11th March 2004, 5:13 PM
(This post was last modified: 11th March 2004, 5:34 PM by A Black Falcon.)
I missed that post... :)
NFS is more realistic than BAR. No question. For one it has "gravity"... :)
As for why I said BAR is like Rush-lite, think about it. While BAR may clearly draw from NFS for its racing and handling and some of the track design, it just as clearly also draws from Rush. SHORTCUTS! It has huge numbers of them! And what racing game popularized huge shortcuts? Yeah, Rush!
And Rush does not have bad controls or physics. Oh, you do crash a lot when you land, but it's supposed to be that way... if you landed most of your stunts it'd be too easy... :D As for the controls themselves it really depends on the user. I only own 2049 of the three, and I use Extreme handling with Radial tires, the best engine (V10), etc... I can control that car (either the F1 or the ... um whatsit it was the second car I unlocked, G2 or something?) quite well. You'd only say Rush has bad controls if you aren't good at the game or if you hate racing games which intentionally are designed so you are almost on the edge of losing control... Rush isn't really ABOUT being on the ground, or stable, or able to land the wild jumps the lack of gravity allows... if you dislike that intentional lack of control over what your car is doing all the time you might dislike Rush, but I think it's great and the game wouldn't work any better with any other control system.
As for Gamerankings, I'd expect that. Rush seems to a game you 'get' or you 'don't. Note how the scores are all the way from 2.5/5 to 99/100... BAR's from 4/5 to 5/5. Which makes sense. BAR is a 'safer' game -- more people will just get it so it'll get consistently high scores. Rush is something that if you love you can really love (though I probably like it more than most, I know Rush has a lot of fans), but if you don't you could easily think it's not so great and the scores reflect that.
So BAR is better than F-Zero and F-Zero X and exactly equal to F-Zero GX. Uh huh.
Quote:BAR is as much like Rush as Star Fox is like IL-2 Sturmovic. They're nothing alike. Rush is a super arcadey series with shitty controls and terrible car physics, while BAR is slightly more realistic than Need for Speed, and hell of a lot more challenging.
NFS is more realistic than BAR. No question. For one it has "gravity"... :)
As for why I said BAR is like Rush-lite, think about it. While BAR may clearly draw from NFS for its racing and handling and some of the track design, it just as clearly also draws from Rush. SHORTCUTS! It has huge numbers of them! And what racing game popularized huge shortcuts? Yeah, Rush!
And Rush does not have bad controls or physics. Oh, you do crash a lot when you land, but it's supposed to be that way... if you landed most of your stunts it'd be too easy... :D As for the controls themselves it really depends on the user. I only own 2049 of the three, and I use Extreme handling with Radial tires, the best engine (V10), etc... I can control that car (either the F1 or the ... um whatsit it was the second car I unlocked, G2 or something?) quite well. You'd only say Rush has bad controls if you aren't good at the game or if you hate racing games which intentionally are designed so you are almost on the edge of losing control... Rush isn't really ABOUT being on the ground, or stable, or able to land the wild jumps the lack of gravity allows... if you dislike that intentional lack of control over what your car is doing all the time you might dislike Rush, but I think it's great and the game wouldn't work any better with any other control system.
As for Gamerankings, I'd expect that. Rush seems to a game you 'get' or you 'don't. Note how the scores are all the way from 2.5/5 to 99/100... BAR's from 4/5 to 5/5. Which makes sense. BAR is a 'safer' game -- more people will just get it so it'll get consistently high scores. Rush is something that if you love you can really love (though I probably like it more than most, I know Rush has a lot of fans), but if you don't you could easily think it's not so great and the scores reflect that.
Quote:F-Zero GX
Publisher: Nintendo
Number of P/Reviews: 231 GameCube 89.4%
F-Zero: Maximum Velocity
Publisher: Nintendo
Number of P/Reviews: 83 Game Boy Advance 84.1%
F-Zero X
Publisher: Nintendo
Number of P/Reviews: 32 Nintendo 64 84.9%
F-Zero
Publisher: Nintendo
Number of P/Reviews: 7 SNES 80.6%
So BAR is better than F-Zero and F-Zero X and exactly equal to F-Zero GX. Uh huh.
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