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WatDaFrag
Rising Adventurer
4 years ago

Re: My feedback after 20 hours of playing

Imho:

Complaining about the variety of missions in a racing game is stupid. I mean, what would you want to do other than escaping police (nfs) and winning a race?

It's normal. What I liked about the grid story is that you feel the pressure. In some points there are scripted incidents (for example, in one of the first Elimination races, Yume loses a tire and you have to win alone) that help "varying" the missions. Also, it develops characters a lot (i won't spoil)

Driving handling: what's the matter? It's not the most sim experience ever but... I'm enjoying it without HUD and without any help. It can be very hard.. Grid and Toca have never been 100% sim.. I think they are coherent. 

Hours spent in the game... 

Maybe yes maybe no. In ToCA 2 you had ALL the vehicles usable in the career, but well.. once you finish, you unlock them for free racing. In Grid, you don't use every car, either in Story or Career. There are even more cars that need to be unlocked (completing races or buying them).. And every car has 3 levels of upgrade. To upgrade one stage of one car you need to drive a number of Kilometers.. Basically two races sometimes. This ends up taking more than half an hour to unlock THE POSSIBILITY TO UPGRADE through all the three stages. 

About Forza Horizon 5 etc... Yeah, yeah. GT7 is the only one who can beat Grid.. But don't forget Grid has crossplay.

Of course it's my opinion, and yours is yours.. I respect that. As I said, I just hope they keep up with the content 

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  • Boris_The_Frog's avatar
    Boris_The_Frog
    4 years ago

     It's funny really because this morning I was mulling over what I wrote and thinking maybe I was still having a bit of a Grid 19 hangover and was being overly harsh...until I happened to stumble upon a 2 hour Jimmy Broadbent video asking the "is this game any good?" question. The stream was fine and covered a lot of gameplay footage but the one telling point for me was during the analysis period at the end of the video when he echoed my sentiments by not only mentioning how disconnected Legends had become from the original but more importantly how, after only a couple of hours, he felt he had had enough of the game.

    I was looking thru your reply and much as I respect your opinions I do think you're overlooking one very important point. Toca 2 didn't have much content, didn't have a suite of upgrades or pointless trinket unlocks and didn't have an 'immersive' story mode......because it didn't need any of them. It's strengths were in it's gameplay and nothing else. But yeah, if shallow, throwaway racing games are your thing then that's great, by all means play and enjoy Grid Legends. I'm more than happy to skip the game and wait for something with a little more depth.  

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