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Cake day: June 12th, 2023
  • atmur@lemmy.worldtoGames@lemmy.world•What are your favorite racing games?English
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    3 days ago

    I have a work-in-progress list here, strictly games I would consider “must play” in the genre. Notably missing the Ridge Racer and Tokyo Xtreme Racer games because I haven’t played enough of them to have an opinion.

    https://howlongtobeat.com/user/atmur/lists/40754/Peak-Racing-Games

    Mostly arcade and simcade racers though. If you’re interested in sims:

    For modding, Assetto Corsa is basically the modern rFactor.

    For offline racing, Automobilista and Raceroom have pretty solid AI. Note: Raceroom’s pricing model is dumb, kind of like iRacing just without the subscription.

    For career mode, Project CARS 2 (not 3) is basically the only sim that even tries.

    For online racing, ACC and iRacing are unmatched.

    For rally, you’re already playing DR2. Richard Burns Rally is also shockingly good for its age.

  • atmur@lemmy.worldtoFediverse@lemmy.world•Lemmy wouldn't really takeoff to replace Reddit until it's content is search indexableEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Yeah, I think that’s definitely one of the roadblocks Lemmy is facing at the moment. Even though I deleted my Reddit account after the API nonsense, I’m absolutely still appending every DDG or Startpage search with “reddit.” Especially with the flood of AI-generated garbage filling search results, it’s the easiest way to get quick answers from (probably) real people.

    However, that also relates to Reddit’s other advantage, in that it actually has a decade and a half of content to be indexed in the first place. The magic of Reddit is that every question has been asked in every way at least 5 times over, Lemmy just doesn’t have that history yet.

  • atmur@lemmy.worldtoGames@lemmy.world•Wreckfest 2 officially announced at THQ Nordic showcaseEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Oh hell yeah I’ve played almost all of both series.

    Flatout 1 is alright, hasn’t aged especially well. Suffers from being completely overshadowed by its sequel in every way.

    Flatout 2/Ultimate Carnage is still my favorite Bugbear game, with Wreckfest being a close but firm second.

    Flatout 3 is.

    Flatout 4 is honestly not terrible, but still feels like a cheap imitation of the first 2 games.

    Burnout 1 also suffers from sequel shadow.

    Burnout 2 is a great arcade racer that no one talks about because…

    Burnout 3 is quite possibly the best arcade racer ever made. Absolute masterpiece.

    Burnout Revenge is somehow just as good. Whether I prefer this or 3 depends entirely on how much I enjoy traffic checking on that day. I posted Junkie XL - Today to the music community a few days ago because I was playing Revenge recently, what a soundtrack.

    Still haven’t played Dominator, should probably get around to that.

    Burnout Paradise is also excellent in its own right, but I think going open world took away some of the charm that the previous games had. Tracks were so well designed in 3 and Revenge. Still love Paradise too, but 3 and Revenge are just absurdly good.

  • atmur@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•He doEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I’ve always wondered what the hell these people do with all that space. I live in a 700sqft apartment and even that feels excessive (albeit living alone). If I had unlimited money and owned that mansion, I’d run out of ideas before making use of even 25% of the building.