I'm not sure what validity I have to consider myself worthy of writing a blog. Never really been into writing blogs. But, considering I spend 12-14hrs a day, 7 days a week, sitting in front of Xbox 360 consoles and playing the games as they come out, I -have- lately been wanting to share my deranged views on some of these titles. As usual, this is purely my opinion, and of COURSE it's biased towards my own personal tastes in games.. which may or may not match yours.
The first one that comes to mind has to be PGR4, or more affectionately known as Physics Got Raped 4. Considering how high quality PGR3 was, albeit a very simple and arcadey-type racer of a game.. PGR4 left me feeling like i'd been robbed of my money when I bought it. As soon as I hit the first corner my first thought was "Wow.. Ridge Racer got new graphics!".. it's just so BORING. I thought maybe I was tainted by the fact that i've been playing a LOT of Forza 2, so I got a few peons to join in and give their opinions.. the universal cry was "NOOOOOOO.. please sir may I stop.. it hurts my brain!"..
Granted it's not a total waste of time.. the weather system had me reaching for a cloth to wipe these mysterious droplets of water off my screen (impressively realistic!).. the variety of weather conditions was also lots of fun.. but what's the use of supercalafragirealistic weather if the handling of the vehicles was coded on the 100-Monkeys/100-Typewriters principle? Internal view helped raise the game's rating a fair bit, as it looked pretty good.. so they get some credit there I guess, but the external view of the vehicle models looked like an Xbox 1 game with lots of AA.
In conclusion.. bathing my puppy is more fun than playing PGR4, and it has the same realistic water droplets splattering my vision.
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Concerning PGR4, it seems to have come out a few months too late. I like you have played a ton of Forza 2 (Dirt as well) so I'm pretty satisfied at the moment as far as racing games go. I really see no reason to pick up PGR4 unless you haven't played PGR3, you somehow didn't play Forza 2, and you were silly enough to miss out on Dirt.
I think the Sega Rally game will suffer just the same.
PGR4 is better than PGR3, but the best in the series is PGR2.
Yes I think the game just came out too late, with too much top-notch competition.. It's a HUGE ask for anyone to top Forza 2 and Dirt right now.
just thought I had to add that.
I'll always remember that one race in the game where I was in first place, then I hit a small bump in the road, shot into the air 50 feet, did 10 backflips and landed backwards and I started going in the wrong direction. I lost the match because of that shit.