it doesn't feel like a sim. DC is kinda like that, too.
I think this is the grave mistake current devs make when it comes to defining arcade racing. Arcade racing is not more forgiving sim racing, or sim racing with more assist functions, but racing games with deliberately unrealistic physics that allow for quick and twitchy controls, that enable immediate reactions to sudden dangers and to always go fast rather than carefully braking around corners. It is basically completely different from sim racers. Games like Forza Horizon and, by what you describe here, Driveclub, are, what I would call lightweight sims, not arcade racers.
Me too. It would be nice to have a DriveClub Complete Edition, with the motorcycles expansion and all the content from the two season passes. Sadly, Evolution Studios is no more.
