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https://i.imgur.com/BVl919u.jpg?1 ____________________ Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter |
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Finally bought Ride4 on Steam. Been playing it for a few weeks so I thought I'd do a mini review. It got slated on release (quite rightly) but they seem to have improved it a bit, and it was on offer.
Compared to Ride3
+ Better graphics, dynamic weather/time of day, tyre wear/overheating, endurance racing with fuel consumption and pit lane.
- Fewer bikes, less variety (most are 1000 and 600 sports bikes) and probably 40% of the bikes are DLC.
Generally I'm pretty impressed. I bought it on offer with all DLC, and I think I'd be miffed without it, as so many of the bikes/challenges would be missing. Graphics are very pretty, as you'd expect for a modern game, and things like the sun reflecting off a wet track as the sun goes down add a genuine and realistic challenge. Tyre overheating is nice, it means that for some bikes/tracks a hard tyre can be a better tradeoff than a soft. But it doesn't always work as you'd expect. For example, using rain tyres on a drying track doesn't cause them to overheat as the track dries, which it clearly should. Bike suspension setup is meaningful, has an effect on things like tyre overheating, and most of the bikes benefit from at least some twiddling. There is now a personal leaderboard per track, which is a definite improvement over Ride3. The AI is a definite improvement over earlier games, they don't all follow the same ideal line, they react to other riders on track, they do sometimes crash, and they do occasionally take you (and other riders) out, but that happens in real life too.
There are some annoying things. Every bike needs to have the controls set to "Aggressive" individually, it's worth 1-2 seconds a lap, and there's no way to set a universal default setting for it. Traction control, anti-wheelie and engine braking can only be set from the D-Pad in-race, it can't be done from the pre-race bike setup. The rewind function (like Forza) is a standard feature of the game and obviously useful when you make a cockup, but it's not available for endurance races. The bike assist settings are all rubbish (except rewind) so I've turned it all up to maximum realism.
The lack of a lot of the more interesting bikes from Ride3 is definitely a negative for me. I had much more fun racing adventure bikes, supermotos, 250 two strokes, retros etc. in the earlier games, but both the bikes (and championships for them where they do exist) are lacking in this one.
Overall, I'd recommend it as a bike game, but only if it's on offer with all the DLC. ____________________ Current - '94 VFR750FR, '00 VFR800FI Previous - '10 Street Triple R, '92 MZ ETZ301, '05 TTR250, NSR125R, KMX125, "Honda" Win (chinese copy of an old Honda design with a C90 engine)
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Beat the final boss(es) and then find out there's a whole "secret" region I'd not explored. Lost interest now
While I could fathom playing the game again with a different character - melee vs magic - not quite sure what the draw of "New Game +" is ____________________ Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter |
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Started Doom Eternal but got bored of having to do the stupid glory kills to have enough ammo to do anything so played doom 1+2 instead and really enjoyed those. I'm on a bit of a boomer shooter binge now and played through Quake today and think I'll start Quake 2 tomorrow, which I think I played years ago.
I did think Quake was a bit underwhelming though. The story is non existent and killing the final boss just involves walking through a portal |
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Playing Cyberpunk 2077 again. I thought I'd give it a looooong break for the bugs to get ironed out. Erm, no. 3 CTDs so far ____________________ Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter |
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https://s2.gaming-cdn.com/images/products/1477/orig-fallback-v1/game-steam-little-big-adventure-enhanced-edition-cover.jpg?v=1608049517 ____________________ CBT: 12/06/10, Theory: 22/09/10, Module 1: 09/11/10, Module 2: 19/01/11
Past: 1991 Honda CG125BR-J, 1992 (1980) Honda XL125S, 1996 Kawasaki GPZ500S.
Current: 1973 MZ ES250/2 - 17k, 1979 Suzuki TS185ER - 9k, 1979 MZ TS150 - 9k, 1981 Honda CX500B - 91k, 1987 MZ ETZ250 (295cc) - 38k, 1989 MZ ETZ251 - 49k. |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 1 year, 339 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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