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Penny Arcade - PATV - First 15 – Project CARS
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Penny Arcade - PATV - First 15 – Project CARS
Gabe and Tycho play a game for 15 minutes and then judge it accordingly. This week they play Project CARS. You can watch the full length version of this episode here.
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I started destressing with Top Gear 2. SNES. Those levels with the rain would just mellow me out. Wouldn't focus on winning; that was a thing that would just happen... or wouldn't. Later it'd be Test Drive 6, and I guess I'm the only person who enjoyed that game. It's not cool to talk about. Then Forza 4, at the recommendation of the guy I was trying to sell it to, and I'm aware that's not how retail is supposed to work but the purchase served its purpose.
I wonder what drives Jerry McGuire to play these. If it's something similar or if he, as Mola suspects, gets cranked up for these games and plays them with great enthusiasm, checking out those very realistic-looking and -sounding car part things.
- You cannot mash the accelerator in a sim. Do not ever do that.
- Those green arrows indicate the "perfect line" for the most efficient route through the track. Pay attention to them.
- The color of the arrows indicates when the player should be accelerating or braking. Pay very close attention to that.
- Use whatever view is furthest forward on the car, and never use the "in cockpit" view. Ever.
- When you've gotten comfortable, turn off all driving assists; but keep your shifting preference.
- STOP MASHING THE FUCKING ACCELERATOR!!
Simming is not everybody's bag of tea, but that's fine, we all like different things.
As a simmer though, I personally have a hard time understanding or enjoying cart games. I like a game where the driving of the car itself is the challenge. In a sense the car, the track and the setting of the cars systems are the actual enemies. Can you carry the maximum speed through a corner? Can you get the bound on the front suspension "just so" in order to get that corner right? Cart games have none of this, which to me makes the game less appealing.
But again, and I can't stress this enough, it's just not my bag of tea and we all like different things. Which is fine.
In reality "sims" and "cart games" are such wildly different genres though that it's hardly worth the time to compare them. They both involve computerized vehicles with 2 or 4 wheels, steering and an engine. The similarities stop there... In fact, I'd go so far as to say that if you enjoy one, you generally aren't going to like the other.
PS- "If it ain't rubbin', it ain't racing" is a really, really old axiom from NASCAR, which "Days of Thunder" is based on. Hence the saying was used there. It wasn't made up for the movie...
I think Mike knows the differences and just hates simulators. That's a possibility also.
My kidneys left. They packed up and left. I started laughing and my entire sides just said "NO! We've had enough of this!" and now they're gone. I'm bleeding out. All my internal organs spilled out of my sides. 10/10 would die of laughter again
Although I can only speak for myself, I have to say that it's kind of a downer that Gabe always seems so negative and never seems to want to be there. I mean, very few of these games are my kind of game (none of them so far, actually), but I like that Jerry tries to play each game on its terms and find out what might be appealing at its core. Gabe literally can't seem to wait for each video to end, and that kind of makes me wonder why he's there in the first place.
Mike seems to have a very particular set of interests. Especially in regards to art, like how he said he couldn't get into Dragon Ball or Dragon Quest because of Toriyama's art style.
Now, I am the first to point out that people can have differing opinions, but I feel like that attitude would have kept Mr. Krahulik from enjoying some really cool things.(Like Chrono F'N Trigger)
It is also possible that Jerry is taking a faux positive attitude just to screw with his compatriot. As a counterpoint, neither of them seemed to get into that magical girl game or whatever it was.
I know it is commonplace on the internet to spread misery but when I watch someone in the midst of a miserable experience (like playing a game they hate) that feels symbolic of the time I also spent watching it.
That said, engaging the gamer in me again, next to Soul Calibur, the various iterations of Mario Kart have probably provided me with the greatest amount of party multiplayer gaming fun of any singe franchise.
So, there's room for both, but they fill very different niches.