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| Bushido Blade: what Street Fighter IV should've been? by Jerry Whorebach 02/14/2013, 5:49pm PST | ||||
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Entropy Stew wrote:So who the hell wants to have to finish a race with a bum wheel just because they got shunted into a guardrail on the first corner? O_o Entropy Stew wrote: Again, is progressive damage more central to racing than it is to combat? Than fatigue is to infinite running? Than Newtonian physics are to piloting The Last Starfighter? You're speaking here about racing SIMULATIONS as if they were an adequate substitute for racing GAMES. Simulations may be able to get away with realism for its own sake, but the unthinking pursuit of verisimilitude at the expense of playability is the surest way to stamp out everything that makes the most successful games fun in the first place. Entropy Stew wrote: Dogmatic adherence to conventional friction is, in my estimation, the primary reason why so many gamers resent drifting. Too often developers try to re-create the real life sport of drifting and incorporate it as a seperate event into their racing games. This approach is doomed to failure because the real life sport of drifting, much like the real life sport of karate, is boring as shit. The correct approach to incorporating drifting (the act, not the sport) into a racing game is to simulate a world where drifting makes you go FASTER instead of SLOWER, much as the way to incorporate karate into a beat 'em up is to simulate a world where practicing karate makes you a BAD MOTHERFUCKER instead of an OVERGROWN CHILD. There is a place for realistic damage modeling in racing games. This place is not in every one of them, whenever technology allows, regardless of whether or not it actually improves the experience. |
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